Ānfú

Anfu lies west of the Gan River in central Jiangxi, its western hills rising into the Luoxiao range. Wugong Mountain, with its altars and temples, has long been a place of worship on the border with Hunan. The county town possessed a Confucian temple and school, bringing another religious and scholarly tradition into its centre.

Rebuilt in 1521, the temple complex included a great hall, lecture hall, schoolrooms and a pond crossed by a stone bridge. Students gathered there under the Ming and Qing to study the classics. On Wugong Mountain, Daoist and Buddhist sites continued to draw worshippers to the high ridges, where stone altars stood beneath the open sky.