Changde

Changde

Changde, called Wuling in ancient time, is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, bordering Zhangjiajie on the west and vast Dongtinghu Plain on the east.
It is a famous land teeming with fish and rice as well as tourism resort due to its abundance of produce and beautiful landscape. Its main scenic area includes Peach Blossom Land and Jiashan Temple, etc.

Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Land) Scenic Zone

This is a fairy land described in “On the Land of Peach Blossom” by the poet, Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is in the northwest of Hunan Province and by the lower reaches of Yuanshui River. It includes neighboring scenic spots and Yuan River landscape, with a total area of 157,550 square meters. It is of high value in terms of tourism, art, history, culture and science due to its combination of old, supernatural, serene, elegant and grandiose scenery suggestive of poetry and painting with historical legends.

Huping Mountain National Nature Reserve

This is an ideal place for eco-tourism. It boasts of the most primitive forest, the longest gorge, the most spectacular waterfall, the purist water, the freshest air, the largest homeland for wild South China tiger, the largest Karst cave, the oldest natural geologic museum, and the newest original garden of Chinese orchid in Hunan Province.

Chengtoushan Cultural SiteThe site in Chexi Township west of Lixian County is the oldest and best-preserved site of the city with the richest cultural relics in China. There are the sites of the city moat and an altar. Some rice fields under the city wall, dating back to 6,500 years ago, are the oldest and best-preserved rice plots so far found in China, proving that the Yangtze River Valley is also a cradle of the Chinese civilization and pushing the history of human civilization even earlier.