Attractions worth visiting in Taiyuan

1, Jinci, one of the national key cultural relics protection units, is located at the foot of Hanging Wengshan Mountain, 25 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City. Jinci was originally built to commemorate the second son of King Wu and the establishment of the State of Jin in the early Western Zhou Dynasty (BC 1 1 century). The founding date is no longer available. There are records about Jinci Temple in Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which shows that it was quite famous at that time. Jinci Temple is now a tourist attraction of classical gardens in China, with dozens of ancient buildings. The temples, pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and ancient trees here are in harmony, surrounded by mountains and waters, rich in cultural relics and ancient trees. It is an ancient garden with beautiful scenery. It is known as the "Little Jiangnan" in Shanxi and is famous at home and abroad.

2. Taiyuan Forest Park covers an area of 224 hectares, which is 3.5 times that of Yingze Park. It is a rare urban artificial forest park built in China in recent years; Among them, the water area is 386 mu, slightly larger than 300 mu of Yingze Park. There are 6,543,800 evergreen trees, deciduous trees and other trees planted in the park, and an international standard nine-hole lighted golf course covering an area of more than 500 mu has been built, as well as a botanical garden, a hunting ground, a simulated primitive club and an open bird garden.

3. Shouning Temple in Qingxu, Shouning Temple in Dachang, Jiyi Township, Qingxu was founded in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin visited Miao Guangyi, a minister who made great achievements. According to the inscription in the temple, it became an ancient temple and contained two monks, Yan and Zhao, to show their magical powers. Later, it was rebuilt in the second year of Jiaqing in the Ming Dynasty, and it was restored to its present scale in the Daoguang period.

Fenhe Park is a large-scale urban ecological landscape park located in the center of Taiyuan. The first phase of the project started construction on June, 2000 1998, with a total investment of 560 million yuan. It is a landscape park with the northern garden style of China and the regional culture of Fenhe River in Taiyuan, with a total length of 6 kilometers, a width of 500 meters and an area of 300 hectares, forming 1.3 million square meters. At the same time, it is also a water storage beautification project in Fenhe section of Taiyuan City. The artificial composite river channel is divided into east and west rivers. The Qinghe River channel on the east side is 220 meters wide and divided into three-level water storage lakes by four rubber dams. The muddy water channel on the west side is 80 meters wide, discharging upstream flood and reservoir irrigation water. Box-shaped sewage culverts are arranged on the east and west banks to receive water from urban sewage pipelines and side mountain branches and send them to downstream sewage treatment plants for purification.

5. Taiyuan Zoo. Taiyuan Zoo is located on Wohu Mountain in the northeast corner of the provincial capital, 6 kilometers away from the city center, covering an area of 79.36 hectares (1 190.4 1 mu). The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The straight line from east to west is about 5 Li, and the average width from north to south is 2 Li. There are 6544 kinds of animals in the park for tourists to visit. There are more than 300,000 plants in more than 70 species, with a lawn area of 600,000 square meters and a green coverage rate of over 85%. There are four animal performance venues, two ecological restaurants and more than 30 amusement facilities, with an annual tourist volume of 6.5438+0.3 million. The park has lush trees, connected scenic spots, winding paths and fragrant flowers, showing colorful landscape characteristics. The whole scenic spot embodies the harmonious living atmosphere between man and nature, man and animals, enriches and satisfies the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people in the provincial capital, and makes due contributions to creating a national garden city, enriching tourism content, opening up the tourism market, developing characteristic tourism industry, and promoting tourism and regional economy. Taiyuan Zoo has become an irreplaceable comprehensive theme tourist attraction in our province.