Ten must-see scenic spots in Dangyang tourism

Ten must-see attractions in Dangyang tourism:

1. Yuquan Mountain Scenic Area

Yuquan Mountain, located in dangyang city, Hubei Province, is a comprehensive scenic spot with forest landscape, Buddhist cultural relics as the main body and the relics of the Three Kingdoms as the foundation, which integrates other natural landscapes and human landscapes. Now it is a provincial-level scenic spot and a national AAA-level tourist area. The central scenic spot covers an area of 8.9 square kilometers and the exploitable area is 69 square kilometers.

Yuquan Mountain has a good ecological environment and rich tourism resources. The forest coverage rate of the scenic spot is over 85%, and there are many kinds of animals and plants, with a large number of rare species. This scenic spot is famous for its famous mountains, temples and pagodas. Yuquan Mountain enjoys the reputation of "Three Chu Famous Mountains" and is a famous Buddhist mountain.

2. Dangyang Baibaozhai Scenic Area

Dangyang Baibaozhai Scenic Area is located in dangyang city, central Hubei Province, with Yichang Three Gorges in the west and Jingzhou, Wuhan and Jingmen in the east. It is a national historical and cultural city and a key tourist attraction. Baibaozhai, also known as "Small Guilin", is the only large-scale scenic spot in Central China that features Danxia landform and integrates landscape, humanities, wonders and ecology.

3. Dangyang Guanling

Guanling, formerly known as "King's Tomb", is located 3 kilometers northwest of dangyang city, Hubei Province, facing Qushui and Jingshan Mountain. It, together with Jiezhou Guandi Temple in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province and Guanlin in Luoyang, Henan Province, is known as the three major temples in China, with a history of 1700 years.

Guanling was built in memory of Guan Yu, the general of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. As an ancient tomb in the Three Kingdoms period, Guanling was approved by the State Council on May 25th, 2006 to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and it is also one of the top ten tourist cards of Lingxiu Hubei. 20 1 1 in may, "Guanling temple fair" was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list published by the State Council.

4. dangyang yuquan temple

Yuquan temple is located at the east foot of Yuquan Mountain, 1/2 km southwest of dangyang city City, Hubei Province, with a central scenic spot of 8.9 square kilometers. According to legend, during the Jian 'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, monk Putin built a house here to live. In the Southern Dynasties, Emperor Xuan Di named Yuquan "Fuchuan Mountain Temple". The Sui Dynasty was changed to "yuquan temple". Yuquan temple Daxiong Hall is the largest ancient building in the south of China.

In front of the hall, there are more than ten large-scale Sui iron cultural relics; On one side of the temple, there is a statue of Guanyin, which was written by Wu Daozi, a painter in the Tang Dynasty. The existing Yuquan Pagoda is of great value to the study of China's ancient metallurgical casting, metal anticorrosion, French architecture, architectural mechanics, casting and carving art, and Buddhist history.

5. Qinglonghu National Wetland Park in Dangyang, Hubei

Qinglong Lake National Wetland Park is located in Qian Miao Town, with Gonghe Reservoir as the main body, including part of the water surface of Gonghe Reservoir and surrounding wetlands and forests, with a total area of 680.30 hectares. Wetland Park is rich in wild animal resources such as birds, fish and aquatic plants, with 375 species of animals and 375 species of plants.

Gonghe Reservoir is the main body of Qinglong Lake National Wetland Park. Together with the flood in He Ju, Gonghe Reservoir effectively blocks floods and cuts off peaks, ensuring the life and property safety of 280,000 people downstream. The reservoir also supplies 20 million cubic meters of water to Dangyang urban and rural areas every year, which is an important drinking water source for dangyang city people.

6. Gonghe Reservoir

Gonghe Reservoir is located in Qian Miao Town, northwest of dangyang city, Hubei Province, 22 kilometers away from dangyang city. Commencement in June 1970, 1 1, completion in August 1974. The upper reaches of the reservoir control basin area 168 square kilometers, with a total storage capacity of 654.38+68 million cubic meters. It is a large-scale reservoir with flood control as the main function and comprehensive functions of power generation and urban water supply. It has been established as a national first-class fresh water source protection zone by the state.

The main dam is a clay core dam with a maximum dam height of 47.5m, a crest length of 270m and an elevation of 137.0. The control basin area above the dam site is 168 km2, the maximum storage capacity is1680,000 m3, and the effective storage capacity is1050,000 m3.

7. Hubei yuquan temple National Forest Park

Yuquan temple National Forest Park, located in dangyang city, Hubei Province, was built at 1992, with an area of 573.33 hectares. There are ten rich tourism resources in the park, which are famous for its long history and culture, numerous places of interest and numerous strange caves, rocks and beautiful peaks. Yuquan Mountain, the main peak of the park, stands out from the crowd and is famous for its three Chu places. Known as "the three mountains of Chu" and "the crown of Jingchu jungle".

The climate in the park is cool and the temperature changes little. The annual average temperature is 15.4℃, with no severe cold in winter, no intense heat in summer and pleasant seasons. There are ten rich tourism resources in the park, which are famous for its long history and culture, numerous places of interest and numerous strange caves, rocks and beautiful peaks.

8. Leaning Tower of yuquan temple

The leaning tower of yuquan temple, also known as Tathagata Pagoda, was built in 106 1 year. Made of pig iron, also known as Dangyang Leaning Tower and Tathagata. It is the first cast iron leaning tower in China, the only one among the five leaning towers in China, and the tallest, heaviest and most well-preserved tower in China at present. The leaning tower of dangyang yuquan temple is an octagonal tower with 13 floors, and its height is about18m. The whole tower gradually becomes smaller from bottom to top and leans to the northeast.

9. Mopanshan Site

Mopanshan Site is located 200 meters east of Qianjin Village, Herong Town, dangyang city City, Hubei Province, and 2.5 kilometers north of Herong Town. This is a high mountain with an area of about 4.4 square kilometers. There are a large number of small and medium-sized Chu tombs in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It belongs to the site of ancient culture in Zhou Dynasty. In 200 1 year, Mopanshan site was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

1982, the cultural relics department made a scientific excavation in the chain weir west of Mopan Mountain. By sorting out the obtained stratigraphic and physical data, its age can be defined as the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, and the lowest layer may be earlier. The pottery produced in Mopanshan site is mainly red pottery, followed by red-brown pottery, orange-yellow pottery, gray pottery and black leather pottery.

10. Dangyang Yuxi Folk Museum

Yuxi Folk Museum is a township folk museum with the largest construction scale, the largest project investment and the most complete collection of cultural relics in Hubei Province, and it is also the only township museum so far. Yuxi Folk Museum covers an area of 1.300 square meters, with a building area of 1.260 square meters. It is an overall pattern of three hospitals, and its north faces south.