Tourism in Jiangning District

As of 2012, Jiangning District has 13 national-level scenic spots.

In 2012, the region achieved tourism revenue of 15.01 billion yuan and received 13.6496 million tourists, an increase of 1.29 times and 61.0% respectively over the previous year. At the end of the year, the district had 1 national 4A-level tourist attraction, 4 national 3A-level tourist attractions, and 13 national 2A-level tourist attractions. Main Attractions Introduction Pictures of Attractions Tangshan Scenic Area Tangshan Scenic Area is located in Tangshan Street, Jiangning District. It is one of the four major hot spring resorts in the country. The hot springs are distributed on the east and southeast slopes of Tangshan Mountain. The spring water comes from 2 kilometers underground, and there are currently seven or eight springs. The water quality of the spring is clean and transparent, and the water temperature remains around 50 to 60 degrees Celsius all year round. The spring water is rich in 30 kinds of trace elements and minerals such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Shecun Ming and Qing Dynasty Architectural Complex Shecun Ming and Qing Dynasty Architectural Complex consists of Pan's residence and Pan's ancestral hall. It is located in Shecun Community, Dongshan Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing City. Pan's residence is located 10 meters west of the ancestral hall and was built for Pan Hengcai. Facing south, the house consists of three houses, each with three entrances, more than 60 rooms in total, and covers an area of ??about 750 square meters. The main structure of the building is a three-bedroom, two-entry style, covering an area of ??about 350 square meters. The group building was built in the ten years of the Republic of China. The building complex consists of Pan's residence and Pan's ancestral hall. According to the "Pan Genealogy", this group of buildings was first built in the early years of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and was renovated many times later. Hushu Mosque Hushu Mosque is located at No. 39, Shuibei Street, Hushu Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing City. It is the main place for Hushu Street Muslims to conduct religious and ritual activities. In 2006, it was announced as a municipal cultural relic protection unit. The temple was built in the 25th year of Hongwu (1392) and the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896) of the Qing Dynasty. It was repaired and the main hall was rebuilt. Due to years of disrepair, the northeast corner of the house is cracked. It was about to collapse. Later, the people's government allocated funds for repairs and the hall was transformed into a flat roof. The hall basically restored its old appearance. , there are two inscriptions engraved in the mosque, which successively record the history of the mosque and the healing after three traumas. Around 1932, a primary school for the children of the Hui people was established in the temple. In 1956, the primary school for the children of the Hui people moved out of the mosque. In 1964, the main hall was demolished due to disrepair. In 1979, the People's Government allocated funds for reconstruction. The former site of the Hengshan County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government The former site of the Hengshan County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government is located in Chengcun Community, Hengxi Street, Jiangning District. It was originally the residence of the big landowner Yu Shaozhang. It was built in 1913 and was known as ninety-nine and a half rooms. In 1938, the second detachment of our New Fourth Army entered Hengshan, and Commander Su Yu and Director Zhong Qiguang lived here. After the "Hengshan Incident" in August 1940, members of the central county committees of Jiangning, Dangtu, Jurong and Lishui returned to Hengshan. In August 1941, the Hengshan County Party Committee was restored and the Hengshan County Anti-Japanese Government was established, which was frequently moved. In 1943, the command organ of the Hengshan Anti-Japanese Democratic Government was established in Chengcun to lead the anti-Japanese resistance. After liberation, it was protected as a revolutionary memorial site and was listed as a Nanjing municipal cultural relic protection unit on August 13, 1982. The Martyrdom Site of Martyr Deng Yanda is located in Shashi Gang, Chenguang Community, Tangshan Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing City (now the shooting range of the Third Company of the First Battalion of the 179th Brigade of the Nanjing Military Region). Deng Yanda (1895-1931), also known as Zesheng, was born in Huiyang, Guangdong. He was a Chinese democratic revolutionary, a leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang, and the main founder of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. He was secretly murdered by Chiang Kai-shek on November 29, 1931 at Shashi Gang outside Qilin Gate. He was then in charge of Beijing and Shanghai. Chen Mingshu, the commander of Weiwu, paid for the burial of Deng Yanda near the place where he was martyred, and wrote on the tombstone: "The tomb of my old friend Mr. Deng Zesheng." In 1957, the Central People's Government funded the construction of the tomb of martyr Deng Yanda at Linggu Temple at the southern foot of Purple Mountain and reburied his remains. The place where Deng Yanda was martyred was renovated into a cemetery covering an area of ??about 400 square meters in 2001 with funding from the Jiangsu Provincial Government. There are 1 monument, 1 memorial tablet, 1 set of white marble garlands, and 22 steps on four floors in the park. There are pine, cypress and holly planted in the garden, and the environment is quiet and noble. It is now a municipal cultural protection unit. Zheng He's Tomb Zheng He's Tomb is magnificent in scale, 300 meters long from north to south and 60 meters wide from east to west. There were originally 30 to 40 acres of cultivated land around the tomb, which was Zheng He's incense field. There is a village to the west called Zhengjiacun, where the tombkeepers of Zheng He’s tomb relatives live. It was rebuilt in 1985 and includes a cemetery, tomb cover stone, steps, Shinto, stele pavilion, exhibition room and reception room, etc. The stone tomb package maintains Hui and Muslim burial rituals and specifications, and the architecture is imitation of Ming Dynasty style architecture. Zheng He's tomb is an important relic of Zheng He and has important historical and academic value. In 2002, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province announced it as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. Nanjing Yunjin brocade

The Yunjin brocade woven in Nanjing Jiangning has always been famous for its flexible texture and long-lasting bright color. It is a traditional jacquard silk weaving handicraft of Nanjing. Its materials are exquisite, its weavers are fine, and its patterns and colors are elegant and rich, just like colorful clouds, so it is called "Yun Brocade". It is as famous as the Song brocade in Suzhou and the Shu brocade in Sichuan, and is also known as the three most famous brocades in China.

Lake cooked salted duck

Lake cooked salted duck is a long-standing specialty of Jiangning Lake. According to legend, it has a history of more than 300 years. In the Qing Dynasty, it was presented to the palace as a tribute, which was called "tribute duck". Officials also often gave salted duck as a gift to each other, which was called "official gift salted duck".

Gold foil crafts

The history of Jinling gold foil can be traced back to more than 1,700 years ago and is a traditional Chinese production process. The gold foil hammered out from 1 gram of gold can cover an area of ??0.47 square meters.

It is mainly used in construction, clothing, handicrafts, decoration of Buddha statues and the formulation of precious Chinese patent medicines.

Other specialties

Zhougang mahogany, Dongshan old goose, braised shelduck, Hengxi watermelon, fragrant lotus root, Jinling gold foil, etc. Yangtze River culture, Qinhuai River culture, and Hushu culture merged here; the history and culture of the Moling, Danyang, and Hushu kingdoms of the Western Han Dynasty were deposited here; religious cultures such as Niushoushan Buddhism, Fangshan Taoism, and Hushu Islam survived and developed here. . There is a saying in history that "the people of Shangyuan are good at business, the people of Jiangning are good at farming, the people of Longdu are good at medicine, the people of Longdu are good at medicine, the people of Taowu are good at pottery, the people of Taowu are good at weaving, the people of Moling are good at weaving, and the people of Dou Village are good at carving." And it has the reputation of "Wangxian County in the world and the best place in the country".

The discovery of "Nanjing ape man" dates the history of Jiangning back to 500,000 years ago. The county was established in the 37th year of Qin Shihuang (210 BC), and in the 2nd year of Jin Taikang (281 AD), Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty visited the south and lamented that "there is nothing happening outside the river, but it is peaceful here", and it was officially named Jiangning. Eight of the forty-eight scenes of ancient Jinling are in Jiangning, which contain the allusions of Xie'an's "comeback" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Yangshan Stele, the Second Tombs of the Southern Tang Dynasty and other places of interest.

The Hushu Cultural Site is the earliest discovered site among the "table-shaped sites" and was discovered in 1951. Archaeologists believe that the "Hushu Culture" is roughly equivalent to the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the Central Plains. It is an indigenous culture of the "Jing Barbarians" in the south of the Yangtze River. Tongshan Lion Dance Team

The "Gaotai Lion" has a long history in Cao Village and Shenzhuang, Lukou, Jiangning District, and has high skills, meticulous movements and interesting taste. The actors can perform freely on 3 stacked tables and 1 bench, and can roll and stand on the high platform. Now it has been innovated, and the mouth, ears, eyes and tail can move.

Shenhu Digging Spring

Near the east mountain of Xinzhuang Village, Chunhua Township, Jiangning District, there is a unique scenic spot - Tiger Cave. According to legend, one day when there was no rain, a fierce tiger ran out of a cave in Dongshan and dug out a clear spring. Everyone said that this was the "magic tiger" who rescued him. From then on, people called the entrance of the cave where the "sacred tiger" ran out Tiger Cave. The legend of "The Divine Tiger Digging the Spring" has been passed down to this day.