The 10 most worth visiting attractions in Shanxi in summer, each is a private palace, comparable to a royal garden

The Tianguan Palace is a large-scale official residence built by Wang Guoguang, an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, and his family for several generations. It covers the buildings of the Yuan, Ming, Qing, and Republic of China that exist in my country and are still habitable, and are hailed by experts as a pearl of Chinese residential architecture.

It is the residence of Wang Guoguang, an outstanding statesman and reformer in the Ming Dynasty, and the three ministers of punishment, household and official affairs. Wang Guangguang assisted the Ming Dynasty for forty years and was the prime minister of his family for several generations. A large-scale official residence building complex constructed by the company.

There are more than 40 well-preserved official residences and residential buildings in Tianguan Palace, covering residential, sacrificial, cultural, commercial and other building types. From the oldest surviving Yuan Dynasty folk houses in my country, to the surviving official residences from the Ming and Qing dynasties, to the "Fan Manor" with a combination of Chinese and Western styles during the Republic of China, everything is here.

It is located in Tuwo Township, 25 kilometers southwest of Qinshui County, Shanxi Province. Descendants of Liu Zongyuan, the thinker and writer of the Tang Dynasty, lived in the "Liu Family Residence" in Qinshui County, Shanxi Province for hundreds of years.

There is such a little-known small village in southern Shanxi, but it has appeared frequently in front of the world in recent years. This is the Qinshui Liu Family House in Jincheng. The villagers of the Liu family in Xiwenxing Ancient Village have caused a stir since they were confirmed to be descendants of Liu Zongyuan, a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty. Evidence to rely on.

In the Zhongxian Di of Liu's residence, the gate tower of this courtyard has the same extraordinary momentum and grandeur as that of Sima Di, but it is not as luxurious and elegant. The plaque "Farming and Reading Fragrance" hangs high under the brackets of the building. There is a wooden platform on the second floor of the building, from which people in the courtyard can look out. What is different from other courtyards is that this courtyard seems to be the location of the private school, the educational center for the descendants of the Liu family in Xiwenxing Village.

From the perspective of its architectural scale, art, craftsmanship quality, and construction technology, Liu's residence has a very high level of construction technology, exquisite layout and structure, and very solid brick and wood structure. From the aspects of doors, windows, pavilions, eaves, hooked eaves, reliefs, etc., its value for viewing and research is greater than that of the Qiao Family Courtyard, and the number and quality of preserved cultural relics are rare in Shanxi Province.

On Taihang Mountain in Zezhou County, 20 kilometers north of Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, there is an ancient town with a history of more than 2,600 years - Dayang Ancient Town. It is currently the largest ancient town from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Dayang Town, known as Yang'a in ancient times, has a long history and splendid humanities. Historically, it was the administrative seat of "the Emperor of Qin established a county, the emperor of the Han Dynasty granted him the title of marquis, and the Western Jin Dynasty established a county." It has been the administrative seat of a county, a marquis state, and a county successively for more than 800 years.

Dayang Ancient Town is a famous hometown of officials in my country, with numerous talented people in history. In the Ming and Qing dynasties alone, there are more than 150 officials whose records can be traced. There is a widely circulated local proverb that "Three fights and three promotions will lead to a promotion to the Zhizhi official position. If you have an official position, you will not be praised in Dayang". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dayang's economy reached its peak, cultural undertakings also advanced by leaps and bounds, science and technology flourished, and talented people emerged in large numbers.

As soon as I arrived in the ancient town, I could already feel the excitement of the ancient town. On the tower of the ancient town, there are four powerful and powerful Chinese characters "Guyang A County" engraved on the tower. Tourists coming and going shuttle between the towers. The aroma of the special snacks downstairs makes tourists eager to eat.

Among them are high-ranking officials in charge of six departments, first-class officials with more than ten thousand people under one person, and Zhang Dajing, the top military scholar, who stands out in the southeast of Shanxi. There is also an alley with the wonder of nine Jinshi, so It is not surprising that there are so many official hat symbols on the signs. The numerous double flower arrangement buildings in Dayang Ancient Town also coincide with the shape of official hats.

Dayang Town is therefore known as the "living fossil of ancient Chinese towns". Strolling through the ancient town, you will find cities, castles, official residences and commercial houses, pavilions and beams, temples and nunneries everywhere. Every brick, every stone, every plant and every tree exudes the charm of vicissitudes of life, attracting visitors from all directions.

The entire Jiexiu Zhangbi Castle was built according to the original terrain, with the south being higher and the north being lower. Looking down from the north of the fort, there are deep trenches extending downward on the left, middle and right. There are three outward passages in the south of the fort, and in the west of the fort is Yaowan ditch, with steep cliffs and steep slopes, which are dozens of feet deep.

"Where Are We Going, Dad" Chen Xiaochun's son Jasper, Wu Zun's daughter neinei and son Max, Du Jiang's son Uh-huh, Liu Kaihong's daughter Puff, and Deng Lun with his amateur children, gathered together to have "China's top ten" Zhangbi Castle is known as "Charming Town".

People all over the world have heard of the courtyards in Jinzhong, but few people have heard of ancient castle-like villages like Zhangbi Village. Mentioned in the book "Bi Cun". Now, it has become a hot spot for domestic and foreign tourists, especially architectural experts.

The castle, built in the form of a military fortress, has a special internal structure. All the gates of the house face inward, and the outer walls of different heights shield each other. If there is no one to guide you, you will inevitably get lost. What further tests tourists' "road recognition ability" is the mysterious "underground labyrinth"

Some people say that the most dangerous village in Taihang Mountain is Guoliang Village, while Ningwu County in Shanxi has the most arrogant village - —Xuankong Village; Taihang Mountain has the most amazing wall-hanging road, while Ningwu has a pocket version of the wall-hanging road - the cliff plank road; Hengshan has the world-famous Hanging Temple, and Ningwu also has a folk version of the Hanging Temple. These metaphors are really vivid.

Shanxi has a rich history and culture and charming natural scenery. I have always paid attention to some special tourist attractions in Shanxi. There are many temples here. Almost every village has a large or small temple, and the villagers can talk about it. There are fairy-like legends about it or there are historical facts about which emperors and dynasties have been there.

Deep in Guanlui Mountain, among the dense and verdant forest, there are three ancient and magical hanging villages: Wanghuagou Village, Wuhuashan Village, and Caojialiang Village, all belonging to Luishan Township, Ningwu County. They are very close to each other and are built on cliffs hundreds of meters high. From a distance, they look like castles in the air, like homes in the sky.

To this day, the residents of the mountain villages here still build their courtyards on the cliffs more than 100 meters above the ground as they did in ancient times, and the roads to and from each other still use cliff plank roads. The locals respectfully refer to these typical ancient residents as "Heavenly People" or "Plank Road People". The residents here still maintain an ancient folk custom of sleeping on fire kangs, lighting oil lamps, and walking on the plank road.

Shanxi merchants are the earliest merchants in China, and their history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of Shanxi merchants, who became the first of the top ten business gangs in China. It has dominated the Chinese business community for 500 years. The Shanxi merchant family is different from the general official and gentry families. It is a traditional Chinese cultural family with commercial characteristics.

The Shanxi Merchant Culture Museum, developed using this architectural wonder, is the first museum in the country to display Shanxi merchant culture. Through 7 major series and 25 exhibition rooms, it reveals the secret of why Shanxi merchants have become the top ten business gangs in the country and demonstrates the broad and profound cultural connotation of Shanxi merchants.

The Qu family is one of the giant merchants in Jinzhong who have been famous throughout the country since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They have more than a dozen courtyards and more than a thousand houses in Qi County, covering an area of ??more than 30,000 square meters. They are known as " The canal covers half the city." There were three famous rich men in the seventeenth generation of the Qu family: Tian Xi rich man (Qu Yuan Chao), Wang rich man (Qu Yuan Zhen), and Jin rich man (Qu Yuan Gan).

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, due to his meritorious service in relieving the victims, Qianlong gave him a plaque to record the light.

200 years ago, this was the headquarters and clearing center of all China’s banknotes and teahouses. It was known as the Chinese version of Wall Street

In 2006, the Qu Family Courtyard and Qu Family Courtyard The former site of Yuchuan Tea House was announced as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In June 2011, the Shanxi Merchants Old Street where it is located was named as the third batch of Chinese historical and cultural streets.

The weight and vicissitudes of history seem to be visible in the mottled blue and gray, and the rings of the years are carved in the city bricks full of responsibility. Climbing up the stairs, this land reveals the unique beauty of the ancient city.

The mighty soldiers guard the city, with majesty and calmness on their faces, with distinctive personalities and strong characteristics of the times.

The picture shows the Yingxun Gate of the South Gate

There are one in the north and south, two in the east and west. There is also a small south gate to the west of the south gate, which constitutes the seven gates of the Pingyao City Wall. The status is evident from this. The number of city gates. The city's size and shape, administrative level, and commercial and transportation conditions are the decisive factors that determine the number of city gates. The four city gates are the size of an average county town. That is, open one in the middle of each of the four walls. The bleak trees in Yingxunmen Square and the city walls stretching deep into the city can't help but make people feel a sense of desolation and solemnity.

The extra gates in the Pingyao city wall have little to do with the administrative level, but are specially set up because of the traffic conditions. The city wall of Pingyao faces south from the north, but the north-south traffic tunnels cross the ancient city from east to west. Firstly, geographically, the east-west position is extremely important. Secondly, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Pingyao County has been an important business distribution center and the birthplace of the financial industry in Shanxi, with many wealthy businessmen gathered here. The throughput of commerce and trade is beyond the reach of surrounding counties. Writer Yu Qiuyu once praised that "in the most prosperous years of Shanxi, the center of wealth was not in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, but in the three counties of Ping, Qi and Tai in central Shanxi, especially Pingyao." From these two reasons, it is not difficult to understand that Pingyao City Wall has two gates in the east and west tunnels.

I often hear from local students in Shanxi that Yuci Old Town has a long history, profound culture, and unique tourism resources, including ancient dwellings, ancient city walls, ancient county offices, ancient temples, ancient streets, and ancient shops. It integrates Shanxi merchant culture, ethnic culture, Yellow River culture, Sanjin culture, and urban culture.

According to the information, Yuci is one of the oldest cities in Shanxi. It is the southern gate of Taiyuan and is known as an important town in the south. As early as the Warring States Period, there are records of Yuci City in history books. The old city of Yuci was built on the site of Hancheng in the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty (582 AD). It has a history of more than 1,400 years. This old city with "Wuli, three feet high, four feet wide at the base, two feet wide at the top, wide and high, and half deep" has been relatively intact until the 1940s.

The buildings here are majestic, beautiful in shape, colorful and exquisite in structure. It is an excellent collection of Chinese urban culture, political culture, religious culture, commercial culture and residential culture with ancient architectural art as the carrier. land. Its unique geographical location makes it the starting point for Shanxi businessmen’s golden tourism route.

Jinci is the earliest royal ancestral hall that is relatively well preserved in my country. The ancestors of our Three Jin humanities are enshrined here, and the culture of the Three Jin Dynasties originated from here.

More than three thousand years of history have infiltrated the land of Sanjin and gave birth to the splendid Sanjin culture.

Jinci Park is actually a complex of ancient buildings, with many buildings built in different eras. Although compared with the gardens in the south, the Jinci Temple may be less beautiful, and compared with the Forbidden City in Beijing, it may be less spectacular, but it is possible to build a garden on this plain in Shanxi that is almost completely covered by trees and has a unique architectural style. , that was also a very remarkable thing in ancient times.

Jinci has now become a tourist attraction of Chinese classical gardens with dozens of ancient buildings. Here, palaces, pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and ancient trees contrast with each other. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a collection of cultural relics and towering ancient trees, it is a very beautiful ancient garden. It is known as the "Little Jiangnan" of Shanxi and is famous. Chinese and foreign. There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Jinci Temple, the more famous ones include: Notre Dame Hall, Statue of Maid, Fish Marsh Flying Beam, Nanlao Spring, etc.

Jinci Temple is located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, 25 kilometers away from the city center. It is a famous scenic spot at home and abroad. It is the earliest existing royal garden in China, the ancestral hall of the Jin Dynasty, and a concentration of ancient Chinese architectural art. The carrier is an isolated example of a complete sequence of architectural types from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China. The Jin Temple was built before the Northern Wei Dynasty to commemorate Shuyu, the second son of the founding emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu.

On the high hill in Haozhuang, Dongshan City, Taiyuan City, there is a Yongzuo Temple. There are two tall towers standing in the temple, less than 50 meters apart. Zuo Temple is commonly known as Shuangta Temple. The two towers were not built by the royal family, they were not built at the same time, they were not built by Foden alone, and the coexistence of the two towers was not the original intention of the builders.

Although Yongzuo Temple is small in scale, it has distinctive characteristics. First, it faces south and faces north, which is exactly the opposite of ordinary temples; second, the brick structure building is very distinctive, and the temple does not need to nail or wood, which is a typical beamless building in the Ming Dynasty; third, the twin towers confront the landscape, and there are few other places. Yes; fourth, peony planting began in the Ming Dynasty, making it a popular place for peony viewing.

The twin pagodas are located at the highest point of Shuangta Temple, both in the southeast of Shuangta Temple. Although they are both called Xuanwen Pagoda, one tower is actually called Relic Pagoda and the other is called Wenfeng Pagoda. The two towers are about 60 meters apart. They are both octagonal structures and about 54.7 meters high. The tower is a masonry structure with exquisite brick-carved brackets and brilliant glass cornices.

The twin pagodas of Yongzuo Temple are like twin sisters, complementing each other. One is the Wenfeng Pagoda built first, and the other is the relic pagoda built later. The twin pagodas are majestic and handsome. They are the twin pagodas in my country. The most. You can have a panoramic view of the Dragon City from the twin towers, and one of them is a Feng Shui tower, which was specially built to make up for the shortcomings of Jinyang's cultural context, which is of great significance.