Lishui District, Nanjing, has eight major scenic spots: Wuxiang Temple, one of the 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, Wuxiang Mountain cliff carvings, Tiansheng Bridge, Rouge River, Changle Bridge, Putang Bridge, Yongshou Pagoda, Prince Consort's Tomb and many other cultural relics, as well as
Cultural relics such as Zhongshan Hao, Xiaoguan stele, Luoshan dragon and Mingjue iron painting forging techniques.
1. Wuxiang Mountain Scenic Area is located in Chengnan New District, Lishui District, Nanjing City, with a total area of ??about 3 square kilometers (including a core area of ??2.5 square kilometers), an average altitude of 100 meters, and more than 10 large and small lakes such as Tianchi and Wuxiang Lake, and
Spectacular pine forest landscape and the largest bamboo sea landscape in Nanjing area, the forest coverage rate is 95.6%, and the air quality maintains the first-class standard all year round.
The scenic area has beautiful mountains and clear waters and profound cultural heritage.
It has been known as "the most scenic spot in Lishui" since ancient times. The politician Han Xizai of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Zhou Bangyan of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tao An, a great scholar of the early Ming Dynasty, as well as literati such as Lin Gudu, Zhou Lianggong, Dao_, Yuan Mei, etc. have all traveled there.
Here, many places of interest such as Guwuxiang Temple, Longming Pond, Han Xizai Reading Table, and Cliff Carvings Group were left.
The scenic spot was approved as a national forest park in 2015, an ecological tourism demonstration zone in Jiangsu Province in 2017, and a national 3A tourist attraction in 2020.
2. Donglu Mountain is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Zhongshan: Donglu Mountain. According to legend, Yan Ziling, a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, built a hut here to live in seclusion. It is the source of the Qinhuai River, which is hundreds of miles away.
Guanyin Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty and has a long history and strong incense.
The newly built Guanyin Temple is the lower courtyard of Jiming Temple. It is backed by Donglu Mountain and faces Zhongshan Lake. It has a large scale and is a holy place of Buddhism in Lishui.
3. The Yongshou Temple Pagoda is located in the Yongshou Pagoda Park in Lishui City. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.
The Yongshou Temple Pagoda is a Feng Shui pagoda that was built in the 34th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1606). It was originally named Yongchang, but was later renamed by imperial decree.
The tower is a brick imitation wood pavilion style, with 7 levels and 8 sides, about 40 meters high, with an octagonal white stone pedestal surrounding the bottom floor, and 4 coupon doors on each floor of the tower body.
Each floor has waist eaves, flat seats, and surrounding railings. A square tower room is built inside the tower. Each floor is equipped with wooden escalators and wooden floor.
4. Dajinshan Scenic Area (Dajinshan National Defense Park) is located in the southern suburbs of Nanjing, east of Lishui River and the source of Qinhuai River. It covers an area of ??66 hectares and is adjacent to Dongping Lake, the second largest artificial lake in Nanjing. The lakes and mountains are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful.
The park was founded in 1990 and is the first private county-level national defense park in the country.
In 2008, the park was expanded and renovated and successfully created a national AAA tourist attraction.
A comprehensive, innovative and characteristic patriotism education and social practice base integrating national defense culture, military culture, national culture and ecological culture has been initially built to form a national defense education park, quality development park, social practice park and tourism park.
The layout and scale of "five gardens and one center" are used as the conference, commercial and residential center.
5. Shijiu Lake was formed from the ancient Danyang Lake, with a total area of ??207.65 square kilometers and a total coastline length of 70 kilometers, of which the Lishui area covers an area of ??91.2 square kilometers and the shoreline length is 29.31 kilometers.
"Shijiu Fishing Song" is one of the ancient "Eight Scenic Spots of Zhongshan" and the "New Forty Scenic Spots of Jinling".
Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once praised: "The lake is connected with the vitality, and the storm is so great that it is difficult to stop it."
In spring, during the dry season of Shijiu Lake, the "sea of ??grass" is luxuriant and lush. As far as the eye can see, it is full of greenery, which is extremely romantic in spring.
Just like the "My Neighbor Totoro Grassland" in the comics, it is one of Lishui's iconic wedding photography spots.
Do Lishui attractions charge tickets? There are some Lishui attractions that charge tickets and some that do not.
Those that charge tickets include Tianshengqiao and Dajinshan Scenic Area, while those that do not charge tickets include Yongshou Tower.
1. Tiansheng Bridge Tiansheng Bridge is located in Honglan Street, Lishui District, Nanjing City. It was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to connect the water transportation between Nanjing and Zhejiang after he established his capital in Nanjing.
It is also the only natural bridge in China that spans huge rocks on both sides of an ancient man-made canal. This kind of natural bridge made of huge rocks left on an artificial canal is the only one in China and has been listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.
2. Dajin Mountain Scenic Area The Dajin Mountain Scenic Area is a tourist attraction integrating ecological landscape, tourism and leisure, conference, commercial and residential, cultural landscape and national defense education. The area is rich in tourism resources, with both colorful natural scenery and majestic scenery.
The solemn military landscape forms an integration of canyon scenery, lakes and pools, special landforms, forest scenery, wild plants, local characteristics, war sites, military culture, local folk customs, etc.
3. Yongshou Pagoda Yongshou Pagoda is located in Lishui District, Nanjing City. It was built in the 34th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1606). It was first named Yongchang. Later, it was renamed by imperial decree. It was rebuilt in the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1736) and became the name of Jiangsu Province.
Provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Yongshou Tower is a brick imitation wood pavilion style with 7 levels and 8 sides, about 40 meters high. The bottom floor is surrounded by an octagonal white stone pedestal. There are 4 coupon doors on each floor of the tower body and false doors on the other four sides. Each floor above the second floor is authentic and false.
The coupon doors are placed up and down.
Extended information The main attractions of Dajinshan Scenic Area: 1. The weapons display area mainly includes aircraft, tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns.
Fighter aircraft are military aircraft mainly used to destroy enemy aircraft in the air, also known as fighter jets.