Pingxiang Dalian City Scenic Spot

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Dalian City Scenic Spot is located about 1.5 kilometres north of Pingxiang City. It gathers the gorgeous and elegant natural landscape of the surrounding mountains, rich historical and humanistic landscapes and ancient military relics.
Pingxiang Dalian City Scenic Spot

Dalian City Scenic Spot is located about 1.5 kilometres north of Pingxiang City. It gathers the gorgeous and elegant natural landscape of the surrounding mountains, rich historical and humanistic landscapes and ancient military relics. Dalian City was originally a small village with deep forests, smoke and fog, very desolate. 1885, Su Yuanchun moved the Governor's Office from Liuzhou to Longzhou, and in order to facilitate the command and mobilisation of the army, he set up the Governor's Office in Dalian City and personally sat in the defence.

Dalian city surrounded by mountains, when Su Yuanchun to ensure the security of the military command centre, according to the mountains to build walls, bunkers and stone barricades, the surrounding peaks into one, eight turrets towering over the hills, as if united by the Great Wall of the ring, and the outside world set up a dangerous intersection of the left, in the middle of the front and back of the four barricades, the formation of a solid ring of defences. In the inner city to build a large-scale complex of buildings: drill hall, the Grand Palace, the Governor's platform, the Governor's Yamen, the soldiers' room, the practice field, the theatre, and daily services of the merchants shops and so on. Halfway up the hill in the city, there is a natural cave that can accommodate thousands of people. Su Yuanchun developed and built this cave into a ‘place of comfort’ and a military command headquarters. After nearly 20 years of construction, Dalian City became a political and military centre with a grand scale, strict layout, strong fortifications, and military and civilian cohabitation on the Guangxi borderline at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Wusheng Palace: the place where Guan Yu was worshipped in the military camp of Dalian City, there are three halls in the front, middle and back, and the front hall enshrines three statues of gods, the main god of Guan Yu, and the left and right are Guan Ping who holds the big seal and Zhou Cang who carries the big sword.
White Jade Cave: White Jade Cave is divided into three levels of caves, all connected by passages. Inside the cave, the stalactites are polished and crystalline, as bright as jade, with strange and varied stones, and clouds of strange stones, in a thousand shapes and sizes.
Four Wells Garden: The four ancient wells of ‘Fu’, ‘Luk’, ‘Shou’, ‘Jubilee’, which are supplied to soldiers, officials, the elderly and people for drinking in red and white celebrations, respectively. ‘Four ancient wells.
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