大同古城

💥 The renovation here is not finished yet 💥 It's a large area, and as you stroll around, you'll find surprises 💥 I really like the design of the restrooms, they have set up a rest area and it's very soundproof 💥 I encountered 'A Gallery for One' which is super innovative, and the photos look incredibly beautiful 💥 Looking forward to the complete construction of this area, it surely won't disappoint

Shanxi Datong! "A new year in the ancient capital, a great unity under heaven." People say that if you want to see cultural relics on the ground, look to Shanxi And if you travel to Shanxi, not visiting Datong Would mean you haven't really experienced Shanxi This is our first time visiting this familiar yet strange ancient city during the New Year The familiar atmosphere of the New Year from our youth The familiar historical and cultural streets The familiar new atmosphere of the New Year in the southeast town... Datong during the New Year is truly different The surprise is its new skin The lively red, the joyous brightness Datong after nightfall Is really moving, charming, and tempting... "A different year in Datong, a big difference" indeed does not deceive 🚗Transportation: Getting around Datong is very convenient There is an airport and a high-speed train station The city is not big, taxis and buses are very convenient Buses can take you directly to many attractions and food streets ⚠️One thing to note during the Spring Festival Local license plates will be restricted from entering the ancient city Make sure to allow extra time for taxis! 🌲Attractions: Datong has so many tourist attractions Last time we recommended and do not regret must-visit The three major grottoes Yungang Grottoes; Datong Nine Dragon Wall; Datong Museum; Datong Ancient City Wall; This time we focus on recommending the new sights and new fun of Datong 2024 ✍️Take notes below: ⭐2024 Datong Ancient Capital Lantern Festival ⏰Time: 2.8-5.18 📍Location: Datong Ancient City Wall The lantern festival is held on the east and south walls of the ancient city, creating a joyful and auspicious festival atmosphere, building the "Ancient Capital Lantern Festival" cultural brand, making the ancient city "come alive and fire up", enriching the cultural life of the masses during the Spring Festival. ⭐Southeast Town Ice and Snow World ⏰Time: 2.1-2.25 📍Location: Southeast Town EAO Urban Art Camp: Consisting of the Polar Ice Sculpture Exhibition and the Joyful Ice and Snow New World, two main themes, creating ice sculptures such as the Temple of Heaven, the Roman Colosseum, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, the Chinese Dragon, ice hangings, and ice lanterns, and carrying out activities such as dog sledding, snowmobiling, ice skating tracks, and castle slides, creating a fun and interactive ice and snow carnival world. ⏰Time: February 1, 2024—February 24, 2024 📍Location: Weidu Water World ⭐Datong 2024 Happy Ice and Snow Season Time: 2.1-2.17 📍Location: The moat area on the east side of the ancient city and the north side of Wenyin Lake ⭐2024 Datong Spring Festival Cultural Activities and Performances Time: 2.12-2.24 📍Location: Southeast Town Guandi Temple 🍜Cuisine: Shanxi, as the capital of noodles Datong's cuisine is also famous for its knife-cut noodles, with Renji Middle School Knife-Cut Noodles, Dongfang Shuomian, Xijindao Noodle House, just choose any and you won't be disappointed There are even more recommendations for Shanxi cuisine, Longjuxiang Shaomai House, Kaige Restaurant, Northern Wei Family Banquet, Fenglinge, each restaurant is super crowded

Datong Spring Festival Gala, a feast of folk culture 🗓As the Spring Festival approaches, the ancient city of Datong is filled with joy, A unique Spring Festival cultural event is being passionately staged! The intangible cultural heritage performances are wonderful, Dragon and lion dances, Jin opera high-pitched performances are extraordinarily lively, Immersing citizens and tourists in the rich traditional New Year atmosphere. Come to Datong for the Spring Festival, ➡Experience a cultural feast that spans a thousand years, Share the beautiful time of reunion, joy, and harmony! ✅Datong Ancient City Lantern Festival The place is full of New Year's flavor, the prosperous fire, the real ancient city wall, various lanterns are hung high, 🏮The colorful lights and the ancient temples⛩ complement each other, the lights are overflowing, Datong is different every year, you must come here to feel the New Year, and there are various 🆓 performances ✅Xinzhou Ancient City Iron Flower The iron flower💥 is a feature of Shanxi, super shocking! When the stars dim, the sound like drumming sounds like a galloping horse, the iron flower explodes in an instant to light up the starry sky, dazzling. ✅Pingyao Ancient City Guessing Lantern Riddles and Paper Cutting Shanxi landmark, stay for one night. Everything to eat and drink is available, experience the extreme guessing lantern riddles, cutting window flowers, eating hot pots, let you feel a different New Year's joy~ ✅Taiyuan Jin Flavor New Year's Eve Dinner On New Year's Eve, have a table full of Jin flavor New Year's Eve dinner, and count down with everyone🎉, the New Year's atmosphere is super strong~ ✅Qiao Family Courtyard Ancient Costume Welcome Ancient costume experience, cross the brilliant life of the young lady of Qiao's Grand Courtyard Must-eat delicacies: Datong Rabbit Head: The color is rosy, the aroma is fragrant, and the taste is spicy Knife-cut noodles: Named for "knife-cut", the noodles are medium-thick and thin, with clear edges and corners, shaped like willow leaves, and chewy Yomi Noodles: Made from yomi, the production is exquisite, it is chewy to eat, and it is high in nutritional value Hunyuan Cold Noodles: "The best in Beiyue", it is "slippery" in your hand, and "cool" in your mouth Pingding Braised Pork: The perennial "protagonist" on the New Year's Eve dinner, a "artifact" for meals Sweet and Sour Meatballs: Sour and sweet are especially good for meals, you will like it once you eat it Shuozhou Oil Fruit: Soft and sweet, you must eat it when you have a happy event Dingxiang Steamed Meat: After eating Dingxiang steamed meat, the new year must be prosperous Linxian Big Stew: The color is tempting, the side dishes are harmonious, the pork is fragrant, and the noodles are smooth Brain: In the food world, it is the existence of bean juice Historical sites: Pingyao Ancient City Yingxun Gate. Ming-Qing Ying County Jingtusi Daxiong Hall Caisson. Jin Ying County Fogong Temple Shijia Pagoda. Liao Datong Huayan Temple Daxiong Hall. Jin Taigu Cao Family Courtyard. Ming-Qing Pingyao Zhenguo Temple Wanfo Hall. Five Dynasties Taigu Drum Tower. Ming-Qing Guangling Shengquan Temple. Qing Lingqiu Jueshan Temple Tower. Liao Guangling Water God Hall. Ming and Qing Taigu Jingxin Temple Stage. Qing Jiexiu Chenghuang Temple. Ming-Qing Jiexiu Xian Shen Building. Ming-Qing Datong City Wall Hunyuan Yongan Temple. Yuan Shuozhou Chongfu Temple Amitabha Hall. Jin Lingshi Wang Family Courtyard. Qing Guangwu Great Wall. Ming

Using Ctrip to record 'measuring happiness with my steps' has been something I've been striving to do for the past two years. Perhaps the Spring Festival was too rushed, and I forgot to log the 'eighth day tour' with my two sisters to Huai Ren to see the lanterns. Today is the 'Dragon Heads-raising Day' in February, which is also commonly referred to as the day 'the year is finally over.' Once the year is over, it's time to put away the festive spirit and settle back into everyday life. 'Ctrip records' won't give up, and I've decided to log the 'eighth day tour' again. After five difficult years, what I wanted most was to repay those who have been kind to me. My two sisters are people I've always cared about, but I've been too busy with work to pay much attention to them. Taking my sisters to see the lanterns in Huai Ren on the eighth day was something I had been planning for days. I got up early in the morning and confirmed the day's schedule with them via video call: lunch at my eldest sister's house, playing mahjong at the office in the afternoon, and setting off to see the lanterns in Huai Ren at five o'clock. We left on time at five in the afternoon; my wife and I drove, chatting and laughing with my sisters, and arrived in Huai Ren in just half an hour. Although the journey was short, it felt like a trip to a different place, as Huai Ren is not part of Datong but belongs to Shuozhou. Huai Ren is our hometown, where our parents once lived, so setting foot on this land feels especially heartwarming. After getting off the highway, the roads began to congest. Once we found a place to park, the street lanterns were already lit. We headed straight for Huai Ren Park, where the lantern festival was being held this year. Entering the park, a variety of lanterns dazzled the eyes. Lanterns filled the trees, lamp posts, sculptures, and flower beds. As the night darkened, the lanterns bloomed with even more enchanting colors. The park grew more crowded, and later, when we tried to take photos in front of the lanterns, we ended up with group photos with other people. This place had become a world of lanterns, an ocean of people. So we left the park and went to another lantern hotspot, Huai Ren Renyi Square. Here, large lanterns were displayed, and since it's the Year of the Dragon, a huge dragon-shaped lantern stood at the center of the square. I think the group photo we took in front of the dragon lantern is the best picture of us siblings together in the past two years. The lucky bag lanterns were beautiful, the Huabiao colored lanterns were beautiful... all the lanterns were beautiful. Today is the eighth day, and tomorrow is the ninth. The ninth day of the first lunar month marks the twentieth anniversary of my mother's passing, so from the moment I stepped onto the land of Huai Ren, my heart was filled with thoughts of my mother. Seeing the lanterns in Huai Ren is also a prelude to the memorial for my mother tomorrow.

Dear friends, today I am going to introduce you to a place with a super historical sense - the Datong City Wall! 🏰✨ Imagine standing on the city wall built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372), feeling the weight of history, isn't it exciting? 👀🎉 The Datong City Wall was personally supervised by Xu Da, one of the six founding ministers of the country, this is a real relic! 👑💪 Although it has experienced the baptism of time, the comprehensive restoration project that began in 2009 has given this city wall a new life, and now it can be opened to the public for free again! 🙌💖 The circumference of the Datong City Wall is 7.24 kilometers, the area is 3.28 square kilometers, the height is 14 meters, the upper width is 12 meters, and the lower width is 18 meters, which is spectacular! 📏🌅 You can see four city gates here, each with its own story and characteristics. 🚪💭 The Yongtai Gate Tower of the South Gate, the spring scenery of the East City Wall, the tranquility of the West City Wall in winter, and the Yan Tower, are all beautiful scenes you can't miss! 🦆🏯🌸❄️ Don't forget to go to the City Wall Museum, where the rammed earth wall relics are preserved. You can see the rammed earth wall structure formed by the Northern Wei, Liao Jin, and Ming dynasties in different periods, and the city bricks with the words 'Hongwu Five Years Day and Moon', which are absolutely a witness to history! 🧱📜 Remember when visiting, the opening hours of the city wall are 9:00-22:30, the best time to climb is after 6 pm in the summer evening, when the sun is not very hot, the afterglow of the setting sun, the city tower lights up, the scenery is beautiful! 🌄💡 The best viewing position is of course the South City Gate, where you can overlook the Shanhuasi Temple, and the closest walking distance to the Yan Tower; the West City Gate is also good, you can overlook the Huayan Temple and look at the Bell Tower from a distance. 🕍🔔 So, dear friends, if you are interested in history, or want to experience the feeling of standing on the ancient city wall, the Datong City Wall is definitely your best choice! Come and feel this weight of history with me! ⏳🎒

Huayan Temple, located in the southwest corner of Datong Ancient City, was built in the seventh year of Liao Zhongxi (1038 AD), named after the Buddhist scripture "Huayan Sutra". It has both the nature of the royal temple of the Liao Dynasty and a prominent status. Huayan Temple faces west to east, with the mountain gate, Puguangming Hall, Daxiong Baodian, Bajiao Jiaozang Hall, Huayan Pagoda and more than 30 other individual buildings are arranged on the two main axes of the south and the north, with a rigorous layout.

"Underground relics see Shaanxi, aboveground relics see Shanxi", Shanxi Datong is definitely a treasure city, it was the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in addition to the famous Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Temple, use Citywalk to check in Datong, carefully taste the historical heritage and new vitality in the ancient city. ⭐️ Huayan Temple Datong Huayan Temple is a group of Liao and Jin temple buildings, not to be missed are the largest existing Liao and Jin Buddha Hall in our country, which is also one of the largest Buddha Halls in our country, the Daxiong Bao Hall, the hall is nine rooms wide and five rooms deep, the design of reducing the pillars makes the whole building look majestic and light. The 4.5-meter-high glazed ridge, the only remaining Liao Dynasty building in Huayan Temple, the Thin Gaya Sutra Hall, and the statue of the Bodhisattva with clasped hands and teeth, known as the "Eastern Venus" by historians, are all the essence of Huayan Temple that cannot be missed. ⭐️ Nine Dragon Wall There are three Nine Dragon Walls in our country, located in Datong, Beijing and Pingyao, and the Nine Dragon Wall in Datong is the largest and earliest built in our country, known as the "First of the Nine Dragon Walls". It was originally a single-sided five-color glazed wall in front of the mansion of Zhu Gui, the thirteenth son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. What we see now is rebuilt in the same way after the city planning was built and moved 28 meters south in 1954. The Nine Dragon Wall displays ancient glazed and superb sculpture skills, each dragon has a different expression, vivid and lifelike. In summer, the stone wall will be reflected in the pool in front, just like nine dragons playing in the water. ⭐️ Nianxia Art Center In Datong, there are not only historical buildings, but also this modern art center. The art center has two floors, inside which are collected 500+ hand-made pieces from Japanese and American animations and movies, such as Marvel, DC, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, etc., each one is super fine, hand-made enthusiasts probably can't move when they see it. The outdoor balcony on the second floor is a perfect photo area, where you can overlook the nearby Datong Ancient City, and the afternoon sun is quite out of the picture. ⭐️ Southeast Yiwu Cultural Block The Southeast Yiwu Cultural Block is a restoration and renovation of the ancient city based on the principle of respecting history. While maintaining traditional charm, the block also adds many living spaces that modern people love. Coffee shops, bookstores, workshops, grocery stores, old buildings are rejuvenated, leisurely walking in the block, feeling the surprise at every turn.