A pavilion for looking at rivers
Yugutai is a rebuilt Qing pavilion on a hill above the place where the Gan River starts, and the name means a lonely stand.
Ganzhou.
Ganzhou stands in the south of Jiangxi where the Zhang and the Gong come together to form the Gan River, which begins its long run north from here. The city calls itself the cradle of the Hakka, and most of the county territory speaks Hakka rather than the Gan speech of the rest of the province. It is also the place where the Chinese Soviet Republic was proclaimed, the source of the navel oranges that carry the name Gannan, and a working mining and manufacturing centre. Read it as a southern Jiangxi city and the province's geography starts to make sense.
Ganzhou
The first red capital
For two years, Ruijin was the capital of a state that tried to run a country from a hill town in southern Jiangxi.
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A house with a wall around its family
At Yan Yi Wei in Longnan, rooms, galleries and defensive openings share a tall square enclosure; Guanxi New Enclosed House offers another local plan.
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Yugutai Pavilion
A solitary hill-top pavilion above the Ganzhou riverfront, rebuilt in 1983 on the layout of a Qing structure.
Ruijin
The town that was capital of the Chinese Soviet Republic for two years, and the museums that keep that period visible.
Hakka Weiwu
The walled and towered houses of the Hakka, called tuweizi in Jiangxi and tulou in Fujian, and two different buildings.
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Yugutai Pavilion rises above a garden stairway in Ganzhou.Liangxiao — Yugutai.JPG / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Converted proportionally to WebP for display and thumbnail; no cropping, retouching or upscaling. The image retains the source license.
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In 2018, a high oblique view across Ruijin’s Yeping site showed tiled halls set among trees, lawns and paths.Zhangzhugang — Ruijin Yeping 2018.10.06 11-24-21.jpg / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Converted proportionally to WebP for display and thumbnail; no cropping, retouching or upscaling. The image retains the source license.
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The tall rectangular enclosure of Yanyi Wei above tiled roofs in Longnan, southern Jiangxi. Photograph from 2017.Jim X / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP; no cropping or alteration of the scene.
