Shanjuan Cave
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East China (华东) » Jiangsu (江苏) » Yixing (宜兴) » Shanjuan Cave(宜兴善卷洞)Shanjuan Cave(宜兴善卷洞) | |
| Address: | Luoyan Mountain，southwest of Yixing County, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province., Yixing, Jiangsu |
| Phone: | 0510-87394881，7391169，7394888 |
| Fax: | 0510-7397069 |
| Price Range: | 120 RMB per person ~ 120 RMB per person |
| Hours: | 8：00-16：30 |
| Level: | AAAA |
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| Short Description: | The water cave is a 120 meters long underground river with twisting, cold and unfathomable channel. Boat traveling in it, listening to the sound of water, seeing the inverted image of light, you will feel in fairyland of the world. When go crossing three crooks, you will feel sprung wide. When landing, forest will freshened you up. |
Tourist Reviews (1) | ||
| 2010-08-23: A great place to visit (by Ian) | ||
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After being renovated, Shanjuan Cave Scenic Area, which is one of the 4A level scenic areas in China, has been showed before tourists' eyes. There are garden, amusement park, pottery bar, cable and ropeway in this new scenic. There are three famous Steles and magic clouds, especially those 235 kinds of different plants, in which Yinlu plum is the most famous one, that make this scenic area more attractive. Right behind the cave is the reading place of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai who are called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet. The ancient scenic-Yuantong Attic has been rebuilt. Around the attic, there are advanced cable and ropeway. What’s more, the stimulate amusement program will make you forget to return. Behind this pleasant paradise, the Luoyan Villa Restaurant will offer you good services. If you come to YiXing, you must come to visit our Shanjuan Cave Scenic Area which is quite famous in Yixing Province and even of the world. It is better to see than hear. There are altogether four caves: the upper cave, the middle cave, the lower cave and the back cave. The middle cave is the entrance. On the rock wall are poems by Zhong Liquan and nine other poets of the Tang dynasty, and the calligrapher of the Liang dynasty Tao Hongjing's seal characters of “Bewildering World and Fairyland”. The upper cave is also named “the warm cave”, the lower cave “the waterfall cave”, and the back cave “the water cave”. Just outside the cave is “Bixian Buddhist Convent”, where the story of Liang Shiwei took place according to legend.
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Go around: Shanjuan Cave Scenic Area is 20 kilometers to the downtown of Yixing County, Yixing tour line 2 can get there directly.
[edit] Tips
In the cave, light is sable and ground is wet. When visiting, please be more careful. Selling pottery at the foot of mountain, you must bargain, especially foreigners, because the ask price is random, you can even buy a set of red porcelain kettle in 5 RMB. All the information is for reference only.
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- Complaint call of Wuxi City：0510-85052599
- Complaint call of Jiangsu Province: 025-83418185
- Complaint call of State Tourism Office: 010-65275315
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Yixing belongs to northern subtropical belt monsoonal climate zone, which is a temperate and humid climate, abundant rainfall, the annual average temperature is 17.5℃, and a clear-cut four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter has itself features. The beautiful scenery can be visited in four seasons, but the golden time for tourism is April to October in each year.
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