Introduction to sanitation fees in tourist attractions and sanitation service standards in scenic spots

A waterfall in Xiangxi, Hunan became popular. Because it was so beautiful, others mistakenly thought it was a special effect, so it only charged 20 yuan for hygiene fees

As our living standards continue to improve, more and more people now People like to travel, whether it is their love for mountains, rivers, or their longing for cultural landscapes. Many people go out of their homes to see the outside world that they don’t know about. However, this is the case with scenic spots. When the scenery is too beautiful, there will be various negative comments, such as rip-off and commercialization, which are the shortcomings mentioned most often.

This is indeed understandable. Because the scenic spots are so beautiful, there are more tourists going there. When there are more tourists, business will occur. It is normal for there to be business when there is demand. It is precisely because there are many people, so Many people have evil thoughts and try every means to make money without conscience, so they also say they are ripping off customers.

With the increasing number of negative reviews about scenic spots, although many people yearn for the beautiful scenery, the "bad reviews" are prohibitive. Therefore, when traveling, many people rack their brains to find places with few people, beautiful scenery, and non-commercialization.

Today we will talk about an undeveloped natural and beautiful waterfall in the Xiangxi region of Hunan. The waterfall comes from a cave halfway up the cliff. The height of the waterfall is more than 200 meters. The amount of water is very large, and the splashes and mist are tens of meters high. In the canyon surrounded by mountains, it is like a Milky Way, breaking out from the cliff and rushing into the distance.

Because this waterfall is undeveloped, and there is even land planted by local farmers under the waterfall, it has been questioned by netizens. Many people said that this is fake and is just a video special effect. But if you are really immersed in it, you will find that there is such beauty in the world. This waterfall is the Dalongdong Waterfall Scenic Area in Xiangxi, Hunan. The ticket is 20 yuan per person.

Seeing this, I think many friends are not convinced, because since it is called a scenic spot and a 20 yuan ticket is charged, it cannot be called undeveloped. Of course, this statement is correct, because there is indeed a business operation, and it is also named after the scenic spot. But if I told you that the 20 yuan is just for sanitation fees, would you still think that this is a developed scenic spot?

The difference between entrance fees and sanitation fees

The entrance fee refers to the entrance fee; the sanitation fee refers to the garbage cleaning service fee.

The entrance fee refers to the admission fee; the sanitation fee refers to the garbage cleaning service fee. In order to promote the scenic spot, some unscrupulous scenic spots first ask tourists to forward the scenic spot's promotional content to gain traffic. When tourists meet the conditions for receiving free tickets, they put the most important details at the end. Some even deliberately use the smallest words to make people uncomfortable. I noticed that when I wanted to get tickets, these scenic spots would shirk them for various reasons. What's more, after successfully receiving it, they are required to pay the difference.

Many common scenic spots include shuttle buses, sightseeing buses, ropeways, etc. Tourists are not allowed to drive into the scenic spot. In addition, the road is very long. If you want to continue to play, you must "spend money" to pass, although it is somewhat easy to pass. Tourists feel a little "cheated", but as long as the subsequent attractions can satisfy tourists, these are nothing. What is really disgusting are those who secretly add the ticket price to transportation fees or health fees, which must be consumed. The transportation fees during the free ticket time are ridiculously high. If they don’t pay, tourists will not be able to continue going. Then left.

Is it legal to charge 30 yuan for sanitation fees for vehicles in scenic spots?

It is not legal. When the scenic spot does not strictly implement activity policies, reports to the competent department for record, and does not have any legal basis, charging vehicles sanitation fees in the name of sanitation fees is a disguised increase in fees, which infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, so it is illegal. Scenic spots (touristattraction) refer to regional places with tourism and related activities as the main function or one of the main functions.

Inquire about tourist attractions in Fujian Province

We only have two days to go and see the Fujian Tulou

You can take a special car or bus from Xiamen to Yongding Tulou , taking a private bus is expensive but more convenient. If you take the bus, you have to get off at Hukeng Town. There is a branch road in Hukeng Town to the Nanxi Tulou Group. You can arrange a round trip by motorcycle at the intersection of the branch road, and a car will not exceed 25 yuan. You can also take the road to Nanxi in the direction of Tianluokeng, and along the way you can see the earthen buildings on the other side of Luxi. If you don’t go to Nanjing Shuyang, you can go over from Nanxi to see Tianluokeng, and then return to Gaotou, Hongkeng and Hukeng via the road under the tower. If you still want to go to Shuyang, it is recommended to go back and forth to the observation deck, see Hongkeng and Gaotou, and then go to Shuyang via Taxia Village and Tianluokeng, which will be more smooth. It is said that the observation deck can see the whole picture of Nanxi Tulou. Due to time constraints, I didn’t go there this time and I don’t know what the scenery is like. However, the gurgling Nanxi water is like a ribbon, stringing together the earth buildings and pearls in various villages along the way, embellishment. With the small bridge and flowing water, the scenery is very beautiful and worth recommending.

The westernmost one is the Octagonal Building (Dongcheng Building) in Nanjiang Village. It is actually a square building, but with small bevels cut into the four corners, it is not a regular octagonal shape. If there are residents in the building, there is no admission fee. I really like the small garden building next to Dongcheng Building, where four brothers and seven families live. In front of the door, there is a small bridge and running water, which is full of vitality and interest.

Then drive 5 minutes east to Huanji Tower in Nanzhong Village. The Huanji Building charges a sanitation fee of 5 yuan per person, but the building is indeed quite clean.

The biggest feature of the Huanji Tower is its extremely strong earthquake resistance, having experienced many earthquakes over the past 300 years. After an earthquake, a crack more than 3 meters long and 1 foot wide was left. Due to the centripetal force of the round building and the traction of the structure, the crack miraculously closed slowly, leaving only a slender crack, and the entire building Safe and sound, standing tall. There is no ancestral hall in the center of the building. At the center of the Huanji Building, if you stamp your feet or shout or sing loudly, you can hear a very obvious echo, like the echo wall of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

Five minutes further east is Yanxiang House in Xinnan Village. Yanxiang Tower is located next to a pool of clear water, with beautiful scenery. The name of the pool is Youhuangtan, which is regarded as a miniature reservoir and has a small generator set. The gate layout of this earth building is quite special, with a series of peripheral accessories added. The brick and wood carvings in the hall, the outer walls of the building, and the small doors on the left and right are relatively fine, and the paintings and calligraphy on the walls are also exquisite. The lintel of the door reads "Da Fu Di", which belongs to a family of poets and calligraphers. This building also charges a sanitation fee of 5 yuan/person, and it is also very clean.

Continuing back east for about 10 minutes, Zhenfu Tower stands beside the stream. This building is not on the roadside. The gate faces Nanxi River, surrounded by mountains and rivers. Since it is currently being contracted to be developed into an exhibition hall, it has not yet been opened. It is said that a lot of stones and bricks were used in the building, and the carvings were fine. It was a mixture of Chinese and Western elements, and it was magnificent.

Return to Hukeng Town. In the town, you can buy noodles and motorcycle taxis, as well as FB for accommodation, supplies, and food. There is a cheap hotel not far from the intersection with simple facade and facilities. A big bowl of steamed rabbit in soup only costs 10 yuan, and there are also pork belly with pickled vegetables, braised tofu, pickled cabbage and duck blood, all of which taste pretty good. Compared with the Aqing Hotel next door, it is really much better.

If you don’t go to Chuxi, you can take the [Yongding-Gaotou] shuttle bus directly from Yongding County to Hongkeng (Tulou Cultural Village) (9 yuan) or Gaotou (Gaobei Tulou Group) (11 Yuan). The road between Gaotou and Hongkeng is being repaired with cement pavement, and it is said that it can be repaired before New Year's Day. There are basically a lot of motorcycles (3 yuan/person) during the trip.

Ticket to Hongcun Tulou Cultural Village is 40 yuan. You can bring motorcycles directly in, but you can't enter the Tulou without a ticket. And once someone is found to have entered the village without buying a ticket, the security will arrange a ticket check. It feels uncomfortable to be kicked out. The earth buildings in Hongkeng, such as Zhencheng Building, Fuyu Building, and Kuiju Building, are still very representative. Compared with the 50 yuan ticket in Chuxi, you can still go in and have a look. (It is said that you can go in and see for free in the morning and evening when the security is off duty).

You can stay in Hongkeng. It costs about 30 yuan per person to live in a tulou. The transportation is also convenient.

It takes about 20 minutes from Hongkeng to Gaotou. The Gaobei Tulou Group is on the left hand side of the road as you approach Gaotou. The most classic one is of course Chengqi Building, known as the "King of Earth Buildings". "Four stories high, four circles of buildings, four hundred rooms up and down; circles within circles, circles within circles, it has gone through three hundred years of vicissitudes." Fujian residential stamps feature Chengqi Tower as the pattern. The ticket is 30 yuan, and you can sneak in and take a look when the administrator returns home (the current administrator's home is next to the earth building), regardless of the villagers' well-intentioned threats. Touring the earth building, one is a macro view, looking down from a high place; the other is a micro view, wandering around the building. It would always be a pity not to go in and take a look. Going from the direction of Hongkeng, at the corner of the road approaching Chengqi Tower, there is a small sign indicating the direction to the observation deck. It is said to be a viewing platform, but it is actually the top of a hill. Here you can overlook the earth buildings in Gaobei Village. There is a round building next to Chengqi Building, called "Parkview Building", which charges a sanitation fee of 5 yuan. The building is empty and not worth visiting. In fact, the appearance of other private houses in Gaobei Village is also very unique, and you can look around.

Going a short distance away from Gaotou, you will reach a fork in the road, one heading towards Qujiang and the other towards the bottom of the tower. There are two roads to Shuyang, and there are earth buildings along the way. However, the journey to Taxia Village is a little shorter, and the Yuchang Tower (Standing Tower) in Taxia Village and Banxia Village is absolutely not to be missed. Therefore, the recommended route: you can first go to the direction of Qujiang to see the seven-star earth buildings in Hekeng, and then turn back and walk under the tower.

It is about 2-3 kilometers from the fork in the direction of Qujiang. The road climbs to a curved slope. There is a path on the slope that can lead down to the village. Here you can see the three buildings at the end of the Seven-Star Earth Building Group in Hekeng. There is a small path on the left hand side of the road that goes uphill, and you have to climb to the high-voltage electric wire tower to see the full view of the Hekeng Tulou Group. There are a lot of earth buildings in the village, but individually they don't look very special. If you are interested, you can cross a bridge before the road goes uphill and enter the village along the riverside road.

If you have time, you can continue to Shiqiao Village. It is said that various forms and distribution patterns of earth buildings can be found here. They are part of the earth buildings in the book "Chinese Residential Architecture" model.

Go back to the fork in the road and continue toward the bottom of the tower. When you are drowsy, the road turns a corner, and a stream appears in front of you. The flowing water spreads out in layers. The houses on both sides look a bit like stilted buildings at first glance. There is a long and special style building across the stream. bridge. When you yell at the driver to stop, the driver will tell you: This is Taxia Village.

Different from the large-scale earth buildings in other villages, the houses here are more of small families built on top of the mountains. Walking back and forth in the alley, I accidentally walked through the back door of someone's house. I was worried that a big black dog was looking at you with a cold eyebrow. Someone was making tea. The fragrance of tea lingered in half the village, better than the porch of every house. Various flowers and plants are placed on the window wall.

After passing through the small village, on the slope behind the village is the ancestral hall of the Zhang family - Deyuantang. Deyuantang is the best-preserved ancestral hall we have seen along the way. The brick carvings on the eaves are gorgeous in color, and the colorful phoenixes, green dragons, lions, kingfishers, and various flowers. The wood carvings and lacquer paintings on the gates and beams are all well preserved, finely crafted, and as new in color. The reason why this hall is a provincial cultural relic protection unit is that there are 23 coiled dragon pillars (21 old pillars and 2 new pillars) standing in front of the ancestral hall. There is a local custom of erecting dragon flag pillars for meritorious people, and the forest of flag pillars in front of Deyuan Hall is numerous and well-preserved.

No tickets are required here, all scenery is FREE, highly recommended.

Go east for a few minutes from Taxia Village to Yuchang Building in Banxia Village. Yuchang Building is the famous rickety building. Charge 5 yuan/person. It is said that the building was built for five families at the same time, and they took turns providing meals to the carpenters who built the earth building. However, due to poor communication with each other, the food supply to the carpenter was not very punctual. This offended the master, so he did something secretly. As a result, even though the building is habitable, the 2-3 floors slowly tilt clockwise, while the 4th floor tilts counter-clockwise. Maybe the mechanical structure is just balanced, so it has been peaceful for hundreds of years, and it is regarded as an architectural miracle by modern people. There are still many families living in the building today. Another feature of Yuchang Building is that every house on the first floor has a well. The well is full of water

The water level in Fujian Tulou is very high, clear and sweet. A villager in the building may invite you to his home to drink organic tea brewed with well water. It’s okay to taste the tea. If you don’t understand tea, be cautious when buying it.

Exit Yuchang Tower and go forward to Tianluokeng. It is the famous four dishes and one soup. It is named after the image of four round buildings surrounding a square building. It is said that when viewed from directly below, they look like five mushrooms of different colors (the earth buildings are slightly different in color, some are light green and some are light red); when viewed from the side, they resemble the Potala Palace (which is far-fetched); when viewed from above, that is Four dishes and one soup. Without entering the village, after taking pictures from the side on the road, the car drove directly to the viewing platform. The viewing platform is right next to the road, just above the village, and the angle is tightly sealed. You can't see a trace from the side angle. Therefore, the management office confidently charges 20 yuan per person for admission, but tourists are really helpless just for that glimpse of the scenery.

After passing Tianluokeng, we wind all the way down the mountain to Shuyang Town, which takes less than an hour. There is honey pomelo for sale on the way, the price is about 50 cents per catty, and the small ones are about 1 yuan each.

There are not many cars in Shuyang Town. There are only 4-5 trains to Nanjing every day, probably around 7 am, 9 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, and 4 pm. , the ticket is 10 yuan/person. You can take a pickup truck to Nanjing, which is 48 kilometers away and costs about 100 yuan. The motorcycle taxi charges 50 yuan (the price of motorcycles here in Shuyang is much higher than that in Hukeng, so be careful to bargain).

You pass Lu Fenglian’s hometown along the way. If you have time, you can also visit the Huaiyuan Tower in Changjiao Village, Meilin Town and the Hegui Tower in Pushan Village, as well as the Fu Tower in Xiashan Village, Shiphang Town, in Nanjing County. Xinglou, Longxing Tower, Banyue Tower, Cuilin Tower in Xinluo Village, Nankeng Town, and the most compact earth building - Rusheng Tower. Nanjing Fujian Earth Building Museum is located in Tianzhong Village, Shuyang Town, 50 kilometers away from Nanjing County and 2 kilometers away from Shuyang Town. It is the only place to go from Nanjing to various earth building sites in Nanjing. It was originally the former Taiwanese leader Annette Lu Ancestral hall.

The road winds along the Shangchang River, with many banana groves and beautiful scenery. The journey takes about 1 hour and the road conditions are good. In addition to earth buildings, Nanjing also has hot springs and tropical rainforest reserves. The road conditions are not bad and it is still worth a visit.

Nanjing belongs to Zhangzhou City. You can take a taxi to Zhangzhou, which is very convenient. It costs 10 yuan per person and takes about 35-40 minutes.

Value-added information

1 Solid earth buildings built with sand and gravel protein

The history of Fujian earth buildings can be traced back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Today, more than a thousand earth buildings are distributed in Fujian In the southwestern mountainous area, they are mainly divided into round buildings, square buildings and five-wind buildings. The building materials are made of earth, sand, bamboo, wood, and even brown sugar and egg white. Local materials are used to build exterior walls with a thickness of one meter to two meters. The earth building, which is about 100 meters tall, is strong enough to withstand attacks from wild animals or thieves. It is also fireproof and earthquake-proof, and is warm in winter and cool in summer.

2 The United States once mistakenly thought it was a nuclear bomb silo

The unique-shaped Hakka earth building was mistakenly used by the United States as a nuclear bomb silo during the Cold War in the 1960s. Research and using spy satellites to take countless pictures (overhead view of earth buildings), but still unable to understand the "secrets" in the 1,500 "nuclear bomb silos", the CIA sent a couple disguised as tourists to Nanjing County in southern Fujian in late 1985 After investigation, it was finally discovered that those "launch silos" turned out to be historic earthen buildings and were by no means the "nuclear weapons facilities" discovered by spy satellites, which relieved the US authorities.