Jin Ancestral Hall is 25 kilometers southwest of downtown Taiyuan, is one of the national key cultural relics protection units. Built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was once the ancestral hall of Ji Yu, the second son of King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the founding monarch of the state of Jin.
Jin Ancestral Hall includes dozens of classical garden-style buildings, elegant and comfortable environment, beautiful scenery, landscape layout can be divided into three parts: the central part, into the gate of Jin Ancestral Hall, since the Water Mirror Terrace, from the Huixian Bridge, the Golden Man Terrace, the Yuefang, the Bell and Drum Towers, the dedication of the temple, the fish swamp flying beams, to the Hall of the Holy Mother of God, where the main body of the Jin Ancestral Hall; the northern part, from the Wenchang Palace, through the Dongyue Ancestral Hall, the Guandi Temple, the Three Clear Caves, the words of Tang Shouyu, Chaoyang Cave, to be Fengxuan, Santai Pavilion, Reading Terrace, to Lvzu Pavilion, this group of undulating architectural complexes, with high artistic value; South, from Yingsheng Building, through the White Crane Pavilion, Three Sacred Ancestors' Shrine, the True Interest Pavilion, the Pavilion of Difficulty in old age, Jellyfish Building, to the Gongdou Zi Ancestors' Shrine.
Inside the temple, there is also a difficult old spring, Zhou cypress, maiden statues, known as the three best of the Jin Ancestral Temple, of which 43 maiden statues of different costumes, forms, with a high artistic value. Jin Ancestral Temple is also at home and abroad "Wang's", "Zhang's" roots and ancestral shrine.
Opening time: 7:30-18:30
Tickets: 40 yuan (half price for primary and secondary school students)
Transportation: 804.856 buses can be taken directly from the front of the Taiyuan Railway Station (the fare is 2 yuan, and the ride takes about 45 minutes).
Changjia Manor
If the Qiao Family Residence made Shanxi's compound culture known to the nation for the first time, the Changjia Manor has taken compound culture to an unprecedented level.
The Chang Family Manor, located in Yuji District, Jinzhong City, southeast of Taiyuan, is the private manor of the Chang family, who were huge merchants in Jin during the Qing Dynasty. The tall fort gate sits west to east and is called Guo Gengji, with a small river that surrounds the wall of the deep house outside the gate, and a white stone arch bridge erected at the gate. Directly opposite the fort gate is a stone street running east to west, all the restored mansions are lined up in the north of the street. Corresponding to the mansion there are more than 100 acres of North and South style in one of the gardens - "quiet garden", the garden has a pavilion, and apricot and mulberry gardens, winter ice on the lake, spring, full of apricot forest fragrance.
Ming Hongzhi years, Chang's family moved to Yuji rims from Taihu Hui'an, after several generations of hard work, through the Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong and other dynasties, its heyday up to 150 years. 18th century, Chang's found that Russia and Mongolia's demand for tea is increasing day by day, so it opened a from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province to start, by land, water, camel transportation, travel more than 10,000 miles, as far as Moscow. The "Ten Thousand Mile Tea Route", which traveled more than 10,000 miles to Moscow, has been recognized as one of the most important tea routes in the world.
As a Confucian merchant family insisting on "learning and excellence", the Chang family attaches great importance to the academic education of their children, and there are both Jin Tu, Jiu Ren and Xiucai in the family, as well as many famous calligraphers and painters. In addition to the profound connotation of Confucian culture, the artistic content here is also very high. Distributed in various compounds of the door style, window decoration, color painting, plaques, couplets, brick carvings, wood carvings, monumental carvings, such as French stickers can be called the Jin Shang cultural masterpieces.
Transportation: 1 hour drive southeast from Taiyuan to Yuji, the highway is indicated by road signs.
Admission: 60 yuan
Tianlong Mountain
The Tianlong Mountain, 40 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, was first excavated in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and *** there are 24 caves, including works from five periods: the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties. Among them, the ninth cave "Man Mountain Pavilion" within the Tang Dynasty grottoes is the Tianlong Mountain grottoes in the boutique, there is a well-preserved Shakyamuni Buddha seated statue, proportionality and harmony, dignified appearance, reflecting the ancient craftsmen in China's superb carving skills.
Because Tianlong Mountain and Jin Temple are both in the southwest of Taiyuan City, and there is a newly built highway connecting the two places, you can use these two places as a tourist line.
Transportation: After touring the Jin Ancestral Temple, you can take a Chinese bus at the entrance and get to Tianlong Mountain in about 20 minutes (note: bargain before you get on the bus).
Tickets: 20 yuan
Shongshan Temple 4 yuan
Sanjin famous temple Shuangta Temple, located in the southeast of Taiyuan city, about four kilometers from the city center of the Haozhuang village south of the foot of the Xiangshan.
Pure Yang Palace 5 yuan
In the northwest corner of Wuyi Square in Taiyuan, Shanxi. Began to build in the Ming Wanli years, the Qing dynasty Qianlong increased the three-story pavilion. Palace has four courtyards, for the Lvzu Hall, square single corridor pavilion and the Pavilion. The four surroundings are built with rooms and brick cellar holes. Lvzu Hall for the main hall, the face of three, very spectacular, the two courtyards behind the hall for the pavilion-style buildings, heights, twists and turns back and forth, the form of chic. The backyard of the highest lofty pavilion, climbed the pavilion look around, the city's scenery is all in sight. The forecourt is also a pavilion-style building, the plane for the square corner, the four corners of the octagonal pavilion, adding elegance and interest. After liberation and additional rockery, built Guan Gong Pavilion and monument gallery twenty pillars, has been opened for the Shanxi Provincial Museum two.
Tianlong Mountain 15 yuan
Tianlong Mountain, formerly known as Fangshan, is a branch of the Luliang Mountain Range, 1700 meters above sea level, is located 36 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, 14 kilometers from the Jinzi Temple scenic area. It is connected by a special highway. Tianlong Mountain screen peaks standing, pine and cypress shade, streams and springs sounding streams, the climate is cool. As early as in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan built a summer palace, and Gao Yang in the Northern Qi Dynasty built the Tianlong Temple, and both excavated grottoes. The mountain is named because of the temple, the temple is famous because of the cave, from then on, Tianlong Mountain reputation.
Shuangta Temple 10 yuan
Sanjin Temple Shuangta Temple, located in Taiyuan City, southeast of the city, about four kilometers from the city center of Haozhuang Village, south of the foot of the mountain. Here, green trees and red walls, pagodas and halls, niches and pavilions, monuments and jellies, flowers overflowing incense, pines and cypresses, solemn and quiet, ancient color.
Fenhe Park
Fenhe Park is located in the center of Taiyuan City, a large-scale urban ecological landscape park, the first phase of the project was built in October 1998 to September 2000, with a total investment of 560 million yuan, is with the style of the northern Chinese gardens and the Fenhe River in Taiyuan regional culture of the landscape garden, the total length of 6 kilometers, width of 500 meters, covering an area of 300 hectares, forming a 1.3 million square meters of water surface and 1.3 million square meters of green space. and 1.3 million square meters of green space, is currently the largest and most concentrated public **** green space playground in Taiyuan. At the same time, it is also a water storage and beautification project in Fenhe River section of Taiyuan city. The artificial compound river trough is divided into two canals from east to west by the partition wall; the clear water canal on the east side, 220 meters wide, is divided into three levels of storage lakes by four rubber dams; the muddy water canal on the west side is 80 meters wide, draining upstream floods and irrigation water transfer from the reservoirs. The east and west sides of each arrangement of a box-shaped sewage culvert, accepting the city sewage pipe and the side of the mountain branch ditch water, sent to the downstream sewage treatment plant for purification and treatment.
Wujin Mountain
Taiyuan City, more than 10 kilometers outside the eastern suburb of Wujin Mountain, north and Hanshan adjacent. Here is now a national forest park, but the citizens of Taiyuan in ten national forest park, but the citizens of Taiyuan in nine out of ten do not know close to Taiyuan and such a good place.
Taiyuan City is the capital of Shanxi, the distribution center of tourism, the epitome of modern Shanxi. This area is located in the Shanxi plateau, north to the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin, east by the west side of the Taihang Mountains, west to the banks of the Yellow River, south and Linfen area border; covers Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Lvliang and Yangquan, is the Fen River Valley numerous tourist sites as the main humanities and landscape tourism area.
The distribution of tourist spots, with Taiyuan City as the center, spreads along the railroad and highway in all directions, among which the banks of the Fen River and its surrounding mountains along the South Tongpu Line extending to the southwest, form the cluster area of attractions with the highest tourist value.
The highlights of this area are:
The classical gardens of Jinci Temple, whose buildings and statues of the Song Dynasty are particularly valuable;
Tianlongshan Buddhist Grottoes, whose stone statues are rare masterpieces in the Central Plains;
Longshan Taoist Grottoes, the only Taoist grottoes of the Yuan Dynasty in China;
The Twin Pagodas of Yongjosi Temple, whose twin pagodas are the symbols of Taiyuan;
The Twin Towers of Yongjosi Temple, whose twin towers are the symbols of Taiyuan; and
Jiaocheng Xuanzhong Temple, the ancestral home of the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism;
Pangquangu National Nature Reserve northwest of Jiaocheng is a well-preserved green treasure trove on the Loess Plateau;
Bei Wudang Mountain in Fangshan County is a national scenic spot that combines majestic, dangerous, strange, and beautiful scenery;
Chenghenghengheng Temple of Yuji is one of the oldest city god temples in Shanxi Province;
The Ancient City of Pingyao is one of the only three remaining intact cities in China;
The Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao contains thousands of colorful sculptures, which are rare original works of the Five Dynasties in China;
The Niangziguan Pass in Pingding, Yangquan, is a famous pass that was defended by Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty;
The Dazhai of Xiyang was famous for a short time in the history of modern rural development;
The Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory in Fenyang is a national scenic spot. The Fen Wine Factory in Fenyang is famous for its Fen Wine;
Qixian Qiaojiaobao Folklore Museum, which has turned the mansion of the former Jin merchants into a resort that showcases Jinzhong's folklore. In the city, you can go to the Shanxi Provincial Museum, which is right in the city, and is worth a look on the banks of the Fen River, and if you have a little more time, you can go to the vicinity of Taiyuan and visit the Qiaoxian Qiaojiayuan and the Ancient City of Pingyao, which is about a less than a two-hour drive away from Taiyuan, and the traffic is very convenient. The transportation is very convenient. You said that the Ruijia hotel should be in the city, right, Jinshi is not in the city, should be far away from there, Jinshi in Jinyuan District forty minutes can be reached.