About

A gazetteer, written slowly

The gazetteer is China’s oldest tradition of local writing: a place’s mountains, its history, its people and its produce, recorded generation after generation. Jiuzhou brings this tradition online — not as an encyclopedia, but as one city at a time: visited, read, and written.

Not promotion

These pages sell no tickets and push no routes. If a mountain takes root in your mind, or you find yourself wanting to see a place, they have done their work.

All images are AI-generated impressions, not photographs of the actual places; where details differ, official publications prevail.