Century Fun Park in Zhengzhou -- Zhengzhou Century Fun Park is the world's first The only large-scale train culture theme park in China.
Yuntai Mountain, located in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, is listed in the first batch of World Geoparks for its unique "Northern Karst Landscape". At the same time, it is the only scenic area in Henan Province that combines seven national levels: National Key Scenic Spot, National AAAAA Scenic Spot, National Civilized Scenic Spot, National Forest Park, National Water Resources Scenic Spot, and National Rhesus Monkey Nature Reserve. The scenic area covers an area of 190 square kilometers, containing eleven scenic spots such as Spring Falls Gorge, Pool Falls Gorge, Red Stone Gorge, Zifang Lake, Wanshansi Temple, Hundred Rocks, Immortal Garden, Sacred Dome, Folding Color Cave, Qinglong Gorge, Peak Forest Gorge, and Yuntai Falls, which has the largest waterfall drop in Asia. You can also visit Longmen Grottoes, Shaolin Temple or attractions in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng. Yuntai Mountain Cuisine: Haiyan Palace Loose Eggs, Xiuwu Black Goat, Wuzhi Oil Tea. In addition, Yuntai Mountain also has mountain fungus, mountain leeks, wild vegetables and earth eggs, wild yam, chicken head ginseng, wild rabbit, wild duck and other delicacies.
Zhengzhou Shenxian hole
Location: Zhengzhou
Address: northeast of Jianshan Township, Xinmi City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Shenxian hole is located in the northeast of Jianshan Township, Xinmi City, 45 kilometers away from the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, the ancient name of the Kongshan Cave, also known as the "Xianyu Lingyuan". Legend has it that it was the residence of the immortal Guangchengzi, to whom Emperor Xuanyuan asked questions.
The cave is about 5 kilometers long, and the cave is in the shape of a dragon, with six halls that are tens of meters high and large enough to accommodate nearly 10,000 people. The natural landscape of the cave is dominated by stalactites and stalagmites, but there are also dark rivers, clear springs and quite a few small holes, which are exquisite and colorful. Among them, the Gathering of Immortals Pavilion presents the scene where the cave master Guangchengzi meets the eight immortals. The stalactites form the fairy children, jade maidens, immortals, the Yellow Emperor and palaces, pavilions, pagodas, and platforms, all of which are so realistic that one is like living in an immortal scene. Outside the cave surrounded by mountains, forests and trees, reflected in the Fairy Lake, making people relaxed and happy, and forget to return. In the fairy cave scenic area, there is the Yellow Emperor's landing place, "Chicken Mountain three peaks", the Yellow Emperor's consort Rayon Houdi, "Nipple Peak", "Spirit Rock", "Natural Scripture" preservation of the stone Scripture Valley, Wolong Terrace, Sun Bin learns military strategy from Gigu Zi, the master of the art of war. Sun Bin learns the art of war from Gigu Zi, "Gigu Valley", and there is another 3,000 years of plant living fossil "ancient hyper tree", etc., its landscape can be said to be a match made in heaven and a wonder on earth.
Self-guided itinerary recommendations
Weichang - Yudaokou - Taoshan Lake - Sisters Lake - Shenxian Cave - Yudaokou - Sisters Lake - Ghost Valley -Shenxian Cave - Yudaokou Grand Canyon
Dengfeng City, Songshan Scenic Area Location: Zhengzhou Play Theme: 5A Famous Mountains and Waters
Address: Dengfeng City, northwest of Songshan
Songshan Mountain is located in the western part of Henan Province, located northwest of the city of Dengfeng, Henan Province, is one of the five mountains. In 1982, Songshan in the name of Henan Songshan Scenic Spot, approved by the State Council included in the list of the first batch of national scenic spots. 2004 February 13 was selected by the Ministry of Geology of UNESCO as the "World Geopark". 2007 May 8, Dengfeng Songshan Shaolin Scenic Spot by the National Tourism Administration officially approved as the national 5000 square meters. Dengfeng Songshan Shaolin Scenic Spot was officially approved by the National Tourism Administration as a national 5A-level tourist attraction. Dengfeng Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area has a total area of 450 square kilometers, depending on the provincial capital of Zhengzhou in the east, the ancient capital of Luoyang in the west, the Yellow River in the north, and Yingshui in the south. It consists of Taigu Mountain and Shaogu Mountain, with the highest peak (Junji Peak) at 1491.7 meters. It stretches about more than 60 kilometers from east to west. Anciently named Waifang, Songgao, Chonggao. After the Five Dynasties called Zhongyue Songshan, and Taishan, Huashan, Hengshan, Hengshan *** called the Five Mountains.
Songshan has experienced "Songyang movement", "Zhongyue movement", "Shaolin movement" and several other major crustal movements, gradually formed the mountain range. In the Songshan range, the geological history of the Paleozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic strata and rocks are exposed, by the geological community known as the "five generations of the same hall".
Songshan ancient rock system formed 2.3 billion years ago, before, songshan is an endless sea, according to Chinese and foreign geologists, songshan rock development is complete, in the history of earth's development, through the tai ancient times, metazoan, paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic five generations, Xi called "five generations of the same hall". The outcrops of magmatic rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks in the Songshan area constitute the oldest rock system in China, the Dengfeng Duo Rock of the Dengfeng Group. According to the determination of the Chinese geological community, this is a rare natural geological treasure trove in the world. According to geologists, after 2.3 billion years of "Songyang Movement", 800 million years ago, "Zhongyue Movement", 500 million or 600 million years ago, "Shaolin Movement", before the end of the geologic history of the It was only after the end of the Yuan dynasty in geological history and the Cambrian and Ordovician periods of the Paleozoic era that the area entered the Paleozoic era. After about 200 million years, the earth's crust here rose above sea level, and because of its weathering and stripping effect, the coal-bearing strata in the Songshan area were formed. Two hundred and thirty million years ago, China's version of the soil, and a long continuation of the crustal movement, the north and south of the vast area of the "Yanshan movement", Songshan area by the north-south direction of the push, the formation of today's mountainous terrain.
Songshan paleontological fossils are very rich in Songshan both walrus biological fossils, but also land elephant biological fossils, and ancient vertebrate fossils. These paleontological fossils are valuable information on geology and paleontological evolution. The peculiar geological structure of Songshan Mountain makes it rich in mineral resources such as coal, aluminum, iron and maficite.
Longmen Grottoes Scenic Spot location: Luoyang
Address: Longmen Town, Longmen District, Luoyang City, Henan Province
Grottoes are located 12 kilometers south of the city of Luoyang, with Datong - Yungang Grottoes, Dunhuang - Mogao Grottoes and known as the "China's three major grottoes ".
Luoyang's second city card besides peony.
Longmen is a place with beautiful scenery, where two green mountains face each other in the east and west, and the Yishui River flows slowly northward. When you look at it from afar, it looks like a natural doorway, so it was called "Yiquet" in ancient times. Now "Yi Que", since ancient times, has become the first landscape tour Longmen.
Longmen Grottoes were first excavated in the Northern Wei Dynasty Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang (494 AD) before and after the later, through the East and West Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, to the Sui and Tang dynasties such as the Song and other successive large-scale construction of more than 400 years. Densely covered in the cliffs of the east and west mountains of Yishui, north and south as long as 1 kilometer, *** there are more than 97,000 statues of Buddha, the largest statue as high as 17.14 meters, the smallest is only 2 centimeters.
There are more than 50 large and medium-sized caves on the cliffs of the western mountains from the Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties. Guyang Cave, Binyang Middle Cave, Lotus Cave, Huangfu Gong Cave, Wei Word Cave, Putai Cave, Fiery Cave, Cixiang Kiln, Road Cave, etc., for the representative caves of the Northern Wei Dynasty; Qianxi Temple, Binyang South Cave, Binyang North Cave (the above two caves of the caves and cave roof decorations were completed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the statues of the Buddha were completed in the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty), Jingxian Temple, the three Buddha niches of the Cliffs, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, Huijian Cave, Fengxian Temple, Jintutang, Longhuashan Temple, the Extreme South Cave and so on, for the Tang Dynasty Representative caves. Dongsan is full of Tang Dynasty caves, of which there are 20 large and medium-sized caves, such as Two Lotus Flower Cave, Watching the Scripture Temple Cave, Daewangwu Buddha Cave (also known as the Three Caves of the Ringing of the Drums), and Gaoping County King Cave.
Introduction of major caves:
Bongxian Temple
Located in the southern section of Longmen Xishan Mountain, it was founded by Tang Emperor Li Zhi, and it is the largest of Longmen Grottoes and the most representative of Tang Dynasty carving art. Fengxian Temple statue layout for a Buddha, two disciples, two Bodhisattvas, two heavenly kings, two Rexes and other nine big statues. The main statue of Rushena Buddha is the largest statue of Buddha in the entire grotto, with a height of 17.14 meters.
Guyang Cave
Located in the middle of the south section of Longmen Xishan Mountain, it is the earliest and richest grotto in Longmen Grottoes and a large-scale grotto. It was excavated in 493 AD or before. Guyang Cave cave roof and the rest of the cave are covered with various sizes of niches, the north and south walls of the systematic arrangement of three rows of large niches, and most of the niches are engraved with a "statue inscription", statistics up to more than 800 products, thus Guyang Cave is the most preserved in China's grottoes statue inscription of a cave.
Medicine Cave
Located in the southern part of Longmen West Mountain. Inside this cave is called Medicine Square Cave because of the ancient medicinal prescriptions engraved in it. Medicine Square Cave was built in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, through the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty, to the early Tang Dynasty there are still carvings, Medicine Square Cave is the only large-scale cave in Longmen with the Northern Qi Dynasty style of statue-making.
Additionally, there is a Xiangshan Temple on the hillside of Dongshan Mountain, which was built in the first year of Xiping of the Northern Wei Dynasty (516 AD), and its architecture is simple and thick, covered in the pines and cypresses. Tang Wenzong Taihe six years (AD 832), Bai Juyi will give close friend Yuan Zhen write epitaphs of the pen fee, donations to repair the Xiangshan Temple, and wrote the "repair Xiangshan Temple record. Celebrities and famous mountains and temples, complement each other, so that the temple's name. Bai Juyi also put himself in Luoyang 12 years written 800 poems, compiled into ten volumes, named "Bai's Luo in the set", in the Xiangshan Temple Hall of Tibetan scriptures. Bai Juyi used to live in the temple and called himself "Jushi Xiangshan". Bai Juyi's family buried him here after his death.