A must-see spot for a one-day tour in Gaoyou

One-day tour in Gaoyou includes: Zhenguo Temple, Qingshuitan Tourist Resort, gaoyou lake Luweidang Wetland Park, Yuchengyi Scenic Area, Tang Ling Hui Township, etc.

Zhenguo Temple 1

Zhenguo Temple, located on an isolated island between the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and gaoyou lake, was built in 874 AD. Zhenguo Temple Pagoda, also known as the West Pagoda, is as famous as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the south and Pagoda Bay in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. Zhenguo Temple Tower is a square seven-story pavilion-style brick tower. The brake at the top of the tower is a bronze gourd, and the words "Good weather, peaceful country and people's safety" are engraved on the surface of the gourd.

2. Qingshuitan Tourist Resort

Qingshuitan Tourist Resort consists of Donghu Wetland Park and Qingshuitan. The scenic spot is located in Mapeng Town, Gaoyou City. This stable is named after the post horses running on the ancient post road changed horses here. The scenic spot has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, trees, natural wetland landscape and farming civilization are integrated, ponds, ditches and depressions crisscross, and ancient villages and water towns are integrated.

3. gaoyou lake Luweidang Wetland Park

Gaoyou lake Luweidang Wetland Park is located in Gaoyou Lake, Jieshou Town, where the most distinctive features are the vast Luweidang and delicious lake fresh. To enter the scenic spot, you should take a speedboat or sightseeing bus on the water at the cruise terminal. There are boat houses, small bridges, lotus ponds, viewing plank roads, breeding bases and other buildings with unique water town charm scattered in the scenic spot.

4. Yucheng Inn Scenic Area

Yucheng Post is located outside the south gate of Gaoyou City. Built in the eighth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. Yucheng Post Station is the largest and best preserved ancient post station in China. Yucheng is another name of Gaoyou, named after Qin Shaoyou, a Gaoyou poet in the Song Dynasty, whose hometown is like a bowl built in Chu Yang Ridge. Gaoyou Yucheng Post Station has experienced many vicissitudes, and the ancient style still exists.

5. Hui Township, Tang Ling

Tang Ling Hui Township in Gaoyou City is the only ethnic township in Jiangsu Province, which is located on the west bank of gaoyou lake with beautiful scenery. With a long history and rich ethnic customs, it is one of the concentrated settlements of Hui people in the province. As early as the Yuan Dynasty, Hui people settled in Tang Ling, which is the so-called Hui Hui Bay.

Hui people live here by mountains and rivers for generations, reproduce their children and build mosques, which is the center of Muslim religious activities in local and surrounding counties and cities. There are ginkgo trees with a history of more than 300 years and Jingui and Yin Gui trees with a history of nearly 100 years in the temple. There are also two bronze incense burners handed down from generation to generation named Daming Xuande, which can be called historical relics.

Brief introduction of Gaoyou

Gaoyou is located along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and belongs to Yangzhou City. Gaoyou was named after the high platform and postal kiosk built in the Qin Dynasty. With beautiful scenery and rich tourism resources, it is the hometown of stamp collecting and a national historical and cultural city.