Name card for the blessing city- city in the forest, leisure city

Chenzhou city- an ancient and magical place. The character “郴”(Chen) which was firstly recorded in Qin Dynasty means “city in the forest”. It is located in the south of Mount Heng, foot of Qitianling of Nanling mountain, and junction of south Hunan and north Guangdong province. Its geographic coordinates is 24°54”- 26°51”north latitude and 112°14”-114°10” east longitude. It is about 194kms wide from east to west and 217kms long from north to south. Chenzhou city is the south gate of Hunan province and is a vital communications center for the transportation between the mainland and Guangdong costal area, so it is with excellent location advantages. Beihu district, Suxian district, Zixing city and eight counties as Guiyang, Jiahe, Linwu, Yizhang, Rucheng, Guidong, Yongxing, and Anren are covered in the city with about 19,400 square meters areas. There are 27 nations of 5.065million population there, who helped to create unique economic, cultural and traditional folk of Chenzhou city in the long-term social development.

Long cultural history of Chenzhou city

From Qin Dynasty, Chenzhou city is with over 2200-year history as the political, economic and cultural center for local county and prefecture government. Qin Guan- one of the famous poets of Song Dynasty was degraded to south Hunan province. He created a famous poem named “Tashaxing- Chenzhou hotel” when he passed Chenzhou. From then on, Chenzhou became famous nationwide. Zhou Dunyi’s “Ailian Shuo” which was created in Chenzhou city was one of the greatest poems in Chinese history. It had always been a place of military importance in the history. Xiang Yu, Zhao Zilong, Hong Xiuquan and some other people were recorded in the annals of Chenzhou city. Wang Changling, Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Qin Shaoyou and some other poets created great works there as well. Suxianling- one of the most famous landscapes of Chenzhou urban city was honored as “the 18th blessing place of China” for its beautiful legend. Some other famous and historical relics presented the long history of Chenzhou city. In the period of democratic revolution, Chenzhou city was the source place of Xiangnan Intifada that the predecessors of proletarian revolution as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, and etc. were once been there. Huang Kecheng, Xiao Ke, Deng Hua, Zhu Liangcai, Li Tao, Ouyang Yi, Tang Tianji, Cao Lihuai, Xiao Xinhua and some other predecessors of proletarian revolution were born in Chenzhou city. As the training base of Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team, Chenzhou city helped it to won the champions for 5 consecutive times. Long history and gorgeous culture left abundant places of interest and beautiful legends in Chenzhou city.

Beautiful scenery of Chenzhou city

Chenzhou city is a famous ecological kingdom in south China and also an emerging tourism destination. It was awarded as Chinese excellent tourism city and hot spring city of China in 2003. “Chenzhou is the resort with best landscapes of Hunan province”, “green mountains, colorful flowers”, “marvelous peaks, elegant water”, and etc. are the famous description of Chenzhou city. Currently, more than 90 tourism spots have been developed in Chenzhou city. You can enjoy different trips with different features there. The main travel routes are as follow: “the 18th blessing place of China”- Suxianling, leisure water city of central China- Dongjiang Lake, top one primitive ecological mountain of China- Mount Mang, the exclusive opening international hunting place- Wugai mountain, splendors of caves in the world- Wanhuayan, national geological park- Feitian mountain, Chinese demonstrations of industrial tourism- silver city of China and Guiyang Baoshan National Mine Park, “King of hot spring in south China”- Rucheng hot spring whose temperature is up to 98℃, the original place of the legend “Liuyi Zhuan”- Longnv hot spring, typical folk dwellings of south Hunan- Yangshan ancient village, Banliang ancient village and Xiaobu ancient village, thousand-year-old street- Yuhou street, and Hunan Kunqu opera which was approved as “oral cultural heritage and representative of intangible heritage” by UNESCO.

Dongjiang Lake is one of the most characteristic landscapes in Chenzhou city. It is located in Zixing city of Chenzhou city where is about 28kms from Chenzhou urban area. The 160square-kilometer big lake is with the water-storage capacity of 8.12 billion cubic meters which is about half volume of Dongting Lake. When you travel in this ecological environment with clear water and green mountains, you may forget all annoyances. Because small Dongjiang river keeps the temperature of 8-10℃ in the year around, the temperature difference between it and Dongjiang Lake will present a unique foggy scenery there every April – November. This foggy scenery looks like a white silk and is honored as the wonder of China.
Mount Mang National Forest Park covers 198.4square kilometers areas, which is a national forest park with the biggest area and best-preserved biological species in south China. It is honored as “the second Xishuangbanna of China”. Every April – May, alpine azaleas decorate among the green trees. In late autumn, the red maples enable Mount Mang look like a painting.

Wanhuayan is the secondary famous landscape of Chenzhou city. It is located in Wanhuayan town where is about 17kms from Chenzhou urban area. It is a huge krast cave which is about 2110meters long and 2700-square-meter big. Its water surface is about 9300meters. A monument of the Southern Song Dynasty which carved with a poem is placed in the entrance of the cave. “万华岩”(Wanhuayan) –the three Chinese characters carved by Zhang Nanxuan- one of famous moralists of the Southern Song Dynasty is still available there. Due to its gorgeous krast sceneries, Wanhuayan is honored as “splendors of caves in the world”.