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Eastern China
Hangzhou Jiaxing West Lake Lingyin Temple Qiantang River China Tea Museum China National Silk Museum Longjing Village Wuzhen Xitang South Lake · Nanhu Yuehe · Moon River Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion Zhoushan Mount Putuo Suzhou Nanjing Yangzhou Wuxi Zhenjiang Xuzhou Huai'an Humble Administrator’s Garden Pingjiang Historic District Tongli Retreat and Reflection Garden Nanjing City Wall Zhongshan / Purple Mountain Qinhuai and the Examination Quarter China Grand Canal Museum Salt Merchant Culture Exhibition Hall Geyuan Garden Dongguan Street Slender West Lake Taihu and Lihu Huishan Ancient Town Yixing Jinshan Temple Jiaoshan Stele Forest Shizishan Chu King's Tomb Xuzhou Han Stone Relief Art Museum Qingjiang Lock and the Li Canal Hexia and Wu Cheng'en's Memorial Residence Zhouzhuang Niushoushan

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Zhenjiang.

River-facing temples and weathered calligraphy make Zhenjiang a place to explore how stories attach themselves to a landscape.

Visitors walk through a narrow old street lined with traditional buildings and red lanterns in Xijin Ferry.
A view along the historic Xijin Ferry street in Zhenjiang, photographed in April 2015.

River legends and carved stone

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Jinshan Temple

A hillside Buddhist monastery where the White Snake legend meets a much longer religious and architectural history.

Jiaoshan Stele Forest

Broken stone, powerful writing and river erosion give this calligraphy landscape an unusually physical sense of history.
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  1. A view along the historic Xijin Ferry street in Zhenjiang, photographed in April 2015.rheins · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
  2. The entrance to Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, photographed in August 2024.Yumeto · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
  3. The entrance to the Stele Forest at Jiaoshan, with a hilltop pagoda beyond.Cangminzho · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.