During the Spring Festival, the most festive place in my city is Langzhong Ancient City.
After the Laba Festival, it is the New Year. The Laba Festival was just celebrated yesterday, and the next step is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is coming in a hurry. The wanderers who have been wandering for a year are already eager to return home. They are looking forward to this annual arrival and going home to have a reunion dinner.
Accompanying parents and children, visiting relatives and friends, this is the Chinese New Year festival that has remained unchanged for thousands of years. The Spring Festival is also the time change at the end of the year and the longest holiday of the year. People like it during the Spring Festival
Visit the ancient town, because this is the place where traditional Chinese culture is preserved and the flavor of the last New Year is preserved.
Langzhong Ancient City is located on the northeastern edge of the Sichuan Basin and the middle reaches of the Jialing River. The "5A" scenic area of ??Langzhong Ancient City has a total area of ??4.59 square kilometers, and the core area of ??the ancient city is 2 square kilometers.
As of 2015, the ancient city has a history of more than 2,300 years and was an important military town of the ancient Ba Kingdom and Shu Kingdom.
Langzhong Ancient City has 8 national key cultural relics protection units, including Zhangfei Temple, Yong'an Temple, Wulong Temple, Tengwang Pavilion, Guanyin Temple, Baba Temple, Dafo Temple, and North Sichuan Dao Gongyuan; there are Shaojiawan Tombs, Wenbi Pagoda, and Shishi Guanmo Cliff
There are 22 provincial-level cultural relics protection units including statues, Leishen Cave cliff statues, Niuwang Cave cliff statues, the former site of the General Political Department of the Fourth Red Army, and Huaguang Tower.
In February 2010, Langzhong City won the title of "Hometown of Chinese Spring Festival Culture"; in September 2013, Langzhong Ancient City Tourist Area was approved as a national 5A tourist attraction.
Speaking of Langzhong, it is one of the four ancient cities in China. It is as famous as the Ancient City of Pingyao in Shanxi, the Ancient City of Huizhou in Huangshan, Anhui, and the Ancient City of Lijiang in Yunnan. Langzhong Ancient City has rich cultural heritage, but it is not as famous and has as many tourists as the other three ancient cities.
Another feature of the ancient city of Langzhong is that it is the birthplace of Spring Festival culture. This younger generation may not know much about it. Spring Festival culture has existed since the Han Dynasty and has lasted for more than two thousand years.
During the Spring Festival, Langzhong Ancient City is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, making it festive and joyful. In 2020, Langzhong Ancient City held a grand New Year event (the world's largest lantern was unveiled in Langzhong Ancient City), which greatly increased its popularity.
There are many performances during the Spring Festival in Langzhong Ancient City: Northern Sichuan shadow puppetry, lanterns, Taiping Cow Lanterns, paper-cutting, Langzhong Nuo opera with living fossils, affectionate and beautiful folk songs, banging songs and other folk Spring Festival activities. In fact, I have been to Langzhong Ancient City to experience the Spring Festival culture.
Only people know how grand the Spring Festival culture is in Langzhong.
The ancient city of Langzhong is surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on one side. It has beautiful scenery and has been known as "Langyuan Wonderland" since ancient times. It has a history of more than 2,300 years and was the capital of Ba Kingdom in the middle of the Warring States Period.
· Langzhong Ancient City has 8 national key cultural relics protection units, including Zhangfei Temple, Yongan Temple, Wulong Temple, Tengwang Pavilion, Guanyin Temple, Baba Temple, Dafo Temple, and North Sichuan Daogongyuan.
The ancient city of Langzhong is famous for its food culture. There are beef and mutton offal noodles, pulled noodles in soup, northern Sichuan jelly, hot jelly and other food and snacks that are full of the folk customs of the ancient city.
Geographical location Langzhong Ancient City is located in the northern part of the Sichuan Basin, in the middle reaches of the Jialing River, bordering Yilong and Bazhong to the east, south to the south, Jiange to the west, Cangxi to the north, and 300 kilometers away from the provincial capital Chengdu.
Climatic Characteristics Langzhong Ancient City belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, with a mild climate, abundant rainfall, and moderate sunlight.
The average annual temperature is 17℃.
The extreme maximum temperature is 39℃ and the minimum temperature is -4.6℃.
The annual frost-free period is 290 days, the average annual sunshine is 1379.8 hours, and the average annual precipitation is 1033.9 mm.