Nanyang has a long history, beautiful mountains and rivers, and many cultural landscapes with profound cultural heritage and fascinating natural landscapes.

Nanyang is one of the first Nanyang tourist historical and cultural cities in China to be opened to the outside world. It currently has 8 national-level key cultural relics protection units, 64 provincial-level ones, and 14 museums with different themes.

Among them, Nanyang Government Office and Neixiang County Government Office are the best-preserved two-level government offices in China's feudal society.

The large area of ??dinosaur egg fossils discovered in Nanyang has caused a sensation in the world. The rare treasures unearthed from the Chunqiu Tombs in Danyang, the capital of Chu in Xichuan County, are famous far and wide. The ruins of the Chu Great Wall, known as the "Father of the Great Wall of China", have attracted attention.

There are currently 2 national nature reserves, 1 national forest park, and 1 provincial nature reserve.

Among them, Baotianman and Laojieling National Nature Reserves have unique landforms, good vegetation and picturesque scenery; Baotianman was included in the World Man and Nature Biosphere Reserve in 2001; Danjiangkou Reservoir Scenic Area in Xichuan County ranks first in Asia

The headwaters of large reservoirs and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project have attracted worldwide attention; the Xixia Dinosaur Egg Biological Relics Museum under construction will become a rare base for popular science education.

Neixiang County Government and Stork River Rafting have been ranked among the 4A-level scenic spots, Funiu Mountain Global Geopark has passed the national review, and Yejia Dazhuang Tongbai Heroes Memorial Hall has been listed among the top 100 red tourism classic scenic spots in the country.

The "Nanzhao Ape Man" site in Xinghua Mountain, 3 kilometers north of Yunyang Town, Nazhao County, is the birthplace of humans in the Central Plains.

In 1978, scientists collected an ape-man tooth fossil and a large number of Quaternary mammal fossils here. After identification by experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, they named it "Nanzhao ape-man", which is about 500,000 years old.

The ancient human sites in the middle Pleistocene 2000 BC are roughly the same age as the Zhoukoudian ape man in Beijing.

The Nanzhao ape-man fossil site is an important ancient human site discovered in China. It fills the historical gap of the Paleolithic culture in the Central Plains, expands the distribution range of ape-man in the Qinling region, and provides new materials for further research on the origin and development of humans.

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