Mianyang, Sichuan is also a very good tourist city. There are some scenic spots here that are worth visiting, and you can also try the local food. Or you should visit the following places. This should be considered one of the cities worth visiting. Yuewang Tower

It was built by Li Zhen, the eighth son of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, King of Yue. Of course, what we see now is the antique version of Yuewang Tower. Compared with the antique buildings in the country, it is one of the best.

Some people have counted that among the four famous buildings in the Tang Dynasty, the Yuewang Tower was mentioned the most by literary giants. If there was a draft for ancient famous buildings, it would definitely debut in the C position.

Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Bo and other great poets of the past dynasties have picked it 154 times in their poems. For the same data, Yellow Crane Tower has picked it 112 times, and Tengwang Pavilion has picked it 86 times.

It looks like a facade from the outside, but the interior of Yuewang Tower is also very easy to visit. For example, the 9th floor is the Tang Cultural Center, the 11th floor is the Mianyang Historical Hall of Fame, and the 13th floor is the Chinese Hall of Fame?

And when you climb to the 15th floor, you can overlook the entire Mianyang city in 360 degrees. It is especially suitable for climbing the tower at night, where you can really experience "picking the stars with your hands".

The light show on the other side is a large-scale fragrance scene. The city landscape jumps on the high-rise buildings on the other side. It is a must-see sign in Mianyang.

The technology behind the light show is awesome, using the most innovative lighting techniques and light show forms in the country. I wonder what powerful creations Li Bai would come up with when watching the light show in this time and space.

The best angle to see Yuewang Tower is actually across the river. Navigate to Tieniu Square in the evening and see the brightly lit Yuewang Tower on the other side of the Fujiang River, which is full of momentum.

Tips for visiting Yuewang Tower

Ticket price: 45rmb, half price for students

Opening hours: 09:00-21:30

Parking: There is a parking lot for Shengshui Temple behind the building

As long as you are a Mianyang person, you will definitely have a strong impression of Amway Shengshui Temple for tourists from outside.

The reason for Amway is not that its Buddhist background is so powerful, but that the sculptures of Buddha in the temple are shocking.

At the main entrance, the Holy Water Temple does not make people feel that it is very unique, and the incense does not look very strong.

But as soon as you step into the "Auspicious Gate", you will be shocked. Various gods and Buddhas are in various poses, including flute players, meditators, and sutra chanters. The immortals are lifelike and energetic.

This corner surrounded by gods is actually a masterpiece that master sculptor Li Nengsheng spent ten years completing.

Manjushri Bodhisattva is undoubtedly the core member among them. He has a majestic appearance and looks at all living beings with compassionate eyes. I can't help but want to stay near him for a while.

These sculptures are also very exciting when you zoom in on the details. For example, the angry eyes and smiles of the characters, and the wings of the mythical beasts are all very vividly depicted. From: Heritage Jun

There are also Feitian, who are very sexy from today's perspective. They are closer to what everyone calls "hot girls" and have their own charm.

Teacher Hua (Flower Falling into Eclipse) said that this is an unconventional magical statue. It does not follow traditional rules, but it gives us an impression of the characters of Jigong, the great Arhats, and Manjushri Bodhisattva. distinct.

Next to the Holy Water Temple, there is the Luohan Temple, but its style is quite different.

The pure white Buddhas control+c, control+v, line up in a neat queue, looking at everyone passing by in a 360-degree manner.

Some people say these neat white Buddha statues are Little Thailand. Although they do remind people of Chiang Mai, the difference in the shape of Mahayana and Hinayana Buddha statues is still very obvious.

It was not easy to build Luohan Temple. It was financed by Master Guoqing, a 100-year-old eminent monk. The temple is not currently operating well.

You can also meditate here. Currently, the retreat here has become famous throughout Sichuan. Luohan Temple welcomes monks and lay practitioners from all over the country to come here for retreat.

Tips for visiting Seongsuji Temple

Ticket price: No charge, the temple is free to enter

Opening hours: 08:30-17:00

Parking: Parking at the door, there will be a dedicated person charging, 10 yuan per car at Honggao Market

To truly understand a city, the market is the soul.

"Honggao Market" is actually not a food market, but one of the best food streets in Mianyang. The surrounding residents come here to eat when they have nothing to do.

It has the feeling of a night market, which can make people hungry from the street to the end of the street. The per capita expenditure of 30 can be enough to fill the stomach. It’s not unusual for old shops that have been open for more than ten years to be found here. The market life of old Mianyang is concentrated in this area.

Snail noodles, maocai, spicy hotpot, Bobo chicken, chicken clavicle, roasted gluten, cold noodles, jelly, ice noodles? These are the things that make your mouth water just hearing the name. Choose to get together at Honggao Market. people. Sweet, salty, sour and spicy.

The snacks at Honggao Market are mainly Sichuan style, but nationally famous ones such as Northeastern grilled sausages, snail noodles, and Cantonese barbecued pork are also shortlisted here.

Bobo Chicken is highly recommended by many people. The store has a simple name, the owner is friendly, and the skewers are cheap.

This place only opens at four or five in the afternoon, and it is only open in the summer. Could it be that the boss went to Hainan for vacation in winter?

Meat dishes are 1 yuan for 1 lot, and vegetarian dishes are 5 cents for 1 lot. The average person is 30 years old and can eat enough. The spicy Bobo Chicken is paired with the fruit-filled ice powder, which makes you happy.

Zhang Yanyan Malatang

It has the best Malatang business in the entire market, and it can be called the leader in Honggao Market.

Although it is a small restaurant like a fly, the oil used is very clean. In first-tier cities, it costs 40 to 50 yuan to eat spicy hotpot, but here you can get a big bowl for 10 yuan.

In addition to Malatang, the maocai, cold skin, cold noodles and potatoes here are all delicious.

Northeast Teppanyaki Fried Sausage

It is the overlord of fried sausages in Honggao Market. Although lower-cost starch sausage is used, the fried sausage is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and sprinkled with cumin powder and chili powder to make it more fragrant.

The grilled sausage tastes like the fried skewers shop in front of my elementary school when I was a kid. It costs 1 yuan for 5 pieces, and you always have to queue up to eat it.

Lao Liu's Rice Cake and Ice Noodles

This is a conscientious shop run by a family.

The amount is very sufficient, just take a spoonful, there are plenty of chopped peanuts, raisins, hawthorns, fruits visible to the naked eye, and enough brown sugar. The tiny particles that I pulled out were hand-made glutinous rice cakes made by the boss. The price is only seven or eight yuan a bowl.

There is also hand-kneaded ice powder here, which has a few more holes than ordinary ice powder and is only one yuan more expensive.

There are actually quite a few snack streets like Honggao Market in Mianyang. I highly recommend them: Majia Lane, Tong'an Lane, and Xike Food Street.

There is also Mianyang rice noodles, one of them is the largest, the powder is as thin as silk, and it is quite delicious when moistened with red sauce.

It is considered the most representative food in Mianyang. I am going to write a separate post about Mianyang food next time. If you have any recommendations, please feel free to share them.

Tips for visiting Honggao Market

Ticket price: Bring a budget for good food

Opening hours: The opening hours of different stores vary, usually from afternoon to evening 9 o'clock

Parking: It's not easy to park at Yaowang Valley

Looking at the name "Yaowang Valley", I thought it couldn't be the one in Jin Yong's novels, but it turned out to be true. .

Once upon a time, Qi Bo, the founder of Chinese medicine, stayed here to collect herbs. Later, the king of medicine Sun Simiao and his apprentices dug up Ganoderma lucidum in this mountain.

This apprentice used Ganoderma lucidum to cure many intractable diseases of the local people. When he dug up Ganoderma lucidum, the name became Yaowang Valley.

Li Ziqi has a very cool video of walking a horse and looking for flowers, which was filmed here.

Here is the largest sea of ??magnolia flowers in the southwest, and the magnolia flower trees on the mountain have a history of hundreds of years. Every year in March or April, pink magnolia flowers bloom all over the mountains and plains, which is incredibly beautiful.

Their colors range from white to pink, from pink to purple, and from purple to red. The magnolia flower has a short flowering period and only blooms in March and April every year. Moreover, it can treat nasal diseases, and mountain people throughout the ages have called it a sacred tree.

I have to say that when the weather is nice, the magnolia flowers set against the blue sky are so soothing to the eyes.

Yaowang Valley is located at the magical latitude of 30 degrees north latitude. It has a unique ecological environment. There are more than a dozen kinds of medicinal flowers blooming here every month. They are beautiful and useful.

In addition to magnolia flowers, there are also cherry blossoms, forsythia flowers, phlox flowers, etc. that bloom in turn.

If you want to go up the mountain, there are currently two ways. One is to take the scenic cable car up the mountain, where you can immerse yourself in the mountains and sea of ??flowers; the other is to take the bus up the mountain.

In addition, you can also eat fried magnolia flowers in the scenic area. The crispy texture mixed with floral aroma is a unique flavor of Yaowang Valley.

Li Ziqi also collected magnolia flowers in the video, but her method was a little different. It adds flour and peanuts to magnolia flowers to make magnolia flower cake, which tastes faintly floral and looks like a Michelin-starred dish.

And this scenic spot is quite good at marketing. It has a "TCM health care theme" for itself. It provides one-to-one Chinese medical examination and health conditioning services. You can use the physical examination as an excuse to go on vacation.

By the way, Jiuhuang Mountain next to Yaowang Valley is also worth a visit. The magnolia flowers there are not bad at all.

Tips for visiting Yaowang Valley

Ticket price: 90, 50% off tickets from Sunday to Friday

Opening hours: 09:00-17: 00

Parking: Xianhai Lake in the scenic parking lot

Speaking of lakes, Mianyang and Ningbo are very similar.

Ningbo’s Dongqian Lake is a famous resort throughout Zhejiang Province. The same goes for Xianhai Lake in Mianyang, which is not far from the city. The entire resort is called: Xianhai International Resort.

Xianhai Lake is not only the back garden of local people, many Chengdu people come here for vacation on weekends, and you can get there within two hours by car.

Xianhai Lake is actually a water conservancy resort. It was once a comprehensive water conservancy project integrating flood control, irrigation, and tourism and vacation. It is known as the "Second Dujiangyan", but now its tourism attributes will be stronger .

In the resort area, the shape of the lake is a bit like walnut meat, winding. There are resort hotels of different grades around the lake, and the surrounding attractions are also distributed around the resort.

In the Xianhai Scenic Area, there is the newly opened resort hotel Sheraton, with more than 500 calendar rooms at affordable prices. You can also play various sports here, especially water entertainment and water sports, which are very famous.

Sichuan is inland and there is no sea, but there are wanderers who play until they fly in Xianhai Lake. As long as you want to play, nothing is impossible. After all, artificial wave pools have sprouted all over the country.

Speed ??boats are used to create waves here. Ronin follows the waves stirred up by the speed boats and sprints all the way through the waves. It is fun and exciting.

This type of surfing is called "wake surfing". Traditional surfing uses natural waves to glide, while wake surfing uses the waves generated by the stern of the boat to glide on the water. You can simply understand it as natural wind. The difference with electric fans.

As long as the boat is sailing, people can keep rushing, and many professional players can also perform "fancy" performances in the process.

The top domestic wake surfing equipment is in Xianhai in Mianyang, not Sanya. A good hotel + the first professional club + powerful paddlers, this high-quality combination can attract wake surfing enthusiasts from all over the country.

The price of wake surfing is also quite expensive. The surfing time ranges from 1 to 5 hours, and the cost is 1000-500. Thinking that a one-hour surfing lesson in the Philippines costs more than RMB 100, this is so expensive.

"Wake Surfing" is a gold-earning method in Xianhai Lake. In fact, it also has many ways to save money.

1. Cycling

This place is magical for cycling enthusiasts. There are professional cycling plastic trails and breathtaking scenery along the way.

Local triathlon competitions will be held here.

2. Boat rides

There are many types of boat rides here, mainly two categories: cruise ships & speedboats. The main difference in price is whether it is a deluxe version or a regular version.

It’s not expensive to sit down, the lowest is 20 per person, the most expensive is 48 per person, and you can swim around the entire lake.

Here, you can still feel like you are at the seaside. There is an artificial beach, a beachside sunshade, and a resort-style sofa where you can lie down and relax.

Some people say it is the "Mianyang Split of the Maldives". The reason is that there is an attraction here called "Shuiwan Beach Paradise", which charges an entrance fee of 30 for adults (the same ticket for children over 1 meter) and 15 for seniors. .

Compared with the real island, it is indeed shabby. But this is a great place to bring children. As long as there is sand, children can dig until they can’t stop.

There are also many projects suitable for children. In addition to the regular ones, there are inflatable slides and swimming pools, and occasionally there is a bubble bath.

Tips for visiting Xianhai Lake

Ticket price: There is no charge for the large scenic spot, but there are fees for different activities inside

Opening hours: no limit

Parking: The scenic spot has its own parking lot