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Introduction to tourist attractions in Chongqing

Introduction to tourist attractions in Chongqing

Let me introduce the tourist attractions in Chongqing to everyone. It would be a pity not to experience the night view of Chongqing before arriving in Chongqing. What are the tourist attractions in Chongqing?

1. Dazu Rock Carvings AAAAA

Dazu Rock Carvings are located in Dazu County, Chongqing City. The Dazu Rock Carvings began in the late Tang Dynasty and lasted through the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Song Dynasty. They are a melancholic and elegant representative of late Chinese grotto art. There are as many as 76 grottoes, with more than 60,000 statues and more than 100,000 stone inscriptions, collectively known as Dazu Rock Carvings. Among them, Beishan cliff carvings and Baodingshan cliff carvings are the most concentrated. Beishan, namely Gulonggang Mountain, has 290 niches and caves. Famous niches and caves include the Xinshen Chariot Grotto. The giant dragon "Xinshen Chariot" in the center of the cave is particularly majestic.

Among them are the Pure Vase Avalokitesvara, Dora, Manjusri, Jade Seal Avalokitesvara, Wishful Bead Avalokitesvara, Samantabhadra, Sun and Moon Avalokitesvara, Bead Counting Hand Avalokitesvara, etc., all carved symmetrically, rigorously and orderly, and integrated into one. The eight-bodied Bodhisattva statue is plump, round, elegant and generous, and is the essence of stone carvings in this area. The "Zhao Yi Jian Gong Shinto Stele" written by Cai Jing, a famous calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, is 3.7 meters high and 1.37 meters wide. The calligraphy art is of high value. Baoding Mountain has beautiful scenery and 13 stone carvings, of which Dafo Bay and Xiaofo Bay are the largest.

Dafo Bay is a deep horseshoe-shaped mountain bay with carvings distributed on the east, south and north sides. The small Buddha Bay was first used as a blueprint and then carved here. It is a large group of sculptures composed of 19 groups of Buddhist scripture stories. There are more than 15,000 statues of various kinds. The design is exquisite and no one is the same, breaking the saying that "a thousand Buddhas have one face".

2. The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

The Three Gorges is the general name for Zhaitang Gorge, Wu Gorge, and Xiling Gorge. It is located at the junction of Chongqing City and Hubei Province, starting from Baidi City, Fengjie County, Chongqing City in the west, and east It reaches Nanjinguan, Yichang City, Hubei Province, with a total length of 193 kilometers. It is the world-famous Grand Canyon, known as the Landscape Gallery, and a national key scenic spot. There are Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge located in Chongqing City, and Xiling Gorge belongs to Hubei Province. Zhaitang Gorge is the first gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, also known as Kui Gorge.

It starts from Fengjie Baidi City in the west and ends at Daxi Town in Wushan County in the east, with a total length of 8 kilometers and is famous for its majesty. The Baiyan Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River confronts the Chijia Mountain on the north bank. The rock wall is like an ax and a knife, just like a house door, locking the six rivers. The river roars and roars in the gorge, with whirlpools rising from all directions. The mountains are majestic and the water is rushing. It is majestic and breathtaking. There are many scenic spots in the gorge, such as Tiexuo Pass, ancient plank road, bellows gorge, pink wall, Mengliang Ladder, Hanging Monk, Phoenix Drinking Spring, Rhino Watching the Moon, Golden Cave, Qidaomen Cave, etc. Wu Gorge is the second gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Starting from the mouth of Renning River in Wushan County in the west and ending at Guandukou in Badong County, Hubei Province in the east, the gorge is 45 kilometers long. It is characterized by long canyons, deep valleys, twists and turns, deep beauty, like a beautiful landscape gallery. Wu Gorge Scenic Area is composed of "Three Platforms, Eight Views and Twelve Peaks". The three platforms are "Chu balcony, book teaching platform and dragon-slaying platform".

3. Daning River Small Three Gorges AAAAA

Daning River Small Three Gorges is the famous Wushan Small Three Gorges. The Daning River originates from Zhongnan Mountain in Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, flows through mountains and canyons, accommodates hundreds of clear streams along the way, passes through the dangerous peaks of cloud cliffs between Wuxi and Wushan Mountains, and flows into the mighty Yangtze River at the west entrance of Wu Gorge.

The Daning River is mysterious and mysterious. It has been hidden for a long time in the past. This year, due to the development of my country's tourism industry, it first revealed its true appearance and became a blockbuster. Some people praised it as "not the Three Gorges, but better than the Three Gorges" and "it's so divine that it's breathtaking". The Little Three Gorges of Daning River is the collective name of Longmen Gorge, Tiecoff Gorge and Dicui Gorge. It is the essence of Daning River scenery. The Little Three Gorges starts from Wushan County in the south and reaches the ancient city of Dachang in the north, with a total length of about 60 kilometers.

4. Wansheng Stone Forest AAAA

Chongqing Wansheng Stone Forest Scenic Area is located in Wansheng District in the south of Chongqing, 89 kilometers (full highway) from Chongqing City, with a total area of ????the scenic area It is more than 10 square kilometers, and its formation age is about 460 million years ago, which is 200 million years earlier than the formation period of the Lunan Stone Forest in Yunnan. It is the oldest stone forest in China.

Its main landscapes include Luhua Lake, Lovers' Stone, Ten Thousands of Pentiums, Lotus Flowers, Incense Burner Scenic Spot, Thousand Pagodas, Fossil Corridor, Water Stone Forest, The World's No. 1 Stone Fan, and a line between the ground and the sky. wait. There are also colorful, beautiful and spectacular Tianmen caves and surface stone forests that complement each other. The rich and simple Miao customs and the graceful folk songs and dances make the stone forest even more interesting.

After years of systematic development and construction, Wansheng Stone Forest has fully realized the high degree of unity of natural landscape and cultural landscape, showing great comprehensive tourism value and scientific research value. It has been rated as "Chongqing" for two consecutive years. Top Ten Tourist Attractions”.

Walking in the stone forest, you can find colorful fossils that resemble shrimps and are yellow-brown on many stones - beadstone. It evolved from marine life 600 million years ago. Its bright color comes from the replacement of iron-containing substances outside the body during the evolution process. According to research, the color of fossils in the world is mostly off-white or colorless, with bright colors like this.

5. Wulong Karst Tourist Area AAAAA

Chongqing Wulong Karst Tourist Area is a national AAAAA-level scenic spot.

It includes three parts of the tourist attractions of Wulong, Chongqing: Tiansheng Sanqiao, Fairy Mountain and Furong Cave. Tiansheng Sanqiao is located in the south of Fairy Mountain, between Fairy Mountain and Wulong County; Fairy Mountain is located in Fairy Mountain Town, Wulong County, Chongqing, in the Wuling Mountains in eastern Chongqing; Furong Cave is located 4 kilometers away from Jiangkou Town, Wulong County by the Furong River.

Three karst scenic spots, Tiansheng Sanqiao, Furong Cave, Fairy Mountain and Houping erosion-type tiankeng, have been successfully declared as world natural heritage.

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