Get to know Tonghai County
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- Administrative area
- County · 县
- Part of
- Yuxi
- Chinese name
- 通海县
- Local areas
- County guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 1,114.00 km²
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
The building at the crossroads
Jukui Pavilion (聚奎阁) stands where the old town’s four principal streets meet. Destroyed by fire in 1876, it was rebuilt on the same site in 1882. The three-storey structure rises 17.5 metres, with upturned eaves, painted and carved beams, and glazed roof tiles. Forty wooden columns support its base; four central columns extend from the foundations to the roof.
Plaques and changing uses
Four Qing-dynasty plaques hang on the second-storey exterior, one facing each direction. A statue of Kuixing (奎星), associated with success in learning and examinations, occupies the third floor. The ground floor once carried passageways linking the four streets. In 1980, its interior became a reading room, while wider streets were created around the pavilion.
Sources for this guide
玉溪市人民政府 · Yuxi Network, via Yuxi City Government
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-27.
Explore Tonghai County
Core places to explore, with English and Chinese names.
Places to explore around Tonghai County
Xiushan Hill · 秀山Xiushan Hill秀山
Xiushan Hill is a hill in the southern part of the Tonghai county seat in Yuxi, holding a cluster of temple and pavilion complexes that the county government counted at eight in 2017, spanning the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and listed by the State Council in 2006 among the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
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A traditional two-storey timber building with tiled roof and carved doors on Wenmiao Street in Tonghai Old Town, Tonghai County · 通海古城文庙街的传统木构建筑，通海县 Source-recorded photograph date: 2023-08-18 10:07:38.Tonghai Ancient City通海古城
Tonghai Ancient City is the old town of Tonghai county, Yuxi, approved by the State Council in March 2021 as a National Historic and Cultural City, the 136th so designated nationally and, by the Yuxi report's count, the seventh in Yunnan. Its street plan follows the lie of the land in what the reports call a mountain-city-lake layout, with Xiushan behind the old city and Qilu Lake spread across the basin, and the Ming-dynasty Juqui Ge pavilion stands at the crossing of its four main streets.
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Getting there
Tonghai County is about 35 km in a straight line from central Yuxi. Search for 通海县 in a map app to find stations and your accommodation.
Where to stay →Build your route
Xiushan Hill and Tonghai Ancient City are both listed here. The linked place guides have entrance and visit details.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory (dmfw.mca.gov.cn) · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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