Tongnan: the gilded Buddha in the cliff hall
An 18.43-metre gilt seated image inside a Song and Yuan temple at the foot of Dingming mountain, with three halls and a carved cliff around it.
Tongnan District.
Tongnan stands at the north-western corner of Chongqing and is named for the fact that it lay south of Tongchuan prefecture. It covers 1,594 square kilometres and counted 950,000 inhabitants in 2009. The Fu and the Qiong are its two rivers, and the district governs two subdistricts and twenty towns, among them Zitong, where the Great Buddha Temple sits back from the Fu, and Shuangjiang, where Qing houses line the south bank. The plain here is quiet agricultural country. The district's name in wider travel is one gilded seated image, cut into a hill and covered in gold.
Tongnan District
Shuangjiang: nine streets on the south bank of the Fu
A Qing-era town on the Fu in Tongnan, listed in 2003 among China's first historical and cultural towns, with twenty surviving houses.
ReadChongkan: Chen Tuan's town and the yellow plain
The home town of the Daoist Chen Tuan, ringed by twenty square kilometres of rapeseed, with a 236-metre Tai Chi diagram laid out on the slope below.
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Tongnan Giant Buddha
The 18.43-metre gilt seated Buddha in a Song and Yuan temple at the foot of Dingming mountain.
Shuangjiang Ancient Town
A Qing-era town on the south bank of the Fu, listed in 2003 as a national historical and cultural town.
Chongkan
The home town of the Daoist Chen Tuan, ringed by rapeseed fields and a hillside Tai Chi diagram.
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