Chengdu is a very beautiful city and my hometown. It has a long history.
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province. Because it was the Kingdom of Shu in ancient times and the Qin Dynasty established Shu County, it is called Shu (or Sichuan) for short.
It is located in the southwest of my country, on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
It starts from the border of Hunan and Hubei in the east, is bordered by Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, is bordered by *** in the west, and is bordered by Qinghai, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in the north.
It is between 97°21′~108°31′ east longitude and 26°03′~34°19′ north latitude. It is more than 1,200 kilometers long from east to west and more than 900 kilometers wide from north to south. Its current area is about 560,000 square kilometers, accounting for approximately 5.9 of the total land area, ranking fifth in the country.
In the early days, the King of Shu moved his capital here. It was named after the meaning that it takes one year to become a city and three years to become a Chengdu. It is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in my country and the largest modern city in Southwest China. one.
About ten kilometers away from the city, there is a world paradise covering an area of ??more than 500 acres, with 108 world-famous landscapes. There are various European churches, Japanese houses, the Statue of Liberty in the United States, the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx in the park. Most of the landscapes are imitated according to 1:1 prototypes, and are known as the best cultural tourism landscapes in the West.
Located on the bank of Huanhua Creek in the western suburbs of Chengdu, Du Fu Thatched Cottage was the former residence of Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, when he lived in Chengdu.
Covering an area of ??more than 240 acres, it is a cultural and historic site with elegant layout, simple architecture and beautiful gardens. It is also the largest, best-preserved, richest and most eye-catching place among Du Fu’s whereabouts. .
In 1961, the State Council announced the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Qingyang Palace is one of the famous Taoist temples in the country. It was first built in the Tang Dynasty. The existing palaces were built in the Qing Dynasty. The main buildings include Lingzu Hall, Hunyuan Hall, Bafeng Pavilion, Wuji Hall, Since the Tang Dynasty, Qingyang Palace, such as Doudian Palace, Tangwang Palace Palace and Bauhinia Terrace, has held temple fairs every year on the 15th day of the second lunar month.
Wenshu Monastery covers an area of ??82 acres and was one of the "four major jungles" in western Sichuan during the Qing Dynasty.
It is a key Buddhist temple in Han areas across the country, a provincial cultural relic protection unit, and is now the seat of the provincial and municipal Buddhist associations.
Its predecessor was the "Miaoyuan Pagoda" in the Tang Dynasty and "Xinxiang Temple" in the Song Dynasty.
The old temple was destroyed by war during the Ming Dynasty.
After reconstruction in the 30th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1691), it was renamed "Wenshu Monastery".
After the establishment of the park, it was repaired many times to achieve its current scale.
Wenshu Monastery currently has more than 200 Buddha statues with exquisite craftsmanship such as iron casting, copper casting, stone carving, jade carving, stripping, and colored sculpture.
Among them, the 10 iron statues of the God of Rings in the Buddhist Hall were built in the Song Dynasty.
The five major halls on the central axis are the Heavenly King's Hall, the Three Great Scholars' Hall, the Mahavira Hall, the Dharma Hall and the Sutra Collection Tower. On both sides are the Bell and Drum Tower, Zhaitang and Wing Rooms, with a rigorous layout.
The wooden and stone structure of the temple.
The three golden characters "Wenshu Yuan" engraved on the screen wall opposite the temple gate were written by Zen Master Cidu Haiyue of the temple during the Kangxi period.
Above the temple door are the words "Ancient Xinxiang Temple" written in gold on a black background.
The temple has a collection of more than 500 paintings and calligraphy by ancient and modern celebrities since the Tang and Song Dynasties, of which about 300 are listed as nationally protected. It has a collection of more than 120,000 volumes of classics, as well as inscriptions, sculptures, and paintings since the Han Dynasty. Embroidery and other physical treasures.
Zhaojue Temple is located in Qinglongchang behind the Zoo outside the Second Ring Road in Chengdu. It is a key Buddhist temple in Sichuan and a key Buddhist activity site in my country. It is known as the "First Zen Forest" in Western Sichuan.
Zhaojue Temple was founded in the Tang Dynasty (Zhenguan Year, 627---649 AD). There were many eminent monks. However, the temple was unfortunately destroyed in the war in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was built by the Poshan monk. Rebuilt and built 7.5 kilometers of stone weirs, making it the grand scale it is today.
Its main buildings include: Shanmen, Octagonal Pavilion, Tianwang Hall, Xianjue Hall, Yuanjue Hall, Yushu Tower, Guanyin Pavilion, Nirvana Hall, Sutra Library and Zen Master Yuanwu Cemetery, etc.
In 1989, Master Qingding, under the auspices of Zhaojue Temple, rebuilt the current Main Hall, Yuantong Hall, Zhonggu Tower and Nianfo Hall, making it one of the largest and most spectacular temples in the southwest. one.
Daci Temple, a famous ancient temple in Chengdu, is located in Section 1, Dongfeng Road, Chengdu.
It is said that it was first built in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Emperor Xuanzong gave it the name "Dashengci Temple". The towers, pavilions, halls, towers and various statues of gods, Buddhas and paintings in the temple constitute an "exquisite world-class" art treasure house.
Daci Temple was known as "the first jungle in China" in ancient times and is a famous ancient temple in Chengdu.
According to legend, it was first built in the Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gave a plaque "Edict to build the Great Shengci Temple".
Xuanzang, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, was ordained here.
After expansion in the Tang Dynasty, the temple became grand and spectacular. At that time, the temple had 96 courtyards and 8524 buildings, pavilions, halls, towers, halls, halls, rooms and corridors. There were various Tathagatas on the walls. There are 1,215 Buddha statues, 262 statues of heavenly kings, bright kings, and great gods and generals, and 114 transformed images of Buddhist scriptures.
All the portraits are "one-of-a-kind works of art" and are an extremely precious treasure house of art.
Su Shi of the Song Dynasty praised it as "the most exquisite in the world".
Song Dynasty Li Zhichun's "Painting Notes on the Great Sage Ci Temple" said: "No one in the Tang Dynasty is more famous than the Great Sage Ci Temple in its prosperity."
The Great Sage Ci Temple has gone through ups and downs. It was destroyed many times by fire.
The existing palaces were rebuilt one after another after Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty.
The palaces include the Heavenly King, Avalokitesvara, Mahavira Halls, Dharma Hall, Sutra Collection Hall, etc.
The Daxiong Hall and the Sutra Library are majestic with gorge stones as pillars.
The temple has magnificent temples, deep courtyards and towering ancient trees.
It is now the Municipal Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall; it houses a tea garden, chess garden and famous snack bar.
Wangjianglou Park is located in a lush forest and bamboo on the bank of Jinjiang River outside the east gate of Chengdu, covering an area of ??176.5 acres.
The park is lined with willow stone railings, shimmering shadows of buildings, green bamboo paths, and pavilions. It is a historic site and tourist attraction commemorating the female poet Xue Tao of the Tang Dynasty. It is now a cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province.
The Chongli Pavilion in the park is a tall building with a wooden structure of 27.9 meters high. Its name is derived from the phrase "both beautiful and respected, with a real name" in "Ode to the Capital of Shu" written by Zuo Si, a writer of the Jin Dynasty. Chengdu", because it stands directly on the bank of Jinjiang River, it is called "Wangjiang Tower" among the people.
Zhuojin Tower, with five couplets, is surrounded by doors and windows on all sides, slightly like a boat, surrounded by sparse flowers and trees, elegant and beautiful.
The Poetry Chanting Tower was built based on the Poetry Chanting Tower built by Xue Tao during his lifetime. The three-tiered building with open pavilions on all sides is nestled among the willow shades and bamboo shadows on the riverside. The waves, clouds and shadows contrast with each other, making it look particularly special. Beautiful and sassy, ??quite poetic and picturesque.
Memorial buildings such as Wuyunxian Pavilion, Quanxiang Pavilion, Loquat Gate Alley, Qingwan Room, Huanjian Pavilion, etc. have exquisite layouts, with many inscriptions, plaques and paintings.
Xue Qingjing, south of Chongli Pavilion, is where the Shu vassal king of the Ming Dynasty imitated Xue Tao's notes. The three characters "Xue Taojing" were handwritten by Yi Yingxiong, the prefect of Chengdu in the sixth year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty.
The statue of Xue Tao is located deep in the garden and was built in 1984.
The statue is 3 meters high and carved from white marble. It is surrounded by clear water and green grass on the ground.
The construction of Xue Tao's tomb was resumed in October 1994.
It is equipped with lawn, small peach blossoms and green bamboo.
Duzhuyuan was built in 1995 and is the variety bamboo area of ??the park.
In the garden, there are clumps of green bamboos and stacked stone scenery. The white marble stele is engraved with the masterpieces of Xue Tao and historical celebrities chanting and painting bamboo, forming a series of bamboo and stone pictures with profound meanings.
Xue Tao has always had bamboo in his life, praising bamboo for its "humility and self-control" and its "vigor and energy."
In order to commemorate Xue Tao, later generations planted all kinds of excellent bamboos in the garden, gathering more than 150 domestic and foreign bamboo species, many of which are very rare.
These bamboos come in various shapes, each with its own unique interest.
Like pink bamboo, the whole body is pink and white, like a Tingting girl with ice muscles and jade bones; human-faced bamboo, the bamboo trunk near the root is covered with strange knots one after another, like a There are human faces; the smooth and protruding internodes of the Buddha belly bamboo are like the poop belly of the Laughing Arhat.
There is also the tough square bamboo, the tall-trunked chicken claw bamboo, the elegant and unrestrained Phoenix tail bamboo, the elegant and graceful Guanyin bamboo... They all show off their beauty, but they live in harmony, or embrace each other to form a beautiful tree. The clumps are either intertwined into corridors, or sandwiched into dense paths... People call this sea-like garden with infinite interest the "Bamboo Park". Chinese and foreign tourists and poets often come here to visit ancient times and linger in memory. .
Baihuatan Park is located on the south bank of Huanhua River in Chengdu City, adjacent to Qingyang Palace and Du Fu Thatched Cottage, covering an area of ??about 135 acres.
The park is mainly composed of bonsais, and the tree planting arrangement highlights Sichuan characteristics. Among them, the orchid bonsais are especially famous.
The park is mainly composed of Lei Garden, White Garden, Hui Garden, Xiyuan, Guoxiang Garden, Bonsai Garden, etc. Each of its layouts has its own characteristics and is very clever.
There is a ginkgo tree in the park from the Tang Dynasty, which was moved from the "Shengyin Temple" site in Xuankou Baihua Township, Wenchuan County in 1986. There are also two Podocarpus trees planted in the Song Dynasty and brought from Mingshan County Transplanted from Guanyintang.
There are nearly 10,000 pots of orchids of more than 50 varieties on display in Guoxiang Garden, which can be called a "kingdom of orchids".
People’s Park is located at the intersection of Ancestral Hall Street in Chengdu City, covering an area of ??more than 150 acres. It is also called Shaocheng Park (because it is located in Shaocheng - Mancheng in the Qing Dynasty). There are artificial Lake, Golden Turtle Garden, Begonia Garden, Orchid Garden, Bonsai Garden, swimming pool, tea house, etc. In addition, there is the "Monument to the Road Death of Qiu Bao in the Revolution of 1911", which was built in 1913 and is a national key cultural relic protection unit.
There are relief sculptures of motorcycles and railway tracks around the base of the monument, and the inscribed inscription "Monument to the Death of Xinhai Qiubao Road" is embedded on all sides of the monument.
The characters are composed of calligraphers Zhao Xi, Yan Kai, Wu Zhiying, and Zhang *** using Kai, Xing, Cao, Li and other fonts.
The Cultural Park is located on Qintai Road, Chengdu City, covering an area of ??150 acres. It is a comprehensive park mainly hosting various cultural activities. It was rebuilt in 1959 on the site of the original Erxian Temple Yes, there is the Twelve Bridges Martyrs' Tomb in the park, which is also a memorial to the 36 martyrs who were secretly killed and injured by Communist agents on the eve of the liberation of Chengdu. It is a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
The park holds the famous Chengdu Lantern Festival and Chengdu Flower Fair every year. During the Lantern Festival and Flower Fair, it also often holds various and colorful artistic performances, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, and famous snack exhibitions. .
Tazishan Park is located in the eastern suburbs of Chengdu City, next to the starting point of the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, covering an area of ??410 acres. The park has shallow undulating hills, a vast terrain, lush trees, and a quiet environment.
There are scenic spots in the park such as Wintersweet Garden, Begonia Garden, Crape Myrtle Garden, Bamboo Forest, Fishing Pond, Spring Stone Forest, Ginkgo Pavilion, and Jade Mingxuan.
Now there are newly built Bashu Historical Site Miniature Garden, Chengdu’s iconic landscape Jiutian Tower, and a large picnic area specially designed for tourists to make fires.
More than 40,000 trees of more than 80 species including cedar, ginkgo, camphor, crape myrtle, metasequoia, peach, sweet-scented osmanthus, and magnolia are planted in Tazishan Park, covering an area of ??about 80 acres of bamboo. There are thousands of lush green bamboos on the sea, with more than 60,000 of nearly 100 varieties. The forest in the park is dotted with lawns, lakes, pavilions and paths, which is quite interesting in the wild mountains and forests.
It is a good place for people to play, relax, fish, entertain, climb towers, have picnics and drink tea.
The Jiutian Tower is located on the top of a shallow hill in Tazishan Park. The project started in 1995 and cost more than 10 million yuan. It has been completed and opened to the public.
The Jiutian Tower is named after the poet Li Bai’s famous poem "Climbing the Jincheng Scattered Flower Tower", "Come up and look at it now, it will be like traveling in the Nine Heavens". The building is 70 meters high and has 13 floors. The total construction area is more than 4,000 square meters.
The 1st and 2nd floors are square halls, the 3rd to 10th floors are octagonal tower-like structures with cornices pointing toward the sky, the 11th to 12th floors are composed of 4 small square pavilions, and the top floor is composed of a Dafang Pavilion closes its roof.
The tower has exquisite design and unique structure. It integrates the tower and pavilion into one body. It cleverly combines ancient architectural art and modern folk architectural art. The architectural style highlights the local characteristics. It looks like the tower from a distance and the tower from up close. , with a novel and unique shape, adding an iconic and magnificent garden landscape to Chengdu.
Southwest Sun Moon City is located in the Shuangliu Muma Mountain Tourism Economic Development Zone on the outskirts of Chengdu. It is a large-scale national culture and art center focusing on southwest ethnic culture and art, supplemented by modern amusement technology. Theme park.
The park plans to cover an area of ??2,300 acres, with a total investment of one billion yuan, to create four theme parks: "Towards the Southwest, the Hero of All Things", "Secret World" and "Sun and Moon Shine".
An all-round three-dimensional service system integrating tourism, entertainment, leisure, vacation, hotels, catering, teaching, commerce, performances and conferences.
The first park opened in the early stage - "Going to the Southwest" is the preface of the whole park. It covers an area of ??550 acres and has a southwest miniature landscape, sound-controlled fountains, surround-screen movies, etc. Many facilities are worthy of the park. Called the best in China.
The world-famous Jiuzhaigou Valley is located in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River.
Primitive, quiet, mysterious, elegant and natural, pure and beautiful.
It is named after nine Tibetan villages. It is a national scenic spot and is listed as a World Natural Heritage by the United Nations.
Mount Emei stands in the southwest of the Sichuan Basin, 7,000 meters southwest of Emeishan City and 37 kilometers east of Leshan City. It is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in my country.
The main peak, Wanfoding, is 3,099 meters above sea level.
From the foothills to the top of the mountain, there are waterfalls and springs along the way. The scenery is quiet and quiet. It has been known as "Emei is the most beautiful place in the world" since ancient times.
Yinghua Mountain Scenic Area is located in Shifang, a suburb of Chengdu, covering an area of ??180 square kilometers, with a peak altitude of 3160 meters. The "Four Wonders" - sea of ??stones, sea of ??fog, sea of ??forests and sea of ??flowers are the most famous.
Leshan is a famous tourist destination with beautiful scenery and numerous historical sites.
The newly discovered giant sleeping Buddha that has been sleeping in the noon year makes this land even more magical and majestic, with a long lasting charm.
Gongga Mountain, with an altitude of 7556 meters, is the highest peak in Sichuan Province and is known as the "King of Shu Mountain". The whole mountain is tall and straight, and the snow does not melt all year round. It is solemn and mysterious and cannot be imagined unless you have experienced it. It is really a wonder of nature.
Wawushan National Forest Park is located in Hongya County in southwest Sichuan, 180 kilometers away from Chengdu, covering an area of ??1.04 million acres. It is mainly composed of Wawushan Primeval Forest Adventure Scenic Area, Yuping The artificial forest Haidu Scenic Area, Bamian Mountain Ancient Searching Range Scenic Area and other series of scenic spots together with Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha form the "Golden Triangle" of tourism in southwest Sichuan.
The hanging coffins are located in Gong County in western Sichuan and are one of the "Four Wonders of Southern Sichuan". Among them, the Mayangba County of *** is listed because of its complete types of hanging coffins, large number and good preservation. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Hanging coffins were the most common way of worshiping people in ancient times, especially in southwest China. The method was to place the coffins of the deceased on inaccessible cliffs. Either it is parked in a natural cave, or the coffin is placed on artificial piles, usually tens to hundreds of meters above the ground. The landscape is very surprising, and the purpose and means of the ancients using this funeral method remain unknown to this day. Still an eternal mystery.
Huanglong Scenic Area, known as the Fairyland on Earth, is located in Songpan County, Sichuan Province, at the foot of Xuebaoding, the main peak of Minshan Mountain. It is mainly named after the famous Buddhist temple Huanglong Temple. It is a long 7 The calcified mountain gorge, which is about 300 meters wide, is surrounded by trees and secluded virgin forest. There are more than 3,400 natural jade Huaquan colorful pools in the gorge running down the slope. The large ones are as large as acres, and the small ones are as large as basins or bowls. Like a cup, the wall of the pool is made of topaz, exquisite and translucent, making it look gorgeous.
The water in the pool is colorful, ever-changing, and clear and transparent, which makes people feel refreshed.
Viewed from the air, in the vast primeval forest, the Yellow Dragon is like a giant dragon flying in the sky, and the layers of colorful pools are like the scales on the dragon's body, set against the snow-white lying peaks, green The forests and clouds in the sky are colorful, dreamlike, and extremely beautiful. It is said that Huanglong master practiced cultivation here and became an immortal. Therefore, this mountain and water have such immortal spirit. Dayu in Huanglong County controlled the floods, and his achievements linger here. , only then can you have the beautiful scenery of Yaochi, which is overflowing with good luck wine and rippling red and green. The Huanglong Temple Fair held here every year from June 12th to 15th of the lunar calendar is unprecedentedly grand.
Huanglong Scenic Area, like Jiusai Valley Scenic Area, are two intoxicating pearls on the northwest Sichuan Plateau.
In 1991, it was included in the "World Natural Heritage List" by the United Nations.
The Shunan Bamboo Sea, formerly known as Wanlingqing, is located in the southern Tianshan Mountains adjacent to Changning and Jiang'an counties in Sichuan. It is 50 kilometers away from Changning County and 81 kilometers away from Yibin City.
The 28 mountains in the scenic area are all covered with dense bamboo forests. The bamboo waves are rippling, forming a sea, and the southern end of Tianfu is green.
Such a vast ocean of bamboo is rare at home and abroad.
In 1988, the Bamboo Sea in southern Sichuan was listed as a national key scenic spot by the State Council.
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are famous for their steep terrain, magnificent scenery, majestic momentum and numerous places of interest. They are a world-famous tourist attraction and a tourist hotspot in my country. The Three Gorges are the Qutang Gorge and the Wu Gorge. The general name of Xiling Gorge is that it starts from Baidi City in Fengjie County, Sichuan Province in the west, ends at Nanjinguan in Yichang City, Hubei Province in the east, and crosses Fengjie Wushan, Badong and Zigui to five counties and cities in Yichang. The total length is about 200 kilometers. From a tourism perspective, the Three Gorges Scenery The scenic spot is not limited to this area, but includes three parts. One part is from Zhongxian County, Sichuan Province to Fengjie, which is the prelude to the Three Gorges; the other part is from Fengjie Street to Yichang, Hubei Province, which is the main body of the Three Gorges; and the deep part of the Three Gorges Places, including Daning River's Little Three Gorges, Xiangxi Zhaojun's hometown and Qu Yuan's hometown are an extension of the scenic spot
Yibin Wuliangye and Luzhou Laojiao make the mountains and rivers here overflowing with fragrance, intoxicating Tourists from all over the world.
Next is Chengdu. There has always been a famous snack in Tianfu that is "no longer displayed". I would like to remind you that this "no longer displayed" is indescribably good.
If your friends are not dining, don’t read it, you will drool.
Tianfu's specialties: Chen Mapo tofu, as well as the oily but not greasy, bright red but not pungent, fresh and smooth in the mouth, with a sweet hemp aftertaste, couple's lung slices, dandan noodles and other ingredients There are more than ten kinds of red soy sauce, Huajiang, minced garlic, chopped green onion, red oil chili, Sichuan pepper noodles, vinegar, bean sprouts, MSG, etc. It is characterized by thin noodles without soup, spicy and fresh flavor. Lai Tangyuan was founded in 1894, and the skin of the glutinous rice balls is It’s thin, delicate and moist, but what about the dark heart? There are also Long Chao Shou with thin skin, tender filling and fresh soup, Zhong Shui Dumplings with a unique flavor, drizzled with red oil, slightly sweet and salty, spicy and unique, and soft and tender dumplings with clear patterns, thin skin and full filling. Korean steamed buns, by the way, are crispy and buttery, sweet but not greasy, moist and refreshing.
If paired with red or white tea, there is the unique Gu Yue Sanhe mud; there are also pearl dumplings, which have a layer of large round glutinous rice grains or sago grains on the outside, just like white pearls.
There are many varieties of pearl dumplings including bean paste, fresh meat, black sesame, etc.
Its characteristics are that it is moist in the mouth, glutinous rice does not stick to the teeth, is sweet and not greasy, and also has leaf cake, three cannons, hot and sour noodles, Chuan Chuan Xiang, Malatang... I can’t write anymore, I really want to eat it now!
The most important thing to remember is that the girls in Chengdu are also very beautiful. They generally have hot pepper-like personalities, daring to love and hate, gentle and virtuous... Be careful, your eyes get tired easily!
Welcome my dear friends, welcome to this beautiful city!
There are many scenic spots and famous snacks that I can’t finish talking about. It’s better to wait until you arrive in Chengdu to see and taste them slowly!