Shaolin Temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty Taihe nineteen years (A.D. 495), is the Xiaowen Emperor for the settlement of the Indian monks trekking and built, because it was built in the dense forest of Songshan Mountain Shaoru, so the name "Shaolin Temple". In the third year of Xiaochang of the Northern Wei Dynasty (527 A.D.), the Indian monk Bodhidharma came to Shaolin to face the wall in a natural stone cave on the Five Milk Peak of Shaolin Mountain for nine years, and preached Zen Buddhism for the first time. Since then, Shaolin has been known as the "Ancestral Court of Zen". At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the thirteen monks of Shaolin Temple, including Zhijian and Tanzong, were praised and rewarded by the ruler of the Tang Dynasty for their efforts in the conquest of Wang Shichong by King Li Shimin of the Qin Dynasty. During this period, due to the strong support of the imperial court, Shaolin Temple developed very quickly, won the "world's first famous temple" reputation, Shaolin Kung Fu has also been known far and wide. It reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty. During the Republic of China period, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to most of the buildings of the Shaolin Temple, the thousand-year foundation was destroyed. After the founding of new China, in the party and the country's concern and support, shaolin temple revitalization, especially in 1982 a "shaolin temple" movie, make shaolin temple, shaolin kung fu popular all over the world, become henan province and even the world's one of the top tourism products.
Shaolin Temple since its inception, Zen, martial arts, medicine, world-famous, enduring, deposited a rich historical connotation and cultural heritage, has been named "Zhengzhou City, the top ten tourist attractions", the country's first "4A scenic spot", the annual reception of more than 1.5 million visitors, is a famous tourist attraction. With more than 1.5 million visitors annually, it is a veritable pearl of tourism in the Central Plains and a tourist resort in China.
Address: 12 kilometers west of Dengfeng city, Henan Province
Opening time: all day
2. Songshan
Songshan
Songshan
Sunrise Artemisia mountain pass, the morning bell startled the birds, the forest brooks gurgling, the slopes on the green grass ...... ".
A melodious "Shepherd's Song" still makes the heart like a tide. The beautiful scenery of the Shaolin Temple has long been vividly haunted from this beautiful song. With the world's first famous temple Shaolin Temple of Songshan, located in Henan Province, northwest of Dengfeng City, the main body by the Taiguoshan, Shaoguoshan east and west of the two large mountains.
Songshan is known as the museum of China's historical development, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism gathered, with numerous historical sites. Among them, there are China's six most: the ancestor of Zen Buddhism - Shaolin Temple; the largest existing tower forest - Shaolin Temple Tower Forest; the oldest existing tower - Northern Wei Songyue Temple Tower; the oldest existing Que The oldest extant pagoda--Beijing Wei Songyue Temple Pagoda; the oldest extant que--Han Sanque; the oldest cypress tree--Han Feng "General Cypress"; the oldest extant stargazing platform--Yuan Dynasty Stargazing Platform in Goucheng. The oldest existing stargazing platform--Guocheng Yuan Dynasty Stargazing Platform. In addition, Mt. Huangfeng under the cover of Mt. Zhongyue Temple was built in Qin, Tang and Song Dynasty, is the largest temple complex in Henan Province; Songyang Academy is magnificent, simple and elegant, Song Dynasty and Suoyang, Yuelu and White Deer Cave Academy called the four major academies; together with the verdant and secluded Fawang Temple, back to the perilous Xuanyuan Pass, Huike broke his arm to seek the law of the Lixue Pavilion, and so on, are all the jewels of China's humanities and cultural relics.
What place can have such a large collection of Zen Buddhism, only Songshan! To see the quiet and mysterious Buddhist resort, feel the purity there, may become a good desire of every favorite traveler
Address: Dengfeng City, Henan Province
Opening time: all day
3. Henan Museum
Henan Museum is one of the earlier museums established in China. Its predecessor was the Henan Provincial Museum, and in July 1927, under the strong advocacy of General Feng Yuxiang, the Preparatory Committee for the Henan Museum was established, with its seat on Sanshengmiao Street in Kaifeng City. Through the changes of the times, Henan Museum is welcoming visitors with a brand-new attitude. Henan Museum is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Agricultural Road, for the national key museums, is one of the earlier established museums in China, but also one of the first batch of central and local **** built national museums. The main exhibition hall of the Henan Museum in front of the standing statue - a man pushed away two elephants, the symbol is the emergence of mankind occupied the land of the Central Plains, long ruled by the beasts, pushed open the door of civilization and history, and created a brilliant and glorious ancient culture. Henan is called Yu for short, and the character Yu in the oracle bone inscriptions is a man holding an elephant, which indicates that there were still elephants in the Central Plains during the primitive period from the other side. If you want to know the history of Henan, Henan Museum is worth a visit to understand Henan and its history.
Address:
Middle Agricultural Road, Zhengzhou
Opening time:
Summer, 09:00-17:30
Winter, 09:00-17:00 Stop admission: 16:30
Closed on Mondays (except for legal holidays)
4. Erqi Square
Erqi Square- Zhengzhou's busiest commercial district, the largest and most representative commercial district in Henan Province. Located in the center of downtown Zhengzhou, the square is surrounded by Hualian Shopping Mansion, Mall Tower, Department Store Building, Asia Mall, International Friendship Plaza, Zhenghong Famous Store, Jinboda Shopping Mall, Dennis Mall, Bookstore Center and other large shopping malls and hundreds of small and medium-sized stores, restaurants, is a must-visit place for foreign tourists. Erqi Memorial Tower is located in the center of Erqi Square, built to commemorate the February 7, 1923 Beijing-Han Railway Workers' Strike. For the reinforced concrete structure, 6 3 meters high, ***1 4 layers, including the tower base for the 3 layer tower body for 11 layers, each layer of the top corner of the antique corner eaves, green glazed tile roof. Tower built at the top of the bell tower, six 2.7-meter-diameter bell, chiming the whole time to play the "East is Red" music, the sound of the bell is melodious and pleasant, stretches for several kilometers. Tower plane for the east and west connected to the two pentagon, from the east-west direction for the single tower, from the north-south direction for the double tower. Inside the tower on one side of the spiral staircase, on the other side of the exhibition room, visitors can climb to the top of the tower, a distant view of the city into the night, a variety of colorful lights inside and outside the light, making the twin towers more colorful.
Address: No. 21 West Street
Opening time: all day
5. Sannwangzhai
Sannwangzhai is a natural fortress hanging on the waist of Shaomu Mountain. The whole scenic area is steep and slippery, and the top of the mountain is flat and wide. With Mount Tai's male, Huashan's dangerous, North Heng's strange, South Heng's show and so on, with peaks strange, road dangerous, stone strange, scenic show is famous for the Central Plains. Spring and summer green forest spitting green, hundred flowers fragrant; late autumn layers of forests are dyed, all the mountains are red; winter mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, is China's rare natural landscape in the north, because people in order to commemorate the ancestor of the three emperors (the emperor, the emperor, the emperor of the earth) in the area of songshan the opening up of heaven and earth and the work of the name, step on the songshan mountain of the temples and temples, the only here to worship the gods to leave in the outside of the three religions to the ancestor of the ancestors of the people as a patriarch, piety and sacrifice. There was a couplet saying, "Jump out of the red dust outside the three worlds, people note white clouds in a hole."
San Huang Zhai scenic area has peculiar natural scenery, rich humanistic landscape and beautiful forest environment, the main humanistic landscape includes Lotus Temple, Qingwei Palace, Anyang Palace, San Huang Temple, Pangu Cave, Jade Emperor Temple and so on. Natural landscape has a good man slope, Longji Gorge, monkey view of the sea of clouds, tiger stone, dragon head, dragon tail, camel stone, the elephant gate pass, a line of heaven, fly to the stone, suspension bridge, three fairy stone, stone forest, a thousand Buddhas to meet the guests, hanging stacks and so on dozens of dozens of places, is the hiking and fitness, leisure and sightseeing, adventure and search for secluded and famous tourist attractions.
Address: Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area, Dengfeng City, Henan Province
Opening time: 8:00-17:00
6. Yellow River Excursion Area
The Yellow River Excursion Area is located in 30 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou. It is located 30 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou, with the towering Mount Yue in the south and the mighty Yellow River in the north. The majestic scenery of the river, the long history of cultural landscape, as well as a series of unique geographic features such as the starting point of the "hanging river" on the ground, the end point of the Loess Plateau, the demarcation line between the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and so on, make this place become a river-type provincial scenic spots integrating sightseeing tours, scientific researches, the promotion of the Huaxia culture, popularization of science and technology education, and a national tourism line - the Yellow River Tourist Route, which is the most important tourist spot in the country. It has become the leader of the National Tourism Line - Yellow River Journey.
Address: No. 1, South Bank of the Yellow River, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Opening time: 9:00-18:00
7. Songyang Academy
Songyang Academy was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the eighth year of the Taihe (484 AD). Located in dengfeng city 2.5 kilometers north of songshan southern foothills, backed by jueji peak, facing the double creek, because of the sun is located in songshan and named. Songyang Academy is a famous institution of higher learning in ancient China, historically known for its science. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the masters of Confucianism and Luo School of Science, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, gathered here to give lectures, which made the academy famous, and it was known as one of the four major academies in the Song Dynasty along with Yingtian Academy in Suizhou of Henan Province, Yuelu Academy of Hunan Province, and Bailudong Academy of Jiangxi Province. Famous Confucian scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Sima Guang, Fan Zhongyan, Han Wei, Li Gang, Zhu Xi, and Lu Xi, also lectured here. Songyang academy's establishment is ancient, simple and elegant, generous and uncommon, with more than a hundred existing premises and an area of more than 10,000 square meters. The central axis is five courtyards. The west side of the academy, there are two tall cypresses, respectively named "General" and "General". The "Two Generals" cypress tree is more than 4,000 years old and is the oldest existing cypress tree in China. Songyang Academy, outside the main gate of the southwest side of a large Tang Dynasty monument, for the Tang Xuanzong Tianbao three years (744 AD) carved, in the history of Chinese calligraphy has a high value, is the largest existing monument in Henan Province.
Address: about 3 kilometers north of Dengfeng, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Opening time: 8:00 - 17:00
8. Shaolin Pagoda Forest
Located at the foot of the mountain 400 meters west of the Shaolin Temple, it is the grave of the successive monks of the Shaolin Temple, and the tower is generally buried in the spirit of the deceased's bones or mantle. Because of the number of towers are many, scattered as a forest, so the name Tower Forest. Pagoda forest is China's largest number of existing, the largest group of ancient pagodas, *** there are successive generations of masonry tomb tower more than 240, an area of more than 14,000 square meters.
The level of the tower is generally one to seven levels, up to 15 meters, the shape of the square, rectangular, hexagonal, round, column, cone, bottle, trumpet, etc.. According to the Buddhist system, only famous monks, monks after the death, only to set up the palace tower, carved stone chronicle, to show merit. So the tower of the shape of the hierarchy, the size of the high and low, masonry and carving art of the different, are reflected in the deceased's status in Buddhism, achievements and prestige high and low.
These towers, with their diverse shapes and rich inscriptions, are valuable materials for studying the history of Buddhism as well as China's ancient masonry architecture, calligraphy and carving. There are many famous pagodas in the Pagoda Forest, and the famous ones are Fa Play Pagoda, Zen Master Casting Pagoda, Yu Gong Pagoda, Monk Tan Ran Pagoda, Shao Gong Pagoda, and Monk Xiaoshan Pagoda.
Address: 15 kilometers northwest of Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Songshan Shaolin Temple in the Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area under the Shaorin Mountain
Opening time: 8:00-17:00
9. Kang million manor
"Kang million" is a collective name for the Kang Yingkui family since the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of the Empress Dowager Cixi's bestowal of the name.
The Kang Yingkui family, from the sixth ancestor, Kang Shaojing, down to the eighteenth Kang Tinglan, has been rich for twelve generations, more than four hundred years, history has Kang Dayong, Kang Daoping, Kang Hongyou and so on more than a dozen people called "Kang million", the most representative of which is the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Kang Yingkui. On the basis of his predecessors, he took advantage of the Qing Dynasty to suppress the White Lotus Sect to "make a fortune", and became rich in three provinces and six rivers, with 180,000 acres of land and countless riches, which was described as "a headrest in Jingyang and Xi'an, and a footstep in Linyi and Jinan; a horse running for thousands of miles does not eat the grass of other families, and a person walking for thousands of miles is the field of the Kang family! " It was a great success for a while. Kang million by the river transportation wealth, by the land to get rich, by the "contribution" to get the official, many times by the emperor's reward, the highest when the official to the third grade, a few times Chin added the title of governor. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Kang Wanliang, Shen Wansan and Ruan Zilan were known as the three "living gods of wealth" in Chinese folklore; during the Republic of China period, "Liu in the east, Zhang in the west, and Kang in the middle", he was one of the three richest men in the Central Plains. In the sixties and seventies, henan kang million manor, sichuan liu wencai manor, shandong mou two black manor, known as the country's three big manor, kang million manor as the first of the three big manor is open to the public, sensational henan, famous all over the country.
Address:
Kangdian Town, 3 kilometers west of Gongyi City, Henan Province, downtown 11 buses directly to the scenic area
Opening time:
Summer: 8:00-19:30; Winter: 8:00-18:30
10. Reinforced concrete structure, is the unique architecture of China's antique twin towers, it is to commemorate the Beijing-Han Railway workers' strike and the construction of memorial buildings. 2006 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection units, China's youngest national key cultural relics protection units (built in 1971, less than forty-two years ago).
Address: Erqi Plaza, No. 230 Erqi Road, Erqi District (near the railway station)
Opening hours: 08:30-18:30