Fuzhou is a famous city with a history of more than 2200 years. In the 13th year of the Tang Dynasty, Fuzhou was first called Fuzhou after the establishment of Fuzhou Governor's Office. In the second year of Liang Kaiping in the Fifth Dynasty, the king of Min, Wang Shenzhi, expanded the city and encircled the scenic Wushan, Yushan and Pingshan mountains into the city, and since then Fuzhou has become a unique city with "mountains in the city and the city in the mountains".
Recommended Itinerary: Half-day Tour to Fuzhou
Itinerary A:
--- Visit Fuzhou cityscape by luxury coach;
--- Visit Gushan Scenic Area:
---Visit Shoushan Stone Carving Factory.
Itinerary B:
--- Visit Fuzhou cityscape by luxury coach;
--- Visit West Lake Park;
---Visit Fuzhou Stripped Lacquerware Factory.
Route C:
--- Yu Shan Scenic Area; Wuyi Square; West Lake Park; Cork Painting Factory.
Gushan
Gushan towers over the north bank of the Min River 10 kilometers east of the city, with a circumference of 1,890 hectares, and is a famous scenic spot in China and abroad. In the mountains, ancient pines, jagged rocks, caves. Between the winding paths, clear springs and ravines, and the majestic pavilions and pavilions, there is often a mist of smoke, constituting more than 160 scenic spots. Since the Song Dynasty, successive generations of celebrities and literati in the whole mountain engraved in each place of the cliff inscription counts more than 500 paragraphs, "the celebrity inscription of the Yu Sheng, there is no more than this one". Drum Mountain's scenic spots to Yongquan Temple as the center.
Qingyun Mountain is located in Yongtai, Putian, Fuqing three counties and cities, 10 kilometers away from the county, the scenic area of 1130 meters above sea level. Qingyunshan famous attractions are more than 20 places, such as Scholar Cave, Tongtian Cave, Red Army Cave, Zhengde Cave, Tongtian Dawang Cave, a line of heaven, Eagle's Claw Rock, Yun Tao Guanzhi Rock, Jade Lady Acacia Rock, three sedan chair Rock, Turtle Rock and other landscapes. Natural landscape can be divided into two categories: mountains, rocks, cliffs, valleys, water, waterfalls, springs, caves, pools and animals and plants. Everywhere reflects the natural beauty of the landscape, steep mountain cliffs, peculiar hollow vertical caves, deep valleys, beautiful water features and a variety of shapes and forms of landforms of the beauty of the form, green vegetation, colorful flowers, Cham know the streams, mottled rock formations of the beauty of the color, waterfalls and springs, birds and butterflies dance of the dynamic beauty of the waterfalls and deep pools of the roar of the streams and mountain streams of the gurgling as well as the quiet forest birds and silent night insects of the beauty of the auditory and other things. Natural beauty are in harmony and unity. It is also known as "South Wuyi".
Hualin Temple
Hualin Temple, known as a national treasure, is located at the southern foot of Pingshan Mountain in Fuzhou. It was built in the second year of Qiande of the Northern Song Dynasty (964) and has a history of more than 1,000 years. During the Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty (1506-1521), the nearby Luohan Temple and Yue Shan Nunnery were merged into it, and the scale of Hualin Temple was even larger, and later on, it added the Royal Book Pavilion, the Huanfeng Pavilion, the Jiexue Building, and the Shenghui Pavilion. During the Jia Dao period of Qing Dynasty (1789-1850), the main hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the mountain gate, the corridor, the guest hall, the monk's house and so on were rebuilt.
The Hall of Hualin Temple is a representative of the ancient wooden buildings in southern China, and its construction method is unique among the Tang and Song wooden buildings in the whole country, and the Hall of Hualin Temple is one of the few remaining wooden buildings of the Song Dynasty in the southern part of China. It is extremely valuable ancient architecture, the study of China's ancient architecture has irreplaceable cultural relics value.
West Zen Temple is listed as one of the five major Zen forests in Fuzhou, for the national key temples, is located in the western suburb of Yishan foothills, the south side of the west side of the Industrial Road, lofty and spectacular. Ancient temple gate Square pillar engraved with a couplet: "Ly tree four dynasties passed Song Dynasty, the sound of the bell thousands of years ringing the sound of Tang." This is a couplet written by Zhou Lian in the Qing Dynasty, pointing out that the "West Zen Temple" is an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty.
The ancient temple is about 1.5 kilometers from the center of Banyan City, and was originally the site of the Wangba Immortal's monastic practice, which was rebuilt as a Buddhist temple in the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty's Xiantong (867). Overseas temples such as the Ssanglim Temple in Singapore, the Ssangkyong Temple in Penang, Malaysia, and the Nanputuo Temple, Erfu Temple, and Guanyin Temple in Vietnam are all part of the Xichan Light House, which is still managed by monks sent by Xichan Temple on a permanent basis.
Gushan Yongquan Temple is one of the most important temples in the country. Temple built at an altitude of 455 meters on the mountainside, before the incense burner peak, leaning against the back of the Baiyun Peak, "into the mountain not see the temple, into the temple not see the mountain," the peculiar architectural pattern. Legend has it that the old site for the "Huayan Temple".
Yongquan Temple covers an area of about 1.7 hectares and still maintains the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The temple is nestled in the valley by the mountain, with a series of threshold corridors and 25 large and small halls surrounding the Daxiongbao Hall. Yongquan Temple was once an important scripture publishing institution for Chinese monasteries, and still retains 20,000 carved plates of various kinds from the Ming and early Qing dynasties and recent times.
Lin Zexu Memorial Hall
The Lin Zexu Ancestral Hall in Fuzhou, known as the Lin Wenzhong Ancestral Hall, was built in 1905. Tall pagoda-style gate boom, the momentum of the sky. In front of the gate, there is a pair of stone lions, which are very vivid. Into the gate is "Yi Men Hall", the center of the stone paved tunnel, both sides of the 8 stone carved stone people, stone beasts, on both sides of the corridor, then display more than 20 sides of the ceremonial deacons, "Forbidden City riding", "Governor of Hunan and Guangdong", "Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi", "Governor of Jiangsu", "Shaanxi governor", and so on. A couplet says: "burning poison in the sky, the color of the mountains and rivers; waving the flag against enemy invaders, righteousness to capture the ghosts and ghosts of the human heart." It is admirable and admirable.
"Lin Wenzhong Gong Shrine" was changed in 1982 to "Lin Zexu Memorial Hall". The new plaque on the street wall "Lin Zexu Memorial Hall", and the left plaque "Zongxing Zonggon", the right plaque "left the sea of great men".
Fuzhou West Lake Park is located in the northwestern part of the city, Fuzhou is by far the most complete retention of a classical garden, said the Pearl of Fujian garden, ranked among the 36 West Lake in the country. Now covers an area of 42.51 hectares, of which the land area of 12.21 hectares, the water surface area of 30.3 hectares.
Set of Fuzhou classical garden gardening style, the use of natural landscape features, and the configuration of native tree species, focusing on poetry and picturesque, "small see big". Attractions include Xianqiao Willow Color, Ziwei Hall, Kaihua Temple, Wanzaitang, and Changyi Pavilion.