The jurisdiction of Chongqing is mainly located along the Yangtze River and is dominated by hills and low mountains, with an average elevation of 400 meters. The terrain from the north and south to the Yangtze River Valley tilt, undulation, mostly showing "a mountain and a ridge", "a mountain and a trough two ridge" shape. The geology is mostly "karst landscape" structure, so there are many caves, hot springs, canyons and passes.
Chongqing city is located in the Yangtze River and Jialing River intersection, surrounded by mountains, the river back around, the city along the water by the mountains, cascading up, both known as the river city, but also known as the mountain city. However, the most characteristic, but also count the night color of the mountain city. With a high view, the lights of thousands of undulating and staggered, silver haze, and the two rivers of sparkling waves, full of twinkling stars in the sky, the scene of the strange and intoxicating.
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Chongqing's climate
Chongqing is located in the northern hemisphere subtropical inland area, its climate is characterized by a few sentences like Proverbs: early spring temperatures are unstable, summer is long and hot, more drought, autumn is cool and rainy days, winter is warm, less snow and clouds. Chongqing annual average temperature of 18 ℃. January temperature is the lowest, the average monthly temperature of 7 ℃, the lowest limit temperature of minus 3.8 ℃. July to August temperature is the highest, mostly in the 27 ℃ -38 ℃ between the highest limit temperature of up to 43.8 ℃. Therefore, Chongqing and Wuhan, Nanjing and called the Yangtze River Basin three "furnace".
Chongqing rainy season is concentrated in the summer and fall, annual rainfall of 1000-1100 ml. The night rain is particularly interesting, and poets have often used the "Bashan night rain" as a theme for their poems and lyrics. Chongqing is also known as the "fog capital". Fog every year from late fall to early spring, the annual average of 68 days of fog. Every foggy day, the city is full of clouds and fog, the streets and alleys are misty and disoriented, as if it were a fairyland. Chongqing is also one of the cities with the least amount of sunshine in China, with an average of 1,259.5 hours of sunshine per year. 230 hours of sunshine per month is slightly higher from July to August. The other months have less than 150 hours. Chongqing is surrounded by mountains and ravines on three sides, so wind speeds are low. However, during summer thunderstorms, it is counter-intuitive and often accompanied by high winds, which can reach speeds of 10-27 meters per second.
Transportation: Transportation in downtown Chongqing is very well-developed, with dozens of public **** buses and trolley buses operating in the downtown area and suburbs, and it is easy to get on a public **** bus every day between 5:30 and 21:00 in the evening. In recent years, small public **** cars, air-conditioned and loop sightseeing buses and peak buses have also been introduced for the convenience of the public and tourists' sightseeing, creating a comprehensive public **** transportation system.
Besides the possibility of taking public **** cars, various kinds of cabs have also become indispensable means of transportation for Chongqing people and tourists.
The earliest taxis in Chongqing date back to the early 1930s, with the emergence of Hongtong and Sanfei, which provided a limited number of cabs, but were too expensive for the general public to take. Chongqing's cab industry flourished in the 1980s, with locally produced "Alto" cars dominating the market, which could take three people, with a starting price of 7.00 yuan and a price of 1.20 yuan per kilometer. Other cars, such as the "Xiali" car 1.40 yuan per kilometer, "Santana" car 1.60 yuan per kilometer. Cab charges in addition: bridge tolls per 5.00 yuan, highway tolls per 10.00 yuan, waiting time every 5 minutes 0.60 yuan. Chongqing cab to and from a lot of tourists travel very convenient.
Taxi - "dor car" (Alto cab) can take three people, the starting price of 7.00 yuan, the price per kilometer 1.20 yuan. Changan Suzuki Antelope yellow cab and Alto prices, and will gradually replace the red Alto taxi. Other cars such as "Xiali" car 1.40 yuan per kilometer, "Santana" car 1.60 yuan per kilometer. 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. are not allowed to drive a woman driver, a car with two drivers driving backwards. It is best not to take a taxi from 5 to 7 p.m., 6 to 8 a.m. during the driver's shift, it is easy to encounter refusal. When there is a police officer, it is best to take a cab at the cab boarding and alighting sign. Passengers are responsible for the 5 yuan bridge toll (Yangtze River Bridge or Jialing River Bridge).
Shopping: Jiangbei District (Guanyinqiao), Nan'an District (Nanping Wanda Plaza) Yuzhong District (Jiefangbei), Recommended: Shapingba (Three Gorges Plaza), Jiulongpo District (Yangjiaping)
Dining: Chongqing's most famous dish is the hot pot, which is said to be eaten because of the damp and cold winter climate and the quick and straightforward character of Chongqing people. The hot pot market is booming, as evidenced by the number of hot pot restaurants lining the streets today. Chongqing hot pot is mainly divided into two kinds of red soup and clear soup, the red soup to spicy and fragrant, while the clear soup to the color and flavor of fresh as the characteristics. Yuanyang hot pot is a combination of the two, that is, the hot pot with s-shaped piece of metal compartmentalized into a taijitu shape. A clear a red. The color is clear. Foreigners in Chongqing like to eat yuanyang hot pot, so if you eat red soup can not resist, you can immediately ask the clear soup to save the day.
The local people's favorite is probably to be counted on the street side of the small hot pot (also known as spicy hot), and now due to the rectification of the city's appearance, it has been rare to see the street side of the hot pot stalls. But as long as you don't go out of Chongqing, you can definitely eat authentic hot pot in the mountain city. Yuanyang hot pot is designed for me this kind of "Ye Gong good spicy" people ready, while on their own side of the dip in the broth. The first thing you need to do is to look at the unparalleled beauty of Chongqing.
Chongqing hot pot famous stores, such as bridge. Little Swan, Lu Ning Xiang, Su Da Sister, etc., we ate in Nanping Qiaotou General Store, which is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River Begonia Creek small stone bridge bridge and named, and then moved here. Qiaotou hot pot in the inheritance of hot pot spicy hot pot on the basis of the traditional characteristics, created a spicy hot fresh. Full of color and flavor. Salty and sweet moderately. Long aftertaste mandarin duck hot pot. Enjoy "eat in Chongqing, taste in Qiaotou" reputation. The place is large. Northern courtyard of the simple and rigorous and Jiangnan pavilion of the elegant sparse integration, I feel the atmosphere is better. Ordering price, you can eat the Jiangtuan and other high-grade dishes, the seats have song and dance fashion show. In contrast, the Bouncing Stone branch of the buffet hot pot is also good． 30 yuan per person, in addition to white wine, the rest of the food. Mandarin duck hot pot, red soup hot most meat dishes; clear soup hot mushrooms, lettuce, vermicelli and other vegetarian dishes. If you like to eat snails, be sure to ask the waiter for a dry chili plate. During the table there are waiters constantly pushing carts to send snacks, shallow taste of the nest and deep-fried bean paste cake, do not eat openly, because the delicious is still in the back. Eat almost can be a bowl of chilled silver ear soup, cool and moisturize the lungs; if you feel that the stomach still has the potential to dig, come to the bowl of congee, and then with some snacks. Finally, a plate of fruit, satisfied and go.
Walking through the streets of Chongqing, most of the various restaurants have "hot pot" signs in front of them. Guests into the store, the fire frame pot. Peppercorns, chili peppers, and so on. Chili peppers and other stimulating seasonings, a large number of pots to sprinkle, and so the pot open, but see the red soup rolled, spicy flavor pungent. Clip up the tripe. Duck intestines are put into the pot and shabu-shabu, which is not as leisurely as Beijing's shabu-shabu, and you need to be "not afraid of the spice" to be able to eat it. Every piece of tripe or duck intestines and so on, to the mouth before resting on a good determination, Chongqing people eat hot pot, think it is best to be three days. Toxin to attack poison, heat to attack heat. Under the scorching sun, a furnace bear. A pot of boiling, a hand with chopsticks, a hand shaking the fan, hot cooking, chewing and eating, "sweating to eat tripe, sweat when the wind cool." This is really the heart of the sentence, non-individuals can not come out of this statement.
According to what they said: eight all the way to No. 141 of the one-four-one hot pot store is also eat up quite comfortable (comfortable) hot pot store. It was founded in the Anti-Japanese War period, named after the door number. At that time, Chongqing hot pot was so popular that it could be found everywhere in the streets and alleys, and was eaten in winter and summer. One Four One Hot Pot Restaurant sold hot pot in all seasons and was packed every day. Its founder, Yang Hailin, cooking hot pot has more than 30 years of experience, skilled, the hot pot marinade is not salty, not light, and spicy, highlighting the hot pot spicy, hot, fresh, tender characteristics. I heard me crave for it, and I wonder if I'll have a chance to go there this time?
Choose authentic Sichuan cuisine restaurant - fish-flavored shredded pork and back to the pot of pork are representative of Sichuan cuisine in the famous dishes. Fish-flavored shredded pork is moderately sweet and sour, with a strong aroma. Its ingredients are no more than vinegar, sugar, pickled ginger. Pickled peppers and diced scallions, although simple, but to be reasonable combination. It is not easy to make authentic shredded pork with fish flavor. Craftsmanship is not good restaurant, made out of non-sour that is sweet. The people's appetites. So you want to test the master's skill in the museum, do not have to eat other dishes. Called a share of fish and meat silk taste can see the master of the basic skills.
Small hot pot - hot pot can not afford to foreign folks, you can spend 2, 3 dollars to buy a string of hot pot to account for all the hot pot flavor. A few strings of hot and spicy hot down to the stomach, all over the body will add heat. Compare that often a few hours of hot pot, you will feel that this small spicy hot more adapted to the fast pace of modern urban life.