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Yuxi 玉溪Yùxī
A deep, clear lake beside fossils from the dawn of animal life
About Yuxi
Yuxi, 90 km south of Kunming, is a tobacco city, home of the Hongta Group, set among the plateau lakes of central Yunnan. Its main draw is Fuxian Lake, the deepest lake in the province, with the hills at Chengjiang beside it, where fossils of some of the earliest complex animals form a World Heritage Site. Farther afield, temples climb Xiushan Hill above Tonghai, and Shimen Gorge cuts into the Ailao Mountains of Xinping.
Featured places in Yuxi
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Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Listed sites in Yuxi
7 sites in Yuxi are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Longquan Forest Park, Yimen 龙泉公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park on the western edge of Yimen county town, built around Dalongkou, a karst spring where an underground river emerges from the hillside. - Xiushan Hill Temples, Tonghai 通海秀山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hill on the southern edge of Tonghai, laid out as Xiushan Park, where temples have stood since the Dali Kingdom and were enlarged and rebuilt under the Yuan, Ming and Qing. - Yingyuetan Hot Springs 映月潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring leisure complex at Dayingjie on the western side of Yuxi's Hongta district, with many pools of different temperatures and themes set in gardens around a large pond. - Former Wenxingxiang Trading House 文兴祥商号旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The former premises of the Wenxingxiang trading firm, built in 1934 in the old centre of Yuxi. - Lijiashan Bronze Museum 李家山青铜器博物馆 National heritage site · on the map
The museum for the Lijiashan tombs, a Warring States to Han cemetery of the ancient Yunnan bronze culture at the north-western corner of Xingyun Lake, named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 1992. - Longxi Clan Manor, Gasa 陇西世族庄园 National heritage site · on the map
A fortified manor built in 1938 on a hillside above Gasa for Li Runzhi, a local leader whose private armed force controlled much of the surrounding Ailao Mountains area under the Republic. - Yuxi Kiln Site 玉溪窑址 National heritage site · on the map
The remains of kilns in Yuxi's Hongta district that made porcelain from the Yuan to the Ming dynasty, including blue-and-white and celadon wares.
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