Qingshen Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Hanyang Town Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Chengdu Surroundings | The Ceiling of Cultural Relics (with Strategy)
Why not invite your friends for a two-day and one-night cultural walking tour if you don't want to travel far?
Let's be joyful children in the wilderness
Chasing, laughing, and sharing along the way
You can also avoid the crowds and feel the cultural heritage
Why not enjoy it?
⛳ Address: Qing Shen Zhong Yan Temple
🎫 Ticket: 27 for adults, free for children
⛰️: About 5km loop hike, very suitable for the whole family
✅ Recommended reasons:
✔️ Historical culture: Zhong Yan has been a place of spiritual beauty and cultural essence since ancient times. Su Dongpo, when young, studied here, and the existing Dongpo Reading Pavilion is a testament to that. During the Song Dynasty, famous figures like Fan Chengda and Lu You visited, praising it as the 'best spring and forest in Western Sichuan' and as 'the number one mountain in southern Sichuan', later known as 'the place of Su Dongpo's first love'.
✔️ The vegetation is lush and the negative oxygen ion content is very high, suitable for spring and summer.
✔️ The streams are now full, and it's possible to catch crabs and small fish and shrimp
✔️ The overall route is quiet and peaceful, not crowded, with moderate slopes, very suitable for children and the elderly
✅ Recommended itinerary:
Day1️⃣
Morning visit to Hanyang Ancient Town, lunch with the world's number one chicken, afternoon hike to Zhong Yan Temple, stay overnight in Meishan or Hanyang
Day2️⃣
Morning visit to the Three Su Temple, afternoon at Dongpo Urban Wetland Park, evening meal on Shuijie (Water Street) to enjoy the night view before heading home
Qingshen County, Meishan | Hanyang Ancient Town | Weekend Trip
🔸It takes 1.5-2h to drive from Chengdu to Hanyang Ancient Town in Meishan City
🔸Qingshen County is named for its worship of the ancient Shu King Cancong, who 'taught the people about farming and sericulture in blue clothes, and all the people revered him as a deity.' The county has a history of over 1400 years.
🔸Hanyang Ancient Town has been named since the Han Dynasty and has a long history. Nowadays, the town is mostly inhabited by elderly people, and its former prosperity has faded away.
🔸The town has a low level of commercialization, with few remaining courtyards and stilted buildings, and many old houses have become dilapidated and dangerous within the courtyards. It has the style of a Sichuan county town from the early days of the reform and opening up in the last century.
🔸The ancient town is small and can be toured in half an hour.
🔸Recommended dish: 'Hanyang Bangbang Chicken'.
🔸Prepare to get up early the next day for a hike in the Zhongyan Temple scenic area. The chosen accommodation is 'Hanyun Xingye Homestay,' located on the road between the ancient town and Zhongyan Temple, with a fresh and tidy environment, and breakfast is provided.
The human world of the ancient town
Hanyang Ancient Town,
a very niche ancient town in Sichuan,
leisurely and relaxed,
strolling among them,
time seems to have returned to childhood
Hanyang Ancient Town
Ayard of Chan Hotel Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Chengdu Parent-child Tour | Hanyang Lake Tent Hotel
📍Meishan. Hanyang Lake Memory Village
When you come to Meishan, you must stay in the panoramic tent room of Memory Village, and you must experience the riverside swimming pool of Hanyang Lake Scenic Area.
The hotel and swimming pool are built along the Minjiang River, in the Hanyang Lake Scenic Area, and the swimming pool is so close that you can get into the Minjiang River with a turn, looking at the broad riverbed and the flowing Minjiang water, it is particularly soothing.
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🏨【River View Tent Room】
The glass tent room with a large lawn at the door, a glance up is the Minjiang River, the living environment is full score💯.
You can bring dogs, and dogs can run happily on the large lawn.
You can go down the Minjiang River with your own paddle board, you need to connect with the hotel in advance, the river is too wide and there is a certain risk, it is not recommended for non-professional players.
There are also suite courtyard rooms to choose from, suitable for a family to come out for a relaxing vacation.
🎐【Hanfu Experience】
You can borrow a set of Hanfu for free when you stay in the hotel, and return it when you check out. The rental price is also super cheap. The room also provides two sets of Zen clothes, which are very artistic.
🎫【Swimming Pool】
99 yuan for two people, no free ticket policy for children.
There are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, children have exclusive swimming pools, water slides are temporarily available, it is a pity that they are not open, the swimming pools are all at room temperature and only suitable for summer, hot springs will be opened next to them in winter, the number of pools is small and not large, you can soak in the hotel.
🎠【Non-powered Amusement Park】
The scenic area has pirate ship climbing slides, sand pools, trampolines and other non-powered outdoor children's projects
🏕️【Camping】
Hotel guests can set up a sky tent for free camping, no fire🔥, non-hotel guests need to pay for themselves, we met someone who rented a venue to propose when we went, it was very romantic~
🍚【Dining】
You can drive to the town to eat Hanyang chicken, this dish is a thumbs up, the cold mix tastes very good~
🗺️【Surrounding Play】
🔹China Bamboo Art City: Appreciate traditional handicraft weaving
🔹Panda Pavilion: Two pandas🐼 you enjoy alone
🔹Fish Calling Park: Catch fish and shrimp, net tadpoles
🔹Bamboo House Bookstore: Internet celebrity bookstore
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This is Sheep Mom, a 90s mom who walks her child in a fancy way
The goal is to play all over Chengdu and the surrounding 100 treasures
Working hard to find every week🧐
This might be the real pastoral life, playing carefree with children
Qing Shen Zen Post•Yi Village The entire homestay area is by the river, surrounded by greenery, bamboo forests, bamboo pole fences as separators, unnamed but beautiful green plants. There are flowers, lawns, trails, close to nature, the courtyard hidden in the bamboo forest. Full of Zen, the courtyards are all in the style of Japanese dry landscape, which is exactly what I like! Just like its name, it is full of Zen, as if returning to the village of childhood, the large courtyard of grandmother's house.
Room
It is composed of two parts. One part is all courtyards, and the other part is tent rooms. The courtyards are all independent, the doors of the courtyards are really well designed in the style of Chinese villages, and even couplets are posted! As soon as you enter the door, it feels like going back to grandmother's house for the New Year, very warm and happy. Each courtyard has four rooms, the design of the rooms are all Japanese style, each courtyard has a large living room, there is a sunken sofa area, a fireplace around the stove, a card table, a BAR, a courtyard, especially suitable for four families to spend the weekend together, very private.
Meals
You can have a meeting at the two-person seat by the window in the waterfront restaurant, or a large family can sit at a large round table. Reserve meals and the number of people in advance, and the hotel will match the dishes. Special requests can be made, for example, we brought some boletus edulis, stir-fried boletus edulis on site, also brought a copper pot, cooked copper pot rice, paired with light cherry wine, everything is just right.
Facilities
There is also an infinity pool for swimming and playing in the water, a heart-shaped soup pool for hot springs, a net red transparent swing for playing, and there are simply too many projects. My favorite is this super large lawn, rolling up and down, endless at a glance, you can run freely or lie on the picnic mat and stare at the white clouds in a daze, very comfortable.
China Bamboo Art City Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Chengdu Parent-child Tour | Hanyang Lake Tent Hotel
📍Meishan. Hanyang Lake Memory Village
When you come to Meishan, you must stay in the panoramic tent room of Memory Village, and you must experience the riverside swimming pool of Hanyang Lake Scenic Area.
The hotel and swimming pool are built along the Minjiang River, in the Hanyang Lake Scenic Area, and the swimming pool is so close that you can get into the Minjiang River with a turn, looking at the broad riverbed and the flowing Minjiang water, it is particularly soothing.
.
🏨【River View Tent Room】
The glass tent room with a large lawn at the door, a glance up is the Minjiang River, the living environment is full score💯.
You can bring dogs, and dogs can run happily on the large lawn.
You can go down the Minjiang River with your own paddle board, you need to connect with the hotel in advance, the river is too wide and there is a certain risk, it is not recommended for non-professional players.
There are also suite courtyard rooms to choose from, suitable for a family to come out for a relaxing vacation.
🎐【Hanfu Experience】
You can borrow a set of Hanfu for free when you stay in the hotel, and return it when you check out. The rental price is also super cheap. The room also provides two sets of Zen clothes, which are very artistic.
🎫【Swimming Pool】
99 yuan for two people, no free ticket policy for children.
There are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, children have exclusive swimming pools, water slides are temporarily available, it is a pity that they are not open, the swimming pools are all at room temperature and only suitable for summer, hot springs will be opened next to them in winter, the number of pools is small and not large, you can soak in the hotel.
🎠【Non-powered Amusement Park】
The scenic area has pirate ship climbing slides, sand pools, trampolines and other non-powered outdoor children's projects
🏕️【Camping】
Hotel guests can set up a sky tent for free camping, no fire🔥, non-hotel guests need to pay for themselves, we met someone who rented a venue to propose when we went, it was very romantic~
🍚【Dining】
You can drive to the town to eat Hanyang chicken, this dish is a thumbs up, the cold mix tastes very good~
🗺️【Surrounding Play】
🔹China Bamboo Art City: Appreciate traditional handicraft weaving
🔹Panda Pavilion: Two pandas🐼 you enjoy alone
🔹Fish Calling Park: Catch fish and shrimp, net tadpoles
🔹Bamboo House Bookstore: Internet celebrity bookstore
.
This is Sheep Mom, a 90s mom who walks her child in a fancy way
The goal is to play all over Chengdu and the surrounding 100 treasures
Working hard to find every week🧐
Sansu Ancestral Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Chengdu Surroundings | The Ceiling of Cultural Relics (with Strategy)
Why not invite your friends for a two-day and one-night cultural walking tour if you don't want to travel far?
Let's be joyful children in the wilderness
Chasing, laughing, and sharing along the way
You can also avoid the crowds and feel the cultural heritage
Why not enjoy it?
⛳ Address: Qing Shen Zhong Yan Temple
🎫 Ticket: 27 for adults, free for children
⛰️: About 5km loop hike, very suitable for the whole family
✅ Recommended reasons:
✔️ Historical culture: Zhong Yan has been a place of spiritual beauty and cultural essence since ancient times. Su Dongpo, when young, studied here, and the existing Dongpo Reading Pavilion is a testament to that. During the Song Dynasty, famous figures like Fan Chengda and Lu You visited, praising it as the 'best spring and forest in Western Sichuan' and as 'the number one mountain in southern Sichuan', later known as 'the place of Su Dongpo's first love'.
✔️ The vegetation is lush and the negative oxygen ion content is very high, suitable for spring and summer.
✔️ The streams are now full, and it's possible to catch crabs and small fish and shrimp
✔️ The overall route is quiet and peaceful, not crowded, with moderate slopes, very suitable for children and the elderly
✅ Recommended itinerary:
Day1️⃣
Morning visit to Hanyang Ancient Town, lunch with the world's number one chicken, afternoon hike to Zhong Yan Temple, stay overnight in Meishan or Hanyang
Day2️⃣
Morning visit to the Three Su Temple, afternoon at Dongpo Urban Wetland Park, evening meal on Shuijie (Water Street) to enjoy the night view before heading home
Meishan drizzles, visiting the Three Su Temple
"The brisk spring breeze awakens from wine," "a straw cape in the misty rain, indifferent to life." Meishan is the hometown of Su Dongpo. A family of father and son, with timeless literary achievements, commanding respect across centuries, shining through the ages.
A nanny-level guide to the stunning ancient towns around Chengdu that are just a 20-minute trip away - please save this!
A stunning ancient town just a 20-minute high-speed train ride from Chengdu, with a super detailed route shared, nanny-level guide - please save!
Recommended travel route:
Depart from Chengdu to ➡️ Guangming Temple and Liujiang Ancient Town in Hongya County, then drive to Meishan city area in the late afternoon, ➡️ first visit Sansu Temple, ➡️ after dinner go to Dongpo Impression Water Street, and then return to Chengdu.
Attraction recommendations:
Hongya County attractions:
1. Guangming Temple
With white walls and black tiles, the temple has a unique style, and you can feel a peaceful and serene atmosphere as soon as you enter.
Walking inside the temple and looking outside, there's an illusion of the temple being in the clouds, which is incredibly beautiful!
Worth visiting!
2. Liujiang Ancient Town
I can't believe I've only just discovered such a beautiful ancient town!
A river runs through the entire ancient town, and you can take a boat tour. The town's slogan is 'Waiting in the azure mist and rain for you,' and I can really imagine how beautiful this town would be on a rainy day!
Most importantly, besides being beautiful, it's also fun! There are many tea shops, very comfortable. There's also a place to play in the water for free!
In the summer, a family can come here and have fun for a day, with the elderly chatting over tea and children playing in the water, everyone will be happy!
City attractions:
1. Sansu Temple (Ticket price 40)
This is the former residence and ancestral hall of the father and sons trio, Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe.
There are many displays and relics related to the Sansu inside the garden, and with a guide, you can understand more clearly.
The garden has a tranquil environment, and you can wear Hanfu to take beautiful photos.
2. Dongpo Impression Water Street
Recommended to visit at night, it's really stunning, feels like you've arrived in the grand Tang dynasty, and there are performances on weekend nights!
Along the river are two rows of ancient buildings, many of which are restaurants, and there are dining spots close to the water, near the center of the performance.
The center of the water street is the river channel, where you can take a flower boat, 60 per adult, half price for children under 1.3 meters, round trip, and you can stop to watch the performance when passing the central stage.
3. Dongpo Urban Wetland Park
Right next to Dongpo Impression Water Street, if you have enough time, you can visit the park, a super large park, sitting on the lawn basking in the sun is so comfortable!
🍝Food:
Bingge Paopao Fish
Delicious! Great value for money! An average of fifty per person is enough to be very satisfying.
Mawangzi
The flagship store of the popular Sichuan cuisine restaurant 'Mawangzi' is in Meishan
Signature dishes: Maoxuewang, Crispy Skin Steamed Pork, Kung Pao Eggplant Box, and Golden Shrimp Balls are all delicious.
Zaomen Qian Chuan Chuan Xiang - Popular skewer restaurant
Danling Unique · Qu Dan's Traditional Dry Mixed Chicken
Besides the dry mixed chicken, their Sichuan pepper chicken is also very tasty!
Zhongyan Scenic Area Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
The Zhongyan Scenic Area in Meishan, Sichuan offers a light trek through a primeval forest of Alsophila spinulosa
⛰️ A lesser-known spot in Meishan, it features dense bamboo groves, towering ancient trees, primitive Alsophila spinulosa, and ruins of ancient temples. It was once the place where Su Dongpo and his first love, Wang Fu, fell in love.
📷 Pictures can't capture the refreshing feeling of being surrounded by dense forests; it's a must to experience it in person! Both the natural scenery and the cultural history are worth the visit.
🏞️ Reasons to recommend:
1️⃣ There are hardly any people on weekends, not noisy at all
2️⃣ The trails along the way are very friendly, mostly paved with stone slabs, suitable for all ages
3️⃣ After entering the scenic area, there is a complete loop, with clear signs for each attraction, no need to backtrack
4️⃣ The vegetation coverage on the mountain is very high, the air is good, and there are bamboo forests, making it a cool retreat in summer, not at all hot
🚶🏻♂️ Travel tips:
👉🏻 The entire hiking route is about 6️⃣KM, and it took us about 3️⃣ hours to climb the mountain while taking photos
👉🏻 The main attractions are concentrated on the uphill route on the left: Huan Yu Pool, Niu Tou Cave, Thousand Buddha Corridor, Immortal's Bed, Yu Quan Liu Shang Rock, Fu Hu Stone, Stone Bamboo Three Peaks, Ancient Stream Path, etc.
👉🏻 Stone Bamboo Three Peaks is particularly beautiful: two huge rocks hide a white Buddha statue
👉🏻 There are many rock carvings in the scenic area, scattered on various rock walls, but most are severely damaged, with only one place still intact. Have you found where it is? 👀
👉🏻 Continue past Stone Bamboo Three Peaks and up a bit, and to the right is the downhill path. Follow the stream path through the woods all the way down to reach Huan Yu Pool
📍 Address: Zhongyan Scenic Area, Qingshen County, Meishan City
🚘 Transportation: Departing from Tianfu New District, it takes about 1.5h by car via Tianfu Avenue
🔖 Ticket: 27/person
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