1. Taihu Soft-shelled Turtle Scenic Area
Taihu Soft-shelled Turtle Scenic Area is located in Dafu Town, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, the national 5A scenic spot, the national key scenic spots, national civilized scenic spots, the national famous cherry blossom ornamental bases, cultural relics protection units in Jiangsu Province. With a total area of more than 500 hectares, it is a peninsula in Wuxi on the northwest shore of Taihu Lake, surrounded by water on three sides, consisting of Xiebao Mountain, Luding Mountain, Dunan Mountain and its nearby Zhongdu Mountain and Sanshan Island. It is shaped like a floating giant. There are many attractions in the scenic area, such as Filling Mountain, Hidden Scenery, Luding Ying Guang, Zhu Yi Chun Peach and so on.
The soft-shelled turtle islet scenic area has both the natural landscape picture scroll with high mountains and wide water and small sails, as well as the idyllic scenery with small bridges and flowing water and green trees, and the light, delicate, simple and pure garden scenery of Jiangnan; there are also complete service and entertainment facilities such as eating, living, shopping and traveling, and many profound cultural deposits such as celebrity travelogues, stone carvings, calligraphy and paintings, legends and so on. It constitutes a comprehensive and multi-functional scenic area with natural landscape as the main feature and artificial embellishment as the supplement.
2. Lingshan Giant Buddha
Lingshan Giant Buddha is a world-famous scenic spot, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, Binhu District, Mashan National Scenic Spot between the mountains and rivers, but also the national AAAAA tourist attractions, Wuxi Lingshan Scenic Spot is an important part. Big Buddha is located in the south of Wuxi Mashan Lvqinfeng, in November 15, 1997 was completed and opened. The location of the Giant Buddha is named after Tang Xuanzang, the small Ling Mountain, so the name "Lingshan Giant Buddha". Lingshan Giant Buddha is one of the city symbols of Wuxi, which is of great significance to social, cultural and economic development. Nanjing artist Wu Xianlin is responsible for the sculpture design of the Buddha.
The history of the Lingshan area can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Legend has it that Xuanzang returned from the Western Paradise, where he traveled southeast to Little Lingshan. The scenery was extraordinary and he was greatly appreciated. He said, "No wonder the vultures of the West won!" That is why I named this mountain Little Spirit Mountain. Lingjiu Mountain in India is the place where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment and became Buddha. It is a famous Buddhist shrine where the great disciple Peugeot was asked to preside over the Dharma. It was from this that the Little Ling Mountain Temple gradually developed. The Lingshan Giant Buddha, which stands at the southern foot of Xiaolingshan, is 88 meters tall including the Lotus Pagoda, which is equivalent to the height of a building with more than 30 floors. It is 17 meters taller than the Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan, the second tallest in China. If the three-story foundation is added, the total height will be 101.5 meters. Lingshan Buddha looks down with a wise and kind gaze. Visitors, whether near or far, seem to be held in the gaze of the Buddha; and as people get closer or farther away, their eyes seem to open and close slightly. The closer they get, the wider they open. The corners of their mouths smiled instead of laughing, and many commands were about to be uttered, adding to the feeling of closeness and provoking all kinds of reveries.
Three. Brahma Palace
Lingshan Brahma Palace is one of the attractions of Wuxi Lingshan Scenic Area. It is located on the shore of the vast Taihu Lake, at the foot of the beautiful Zhongling Ling Mountain. The magnificent building stands next to the majestic Lingshan Buddha, magnificent art and unique and extensive Buddhist culture complement each other. Lingshan Vatican Palace is a magnificent building, solemn and harmonious, with a total construction area of more than 70,000 square meters. The three-storey Vatican Palace adopts a backward building layout with a north-south central axis and a symmetrical east-west distribution. The building area is 150 meters wide and 180 meters deep. The top is dotted with five pagodas, and the back is a mandala-shaped altar. The cost is 1.8 billion In December 2006, after more than 60 national celebrities in the fields of culture, architecture, art, culture, arts and crafts, as well as Buddhist monks and experts in Buddhism for two consecutive days of discussion, the preparatory meeting for the China Contemporary Buddhist Culture and Art Expo and the inaugural seminar for the China (Lingshan) Museum of Contemporary Buddhist Art came to a successful conclusion. Never-ending China Contemporary Buddhist Culture and Art Expo has become the guide for the construction of Gongfan Ling Shan. The goal of building Gongfan Lingshan into the Museum of Contemporary Buddhist Art in China has been set. After more than two years of construction, the third phase of Lingshan Scenic Area was completed, and a beautiful Buddhist architectural complex was presented in front of the world. November 23, 2008, set culture, art, tourism, conference functions in one of the Lingshan Brahma Palace doors officially opened.