Changchun is a beautiful city with abundant resources, outstanding people, excellent natural and cultural landscapes, and rich and unique tourism resources.
Changchun is a city with beautiful scenery. As one of the first batch of outstanding tourist cities in China, tourism development has also formed certain characteristics. Changchun City is a "forest city" with an urban greening rate of 78%, ranking highest among major cities in Asia. Not only is the urban area lined with green trees, but even the surrounding city is a sea of ??green. The 90-kilometer-long and 550-meter-wide green belt on both sides of the ring highway is a beautiful scenery in the city. The "Jingyuetan Forest Park", 9 kilometers away from the city and covering an area of ??126.5 square kilometers, has the largest artificial forest in Asia. It is like a huge "lung" in Changchun, making Changchun people feel like they are living in a forest. Here there are the best of sunlight, air and water. Changchun also has many famous cultural landscapes, such as the ancient Liao Dynasty pagoda in Nong'an, many relics from the Japanese and Puppet period, including the Puppet Manchukuo Palace and the Eight Great Ministries, one of the three existing imperial palaces in China. Winter ice and snow tourism is a hot spot in Changchun. Here you can not only ski, skate, and participate in snowmobile rallies, but also enjoy various ice and snow artworks such as ice sculptures and snow sculptures.
Jingyuetan Forest Park
Jingyuetan is located 12 kilometers southeast of Changchun City. It is a reservoir tourist area surrounded by mountains and dense forests. It is similar to Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan. It gets its name from the correspondence. In the late 1980s, it was approved as a national forest park by the Ministry of Forestry. It is a national AAAA tourist area.
Jingyuetan Scenic Area has a unique style of snow in winter and cool in summer, integrating lakes, forests, mountains and fields. The pool covers an area of ??4.3 square kilometers. The water surface is wide and as clear as a mirror. The entire scenic spot can be divided into four parts: the water of the Moon Pool, the mountains in the north of the pool, the forest in the south of the pool, and the farmhouses in the east of the pool.
Changchun Zoological and Botanical Garden
Changchun Zoological and Botanical Garden is located in the southeast of Changchun City, 500 meters east of Renmin Street and 3 kilometers away from the People's Square in the city center, covering an area of ??74 hectares.
The park was built in 1938 during the Japanese-Puppet period, and the first phase of the project was completed in 1940. At that time, due to its large area and the variety of animals and plants on display, it was known as "Asia's No. 1" and prosperous. For a while. Changchun was severely damaged on the eve of liberation and was in ruins by the time of liberation. After liberation, the government allocated special funds many times to build infrastructure. In 1984, comprehensive restoration of construction began, and the park was officially opened on September 15, 1987.
The park has a complex terrain. The artificial lake divides the park into three natural parts. The western part of the park is dominated by a 30-meter-high artificial mountain on which trees grown in Changbai Mountain are planted; the eastern part is dominated by animal exhibition areas; the northern part is dominated by large amusement parks and flower greenhouse production areas.
Changchun World Landscape Park
Changchun World Landscape Park is located in Quanongshan Town, Erdao District, Changchun City, covering an area of ??138 hectares. The park brings together nearly 100 famous cultural and natural landscapes from nearly 40 countries in the world. It is the only miniature landscape park in Northeast China.
"Visiting a garden and seeing the scenery of the world", here tourists can appreciate landscapes and buildings with different styles from ancient and modern, wild and civilized, Eastern and Western styles, and feel the influence of human historical development. Track and experience the beautiful scenery around the world. There are beautiful scenery to enjoy here in all four seasons, including walking on the grassland in spring, visiting the Bibo Pool in summer, admiring the Chang'e Moon in autumn, and climbing the Snow Tower in winter.
Changchun World Sculpture Park
Changchun World Sculpture Park covers an area of ??92 hectares and is located at the southern end of Renmin Street, the main road in the city. The combination of garden theory and modern planning concepts, and the harmonious unity of nature and humanity, give the park a unique charm and style. As an independent project, the sculpture park won the special award at the 3rd National Urban Sculpture Construction Achievement Exhibition. The large-scale group sculpture "Friendship, Peace, Spring" was jointly created by Ye Yushan, Pan He, Cheng Yunxian, Wang Keqing, and Cao Chunsheng. The main sculpture is 29.5 meters high, with exquisite shape and spectacular momentum. Won the Outstanding Work Award at the 3rd National Urban Sculpture Construction Achievements Exhibition. All works from the seventh sculpture exhibition will be permanently displayed in the park.
These works reflect Eskimo culture, Mayan culture, Maori culture, Indian culture, and Oriental culture, and some are realistic, abstract, modern, and postmodern. The entire sculpture park is known for its wide coverage and diverse styles. The richness of materials fully demonstrates its unique personality - cosmopolitanism, and has a wide impact at home and abroad.
Changchun Film City
Changchun Film City was founded in 1991. It was initially completed and opened in July 1992, and took shape in July 1994. With a planned area of ??36 hectares, it is a tourist attraction and film and television shooting base with film culture and art as its main features, serving Changchun's reform and opening up and building an international city. Changchun Cinema City is affiliated to Changchun Jingyuetan Tourism Development Group.
Oriental Hollywood, Changchun Film Century City
Drawing on the essence of Universal Studios Hollywood and Disneyland, Changchun Film Studio is located on the west side of Jingyuetan Scenic Area in Changchun City. , adjacent to the National Forest Park, build a unique and amazing movie theme park that integrates the world's most advanced special effects movies into one park - Changying Century City. The first phase of the Century City project started on April 23, 2003, covering an area of ??30 hectares.
Changying Film Century City is my country's first movie theme park that combines the film production industry and tourism. It can be called the Hollywood of the East.
The last imperial palace - the Puppet Manchukuo Palace Museum
The Puppet Manchukuo Palace Museum is located on the site of the palace where the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin Gioro Puyi, served as the puppet emperor of the Puppet Manchukuo Kingdom. A palace ruins museum has been established and has become an excellent patriotism education base in the country and a national AAAA tourist attraction.
List of Changchun tourist attractions
Jingyue Lake - Asia's largest artificial forest park; Puppet Manchukuo Palace Museum; Changchun World Sculpture Park; Nanhu Park; Changying Century City - Oriental Hollywood; Changchun Movie City; Prajna Temple; Diaoshuihu Scenic Tourist Area; Changchun Movie Palace; Nongan Ancient Pagoda; Changchun Zoological and Botanical Park; Lianhua Mountain Ski Resort; Karen Lake; Former Site of the State Council of Puppet Manchukuo; Jingyuetan Ski Resort; Germany Hui Tourism; Old Eight Departments; Changchun World Landscape Park - the largest miniature landscape park in Northeast China; Shuangyang Lake; Jiutai Ice Lantern Grand View Garden; Kuancheng Lanjia Resort; Century City Entertainment Park; Victory Park; Xinlicheng Reservoir; Hundred Kingdoms Prosperity Temple; ruins of Huanglong Mansion in Liao Dynasty; Emmanuel Cathedral in Changchun; Shushan Square in Changchun.
Specialty Catering
Changchun cuisine is a blend of northern and southern cuisines, east-west flavors, and the essence of Sichuan, Shandong, Beijing and other major cuisines. Especially the local mountain and wild flavors are the most distinctive and are deeply loved in China. favored by foreign tourists.
Changchun’s famous dishes are mostly made from rare products such as ginseng, deer antlers, bear paws, flying dragons, snow clams, and matsutake mushrooms from the Changbai Mountains. They are scientifically prepared and cooked with precision. They are a combination of medicinal foods and have a high reputation. Among them, Changbai Mountain Zhenyan, Snow Clothes Bean Paste, Sika Deer Feast, Jade Ginseng Maotai Chicken, Safflower Bear's Paw, etc. are the most famous.
In addition, Changchun Hotel’s Jilin-style dishes and Longjiabao white meat blood sausage, the farm restaurant at No. 23 Beijing Street, Changchun City, and Nong’an’s five-spice smoked fish are also famous in the country.
Specialties and snacks also include Northeastern home-cooked fish, braised meatballs, eight Manchu bowls, ginseng steam pot chicken, roasted deer tail, lamb roasted with kidney beans, Korean cold noodles, Hui Baozhen dumplings, and Li Liangui bacon dumplings Pancakes, pickled vegetables and white meat hot pot, etc. In some unknown alleys, you can eat many local snacks, such as spicy hot and sour noodles, fried noodles, roasted garlic, tofu skewers, grilled steamed buns, cakes, Korean pickles, dog meat, pollack, etc. All very good.
Although the winter in Changchun is very cold, the locals have the custom of eating popsicles, frozen dumplings and frozen fruits in winter. This is probably unimaginable to southerners!
Some signature foods with local characteristics include
Dried tofu skewers
Dried tofu is threaded into skewers, supplemented with chicken soup, stewed or smoked. The simple tofu is dyed with the delicious flavor of chicken. The Lao Hantou tofu skewers are the most famous. Dofu skewers were once all over the streets in Changchun.
Later, small vendors were controlled on the main streets, and now they can only be found in non-staple food stores and food windows on the streets. They are usually smoked and cost 0.2 yuan per bunch. Walking on the busy streets, you will occasionally find chicken soup and tofu skewers cooked in a small pot. The portion is small and the taste is lighter. You can add various seasonings according to your own taste.
The price is also slightly cheaper: 0.1 yuan/skewer
Bacon pancake
The special pancake is wrapped in smoked minced meat like a bag, and added Add onions, sauce and other seasonings. The cake is crispy and the meat is fragrant. Li Liangui's bacon pie, which originated in Siping, has blossomed everywhere in Changchun. Similar foods of various names are also flourishing. Snacks and restaurants named after bacon flatbreads are all over the city.
You can buy such snacks at the street market, usually for 1 yuan a piece, or go to several small shops with this name to have a grand meal. But the price may be slightly more expensive.
Sauce Bones
When Sauce Bones was at its most glorious, it once occupied a long street in a bustling section of Changchun. Now only one Wangjijiang Bones family survives and grows. This type of bone is divided into two types: backbone and stick bone. The backbone eats meat and the stick bones absorb marrow, making it full of flavor. The potato sauce in this shop is also made with soy bone soup, which is very unique.