The tourist attractions of Yingxian Wooden Pagoda include the tour route, understanding the history of the Wooden Pagoda, the focus of the tour and so on.

1. Tour route

Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is located in Yingxian City, Shanxi Province. Generally, it is a self-driving tour or a group tour. It is a must-have attraction in Datong's tour route. The time for traveling with a group to tourists is about 4 minutes to an hour, which is enough for ordinary tourists. However, for those who like history and ancient architecture and want to savor this Millennium Wooden Pagoda, it is best to travel independently.

2. Understand the history of the wooden pagoda

The wooden pagoda was built in 156, the second year of Qing and Ning in Liao Dynasty, when Liao was in the same period as Jin and Song Dynasties. Yingxian County is the border of Liao and Song Dynasties, and the well-known story of Yang Jiajiang took place several tens of kilometers around here. Liao built this tower, one is to worship the religious belief of Buddha's tooth relic, the other is to show off its strength to other countries, and the other important thing is its military function. Due to the huge project, it took 14 years to complete the construction, and all the additions and repairs have been completed in the four years of Ming Chang in the Jin Dynasty.

3. Highlights of the tour

The wooden archway gate was built in the Qing Dynasty, with four pillars hanging from the top of the mountain on the third floor. On both sides of the wooden archway, there are 2 meters long and .5 wide m blue horizontal plaques with black characters on white background. On the front, it is a "floating picture treasure temple" and on the back, it is a book written by Fu Dengrong, Yingzhou in the sixth year of Kangxi (AD 1667).

Yingxian specialty food recommendation:

1. Yingxian bean jelly

Yingxian bean jelly is made of potato starch. It is a local snack with unique flavor. There are four seasons of selling stalls on the street. Every summer, there are many bean jelly stalls, and streets and lanes abound.

2. Yingxian dough sheet

Yingxian dough sheet is a common delicacy made of pure white flour in Yingxian county, and it is a rare natural green food suitable for all seasons.

3. Beef loin in Yingxian County

Beef loin in Yingxian County is a traditional snack in Shanxi Province, which belongs to pasta. It is a kind of Yingxian cuisine that originated in the middle of Qing Dynasty. Its color is like coffee, soft and sweet. According to legend, in the mid-Qing Dynasty, there was a restaurant shopkeeper named Yu Yi in Yingxian City who mixed white flour and syrup, kneaded them into small cakes, fried them in a frying pan with fried dough twists, fished them out and ate them. The taste was sweet and moist, and the more you chewed them, the more fragrant they were, and the color was very similar to that of cooked beef loin, hence the name Yingzhou beef loin.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yingxian Wooden Pagoda