Jin Temple, Yingze Park, Zoo, Longtan Park, Fenhe Park are all local places to visit in Taiyuan.
Taiyuan has a lot of big and small attractions, from which the list of eight essential attractions to the most well-known "famous parks, museums, grottoes, temples,"? The famous "Jinyang Ancient Eight Scenes".
By the way to introduce a little knowledge of Taiyuan geography, Taiyuan streets are mostly horizontal and vertical, very few curved or sloping roads, roads have "XXX Street" "XXX Road" two titles, the road are north-south, the street are east-west.
"Not to the Jinci, in vain to Taiyuan." Some people say: "the people who first came to Taiyuan, not to visit the Imperial ancestral temple, as if foreign friends to Beijing did not go to visit the Forbidden City as regret." So when you get to Taiyuan, you must go to the Jin Ancestral Temple.
Jin Ancestral Temple was originally the Jin King Ancestral Temple (Tang Shuyu Ancestral Temple), in honor of the King of Jin (Fen) and the mother of the mother of the Euphrasia and the construction. Located in the southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, hanging in the foothills of the Jin waterfront, the ancestral temple has dozens of ancient buildings, elegant and comfortable environment, beautiful scenery, known for its majestic architectural complex, superb statue art.
It is a unique and precious historical and cultural heritage integrating ancient Chinese ritual architecture, garden, sculpture, mural and inscription art, and also a world center of architecture, garden and sculpture art. Difficult old spring, maiden statue, the Virgin statue is known as the "three best of the Jin Temple". The temple is also known as the "Three Beauties of the Jin Temple".