Longsheng Attractions

Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces

Longsheng, a small town in Guangxi, is a quiet and natural town which is surrounded by the mountains and covered by the luxuriant vegetation. The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces which are 27 kilometers from Longsheng are the most famous rice terraces in China, and they take the total areas of 66 m2. The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces are created by the people in Yuan Dynasty while completed in Qing Dynasty, which made they possess the history of about 700 years. The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces are kept intact and naturally. You can hardly find out the modern families here. The terrace looks like the beautiful belts or ribbons waving from the foot to the peaks.

Longsheng Hot Springs National Forest Park

32 miles far from the Longsheng, a small town in northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, there is Hot spring national forest park with constant hills sweep around and flourished trees surrounded over. Nearby the hot spring national forest Park, there is Huaping Nature Reserved in which you can have a chance to enjoy many precious floral varieties, some of which are the living fossil of the plant such as silver fir. Besides the fantastic scenery, it also boosts the reputation of hot spring which contains many sort of chemical elements such as lithium, strontium, iron, zinc, copper, etc.

Yinshui Dong Village

Located 2 km west of Longsheng town, the village is named after the waterfall that runs down from the mountaintop resembling a long silver chain from afar. It is said that the village was founded during the Tang-Song dynasties and gained its fame due to the hard work of the later generations of the Dong people. In 1737 during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty, Wu Jinyin, the 82nd chief of Yinshui Dong Village, led the Dong people to rise in rebellion with the support of the Zhuang, Miao and Yao peoples against the Qing government. Shocked and fidgeted, Qing government hastily sent troops from the neighboring provinces to put down the rebellion.

Baimian Yao Village

Surround by verdant woods, the village is situated in Longsheng Hot Spring National Park, 6 km from Longsheng hot spring. With a total area of 35000 square kilometers and construction area of 3000 square kilometers, the village was now inhabited by 35 households of Red Yao people. Although the history of the village can be traced back to the Song dynasty, the Yao people's drinking and eating culture, their customs and habits, and their costume ornaments all have been perfectly preserved.