2025 Xingning Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in January)

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① Xingning Shenguang Mountain is a natural scenic area that is very worth visiting, with beautiful natural scenery and a profound cultural heritage, such as ancient temples, inscriptions, etc., ② such as magnificent peaks, clear streams, and various facilities within the scenic area, such as tourist service centers, rest areas, restrooms, etc. ③ In summary, Xingning Shenguang Mountain is an excellent tourist destination that combines natural scenery, animal and plant resources, tourist facilities, cultural heritage, and leisure and entertainment activities. I highly recommend everyone to come and visit.

The Dafudi Residence under Mount Tai covers an area of approximately 3340 square meters, with the main building being 82.1 meters wide and 25.7 meters deep, occupying a built area of 1716 square meters. The residence was initially built during the Qing Dynasty by the seventh-generation ancestor of the Wu family. The Dafudi Residence faces northeast and southwest, consisting of two halls, six lateral sections, and a surrounding dragon house (the dragon part has collapsed), with a grain terrace and a pond in front of the gate. The foundation walls of the surrounding house are made of blue brick bases, with the upper parts constructed of adobe, wood, and tiles, featuring a hard mountain-style roof. There is still a plaque with the red and black characters "Dafudi" preserved, and to the right, there is an ancient well with clear spring water. This house was the former residence of Wu Jinnan, the former Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. On August 10, 2009, the (Mount Tai) Dafudi Residence was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a protected unit of "Xingning's Characteristic Ancient Residences".

Li Heming House, commonly known as 'Li Heming', was built in the sixth year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. It faces southwest from the northeast and is designed as 'three halls, six wings, and one surrounding dragon'. In front of the gate, there is a grain drying area and a pond. The building covers an area of 5,368 square meters. Inside the Li Heming House, there is 1 main gate, 6 smaller gates, 9 halls, and 112 rooms. The main gate has two square stone pillars, the lower hall has two round wooden pillars, and the middle hall has six pillars; it uses the traditional Chinese architectural techniques of mortise and tenon joint structure and lifting beam structure. The wood carvings on the main gate, central hall, and ancestral hall beams along the central axis are gilded and exquisitely carved. At the very top of the main gate are the characters 'En Rong', and below it is a red and gold door plaque with the three large characters 'Zi Zheng Di'. The upper hall has a wooden plaque 'Ken Gou Ken Tang' (sixth year of Guangxu), and the middle hall hangs a wooden plaque 'Dun Ben Tang', and a second-class wooden plaque with the title 'Zhong Xian' (second year of Guangxu). The entire building is solidly constructed with rammed earth foundations, brick and wood structures, gray tile surfaces, and hard mountain tops. The gate is topped with a fireproof wall. On December 10, 2015, it was announced as the eighth batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units.

This is a very special Hakka enclosed house, located on the hillside. Upon entering, there is a corridor that extends upwards step by step, with rows of houses on both sides spreading out to the sides in a straight line, totaling nine rows, with a paddy drying area and a geomantic pond in front of the houses. Here is a self-introduction from the residents of the enclosed house: 'Our ancestral house was originally located within the Heshui Reservoir. Due to the construction needs of the Heshui Reservoir by the state, we moved to the butterfly-shaped house in Ganzicun, Nibei Town in the winter of 1956, and have been settled here for over sixty years. The butterfly-shaped house is our ancestral home where we have lived and thrived. After settling down, we have had continuous success in agriculture and a wealth of talented individuals, with both cultural and martial virtues being passed down. The ancestral home is the blessing of the descendants, an unforgettable foundation. Water has its source, trees have their roots; no matter how big the world is, we must always remember where our ancestral home is. Honoring and respecting our ancestors is part of the filial piety that is among the ten virtues of Chinese heritage. This time, the renovation of the ancestral home was made possible by the enthusiastic donations from the descendants. Five halls have been refurbished, which is a joyous and congratulatory event. On March 11, 2019, the fifth day of the second lunar month in the year of Ji Hai, a ceremony was held to celebrate the ancestral blessings: may every household be wealthy and prosperous, may fortune and wealth come to all, and may generations flourish. The names of the donors have been inscribed on a stone tablet and mounted on the wall to forever commemorate their contributions.' All the residents of this house are surnamed Zeng. Currently, the back half of the enclosed house is damaged, but people still live there.

Long'an Wei was built in the Jiāqìng period (1809 AD) by the famous local gentry Luo Menghao. It faces south with its back to the north and consists of a three-hall and four-wing 'Wei Long' house, with fighting gates on both sides for entry and exit. In front of the house door, there is a heping (grain drying area), and outside the heping is a semi-circular wall. The main building is 54 meters wide and 56.6 meters deep, covering an area of 3056.4 square meters. The central and lower halls are supported by eight ground pillars, and the front door features lion wood carvings, with exquisite wooden carvings and polychrome paintings. The layout is rigorous and reasonable, with very complete infrastructure, including 96 rooms, 10 large and small halls, and 12 courtyards. The walls of the entire house are made of a mixture of lime, cobblestones, and glutinous rice, making them very strong defensively. It is a large and exquisite typical two-story Hakka 'Wei Long' house. Menghao was known as an elder in the village; he was prudent and tolerant in his dealings, engaged in education and farming, and was diligent in business, continuously promoting prosperity. His sincere and charitable way of life earned him the title of 'Dafu' from the Qing government, and thus the 'Wei Long' house he built was named 'Dafu Di'. In September 2017, it was announced as the eighth batch of cultural relics protection units in Xingning City.

The Huangdou Pai Liu House covers an area of about 1560 square meters, with the main building being 55.9 meters wide and 26.1 meters deep, occupying a land area of 1458.9 square meters. The construction of the Huangdou Pai Liu House began in the late Qing Dynasty and was built by the overseas Chinese Liu Dingfu. The house faces east to west and consists of a two-hall, two-wing, two-story structure (with an additional pillow beam and a side house on the right), forming a combined facade beam, with a three-story watchtower built on the additional pillow beam. In front of the house, there is a rice drying field and a pond. The foundation walls of the compound are made of rammed earth, while the upper parts are constructed with adobe, wood, and tiles, featuring a hard mountain-style roof. The structure of the house is unique, belonging to the combined facade beam style but also blending Chinese and Western elements. The building is two stories high, without eaves or walls. The house has the characteristics of ancient Hakka residences and also incorporates Western styles. Currently, the compound is severely damaged and in urgent need of repair. On August 10, 2009, the Huangdou Pai Liu House was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a 'Xingning City Featured Ancient Residence' for protection.

The Jinshi Mansion covers an area of nearly 22,000 square meters, with the main building being 150 meters wide and 108.9 meters deep, occupying a land area of about 14,835 square meters. The Jinshi Mansion was initially built by the 18th generation ancestor of the Wang family, Pingyu Gong, in the 25th year of the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty (1760), and it took three generations and 50 years of continuous expansion to complete its current scale. The mansion faces south and is built in the layout of three halls, eight horizontal sections, and two enclosed courtyards forming a 'surrounding dragon house', with 28 skylights, 3 halls, 6 alleys, 2 heping (grain drying areas), and a horizontal house on the right side with 6 rooms used as an academy, in front of which there is a heping and a pond. The entire house is a two-story building with 300 rooms on each floor. The exterior is fortified with rammed earth walls, while the interior structures are made of earth and wood, with gray walls and tiled surfaces, and hard mountain-style roofs. The slightly arched flower head is paved with green bricks, making it a large 'chessboard-shaped surrounding dragon house'. This house is the largest and best-preserved Hakka enclosed house within the territory of Xingning City. In January 2014, the Jinshi Mansion was announced by the Meizhou Municipal People's Government as the second batch of Meizhou City Cultural Relics Protection Units.

The whole area of dawn redwoods excites me! It's incredibly beautiful! It's hard to imagine what the spectacle of redwoods all over the mountains will look like when autumn truly arrives! I already have a complete autumn scenery picture in my head! The entire scenic area is very well protected, with convenient infrastructure along the way, and a brand new greenway that is suitable for family outings. It's said to be the most popular hiking spot for Xingning residents~ It takes about 1 hour to walk from the entrance to the mountain top square. The greenway is smooth, the paths are wide, the trees are towering, providing cool and comfortable shade. Starting a walk around 11 am, there are hardly any people, which is especially nice. I'm waiting to go again in December, it will definitely be another beautiful scene.

The Xinlin Old House covers an area of about 5,410 square meters, with the main building being 70.1 meters wide and 53.5 meters deep, occupying a land area of 3,300 square meters. The Xinlin Old House was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, founded by the twelfth ancestor of the Chen family. The house faces south with its back to the north and is a type of 'three halls and five horizontal enclosures' dragon house, with a grain drying area and a pond in front of the gate. Inside the enclosure, there are about 150 rooms and 6 courtyards. The whole house is built on a rammed earth foundation with walls made of earth bricks, wood, and tiles, and has a hard mountain-style roof. The main entrance is supported by two stone pillars, and the stone base in front of the door is carved with a relief of a Qilin as an ornament. The upper, middle, and lower halls are intact, with the middle hall featuring a beam frame, and the main beam is carved with cloud and ruyi patterns. On August 10, 2009, the Xinlin Old House was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a protected unit of 'Xingning's Characteristic Ancient Residences'.

Le Shan Wei, also known as 'Zeng Ju Hua', is located on Yangling of Zhengjiang Village. This house was built during the Qing Dynasty's Xianfeng era by six brothers of the 18th generation of the local Zeng family. Facing from southwest to northeast, it is a two-hall, four-wing, and two-enclosure dragon house, with a grain terrace and a geomantic pond in front of the house. Above the front door hangs a wooden plaque reading 'Scholar's Residence', and upon entering, a wooden screen is seen with another plaque that reads 'Cheng De Residence'. The compound covers an area of 4,500 square meters, with the buildings occupying 2,956 square meters. To the left of the house, there is a well. The couplets by the entrance of the house, 'Find joy in what I do, share goodness with others' and 'Joyful heart touched by the sun, virtuous air filled with the spring breeze', reflect the ancestral spirit of valuing kindness and goodness as the family's guiding principle. The house has a profound cultural heritage and has produced many talented individuals. Stone tablets with inscriptions such as 'Scholar's Residence' hang above the main gate, and plaques awarded by the government such as 'Talent and Virtue', 'Cheng De Residence', 'Top Scholar', and 'Five Generations Under One Roof' are displayed in the lower hall. After the establishment of New China, the house has seen 4 bureau-level officials, professors, senior engineers, hydroelectric experts, and other highly skilled professionals, boasting the remarkable achievement of 'two Tsinghua University graduates from one family'. The descendants of the house, such as Zeng Hong, the former Director of the Guangdong Provincial Justice Department, are well-known for their enthusiasm for public welfare, their emphasis on education, and their willingness to help others. However, the house also has touching stories about its ancestors' construction and their charitable deeds. The 17th generation ancestors, Zeng Guobiao and Zeng Guoliang (whose grandfather was the imperial scholar Zeng Jianlong in the ninth year of Qianlong's reign), originally lived in a lower-lying joint house under the bamboo lake of Diaofang Santan. Due to poverty, they made a living by raising ducks and fishing. Once, while herding ducks in the wild, the ducks wandered towards the northwest. The brothers followed the ducks to a higher ground and decided to rest there. While resting, Zeng Guoliang was reluctant to leave, 'Brother, it's really comfortable to rest here.' Zeng Guobiao also felt the same, 'I like this place very much. How about this, let's enclose this area with bamboo poles now, and we can rest here when we herd the ducks in the future?' So, the brothers worked together to gather bamboo and enclosed the mound overnight. They often rested there while herding ducks and eventually built a thatched shelter to protect themselves from the elements. Their mother duck often laid eggs under the shelter, which made them believe this place was a geomantic treasure. They settled down here, convinced that they would prosper. They bought the nearby mulberry garden from the Luo family under the bamboo garden to cultivate. As time went by, they married and had children. The brothers had six sons named Zeng Kangsheng, Ansheng, Xingsheng, Huansheng, Qingsheng, and Shousheng. As the children grew up and the brothers saved some money, they decided to build a house on the site of the thatched shelter. They mobilized their grown-up son Kangsheng and Zeng Ansheng, who was doing business along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, to contribute money and effort to demolish the thatched house and build a brick and tile house, starting with the main structure named 'Le Shan Wei'. Zeng Xingsheng and Zeng Huansheng grew up and started workshops, pawnshops, and medicinal herb businesses. They traveled to Sichuan to purchase white fungus and other medicinal materials. With the money earned, they continued to build the second and third enclosures with their brothers and descendants. Because Zeng Huansheng's business 'Ju Hua' was quite famous locally, people also referred to Le Shan Wei as 'Zeng Ju Hua'.

The Malu Xia Dawang House covers an area of about 6,900 square meters. The main building is 84.2 meters wide and 68.4 meters deep, with a construction area of 5,452 square meters. The Malu Xia Dawang House was built by the fourteenth ancestor of the Luo Ji family, Wang Yijie (born in the Gui Mao year of the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, 1603). The house faces from southwest to northeast and consists of three halls and three surrounding dragon houses (the third dragon section on the left side has collapsed), with a grain terrace and a pond in front of the gate. The house has one main gate and five smaller gates (missing the third dragon section's small gate on the left), with two round wooden columns at the lion's mouth of the main gate, two round wooden columns at the lower hall, and six round wooden columns supporting the beams in the middle hall. The walls are made of rammed earth, with mud bricks, wood, and tiles, and it has a hip roof. On August 10, 2009, the Malu Xia Dawang House was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a protected unit of 'Xingning's Distinctive Ancient Residential Buildings'.

The Tongshu Luo house, a two-hall, four-wing, three-enclosure dragon house, is located in Huangji Village, Fuxing Sub-district, Xingning City, Guangdong Province. It was primarily built by Luo Fayang, the son of Luo Qinghui, the founder of 'Luo Family Tongshu', during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The Tongshu Luo house covers an area of about 4,600 square meters, with a construction area of 3,351 square meters. Facing south with its back to the north, it features two halls, four wings, and three enclosures forming a dragon house, with a grain terrace and a pond in front. There are 4 halls, 99 rooms, and 1 courtyard, with 4 wooden columns in the upper and lower halls. The wall foundation is made of rammed earth, while the upper part is constructed of earth bricks, wood, and tiles, with a hard mountain roof. This residence is a typical Hakka dwelling in Xingning. On August 10, 2009, the Tongshu Luo house was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a 'Xingning City Featured Ancient Dwelling' protection unit. The Tongshu Luo house possesses the Xingning Luo Family's Tongshu calculation method, which was first created by Luo Qinghui in the second year of the Yongzheng period (1724) of the Qing Dynasty. It holds an important position in China and plays a significant role in guiding people's production and life. The 'Luo Family Tongshu' calculated using this method was once granted imperial permission by the Yongzheng Emperor to be published and distributed in the five provinces of South China. Its content is rich and precise, mainly including lunar phases, head origins, mountain lessons, and marriage matters. It contains aphorisms, detailed explanations, practical examples, and uses a 39-bead abacus for calculation, offering meticulous and profound guidance that is convenient and practical.

Di Hua Wei, also known as Diao Cuifeng, covers an area of 11,278 square meters. Funded by the six brothers of the Diao family's twentieth generation—Li Wu, Hui Chuan, Ban Qin, Shun Yu, Xuan Gao, and Yue Chi—construction began in the spring of the third year of the Republic of China (1914) and was completed in the eleventh year (1922). Di Hua Wei faces from the southwest to the northeast and features a layout with three halls, four lateral sections, one central beam, and a surrounding dragon structure at the four corners, known as a 'four-cornered dragon house.' In front of the building, there is a grain drying area and a pond; inside, there are 16 halls, 21 courtyards, and 274 rooms. The three sides of the enclosure are two-story verandas, with a central beam that is also a two-story veranda. There are six stone staircases leading up and down on all four sides, and the rear building is a semi-circular enclosure with two floors, interconnected all around on the upper level. Each building is supported by round stone columns, with stone balustrades (made of celadon) on the upper floors and flower beds below. The courtyards inside the house are quite spacious, with fighting doors on both sides. On October 20, 2012, Di Hua Wei was announced by the People's Government of Guangdong Province as the seventh batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units.

The Shizi Mouth House in Luoba was built by the Huang family during the Qing Dynasty, with three halls, six horizontal sections, three enclosures, plus two curved row houses. In front of the house, there is a paddy terrace and a geomantic pond, and to the right in front of the pond, there is a well. The building covers an area of about 4,000 square meters. The house has five doors, with the main door being concave, framed in wood and resting on stone pillows. The first and second entrances have wooden columns, wooden screens, and stone thresholds. The enclosed house is now uninhabited.

Yunhua House, also known as 'Doctor's Residence', is located in Liuqianli of Malingshan Village. It was initially built at the end of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and completed during the Xuantong period after eight years of construction. It was built by the descendants of Liu, the founding ancestor of the Xingning Liu family (from the third branch), and consists of a three-hall and three-horizontal square compound with extended wing rooms on both sides forming a 'fighting door' structure. The building covers an area of nearly 3,000 square meters and has been standing for over one hundred and ten years. The descendants of Yunhua have proliferated to the twenty-eighth generation, growing from the initial dozen or so individuals to hundreds today, signifying a thriving and prosperous family. Yunhua House is grand in scale, exquisite in design, and made with superior materials. The entire structure features gilded wood carvings and beams with intricate details, exuding an imposing presence. The three bold and vigorous golden characters 'Doctor's Residence' on the top of the main door shine brightly. In front of the main door is a rectangular threshing ground used by the clan for drying grain and daily activities. In front of the threshing ground is a large semi-circular pond with clear, babbling water flowing into it. Yunhua House faces Xingning's famous mountain, 'Shenguang Mountain'. The atmosphere is filled with scholarly elegance, and the family has a long tradition of valuing education and producing talented individuals. Members of the family excel in various fields such as industry, commerce, literature, and medicine, and are well-known throughout the surrounding ten miles and beyond. The scale and luxury of Yunhua House were rare in Xingning at the time, and thus it was well-known among the older generation that there was a Doctor's Residence in Liuqianli of Yetang Malingshan Village, which was highly praised. In 2011, the Yunhua clan raised hundreds of thousands of yuan to renovate the ancestral house. In 2017, the Liu family raised another 300,000 yuan for maintenance.

Mizaizhai Liwu was built by the Li family during the Qing Dynasty. It is a Hakka enclosed house with three halls, eight lateral rooms, and three surrounding galleries, covering an area of over 5,000 square meters. It is a rare large Hakka house in Xingning, with five front doors, the central door featuring a concave belly style, granite door frames, stone pillars and bases on both sides, sky bridges between the three halls, and a wooden plaque with the inscription 'Shi Xing Tang' hanging in the three halls. On both sides of the central door, there are two red sandstone door frames, and the outer two door frames have horizontal wooden bars with holes. In front of the house, there is a rice terrace and a nearly square feng shui pond.

Peng Chengchang House, also known as 'Zhongyi Di', covers an area of about 5000 square meters, with the main building being 74.7 meters wide and 62.6 meters deep, occupying a floor area of 4249.7 square meters. The construction of Peng Chengchang House began during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and was built by the eighteenth generation ancestor of the Peng family, Chengchang. The reason for the alternative name 'Peng Chengchang' is because the Peng family ancestor (the nineteenth generation ancestor Peng Huanzhang, who built the house) operated a pawnshop named Chengchang in Nanyang, and the neighbors were accustomed to this name; the name 'Zhongyi Di' comes from an earlier ancestor's official title—Zhongyi Daifu. The house faces south with the back to the north and is a three-hall, five-horizontal, and one-surrounding dragon house, with a grain terrace and a pond in front of the door, and a well to the right front of the house. The surrounding house has 18 halls, 95 rooms, 15 courtyards, 14 stone pillars in the upper, middle, and lower halls, and exquisite wood carvings on the beams and frames. The outer walls are made of lime and rammed earth, while the inner walls below 2.5 meters are based on rammed earth, with the upper part constructed of adobe, wood, and tiles, with a hard mountain top. On August 10, 2009, Peng Chengchang House was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a protected unit of 'Xingning's Characteristic Ancient Residences'. The house has been repeatedly stolen due to its exquisite gilded wood carvings.

The hotel was newly opened in 2020 It is a high-end resort-style hot spring hotel that integrates guest rooms, hot springs, gardens, and Jiangnan water town style. About the outdoor hot spring The hot spring area uses the original geothermal hot spring as the carrier. There are comprehensive soaking pools, water play areas, massage areas, special independent soup pools, and bamboo forest medicinal meal soaking pool areas with various precious Chinese medicinal materials. There are 35, definitely enough to play About meals Breakfast can be enjoyed with the hotel breakfast on the 1st floor of the hotel. There are all kinds of special meals including Hakka pickled noodles and hot dishes About hotel room types Elegant room Yiyuan room Yuequan room The hotel is located in Yatang Town, the hometown of hot springs, Yachi Tanghu Village, which has rich original geothermal hot spring resources Contains various trace elements, giving you the most comfortable enjoyment of 'spring' new

Natural and scenic city, Xingning, located near meizhou. Known for Hakka people.