Tourist attractions

Yunfeng Mountain

Also known as Wenfeng Mountain, commonly known as Bijia Mountain, is a national key cultural relics protection unit, located at 15 Huali, south of Laizhou City. Yunfeng Mountain has rugged rocks, high peaks, secluded valleys and lush forests, and picturesque scenery. When spring comes, the pines are green and the flowers are blooming; In early summer, Robinia pseudoacacia bloom is white; In autumn, the pines surge and the frost dyes the maple red. "Spring Peach", "Summer Huai" and "Qiu Feng" are the three scenic spots. There are many places of interest in Yunfeng Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, with 37 carved stones in the past dynasties. Zheng Daozhao, a famous calligrapher and secretariat of Gwangju in the Northern Wei Dynasty, left 17 precious inscriptions on this mountain in 511 AD, all of which were carved on the steep cliffs in the mountain. Zheng Daozhao is known as the "Holy Hand of the North". The famous Monument to Zheng Wengong in Xingyang is 2.8 meters high and 3.6 meters wide, which is the highest in Wei Bei. In addition, "On Classic Poems" and "Poems for Children Watching the Sea" are also famous inscriptions. Its fonts are inherited from Kai Kai, and its calligraphy is rigorous, vigorous and elegant. It has always been highly praised by epigraphists and calligraphers, and it is a precious material for studying the evolution of China's fonts and calligraphy art. Famous calligraphers and scholars at home and abroad came one after another, visited the forest of steles, and left behind a large number of calligraphy and painting Mo Bao. Japanese calligraphers and Taoist scholars admire Yunfeng's stone carving even more, from the elderly to the schoolchildren, and there are endless visitors here every year. Yunfeng stone carving is not only a sacred place in the book world, but also a bridge connecting the friendship of the four seas.

Mao Ji's Cemetery

Mao Ji, a native of Laizhou, was a scholar from the official to the cabinet in the Ming Dynasty, and was the first deputy prime minister. According to records, Mao Ji was a clean and honest official in the DPRK, with considerable achievements. After Mao Ji retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he left a lot of folklore. Mao Ji, the protagonist of Lu's drama Sisters Easy to Marry, staged publicity and became a household name in Qilu. After Mao Ji's death, he was buried on the hill next to Zhang Cun in the west of Laizhou City. The cemetery was large at first, and there are still stone beasts, horses and stone tablets offered by the emperor. In 1994, it was restored by private financing. Although it is not as large as the original scale, it is also one of the important scenic spots in Laizhou City. Drive 2 kilometers from the city to the west and cross the Zhang Cun of Xishan to reach Mao Ji's Cemetery.

Thousand Buddha Pavilion

Thousand Buddha Pavilion Amusement Park, located on the south side of Wenhua East Road in Laizhou City, integrates entertainment, shopping and leisure. The scenic spot level is Grade A.. There are memorial archway, Thousand-Buddha Hall, Luohan Hall, Town God Temple, Confucian Temple, Sigong Temple, Wenshan and Animal Park. There are thousands of bodhisattvas with thousands of hands and eyes in the Thousand Buddha Hall, including good fortune, dragon girl, Wei Tuo and scattered fat attendants. The three temples reproduce the old temple system with ingenious models, and there are cultural relics of Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty outside the temple, which makes people's eyes wide open. Sigong Feed created Laizhou Taishou Yangzhen, who was clean and self-respecting in Qing Dynasty. Zhu Wannian, the magistrate of Laizhou, who is loyal and unyielding and willing to devote himself to the people of one city; Mao Ji, a college student of Dongge in Qing Zhong Geng Liang; Zhang Xin and Zhang Rui, the father and son who rebuilt the Thousand Buddha Pavilion. Wenshan is made of thousands of tons of exquisite stones, with fountains flying at the top of the mountain and waterfalls falling gently on the mountainside. Wenshan is surrounded by rare birds and beasts, and on both sides of Wenshan Qushui, it is a 151-meter-long ancestral hall of rural sages, which records the famous ministers and major events in the past dynasties who were born in Laizhou. The hall of new culture celebrities shows the achievements of new culture celebrities. The Thousand Buddha Pavilion also has a 12-meter-long Nine Dragon Wall, and nine Yunlong in marble relief are vivid. Thousand Buddha Pavilion not only has exquisite cultural relics landscape, but also condenses a history of Laizhou.

Dajishan Forest Park

Surrounded by peaks, there is a valley in the middle, also known as Taoist Valley. There are more than 31 kinds of trees, such as pine, cypress, locust, peach and plum, which are densely covered with plants, forming a beautiful forest landscape. In 1992, Dajishan Forest Farm was approved as a provincial forest park by Shandong Provincial Forestry Department. For thousands of years, this place has been a place for Taoist priests and Taoist nuns to cultivate their self-cultivation, and there are still Taoist temples and monuments. Qiu Chuji, a famous Taoist priest in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty and one of the seven real people of Quanzhen Sect, practiced here and left an inscription on the cliff in Xishan. The main peak of Daji Mountain is 478 meters above sea level, and there are 24 cliff carvings from the valley to the top of the mountain. Zheng Daozhao, a famous calligrapher and the secretariat of Gwangju in the Northern Wei Dynasty, left 12 inscriptions on this mountain in 512 AD. His main stone carvings include Poems on Mount Daji and Altar of China's Ming Dynasty, all of which were carved on the steep cliff in the mountain. On October 3, 1988, it was designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. Together with Zheng Daozhao's stone carving in Yunfeng Mountain, it has become an international calligraphy tourism line, receiving about 611 Japanese calligraphy groups every year.

Shenxian Cave

is located in the southeast of the city and belongs to the Taoist grottoes. The caves were artificially chiseled in the Yuan Dynasty, and there were 6 caves in which 36 stone sculptures of Taoist immortals were enshrined. The cave is divided into upper and lower floors, with four holes in the upper floor and two small holes in the lower floor. 36 snow white marble sculptures are key cultural relics under provincial protection. They are round in shape and solemn in expression. It is said in Shenxian Cave that Liu Changsheng, one of the seven real people of Quanzhen Sect, practiced in this mountain. Hundreds of meters down to the mountain forest in Shenxian Cave, there is a maple forest, which looks like a fire from a distance in late autumn. If you come in late autumn, you can also enjoy the late autumn red leaves while visiting places of interest in Shenxian Cave.

Gushan

Gushan is located 1.5km west of Li Jiacun, Yizhao Town. It is said that Han Xin, a general of the Western Han Dynasty, once lived in seclusion here, so it is also called Han Xinshan. The mountain range runs in the southeast and northwest, with a steep mountain and a flat top. Looking at the peaks of Gushan Mountain from the side, it looks like a "sleeping beauty". The local people also call it Xiunv Peak and Longnv Peak, with an altitude of 422.8 meters and a total area of 11 square kilometers.

famous local products

seafood

(1) Portunus is commonly known as big crab. Because there are three wart tumors on the dorsal nail, which look like a shuttle as a whole, it is named Portunus trituberculatus. Laizhou Bay beach is slow and steady, which is suitable for crab's habit of diving sand. More than a dozen rivers, such as Jiaolai River, Shahe River and Wanghe River, carry a lot of nutrients into the sea, which promotes the reproduction of plankton and prepares sufficient bait for crabs.

(2) Solenopsis gigantea is a kind of shellfish, which is abundant in the shallow sea area from Jiaolai River along the coast of Laizhou to the west. Thin skin and tender meat, delicious taste, is a very popular nutritional treasure. Local women have insufficient postpartum milk, so they use razor clam soup to promote lactation. Laizhou city has a resource area of tens of thousands of mu, and there are four kinds of species: large Sole, slender Sole and small Sole.

(3) Xi Shi Tongue, named after Xi Shi, an ancient Chinese beauty, is a bivalve mollusk. It is large, with a thin and smooth shell, and the top of the shell is reddish purple, which looks like Xi Shi's rosy cheeks. Laizhou is distributed along the coast, especially from Sanshan Island to Jiaolai Estuary. Xi Shi's tongue is rich in nutrition, its foot muscles are white, tender and delicate, and it tastes delicious, so it can be used as a variety of delicacies.

Chinese rose

Laizhou is known as the hometown of Chinese rose. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a young couple in Sichuan moved to the north of Laizhou and settled down. They love to grow flowers, and they planted the rose they brought when they left their hometown here. Since then, the village has been named Garden. Later, the rose in this village spread to the surrounding villages. There are more than 1,111 villages in Laizhou that cultivate roses, and almost every household has planted them. Laizhou has become a production base of roses, providing millions of roses to all parts of the country every year, so it is said that "Laizhou roses are all over the world". There are more than 311 varieties, among which bronze makeup, feather makeup, Guo light makeup and Feiyan new makeup are the traditional famous "four makeup roses". In recent years, Bai Xueshan, with the green waves of spring water, Mibo, Han Palace and Taohuawu, has been listed as the stars of the top ten famous products in the world. Blue Moon, White Rose, Garden Party, Laughter from China, New Berlin, Red Peace, Credit, Cauliflower Yellow and Apricot Yellow, which were selected as the top ten varieties in the first Chinese Rose Flower Competition in Beijing in 1981, were also cultivated in Yexian.

writing brush

There are more than 411 kinds of writing brushes in Laizhou. In order to export inspection-free products, they are sold to more than 21 countries and regions. The shape of the pen is Feng Ye-shaped, strong bamboo shoots-shaped and pagoda-shaped. According to the written materials, there are wolf hair, sheep hair, doubled both brush, purple hair (mountain rabbit hair), golden chicken hair, stone badger pen and fetal writing brush. According to the length of writing, there are big letters, middle letters and small letters. According to the purpose, there are pens, brushes, eyebrow pencils and so on. Pen holders are also varied, including Hunan Xiangfei Bamboo, Fujian Eichhornia Bamboo, buffalo horn, plexiglass, ivory, jade and so on. Laizhou brush has been selected, matched, padded, combed, rounded, repaired and smoothed for more than 121 processes. The raw material of the wolf's tip should be the male weasel's tail, which is suitable in length, straight and straight, thick and straight, and slender in front, so as to ensure the sharp tip and sufficient rigidity of the pen column; The cover hair of the written pen should choose the yellow tail hair of the female weasel, which is carefully made.

grass art

the most primitive prototype of grass art is grass braid, which has a history of more than 1,511 years in Laizhou. Inspired by braids, our ancestors used their dexterous hands to weave a variety of textured grass braids by crossing straw with different pressure. Later, the varieties gradually increased, and more and more daily necessities were made with them. By the Ming Dynasty, they spread at home and abroad through Zhili and Yuzhou. In the late 1951s, corn husk was used as the main raw material to produce daily necessities such as baskets, bags, satchels, tea mats, floor mats, straw hats, door curtains, fruit boxes, paper baskets and baby baskets, with thousands of varieties. After the 1971s, wheat straw stickers came out. It bleaches and dyes the wheat straw, and after cutting, shearing, punching, grabbing and tearing, it is made into something similar to bird feathers, animal hair, etc., and it is cleverly put together into a picture. It combines traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, meticulous painting and other arts, and is good at expressing flowers, birds, insects, fish and mountains and rivers. In recent years, the wheat straw paste box has stood out, with fine workmanship and various shapes, which is both practical and enjoyable, and has become a favorite art for tourists at home and abroad.

Stone

Laizhou is rich in stone resources. According to the national geological department, the total storage of exploitable stone in Laizhou is more than 3 billion cubic meters, accounting for 1/11 of the national storage. There are more than 21 varieties such as Shandong white hemp, cherry blossom red and crystal white jade. It is famous for its good hardness, bright color and no radioactive elements. In April, 2113, it was officially named "China Stone Capital" by China Stone Association. Relying on the advantages of resources, Laizhou's stone industry flourished, forming a perfect industrial system and unprecedented industrial scale such as mining, plate processing, special-shaped processing, craft carving and stone trading. Laizhou City has more than 3,111 stone enterprises, with an annual exploitation of nearly 511,111 cubic meters of stone waste, an annual processing of 25 million square meters of plates, and more than 51,111 pieces of sculptures and special-shaped stones.