How to get to Stork Tower more conveniently?

Guanque Tower Transportation Guide: The transportation is quite convenient. The two main railway lines, Tongpu and Houxi, are the main transportation arteries in this area, and there is also a branch line from Liyuan to Gudui Railway. The highway is centered on Yuncheng. The main lines include: Taiyuan to Maojindu, Jincheng to Yumenkou, Linyi to Daning, Yuncheng to Fenglingdu, etc.; the branch lines include: Wenxi to Yongji, Fenglingdu to Pinglu, etc. The expressways from Yuncheng to Sanmenxia and Yuncheng to Fenglingdu have been completed and opened to traffic, and the expressway from Datong to Yuncheng is also under construction.

There are trains from Yuncheng to Beijing, Xi'an, Tianjin, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Datong, Linfen and other places

By road, National Highway 209 passes through Yuncheng, which can be reached separately. Accessible to Sanmenxia City in Henan Province and Huayin City in Shaanxi Province. Taiyuan Long-distance Station has a bus bound for Wutai Mountain every 79 minutes, which is Iveco Taishan. If you go to Mount Wutai from Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, and Zhengzhou, you can take an express train to Taiyuan first. There are long-distance buses from Wuyi Square in Taiyuan City directly to Mount Wutai. Aviation: Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an and other major cities have direct flights to Taiyuan. After arriving in Taiyuan, travelers can take a long-distance bus to Mount Wutai at Taiyuan Wuyi Square. Road Passenger transportation is particularly important since neither trains nor planes can reach Mount Wutai directly. If you take the train and get off at Shahe, Fanzhi, Daixian and Yuanping stations on the Jingyuan Line, you can take a bus to Mount Wutai, which is very convenient. On the Beitong-Pu railway line between Datong and Taiyuan, there are also buses to Mount Wutai from Ningwu and Yuanping, and there are many long-distance buses to Mount Wutai from Xinzhou every day. There are direct long-distance buses from Fuping, Hebei to Taihuai Town in Mount Wutai, and there are daily shuttle buses between Taihuai Town and Taiyuan. During the June Conference of Wutai Mountain (from the beginning of June to the tenth day of July in the lunar calendar), there are the most tourists. During this period, the surrounding counties and towns of Wutai Mountain have added tourist buses, such as Dongye to Wutai Mountain, Yangquan to Wutai Mountain, Fuping to Wutai Mountain, Fanzhi to Wutai Mountain, Yuanping to Wutai Mountain, Shahe to Wutai Mountain, etc.

The Stork Tower, known as one of the four famous historical and cultural buildings in China, is located in Yongji City, Shanxi Province, in the Yellow River Golden Triangle area where Qin, Shanxi and Henan provinces meet.

Stork Tower, also known as Stork and Magpie Tower in ancient times, got its name from the storks and magpies that sometimes roosted on it. Its former location is on the bank of the Yellow River southwest of the ancient Puzhou City in Yongji City. "Puzhou Prefecture Chronicles" records: (Stork Tower) used to be located in the middle of the Yellow River in the southwest of the county. Storks sometimes lived on it, hence its name. The building was originally built outside the river by General Yuwenhu (Xianbei ethnic group) of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (AD 557581), and was built as a floor. Due to the spectacular building, unique structure, majestic momentum, superior location and beautiful scenery, literati and poets of all ages came to climb the building to watch, sing and express their feelings, and left many immortal chapters of condescending views of the river. Wang Zhihuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had a feeling when he climbed the tower and wrote that the sun was closing behind the mountains and the Yellow River was flowing into the sea. If you want to see a thousand miles away, go to the next level. This eternal song that inspires people to work hard and inspires national rejuvenation has long been popular. Shen Kuo, a great scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote in "Mengxi Bi Tan": On the third floor of the Stork Tower in Hezhong Mansion, you can look forward to the middle section and look down to the river. There were many poems left by the Tang Dynasty, but only three poems by Li Yi, Wang Zhihuan and Chang Dang are most impressive. For example, Li Yi's "Climbing the Stork Tower": To the west of the Stork Tower is a hundred-foot-high beam, the clouds and trees of Tingzhou are vast, the Han family's flutes and drums are empty and the water is flowing, and the mountains and rivers of the Wei State are half sunset. Thousands of years have passed and things have gone by quickly, but worries have lasted only one day. The wind and smoke arouse homesickness, and it hurts oneself to look far away from home. The poet associates the magnificent landscape of mountains and rivers with the sadness of short life. Another example is Changdang's "Inscription on the Stork Tower": The birds are flying close by, and the river flows into the broken mountain. Heaven surrounds the plains and rises above the earthly world. This poem can be said to be an excellent work describing the scenery of Stork Tower. Ma Dai, Sima Zha, Wu Rong and other outstanding poets have left many good verses. But the most famous poem that has been passed down to this day and is well-known to women and children is undoubtedly "Ascend the Stork Tower" by Wang Zhihuan, a talented scholar from Taiyuan. Although this poem only has twenty characters, it uses thousands of giant rafters to depict the majestic momentum and magnificent scenery of the rivers and mountains of the Northern Kingdom, which makes people feel bold and bold. The poet's soul was shocked by nature, and what he realized was a simple but profound philosophy, which can urge people to abandon their self-sufficient knowledge, climb high and take a broad view, and constantly explore new and better realms. The first two sentences of this poem describe the natural scenery, but as soon as it is opened, it shrinks thousands of miles away, making it possible to reach thousands of miles away. The last two freehand lines are unexpectedly written, blending philosophy with scenery and situations seamlessly, becoming an immortal swan song on Stork Tower. Therefore, for thousands of years, this poem has not only inspired the Chinese nation to work hard, but also revealed the philosophical truth that only by standing high can we see far.

Poetry critics of the Qing Dynasty believed that Wang's poem was short in twenty characters, the first cross had lost its general meaning, and the last cross had the potential to span thousands of miles.

The Stork Tower, with its high platform and double eaves, black tiles and red couplets, not only dominates the river and mountains, but also has the beauty of the willow forest. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was known as a climbing resort in Zhongzhou, and its reputation spread far and wide. . The Stork Tower stands in the Jin Dynasty and looks to the Qin Dynasty. It is independent of Zhongzhou. It looks forward to the beautiful mountains of Zhongtiao, and looks down to the rushing river. Ziqing passes through the pass and enters the west. The Yellow River touches the Hua and merges to the east. The dragon looms and the tiger looks down. It overlooks the eight states and the magnificent mountains and rivers. The scene has attracted countless celebrities from past dynasties to come and write poems. The famous buildings in Puzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, almost became a stage for poetry competitions by great poets at that time. The place where the Stork Tower is located is the birthplace of five thousand years of Chinese civilization, where the Yellow River turns back to the sea. Yongji was called Puban in ancient times. Before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Emperors Yao and Shun established their capitals here. The civilization here has a long history. The Xihoudu ancient human cultural site 20 kilometers away from Guanque Tower shows the Paleolithic Age 1.8 million years ago, when humans began to use fire and hammered stone tools here. It is said that Fuxi, Nuwa, and Huangdi, the ancestors of the Chinese nation, all left traces of history in this area. The Xia in the word Huaxia refers to the historical nation of Xia. Its prosperity is symbolized by Yao, Shun, and Yu, and the core of its activities is in the Hedong area. According to "Taiyan Wenlu", Hua refers to the Huashan area, which is the area on the west bank of the Yellow River. With China in the west and Xia in the east, Guanque Tower is located exactly at the midpoint of China's historical coordinates. This coincidence casts a magical color on the Stork Tower. Thinking about it, we can’t help but admire the spirit of the Chinese nation’s self-improvement that the Stork Tower embodies. The poem was written because of the building, and the building was named after the poem. Tengwang Pavilion is famous because of Wang Bo, Yueyang Tower is immortal because of Fan Zhongyan, Yellow Crane Tower is famous all over the world because of Cui Hao and Li Bai, and Stork Tower is also famous because of Wang Zhihuan.

After the Stork Tower was built, through the Tang, Song and Mingchang years of Jin Zhangzong (AD 1190-1196), the tower still stood as before. The Stork Tower plaque written by Li Kui, the official recorder of Tanghe Zhongfu, still exists. (A.D. 1222) It was destroyed by war. King Yun of the Yuan Dynasty climbed to the Stork Tower and recorded: In the third month of Renshen of the Yuan Dynasty, he came to the official Jin mansion from Yu Shili. On the tenth day of the tenth month of the lunar month, when I was in this state, I was able to climb up to the building site. I just leaned on Panhuan, and my mood was high in the clouds. Although I saw a great place, it was no longer the same as before. The majesty of the rivers and mountains and the vigor of the wind and smoke are no different from those in ancient times. The building was destroyed in the early Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the original foundation still existed. Later, due to the flooding of the Yellow River, the original site was submerged, resulting in the destruction of the building and the loss of the scenery. People simply use Puzhou West City Tower as the Stork Tower, and many people climb there to compose poems. The poet Shang Deng'an in the early Qing Dynasty wrote: The rivers and mountains are only for people to swim in, and the long winding wheels flow in the evening. The poem "A Thousand Miles Away" is so good that it still reflects on the West Tower today. Xicheng Tower is also famous for its reputation, but it is difficult to live up to it. For hundreds of years, the Stork Tower has left countless regrets to countless tourists.

Since the reform and opening up, with the development of economy and the strengthening of cultural construction, the call for rebuilding the Stork Tower has become increasingly strong. In September 1992, nearly a hundred experts and scholars who participated in the Sixth National Academic Symposium on Tourism Destinations came to Yongji for inspection and jointly proposed the reconstruction of the Stork Tower. For this reason, Yongji City broke ground on the bank of the Yellow River in December 1997, kicking off the reconstruction project of the Stork Tower. It was the first reconstruction of the building after its destruction in the early Yuan Dynasty more than 700 years ago. The newly built Stork Tower is currently the largest imitation Tang Dynasty building in my country. It has four eaves and three floors, a total height of 73.9 meters, a total construction area of ??33,206 square meters, and a total weight of 58,000 tons. The architectural shape fully embodies the style of the Tang Dynasty. This is because The Stork Tower was built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. This restoration is based on the guiding ideology of reproducing the style of the Tang Dynasty. The entire paint painting of the Stork Tower is also a lost art of Tang Dynasty color painting in China. It has been rescued and re-created and designed by experts from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Therefore, the Stork Tower is currently the only Tang Dynasty building in China that has been restored using the Tang Dynasty color painting art. . After the exterior was smoothed and painted, the building immediately became classical and elegant, fully achieving the artistic effect of restoring the old. The Stork Tower Scenic Area formed with the Stork Tower as the center has a planned area of ??3,300 acres, and the existing area is 1,640 acres. The scenic area is planned to have a spatial structure of four areas and twelve o'clock. There are four tourist areas in the Stork Tower Park, one is It is the famous building tourist area, including Yingbi, Stork Shadow Lake, Tangyun Square and Stork Tower; the second is the Yellow River style tourist area, to the west of the main building area, there are Puzhou Style Garden, Yellow River Style Museum, Liuyuan, etc.; It is a landscape tourist area. To the south of the main building, there are Cangshan Natural Scenery Garden, Jixiang Ruyi Lake, Stork Garden, etc.; the fourth is a recreational tourist area, including Pujin Amusement Park, Tangfeng Polo Ground, etc.

The entire scenic spot is packaged with the unique humanistic heritage of Guanque Tower and the rich Yellow River culture, with regional history and culture as its characteristics, with the theme of promoting patriotism, and with the majestic momentum of wanting to see a thousand miles further as its main theme. It has formed a lofty artistic conception of looking at the world for five thousand years, and has become a national tourist attraction. The development and construction of the Stork Tower Scenic Area is divided into two phases. On September 26, 2002, the first phase of the famous building tourist area centered on the Stork Tower was completed.

The internal furnishings of the Stork Tower were basically completed at the end of July 2004. In order to enhance the cultural connotation of the famous cultural building and increase the participation and appreciation of tourists. The interior furnishings of the Stork Tower focus on the themes of Hedong culture and Yellow River culture, which fully proves that the Yellow River is the earliest birthplace of human civilization. The ancestors of the Chinese nation wrote glorious history here, and their era spanned five thousand years of China. Among them, the "Prosperity Picture of Puban, the Central Capital" made of hardwood colored sculptures reproduces the prosperity of Puzhou City during the Tang Dynasty, which is vivid, exquisite and lifelike. The stories of Yu Wenhu's "Building Towers to Guard the Border" and Wang Zhihuan's "Pavilion Painting Walls" are expressed in European sculptures, which are noble and elegant. There are also stories and legends about representative figures in Chinese history such as Emperor Shun, Emperor Yu, Guan Gong, Liu Zongyuan, and Sima Guang in the form of reliefs, murals, sculptures, etc. At the same time, there are also salt-making, iron-smelting, sericulture, paper-cutting, New Year pictures, social fires, etc. that reflect the hardworking wisdom and rich folk crafts of the Hedong people. These fully reproduce the long-standing Chinese civilization. I believe that in the near future, the Stork Tower will become a model for promoting Chinese civilization.

The Stork Tower is a symbol of the Yellow River and a symbol of the unyielding Chinese nation. Its renewed glory marks another prosperity of the nation and another take-off of the motherland.