Dayue Jiangdongwei

Dayue Jiangdongwei

Dayue Jiangdongwei is a cultural heritage site protected by Ganzhou City.

Dayue Jiangdongwei (commonly known as Shaqiuduan Shuwei) is located in Shaqiuduan Natural Village, Dayue Village, Dajishan Town, Quannan County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province.

Dayue Jiangdongwei faces northwest and is situated southeast. According to the Fifth Revised Genealogy of the Yuan Clan of Dayue: construction of Jiangdongwei began on the 19th day of the ninth month in the year Dingyou of the Daoguang era (1837), oriented toward the Sishan-Hai direction with a slight inclination toward Bingren, and divided at the three-seven gold line. The enclosure contains over 200 rooms. The architectural layout of Jiangdongwei is an extremely rare double-form structure in southern Jiangxi, combining a “square within a square” and a “large-within-small” design. The smaller enclosure was an expansion from the northwest side of the original structure, with a total area of 4,886.49 square meters.

Dajishan Town: Dajishan Town is located at the southernmost tip of Quannan County, bordering Lianping County and Wengyuan County of Guangdong Province. It is well known for hosting the Dajishan Tungsten Mine, which has the reputation of being the “Tungsten Capital of the World.”

The town covers a total area of 97.67 square kilometers, governs 8 administrative villages and 2 neighborhood committees, comprising 116 village groups, with a total population of over 24,000. The area enjoys convenient transportation, being just over 20 kilometers from the county seat, adjacent to National Highway 105 and the Beijing-Zhuhai–Ganzhou-Guangdong Expressway, and about 50 kilometers from the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. It is separated from Lianping County in Guangdong by only a mountain range. Once the inter-provincial passage is completed, the town center will be linked to the Shantou–Kunming Expressway (Lianping… Dajishan Town detailed information++)