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View Plans & PricingArea: 8,392 km² (prefecture-level city)
Population: Approximately 1.3 million (2020 census)
Chizhou means "pond prefecture" in Chinese. It is located in southern Anhui on the Yangtze River and is famous for the Jiuhua Mountain Buddhist area.
7.2/10 — Chizhou is a small city on the Yangtze in southern Anhui, famous for tea, Buddhist mountains, and poet Li Bai. It's peaceful, green, and culturally rich.
Chizhou Jiuhuashan Airport (JUH) offers domestic flights. Chizhou Railway Station and Chizhou South Station connect to Tongling and other cities. Buses and taxis serve the city.
Chizhou University is the main local higher-education institution.
Chizhou lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River with a humid subtropical climate. It has mountains, rivers, and the famous Jiuhua Mountain, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains.
Visit Jiuhua Mountain, Qingyang County ancient towns, Shengjin Lake, and the Chizhou city museum.
Day 1: Visit the Chizhou city area and Shengjin Lake.
Day 2: Full-day trip to Jiuhua Mountain for temples and mountain scenery.
Try Chizhou rice noodles, Anhui-style stinky mandarin fish, Jiuhua vegetarian dishes, and Yangtze River fish. The cuisine is influenced by Huizhou and river food traditions.
Jiuhua Buddhist items, Anhui tea, bamboo crafts, and dried lake fish are popular. Main shopping is in Guichi District.
Local Vibe: Chizhou is a city of tea terraces, Buddhist temples, and river mists. It was a place of exile for poets, which turned out lucky because they wrote beautiful poems about it.
Fun Facts:
• Jiuhua Mountain near Chizhou is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains and is said to be where the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha attained enlightenment.
• Li Bai, the Tang dynasty poet, wrote poems praising Chizhou's rivers and wine.
• Chizhou is famous for its 'Shitai' tea and river fish from the Yangtze tributaries.
Chizhou locals speak a mix of Jianghuai and Wu-influenced dialect. Useful phrases:
七饭 (qī fàn) — 'Eat' / 'Have a meal.'
做么事 (zuò mó shì) — 'What are you doing?'
蛮好 (mán hǎo) — 'Quite good.'
• Li Bai — The 'Poet Immortal' wrote many poems while traveling through Chizhou and Jiuhua Mountain.
• Ksitigarbha (Buddhist tradition) — The Korean monk Kim Gyo-gak became the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha at Jiuhua Mountain, a legend that defines Chizhou's spiritual history.
• Chizhou has produced tea masters and Buddhist monks who maintained Jiuhua Mountain's temples for centuries.
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