Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Fengfeng Mining Area

The top ten scenic spots in Fengfeng mining area are Xiangtang Mountain Scenic Area, Pengcheng Ancient Town in Handan, Yuanbaoshan in Fengfeng, Beixiangtang Mountain Grottoes, Fengyue Guanjikou Temple and Shuiyu Temple Grottoes.

1, Xiangtang Mountain Scenic Area

Xiangtangshan National Forest Park is located in Fengfeng Mining Area, Hebei Province, with a total area of 6,348.8 hectares. It includes five scenic spots in three parts: western mountainous area, central Gushan, yuanbaoshan district and eastern hillside.

Xiangtangshan National Forest Park includes five scenic spots: western mountainous area, central Gushan, yuanbaoshan district and eastern hillside. Phoenix Mountain Forest Park in the east, covering an area of 909.72 hectares; From north to south, Xiangtang Temple Landscape Park, Yuanbaoshan Boutique Park and Jiusan Ecological Agriculture Landscape Park are in turn, covering an area of 30 12.5 1 ha,1210.96 ha and 2 14.26 ha respectively. West Kowloon Point Green Ecological Park covers an area of 2090.35 hectares.

2. Pengcheng Ancient Town in Handan

Located in the southwest of Hebei Province, Pengcheng Ancient Town is an ancient town with a history of thousands of years. It is a famous site of Cizhou Kiln, a national key cultural relic protection unit. It preserves a lot of this strange architectural shape, which looks like steamed bread. Locals call it steamed bread kiln. Walking into this heavy and elegant ancient town, the first thing that catches your eye is these peculiar architectural shapes: the courtyard wall made of saggers made of ancient kiln furniture and the street made of tiles look quite like steamed bread, which the locals call "steamed bread kiln".

Pengcheng, an ancient town with a history of nearly two thousand years, gave birth to Cizhou kiln culture, and the famous Cizhou kiln made Pengcheng famous all over the world! Pengcheng Old Street consists of Xinhua Village, Sanhe Village, Hequan Village, Lianhe Village and Futian Village. The network connecting five villages consists of three main streets across the east and west, six or seven small streets connecting the north and south, and countless paths, hutongs and corridors. The prosperity of Pengcheng Street is famous in history.

3. Fengfeng Yuanbaoshan

Yuanbaoshan Scenic Area is located in the center of Fengfeng Mining Area in Handan City, Hebei Province. According to the mountain shape, the three peaks are connected and shaped like an ingot, hence the name Yuanbaoshan, which is more than 200 meters above sea level.

In the scenic area, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, the grass is green and the pine and cypress are towering, providing a warm, natural and comfortable entertainment and leisure environment for tourists. The steps and paths in the scenic area are unique, winding and secluded, and the design is novel and unique. The use of ceramic waste, flaky, ceramic tiles, etc. In terms of materials, it not only recycles natural wastes, but also reflects the local characteristics of Fengfeng Pengcheng Porcelain Capital.

4. Beixiangtangshan Grottoes

Xiangtangshan Grottoes are located in Gushan, Fengfeng Mining Area, Handan City, and are divided into north and south parts, with a distance of about 15km. Because the caves are on the mountainside, people can make a sonorous echo when talking and laughing, kissing and walking, hence the name Xiangtangshan Grottoes. There are 16 grottoes, more than 450 cliff statues, more than 5,000 statues of different sizes, and a large number of scriptures and inscriptions. It is the largest grotto discovered in Hebei Province and the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.

Both Xiangtang Grottoes were built in the Northern Qi Dynasty. At that time, there were two political centers in Northern Qi Dynasty, one was Guo Duye (now Linzhang) and the other was Biedu Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). The isolated mountain, which is adjacent to the east-west traffic artery of Taihang Mountain, is the only place for the two cities to travel. The scenery here is beautiful, the scenery is beautiful and the stones are excellent. Gao Yang, the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty who regarded Buddhism as the state religion, chose this place to build a temple and an official garden as a place for him to spend the summer, play and worship Buddha between Beijing and Beijing.

Since then, the Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties have added chisels here. Xiangtangshan Grottoes, Buddha statues and flowers are exquisitely carved, and their carving art is a link between the past and the future. It is an important symbol of the transition from Yungang in Datong to Longmen in Luoyang in the history of grotto art development in China, and it is also one of the important treasure houses for studying Buddhism, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy and painting in China.

5. Fengyue Guanjikou Temple

Fengyueguan is located in the birthplace of Fuyang River in the new urban area of Fengfeng mining area, at the "estuary" where Shenmi Mountain and Nangu Mountain confront each other. Here, with beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery, it is a great scenic spot in Handan. Fengyueguan, known as the "mouth of the cave" in ancient times, is the fourth of the "eight soils of Taihang Mountain". It has always been a military pass, located at the foot of Shenqi Mountain in the west of Heilongdong Village, Linshui Town.

Cao Cao, a strategist at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, used this natural barrier to defeat Yuan Shang's army. At the end of Sui Dynasty, Dou Jiande, a peasant army, also wiped out the officers and men of Dou Zong, the secretariat of Sui Dynasty. There is a natural cave named "Black Dragon Cave" under the cliff in the south of the mouth, which is said to be the residence of the black dragon who dominates the drought and flood on earth. The entrance of the cave is made of big stones, with uneven walls, dark twists and turns, and winding like a dragon. No one knows its bottom since ancient times. It's really "the dragon comes out of the hole, and the hole is unfathomable."

The temples closed on the romantic moon are called Jikou Temple, which is located on a stone coupon that is tens of meters long from east to west in Shenmi Yang Shan. The word "romantic view" is engraved on the stone at the west entrance of the coupon. Entering the temple from the west gate, sitting south to north, there is a rolling shed black dragon hall, three rooms deep and three rooms wide, with a main statue of the black dragon in it. On the east side of the temple, there is a two-story glazed tile-topped Yueming Pavilion in Kunshan, in which there is a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva. The west wall of the front hall is also engraved with a poem entitled "Dengkunshan Pavilion and View Spring" inscribed by Jinshi Zhang.

6. Shuiyu Temple Grottoes

Shuiyu Temple Grottoes are located three kilometers southwest of Dashe Town, Fengfeng Mining Area, Handan City. Separated by Phoenix Terrace, Tiangong Peak and Beixiangtang Temple. Because of its small scale, it is also called Xiaoxiang Hall. 300 meters to the west of Houpo Village, you can see Shuiyu Temple Grottoes hidden under pine and cypress. Along the ninety-nine steps made of bluestone, there are jagged pines and cypresses and jagged rocks everywhere.

Shuiyu Temple Grottoes are composed of two parts: one is the grottoes, and two grottoes were dug on the low cliff facing south on the west side, namely, the fifth year of Wuping in Northern Qi Dynasty (574) (West Grottoes) and the early years of Northern Song Dynasty (East Grottoes); The second is the temple, which is located in the ravine on the east side of the grottoes, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with the leeward facing the sun and flat terrain. Here, temples, red walls and yellow tiles, stone buildings with inscriptions and stepped gates are scattered.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiangtangshan

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