Anju Ancient City

Anju Ancient City is located 17 kilometers northwest of Tongliang District, Chongqing City. It is 66[...]

Anju Ancient City is located 17 kilometers northwest of Tongliang District, Chongqing City. It is 66 kilometers away from downtown Chongqing. It was established as a county during the Sui, Tang and Ming dynasties. It is a thousand-year-old ancient city that integrates unique location advantages, long cultural heritage, rich cultural relics and historic sites, and beautiful natural scenery.
There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Anju Ancient City, with profound cultural heritage and beautiful natural scenery. It is an ancient city with a complete system, a large scale, and a strong sense of three-dimensionality and layering.

The Ming and Qing buildings in the city are row upon row. The folk customs of Anju Ancient City are rich and colorful. Traditional Sichuan operas, storytelling and singing, dragon lantern and lion dances, dry boat temple fairs, work songs and ballads are very popular.

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There are 197 city and county-level cultural relics and historic sites and 1 item of intangible cultural heritage in the ancient city. The ‘Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples’ are dazzling, and the ‘Eight Scenes of Anju’ are breathtaking. The guild halls in Hubei, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places are well-known far and wide. There are many talents such as ministers of the Ministry of Rites, feudal officials, and Hanlin scholars. Poet Han Yu and calligrapher Mi Fu also lingered in Anju.

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Opening hours: open all day all year round.

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