Yangzhou Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Slender West Lake Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
Slender West Lake in Yangzhou
Slender West Lake is located in the northwest of Yangzhou City in Jiangsu Province. It's a beautiful park with gardens, temples and pagodas. 🦢🏞️🏯
The history is also very interesting and many sings are biliangual in Chinese and English. It is known for its narrow waterways (so the name slander) that connect gardens, bridges and the area's numerous picturesque spots. Great for taking pictures! 📸
My favorite spot was the bridge on picture 1, so nice.
🎟️ Ticket is about 100RMB, year card is also available
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Classic Chinese Park
It is similar to most of the Chinese lake parks 🎋🌳. Those who have more interest into Chinese culture, monuments, gardens and architecture is a great place to explore 🎍. You can either explore the park by walking or by boat ride ⛵️. I heard its more beautiful in spring with blossoms.🌺🌻
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Water town you can’t miss: Yangzhou
Slender West Lake park in Jiangsu is a gorgeous scenic spot you should visit. You can either take a long walk around the lake, enjoying the scenery and cultural spots, or take a long and beautiful ride in the boats.
During spring, weather is nice and flowers make this park an outstanding location. There are many beautiful locations for the perfect picture. Although, during our visit the park was so crowded we couldn’t enjoy it as much as we wanted it. Easy to realize many people travel from far away to visit this gorgeous lake.
Inside the park, there are so many special spots that will bring your attention, from the gardens to the white pagoda, boats decorations and blossomed trees, stone laying, bridges, architecture.. absolutely amazing. This place also holds strong cultural heritage and history.
📍 No.28, Dahongqiao Road Slender West Lake Scenic Area Nei, Hanjiang, Yangzhou
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Ge Garden: The mountain light of four seasons is condensed in the stone, and the shadow of bamboo is swaying with the cool autumn
Ge Garden, named after bamboo and famous for its stones, is the oldest and best preserved salt merchant garden in Yangzhou. If 'March fireworks in Yangzhou' is the endorsement written by Li Bai for Yangzhou, then 'the best place in the west of bamboo' is the promotion given by Jiang Kui to Ge Garden. The lush green bamboo separated by a wall separates the hustle and bustle of Dongguan Street and soothes the anxiety and impatience brought by my hurried journey.
'Prefer to eat without meat, rather than live without bamboo', the owner of Ge Garden, Huang Yingtai, cherishes and loves bamboo, even changed his name to 'Zhiyun', and planted his residence full of lush bamboo. Naming the garden 'Ge' is not only a clever take on the charm of the Chinese character and shape of bamboo; the three strokes in the painting also represent the perfect realm of the three fullness of fortune, salary, and longevity. This is also the most famous classical garden in Yangzhou besides Slender West Lake - if you don't come to Ge Garden, you haven't been to Yangzhou.
Four Seasons Rockery: A mountain has many seasons, and a season is in many mountains
Chinese freehand brushwork is committed to integrating thousands of weather in a square inch. A long scroll of the four seasons is also condensed into an eternal real scene by Ge Garden. 'Spring mountain is light and like a smile, summer mountain is green and like a drop, autumn mountain is clear and like makeup, winter mountain is bleak and like sleep', and the winter and spring mountains are separated by a wall. Through the hole in the west wall of the winter mountain, you can glimpse the stalagmites at the entrance of the garden outside - winter is here, will spring be far away?
Admiring the autumn mountain in autumn is just right: the craftsman cleverly borrows the texture and unique color of the newly built yellow stone, and constructs a rugged and changeable three-dimensional landscape in the square inch of the world. Standing on the Buddha Yun Pavilion on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the autumn mountain below, and you can look far away to the Slender West Lake to the north. The mountain is also planted with ancient cypresses, red maples and other colorful and angular plants, which are commensurate with the handsome mountain body, making this live 'Autumn Mountain Sunset' picture always new.
Baoshan Building: Don't go out and the sky is spring, and the dust horses are all resting
The slender Baoshan Building embraces the summer and autumn mountains with a long corridor, hence the name. The garden has the saying of 'mustard sumeru' and 'pot middle world', and the title of Baoshan Building 'Pot Sky from Spring' also means to see the big from the small. It is like a time and space tunnel, collecting spring, summer, autumn and winter, heaven and earth, day and moon: climbing the building and looking, you can overlook the clear pool and mountain stone flowers and trees under the building, as far as the entrance of the spring mountain; to the north, you can look far away. Yangzhou city scenery, hear the voices of people in the market; walking along the long corridor in the building, there are exquisite and transparent summer and majestic and heavy autumn within a hundred steps.
Wan Bamboo Garden: The green shadow shakes the sky and the blue clouds are low, and the bamboo dances with the wind and the rhyme is long
Bamboo is the spirit of Ge Garden. In Wan Bamboo Garden, there are now more than 60 kinds of ornamental bamboo and more than 20,000 poles. There is a pavilion in the depths of the bamboo forest, named after Wang Wei's poem 'Bamboo Pavilion'. The couplet in the pavilion 'For the heavy frost festival, can be empty to respond to the heart of things' also reflects Huang Zhiyun's love for the bamboo's spirit. Standing in the hexagonal pavilion surrounded by bamboo trees on all sides, waiting for the breeze to pass through the bamboo tips, the bamboo shadows swaying, listening to the clear and unique sound of the bamboo leaves, I can't help but think: when the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest' in the Wei and Jin Dynasties lived under the bamboo and sang happily, Is it so comfortable and hearty?
'Spring, summer, autumn and winter mountain light is different, the wind is clear and the dew bamboo shadow is colorful', come to Ge Garden in autumn, you can enjoy the fragrant osmanthus, golden ginkgo, and fiery maple's strong autumn rhyme at the same time.
📍'Ge Garden': No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District
💰Tickets: 30r
Ge Garden
As the saying goes: Fireworks in March Yangzhou-Yangzhou one-day tour can also be very enjoyable
Yangzhou University
weekend suddenly thought of going to Yangzhou for a circle, thinking about the book, finished the high-speed rail ticket, and went down The high-speed train took a taxi to Yangzhou University. There was no one on the weekend campus. The spring flowers are very suitable for taking pictures. There are many colleges in the park. One of the colleges is super retro. It feels like the Republic of China. After entering, I also saw the lab, which is super retro. The kind of bathroom, the old-fashioned look, the mirror is a simple and simple glass to open a piece, attached to the wall, very atmosphere.
Liu Xie Kee noodle restaurant (now is the net red noodle restaurant)
Walk over Yangzhou University to go to lunch, the small supermarket on the road encounters the net red yogurt, eats chocolate sorbet, through the heart When I went to the fat-intestine noodle shop recommended by my friend, the fat intestines seemed to be cleaned very cleanly. In fact, I still like to eat the fat meat inside. I bite the skin and the fat oil in the mouth to give each other their own charm, which is wonderful. Their crab yellow meatballs are also one of the characteristics. A gentle crab yellow juice can not help but flow out, the ball is elastic and chewy, the noodle shop is not big, and it is full of people.
Park
I don't like the bustling downtown, I am going to go to the park in the afternoon for a circle, a garden-world cultural heritage, there are green bamboos, come back to view the information, the original The owner of the garden especially likes bamboo, and the name of the garden is also bamboo.
The garden is filled with large pieces of emerald green bamboo. Walking inside is a happy and happy couple. A couple of photographers taking pictures of the Republic of China, photographers all kinds of plans, it seems that the knowledgeable old man took the SLR and carefully studied it carefully. The grandmother of the child, the couple walks.
Dessert Shop
The garden is coming out for a walk, passing through a regular underground corridor, and the outside world, outside the sun, the bottom of the heart is cool.
I met a private dessert shop for a while, a couple opened together, the decoration style is simple, there is no complicated color, the overall white, the wall is full of paintings, sofa cotton, bookcase wood, balcony It is covered with green climbing plants, spider plants, etc., and has a dining table with a layer of misty white gauze, which is separated from the outside guests by a low-key, two floors upstairs and downstairs.
Eat dessert, read the book, sort out the photos, prepare for the resurrection to eat hot pot
Eight-flag old Beijing hot pot
downtown walked a circle, feeling Yangzhou whole The city is very clean, the city is small but very comfortable, there is a street, and many people who ride to work feel very retro.
Selected an old Beijing copper pot hot pot, eating sesame sauce, copper pot hot pot and Sichuan flavor hot pot is different, its soul is meat and sesame sauce, once the meat is not good, it is found in minutes, because it is clear soup, There are no hidden components.
Iron skewer kebabs are delicious, sprinkled with cumin chili powder is perfect
waiter's incomparable enthusiasm, feeling the kind of illusion in Beijing.
West Lake
hot pot after the end and went to the thin West Lake strolled a circle, the day is a bit dark, the camera did not take any photos, a very relaxing day, the high-speed rail back to Nanjing, the era The progress can make it a wonderful day for you to travel to and from a city.
If you don't visit Yangzhou in March, you'll regret it, babies
"Attractions Guide" Xiaojie Street
At the end of the alley, you can check in at the "Siwang Pavilion" building, where the short alley encapsulates the ordinary life of the locals.
Dongguan Street
A very representative historical old street in Yangzhou, with lanterns hanging from the eaves of old buildings along the road, full of New Year's atmosphere, it is a great place for a city stroll. Ge Garden
I personally think it's more worth visiting than He Garden~ The exquisite garden and rockery are very typical of Chinese elegance. Pishi Street
There are many interesting creative shops, as well as a big "Yangzhou" sign, which is very suitable for taking photos.
Er Fen Ming Yue Lou
A free garden hidden in the alley, not very big and with few people, but still encapsulates the poetic and picturesque charm of the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.
Grand Canal Museum
No ticket is required, but you need to make a reservation in advance.
"About Accommodation"
This time I came to Yangzhou to better experience the market life of this small town, so I deliberately stayed at the reconstructed Bingyuan Pavilion Cultural Resort Hotel on Dongguan Street~ In a century-old salt merchant's residence, through the understanding of the aesthetics of life, it has been upgraded and transformed, but you can feel a different kind of relaxation and tranquility. Sitting in the tea room in the garden landscape and chatting and tasting tea in the afternoon really feels like the right way to open a trip to Yangzhou!
Yangzhou | Ge Garden, this is a garden with personality
🚗 Ge Garden is located at No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, in the northeast corner. It has been honored with the title of the third batch of 'National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units' and the 'First Batch of National Key Parks'. This Qing Dynasty private garden of Yangzhou salt merchants, named for its bamboo planting, is famous for its artificial mountains representing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It was expanded by the salt merchant Huang Zhiyun of the two Huai salt industries in the 23rd year of the Jiaqing era of the Qing Dynasty (1818 AD) on the basis of the original Ming Dynasty 'Shouzhi Garden'.
🚗 Ge Garden is famous for its rockery art, with spring, summer, autumn, and winter artificial mountains made of bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellow stones, and Xuan stones, integrating garden design principles and landscape painting theories. Mr. Chen Congzhou, a master of garden art, praised it as a 'unique example in China'. In 2005, Ge Garden was honored as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, one of the twenty key parks in the country. In 2016, Ge Garden became one of the first batch of national key flower culture bases.
🚗 Famous attractions
Four Seasons Artificial Mountain, Southern Residence, Bamboo Variety Viewing Area, Flower Arrangement Area
🚗 Suggested visiting duration
1-2 hours, suitable for all seasons
🚗 Jiangnan style gardens, those who know how to appreciate may find each garden has its own unique charm (of course, each owner has different preferences), like me who doesn't know much about it may think they all look similar, haha. However, when you walk into the large courtyards several times, you can indeed feel the former prosperity of the owners. Yangzhou was once a place where wealthy merchants emerged, and those who are interested can spend more time to explore.
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This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
A famous Chinese private garden
The garden was easy to get inside with the ticket buying process being very quiet and welcoming. There is also lots of parking nearby.
Inside the garden there is lots to explore. I like how much of the building there is to explore with rooms to show off the most recent residents living conditions. You can see the masters bedrooms and study room alongside some of the rooms built for entertaining.
The garden was a private residence and garden from the late Qing dynasty for the He family. There are lots of signs around the museum which are bilingual. There is also a lot of staff dressed up in traditional costume which adds to the experience.
We enjoyed a 2 hour visit on a weekend winter and it was very quiet.#
Royal China-western garden, yangzhou
📍 Attractions -
Mainly divided as 3 attractions. The rear garden, the residential courtyard and a rock Grotto. Very beautiful photographic location. Also have pictures of Royal Family. 🎋🌿
📍 Hotels -
We stayed in Yitel hotel. Which is walkable distance from this attraction. The hotel was very neat and clean. 🏨
📍 Shopping -
After exit a long shopping area in a traditional way with lot of traditional foods, decor, foot massage etc. 🥘🍱👒
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Sparse woods veil the path with fragrance, as my pen captures the flowing radiance
Before leaving Yangzhou on the eighth day of the lunar new year, my last stop was He Garden. Different from the Personal Garden, not only is it larger in size, but more importantly, the history of the He family's generations of inheritance and striving adds a few more layers of solemnity to He Garden. The beauty of the garden and the beauty of its spirit are equally admirable.
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China Grand Canal Museum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
The Grand Canal Museum's Potala Palace Themed Exhibition
I visited the China Grand Canal Museum on Sunday. It is a newly built museum in recent years, featuring many spectacular exhibition halls. These halls display the historical changes and cultural development of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal since ancient times. Inside the museum, there is also a Tibetan culture exhibition hall themed around the Potala Palace. Upon entering, I was immediately struck by the overwhelming presence of distinctive Tibetan elements—money, gold ornaments, gilded Lama statues, Thangkas, Tibetan monk robes, and more. Among the dazzling array of gold artifacts, one can also see the opulence of the upper echelons of Tibetan society, as well as the suffering of the common people. Every character and object is a shock!
Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum | Nanny-level Visit Guide (Including Reservation Strategy)
🌸In the fireworks-filled March in Yangzhou, the scenery is naturally breathtaking.
❗️You must check in at the "China Grand Canal Museum"
🌊Learn about the historical and cultural changes of the canal over a thousand years
🌸Experience life on the banks of the ancient canal in Yangzhou's Three Bays
———Reservation Strategy———
👉Start booking 7 days in advance
👉Tickets are released promptly at 19:00
👉There is a batch of weekend tickets released every Friday (hard to get)
👉Enter visitor information in advance (up to 5 people's information can be saved)
———Visit Strategy———
📍Detailed address: China Grand Canal Museum (North Gate)
🚗Transportation Strategy:
👉Take bus routes 82, 57, 56, or 9🚌 directly
👉The venue has an underground parking lot🅿️, accessible from Daxue South Road
👉Taking a taxi🚕 from Dongguan Street costs about 17 yuan
🕙Opening hours: 9:00—17:00, entry stops at 16:00 (Closed on Mondays, open as usual on holidays)
💰Ticket price: Free🆓
🌟Permanent exhibitions:
🌊【Hall 1: The Grand Canal—China's World Cultural Heritage】: Popularize the historical changes of the Grand Canal, which has experienced a thousand years of vicissitudes and accompanied the rise and fall of various dynasties.
🌊【Hall 2: Boats on the Canal】: Naked-eye👀5D physical experience, where you can board the Shafei ship to experience and understand the evolution of the types of ships on the Grand Canal.
🌊【Hall 3: Born from the Canal—Impressions of the Grand Canal's Marketplaces】: Recreates the rich and lively scenes of representative towns along the canal. You can also make a unique intangible cultural heritage lacquer fan🪭
📌Little Tips:
1. There are also special exhibitions of the Potala Palace and Qi Baishi's paintings recently, which interested friends can check out
2. The intangible cultural heritage lacquer fan🪭 requires queuing, about 1 hour, remember to head to Hall 3 first~
3. There are also many cultural and creative products and stamping points, well worth the visit!
If you don't go to Yangzhou in March, you are confused!
"The fireworks in March are in Yangzhou", indicating that Yangzhou will become a hot destination in March and April. Remember to save this 2-day and 1-night Yangzhou travel guide!
📣【Transportation】
🚄High-speed train: You can choose to arrive at Yangzhou Station or Yangzhou East Station
✈Plane: Consider arriving at Yangtai Airport
🚘Self-driving: Recommend self-driving tour from surrounding cities, to better experience the beauty of Yangzhou
📣【Must-visit Attractions】
🔶Grand Canal Museum: There are 10 exhibition halls here, which you can visit along the way, especially the 2nd and 3rd exhibition halls are surprising, immersively presenting the beautiful scenery and bustling streets of Yangzhou
🔶Slender West Lake: For residents of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, the attraction may not be great, but as a famous scenic spot in Yangzhou, it is still worth a visit
🔶Dongguan Street: Authentic old Yangzhou historical streets, also a food and business street, the night view is very charming! Wen Chang Pavilion is one of the landmarks of Yangzhou, don't forget to take a photo when passing by📷
🔶Ge Garden: As one of the four famous gardens in China, it integrates garden design and landscape scenery, with rockeries and bamboo forests in the garden, offering a unique ambiance.
🔶Pi Market Street: Although it is only a few hundred meters long, mainly with attractions and cultural and creative shops, there is not much food, if you like snacks, it is recommended to go to Guoqing Road, which is only one or two kilometers away from Pi Market Street.
📣【Accommodation and Dining】
🚋Accommodation: It is recommended to choose near Dongguan Street or Wen Chang Pavilion, the location is convenient, and it is easy to eat, drink, and have fun~
🍲Food:
✅You must try morning tea when you come to Yangzhou ‼
✅Affordable food recommendation👉Garden, try three-ding bao, pine nut shumai, vermicelli soup
✅Exquisite food recommendation👉Xiangyuan or Quyuan, guaranteed not to disappoint ‼
✅Yangzhou yogurt, Yangzhou fried rice, Yangzhou dry silk, braised lion's head are must-tries‼
The millennia-old canal flows clear, reflecting the integrity and spirit of our ancestors
The Grand Canal, excavated in the 5th century BC, connects the five major river systems of the Hai River, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River, and Qiantang River. It is a masterpiece of large-scale water conservancy and transportation engineering in human history.
The magnificent achievements that have lasted for generations have also nurtured a group of upright and outstanding officials known for their integrity and remarkable political achievements. These individuals, who put the country before their home and public interest before personal gain, are the backbone of the vast land of China.
Sun Shuao, the Chancellor of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period, was renowned for his governance that led to Chu's dominance within three years. He supervised the excavation of the Jinghan Canal and the Chaohu Canal and was involved in the construction of water conservancy projects such as the Quebei.
Fan Zhongyan, the virtuous Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty known for his principle of 'worrying before others and enjoying after others,' was also skilled in water management. He rebuilt the Haifang Dyke in Taizhou, now known as 'Fan Gong Dyke.' During a severe famine in Wu, he encouraged competitive boat racing in Hangzhou to stimulate consumption, launched major construction projects, and solved employment issues.
Yangzhou is a city that prospered because of the salt trade and was the center of the Lianghuai salt industry during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Lianghuai Salt Transport Commissioner's office, which managed the salt industry, was also located here.
The Lianghuai Salt Case during the Qianlong era foreshadowed the decline of the salt monopoly. In the Daoguang era, the 'Gang Salt System' was changed to the 'Ticket Salt System,' allowing prices to fluctuate with the market to break the monopoly and exclusive operation of the salt industry.
Tao Yan, a famous incorruptible official of the Ming Dynasty, supervised the grain transport on the canal three times. He was known for his incorruptibility and frugal lifestyle, earning him the nicknames 'Vegetable Tao' and 'Tao Sangan.'
Xu Sanxing, who served as the Imperial Salt Inspector of Lianghuai, was known for his principle of 'not taking surplus' and also compiled a set of 'Salt Law Regulations.'
Yang Xifu, a famous Confucian minister of the Qing Dynasty, cared for the people's livelihood and the public good while serving as the Canal Transport Governor. He compiled the 'Canal Transport Regulations' in 20 volumes.
Zhang Pengnian, a water conservancy expert of the Qing Dynasty, valued agriculture and sericulture and wrote the 'Complete Book on River Management.' Emperor Kangxi praised him as 'the most incorruptible official under heaven.'
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Daming Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
Strolling through Daming Temple to admire the cherry blossoms
Setting off from the north gate of Slender West Lake, it's a quick journey to Daming Temple, the foremost temple in Eastern Huai.
The incense burns brightly, and the devout come to pray. Pay homage to Master Jianzhen, gaze upon the Qiling Pagoda, and take a look at the relics of the Fifth Spring in the world. Have a pleasant time.
Leaving Daming Temple and heading north, you'll reach the bustling Jianzhen Avenue, where white cherry blossoms bloom in abundance, beautiful and fragrant. It's a stroke of 'cherry' good fortune.
In March, the cherry blossoms are in bloom; Yangzhou is really fun to visit.
The Millennium Ancient Temple | Daming Temple in Yangzhou
Daming Temple, located on the middle peak of Shugang in the northwest suburbs of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was named for its initial construction during the Daming years of Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Song Dynasty (457-464 AD). Over the past 1500 years, the temple's name has undergone many changes, and the temple we see now was built during the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, when Master Jianzhen served as the abbot of Daming Temple, he traveled to Japan to teach Buddhist scriptures and Chinese culture, making Daming Temple an important ancient temple in the history of Sino-Japanese Buddhist and cultural relations.
The Daming Temple is divided into three parts: the central part is the main temple architecture, the eastern part is the Qiling Pagoda, and the western part is the garden-style backyard. The main temple buildings in the central area of the scenic spot are divided into three routes running from south to north. Along the central axis from south to north are the archway, the mountain gate, and the Mahavira Hall. The western route mainly features Ouyang Xiu; to the south is the Pingshan Hall built by Ouyang Xiu when he was the governor of Yangzhou, and to the north is the Gulin Hall built by Su Dongpo when he held the same position. Further north is the Jianzhen Memorial Hall, with the Sutra Depository Tower to its east. The Qiling Pagoda in the eastern part was originally built by Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty to celebrate his birthday. The pagoda we see now is a reconstruction of the Sui Dynasty's pagoda, with 9 stories, housing Buddhist relics and a nanmu Buddha pagoda inside. Visitors can climb to the top of the pagoda to overlook the entire Daming Temple and gaze into the distance at the Slender West Lake.
The Jianzhen Memorial Hall is the most important building in Daming Temple. Jianzhen traveled to Japan six times, bringing Chinese Buddhism and culture to Japan. He presided over the construction of the Toshodai-ji in Nara, Japan, and eventually passed away there. The Jianzhen Memorial Hall was built to mimic the style of Toshodai-ji.
📍Detailed address:
No. 8, Pingshan Hall East Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province
🚉Transportation strategy:
{Get on at Yangzhou Railway Station}, take bus route You 1 to Daming Temple Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
{Get on at Yangzhou East High-speed Railway Station}, take bus route You 3 to Pingshan Hall Ecological Parking Lot Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
{Get on at Jiangdu Railway Station}, take bus route 99 to Wanfuzha East Station, transfer to bus route You 3 to Pingshan Hall Ecological Parking Lot Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
🕙Business hours:
08:00-16:30
Ticket price: 45 yuan
Fireworks in March, it's time to visit Yangzhou, here's a 2-day 1-night travel guide
Yangzhou 2 Days 1 Night Travel Guide✨ Yangzhou·Jiangsu
🚗 **Transportation:**
- 🚄 High-speed train: Arrive at Yangzhou Station or Yangzhou East Station, then take a taxi or bus to the hotel.
- ✈️ Airplane: Arrive at Yangzhou Taizhou Airport, take the airport shuttle or taxi to the hotel.
- 🚘 Self-driving: Self-driving tour is recommended for a better experience.
🏨 **Accommodation Suggestions:**
- 🚋 Location: Choose hotels near Dongguan Street or Wenchang Pavilion for easy access to Slender West Lake, Ge Garden, and restaurants.
- 🍲 Food Recommendations: Yangzhou fried rice, Yangzhou dry silk, crab roe soup dumplings, braised lion's head, Wensi tofu, shadow beef, Yangda yogurt.
🚶 **Two-Day Tour Itinerary:**
- **Day1:** Slender West Lake -> Daming Temple -> Gulin Academy -> Wenchang Pavilion -> Grand Canal
- **Day2:** Ge Garden -> Dadongmen Street -> Caiyi Street -> Dongguan Street -> He Garden -> Grand Canal Museum
📷 **Recommended Photo Spots:**
- 🔺 He Garden: A private garden with a mix of Republican-era style and Sino-Western architectural features.
- 🔺 Dongguan Street: The historic district of old Yangzhou, with charming night views.
- 🔺 Slender West Lake: One of the representatives of southern Chinese gardens, as renowned as the West Lake.
- 🔺 Daming Temple: A Buddhist temple with cultural relics and garden scenery.
- 🔺 Grand Canal Museum: Showcases the history and culture of the Grand Canal.
- 🔺 Wenchang Pavilion: A landmark of Yangzhou, close to Siwang Pavilion.
- 🔺 Caiyi Street: An old street from the Ming and Qing dynasties, lined with various snack shops and restaurants.
- 🔺 Ge Garden: A garden known for its bamboo and rockery, with unique features.
- 🔺 Pishi Street: Once a leather goods street, now has many photo spots and specialty coffee shops.
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