Longquanshan City Forest Park
Sprawling ridge-top forest park with a bamboo-shaped viewing pavilion above a former bandit-plagued mountain pass.
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This guide to Longquanshan City Forest Park in Chengdu stands you at Danjing Pavilion on a ridge that carried Chengdu's post road for two thousand years, with relay stations dating to the Han dynasty and a formal Ming-era system of sixty runners. It follows the pass into the nineteen forties, when wartime chaos and refugee floods left Longquan Mountain notorious enough that Sichuan's military committee considered carving out a whole new county just to police it. You'll hear why every other route into Chengdu had a magistrate nearby, and this one didn't. Look east from the railing toward Sancha Lake as you listen.
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