When it comes to Zigong, what is the first thing that comes to mind? If it is recent, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely the Zigong Lantern Festival, but in Zigong, you can go to play the scenic spots and attractions can be more than just these, the following is a brief introduction to a part of the scenic area, you can go to play yo.

February 22, 2021 from the park, the end of the time is not yet determined

Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival

Daily 15:00-22:30 park, holiday extended to 23:00

Daily light time: 19:00

Location: Zigong Chinese Illuminations World

Every year, from mid-January to mid-March, the Zigong International Dinosaur Illumination Festival (www.zgdenghui.cn), which began in 1987, decorates its main venue, the Illuminations Park, with neon splendor and crowds of people. Especially between the first and the fifteenth day of the first month, the crowds and traffic reach extreme levels. Since 2017, Zigong City has begun to set up branch venues in Rongxian Big Buddha and Dinosaur Museum to spread out the trend. The venues charge admission fees during the lantern festival.

Peach Blossom Festival

March-May 2021

Zigong Jianshan Scenic Area

From mid-March to mid-April, the scenic areas of Flying Dragon Gorge, Jianshan and other scenic spots will be filled with pink peach blossoms gradually, which is a great sight. The park will also host cultural performances, souvenir fairs and other activities. Due to the concentrated flow of people, single-circle traffic control will be implemented, and the Huidong bus terminal will also open the flower-appreciation tour bus.

Zigong Dinosaur National Geopark

Next to the exit of the Dashanpu highway in Zigong

Welcome to Jurassic World! Although the sound of the dinosaurs entering the park is a bit broken, and there are no running big guys here. But when you walk into the archaeological excavation site of "Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group" in the ruins museum, and compare your height with the dozens of meters high restored dinosaur fossil skeleton, it's still quite shocking. On the second floor, you can enjoy the rare dinosaur fossils such as the "Peaceful Yongchuan Dragon Head Bone", the "Primitive Chinese Dragon Bird" with feathers and a pile of giant "dragon eggs". A looped documentary plays on the wall, gently narrating the epochal significance of each display case.

The museum is surrounded by a green park with flower gardens, and there are several dinosaur sculptures on the slopes of the water, making it a great place to take a stroll and reminisce about a journey that took hundreds of millions of years. Zigong city to take 35, 306 road and other buses to the terminal station Zigong East Station, walk 800 meters to the east will be visible on the grass arc-shaped white Geopark gate.

_Haijing

No. 383 Da'an Street

The _(shēn) Haijing, which was made famous by "Tip of the Tongue in China 2," was drilled in 1835, and was the world's first over 1,000-meter-deep well, and produced both brine and gas. At its peak, there were as many as 198 wells in an area of 1.2 square kilometers (the equivalent of 200 soccer fields), which could be described as a "heavenly vehicle", aerosol, and drove the rise of the local salt market, as well as giving rise to the mouth-watering Yan Gang cuisine.

Today, this place has become an attraction, retained the wooden pestle and mortar, derrick, heaven and earth rollers, the earth car and other complete mining equipment, but the car under the artificial brine has become a performance project (20 yuan / time, the team must make a reservation). Instead of dense stove room, bare shoulders salt workers busy in eight white crystal pots between the inheritance of wells produced natural gas boiling salt century-old process, the scene makes people quite moved. The daily output of finished salt is sold in the kiosk. Walk 700 meters southwest along Daan Street out of the scenic area gate, and the popular local Changshengmian is a good place to settle for lunch.

Zigong Salt History Museum

Jiefang Road No. 107

Singing and dancing next to the bustling plaza, a ebony gleaming heavy eaves gate silent stone lions, as the Shaanxi salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty, the construction of the capital of the West Qin Guild Hall, which became the new residence of the Salt Museum of History in 1959. It is also worth visiting for the magnificent and incomparable ancient architecture and rich knowledge of salt. As a specialized museum, there are thoughtful QR code explanations and interesting science experiences. Seemingly boring "well salt science and technology history" and "Zigong salt tax history" thematic exhibition, with "hands-on props + model" display, reproduced the Han Dynasty well salt production, the Qing Dynasty natural gas extraction The exhibition is organized in a "hands-on props and models" display that reproduces scenes of well salt production in the Han Dynasty and natural gas mining in the Qing Dynasty, making unfamiliar principles easy to understand.

There is also a more complete collection of ancient Dun drilling tools, preserving the well stove business contract, Iwaguchi book, account books and other artifacts of high research value from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The museum will be three courtyards of the corridor as a pavilion, strolling among them, both for Zigong proud salt history to marvel at, but also enjoy the courtyard ancient style of gardening interest. The nearest bus stop to the museum is Shawan Station, which is a 5-minute walk from the bus stop.

Local Knowledge - Silk-like "Gong Fan"

Locals say that the three best things about Zigong are the Gong fan, paper-cutting and tie-dyeing, with the Gong fan being the most famous. This originated in the Qing Dynasty in the same year of craftsmanship, from the preparation of materials and silk to weaving are a pair of hands and a knife, all hand-woven. A fan of bamboo silk is as shiny and crystalline as silk, and has a toughness that makes it seem as if it can be broken by blowing. Landscapes, birds and flowers, or cursive calligraphy are outlined on the surface of the fan, which is extremely elegant. Gong Fan has been passed down for 130 years, and has been taken over by the fifth generation. Due to the high technical requirements, it has not been mass-produced in the market. If you are interested in this craft, the craft store (8:30-17:30) next to the Salt History Museum's main gate is the only store selling them, with prices ranging from 8,800 to 13,000 yuan for a Gong fan.

Zigong's "Salt Cuisine" benefits from the city's long history of salt production and is famous for its boiled and cold beef dishes with lots of peppers and ginger, as well as various ways to eat rabbit meat.

Tongxing Road, as a food hub, is not only home to brightly lit local and foreign chain restaurants, but also to sidewalk stalls lined with kebabs and barbecues as night falls. Here are a few of our recommendations:

Daan Roasted Beef

Can't stand the heavy flavor of hemp? This restaurant, featuring a variety of braised beef dishes, will soothe tired stomachs. Beef roasted with white bamboo shoots, radish and potatoes is tasty, the beef is crispy and flavorful, and the steamed beef is a generous portion. There are also several branches in Zigong.

Spicy Granny

This little restaurant tucked away in a deep alley won't disappoint. Fish and rabbit are the main focus, with the spicy pot fish fresh and flavorful, and the mushroom rabbit with special mushrooms underneath the meat slices with the rabbit bones removed, making the slices of rabbit meat tender and juicy, with a great taste. If you don't care too much about the dining environment, you'll be satisfied.

Laojie Rabbit

The restaurant is famous for its Salt Gang cuisine, and the staff are very welcoming. The must-order is the fresh pot rabbit and cold rabbit, and there is also radish soup to relieve the spiciness. If you're afraid of spicy or greasy food, remember to talk to the waiter in advance.

Xianshi Ancient Town

Xianshi Ancient Town is exactly as its name suggests, a piece of Daiwu Gray Brick on the banks of the Buxi River, with the palace and temple of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties flying over it. Here as the Zigong well salt out of Sichuan must pass through the town and the flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Nowadays, although lonesome, but well-preserved four streets, four fences, five temples, three wharves and ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in southeast Sichuan ancient towns are also quite rare.

The ancient town does not charge an entrance fee, the streets are randomly walking around, an hour will be able to visit. The women on the main street are picking iron pots in the grocery store, not far from the fishing tackle store sitting in front of the boss of the pipe. Follow the path and then turn into the half of the street, into the red walls and tiles, carved beams and painted Buddhist temples. The remaining heavenly palace and Nanhua Palace in the late Qing Dynasty are lined with Buddha statues and are filled with incense all year round. Exquisite wood carvings and stone carvings, allowing cats and dogs to play on them. Through the Zhao Puchu inscription of the "Jinqiao Temple" plaque, to walk along the stream in front of the old tea-horse road, under the trees of the stone is quiet, the riverbank also has the late Ming and early Qing dynasty salt dock site.

To find the wealth of salt merchants, the Chen Family Ancestral Hall with its high walls and warped eaves, the majestic hall, and the stone pillars imitating the European style, you can feel the splendor of the salt gangs during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, exhibitions are held here from time to time. Last but not least, don't forget to go up the small road from the visitor center. The location of the town health center offers a panoramic view of the town and is rated as one of the best spots for photography. For a taste of life in Xian City, the Salt Gang Inn's spacious and modern rooms have a view of the Buhe River, and the 3-story inn also has an elevator. Next to the inn is the restaurant of the same name, which produces tasty Salt Gang dishes such as boiled beef.

Fushun

The food economy is in full swing, and "Fushun Douhua" is the main reason many people travel 30 kilometers southeast from Zigong. But if you have spare time, the backstreets on the west bank of the Tuojiang River have preserved a relatively large number of ancient dwellings, Fushun Wenmiao (Wenmiao Street No. 153; admission 40 yuan; 9:00 ~ 17:00) is a rare domestic well-preserved Song Dynasty architecture, its dragons, phoenixes, lions and lions carved into the building for the first time. Red walls surrounded by the Temple of Literature is located in the lively old streets, walk into the wall, simple and ornate Scholar's Bridge and latticework door first to Confucianism solemn shock.

Continue along the axis of the three courtyards all the way uphill, the temple clay, wood carvings, stone figures and flowers, dragons, phoenixes and beasts must be savored. The most people enjoy the Ming Dynasty "naked boy" ceramic statue at the top of the Chongsheng Temple tower-style tripod, wearing only a belly band, its origin experts have not been able to give a conclusion. After the ancestral temple is Jingyi Pavilion, Pavilion, according to the Tang Dynasty Wu Daozi painted, stone tablets engraved full-body sitting statue of Confucius, but unfortunately badly damaged. To the north of the Temple of Literature is the West Lake, which was dredged in the Song Dynasty, and the newly renovated pavilions and water pavilions have become a gathering place for local singers. In the summer time, the lake lotus bloom, has its own ancient meaning. The west side of the lake halfway up the mountainside there is the Thousand Buddha Temple (admission 3 yuan; 8:00 ~ 17:00), flying eaves and red walls of the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, is now also a new repair, incense.

The reputation of the temple has spread far and wide, making Fushun "the place to be for douhua". The white, tender and smooth bean flowers, with a bowl of chili peppers, bean curd, soybean oil and a variety of spices and other dipping sauce, plus a bowl of refreshingly sweet bean flower cellar water, these three are called "a set". Li Er douhua is the most famous local douhua store. Temple of the west side of the Yu three bean flower rice and a thousand Buddha Temple near the foot of the turntable Fan Wu bean flower store, recommended by the neighbors.