Jingzhou Travel Guide

Jingzhou is a large city of 6.5 million people on the banks of the Yangzi River on the Jianghan Plain. It is an ancient city with a history of more than 2000 years. It sits on the southern border of Hubei Province. Wuhan is about 200 kilometers to the east, and the large city of Changsha is about 250 kilometers to the southwest. It is surrounded by the cities of Changde to the south, Jingmen to the north, and Yichang to the west. It takes almost three hours to drive from Jingzhou to Wuhan that is the capital of Hubei Province. The total area of Jingzhou is about 14,100 square kilometers. It is the second largest city in Hubei Province. Since ancient times, Jingzhou has been known as a place of high culture where there is much production of rice and of fish from fish farms. Jingzhou is an ancient city and considered one of China’s important cultural and historic cities.

There is an old saying in China:"Guan Yu lost Jingzhou due to negligence — he suffered a major setback as a result of negligence."Many ancient sites and relics relate to the history of the Three Kingdom period. The ancient district of Jingzhou is the most famous site, and it holds the Xuanmiao Temple, the Temple of Guan Yu, the Tie Nu Temple and other sites. The capital of the Chu Kingdom was the city of Ying near Jingzhou during the Spring and Autumn era. Sites from that era that have been preserved are the ruins of five Chu cities, dozens of other sites and 800 ancient tombs,  more about Jingzhou »