Xuanwu Lake
Located outside the northeastern city wall, it is connected to the downtown area by Xuanwu Gate and Jiefang Gate. It was called Sangpo before the Sixth Dynasty and Beihu during the Jin Dynasty, and was a place for training the navy. Historically, apart from training the navy, it has been a playground for emperors and ministers, and was opened as a park in 1909. At that time, it was called Yuanwu Lake Park, and was also called Wuzhou Park and Houhu Lake. Inside the lake, there are Huanzhou, Cherry Chau, Liangzhou, Cuizhou and Lingzhou, and each of the five continents has its own characteristics.
Xuanwu Lake lakeshore is diamond-shaped, circumference of about 10 kilometers, covers an area of 437 hectares, the water surface of about 368 hectares. There are five islands in the lake, the lake is divided into four large pieces, between the islands have a bridge or embankment connected, easy to visit. The depth of the lake is not more than 2 meters, and fish are raised in the lake and lotus flowers are planted in it. In summer and autumn, the surface of the water is turquoise, and pink lotus flowers are covered in it, which makes the lake full of fragrance and charming scenery.
Transportation: opposite the Nanjing Railway Station, you can take a cruise to Xuanwu Lake Park. 304 Road to Xuanwu Lake Jiefangmen (Taicheng), Tour 1, 1, 3, 8, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33, 35, 38, 52, 56 bus to Xuanwu Lake Park.
Tickets: free admission to the lakeshore road and 20 yuan for Xuanwu Lake Park.
Boat rental: 15 yuan/hour for a small pedal boat, 25 yuan/hour for a large pedal boat and 30 yuan/hour for an electric boat. A deposit of 50 yuan is required.
Ancient City Wall
The Ancient City Wall of Nanjing, which is closely related to the Qinhuai River, is a symbol of history. The Nanjing City Wall is 33.5 kilometers long, 12 meters high or more, and 7.62 meters to 12.19 meters thick. City to granite as the foundation, giant brick for the wall, each brick side of the stone have brick maker's county government offices and the year, month and day, the same specifications, built with lime, tung oil, glutinous rice juice mixed with mortar, very strong, stood for hundreds of years, towering. City walls have 2,000 towers, 24 gates. The better preserved are the south of the city China Gate, northwest of Yijiangmen, northeast of the city Xuanwumen, east of the city of Zhongshanmen and so on.
Yingtianfu directly south of the gate - China Gate is known as the Jubao Gate, is the largest gate on the wall of Nanjing, is also China's largest castle. The building shape like an urn, so also known as the urn door, is designed specifically to defend against enemy attacks. The urn city project is majestic, complex structure, the city is divided into two layers, the door has four, built 27 hiding holes, can hide 3000 soldiers. it is China's largest urn city, now has a urn city history showroom. Nanjing ancient city wall scale is the first in the world, is China's ancient architectural history of a masterpiece.
Transportation: It can be reached by tour 2 and tour 4, 2, 16, 26, 33, 49, 88, 101 and 102 buses.
Admission: 15 yuan
The Old Presidential Palace
Located at No. 292 Changjiang Road, it was originally the residence of the Tianwang (Heavenly King), and then rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty as the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang (Two Rivers).
The west side of the west garden of the Tien Wang Mansion has a western-style bungalow, which was originally the private flower hall of Duanfang, the Governor of the Two Rivers in the late Qing Dynasty, with 7 rooms.
On New Year's Day, 1912, Dr. Sun Yat-sen assumed the post of Provisional President here, and later Dr. Sun Yat-sen used this place as the president's office and meeting room. A Chinese-style building on the northeast side of the West Garden, later called "Zhongshan Hall", was Dr. Sun's bedroom, dining room and bathroom, and downstairs was housing for the security guards.
During the Kuomintang's rule, the Palace of the Celestial Dynasties became Chiang Kai-shek's office for a time, and was eventually transformed into the Presidential Palace. A Zi Chao building was constructed behind it, with Chiang Kai-shek holding office in room 119 on the second floor, Vice President Li Zongren in room 118 across the street, and a conference hall on the third floor, where state meetings were held at the time.
Transportation: It can be reached by No.1 and No.2 buses, No.1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 25, 29, 30, 31, 51, 65, 68, 80 and 304.
Admission: 40 yuan in high season (April 15-October 15), 30 yuan in low season (October 16-April 14).
Jiming Temple
Located at the foot of Jiming Mountain in the north of the city, it is one of the famous ancient temples in Nanjing. Originally was the Three Kingdoms Wu Houyuan, Jin for the Tingwei Department. Liang Datong first year (527 years) in this building with the Thai temple, Hou Jing rebels besieged Taicheng, the temple was destroyed in the fire. Yang Wu built Taicheng Thousand Buddha Temple, the Southern Tang Dynasty built the Pure Dwelling Temple, and then changed to the Round Silence Temple, the Song Dynasty for the Fabulous Temple. Ming Hongwu twenty years (1387) in the Tongtai Temple site built Jiming Temple. Legend has it that this place was an ancient battlefield, and it was a torture chamber in Yuan Dynasty. At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, western monks were invited to set up an altar to give food to overthrow the ghosts, so it was called "Food Terrace". Qing Dynasty Tongzhi years (1862-1874) remodeling, scale is also reduced. Guangxu time to build exempted Meng building, the Republic of China at the beginning of the building Jingyang building. Downstairs at the foot of the mountain, there is a rouge well, according to legend for Chen Houzhu and Zhang Lihua, Kong Gui concubines to avoid the Sui soldiers of the place, the legend of a silk swabbing well stone, stone veins have rouge traces, so it is known as the rouge well, also known as the humiliation well. Its place north of xuanwu lake, lake and mountains, beautiful scenery, is one of the famous scenic spots in nanjing.
Reminder: the vegetarian noodles inside Jimei Temple are very famous.
Transportation: It can be reached by buses No. 1, 2, 3, 11, 15, 20, 24, 31, 48, 52, 70 and 304.
Admission: 5 yuan, 2 yuan for climbing the Medicine Buddha Pagoda
Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall
Located in Meiyuan Xincun No. 30, No. 35 and No. 17 on the east section of Changjiang Road, north of Hanfu Street, it is the original site of the office of the delegation of China's ****anufacturing party. government for 10 months and 4 days.
No. 30, Meiyuan Xincun, is where comrades Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao had their offices and resided. The office still has the desk, swivel chair, provincial maps and letterheads of the Chinese delegation that Zhou Enlai used. 35 is where Dong Biwu, Li Weihan, Liao Chengzhi and other members of the delegation lived and worked. 17 is where the delegation's staff lived and worked. No. 17 is the office and residence of the delegation's staff. The Foreign Affairs Group, Military Group, Press Group, Women's Group, Counselor Group, Telecommunication Room and the Office of the 18th Army Group are all located here. Zhou Enlai often held receptions for Chinese and foreign journalists and made important statements here.
Transportation: It can be reached by No.1 and No.2 buses, No.1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 25, 29, 30, 31, 40, 47, 51, 58, 65, 91 and No.304.
Admission: 10 yuan
The Drum Tower
Located in the center of the city at Drum Tower Heights, it was built in the fifteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1382). Its building scale is rare in China, divided into two layers, the lower layer for the arch without beams of the city que-like, the upper layer of the heavy eaves four slope roof, dragons and phoenixes, carved beams and painted buildings, very spectacular. Upstairs originally for the Ming dynasty to welcome the king to welcome the princess, receive the imperial decree of the time, the original time and ceremonial with two drums, snare drums twenty-four, cloud board a side, point clock a side, tooth stick four, pot room copper tank a, as well as other musical instruments. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, these furnishings have been lost. Now the foundation of the building is the original Ming Dynasty, upstairs building for the late Qing Dynasty remodeling. Kangxi in 1684 during his southern tour had come to the Drum Tower, the following year in the upstairs built a huge monument, change the Drum Tower for the monument building, but the local people are still used to call it the Drum Tower.
Transportation: Take the No.1 tour, No.1, 3, 11, 16, 20, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 46, 47, 52, and No.100 buses to reach it.
Tickets: Free
Nanjing Museum
Located in the east of the city next to the Ming Dynasty Palace, the Nanjing Museum is one of the most prestigious several museums in China, the Republic of China's national museum, along with the National Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum.
The museum currently has all kinds of collections of 420,000 pieces (Shanghai Museum is 200,000), national treasures and national cultural relics more than 2,000 pieces, including archaeological excavations, ethnic minority cultural relics, foreign cultural relics, palace vessels, Qing dynasty documents and Japanese surrender ceremony of the cultural relics, are the country's unique and rare items, high scientific value. There are nearly 300,000 Chinese and foreign specialized books in the collection, among which there are few good books and temple edition books in the country. Nanjing Museum focuses on the first-class treasures of the country about 200,000 to 300,000 pieces, including paintings of the Emperor and Empress, "Tang Minghuang Lucky Shu Tu"; bronze in the "Maogong Ding", "ShiMuWuDing" and other rare national treasures. A group of famous experts gathered here, such as Li Ji, Wu Jinding, Xia Nai, Zeng Zhaoguan, Wang Tianmu and so on. During the ** war within the Southwest, archaeological excavations, ethnic surveys, and published many monographs such as "Yunnan Cang'er realm archaeological report", "Mamma Hieroglyphics Dictionary", "Museum" and so on.
In recent years after the repair of the museum after the roof of the golden glaze, the door imitation Han Que, lush greenery, the platform before the arch. Facing the door to the eastern suburbs of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and Zhongshan Mausoleum of the boulevard, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway through the door and into the city's busy areas; the door of the garden is vast, flowers and trees like brocade, set off the Liao-style palace building imitation of the display of the Hall of the end of the solemnity and magnificence.
Transportation: Bus No. 5, 9, 27, 51 to Zhongshanmen, Tour 1, Tour 2 can also be reached.
Tickets: 20 yuan for adults, 10 yuan for students.
Tel: 025-84800405
Opening time: 09:00-10:00
The Chaotian Palace is the largest and best-preserved group of ancient buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, occupying an area of more than 30,000 square meters, and built on the mountain. The history of Chaotian Palace can be traced back to the 5th century B.C., one of the earliest cities of Nanjing - Yecheng was built on the mountain of Yecheng where Chaotian Palace is located, and since then, there have been famous buildings in this place, which became the place for celebrities to visit. The whole group of buildings is divided into three columns, in the middle of the Temple of Literature, the east side of the Jiangning Prefectural School, and the west side of the Bian Gong Ancestral Hall.
Transportation: Take No. 4, 41, 23, 48, 43, 80, 82, 83, 306 to reach.
Tickets: Free
Ming Palace Ruins
It is the blueprint of the Forbidden City in Beijing, which consists of two parts, the Imperial City and the Palace City, and is collectively called the Imperial Palace. The Ming Imperial Palace halls heavy, pavilions, carved beams and paintings, thousands of portals, magnificent, had as the early Ming Dynasty Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle three generations of the Imperial Palace, up to 54 years long. Until the Ming Yongle nineteen years (1421), Ming Emperor Zhu Di moved to Beijing, Nanjing Ming Palace to formally end the mission of the dynasty Palace, but still by the royal family and important ministers stationed, the status is very important.
Nanjing Ming Palace after the capital moved north of the gradual decline, and then hundreds of years, wind and rain, natural damage is also very serious. To the Qing Xianfeng, Tongzhi years, due to the Taiping army and the Qing army's combat operations, the Ming Imperial Palace has endured a greater destruction, in addition to the underground buried stone components of the foundation, "platform gold powder has been sunk sales ...... moon fall Palace Spring Silence," leaving only a piece of broken walls and tiles The ruins.
Today on the ruins of the Ming Dynasty Palace was built on the Ming Dynasty Palace Square and Noon Gate Park.
Transportation: take the tour 1, 2, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29, 36, 51, 65 buses can be reached.
Admission: free admission to the Imperial City section and 2 yuan for the Palace City section.
Hongshan Forest Zoo
Located in the north of the city's Hongshan Mountain, overlooking Zijinshan Mountain in the east, Nanjing Railway Station in the west, Xuanwu Lake in the south, and Mufushan Mountain in the north, the park occupies an area of 68 hectares. The topography of the park is undulating, winding paths and secluded. Among the trees, there are 37 venues including bird area, fierce animal area, primate area, large herbivore area and large animal showground, animal photography, children's zoo, lion and tiger mountain, etc., which are located according to the mountain, with a strange layout.
Transportation: Take Tour 3, 8, 30, 35, 54, 64, 72, 76 buses to the north gate, take 22, 24, 40, 66 to the east gate.
Admission: 25 yuan
Qinhuai Scenic Area--
Fuzimiao
The Temple of Confucius, or Temple of Confucius, was built in the Song Dynasty and is located on the north bank of the Qinhuai River next to Gongyuan Street. The temple takes the Qinhuai River in front of the temple as the pamphlet, and the stone brick wall on the south bank as the photo-wall, which is 110 meters long, the longest photo-wall in the country. Every year, from the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the eighteenth, the Fuzimiao Lantern Festival is held here, which is very lively.
In 1985, the Nanjing Municipal Government restored the ancient buildings of Fuzimiao, but also remodeled the appearance of the Fuzimiao area, many stores, restaurants, snack bars are converted into the Ming and Qing styles, and will be built in the river along the Gongyuan Street, an ancient tourist and cultural commercial street; Fuzimiao both restored the old view, but also show a new look.
Fuzimiao architectural complex by the Confucian Temple, the Palace, the Jiangnan Tribute Academy gathered together, is the essence of the Qinhuai scenery. Mingyuan Building is one of the buildings in the Tribute Courtyard, located in the middle of the Courtyard, which was originally used to monitor the behavior of the students taking the exam and the facilities of the employees in the Courtyard to pass the joints. "Mingyuan" means "to be prudent in pursuing the future and to return to the original". Downstairs in the south had hung couplets, is the Qing dynasty Kangxi years famous scholar Li Yu compiled and titled: "the moment order if the frost is strict, to see more than the low down low wandering, the group of weapons to rest; Liao period with the moon, like this place Jiangshan characters, at a glance." From the association can also be seen in the Mingyuan building set the purpose and role. On the main door hangs a banner "Mingyuan Building" three gold characters, the outer wall embedded "Jinling Tribute Academy remains monument", which describes the rise and fall of the history of the Tribute Academy.
Today, this is the most famous pedestrian commercial area in Nanjing, and the most flavorful place in old Nanjing.
Transportation: Take buses No. 2 and No. 4, No. 1, 7, 31, 40 and 301 and get off at Fuzimiao Station, or take buses No. 2, 4, 16, 33, 44 and 49 and get off at Changle Road Station.
Admission: 15 yuan
Yuhuatai Martyrs' Mausoleum
This is a high point in the south of the city, where the story of the rain falling on the flowers originated. During the Kuomintang's rule, this place became a torture chamber where revolutionaries were massacred, and after liberation, the Martyrs' Mausoleum was built here. There is a Revolutionary Martyrs' Memorial Hall and Martyrs' Deeds Exhibition Hall, and the flow of people visiting the memorial hall is constant all year round.
Transportation: Take No. 2, No. 4, No. 2, No. 16, No. 26, No. 33, No. 49, No. 88, No. 105.
Tickets: 25 yuan, scenic spots with guided trolley 10 yuan per person.
Reminder: do not just buy hawkers touting the rainflower stone, many are fake
Mo Chou Lake
Legend has it that during the Southern Dynasties, the Luoyang girl Mo Chou, the family was poor and sold her body to bury her father, married in Jinling, and not allowed to be in the aunt and uncle, threw herself into the lake, so it is named. Ming Zhu Yuanzhang, built a villa here, later known as "the first resort in Jinling".
Transportation: Take No. 4, No. 5, 9, 29, 68, 82, 92, 307 to the north gate, No. 7, 13, 19, 37, 41, 48, 83, 306 to the south gate.
Admission: 8 yuan
Memorial Hall for the Dead Compatriots of the Nanjing Massacre
Located in Jiangdongmen, Nanjing, it is the site of collective massacre of the invading Japanese army and the burial place of compatriots killed. In order to pay tribute to the compatriots killed, the people of Nanjing in 1985 built the memorial hall, and in 1995 to expand. The museum covers an area of 28,000 square meters, building area of 3,000 square meters. The building is made of gray and white marble, magnificent and solemn. Is a historical materials, cultural relics, architecture, sculpture, film and television and other integrated approach, a comprehensive display of the Nanjing Massacre tragedy of the special history museum.
The museum **** is divided into three parts of the exterior exhibition area, bone display, historical display. Outside the exhibition area by the group sculpture, sculpture, relief, monument, monument, monument, monument, atonement, withered trees, broken walls, victims list wall, green lawn and many other landscapes, constitutes a life and death and grief and indignation as the theme of the monumental graveyard architectural style. Inside the coffin-shaped bone display room, some of the remains of the victims excavated from the "mass grave" during the construction of the museum are displayed, which is the hard evidence of the massacre by the invading Japanese army. Shaped as a tomb and semi-underground historical display hall, displaying more than 1,000 pieces of valuable historical photographs, cultural relics, charts and testimonials, the use of light boxes, sand trays, clay sculptures, paintings, restoration of landscapes, multi-media touch-screen, film and television and other modern means of display, to re-create the tragic history of the Nanjing Massacre, to expose the bloody atrocities of the Japanese militarists.
The museum has become an important place for international prayers for peace and historical and cultural exchanges, as well as a "National Patriotic Education Demonstration Base".
Transportation: Take No. 4, No. 7, 29, 37, 39, 41, 80, 82 or 92 buses.
Admission: Free