Chang Sha/History

Best History in Chang Sha

• Orange Isle (Juzizhou)

  The world's largest inland river island within a city center, sitting in the Xiang River and anchored by a 32-meter granite sculpture of a young Mao Zedong, completed in 2009.

• Hunan Museum

  Changsha's provincial museum, built around the Mawangdui excavation — Han-dynasty tombs discovered in the early 1970s that yielded silk paintings, lacquerware, and the remarkably preserved body of a noblewoman known as Lady Dai.