Ten must-see tourist attractions in China.
1. Old Town of Lijiang
The streets in Old Town of Lijiang are built by mountains and rivers, paved with red breccia, and there are many scenic spots such as Sifang Street, Mufu and Wufenglou. Old Town of Lijiang has colorful local ethnic customs and entertainment activities, such as Naxi ancient music, Dongba ceremony, divination culture, ancient town bars and Naxi torch festival. Old Town of Lijiang embodies the achievements of ancient urban construction in China, and is one of the types with distinctive features and styles in China. Old Town of Lijiang is famous for its quaint natural features and scientific layout art, and attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its unique charm.
2. Pingyao Ancient City
Pingyao is known as one of the "four best preserved ancient cities", and it is also one of the only two ancient cities in China that successfully declared the world cultural heritage with the whole ancient city. There is a folk saying: "Ten Monsters of Pingyao Ancient City", one of which is "Half-built house." The reason why most houses in Pingyao fall into the water on a single slope is widely said as "four waters return to the hall" or "fertilizer and water don't flow to outsiders". Shanxi is located in drought and has a large sandstorm. Building houses on a single slope can increase the height of the external wall facing the street, but without opening windows on the street, it can effectively resist the sandstorm and improve the safety factor. The compact layout of the hospital shows the national character of external exclusion and internal cohesion.
3. Yangshuo Ancient City
In Yangshuo, the karst landscape is beautiful and peculiar, and it has become a world of beautiful mountains, charming water, clever peaks and strange caves. Yangshuo is surrounded by mountains and towering peaks, like a blooming Bilian Lotus. The county seat is located in the heart of Bilian Peak, where people really live. The Yulong River here has only been visited by tourists in the past three years, and it still has clear water without pollution. You can walk, ride a bike and drift on a bamboo raft and enjoy unlimited leisure. Yangshuo has hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers, with wonderful mountains and beautiful waters everywhere, and the natural landscape and human landscape complement each other, which is known as the "tourist town on earth".
4. Huizhou Ancient City
The ancient city of Huizhou is known as the Grand View Garden of Huizhou Culture, which reproduces the features of Huizhou City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is magnificent, simple and elegant, with white walls and tiles, scattered scales and exquisite carvings, and conveys the charm of Huizhou culture. Typical Huizhou architecture has historical characteristics. The Huizhou Garden, which is a masterpiece of "Huizhou" with archways, ancient dwellings and ancestral halls, is magnificent, simple and elegant, and has a good structure. The whitewashed tiles are scattered in scales, rising and falling, flowing like clouds, clear and distant, and full of rhythm; Its exquisite carving inherits the charm of ancient emblem culture and creates the essence of Huizhou architectural sculpture, which is amazing. Blend the essence of brick carving, wood carving and stone carving "Huizhou Three Carvings".
5. Zhenyuan Ancient City
There are many nationalities living in Zhenyuan, such as Han, Miao, Dong, Tujia, Buyi, etc., with rich ethnic customs and diverse folk customs. The Dong people's sowing festival on March 3rd, the Miao people's eating new festival on June 6th, the Tujia suona festival on August 8th, the Bullfighting festival on September 9th and the Dragon Boat Festival shared by all ethnic groups are all lively and extraordinary events of 10,000 people. Zhenyuan is one of the main producing areas of tung oil in China, which is called the hometown of tung oil in history. Melons and fruits mainly include watermelon, melon, citrus, June peach (also known as peach), turmeric plum, chestnut, etc., which are very popular because of their high quality.
6. Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen has more than 20 species of national class I and II protected animals in People's Republic of China (PRC), including 4 species of national class I protected animals, namely clouded leopard, leopard, black muntjac and white-necked pheasant; The national second-class protected animals include macaques, macaques, pangolins, black bears, civet cats, civet cats, silver pheasants, mandarin ducks and golden pheasants with red bellies. Relying on the cultural background and ecological resources, Jingdezhen City highlights its cultural and ecological characteristics, and builds a tourism pattern of "porcelain-originated floating beams, ancient town of Zhushan, green Changjiang River and colorful Leping" with ceramic culture as its tourism destination.
7. Shanhaiguan
The city of Shanhaiguan, with a circumference of about 6 kilometers, is a small town. The whole city is connected with the Great Wall and the city is the gateway. The city is 14 meters high and 7 meters thick. There are four main gates in the city, and there are a variety of ancient defensive buildings. It is a relatively complete defense system and is known as the "first pass in the world". Take the majestic "the first pass in the world" Arrow Tower as the main body, supplemented by Jingbian Tower. Linlv building The Great Wall buildings, such as Muying Building, Weiyuan Hall, Wengcheng, Dongluo City and Great Wall Museum, show visitors the architectural style of China ancient city defense. Shanhaiguan is an ancient cultural city. The walls of the Ming Dynasty are basically intact, and most of the main streets and alleys remain intact. In particular, there are still a number of quadrangle houses that have been preserved, making the ancient city more elegant and simple. The east gate of Guancheng is the most attractive part of the ancient city.
8. Xichang Ancient City
Because of the good conditions such as altitude, temperature, sunshine, latitude and longitude, and less suspended matter in the atmosphere, the moon is bright and round, so Xichang is also known as the "Moon City". Moreover, because xichang satellite launch center is built here, Xichang is also known as "Aerospace City". Xichang's historical sites mainly include the Tucheng site in the Western Han Dynasty, the Unknown Han Que, the White Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao King Temple, the Luoluo Xuanwei Department, the Mosque and the Datong Gate. In addition, Xichang is rich in resources and has many scenic spots, and it is also a scenic tourist city to be developed.
9. Langzhong Ancient City
Langzhong Ancient City, one of the four ancient cities in China, is located in the northeast edge of Sichuan Basin and the middle reaches of Jialing River, with a total scenic area of 4.59 square kilometers. Langzhong Ancient City has eight national key cultural relics protection units, including Zhangfei Temple, Eianji, Wulong Temple, Tengwangge, Kannonji, Baba Temple, Dafo Temple and Gongyuan of North Sichuan Road. There are 22 provincial-level cultural relics protection units, including Shaojiawan Tombs, Wenbi Pagoda, Stone Chamber Cliff Statue, Raytheon Cave Cliff Statue, Niuwangdong Cliff Statue, the former site of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army and Huaguang Building.
10. Fengdu Ghost Town
Fengdu, a famous cultural city since ancient times, is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China. It is famous for its ghost town as a rich ghost culture where the underworld is located. With its long history, unique cultural connotation, magical legends, beautiful scenery and irreplaceable ornamental value, a rare carrier and unique source of ghost culture research, Fengdu shows the mysterious oriental gods to Chinese and foreign tourists. The "ghost town" in Fengdu is a "underworld" built by people's imagination, and people have successively built a series of underworld institutions such as "the Temple of Hades", "the Gate of Hell", "the boundary of Yin and Yang" and "eighteen levels of hell" with similar legal mechanisms on earth.
Mount Huangshan
Huangshan Mountain is located in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, and is known as "the first wonder mountain in the world". It is famous for its wonderful pines, grotesque rocks, sea of clouds, hot springs and winter snow. Huangshan has the saying that "the front mountain is dangerous and the back mountain is beautiful". The front mountain is the beauty of Huangshan, and it is also known as "the first wonder mountain in the world". The back mountain is the southern foot of the mountain, and there are still large areas of virgin forest, in which the Millennium Gu Song is all over.
Jiuzhaigou Valley
Jiuzhaigou is located in Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It is a world natural heritage and a national key scenic spot. Jiuzhaigou is famous for its primitive, mysterious and diverse natural landscape. Here, you can enjoy the Tibetan and Qiang customs, mountains and lakes, waterfalls, virgin forests, snow peaks and Tibetan dwellings.
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, located in Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, is the first national forest park in China. The natural scenery here is famous for its wonderful peaks and forests, deep valleys, clear mountain springs and misty clouds. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park has the reputation of "3,000 peaks and 800 beautiful waters" and is known as the "Natural Museum".