Fuma Pavilion, founded in April 2006 has multiple eaves at four cores, elegant and gorgeous. The village in the south of “Fuma Pavilion” is called Hubei Village, which was called as Hubeikou by Qintong people, in history.
It is said that Dianjiang platform, once a water pass, was the place used by Yue Fei to practice the navy.
Green Tree Monastery founded in the Five Dynasties and greatly reconstructed in Ming Dynasty has three big Buddha at its main shrine.
Folk custom pavilion was built by improving the Wangs’ residence, in 2002. Comrade Dai Weiran, the former vice chairman of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, wrote the inscription for us on the door, to express his love to his hometown. In the pavilion, there are, pavilion of tier in Qin and Han dynasty, etiquette door, lobby, antique shelf, title document pavilion, farming and waving garden, and so on.
From Li Chenglin, the Arts Champion in the 1840 of Daoguang period, to current Li Deren and Li Deyi “two brothers, five academicians”, all were originally from this old house. They became men of the hour and founded their splendid career.
Building for Victory is a two-layer Ming Dynasty building that was built in October, 2007. The three gold plating words in stele on the second floor were written by Yuan Qitong, the outstanding son of Qitong out of his hometown — former Chairperson of Peoples Congress of Fujian Province.
Chuquan Square, founded in February 2008, is comprised of Chuquan Statue, Bachelor Memorial Archway, Bachelor Wharf, and Access Officer Pavilion and so on.
The camellia, as “global king of camellia”, inside the residence would be full of flowers with the golden core red, like a raging fire, before and after Tomb-sweeping festival. When flowers blossom, their reflection in the well makes people think a lot randomly.
The first lover festival was held in 2006 when the famous writer, Yansu held the celebration of marriages for ten couples. Taking Qintong residence as carrier, east yard was arranged under ancient town’s traditional living style, while west yard was built with China marriage custom overview exhibition.
Qintong locates at a small island, with residences connecting one with another. Since Qing Dynasty, it was divided into fourteen squares according to district, with seven squares on either side respectively. In each square, there is the water dragon at each square, meaning each one takes a square to safeguard one place.
It has around 1355 pieces of Qintong historic document, dating from the eighth year of Wanli Years, in Ming Dynasty (1472), to the year of 1958, after the birth of New China, lasting for a period of 487 years. Qintong historic documents presented distinct regional characteristics. They help us have a better understanding of Qintong, which is an important link between Yangtze River and Huai River.
In the yard, there is a Chinese scholar tree, around a thousand years old. It is said that, there was a village at east town, named Luo He Lun, with Dongyong Temple and Muyun Pavilion nearby. Quexian Bridge within Qinhu scenic spots at the southern part of the town was a place for Dongyong and the seventh fairy to meet.
East Taoist Temple is a Taoist temple built at Later Jin Dynasty. An expanse of clear water in front of the Taoist temple is the bay for fishing boat to berth. Each time when sun sets, fishermen on boat sing songs and mist rises, they add radiance to each other, just as the poem said: the sun sets in boundless twilight; two to three fishing boats berth over the water. Drinking vessel is hidden by white hair as child leaning on knees; drunken red face shines the floating clouds.