2025 Pu'an Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in May)

🎉A day trip to Xingyi, Guizhou, do you know how to play?🎉 🌞On the last day of 2023, Mr. Tang got up early to visit the Yuntun Starry Sky Hotel & Muyun Hot Spring Hotel in Xingyi City, Guizhou, to feel the ceremony of New Year's Eve in the resort! 🌇Afternoon: 🌟About 40 minutes drive from Yuntun Starry Sky Hotel & Muyun Hot Spring Hotel, we can also encounter another scenic spot - Xingyi Sunshine Valley Tourist Resort. 🎠Enter the park to experience the Sunshine Dream Kingdom large amusement park, the park also built: Mushroom Wild Luxury Hotel, Wedding Museum (really can register to get married oh) 🌃Night: New Year's Eve, how can we lack the full sense of ceremony party? In Xizhai Village, Chayuan Street, Puan, Southwest Guizhou, a grand New Year's Eve party has been prepared, just waiting for you to play! At the party scene, not only can you taste the famous Puan food 🍜Lei Tea Tangyuan, but also interact with the Buyi girls on the spot, simply too happy.

🍵 Green is the base color of colorful Guizhou, and tea leaves are the precious gems of this lush land. Guizhou is the only province in China that combines high altitude, low latitude, abundant clouds and mist, and high-quality tea varieties, making it one of the most suitable regions for tea cultivation in China. 📍Guizhou, Valley of the Tea God 🌤️ The unique ecological environment and three-dimensional climate endow "Guizhou Green Tea" with exceptional quality, allowing it to be harvested in early spring and stand out in the tea world. 🌱 On this magical and vibrant land, we discovered the "four-ball tea seed" fossil dating back 1.64 million years. The ancient tea tree group, lush and thriving, bears witness to the passage of time. The touching story of "a leaf and a ladle of water" is still passed down among the people, like a moving poem. 🏮 At the beginning of each new year, the Valley of the Tea God welcomes the most beautiful moment of the year. In this jade-like, verdant tea garden, tender green buds quietly sprout, and the first breath of spring wind sweeps through, heralding the arrival of spring and the dawn of hope. 🍃 Today, we gather here to witness and participate in the first harvest of "Guizhou Green Tea." We pray for a bountiful harvest, marking the beginning of a new year of hard work, and feel the infinite hope and bright future brought by the booming tea industry~

| Hello, 2025. 🧧 On New Year's Eve, a time full of hope, I spent a wonderful night in Xizhai Village, Guizhou. · 🎑 As night fell, the air was filled with a faint fragrance. It turned out that the glutinous rice balls were ready. The plump glutinous rice balls rolled in the pot, were scooped up and put into a bowl, and tasted soft, glutinous, and sweet. It was full of happiness. This is not just food, but also a warm friendship. · 🍽 The most lively thing here is the long table banquet. Five large bowls of delicious food are placed on the long table, and everyone sits around, laughing and talking. There is no restraint, only enthusiasm and hospitality. The people here welcome guests from afar in the most simple way, making us feel the warmth of home. · 🪕 The grandmothers and sisters sang beautiful folk songs, like the sound of nature. The villagers told their stories with songs, and every note was a love for life. · 🎇 Fireworks bloomed, and the gorgeous sparks illuminated the whole village and lit up the smiles on people's faces. The children cheered, and the adults danced around the bonfire. The fireworks disappeared in an instant, but the beauty in the heart will never disappear. · 🌍 I hope to go to more places and continue to explore the world in the new year. So, hello, 2025. I believe there will be more surprises waiting for us in the future.

🍵In Pu'an County, Qianxinan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, there is a tea-scented "tea valley," which is also one of the earliest tea-producing areas in China. This "tea valley" is located in the folds of the mountains at the border of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, with an average altitude of 1,700–1,800 meters, while the altitude of the Tea God Valley is only 700 meters. This special terrain creates a warm microclimate in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, providing excellent conditions for the growth of tea trees. 🌱 Facing the vast tea garden, shrouded in mist, you can enjoy the unique experience of picking new tea on New Year's Day, which is also a lot of fun. ⛰️Not far from the Tea God Valley, there is a village called Xizhai Village. From the moment you enter the village, it feels like you have traveled through time and arrived at a paradise forgotten by time. 🌸The stone road in the village, after years of baptism, is still strong and unyielding, and every step echoes with the sound of history. 👣Walking on such a road, I can't help but ask myself: Is this really not a mistake into an ink painting? 🖼️ In the evening, the bonfire party in the village is not to be missed! 🔥The villagers are enthusiastic and sing and dance, and their simplicity and happiness can instantly infect everyone. I swayed to the rhythm and felt like I had become a member of this big family, and that sense of belonging was really long-lost! 🎉 🚗If you are also tired of the hustle and bustle of the city and want to find a pure land, then you might as well come to Xizhai Village! Believe me, this place will definitely bring you different surprises and touches.

Relax and unwind. hot spring pool There are more than 20 indoor and outdoor swimming pools, as well as spa areas, forest quiet soaking areas, etc. While breathing the fresh air of the wild, you can soak in the hot springs to eliminate fatigue and experience the natural and pleasant slow time. swimming pool There is a large swimming pool outdoors. Swimming in nature ensures physical and mental relaxation and brings the best exercise and leisure effects. Children's water play area It is also suitable for parent-child outings. There is also a children's water play area for children. The exciting spiral slide and the gentle mini slide are cleverly combined. Children can also play all day long! hotel There are forest hot spring hotels and hot spring hotels here. Each hotel has its own characteristics and advantages. It is not far from the forest hot springs. After taking a warm bath in the evening, return to the hotel to sleep comfortably and have a good dream. Before soaking, you need to warm up with a scrub bath. You should enter the pool step by step with your feet first and then your body. The temperature should also be low first and then high. The water temperature should be controlled at Approximately 37-45 degrees is appropriate. control time You cannot soak in hot springs for a long time. It is best to control the time within 20 minutes and adjust it according to your physical condition. Replenish water in time In a high-temperature environment, the body loses water easily, so it is necessary to replenish water in time when soaking in hot springs and after leaving the hot spring pool. Pay attention to self-protection After soaking in the hot spring, you should shower and change clothes in time to avoid catching cold and getting sick. It is best to apply some moisturizer all over your body to avoid dry and itchy skin. Business hours: 09:00-22:30 Navigation address: No. 8, Wenquan Road, Panshui Town, Pu'an County, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province (next to Forest Park)

♨️Winter and hot springs are really a perfect match! Bathing in a pool of steaming hot springs, it seems that all worries and fatigue are swept away with the steam, and the sense of happiness instantly bursts. 🌟You don't have to go too far, there is an excellent hot spring♨️resort in Southwest Guizhou! Pu'an Forest Hot Springs♨️is located at the highway exit of Pu'an County in the northern part of Guizhou Province, Southwest Guizhou, adjacent to Pu'an Forest Park, with an altitude of 1600 meters⛰, and a superior environment. With hot spring health preservation as the core, it integrates dining, accommodation, business meetings, water entertainment, health preservation, etc., and is an ideal place for winter vacations. 👉【Hot Spring Resort Area】Includes spa water therapy area, outdoor children's water play area, swimming pool, forest quiet soaking area, rest hall, etc., with complete projects and both health preservation and leisure. In the environment surrounded by forests and birds and flowers, people bathe in the spring and integrate their body and mind into nature. 1️⃣The hot spring water comes from 2200 meters underground, the water temperature is about 52°C, the daily water output is 800 cubic meters, it is a silicate hot spring, rich in various mineral elements, and has good recuperative value. 2️⃣Choose a soup pool, the body is wrapped in hot soup, close your eyes, feel the silky hot spring water; wander in the embrace of the hot spring, let nature and hot spring merge into one, like a fairyland. 3️⃣Here are the 【Forest Hot Spring Hotel】 and 【Hot Spring Grand Hotel】, each with its own characteristics, providing comfortable and elegant rooms, ensuring that every night is a fairy-like experience. 4️⃣Throw away the hustle and bustle of the city, unload the fatigue of the day, in Pu'an Forest Hot Springs, experience a different comfortable slow life. ⚠️Hot spring soaking tips: ✅Don't soak in the hot spring on an empty stomach, and don't soak immediately after eating, it is recommended to wait for one or two hours. ✅Take off the jewelry on your body to avoid mineral damage. ✅Rinse your body before and after soaking in the hot spring to keep it clean. ✅It is recommended to soak in the hot spring for about 20 minutes each time, then take a rest and replenish water. ✅First soak your feet, then immerse in the pool, and wet your whole body with your hands. ⏰Business hours: 09:00-22:30 📍Navigation address: No. 8, Hot Spring Road, Panshui Town, Puan County, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

2024 New Year is coming, a colorful Guizhou tour, if you go to the charming Southwest Guizhou, you will definitely have the opportunity to experience their New Year's celebration customs. It's eye-opening to personally experience the colorful customs of the Bouyei people. 🚩Southwest Guizhou Puan County Xizhai Village 📅The night before New Year's Day, free travel to Puan County Xizhai Village. Located in the deep mountains, the most famous here is the Puan red tea field. This is also the site of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. The locals are mainly Bouyei and Miao people. The locals dressed up and gathered in the village market that night. Not only are there local special foods, but also very lively. There are also minority girls in different costumes. Very enthusiastic to take pictures with Han tourists. The costumes and headwear are very beautiful. In the evening, the Bouyei people who can sing and dance in the village, as well as the performance of ethnic musical instruments and the chorus of ethnic dialects. 🔥The most shocking and festive thing that night was the dragon lantern dance around the bonfire and dancing in circles. Under the night, only the village market was bustling and lively. 🌛At the end of the twelfth lunar month, every household will smoke meat, fill sausages, roast wine, make glutinous rice cakes, rice flowers, and also sew new clothes and handkerchiefs. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, they will send the kitchen god with maltose and other fruits. In addition, they will also invite the teacher to write couplets, paste door gods and New Year pictures. 🧨On New Year's Eve, the whole family will sit around the stove, first worship the ancestors and the world, and then the whole family will bless each other, eat reunion dinner, and stay up all night. On the first day of the new year, the girls will rush to the river to carry water. Whoever carries the water back first is the most diligent and happiest person, and this also predicts a bumper year. On the first day, make colored lanterns at home, light them all together in the evening, and hang them at the front door. After the first day, people start to visit each other to celebrate the New Year. Young men and women make appointments to 'rise the table', express their love with singing; or gather together to dance 'Da Huabao' accompanied by the sound of suona, moon guitar, flute, sister flute, bronze drum and other musical instruments. 🅿️Parking in the village is not very convenient, free. There is also a market in the evening.

celebrity Qianxinan warm winter tourOn the first day of 2024, I had the privilege of visiting the birthplace of tea in the world -- Puan County of Buyi Tribe in Qianxinan. Witnessed the first pick of Guizhou, the first spring of Qian tea's national products and folk culture. ⛰️For the first time in Qian's journey, I saw 'dawn, morning fog, morning dew', the sun rising, the morning fog lingering, the smoke lingering, as far as the eye can see, there are thousands of acres of green tea mountains, as well as terraces, tea farmers... The beautiful scenery of the Buyi village is like a painting. It is said that Guizhou is 'no three days of clear sky, no three feet of flat land'. It is precisely because of its unique micro-environment, micro-climate, coal mountain heat and other climatic and geological advantages that some tea gardens in Puan County of Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Guizhou Province have sprouted new buds. The local tea farmers have welcomed the 'first pick' of the New Year, which is also the 'first pick' of Guizhou green tea in 2024. 🍵Witness the grand occasion of the first pick of Guizhou green tea in 2024. People work hard and spring comes early, tea source Puan red. Ancient, early, clean, fragrant, is the characteristic of Puan tea. Puan has the only four-ball tea seed fossil in the world so far, which is more than 1.64 million years old. The early mining every year is also rare in the domestic industry. 👀On that day, the mining conference, there were also Buyi New Year's blessing 'three tea' ceremony, 'Dawn Spring' large-scale folk music and dance. Tea master tea making demonstration, ten thousand people taste Puan tea product display. 👧The Buyi girl who picks tea, the side face is like 'Sun Li'. Speaking of the Buyi tea-picking girl, there is also a folk story here. Serving tea to guests is a traditional custom of the Buyi people. Among the Buyi's tea products, 'Girl Tea' is the most precious and has a unique taste. This tea is carefully made by the unmarried girls of the Buyi tribe. It is a 'non-sale product', but is given as a gift to relatives and friends. More often, it is given as a token of love to the lover when talking about love or engagement, which means using pure and delicate tea to symbolize the girl's hard work and pure love. 👍The most famous is Puan red tea, a special product of Puan County, Guizhou Province, a national geographical indication product of China. Puan red tea is named after the place name 'Puan', because Pu'er City was once one of the origins of Pu'er tea in Puan County. It is made from tender leaves, through screening, killing green, kneading, fermentation and other processes, making Puan red tea softer than traditional Pu'er tea, with a more delicate taste. The special appearance of Puan red tea presents a golden color, the tea leaves are full, the color is bright. Its aroma is strong, the fragrance is refreshing, has a unique floral and smoky aroma. The color is red, bright and clear, the taste is mellow, and the return is long-lasting. Puan red tea has certain health benefits, it contains rich aromatic components of Guizhou Province and a variety of vitamins, helps to refresh the mind, eliminate fatigue, has the effect of stomach, appetizer. 🚗Every year during the early tea picking season, there are many tourists, parking is inconvenient, it is recommended to get off the car in advance. The picture shows the Tea God Valley of the Alliance Village in the Tea Source Street of Puan County.

On January 1, 2024, in the 'core production area of high-quality early tea' —— Puan County, Guizhou Province, the local Bouyei tea farmers dressed in ethnic costumes walked into the tea mountain to 'pick' the early tea for the New Year. This also means that the local people will get good luck on this day and start a new year's journey of increasing income.

"Watch and appreciate its beauty, smell and enjoy its fragrance" For friends who like to drink tea, Pu'an County in Southwest Guizhou is definitely a "feng shui treasure land" that must be visited. As an important tea origin in the country, it is also one of the earliest places to mine Guizhou spring tea. The [Pu'an Tea] produced here has long been listed in the "China National Geographical Indication Products". It has the advantages of uniform appearance, bright red color, long-lasting fragrance after brewing, and mellow taste; Pu'an also has famous ancient tea trees. The ancient tea seed fossils found here are more than 1 million years old, and there are more than 20,000 living remains of the world's oldest four-ball ancient tea trees, which has the reputation of "China's Ancient Tea Tree Hometown". Although the tea trees are ancient, the spring tea in Pu'an's core tea-producing area falls from the trees more than 20 days earlier than in other places in the country, so Pu'an is also known as the "National Core Production Area of ​​High-quality Morning Tea". Nowadays, the local area uses tea as a medium to create a tea culture rural tourism boutique route with "Chayuan Street-Xizhai Village" as the core point. Tourists can walk into the tea garden to participate in tea picking, processing and other experience projects, and they can also make some local delicacies with tea as raw materials by themselves and enjoy the fun of tea. Don't miss Xizhai Village, which is a minority village dominated by the Buyi people. It is inhabited by six ethnic groups, including the Buyi, Miao, Hui, Han, Li, and Yi. The architecture, clothing, and diet of the locals are very unique~ Detailed address: Chayuan Street, Pu'an County, Qianxinan Prefecture, Guizhou Province Transportation strategy: Take a bus from Xingyi Bus Station to Pu'an County, and then take a taxi Opening hours: 24 hours Ticket price: None Highlights: Relics of ancient tea trees, huge tea garden scenery, characteristic Buyi villages, and food made from tea

The first spring tea harvest, a date with the God of Tea?🍵 Check-in location: Tea Valley, Pu'an County, Guizhou Province 😋 Food recommendations: local specialty farm dishes, wild mushroom hotpot, tofu fish, etc. 🚆 Transportation recommendation: It is recommended to take the high-speed rail to Xingyi Station, and then rent a car or charter a car to the Tea Valley 🏠 Accommodation recommendation: It is recommended to stay in a local farmhouse to experience the local homestay style 🍵"Hard work brings early spring, and the tea source of Pu'an is red." Facing the first ray of morning light of the New Year's Day 2024, Sir Tang came to the Tea God Valley in Lianmeng Village, Pu'an Chayuan Street. The National Morning Tea Conference and the first picking of "Guizhou Green Tea" were also held here! 🍃🍃As a tea lover, I set foot on this vibrant land with my love and curiosity for tea culture. Here, I not only tasted the freshest spring tea, but also gained an in-depth understanding of the tea-making process, exchanged experiences with local tea farmers, and experienced a different kind of tea picking fun. If you are also a fan of tea ceremony culture, then Tea Valley is definitely a treasure trove that you cannot miss.

On the first day of the New Year in 2024, I came to Puan County, Qianxinan Prefecture, Guizhou, to participate in the National Morning Tea Conference and the first picking event of 'Guizhou Green Tea' in 2024. The atmosphere on the scene was lively, with wonderful programs such as the New Year's blessing 'Three Teas', opening dance performances, tea making demonstrations, and the first picking ceremony. Puan is known as the hometown of ancient tea trees in China and the hometown of Chinese tea culture, and it is the origin of tea in the world. Moreover, compared with other tea-producing areas, the spring tea in Puan is generally picked about 20 days earlier, making it one of the earliest tea-producing areas for spring tea in China.

Guizhou Travel｜Pu'an Spring Tea First Picking Since you are in Pu'an County, if you like drinking tea like Wang Jun, then you must visit the Tea God Valley. Here you can not only taste the freshest tea, but also follow the tea-picking girls to experience how tea is picked and made. In addition, there are spring teas all over the mountains to enjoy. Breathing the fresh air and appreciating the most original appearance of tea, this travel experience is really unforgettable. 🚗How to get there: After the train arrives at Xingyi Station, you can take a chartered car to get there. 🏠Accommodation recommendation: You can stay in Pu'an County or in a nearby farmhouse B&B.

In Puan County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, where the Bouyei, Yi, Miao, and Hui ethnic groups have been living for generations, they make a living by growing tea. On the top of the mountains, in the deep valleys, and between the ridges, there is a whole piece of mountainous area. Here, it is undulating, surrounded by mountains in all directions, and the typical low-latitude high-altitude three-dimensional climate forms the characteristic of 'one mountain divided into four seasons, ten miles different days'. Therefore, the ancient tea trees here have been able to reproduce and grow here for thousands of years, and the locals named it 'Tea God Valley'. At the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the special warm microclimate has already seen tender green buds in the mountains and forests. At this time every year, the locals will hold a grand New Year's 'First Harvest' event to celebrate a good harvest for the year. This year, we were fortunate to participate in this celebration, which was very lively.