Dingzhou tourist attractions ranking list

Dingzhou tourist attractions include:

1. Yan Yangchu’s former residence:

Yan Yangchu’s former residence is the former residence of Yan Yangchu, a famous patriotic civilian educator. It is located on the banks of the Motan River. In the fruit forest of the Orange Research Institute, there is a three-sided bungalow with a brick and wood structure. In 1940, Yanyang first came here to found the "China Rural Development Institute", appointed himself as the dean, and lived here permanently. In 1943, he was selected as one of the "World's Great People with Revolutionary Contributions in Modern Times".

2. Kaiyuan Temple Tower in Dingzhou:

The Kaiyuan Temple Tower in Dingxian County is also known as the Liaodi Tower. Because the tower was built in Kaiyuan Temple, it is commonly known as the "Kaiyuan Temple Tower". It is located in the Kaiyuan Temple on the east side of the South City Gate in Dingzhou City, Hebei Province.

In the fourth year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict to build a temple and a pagoda in order to worship the Buddhist scriptures and relics retrieved from ancient India by the monks of Kaiyuan Temple. It was completed in the second year of Zhihe in the Northern Song Dynasty and lasted 55 years. Because Dingzhou was a strategic military location close to the Liao and Song Dynasties, in order to defend the Khitan, the Song Dynasty used this tower to observe the enemy's situation, hence the name "Enemy-Making Tower".

3. Zhongshan Han Tomb:

The Zhongshan Han Tomb is located 100 meters north of the municipal government in Dingzhou City. "King's Tomb" and "Murong Mausoleum". Excavation in 1995 confirmed that this tomb was a marquis-level tomb in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

In 2001, it was identified as a national key cultural relic protection unit. The tomb has a history of more than 1,700 years. The tomb is well preserved, 24 meters long from north to south and 10 meters wide from east to west. It is composed of a front chamber, an east and west ear chamber, a middle chamber and a back chamber. The tomb chamber is made of rectangular bricks and fan-shaped bricks.

4. Dingzhou Museum:

Dingzhou Museum is located on the south side of Zhongshan East Road, Dingzhou City, close to the Kaiyuan Temple Tower, Gongyuan, Confucian Temple, and Yan Yangchu’s former residence, four key cultural relics protection areas unit. Dingzhou Museum covers an area of ??about 55 acres, with a total construction area of ??25,600 square meters, an exhibition area of ??7,000 square meters, and a total investment of 380 million yuan. There are four floors above ground and one underground floor. It is a national key museum and a first-level risk unit.

5. Dingzhou Gongyuan:

Dingzhou Gongyuan is the only well-preserved examination room for selecting scholars and tribute students in ancient society in northern my country. In the third year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Dingzhou Gongyuan was established by In the first year of the reign of Mu Wang, he planned to build Dingzhou Gongyuan to gather civil and military candidates in the area to take the examination, making it a place to select scholars and tribute students.

In the twelfth year of Daoguang, Wang Zhonghuai, the prefectural pastor, persuaded the people to donate money, expand the site, rebuild and add new buildings, forming a large-scale examination room. It has been restored and preserved to this day. In 2001, it was listed as a national key cultural relic protection Single location.