page_title: Yangshan Quarry
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Yangshan Quarry / Present day
caption_attribution_description: 南京明文化村 武侠劇 2004年5月4日撮影 撮影者:権作 参照：http://px820.onmitsu.jp/kankou/bunkamura/bunkamura01.html
context_page_description: The Yangshan Quarry is an ancient stone quarry near Nanjing, China. Used during many centuries as a source of stone for buildings and monuments of Nanjing, it is preserved as a historic site. The quarry is famous for the gigantic unfinished stele that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor in the early 15th century. In scope and ambition, the stele project is compared to other public works projects of Yongle era, which included the launching of the treasure fleet for Zheng He's maritime expeditions and the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
context_section_description: In 1956, the Yangshan Quarry was entered on the Jiangsu provincial register of protected cultural monuments. It is maintained as a tourist site, although, according to journalists who visited it at the turn of the 21st century, the site was little known even in Nanjing itself, and had few visitors.
  A small theme park called the Ming Culture Village (明文化村, Míng Wénhuà Cūn) was constructed at the entrance to the site; as of 2011, it  has a stage, children's rides, and various history-themed amusements. A single admission ticket allows one to visit the "village" and then to walk some 300–400 m to the quarry proper on one of several forest trails. The site is open year-round, but still is mostly deserted in winter.
  Transportation from Nanjing to the Yangshan Quarry (either directly to the Ming Culture Village's entrance plaza, or to the "Yangshan Quarry" stop on the Jiangsu Provincial Highway 122 (S122)) is provided by several bus routes, including the Nanjing-Tangshan Line (南汤线,  Nán-Tāng Xiàn) from the Nanjing Railway Station.
caption: Performance at the Ming Culture Village
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