How to arrange a trip to Shanxi

"Shanxi Tourism Boutique Route"

Datong City Museum-Yungang Grottoes

Visit the Datong City Museum covering an area of ??5,600 square meters, of which the exhibition hall area is 1,800 square meters m, with more than 13,000 cultural relics in the collection, including 132 first-class items. Most of them are cultural relics unearthed locally. Among the more than 1,000 precious cultural relics that visitors can see, half are rare collections that are on display for the first time. ?The four exhibition halls are divided into "Pingcheng Era", "Confluence of Hundreds of Rivers", "History of Famous Cities" and "Porcelain Road Treasures", which highlight the splendid picture of Datong as the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Visit Yungang Grottoes, one of the three major Buddhist arts in the East and a world cultural heritage. The Yungang Grottoes are the only fully preserved art treasure house among the three major Buddhist art in the East. They are also known as the Three Saints of Chinese Grottoes and one of the world cultural heritages together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Luoyang Longmen Grottoes. Built in the fifth century AD, it lasted 64 years. There are fifty-three existing caves, 51,000 statues, and more than 1,200 Buddhist niches. The Yungang Grottoes are known for their superb carving art, profound Buddhist content and rich content. The distinctive characteristics of the times and national characteristics of national unity and integration are well-known at home and abroad, vividly showing a colorful picture of religion, history, folk customs, society, and art to Chinese and foreign tourists!

Xuankong Temple-Yong'an Temple-Yingxian Wooden Pagoda-Yingxian Pure Land Temple

Go to Xuankong Temple, the first of the eighteen scenic spots in Hengshan Mountain in the north of Xuankong Temple, known as the "Greatest View in the World" The temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty of Xianbei more than 1,400 years ago. It is the first of the eighteen scenic spots in Hengshan and the highest-altitude cliff building in the world. It is famous for its three characteristics of "strangeness, ingenuity and suspension"!

Hunyuan Yong'an Temple was built in the Jurchen Jin Dynasty. Its main building: the Zhengzong Hall of Chuanfa (the Main Hall) and the huge heavy-color murals of the ten Ming kings in the hall, with its distinctive Yuan Dynasty style and The superb artistic level has attracted the attention of the world. On this trip, we specially invited Mr. Zhang Jiande, a cultural relic expert and director of the cultural management office of the temple, to give a vivid explanation.

Visit the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, one of the three most amazing pagodas in the world, which was built in the second year of Qingning in Liao Dynasty (AD 1056). The wooden pagoda was built on a four-meter-high platform with a height of 67.31 meters. meters, the diameter of the bottom floor is 30.27 meters, and it is in the shape of a plane octagon. The brackets in the tower are complex and exquisite, which can be called a masterpiece of wooden brackets.

Huayan Temple-Shanhua Temple-Datong City Wall

Huayan Temple is the seat of the Datong Buddhist Association, and the Main Hall is the largest existing Buddhist temple in my country. The colorful sculptures and wall collections of the Liao Dynasty in the Bojiajiao Palace are unique products in the country, and are a wonder in the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art!

Shanhua Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and renovated in the Liao and Jin Dynasties. The main hall is simple and heavy, and is one of the eight existing wooden buildings from the Liao Dynasty in my country. Other buildings in the temple, such as the Three Holy Temples and the Tianwang Hall, were built in the Jin Dynasty. They are magnificent buildings and are wonderful examples of studying our ancient wooden architecture.

The Datong City Wall was built on the basis of the original Liao, Jin and Yuan city walls by Xu Da, the Ming Dynasty general who conquered the captives. With a long history and profound cultural connotation, it is a Ming Dynasty city with a grand scale and a complete defense system.