What are the scenic spots? Shanxi Province travel guide recommendations

1. Wutai Mountain

Located in Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, it is a mountainous area. It is composed of ancient crystalline rocks. The northern part is cut deep and steep, and has five towering peaks: Wanghai Peak on the east platform, Hanging Moon Peak on the west platform, Jinxiu Peak in the south, Ye Dou Peak in the north, and Cuiyan Peak in the middle. Mount Wutai is also the only Buddhist ashram in China today that has both Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. There are strange peaks and cliffs everywhere in Wutai Mountain, and there are more than fifty famous ones.

2. Pingyao Ancient City

The majestic ancient city walls are thick and deep. The streets, shops and houses in the ancient city still maintain the traditional layout and style, with a strong atmosphere of Shanxi merchant culture and simplicity. The folk customs of Jinzhong, Pingyao exudes a quiet and restrained ancient temperament. Pingyao in Shanxi is known as one of the "four best-preserved ancient cities" and one of the only two ancient cities in China that has successfully applied for a world cultural heritage as an entire ancient city.

3. Situ Town

It is located in Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, covering an area of ??more than 1,000 acres. Inheriting Shanxi culture and relying on Jincheng's convenient transportation, it is an "old Shanxi folk custom impression base" integrating special catering, leisure and entertainment, farming experience, tourism and shopping, cultural performances, etc. It is close to Jincheng's important traffic arteries and expressways. On the basis of meeting the requirements of distribution center transportation hub and tourism management services, it covers the six elements of tourism "food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment", as well as social fire parades and lantern shows. , Thousands of People Forging Iron Flowers, etc. to meet the diversified tourism needs of tourists.

4. Qiao Family Courtyard

Qiao Family Courtyard is located in Qiaojiabao Village, Qixian County, Shanxi Province. The courtyard is a fully enclosed castle-like building complex with pavilions dotted throughout, making it appear majestic and majestic. The courtyard has four main buildings, a gate tower, a watch tower and six gazebos. The roofs of each courtyard are connected by walkways, making it easier to patrol and protect the courtyard at night. Taken together, the whole hospital has a rigorous layout and exquisite design. It looks like the Chinese character "Xi Xi" when viewed from above. The architecture is exquisite, the bricks and tiles are well-worn, the workmanship is meticulous, the brackets and cornices, colorful decorations and gold decorations, masonry and wood carvings, and exquisite craftsmanship fully demonstrate the superb craftsmanship of the working people of our country. The level of construction technology is praised by experts and scholars as: "a bright pearl in the history of northern residential architecture". Therefore, it is known as "the imperial palace has the Forbidden City, and the private residences look like the Qiao Family". It is famous in the Three Jin Dynasties and is well-known at home and abroad.

5. Taihang Grand Canyon

The Taihang Grand Canyon has beautiful scenery and rich natural and cultural landscape resources. There are green forest seas, cleaved cliffs, mountains and rocks of various shapes, silvery waterfalls, deep pools with rippling blue waves, majestic temples, fascinating caves, and fascinating legends. The scenic spots are real and imaginary, bright and dark, light and colored, strange and dangerous, and are ingenious. The natural landscape and the cultural landscape are a perfect combination and complement each other.

6. Chang Family Manor

The complex of mansions of the Chang family, known as the "Confucian business family". It was first built during the Qianjia period and was destroyed in many places due to wars. It was restored after many repairs. Changjia Manor is the largest Shanxi merchant compound and the largest manor-style building complex in China. The layout is rigorous, neat and orderly, and highly functional. It consists of fort gates, fort walls, streets, residential buildings, gardens, shops, street archways, fort ponds, pond bridges, etc. The Chang family manor is linked by "back streets", and the houses are close to each other. "The doors facing the street open one after another, and the castle gates close like one."

7. Mianshan

Mianshan, also known as Mianshang, is also called Jieshan because Jie Zitui, a famous official of Jin Wengong and the overlord of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, lived in seclusion with his mother and was burned. It is also called Jieshan. A branch of Taiyue Mountain extending to the north. With beautiful mountains and waters, cultural relics, Buddhist temples and revolutionary sites, it is a key scenic spot in Shanxi Province and a famous historical and cultural mountain in China.

8. Imperial City Prime Minister's Mansion

The Imperial City Prime Minister's Mansion (also known as Wutingshan Village) has a total area of ??36,000 square meters. It is the former residence of Chen Tingjing, chief reader of the Kangxi Dictionary and lecturer of the Kangxi Emperor’s 35th year of imperial banquets. It consists of the inner city, the outer city, and Ziyunqian. The imperial library is magnificent, the middle road is majestic, and the Douzhu residence With continuous courtyards, majestic and steep Heshan Towers, and marvelous stacks of hidden soldier caves, it is a rare castle-style official residence complex from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is praised by experts as "the residence of the first cultural giant in northern China."

9. Jue Mountain

Jue Mountain is located in Jincheng City. Its main peak is 973 meters above sea level. ", "Xiao Huashan" and "Xiao Wudang" are known as "Xiao Huashan", and its majestic momentum can be compared with the majestic steepness of Huashan Mountain and the beautiful scenery of Wudang Mountain. Among them, "Jueshan spitting out the moon" is one of the four major scenic spots in Jincheng.

10. Jinci Temple

Originally known as Jinwang Temple, it is located on the shore of Jinshui in the southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi. There are dozens of ancient buildings in the temple, with an elegant and comfortable environment and beautiful scenery. , with strong Han cultural characteristics, is famous for its majestic buildings and superb sculpture art. It is the only and precious historical and cultural heritage that integrates ancient Chinese sacrificial buildings, gardens, inscriptions, sculptures, and mural arts. It is also the world's center for architecture, gardens, and sculpture art. The statue of the maid, the statue of the Virgin and the Fountain of the Elderly are known as the "Three Wonders of Jinci Temple".