The Jiubujiang Tourist Area is located in the eastern part of Youxian County, Hunan Province, at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi. With a total area of 193 square kilometers, it is distributed with six major scenic areas, five categories, and more than 80 major geological heritage landscapes. Scenic spots such as the Jiubujiang National Geological Park Geological Museum, Jiuxian Lake Scenic Area, Baoning Temple, Bai Longdong Cave, Xianren Bridge, and Xianjing Paradise have been opened to the public one after another.
The Jiuxian Lake Scenic Area integrates beautiful waters, green mountains, strange caves, underground rivers, natural bridges, and ancient temples. The scenery is charming, with beautiful landscapes, majestic mountains, overlapping peaks, densely distributed strange caves, uncanny workmanship, lush forests, and competing greenery in all four seasons. The Jiubujiang Geological Park Museum is the main scenic spot of the Jiuxian Lake Scenic Area and is located at the entrance of the Jiuxian Lake Scenic Area. The millennium-old Baoning Temple is located on the shore of Jiuxian Lake in the Jiuxian Lake Scenic Area, in Baoning Village, Huangfengqiao Town. Baoning Temple was founded in the 10th year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, that is, 751 AD. It is one of the earliest Buddhist meditation temples in Hunan. Baoning Temple is the ancestral court of the Caodong Sect of the southern school of Buddhism. From the Tang and Five Dynasties to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the incense in Baoning Temple has been very prosperous and has become a famous temple in Hunan and the communication center between Nanyue of Buddhism and the two systems of Jiangxi. The existing temple halls of Baoning Temple are in the pattern restored in the second year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. There are three entrances in total, with a total of 24 halls, halls, buildings, pavilions, and terraces. Baoning Temple enjoys a high reputation and status in the history of Chinese Buddhism. The saying ‘North has Shaolin, south has Baoning’ is popular in the Chinese Buddhist community. Wu Limin, a generation of Buddhist master, evaluates Baoning Temple as a ‘national treasure’. Open all year round, open all day. The opening hours of internal scenic spots are subject to the on-site announcements of the scenic area.Jiubujiang Tourist Area
The Jiubujiang Tourist Area is located in the eastern part of Youxian County, Hunan Province, at the[...]
