Shaoyang Attractions

Shaoyang possesses rich tourist resources. It boasts several historic and cultural sites infer provincial protection. The temple to God of Water stands by the confluence of the Zi River and the Shao River in Shaoyang city. It date back to 1573, when the locals , quite frightened by floods donated large sums of money to construction of the shrine of God of Water. Rebuilt in 1846, the temple is a wooden structure with a double-eave roof. The lower eave is supported by corbels and brackets, and the ends of the roof ridge are decorated with designs of dragons and phoenixes, thus asking the temple a spectacle the Northern Pagoda, built on the north bank of the Zi river in 1573, is a 26-meter high brick and stone structure with and octagonal iron roof , It faces the Double Rivers pavilion across the river . The ancestral Temple to He jinsheng , 205 km southwest of the county town of Shaoyang , houses a statue of General He in sitting position to keep the memory of the great hero who raised a 100,000 strong army in South China to fight against foreign invaders at the turn of the 19th century, buddha's image rock, 10.5 km east of the county town of Wgang.  actually compri ses 8 caves, each of which has above its entrance a plag clerical  script.

On the steep cliffs close to these caves, there are 40 collections of stone inscriptions, which are respectively cut in the seal script, the clerical  script, the regular script and cursive hand , The former residence of Weiyuan (1794-1857) in the courtyard style lies secluded in Longhu county. The locals may boast of Waiyuan, who, as the compiler of Illustrated Notes on Over- seas Countries, was a great thinker in the early Enlightenment in the mid-19th century.