On the morning of April 8th, the expansion project of Yiyang-Changde Expressway and Xinhua-Xinning Expressway were officially started.

This also means that

there are some convenient and quick ways to travel

to show you around Hunan!

Up to now,

The scenic spots along the four major expressways in Hunan are charming,

These interesting scenic spots can be reached directly along the expressways!

1

Chengtoushan Site

Chengtoushan Ancient City, the earliest city in China, is located in Nanyue Village, Chexi Township, Lixian County, Changde City, Hunan Province. It is the site of the ancient city with the earliest discovery age, the richest cultural relics and the most complete protection in China, and it is also the site from the prehistoric Daxi culture to the Shijiahe culture in southern China.

The excavation area of the ancient city is 9, square meters, and a large number of precious cultural relics, such as ancient city ruins, clan tombs, large altars, rice fields with complete irrigation facilities, etc., have been unearthed successively. The ancient cultural site of Chengtoushan represents the development height of the ancient civilization in the Neolithic Age in the Yangtze River valley, and inherits the farming and rice-growing culture that originated 6, years ago.

2

Yueyang Tower and Junshan Island

Yueyang Tower, a world-famous "Yueyang Tower", has a history of 18 years and was once used as a military parade building for Lu Su, a general of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. Yueyang Tower in Hunan, Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi are also called "Three Famous Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River".

Yueyang Tower is characterized by "early construction, beautiful natural scenery, skillful construction technology and excellent lyrics and songs". Many literati and poets such as Meng Haoran, Li Bai and Du Fu left their poems and poems here, and celebrities of all ages came here to visit the Dongting. Junshan Island faces each other across the lake, and its profound cultural heritage contains romantic historical stories. Famous bamboo and Junshan Yinzhen tea, represented by Bambusa, were born here, and there is no better place to enjoy the scenery than this.

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Peach Blossom Garden

"Xanadu" Peach Blossom Garden, which has been personally verified by tourists of all ages.

Wu Lingren, who is engaged in fishing, mistakenly entered this place and became the most enviable fisherman in Tao Yuanming's works. Taohuayuan, a famous scenic spot for thousands of years, is located in Taoyuan County, Changde. It is a "thirty-five caves and forty-six blessed places" in the scenery belt of Yuanshui River, which started in Qin Dynasty, flourished in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. It is the prototype of Peach Blossom Spring in Ci Hai and Etymology, with neolithic remains.

4

Ziquejie Terrace

The terraced wonders formed by the growth of ancient rice are in Ziquejie, which has a long history of rice cultivation for 2 years.

in the spring ploughing season, the terraced fields all over the hillside, with the help of people from Ziquejie, are from 5 meters above sea level to 12 meters above sea level, forming a landscape of more than 5 terraces. The narrow field can only accommodate manual labor, and the ridges are angular and delicate like meticulous painting. Standing on a hill casually, rotating the body and perspective to take a look at it, and then take a look at the beautiful and quiet pastoral scenery that can't be seen, continuing the ancient Meishan culture.

Also built on the mountain are wooden frame and board houses where Miao, Yao and Han people live. The winding roads lead along the terraced fields to the wonderful natural mountain terraced fields and mountain streams.

6

Langshan

Langshan, a natural museum of Danxia landform, is a "treasure of Danxia" in the eyes of geologists.

It is a collection of tall and long "the first lane in the world", thrilling "Bajiaozhai", the first bridge in Asia, steep candle peak, handsome general stone, magnificent camel peak, gorgeous red cliff and Danxia landscape in different periods of Danxia landform development, which has incomparable aesthetic appreciation value and research value for ordinary mountain scenic spots. Coupled with its unique geographical position, Mount Lang has become Hunan.

7

Dongjiang Lake

"There is a lake in the sky on earth, and thousands of scenes are in it". In recent years, the fame of Dongjiang Lake has skyrocketed. Photographers and tourists from all over the world are full of yearning for this place where they can shoot magical ink-and-wash river scenes. They want to come here to see the beauty and explore the magical land.

I have to boast about the water in Dongjiang Lake. The drinking-grade water quality in the 16-square-kilometer lake area is clear and pure, and it is in the lake scenery, like a painting. The foggy Dongjiang River, Dongjiang Dam, Longjing Gorge, Doling Lingyan, Dongjiang Drifting, Antique Paintings, Sanxiang Sishui Dongjiang Lake Cultural Tourism Street (including Dongjiang Lake Stone Museum, Photography Art Museum and Humanities Xiaoxiang Museum) make every frame under your lens become a visual blockbuster and a cultural and artistic feast. When you come to Dongjiang Lake, you can experience luxury yachts, thrilling water parachuting, jet skiing and so on. These new tourism projects make you enjoy yourself.

8

Mount Jiuyi

On the occasion of Shun Di's southern tour, you visited Cangwu Mountain, and the "Mount Jiuyi" where Jiu Feng stands is well known. Since ancient times, it has been a famous mountain and a great river. The moving legend of Queen E and Nvying has been sung to this day, and the culture of Yao people has been passed down and carried forward at the foot of Jiuyi Mountain.

The main peak of Jiuyi Mountain is as high as 1985 meters, and other famous scenic spots along the way include Shunyuan Peak, Shun Di Temple, Sanfenshi, Ningyuan Confucian Temple, Zixia Rock and Yuyan Rock. As a community inhabited by Yao people, Yao songs and long drum dances are ceremonies for Yao people to celebrate the harvest and pray for blessings. The marriage custom of "sitting in a song hall" for Yao girls is full of Yao humor. Yao nationality's silver ornaments, embroidery, weaving, flower picking and other well-known national handicrafts are popular because of their exquisiteness.

1

Fenghuang Ancient City

Fenghuang, a famous and beautiful ancient city at home and abroad, is comparable to Old Town of Lijiang and Pingyao ancient cities, adjacent to Dehang Miao Village in Jishou, Mengdong River in Yongshun and Fanjing Mountain in Guizhou, and connected with Huaihua, Jishou and Tongren in Guizhou. It was once called "the most beautiful town in China".

The beauty of Phoenix can also be explored along the expressway to the destination. This national historical and cultural city, which was selected as the "town aesthetic model" in 219, contains profound national cultural heritage in its beautiful appearance.

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On the 23,-acre Caoshan landslide in nanshan pasture, 48 ping of fragrant grass and 48 streams flow slowly, and the boundless beauty is not lost to the northern prairie. The graceful state is a magical existence in Shan Ye, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The 8-mile-long Nanshan Lake, like the eye of the grassland, is hidden in the middle of the grassland.

nanshan pasture is located in Wutuan Town and Chang 'anying Town, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Shaoyang City. It is also the largest modern pasture in southern China, which nourishes the local people and prepares fresh food and beautiful grassland scenery for foreign guests.

3

Shennong Valley

The legendary place where Shennong collects herbs, are there any magical herbs growing here? There must be. Located in the Shennonggu Mountain Scenic Area in Yanling County and in the middle of Luoxiao Mountain range, Shennonggu is a "natural animal and plant gene bank" because of its rich animal and plant resources.

There are mountains, waters, streams and waterfalls in the valley, which are elegant, interesting, strange and dangerous. Shennong Waterfall with a drop of more than 17 meters is the first waterfall in the south, Zhulian Waterfall is a rare aseptic area in the world, and the legend of Black Dragon Pool has been passed down to this day.

4

Yandi Mausoleum

The Millennium Yandi Temple has experienced many vicissitudes here, and the descendants of the Chinese people are still in a high position in people's minds. The Yandi Mausoleum, the first mausoleum in China, is well-deserved.

As the resting place of Shennong, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yandi Mausoleum has been selected as the "China National Natural Heritage, Natural and Cultural Heritage Preparation List", and the "Yandi Mausoleum Festival" has also become the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in China, and has been successfully selected as one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Pro-cultural Events in the World". As the sons and daughters of the Yellow Emperor, it is suitable to come to the Yandi Mausoleum and pay tribute to a cultural event in Shennong.

5

Dawei Mountain Forest Park

This is the first peak in eastern Hunan, which is connected with the beautiful and magical Tonggu Mountain in Yichun, Jiangxi Province, and gave birth to the local mother river-Liuyang River.

In addition to the sea of azaleas in the mountains that tourists from inside and outside the province marvel at, Dawei Mountain also has a red cultural tourism landscape that can't be ignored. So far, there are still red tourist attractions such as the former Soviet site-Jinshou Hall ancient buildings, the former site of Baisha Shangping Conference, and the former site of the first Party Congress of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi-Chudongshan House.

6

Shiniuzhai

The "No.1 Village in the World" with a steep cliff of 1 Li and Danxia of 1 Li, which was once a military location on the border of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, was a spectacular mountain scene of Danxia composed of strange rocks, strange peaks and caves because of its dangerous terrain.

The precious cultural relics on Xingguo Cliff and the nectar of Xianren Sea are all worth exploring in this treasure stronghold.

1

Shaoshan

Shaoshan, the hometown of great men, is a national famous revolutionary memorial site, a national patriotic education base and a national key scenic spot. The typical southern courtyard-style buildings built around the mountains gather the atmosphere of heaven and earth, attracting tourists from home and abroad to commemorate the achievements of great men.

1

Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue

Hengshan Mountain, the "Five Mountains", is a famous Taoist and Buddhist mountain, with its rich sectarian culture and beautiful mountains and rivers, which makes it the first place with beautiful mountains and rivers in Nanyue, and it is called "36 caves and 72 blessed places".

zhurong peak, the main peak of Hengyang, is 13 meters above sea level, and 44 peaks are distributed here. There are more than 2 scenic spots and 11 scenic spots with different scenery, such as sunrise, sea of clouds, rime and snow, and ecological beauty such as clear springs, waterfalls, strange peaks and dense forests, making Nanyue a tourist attraction integrating range rover exploration, pilgrimage and blessing, and leisure and holiday.

3

Hot Water Drifting

Rucheng Hot Water Town is a place rich in natural hot spring resources. The hot springs here are called "the first hot spring in South China" because of their high water temperature, good water quality, large flow and radon-bearing springs. The radon element in natural hot springs is beneficial to human health and is a bathing place for health preservation.

around the hot spring of "soaking in hot springs in winter and drifting in summer", there are natural and cultural landscapes such as Xianren Bridge, Snail Mountain, Red Army Pool, Snail Tower, Feilai Stone, Primitive Sub-forest, Bamboo Sea, etc., and Feishuizhai Waterfall in the suburbs and Tianshan Grassland in the South China are free to fly.

4

Jiulong River National Forest Park

It has been rated as "the most beautiful forest in China" twice, and the scenery all the way from the core scenic spot of Jiulong Cliff to the alpine scenic belt of Jiulong Waterfall is like a fairyland on earth.

Explore the wonders of primitive sub-forests in the moist and refreshing nature. The scenic spots in the forest, such as Qingyun Lake, the turtle whistling in the sky, Guanyin sitting on the lotus, the fairy turtle patrolling the mountain, the Millennium ancient stumps, Longtan Waterfall, Yulian Waterfall and Bishuitan Waterfall, are durable and enjoyable, which is a journey to experience forest travel, adventure and health.

1

Chadong Border Town

The quiet ancient city on the border of western Hunan is famous at home and abroad for Shen Congwen's Border Town. "The crystal-clear river, the small town that is surrounded by mountains by water, the diaojiao building on the river street, the ferry that climbs the cable, the white tower that is related to the geomantic omen of the tea house, and the chirping of birds in the deep green bamboo raft ..." This is the impression of the border town written by Shen Congwen.

The novel describes the simple peasant life of people in the border town of western Hunan, and shows the goodness of human nature through the story of Cuicui, a boatman girl. The mountains and rivers here are more beautiful than those described in the book, and such beauty is now within reach. The simple customs here are described in the novel. When you come here, you can witness the pictures in the book with your own eyes.

2

furong town

The "Wang Village", the capital of the Tujia Dynasty in Qin and Han Dynasties, is located on the shore of Youshui River, which leads to Sichuan and Chongqing, and the Dongting Lake, and is known as "Chu Shu leads to Tianjin". Because the film furong town was filmed here, people called it furong town.

From the pier, the five-mile-long Qingshiban Road extends to the end of the ancient town. Wandering in the ancient streets, regaining the Tujia customs forgotten by the years. The folk museum in the "Diaojiaolou of Tujia Waterfall" has a collection of nearly 1 pieces of folk utensils with local flavor, such as hand-operated cotton machines and carved gums handed down from generation to generation, showing Tujia people's ancient and rich history and colorful Tujia brocade art.

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Wulingyuan Scenic Area

There are 3, strange mountains and peaks, and more than 2 peaks over 1, meters above sea level. One scene at a time, one step at a time, another scene in a blink of an eye.

Wulingyuan Scenic Area, which consists of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Cili Suoxiyu Nature Reserve, Sangzhi Tianzishan Nature Reserve and Yang Jiajie Scenic Area, has become a "natural maze, geological museum, forest kingdom, a hundred gardens of plants and a paradise of wild animals" with its unique natural and geographical conditions. In this place where the beauty of karst landforms is vividly displayed, 4 kinds of wild animals and nearly a thousand kinds of wild plants have also been sheltered by large forests and are happy to grow.

4

Yuelu Mountain

The majestic Lushan Mountain, a landmark attraction in Changsha, climbed Yuelu Mountain, halfway up the mountain, met the ancient Lushan Temple, the first scenic spot of Han and Wei Dynasties and the first scene of Hunan, and continued to climb to the top. The Dojo Yunlu Palace is located here. Yuelu Mountain, with towering ancient trees, enjoys a hundred flowers in spring and summer, enjoying red leaves in autumn and playing with snow in winter. It is a tourist attraction in Shan Ye with zero distance from the city.