If you are visiting Fuzhou, you must not miss these scenic spots. In addition, there are also some delicacies you can try. There may be some differences between local delicacies and delicacies in other cities, but generally Part of it is still fine, you can feel it for yourself. Fuzhou City

Three Lanes and Seven Alleys

There are two types of people who like Three Lanes and Seven Alleys. A South Back Street can satisfy impatient tourists with one-stop shopping, dining, and entertainment; and for fans of literature, history and architecture, the layout of the streets, Ming and Qing architecture, and countless modern celebrities are more eye-catching.

Three Lanes and Seven Alleys is the representative of the inner lanes in the ancient city of Fuzhou. It originated in the Jin Dynasty, was built in the late Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are actually only two lanes and five alleys in existence. Touring the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys can be done on the main road of South Back Street.

The famous Fuzhou snacks such as Yonghe fish balls, Mujin meatballs, Tongli meatballs, etc. are all on this street. If you want to catch all Fuzhou snacks, this is a time-saving and worry-free choice. The Fujian Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Center can give you a general understanding of Fujian folk crafts. Although most of the buildings have been rebuilt now, several houses still retain the style of that time. If you go from north to south, the former residence of Lin Juemin will be to the west at the intersection. In "A Letter to My Wife", Lin Juemin wrote that "the house in the back street is a place for you and me to live in" refers to this small courtyard. Later tenant Bing Xin also mentioned many times her childhood spent here.

On the first Langguan Lane on the east side, you can see the former residence of Yan Fu, where the "first person in Western learning in China" spent the last two years of his life. The main building of the courtyard is in typical Qing style, while the corridors and railings of the flower hall have a large number of Western-style decorations. Ermei Bookstore is a small bookstore owned by Lin Xingzhang, a Jinshi during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. It is named after the two plum trees visible through the window. The whole hospital is now the Fujian Provincial Folklore Museum, but the complicated gold paintings and wood carving patterns on the nanmu doors and windows are more exciting than the exhibits.

Continuing to the south, the waterside stage is the largest house in the whole house. The waterside stage in the flower hall of the courtyard is surrounded by water on three sides, with rockeries and snow caves as background. Nowadays, there are ethnic instrumental music performances here every day (10:30, 15:30), and you can experience the elegant scene of dignitaries listening to music across the water.

The former residence of Lin Congyi is the residence of the second son of Lin Zexu. It has a magnificent layout. Especially worth seeing are the wooden components such as the moon beam, the bird stand, and the brackets, which are beautiful in shape and exquisitely carved. It is now the Fuzhou Lacquer Art Museum, where you can appreciate the bodiless lacquerware and lacquer paintings, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuzhou".

Gushan

Climbing Gushan, going to Yongquan Temple to burn incense, and drinking Shuiyan tea have always been favorite activities of Fuzhou people. The starting point of the ancient stone steps trail to climb Gushan Mountain is right next to the lower courtyard cableway station of Gushan Mountain. It takes about an hour to climb to Yongquan Temple. Fortunately, there is a pavilion at every section of the ancient road where you can rest. There are also advertisements from the Republic of China period among the cliff carvings of literati along the way. You might as well look for them.

The Yongquan Temple located halfway up the mountain is the most important attraction in Gushan. The thousand-year-old iron tree, the chicken silk wood offering table and the Blood Sutra book in the temple are collectively called the "Three Treasures" of Zhenshan. There is also a pair of ancient pagodas made of ceramics in front of the main hall. On both sides of the Lingyuan Cave to the east of the temple, there are more than 200 cliff stone carvings since the Song Dynasty, known as the "Southeast Forest of Steles". Among them are the "Forgetting Stone" written by Cai Xiang, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, and "Gundam" written by Zhu Xi, a Neo-Confucian master. The 4-meter long birthday is not to be missed.

There is a drinking rock next to Lingyuan Cave. The mountain spring water seeping out of the faucet is said to be the best for making tea. There is a teahouse next to the spring to receive tea guests. Locals love to bring their own tea here, brew a pot of good tea, and enjoy the mountain breeze to wash away the fatigue of mountaineering.

Guhuan Highway

Gushan is a traditional scenic spot loved by Fuzhou people, while Guling is a new resort area, connecting Gushan Yongquan Temple and A 7.5-kilometer-long Guhuan Highway in Guling Huanxi has become a popular highway landscape in Fuzhou in the past two years. You can hike, bike, or drive on this most winding road.

On both sides of the road are tall cedar forests, and the early morning mist fills the woods, making it very dreamy. There are observation decks along the line. When the weather is fine, you can have a panoramic view of Fuzhou city: the butterfly-shaped Straits Convention and Exhibition Center is clearly visible, and the Min River passes through the city like a streamer.

After visiting Yongquan Temple in Gushan, you can also take a look at the old streets and old Western buildings here. Guling is one of the four major summer resorts selected by foreigners in the early 20th century, and is as famous as Lushan Mountain.

Travel information

Transportation: Hiking on the Guhuan Highway, you can first take the bus to Gushan Yongquan Temple, or you can take the No. 63 Guling special bus in front of the Police Academy to Liu Under Shanwang Park, here is the Guling Scenic Area Visitor Center. If you want to ride up the mountain, there is a Fuzhou Tianyaxing Cycling Club Station next to Gushan Lower Court Bus Terminal. You can rent mountain bikes, starting from 20 yuan/hour depending on the model. Fuzhou’s temples

There are many temples in Fuzhou, so you might as well forget about their religious connotations and come here purely for leisure. With the title of "one of the five major Zen forests in Fuzhou", Xichan Temple is luxurious and majestic. Kaiyuan Temple, hidden away in the bustling city, is the oldest existing temple in Fuzhou. It was also the place where eminent Japanese and Indian monks studied during the Tang Dynasty. Strictly speaking, Hualin Temple is no longer a temple, but just a precious Tang-style and Song-dynasty wooden hall is definitely worth a trip.

Take a bath in Fuzhou

Fuzhou is a city bathed in hot springs. There is a hot spring belt in the northeastern part of the city that is 5 kilometers long from north to south and 1 kilometer wide from east to west. Local people have opened hot spring bathhouses and open-air hot spring pavilions according to local conditions, and many hotels have also launched hot spring rooms. Yuanmai Hot Spring Park and Jintang Hot Spring Resort are both good choices.

There are also many hot spring resorts to choose from in the suburbs of Fuzhou. Qingyunshan Yu Hot Spring in Yongtai County, Xishan Hot Spring in Gui'an, and Huangchulin Hot Spring in Minqing are all good mountain hot springs and provide hotel services with complete facilities.

Fuzhou Confucian Temple

The Fuzhou Confucian Temple, which has been around for thousands of years, is a place to worship the saint Confucius. It is the oldest official building from the Qing Dynasty in the city center. It is also a good place for many friends to spend their boring time. place.

The red red wall, the Pan Bridge made of white marble, the Dacheng Hall with intersecting bluestones and yellow tile roof... It is quite a good place to wear Hanfu to take pictures or experience the culture of the sages. Moreover, there are ginkgo trees planted in the outer square, which makes it more interesting to take photos in late autumn.

In the exhibition halls on both sides of the Confucian Temple, there are exhibitions of Confucius' sacred relics, Fuzhou education history exhibition, ritual and music culture exhibitions... The lifelike exhibitions are very suitable for bringing children to experience it. Food in Fuzhou

Fuzhou is one of the birthplaces of Fujian cuisine. It uses unique ingredients and pays attention to the original flavor. Seafood has become an important part of Fuzhou cuisine. Someone once used the eight words "sweet and sour, soupy and watery" to describe the characteristics of Fuzhou cuisine, but this is far from enough. In fact, Fuzhou cuisine pays great attention to the selection and matching of ingredients. It likes to use local red wine lees in dishes. It is good at using soup to enhance the freshness, and the taste is more sour and sweet. If you want to experience these points, there are some dishes you must try.

The first thing I want to talk about is of course the signature dish Buddha jumping over the wall. This dish uses more than a dozen kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, puts them into the original soup that has been simmered for 2 to 3 days, and then simmers them over a slow fire. Pay attention to the order in which you put the ingredients in, otherwise the taste will be very different.

Fuzhou people like to use red yeast to make wine, and later invented the idea of ??using the leftover lees for cooking. When ordering cold dishes, please choose red fermented chicken (fish) first. It is light red in color, has a fresh aroma of wine, and has a slight sweet and sour aftertaste in the mouth. The taste is very special. As for the representative of sweet and sour taste, order the lychee meat.

There are no lychees in the dish, only pork and water chestnuts are used. However, the knife skills for cutting the meat must be very fine. After the cut meat is stir-fried, it will resemble lychees. Secondly, the seasonings must be blended to achieve balance. The ratio of sweet and sour. The deliciousness of lychee meat is also the basic criterion for considering whether a Fuzhou restaurant is authentic.

The dish of sea clams in chicken soup best reflects the deliciousness of Fuzhou vegetable soup. You must know that sea clams are known as "Xi Shi tongue". The chicken is steamed first and then stewed, and the chicken breast meat is selected to make the chicken minced meat ball stew soup to make the soup more delicious. When the sea clams are put into the soup, they should be crisp and crispy.

The wide variety of Fuzhou snacks may also be an important reason for travelers to stop here. Pork swallow, fish balls, Yuanxiao, meatballs, taro paste, pot side, laohua, oyster cakes, peanut soup? From the selection of ingredients to the fine processing, Fuzhou snacks are very particular. Many snacks have a history of hundreds of years and A legendary story.

If you feel that there are too many tourists on South Back Street and you are not enjoying the food enough, then go to the Qingcheng Farmers Market at No. 31 Qingcheng Road. There are several snack bars at the entrance of the market. The stores are small and shabby, but they are always crowded. This is a gathering place for snacks that old Fuzhou people like to come here. Ituluohua is a century-old restaurant. The favorite order of old diners is the oyster and beef slider. The soup is delicious and rich in toppings. You can also add seafood, beef offal, monk meat, etc. according to your taste.

Others, such as Liancheng Guobian, Lin Huaguang Cake, Dengxing Fish Balls, Gujie Beef Laohua, etc. are also old restaurants and are worth trying. Fun street food joints are not hard to find either. The founder of Deaf Bo Yuanxiao is indeed an old man with hearing impairment. The handmade meat-filled Yuanxiao is juicy and melts in your mouth, fresh but not greasy. The name of Toothless Peanut Soup comes from the overcooked peanut soup, which even Toothless Grandma can eat. The peanut cake and taro paste are also worthy of a try by foodies who love sweets.

Pingtan snacks include "Tianjiujiu" (a fried snack made of sweet potato powder and stuffed with nuts), "Shi Lai Lun" (a kind of fried snack made of sweet potato powder and stuffed with meat), "Shi Lai Lun" (a kind of fried snack made of sweet potato powder and stuffed with meat inside). glutinous rice balls), oyster cakes, fish balls, etc. At the Tanzhiwei specialty snack bar, you can taste Pingtan snacks such as dried taro powder, nine-braised fish ball soup, and "Shi Lai Lun".