Luogang Scenic Area

Luogang Scenic Area

Luogang Scenic Area is located in Luogang Town, Luogang District, and is world-renowned for its historical sites and plum blossom forests.

The scenic area features rolling mountains that stretch for dozens of miles. At the end of each year when the plum blossoms are in full bloom, the hillsides are covered with snow-like blooms swaying in the wind—a truly spectacular sight. “No snow in Lingnan? Then what counts as snow? Snow has no fragrance, yet they speak of its scent. Ten miles of plum blossoms look just like snow—Luogang’s fragrant snow glistens in the morning sun.” This is how literati have praised the plum blossoms of Luogang. Every year at the turn of the year, the blooming plum forests, dressed in white and touches of red, make the sea of fragrant blossoms exceptionally enchanting. Luogang’s Fragrant Snow compensates for Guangzhou’s lack of winter snow scenery and stands as the most celebrated attraction of Luogang Scenic Area. In 1963, it was listed as one of the “Eight Scenic Spots of Yangcheng.”

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, this area has been home to the Zhong family. The Yuyan Academy at the foot of Luofeng Mountain was where Zhong Yan, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, studied and lectured. It also houses inscriptions and calligraphy by notable figures from the Song Dynasty onward. Highlights include the inscription “Loyalty, Filial Piety, Integrity, and Righteousness” by the Confucian scholar Zhu Xi, as well as woodblock carvings believed to be the quatrain calligraphy of Wen Tianxiang, and Qing Dynasty artist Zheng Banqiao’s bamboo paintings representing the four seasons. Other scenic and historic sites include Luofeng Temple, brick memorial archways, the Immortal-Waiting Terrace, the Flowing Wine Stone, the Jumping Slope Stone, the Three-Grade Stone, the Igniting Stone, the Pomegranate Fragrance Stream, the Moonlit Mountain Tower, and the Jade Seal Overlook.

Location

Luogang Town, Luogang District, Guangzhou City