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Qixia Temple

Qixia Qixia Temple is located in the western foot of the mountain peaks. Southern Qi Yongming first year (483 years), hidden Shiming Monk Shao Shezhai to Temple, "the Qixia Abode," Buddhism and became the birthplace of three of cases. Temple of the Tang Dynasty, said merit, build a house more than 40 rooms, a large scale, and Shandong Changqing the Lingyansi, Hubei Jingshan';s Yuquan, Tiantai Guoqing Temple and said the four jungle world. Qing Xianfeng years was destroyed by fire. Thirty four ... View Detail

Wuyi Xiang (Wang Hsieh ancient home)

Wuyi Lane is located on the south side of Qinhuai River in Nanjing. During the Three Kingdoms period, it was the barracks of the army guarding the Stone City of Wu. The name Wuyi means black clothes. This was because the non-commissioned officers at that time always dress in black. Later the aristocrats of Eastern jin (317-420) gradually assembled at Wiyi Lane, making it popular and famous. In addition, Wangdao and Xie'an, the two founding fathers of Eastern jin, once lived here. The poem ... View Detail

Plum Village Memorial Hall

In May 3, 1946, a China Communist Party delegation led by Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu came to Nanjing from Chongqing, to have ceasefire negotiations with Kuomintang, to which the People's Liberation Army was fighting with for decades. The CPC delegation stayed in Meiyuan New Village for about ten months. It has made tremendous contribution in political history of modern China. The site of Offices of CPC Delegation is located at 30 Meiyuan New Village, the overall environment is still maintained ... View Detail

Meiling Palace

Nanjing Meiling Palace is located in the east of Sifang Square Castle in Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. It was once called the Xiaohongshan Premier Residence which functioned as the residence of national government's premier. It is a two-story building enclosed by trees and flowers with a valley road directly linked to the palace gate. It became the residence of Jiang Jieshi when the Nationalist Party Government moved from Chongqing to Nanjing . Jiang Jieshi and Song Meiling often spent their ... View Detail

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is located between Zhongshan Mausoleum and Linggu Temple, that is a tree sea. It is a classical building that copied lama temple of Qing Dynasty. This building is built for collecting Sun Yat-sen's things, so it is also called Tepositary of Buddhist Sutra. It is consisted of main building, monk's rooms and stele corridor. It has an area of more than 3000 square meters. The main building is a three-floor building, and the ground floor is the speaking hall, the ... View Detail

Zheng He';s Tomb

Zheng He (1371-1435), or Cheng Ho, is arguably China's most famous navigator. Starting from the beginning of the 15th Century, he traveled to the West seven times. For 28 years, he traveled more than 50,000km and visited over 30 countries, including Singapore. Zheng He died in the tenth year of the reign of the Ming emperor Xuande (1435) and was buried in the southern outskirts of Bull's Head Hill (Niushou) in Nanjing. In 1985, during the 580th anniversary of Zheng He's voyage, his ... View Detail

Battle crossing Victory Monument

This majestic stele in immortal memory of the heroic event that happened on April 21, 1949, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) successfully defeated the Nationalist's forces and victoriously crossed Nanjing section of Yangtze River on this day. This tall stele was erected in 1979 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the battle, which was among four great liberation wars fought before the founding of the new China on October 1, 1949.It stands near the southern bank of Yangtze River. The ... View Detail

Former Residence of Li Xiangjun

Li XiangJun's Former Residence Exhibition was built in 1989. It was included in the local protective unit of culture relics by the Commission for Protecting Culture Relics of Nanjing Manicipality.The Exhibition Hall introduces Li XiangJun's life and her historical background,the publication and repercussions of "the Peach-Blossom Fan", and the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai. The information is abundant, the pictures and their accompaning essays are both excellent.Miss Li ... View Detail

Crossing Victory Memorial Hall of Nanjing

Memorial Hall of the Victory of Crossing Yangtze River is located on the gate tower which is in Yijiangmen. Yijiangmen is near Yangzi River, in the northern of Stone City, is connected with beautiful Lion Mountain and Bazi Mountain. The gate tower is a two-floor palatial building copied Ming palace. Yijiangmen was built in 1921, because there was a gate, it was Hailing Gate. In order to send Sun Yat-sen's corpse to Zhongshan Mausoleum smoothly, it was exptended three arches, called Yijingmen ... View Detail

Zhongshan College

Built up in November of 1994, is used mainly for commemorating Mr. Sun Yat-sen s academic research and cultural exchanges. The academy is the two storeyed palatial architecture, face south, the angle flies in the layers of eaves, the green tile of white wall of red column. Place Zhongshan Mr. s bust in centre on the first floor. Classify work of Sun Yat-sen who displays various editions, academic work, books and periodicals of literature and history of Zhong Shan Tomb,etc. which Sun Yat-sen ... View Detail