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Suining 遂宁Suìníng
Guanyin's legendary home, and an underground salt lake to float in
About Suining
Suining lies on the Fu River in the low hills of central Sichuan, and local legend makes it the home of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion, honoured at Guangde Temple and Lingquan Temple. In Daying County, the China Dead Sea Resort fills its pools from an ancient underground salt lake, salty enough to float in, and the Zhuotong Salt Wells recall a small-bore drilling method developed there under the Northern Song. Shehong, home of the Tang poet Chen Zi'ang, distils Shede baijiu.
What to eat in Suining
- Shede baijiu (舍得酒)
Listed sites in Suining
17 sites in Suining are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- China Dead Sea Resort, Daying 中国死海 4A scenic area · on the map
A salt-water resort in Daying County built over an ancient underground salt lake around 3,000 m below the surface, whose brine is pumped up to fill its pools. - Gaofeng Mountain 高峰山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hilltop Taoist complex 25 km north of Pengxi, first built in the Tang dynasty and by the late Ming and early Qing regarded as the largest Taoist centre in central, eastern and northern Sichuan, where Confucian and Buddhist worship were also practised. - Guangde Temple, Suining 广德寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Guangde Temple is a working Buddhist monastery on Wolong Hill at the western edge of Suining, founded in the Tang dynasty and renamed several times by imperial order before receiving its present name in the Ming. - Guanyin Lake and World Lotus Expo Garden, Suining 观音湖·世界荷花博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
Guanyin Lake is the stretch of the Fu River held back by the Guojundu dam in Suining, now a national wetland park of about 600 ha with three islands. - Jinhua Mountain & Chen Zi'ang Reading Terrace 金华山陈子昂读书台 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Jinhua Mountain rises above the Fu River north of Shehong, with a Taoist temple first built in the Southern Liang dynasty and the reading terrace of Chen Zi'ang, an early Tang poet who studied here as a young man. - Longfeng Ancient Town, Suining 龙凤古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourist town of about 148 ha beside the Fu River south of central Suining, rated 4A in 2012. - Qicai Mingzhu Rural Park, Anju 七彩明珠 4A scenic area · on the map
A large rural leisure area of about 9,400 mu (some 630 ha) in Yufeng town, Anju District, strung along the G318 road. - Shede Liquor Culture Area (Tuopai Distillery), Shehong 舍得酒文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The distillery of Shede Spirits at Tuopai town in Shehong, maker of the Tuopai and Shede brands of baijiu, opened to visitors as a 4A liquor-culture area. - Shehong Petrified Wood Geopark 射洪硅化木国家地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national geopark in the hills south of Shehong where fossilised tree trunks from the Jurassic period are exposed and protected where they lie. - Songjing Taoyuan (Song Well Peach Garden), Daying 宋井桃源 4A scenic area · on the map
A 4A area (2025) in Zhuotong Well town that pairs the Zhuotong salt-well site, where narrow-bore percussion drilling was developed in the Northern Song (1041–48), with a new Song-dynasty-themed village among peach orchards. - Baofan Temple 宝梵寺 National heritage site · on the map
A small temple in Baofan village, Pengxi County, whose Ming and Qing buildings are a national heritage site. - Huiyan Temple Main Hall 慧严寺 National heritage site · on the map
The Ming-dynasty main hall of Huiyan Temple, a rural temple in the southern part of Pengxi County south-east of Suining, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. - Jinxian Temple, Pengxi 金仙寺 National heritage site · on the map
A village temple at Zhoujiadian, just north of Pengxi county town, whose main hall is dated by inscriptions on its beams to 1327, under the Yuan dynasty. - Pengxi Kui Pagoda 蓬溪奎塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty pagoda in Pengxi's county town, named after Kui, the star traditionally linked with literary and examination success. - Pengxi White Pagoda 蓬溪白塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Song-dynasty pagoda that once belonged to Jiufeng Temple, standing in Chicheng, the county town of Pengxi, where it is known as the White Pagoda. - Raoyi Temple 饶益寺 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming and Qing temple in Tuopai, the Shehong town best known for its liquor distillery, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. - Zhuotong Salt Wells 卓筒井 National heritage site
Daying is where the zhuotong well, a small-bore salt well drilled by percussion with an iron bit on a wooden frame and lined with large bamboo tubes, was developed in the Qingli era of the Northern Song dynasty (1041–1048).
On the map
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