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Top 20 Family-Friendly Attractions in Quanzhou [2025]
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Quanzhou 7FUN rooftop complex space puppet show
4.4
/5
602 reviews
7.2
From €9.36
West Street/Kaiyuan Temple | 737m from downtown
Phone +8617750511999
Address: 3rd Floor, Building 12, No. 373 West Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou City
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
No. 2 of Night Attractions in Quanzhou
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A great place for families, with three shows. The puppeteers performed with great care, and the children were engrossed. At the end, the puppeteers gave a teaching session, and the audience could try to control the puppets. The rooftop view at night is beautiful, and you can check it out.
It just so happens that the B&B is in West Street, not far away, so I took my children to experience the characteristics. The puppet show was very interesting, and I arranged an experience for the children. There was also a lucky draw at the end, which was generally good.
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South Shaolin Temple
4.7
/5
491 reviews
7.1
Weat Lake Park/Qingyuan Mountain | 3 km from downtown
Phone +86059522795119
Address: 福建省泉州市丰泽区东岳古道前街66号
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
No. 2 of Fall Viewing Attractions in Quanzhou
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The ancient and elegant buildings, the sound of rain and the ringing of bells make people feel relaxed. I highly recommend everyone to take a walk. If you go at the right time, you can also taste the vegetarian meal in the temple (self-service) for only 39 yuan, which is delicious.
I also watched the performances at the Songshan Shaolin Temple many years ago. The monks performing here are mostly young people and children. There is a 4-year-old little monk who is particularly cute. Now that I am here, it is still worth watching.
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Quanzhou String Puppet Show
4.9
/5
938 reviews
7.1
From €11.76
Jinjiang Wanda Plaza/Wudianshi Traditional Blocks | 10 km from downtown
Phone +8613205086065
Address: 福建省晋江市五店市大井口2号
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-4 hours
No. 5 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
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A unique puppet show unfolded like a vibrant, colorful cultural landscape, immersing me and leaving me with a profoundly enriching experience. "Little Bald Head Goes Down the Mountain" was particularly captivating, illuminating a sky where traditional and modern values intertwine.
This string puppet show, with its exquisite string manipulation, imbues the puppets with vibrant vitality, vividly portraying the character of Little Bald Head. The spirit of "only through hard work can one win" in the play is like a rousing battle song, inspiring Little Bald Head to persevere and forge ahead despite numerous obstacles. This not only portrays Little Bald Head's growth but also inspires every viewer: on life's long journey, only with the courage to persevere can one overcome difficulties and reach the shores of success.
The philosophy of "one step, one footprint" is like a steady foundation, supporting Little Bald Head's every step forward. It reminds us that success doesn't come overnight; it requires down-to-earth and persistent effort. Every solid footprint is a mark of growth and a solid step toward our dreams. In our fast-paced modern society, this calmness and determination are especially precious, reminding us not to aim too high, but to cherish the present and take each step with care.
The advocacy of "diligent study" is like a beacon of wisdom, illuminating the path of Little Baldy. Knowledge is the key to changing destiny and the password to unlocking the door to the future. Little Baldy's dedication and perseverance in his pursuit of knowledge deeply remind us that only through diligent study and continuous self-improvement can we gain a foothold in a complex world, gain more opportunities, and write our own wonderful lives.
The grandeur of the two hand puppet shows, "Daming Mansion" and the thrilling thrill of "Fighting the Tiger," also showcased the unique charm of puppetry. With their masterful skills, the performers allowed the puppets to interpret the myriad aspects of life within a small space, creating a breathtaking spectacle.
This puppet show is not only a brilliant presentation of traditional art but also a profound spiritual enlightenment. It allows us to appreciate the beauty of art while drawing precious spiritual strength, and inspires us to write our own glorious chapter on the stage of life, using hard work as a pen, steadfastness as ink, and knowledge as paper.
The performance was wonderful. Because there were fewer tourists during the off-season, there were only two of us. We were late and they waited for us. The teachers were very patient. I highly recommend this place.
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All Love Park Ocean Kingdom
4.6
/5
898 reviews
6.9
From €32.38
19.7 km from downtown
Phone +8615559059501
Address: 泉州市惠安县张坂镇井下村336号
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 day
No. 8 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
Highlights:
Explore seven marine-themed areas
Explore ocean & family fun
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It's very convenient to scan the code directly to enter. Europark is not very big. Quanzhou's summer is too hot. Otherwise, it would be very relaxing to play. There are no long queues for large projects. The miner roller coaster only waited for more than 30 minutes.
A huge thumbs-up to Master Huang! Today's Quanzhou day trip was incredibly enjoyable. Master Huang not only drove remarkably well and knew the route intimately, but also filled us in on Quanzhou's history and trivia like a walking dictionary, bringing the sights to life. He was incredibly welcoming and even recommended delicious food. It was a relaxing and fulfilling day. You couldn't have chosen him more!
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Quanzhou string puppet show performance
5.0
/5
728 reviews
6.6
From €11.76
West Street/Kaiyuan Temple | 1.2 km from downtown
Phone +8617750511999
Address: 3-008-1, 3rd Floor, Kaiyuan Shengshi Plaza, No. 366, Xinhua North Road, Quanzhou City
No. 11 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
Highlights:
Watch Song and Yuan dynasty opera - living fossil performances
A comprehensive experience of Quanzhou puppet art
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It’s really great. When you come to a new city, you have to experience its different characteristics. The marionettes and the puppets in your hands are very wonderful. One minute on stage is the result of ten years of hard work off stage. It’s good to promote culture. I wish your business gets better and better!
I experienced the string puppets and palm puppets in Quanzhou puppet show. There are three shows in total, all of which are very exciting. After the show, I can also experience the puppet props myself, which is very good.
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Quanzhou Maritime Museum
4.7
/5
271 reviews
6.5
Based on 43 reviews
Wanda Plaza/Fengze Square | 2.5 km from downtown
Phone +86059522100561
Address: No.425 Donghu Street, Fengze District, Quanzhou 362017, China
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
No. 12 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
Highlights:
Song & Yuan costume flash choir
Over 150 Chinese ship models
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Quanzhou Overseas Transport History Museum is the only national museum in China with overseas transportation as the theme. It is located in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province and is a national-level museum. Visit the highlights Quanzhou-Songyuan China World Ocean Trade Center The exhibition introduces Quanzhou's status as a World Ocean Trade Center during the Song and Yuan Dynasty through pictures and texts. [The China Ship History Special Exhibition of "Boat and Boat World" is divided into two parts, showing the history of China's ship development, including a large number of physical ships and ship models, of which the recovery model of the shipwreck "Quanzhou No. 1" in the Song Dynasty is particularly shocking. Religious Stone Inscription Exhibition Hall exhibits Islam, Christianity, Hindu and other religious stone carvings and tombstones, the number of the first in the country, including the Hindu Vishnu stone statue and other precious cultural relics. Ancient maritime cultural relics The museum contains a large number of shipwrecks in the Song Dynasty, such as spices, medicinal materials, wooden brands and tombstones of Persian and Arab merchants.
If you're not planning a second visit soon, visiting Quanzhou for an exhibition requires some decisiveness. In this city, half bustling with life, half celestial, the cultural landscape is clearly dominated by temples and religious sects, while museums need to take a back seat. This retreat creates a "contradiction." Quanzhou's main exhibition halls are located in the east and west. The east is bordered by East Lake, featuring the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum and the Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum; the west, West Lake, is home to the Quanzhou Museum and the China Fujian-Taiwan Relations Museum. After much deliberation, I ultimately chose the eastern route. After all, for a city, the most important priority is to see what best represents its identity. Quanzhou, a major port during the Song and Yuan dynasties and one of the five treaty ports during the humiliating period, deserves to be explored first with its international connections.
Although the Overseas Chinese Museum and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum are not far from each other, for comprehensive consideration, we decided to split the visit into two half-days. Since the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum and the Southern Shaolin Temple ruins are right next to each other, we could spend half an afternoon together. By the end of both visits, it was still light, and we could arrange to visit Kaiyuan Temple on West Street and have dinner and shopping there in the evening. The Overseas Chinese Museum takes at least two hours, so we could combine the morning visit with the Luoyang Bridge visit. We could go to the Luoyang Bridge, which is open all the time, at 7 a.m. and arrive at the Overseas Chinese Museum before 9 a.m., when the first wave of visitors is still small, making the experience quite pleasant. This advance planning is important because both museums require advance reservations via WeChat (at least for the 2025 Spring Festival), and booking on-site is always a bit uncertain. (In practice, the Overseas Chinese Museum strictly verifies reservations, while the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum is more relaxed, perhaps due to crowd volume.)
The Quanzhou Overseas Chinese Museum must be entered through the north gate, but can be exited through the south gate. It's quite large, and while not many floors, the extensive passageways between the buildings make it easy to miss something. Yes, the easily missed areas I mentioned are the Quanzhou Religious Stone Carvings Exhibition Hall and the Islamic Stone Carvings Exhibition Hall. They're not located on the main exhibition hall building, but rather on the exit path. The entrance is right outside the hall, leading many visitors to mistake them for just a passageway and skip a thorough exploration. This is evident in the traffic flow across the various exhibition halls: the ship exhibition hall is packed, the religious stone carvings are scattered, and the Islamic stone carvings are nearly deserted.
1. The main hall explains the history of Quanzhou Port, beginning with its role as a trading port during the Song and Yuan dynasties. It then expands on the related maritime transport, imports and exports, related institutions and systems, the impact on architecture, the international communities brought together by trade, and their beliefs. Interspersed throughout are artifacts and artifacts. I recommend spending at least half an hour exploring this section; it's the main outline; the other exhibition halls are its offshoots. Here, we explain why Quanzhou is known as "half city of fireworks, half city of immortals," truly deserving of its title as a city of religious fusion! (I came up with the name myself)
2. The Quanzhou Religious Stone Carving Exhibition Hall primarily displays Christian and Hindu stone carvings. The Hindu stone carvings, in particular, are the only surviving examples in the country. Rather than being a religious stone carving, it's more of a fusion of Chinese and Western cultures. Foreign religions entering China adapted to local conditions, using Chinese
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Gold Coast
4.4
/5
132 reviews
5.8
28.3 km from downtown
Phone +86059588605588
Address: Shishi City, Quanzhou City
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
No. 17 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
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Shishi Gold Coast, the Pearl of the Southern Anhui Sea, 12 kilometers of coastline outline the golden picture! Bibo white sand and the Taiwan Strait, the wave Guanyin stone statue stands tall, Guanyin Mountain Reef, the beach is soft as silk. Set a beach, water park, aquarium, seafood food in one, surfing, cycling, watching the sunset, night lights, Zen Luojia Temple to add quiet.
The beach here is fine and soft, shining like gold under the sun. The coastline is crescent-shaped and stretches for more than ten kilometers. The view is wide, the sea water is clear and blue, and it contrasts with the blue sky. The waves hit the shore, and layers of white waves appear, which is very charming. There is also Luojia Temple in the scenic area. When the tide is high, it looks like a fairy pavilion on the sea. The architectural style is unique and full of charm. In addition, there is also the Ocean World, which has three-story buildings and nine theme pavilions. You can experience a variety of recreational projects and watch various marine life and animal performances.
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Quanzhou Intangible Culture Heritage Museum
4.8
/5
62 reviews
5.7
Weat Lake Park/Qingyuan Mountain | 2.9 km from downtown
Phone +86059522505028
Address: No. 648, Donghu Street, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, Qiaoxiang Sports Center
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
No. 18 of Best Things to Do in Quanzhou
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The Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum is located at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain, south of the Quanzhou Shaolin Ruins. Facing north and south, the venue occupies an incredibly vast area, especially with its incredibly long courtyard walls. Entering and exiting must be done through the main gate near the east gate. If you miss that gate, you have to walk south all the way to the main intersection and then turn west for a long time before finding a new exit. Otherwise, you have to retrace your steps for several hundred meters. After seeing two exhibitions in one day, those few hundred meters are a real pain.
It's often said that intangible cultural heritage museums are suitable for children because the colorful folk exhibits are understandable and enjoyable to children. I disagree. On the contrary, I think this is precisely what children don't like. Intangible cultural heritage and art museums have both similarities and differences. The similarity lies in the final sensory effect, while the difference lies in the process of achieving this final effect. It's the difference in the materials that is the most amazing part. To understand this, you need to read a lot of the text on the exhibition boards to appreciate the subtleties of the exhibition. Obviously, children don't have the energy to do this process. In the end, they are only interested in sitting in a circle and watching the artists perform with string puppets.
Every time I visit an intangible cultural heritage exhibition in a different city, despite the usual bustle, a sense of heaviness lingers within me. Some of the exhibits are truly destined for the status quo, becoming less and less, withered away without a legacy. It's like the extinction of endangered species, and while it doesn't really impact us, it's still painful, especially when the exhibits are named after people. While the exhibition is divided into four sections—"The Beauty of Nature: Folk Treasures," "The Rhythm of Quanzhou Opera: Remnants of the Jin and Tang Dynasties," "Folk Customs: Deep Feelings of the South," and "The Ingenuity of Nature: Ingenious Creation"—there are essentially only two categories: tangible and intangible. The tangible elements are the artwork and handicrafts made from various materials, while the intangible elements are the sounds and rules—for example, opera and language are the sounds, and folk customs and sports are the rules. By comparison, the tangible "material cultural heritage" is more captivating. The stone carvings upon entering the museum are particularly impressive. The initial works are predictable: carving something out of stone, and techniques like round carving, relief carving, and openwork carving are all within your grasp. But the more you look at them, the more outrageous and exciting they become. Why are they carving paintings? Black and white shadow carving isn't enough, so what about color? The subsequent wood carvings, paper weaving, paper cutting, paper-making, lanterns, cloth carvings, and paper-cut paper are all quite fascinating. In short, the idea is to use unexpected materials and methods to create common images, then add certain artistic characteristics to these common images, such as the three-dimensionality of stone and cloth carvings, the hazy feeling of paper weaving, and so on.
The venue has four or five floors of exhibition space. Although the space on each floor is not very large, it still takes a lot of physical energy to walk around slowly. Unfortunately, there are too few rest areas, with only a few benches near the elevator. In the end, when we gathered on the third floor to watch the marionette show, we didn’t have the energy to stand. Except for those in the inner circle who could sit, those in the back could only hold up their phones and record while watching - they couldn’t see it without turning on the recording function. . . . .
I took a taxi there and was leaving on the last afternoon. I wanted to go see it in the morning. It's worth a visit, but there were no puppet shows. During the summer vacation, there should be more student interactions. In fact, there were none. I took a quick look and left. I felt a little regretful not to go. If you have enough time, you can consider it.
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Quanzhou Eye Ferris Wheel
4.4
/5
469 reviews
5.6
From €8.16
Xunpu Village/Donghai Taihe Plaza | 6.5 km from downtown
Phone +86059528661333
Address: Donghai Taihe Ferris Wheel Culture Square, Tonggang West Street, Fengze District, Quanzhou City
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 hour
No. 9 of Night Attractions in Quanzhou
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Quanzhou Eye Ferris wheel cost-effective is low. Although it is known as a landmark, the experience does not match the price: adult tickets are 68 yuan, about 10 minutes in a circle. The car facilities are ordinary, and some glass dirty affects the view; although the night view is beautiful, the surrounding high-rise buildings block the view, and the romantic feeling is greatly reduced. However, the surrounding facilities are relatively complete - Donghai Taihe Plaza integrates shopping, dining, parent-child entertainment, with special snacks, brand shops and rest areas; the night lighting landscape is beautiful, you can punch in the Jinjiang Bridge photo spot; nearby hotels and parking lots are convenient, suitable for the whole family to play short distances.
It is very convenient to buy tickets, you can use the QR code to buy tickets. The night view is beautiful and worth recommending. It takes about 20 minutes to go around, and you can also see the fountain at night. You can also go to Taihe Plaza next to it to eat something. The restaurant is on the fifth floor
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Shiniu Mountain
4.5
/5
784 reviews
5.6
From €30.94
Based on 5 reviews
83.6 km from downtown
Phone +864008518398
Address: Dehua, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
Recommended sightseeing time: 1 day
No. 4 of Fall Viewing Attractions in Quanzhou
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The natural scenery of Shiniu Mountain is breathtaking! With mountains and waters nestled together, and clouds and mist swirling around, it feels like a fairyland. Hiking, you can breathe in the fresh air and feel the tranquility and grandeur of nature. Every scene is so picturesque that you'll never want to leave. It's the perfect place to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
The natural beauty of Shiniu Mountain is breathtaking! The intertwining of mountains and water, shrouded in mist and clouds, creates a fairyland-like experience. Hiking along, you'll breathe in the fresh air and experience the tranquility and grandeur of nature. Every scene is picturesque, captivating and captivating, making it a perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
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