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Dao Min Guqin Art Workshop

Guqin, the preferred choice of ancient scholars and literati. Now you can master this incredible, seven-stringed instrument with over 1,000 years of history, that is listed as an oral and intangible cultural heritage of humankind. With small classes of...

Yijianheng Martial Arts Training Center

Founded by Shaolin Master Shi Jianhu in 2015, Yijianheng Martial Arts Training Center is more than a sports club. Under the direction of Master Shi, dedicated students and coaches pursue the fine arts associated with ancient Chinese martial practices....

Dashi’ao Village

With each building intricately crafted with the “horse head” style of gables that are distinctive to southern Jiangsu and Anhui province, and nested in a scenically stunning valley on the western side of Niushoushan in Jiangning District, Dashi’ao has...

Zhenqianghui Guns Club

There is something slightly disconcerting about picking up a gun anywhere, but in China it is overwhelmingly bizarre. Zhenqianghui Guns Club is Nanjing’s only shooting club, located, again somewhat incredulously, in a mall, or close to it, in the...

Fish Mouth Wetlands

Hidden at the the Southern end of the Binjiang Olympic Park, the Fish Mouth Wetlands are as secluded as one can get while staying in the city centre of Nanjing. New walkways slither their way through thick greens, which...

Two Mausoleums of State of Southern Tang

Built between 943-962, the two mausoleums are the final resting places of Li Sheng, the first King of the Southern Tang and his wife, as well as Li Jing, later king and his wife. The tombs are known as Qin...

Club Frontier Asia

Founded in 2011, Club Frontier Asia now finds itself at Nanjing's centre of attention with new facilities in the fitness complex Quanmin Fitness Centre at Daxinggong Station. Touted as Nanjing's Premier Jiu-Jitsu Club, their display of trophies does everything...

Dyno Rock Climbing Gym

Having had to abandon their former glorious position on Wutaishan due to the YOG's Dyno Rock Climbing Gym has relocated the grounds of the Nanjing Normal University. Hidden at the far end of the campus behind basketball, football and...

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