1, Jinci:
Jinci is located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, formerly known as Jin Wang Temple and Tang Shuyu Temple. It was built in memory of Tang Shuyu, the founding emperor of Jin State (later called King Jin) and her mother city, Jianghou. Among them, South Lao Quan, Maid Statue and Bai Zhou are called the three wonders of Jinci.
Jinci Temple is the earliest existing imperial sacrificial garden in China, the ancestral hall of the State of Jin; It is the concentrated carrier of ancient architectural art in China. It is an isolated case with complete architectural types and time sequence during the period of Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China. The attached painted murals and stone tablets are all national treasures. It is a comprehensive carrier of the historical context of Sanjin.
2. Big Buddha Temple:
The Great Buddha Temple is also known as the Silent Temple. In Tutang Village, 20 kilometers northwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. Sitting in the north facing south, facing Fenshui in the east, the cypresses are towering and the trees are shaded. Inscription records that in the Han Dynasty, heaped-up mountains collapsed and fell into caves. The mound in the cave is as high as ten feet, which looks like a Buddha statue. It is said to be a landslide Buddha, which is the reason for the pure land of Buddhism, so the temple was built here. Because there is an ancient cypress next to the temple, which grows strangely, "strange cypress in the earth hall" is a scene in Taiyuan.
3. Shanxi Provincial Museum:
Shanxi Museum is located on the west bank of the beautiful Fenhe River in Taiyuan City, with an area of 168 mu and a building area of 5 1000 square meters. It consists of a main museum and four attached buildings. The main building is shaped like a tripod with four wings extended, symbolizing bumper harvest, prosperity, stability and good luck. The four-corner auxiliary buildings are office building, conference center, exhibition center and art center. It has become an important landmark cultural building in Taiyuan.
The basic exhibition of Shanxi Museum is based on the theme of "Jin Soul", which consists of seven historical and cultural topics, such as the cradle of civilization, traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties, the hegemony of Jin Dynasty, the melting pot of nationalities, the charm of Buddha style, the hometown of opera, Shanxi merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and five artistic topics, such as civil engineering, mountains and rivers elite, calligraphy and painting, world and porcelain garden.
4. Taishan Temple:
Taishan Temple, also known as Taishan Longquan Temple, is located at the foot of Fengyugou Mountain, 2 kilometers west of Jinyang Ancient City Site in Taiyuan City. At the foot of the mountain, there is the tomb of Li Cunxiao, a famous soldier of the Five Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty. The name "Mount Tai" first appeared in Song books. It is said that in the Five Dynasties, Liu Zhiyuan recruited soldiers, and Shi Gandang, a warrior of Mount Tai, applied for a large iron cone weighing 20 Jin. No one can beat him, so he is famous in Jinyang.
Here, the mountains are abrupt and towering, and the green cypresses are dripping, wrapping Longquan Temple in the middle. According to the old local chronicles, Longquan Temple was originally a Taoist temple of Haotian. It was built in the first year of Tang Jingyun (7 10) and was destroyed by war in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. 139 1 When Ming Hongwu was rebuilt in the 24th year, it was changed into a Buddhist temple, and five nearby temples such as Guanyin and Tongzi merged.
5. Tianlong Mountain Grottoes:
Located at the top of Longshan Mountain, 20km southwest of Taiyuan City, it is a rare Taoist grottoes in China. The Longshan Taoist Grottoes were dug in the early Yuan Dynasty, and there are eight caves: Virtual Emperor, Sanqing, Lieru, Zhen Xuan, Exorcist, Treasures and two Taoist temples. The stone carving style is simple, concise and solemn, and the clothing is simple, quiet and distinct, which is quite different from the Buddhist grottoes.
The above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Taiyuan, Shanxi