Zhengzhou, Henan Province, a city full of beauty, beautiful scenery, heavy and deep history and culture make people happy to go there on vacation, the following I will talk to you about the must-visit places in Zhengzhou tourism!
1. Songshan Shaolin Temple
Shaolin Temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty Taihe nineteen years (495 AD), is the Xiaowen Emperor for the settlement of Indian monks trekked to build, because it was built in the Songshan Mountain Shaolin Temple in the middle of the dense forest, so it is named "Shaolin Temple". In the third year of Xiaochang of the Northern Wei Dynasty (527 A.D.), the Indian monk Bodhidharma came to Shaolin to face the wall in a natural stone cave on the Five Milk Peak of Shaolin Mountain for nine years, and preached Zen Buddhism for the first time. Since then, Shaolin has been known as the "Ancestral Court of Zen". At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the thirteen monks of Shaolin Temple, including Zhijian and Tanzong, were praised and rewarded by the ruler of the Tang Dynasty for their efforts in the conquest of Wang Shichong by King Li Shimin of the Qin Dynasty. During this period, due to the strong support of the imperial court, Shaolin Temple developed very quickly, won the "world's first famous temple" reputation, Shaolin Kung Fu has also been known far and wide. It reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty. During the Republic of China period, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to most of the buildings of the Shaolin Temple, the thousand-year foundation was destroyed. After the founding of New China, the Shaolin Temple was revitalized under the support of the Party and the State, especially in 1982, a movie "Shaolin Temple", which made Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Kungfu popular all over the world, and became a top tourist product in Henan and even in the world.
Since its founding, Shaolin Temple has become world-famous for its Zen, martial arts, and medicine, and has accumulated a rich historical and cultural heritage. With more than 1.5 million visitors a year, it is a veritable pearl of tourism in the Central Plains and a tourist attraction in China.
Address: 12 kilometers west of downtown Dengfeng, Henan Province
Opening hours: all day
2. Songshan
Sunrise Artemisia Au, the morning bell startled birds, forest streams gurgling, the slope of the green grass ...... ".
A melodious "Shepherd's Song" still makes the heart like a tide. Shaolin Temple's beautiful scenery has long been vividly haunted from this beautiful song. With the world's first famous temple Shaolin Temple of Songshan, located in Henan Province, northwest of Dengfeng City, the main body by the Taigu Mountain, Shaogu Mountain east and west of the two large mountains.
Songshan is known as the museum of China's historical development, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism gathered, with many historical sites. Among them, there are six of China's most: the ancestor of Zen Buddhism - Shaolin Temple; the largest existing tower forest - Shaolin Temple Tower Forest; the oldest existing tower - the Northern Wei Songyue Temple Tower; the oldest existing Que The oldest extant pagoda--Beijing Wei Songyue Temple Pagoda; the oldest extant que--Han Sanque; the oldest cypress tree--Han Feng "General Cypress"; the oldest extant stargazing platform--Yuan Dynasty Stargazing Platform in Goucheng. The oldest existing stargazing platform--Guocheng Yuan Dynasty Stargazing Platform. In addition, the Huangfeng cover of Mt. Tairo under the Zhongyue Temple was built in Qin, Tang and Song Dynasty flourished, is the largest existing temple complex in Henan; Songyang Academy magnificent, simple and elegant, Song Dynasty and Suoyang, Yuelu and White Deer Cave Academy called the four major academies; together with the verdant and secluded Fawang Temple, back to the perilous Xuanyuan Pass, Huike broke his arm to seek the law of the Lixue Pavilion, and so on, are all the jewels of China's humanities and cultural treasures.
What place can have such a large collection of Zen Buddhism, only Songshan! To see the quiet and mysterious Buddhist resort, feel the purity there, may become every like travelers ` a good desire
Address: Dengfeng City, Henan Province
Open time: all day
3. Henan Museum
Henan Museum is one of the earlier museums in China. It was formerly known as the Henan Provincial Museum. Its predecessor is the Henan Provincial Museum. July 1927, in General Feng Yuxiang's strong advocate, the establishment of the "Henan Museum" Preparatory Committee, the museum is located in Kaifeng City, three Temple Street. Through the changes of the times, Henan Museum is welcoming visitors with a brand-new attitude. Henan Museum is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Agricultural Road, for the national key museums, is one of the earlier established museums in China, but also one of the first batch of central and local **** built national museums. The main exhibition hall of the Henan Museum in front of the standing statue - a man pushed away two elephants, the symbolism is the emergence of mankind occupied a long time by the beasts ruled by the Central Plains, pushed open the door of civilization and history, and created a brilliant and glorious ancient culture. Henan is called Yu for short, and the character Yu in the oracle bone inscriptions is a man holding an elephant, which indicates that there were still elephants in the Central Plains during the primitive period from the other side. If you want to know the history of Henan, Henan Museum is worth a visit to understand Henan, Henan's history.
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Open:
Summer, 09:00-17:30
Winter, 09:00-17:00 Stop admission time: 16:30
Closed on Mondays (except for legal holidays)
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Erqi Square is the busiest commercial area in Zhengzhou and the largest and most representative commercial area in Henan Province. Located in the center of downtown Zhengzhou, the square is surrounded by Hualian Shopping Mansion, Mall Tower, Department Store Building, Asia Mall, International Friendship Plaza, Zhenghong Famous Store, Jinboda Shopping Mall, Dennis Mall, Bookstore Center and other large shopping malls, as well as hundreds of small and medium-sized stores, restaurants, is a must-visit place for foreign tourists. Erqi Memorial Tower is located in the center of Erqi Square, built to commemorate the February 7, 1923 Beijing-Han Railway Workers' Strike. For reinforced concrete structure, 6 3 meters high, ***1 4 layers, including the tower base for 3 layers of the tower body for 11 layers, each layer of the top corner of the antique corner eaves, green glazed tile roof. Tower built at the top of the bell tower, six 2.7-meter-diameter bell, chiming the whole time to play the "East is Red" music, the sound of the bell is melodious and pleasant, stretches for several kilometers. Tower plane for the east and west connected to the two pentagon, from the east-west direction for the single tower, from the north-south direction for the double tower. Inside the tower on one side of the spiral staircase, on the other side of the exhibition room, visitors can climb to the top of the tower, a distant view of the city into the night, a variety of colorful lights inside and outside the light, making the twin towers more colorful.
Address: No. 21, West Street
Opening hours: all day
5. Sannwangzhai
Sannwangzhai is a natural fortress hanging on the waist of Shaomu Mountain. The entire scenic area is steep and slippery, and the top of the mountain is flat and wide. It has the characteristics of the male of Taishan Mountain, the danger of Huashan Mountain, the oddity of North Heng, the show of South Heng, etc. It is famous in the Central Plains for the peaks and peaks, the road is dangerous, the stone is strange, and the scenery is beautiful. Spring and summer green forest spitting green, fragrant flowers; late autumn forests are dyed, red all over the mountains; winter mountains dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephants, is China's rare natural landscape in the north, because people to commemorate the ancestor of the three emperors (, the emperor of the earth, the emperor of the people) in the area of Mt. Songshan open up the work of the earth and named, stepped all over the songshan temples and temples, the only here to worship the gods to leave the outside of the three religions to the ancestor of the people as a patriarch, piety and worship. There was a couplet that said: "Jump out of the red dust outside the three worlds, people note white clouds in a hole."
Three Emperor Zhai scenic area has peculiar natural scenery, rich humanistic landscape, beautiful forest environment, the main humanistic landscape has Lotus Temple, Qingwei Palace, Anyang Palace, Three Emperor Temple, Pangu Cave, Jade Emperor Temple and so on. Natural landscape has a good man slope, Longji Gorge, monkey view of the sea of clouds, tiger stone, dragon head, dragon tail, camel stone, the elephant gate pass, a line of heaven, fly to the stone, suspension bridge, three fairy stone, stone forest, thousands of Buddhas to meet the guests, hanging stacks and so on dozens of dozens of places, is the hiking and fitness, leisure and sightseeing, adventure and search for secluded and famous tourist attractions.
Address: Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area, Dengfeng City, Henan Province
Opening hours: 8:00-17:00
6. Yellow River Excursion Area
She is located in 30 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou. It is located 30 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou, with the towering Mount Yue in the south and the mighty Yellow River in the north. The majestic and beautiful scenery of the river, the long history of cultural landscape, as well as a series of unique geographic features such as the starting point of the "hanging river" on the ground, the end of the Loess Plateau, the demarcation line between the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and other unique geographical features, so that this place has become a combination of sightseeing excursions, scientific research, the promotion of Chinese culture, popular science education as a whole of the river-type scenic spots, and has become a national tourism line - the Yellow River Tourist Route - the Yellow River Tourism Zone. It has become the leader of the National Tourism Line - Yellow River Journey.
Address: No. 1, South Bank of the Yellow River, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
7. Songyang Academy
Songyang Academy was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the eighth year of the Taihe year (484 AD). Located in Dengfeng city 2.5 kilometers north of the southern foothills of Songshan Mountain, backed by the steep pole peaks, facing the Shuangxi River, because it is located in the sun of Songshan Mountain and named. Songyang Academy is a famous institution of higher learning in ancient China, historically known for its science. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the masters of Confucianism and Luo School of Science, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, gathered here to give lectures, which made the academy famous, and it was known as one of the four major academies in the Song Dynasty along with Yingtian Academy in Suizhou of Henan Province, Yuelu Academy of Hunan Province, and Bailudong Academy of Jiangxi Province. Famous Confucian scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Sima Guang, Fan Zhongyan, Han Wei, Li Gang, Zhu Xi, and Lu Xi, also lectured here. Songyang academy's establishment is ancient, simple and elegant, generous and uncommon, with more than a hundred existing premises and an area of more than 10,000 square meters. The central axis is five courtyards. The west side of the academy, there are two tall cypresses, respectively named "General" and "General". The "Two Generals" cypress tree is more than 4000 years old and is the oldest existing cypress tree in China. Songyang Academy outside the main gate of the southwest side of the erection of a large Tang Dynasty monument, for the Tang Xuanzong Tianbao three years (744 AD) engraved, in the history of Chinese calligraphy has a high value, is the largest existing monument in Henan Province.
Address: about 3 kilometers north of Dengfeng, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Opening hours: 8:00 - 17:00
8. Shaolin Pagoda Woods
Located at the foot of the mountain 400 meters west of the Shaolin Temple, is the tomb of the Shaolin Monks of successive generations, the tower is generally buried in the bones of the spirit of the deceased or the mantle of the living. Because of the number of towers are many, scattered as a forest, so the name Tower Forest. Tower Forest is China's largest number of existing, the largest group of ancient towers, **** there are more than 240 masonry tomb towers of successive generations, an area of more than 14,000 square meters.
Tower levels are generally one to seven, up to 15 meters, the shape of the square, rectangular, hexagonal, round, column, cone, bottle, trumpet and so on. According to the Buddhist system, only famous monks, monks after the death, only to set up the palace tower, carved stone chronicle, to show merit. So the tower of the shape of the hierarchy, the size of the high and low, masonry and carving art of the different, are reflected in the deceased in the status of Buddhism, achievements and prestige high and low.
These towers are diverse in form and rich in inscriptions, which are invaluable materials for studying the history of Buddhism as well as China's ancient masonry architecture, calligraphy and carving. There are many famous pagodas in the Pagoda Forest, and the famous ones are Fa Play Pagoda, Zen Master Casting Pagoda, Yu Gong Pagoda, Monk Tan Ran Pagoda, Zhaogong Pagoda, and Monk Xiaoshan Pagoda.
Address: 15 kilometers northwest of Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Songshan Shaolin Temple in the Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area under the Shaolin Mountain
Open time: 8:00-17:00
9. Kang million manor
"Kang million." is the collective name for the Kang Yingkui family since the Ming and Qing dynasties, which became famous due to the bestowal of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Kang Yingkui family, from the sixth ancestor Kang Shaojing, down to the eighteenth Kang Tinglan, has been rich twelve generations, more than four hundred years, the history of Kang Dayong, Kang Daoping, Kang Hongyou and more than a dozen people called "Kang million", the most representative of which is the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Kang Yingkui. On the basis of his predecessors, he took advantage of the Qing Dynasty to suppress the White Lotus Sect to "make a fortune", and became rich in three provinces and six rivers, with 180,000 acres of land and countless riches, which was described as "a headrest in Jingyang and Xi'an, and a footstep in Linyi and Jinan; a horse running for thousands of miles does not eat the grass of other families, and a person walking for thousands of miles is the field of the Kang family! " It was a great success for a while. Kang million by the river transportation wealth, by the land to get rich, by the "contribution" to get the official, many times by the emperor's reward, the highest when the official to the third grade, a few times Chin added the title of governor. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Kang Wanliang, Shen Wansan and Ruan Zilan were known as the three "living gods of wealth" in Chinese folklore; during the Republic of China period, "Liu in the east, Zhang in the west, and Kang in the middle", he was one of the three richest men in the Central Plains. In the sixties and seventies, Henan Kang million manor, Sichuan Liu Wencai Manor, Shandong Mou two parks, known as the country's three estates, Kang million manor as the first of the three estates open to the public, sensational Henan, known throughout the country.
Address: Gongyi City, Henan Province, 3 kilometers west of the town of Kandian, downtown 11 buses directly to the scenic area
Open time:
Summer: 8:00-19:30; winter: 8:00-18:30
10.27 Memorial Tower
27 Memorial Tower, located in Zhengzhou Erqi Square. Located in Zhengzhou Erqi Square, built in 1971, reinforced concrete structure, is the unique architecture of China's antique twin towers, it is to commemorate the Beijing-Han Railway workers' strike and the construction of commemorative buildings. 2006 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection units, China's youngest national key cultural relics protection units (built in 1971, less than forty-two years from now).
Address: Erqi Plaza, No. 230 Erqi Road, Erqi District (near the railway station)
Opening hours: 08:30-18:30