Chongqing South Mountain

Chongqing South Mountain Scenic Spot, located at south bank of Yangtze River with a total area of 2500 hectares and an average elevation of more than 400 m, which originates from the north of Tongluo Gorge and to Jinzhu Channel in south. Including more than 7 mountains - Wang Mountain, Huang Mountain, Yuan Mountain, Jiang Mountain, Dai Mountain, Laojun Mountain and Wenfeng Mountain, the highest peak called Spring mountain's elevation is up to 681.5 m. Chongqing Mountain look like a green barrier for protecting Chongqing City when you have an overlook from Yuzhong district of Chongqing City Center. And of course the natural landscape includes mountains, rivers, forests, springs, waterfalls, gorges, and flowers and cultural landscape such as Buddha architecture, Taoism architecture, Christ architecture, Catholic architecture and Islamic architecture, as well as the complete "Provisional Capital (Chongqing was a capital as a second one)" relics are full of Chongqing South Mountain Scenic Spot.

Chongqing South Mountain – Brief Introduction

Temple View Pavilion situated on the top of several mountains, which has been left rich articles as our state precious treasures by many great believers. Tourists came here to enjoy a great view during different seasons; some are for searching a history of a Provisional Capital, having a meditate on the temple or enjoying the flowers, exploring caves, some for praying to Buddha or hiking to a famous place "a tree" which can have a overlook of the whole city especially in night view. You will have a breathtaking tour in Chongqing South Mountain.

South Mountain located on the top of Wang Mountain, there are full of numerous famous flowers, more than 100 kinds of azalea and Sichuan camellias, dozens of kinds of sweet-scented, and the Himalayas cedar, Southeast Asia quinine, Japanese cherry blossoms, Mexico's marigold, British sweet-scented osmanthus etc. Maybe you can find one of your national flowers here. And whatever the time you choose to come, you will have a great sightseeing during different seasons. Peach and cherry blossoms bloom in spring, begonia and azalea bloom in summer, sweet-scented and chrysanthemum bloom in autumn, and wintersweet bloom in winter.

Huang Mountain scenic has been discovered as an amusement park. There are many kinds of villas for visiting include Mr. Jiang Jieshi's Yun Xiu villa, Song Meiling's pine hall, Marshall's pavilion and Lianqing pavilion of U.S Advisory Group, which could be called as villas view in provisional capital. All of the villas were constructed during a time when chongqing was a second capital of China.8

Chongqing South Mountain – Main Scenic

Tushan Temple

Tushan Temple situated on the Tu Mountain of Nan an district of Chongqing city, which is the oldest temple in China. The history of Tushan Temple we couldn't even research. Tushan Temple is also called Zun Wu Temple because of a worship of Zunwu patriarch inside.

South Mountain Stone Carving

Taoist figures statues have been called as South Mountain Stone Carvings. There are 11 of stone tablets, 4 of stratus, and 11 of inscriptions.

Dragon Cave

Dragon Cave is more than 3 m in length as a square shape. There is a vivid portrait carved in the cave without horns with exquisite layout.