Several attractions worth visiting in Longyou

1. Longyou Grottoes

Longyou Grottoes is the first national AAAA tourist attraction in Quzhou City. It is located at the foothills of Fenghuang Mountain 3 kilometers north of the county. It is a magnificent and magnificent place. The spectacular and rare ancient underground artificial buildings in the world are known as the "ninth wonder of the world". According to preliminary conclusions from experts, the minimum age for the excavation of Longyou Grottoes is no later than the Western Han Dynasty.

The Longyou Grottoes not only have high research value in sociology, history, archaeology, ancient architecture, engineering geology and rock mechanics, but also have huge educational value and cultural relics. protection value and tourism development value. Longyou Grottoes were discovered in June 1992.

According to the survey, 36 caves of different sizes are distributed on the mound with a radius of 0.38 square kilometers. The area of ??the caves ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 square meters. Each cave extends vertically downward from the rectangular entrance, with a height of About 30 meters, the top is in the shape of an "inverted bucket". There are 3-4 huge "fish tail-shaped" stone pillars scientifically distributed in the cave, which are integrated with the cave roof. The cave walls, cave roof and stone pillars are all evenly left with the appearance of ancient people. Chisel marks with decorative intent.

The cave maintains a constant temperature of 18 degrees Celsius all year round. Outside the cave, there are green mountains and green waters, and ancient bamboo trees. The Longyou Grottoes have attracted the attention of the world and domestic and foreign academic circles due to a series of issues such as the historical background, scale, purpose of mining and the underground engineering technology used. Various experts have proposed the theory of ancient quarries, the theory of spring and Autumn royal tombs, The Yue military base theory, alien civilization theory, Han Dynasty warehousing theory, Taoist blessing theory and other assumptions are all difficult to justify and cannot be fundamentally convincing.

2. Longyou Residential Garden

Longyou Residential Garden is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is located on Jiming Mountain in the south of Longyou City. It is the only two national cultural relics in the country. It is one of the demonstration units approved by the bureau to implement off-site relocation and protection, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. The residential garden was built in 1991.

At present, more than 65 ancient buildings from the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods have been relocated, including ancestral halls, family temples, residences, academies, street buildings, stone pavilions, screen walls, stages, etc. The newly built residential halls, cultural relics warehouses, archways, shops, waterside pavilions, water bridges, covered bridges and other antique buildings are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people of Longyou and are witnesses of the glorious history of the Longyou merchant gang.

Intangible cultural display and folk performance activities such as dragon and lion dance, She ethnic minority betrothal, rice paper making, and Wu opera performances are carried out on a regular basis in the scenic area.

3. Longyou Tianchi Lotus Scenic Area

The national 3A-level tourist attraction-Tianchi Lotus Scenic Area is located in Hengshan Town, Longyou County. It is the core area of ??the northern line of Longyou rural leisure tourism. Visit the 10,000-acre lotus pond boutique area. The scenic spot includes Tianchi, Zhitang, Yaotangbian, Taxiaye and other villages, with a total area of ??26 square kilometers and 3,000 acres of continuous lotus ponds.

Every summer, Tianchi flowers bloom leisurely, and the landscape of "Ten Miles of Lotuses with Different Redness" is presented everywhere, attracting tourists to Tianchi to enjoy this vivid and fragrant scenery and experience this intoxicating pastoral scenery. Longyou County is one of the six major selenium-rich bases in China and the largest selenium-rich area in Zhejiang Province.

“A selenium-rich health-preserving place, ten miles away with the fragrance of lotus flowers”, Tianchi Lotus Scenic Area is not only a lotus wonderland, but also a selenium-rich treasure land. The town's selenium-rich land area, centered on Tianchi and Zhitang villages, covers an area of ??33.46 square kilometers and is rich in selenium-rich specialty agricultural products such as rice, white lotus, and purple sweet potato. The Tianchi Lotus Scenic Area not only has the unique scenery of the lotus pond, but also has a profound cultural heritage. There are more than 30 well-preserved ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the scenic area, which is like a rural museum without walls.

Among them, two ancient buildings, Sanhuai Hall and Guanxi Family, which are key national cultural relics protection units, are particularly precious: "Sanhuai Hall" is about 400 years old, with a construction area of ??842 square meters; "Shijia" was built in the Ming Dynasty and is said to be the residence of the descendants of the Yang family generals in the Song Dynasty. It has exquisite brick carvings, complete tablets and plaques, accurate chronology, and has extremely high artistic value.

4. Sanmenyuan

An ancient small mountain village, located in Shifo Township. Mountains guard the east, west and north of the village, and a mountain stream flows from the north. Passing through the village in the south, the scenery is beautiful with clear mountains and clear waters. The layout and architecture of the village have almost completely preserved the residential buildings of Jiangcai in the Qing Dynasty. The Ye family residential complex in the east of the village is particularly exquisite and represents the architectural masterpieces of the late Qing Dynasty in Zhejiang Province.

It was built in the 26th year of Daoguang Year (1846) in the Qing Dynasty by Ye He, a villager who paid tribute to Tianzhong. It faces the east and faces the west and is built according to the mountain. There are five original main buildings, and three of them are now existing. The inscriptions on the door foreheads are "Zhilan is seated," "Jinghua will bloom forever," and "Blocking will bring spring." It is accompanied by courtyards, gardens, ponds, etc., covering an area of ??4,500 square meters. The Ye's architectural complex has a rigorous layout, exquisite shape, grand momentum and clever combination, maintaining the typical style of Jiangnan folk houses in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

The pillars and beams in the hall are thick and strong, and the beam structure is unique. The caissons, beams and columns, the walking tower and the window lattice are all exquisitely carved and painted with gold. Because the patio is used to adjust the drainage and exhaust of the building and improve indoor lighting, although the walls are high and the building is deep, the air is flowing smoothly, making it comfortable and bright. Among them, "Zhilan Sitting" is the most exquisite. Its layout is a bright hall with three entrances, two sides and three swords. It is a masterpiece among folk houses.

Artistic brick carving is the essence of Ye's architectural complex. The three main entrances are all inlaid with brick carvings, with pavilions, landscapes, animals, flowers and birds.

Among them, there are 23 opera brick carvings with a length of 56 cm and a width of 26 cm. Each block is engraved with a micro-drama, with hollow reliefs, exquisite craftsmanship and vivid shapes. They are rare treasures and precious opera materials.

5. Huzhen Stupa

It is located in the stupa courtyard of Xiajie, Huzhen, Longyou County, Zhejiang Province. The year when it was first built is unknown, but the inscription bricks on the second and sixth floors of the pagoda have the words "Jiangkui rebuilt the pagoda in July of the third year of Jiayou" in regular script, which clearly shows that the pagoda was rebuilt in the third year of Jiayou's third year in the Northern Song Dynasty. July of the year (1058). In 2001, the Huzhen stupa was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The stupa is a solid brick tower with six sides and seven floors imitating wooden pavilions. It is 31.5 meters high, the base is 2.3 meters wide on each side, and the Xumi base is 1.6 meters high. The external structure completely imitates the wooden pavilion structure, which is a classic among imitation wood brick towers.

The uniqueness of using bricks to make a wooden pavilion-style tower. The overall proportion of the tower is moderate, the shape is slender, and the structure is exquisite. It has pillars, brackets, flat seats, gates, etc., especially the large curved waist eaves, giving people a sense of exquisiteness and lightness. There are wind chimes hanging from the corners of the eaves; there are door-style niches on each floor and on each side to worship Buddha statues (most of the original white marble Buddha statues have been lost and are now replicas); the pagoda on the top is well preserved, with a copper gourd on it. There are six iron ropes connected to it. The whole pagoda is exquisite in shape and well preserved, which is extremely rare among Song pagodas in the province.

When the Song Pagoda was being repaired in the early 1990s, archaeologists discovered a large number of cultural relics on the top two floors, including a seven-level bronze pavilion cast in the sixth year of Huangyou (1054) in the Northern Song Dynasty. Shifang Tower is particularly eye-catching. There is also a well-preserved old street in front of the pagoda courtyard, which is now a Zhejiang Provincial Historical and Cultural Reserve.