Ciqikou Ancient Town

Rebuilt in 2010 in classic Ming style, this 12-meter stone archway is the official entrance to Ciqikou Ancient Town. Flanked by two 100-year-old banyan trees and the "Ciqikou" name tablet, it marks the starting point of both the main street and the riverside tour routes.

Built in the Xianfeng era (1851–1861), the 1,500 m² Zhong Mansion is a three-bay Qing residence with a front shop and a back living area. Converted into the Bayu Folk-House Museum in 1998, it displays wedding customs, carved beds, ancestral tablets and other late-imperial artifacts of Bayu culture.

Built in 1886 as a Jiangxi merchant guild hall, Baoshan Palace is the best-preserved of Ciqikou's "Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples." Refurbished in 2010, its teahouse hosts Sichuan opera seating performances daily, with bamboo chairs and 5-CNY covered-bowl tea—a perfect taste of old Chongqing.

Founded in 1894, Xin's is a fourth-generation grocery and the only shop still using the traditional "front-shop-back-workshop" layout on Ciqikou's main street. It sells malt sugar, sesame candy, hand-made soy sauce, Sichuan pepper broad-bean paste and dozens of other old Chongqing snacks—a living window into late-imperial market culture.

Founded in 1911, Jusenmao was once the largest sauce maker in Ciqikou, producing 500,000 jin of soy sauce, vinegar, bean paste and pickles a year. Partially demolished in 2003, its front shop and sun-curing yard were rebuilt in 2010 as a museum of traditional sauce culture, with 60+ vats on display.

Built along the Jialing River cliff, the 200-meter "half-side street" is Ciqikou's most authentic riverside market. With stilted houses, stone steps, dock-worker statues and ancient banyans, it preserves the late-Qing water-and-land transport hub that made Ciqikou a leading commercial port in eastern Sichuan.

Founded in 1008 during the Tang dynasty, Baolun Temple is the origin of the "White Rock" name for Ciqikou. Rebuilt in the Kangxi era and bestowed the imperial name "Baolun Chan Temple" by Emperor Qianlong, it preserves a Kangxi plaque, Song stone Buddhas and Ming gilt-bronze statues—the three treasures of the temple.

Dating back to the Ming dynasty, Yinglongmen Wharf was one of the four major Jialing River ports in the late-Qing era, handling 300,000 tons of cargo annually. Restored in 2010 with its stone steps, mooring stones and river pavilion, it now hosts folk performers and is the boarding point for Jialing River cruise boats.

The viral "Little Kenting" beach, named after nine Qing-era stone vats once used to store drinking water for porcelain-export boats. Six of the nine vats survive today, lining a sandy Jialing River bank popular from May to October for wading, sunset views and winter misty mornings.

Opened in May 2023, Ciqi Changge is Ciqikou's first large-scale immersive night-experience hall. Across five acts—Ancient Wharf, Old Street, Porcelain Kiln, Guild Hall, Wartime Capital—it uses AR, holograms, live performance and interactive lighting to compress 1,000 years of local history into a 60-minute walking show.