Shaolin Temple was built in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 495). It was built by Emperor Xiaowen to settle the Indian monk Posto. Built in the dense forest of Songshan Mountain, it was named "Shaolin Temple". In the third year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 527), Dharma, an Indian monk, came to Shaolin and lived in a natural cave in Wurufeng, Shaoshi Mountain for nine years, where he first preached Zen. At this point, Shaolin is called "the ancestral home of Zen". In the early Tang Dynasty, thirteen stick monks such as Zhijian and Tanzong of Shaolin Temple made great contributions in the battle against the king and were praised by the rulers. During this period, due to the strong support of the court, Shaolin Temple developed rapidly and won the reputation of "the first temple in the world", and Shaolin Kung Fu became famous from then on. The Ming Dynasty reached its peak. During the Republic of China, Shi Yousan, a warlord, released most of the buildings in blazing temple, and the Millennium foundation was destroyed. After the founding of New China, with the care and support of the Party and the country, Shaolin Temple was revived. In particular, a film "Shaolin Temple" by 1982 made Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Kungfu popular all over the world and became the top tourism products in Henan and even the world.
Since the establishment of Shaolin Temple, Zen, martial arts and medicine have enjoyed a world-renowned and enduring reputation, and accumulated rich historical and cultural connotations. It was rated as "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Zhengzhou City" and the first batch of "4A-level scenic spots" in China, with an annual reception of more than 6.5438+0.5 million tourists. It is a veritable tourist pearl in the Central Plains and a tourist attraction in China.
Address: West of Dengfeng City, Henan Province12km.
Opening hours: all day
2. Songshan
Mount Songshan
At sunrise, the wormwood mountain falls, the birds are startled by the morning bell, the water in the forest is gurgling, and the grass is green on the slope ... "。
A melodious "Pastoral" is still exciting. The beautiful scenery of Shaolin Temple has long been vividly remembered by this beautiful song. Songshan, the world's first Shaolin Temple, is located in the northwest of Dengfeng City, Henan Province. Its main body consists of two mountains, Taishi Mountain and Shao Shi Mountain.
Songshan Mountain is known as the museum of China's historical development, which integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and has many historical sites. Among them, there are six places in China: Shaolin Temple and Zen Ancestral Court; The largest Tallinn in existence-Tallinn in Shaolin Temple; The oldest existing pagoda ―― Song Yue Temple Pagoda in Northern Wei Dynasty: the oldest existing pagoda ―― Han Sanque; The oldest cypress ―― Han Feng's "General Cypress": the oldest existing stargazing platform ―― Gaocheng Stargazing Platform in Yuan Dynasty. In addition, the Zhongyue Temple at the foot of Huang Feng Mountain in Taishi Mountain was founded in Qin Dynasty and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties. It is the largest existing temple complex in Henan Province. Songyang Academy is magnificent, simple and elegant. Song Dynasty, Suiyang Academy, Yuelu Academy and Bailudong Academy were also called the four major academies. In addition, the verdant and quiet Fawang Temple, Xuanyuanguan, which is on the verge of returning to the environment, and Li Xueting, who is seeking dharma with a broken arm in Hui Ke, are all treasures of China's humanistic scenery.
Where can there be so many Zen collections, only Songshan! ! Take a look at the quiet and mysterious Buddhist resort and feel the purity and exquisiteness there, which may become the beautiful wish of every tourist who likes it.
Address: Dengfeng, Henan Province
Opening hours: all day
3. Henan Museum
Henan Museum is one of the earliest museums in China. Its predecessor was the Henan Provincial Museum. 1927 In July, under the strong advocacy of General Feng Yuxiang, the preparatory committee for "Henan Museum" was established, and the museum site was located in Sanshengmiao Street, Kaifeng City. After the changes of the times, Henan Museum is welcoming visitors with a brand-new attitude. Henan Museum, located in Nongye Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, is a national key museum, one of the earliest museums established in China, and one of the first national museums jointly built by the central and local governments. This statue stands at the entrance of the main exhibition hall of Henan Museum-a man pushes away two elephants, which means that the appearance of human beings has occupied the Central Plains ruled by wild animals for a long time, pushed open the door of civilized history and created splendid ancient culture. Henan is called Yu for short. The word "Yu" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions refers to people holding elephants, which shows from another side that there were elephants in primitive times. If you want to know the history of Henan, the Henan Museum is worth a visit to learn about Henan and its history.
Address: the middle section of Nongye Road, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Summer, 09:00- 17:30
Admission is closed at 09:00- 17:00 in winter. Time: 16:30.
Closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays)
4. Erqi Square
Erqi Square-the most prosperous business district in Zhengzhou and the largest and most representative business district in Henan Province. Located in the center of Zhengzhou, the square is surrounded by Hualian Department Store, Shopping Center, Department Store, Asian Shopping Center, International Friendship Plaza, Zheng Hong Famous Shop, Jinboda Shopping Center, Dennis Shopping Center, Book Shopping Center and hundreds of small and medium-sized shops and restaurants, which is a must-see for foreign tourists. Erqi Memorial Tower is located in the center of Erqi Square, which was built to commemorate the workers' strike of Han Jing Railway/KLOC-0 on February 7, 1923. It is a reinforced concrete structure, with a height of 63m and a floor of * * * 1.4, in which there are 3 floors in the tower foundation and 1 1 floor in the tower body. The top corner of each floor is an antique cornice and covered with green glazed tiles. There is a bell tower at the top of the tower, with six big clocks, 2.7 meters in diameter, and the music of Dongfanghong is played on the hour. The bell is melodious and melodious, stretching for several kilometers. The plane of the tower is two pentagons connected with the east and the west, which is a single tower from the east and a double tower from the north and south. On one side of the tower is a spiral staircase, and on the other side is an exhibition room. Visitors can climb to the top of the tower Overlooking the city at night, all kinds of colored lights shine from the inside out, making the Twin Towers more colorful.
Address: No.2 West Street1
Opening hours: all day
5. san huang Zhai
San huang Zhai is a natural hut hanging at the waist of Shaoshi Mountain. The whole scenic spot is steep and slippery, and the top of the mountain is flat and wide. It has the characteristics of being the hero of Mount Tai, the danger of Huashan, the wonder of the north and the beauty of the south, and is famous for its strange peaks, dangerous roads, strange rocks and beautiful scenery in the Central Plains. In spring and summer, the green forest is lush and the flowers are overflowing; In late autumn, the forest is dyed and the mountains are red; Huang San (Emperor Ren Huang), a rare natural landscape in northern China, danced the silver snake dance in Yanshan Mountain. Named to commemorate the pioneering work of ancestors in Songshan, and visited the temples and palaces in Songshan. Only the gods enshrined here are divorced from the three religions and are dedicated to ancestors. There was a couplet saying, "If you jump out of the world of mortals, people will make a hole in the white clouds."
Huang Zhai Scenic Area has unique natural scenery, rich cultural landscape and beautiful forest environment. The main cultural landscapes are Lotus Temple, Wei Qing Palace, Anyang Palace, Huang San Temple, Pangu Cave and Huangyu Temple. There are dozens of natural landscapes such as Haohanpo, Longji Gorge, Monkey View Sea of Clouds, Tiger Stone, Dragon Head, Dragon Tail, Camel Stone, Xiangmenguan, Yixiantian, Feilai Stone, Suspension Bridge, Sanxian Stone, Shilin, Thousand Buddhas, Hanging Plank Road and so on. It is a famous tourist attraction for mountaineering, fitness, leisure sightseeing and exploration.
Address: Shaolin Scenic Area in Songshan Mountain, Dengfeng, Henan.
Opening hours: 8:00- 17:00.
6. Yellow River Tourist Area
The Yellow River Tourist Area is located 30 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou. It faces the majestic Yueshan Mountain in the south and the surging Yellow River in the north. Magnificent scenery of rivers and mountains, long-standing cultural landscape, and a series of unique geographical features, such as the starting point of the "hanging river" on the ground, the end point of the Loess Plateau and the dividing line between the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, make it a provincial-level scenic spot integrating sightseeing, scientific research, promoting Chinese culture and popular science education, and become the leader of the national tourist line-the Yellow River tour.
Address:No. 1, South Bank of Yellow River, Zhengzhou, Henan.
Opening hours: 9: 00- 18: 00.
7. Songyang College
Songyang Academy was founded in the eighth year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 484). Located at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, 2.5 kilometers north of Dengfeng City, with Ji Junfeng as its back and Shuangxi River as its face, it is named after being located in the sun of Songshan Mountain. Songyang Academy is a famous institution of higher learning in ancient China, which is famous for Neo-Confucianism in history. Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, masters of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty, once gave lectures here, which made the Academy famous. At that time, together with Yingtian Academy in Suizhou, Henan Province, Yuelu Academy in Hunan Province and Bailudong Academy in Jiangxi Province, it was called the four major academies in the Song Dynasty. Sima Guang, Fan Zhongyan, Li Gang, Zhu and Lu Hui, famous Neo-Confucians in the Northern Song Dynasty, also gave lectures here. The organizational system of Songyang Academy is simple, elegant and generous. There are more than 0/00 houses/kloc, covering an area of 10000 square meters. The central axis is Wujin Courtyard. On the west side of the academy, there are two huge copper pots named "General" and "Second General". "Erjiang" cypress is over 4,000 years old and is the oldest existing cypress in China. Outside the gate of Songyang Academy, there is a Tang Dynasty monument, which was carved in Tianbao, the third year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 744). It is of great value in the history of calligraphy in China, and it is the largest existing monument in Henan Province.
Address: 3 kilometers north of Dengfeng, Zhengzhou, Henan.
Opening hours: 8:00- 17:00.
8. Shaolin Tallinn
Located at the foot of the mountain 400 meters west of Shaolin Temple, it is the tomb of eminent monks in Shaolin Temple. In the tower, the souls of the dead or their clothes are usually buried. Because of the large number of towers, they are scattered like forests, so they are named Tallinn. Tallinn is the place with the largest number of ancient pagodas in China, with more than 240 masonry pagodas, covering an area of14000m2.
The level of the tower is generally one to seven, and the highest tower can reach 15 meters. Its shapes are square, rectangle, hexagon, circle, cylinder, cone, bottle, trumpet and so on. According to the Buddhist system, only after the death of a famous monk, will a palace tower be erected and a stone record be carved to show merit. Therefore, the differences in the shape, height, masonry and carving art of the tower all reflect the status, achievements and prestige of the deceased in Buddhism before his death.
These towers, with various shapes and rich inscriptions, are valuable materials for studying the history of Buddhism in China and ancient masonry, calligraphy and sculpture. There are many famous pagodas in Tallinn, such as Fawan Pagoda, Zhu Gong Zen Master Pagoda, Gong Yu Pagoda, Quiet Monk Pagoda, Zhao Gong Pagoda and Hill Monk Pagoda.
Address: Northwest of Dengfeng, Zhengzhou 15km Shaolin Temple in Shaoshishan Scenic Area, Songshan Mountain.
Opening hours: 8:00- 17:00.
9. Kang Million Manor
"Kang Million" is a general term for Kang Yingkui's family since Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is famous all over the world because of the gift from Empress Dowager Cixi.
Kang Yingkui's family, from the sixth ancestor Kang Shaojing to the eighteenth generation Kang Lanting, has been rich for more than 400 years. In history, more than ten people, such as Kang Dayong, Kang Daoping and Kang Hongyou, were called "Kang Million", among which Kang Yingkui in the middle of Qing Dynasty was the most representative. On the basis of his predecessors, he took advantage of the opportunity of suppressing Anbalism in the Qing Dynasty to "get rich by loyalty". He is richer than three provinces and six rivers, with land of 6.5438+0.8 million mu and countless wealth. People call him "Jingyang, Xi, Linyi, Jinan; Horses run thousands of miles without eating other grass, and people walk thousands of miles near Kangjiatian! "Won for a while. Kang Million made a fortune by river transportation, land and "contribution", and was rewarded by the emperor for many times, with the highest official reaching the third class and being awarded the title of county magistrate for many times. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Kang Million, Shen Wansan and Ruan were called the three "living gods of wealth" by China people. During the Republic of China, "Liu in the east, Zhang in the west and Lao Kang in the middle" was one of the three richest people in the Central Plains. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kang Million Manor in Henan, Liu Manor in Sichuan and Mouerhei Manor in Shandong were called the three major manors in China. Kang Million Manor, as the first of the three manors, is open to the outside world, causing a sensation in Henan and being famous all over the country.
Address: Kangdian Town, 3km west of gongyi city, Henan. City 1 1 bus goes directly to the scenic spot.
Opening hours:
Summer: 8: 00-19: 30; Winter: 8: 00- 18: 30.
10. Erqi Memorial Tower
Erqi Memorial Tower, located in Erqi Square, Zhengzhou City, is built in 197 1, with reinforced concrete structure. It is the unique antique twin towers in China, and it is a memorial building built to commemorate the strike of workers on the Beijing-Han Railway. In 2006, it was listed as the national key cultural relics protection unit and the youngest national key cultural relics protection unit in China (built in 197 1 with a history of less than 42 years).
Address: Erqi Square, No.230 Erqi Road, Erqi District (near the railway station)
Opening hours: 08:30- 18:30.