A Symphony of Emotions and Scenery | An Unforgettable Journey
Xixi Tourism and Culture Zone is located in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province, and is divided into three areas from south to north: the Historical and Cultural Leisure Area, the Modern Cultural Leisure Area, and the Ecological Cultural Leisure Area. The Historical and Cultural Leisure Area centers around the millennium-old town of Xixi, creating a historical and cultural landscape that integrates filial piety culture, salt culture, and Buddhist culture; the Modern Cultural Leisure Area combines traditional art with modern culture, featuring facilities for art dissemination, boutique appreciation, and leisure entertainment; the Ecological Cultural Leisure Area, with the Xixi Botanical Garden at its core, includes facilities for modern agriculture display, agricultural science education, and farming experience tours.
📍Detailed Address: Xixi Tianxianyuan Scenic Area, Huiyang Road, Dongtai City, Yancheng, Jiangsu
🚗Transportation Strategy:
✅Train🚅: 15 minutes by taxi from the high-speed rail 'Dongtai Station'
✅Bus🚌: From various counties and cities to Dongtai, take the No. 6 or No. 15 bus to Xixi Scenic Area.
🕙Opening Hours: ⌚️09:00-⌚️17:00
💰🎫Ticket Price: 🎫Free
🌟Highlights
✅Xixi Ancient Town
Xixi Ancient Town features the Northern Song Dynasty style, showcasing the unique salt culture and 'Three Aspects' culture, with main attractions such as Yanyan Academy, Three Aspects Pavilion, Salt Square, and the Ancient City Tower, forming an iconic architectural complex. In the ancient town's Limu Old Street, built along the Xixi Yanyan River, with its grey bricks and tiles, every step offers a new view. Here you can watch the immersive 'Fan Zhongyan' drama, take a boat ride, and it's just perfect for taking photos in Hanfu or modern Chinese-style clothing!
✅Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies Cultural Park
Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies Cultural Park, in the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, revolves around the themes of filial piety culture and love legends, featuring 24 attractions including Dong Xiaoxian Shrine, Relief Corridor, Eighteen Li Pavilion, Old Locust Tree, Phoenix Pool, Silk Reeling Well, Mulberry Field Thatched Cottage, and Cao Family Courtyard. At 19:40, the 'Celestial Love' aerial fantasy drama, with the starry sky as the ceiling and cloud windows and misty pavilions as the backdrop, integrates stage plays, music, and dance into one, offering a unique audio-visual experience that is truly stunning. The finale is a beautiful fireworks show, immersing you in a fairy-like, thousand-year-old romance.
✅Haichunxuan Tower
'Xixi tower shadows the cold mountain moon, and the ancient temple wind tolls the bell of the East Sea' - the 'tower' mentioned in this poem is Haichunxuan Tower. The three wonders:
🌸First Wonder: Looking up from the base of the tower, the eaves of each level are not in a straight line or on a flat plane, but spiral.
🌸Second Wonder: This tower was originally a lighthouse, with no foundation or underground palace, yet it has stood for a thousand years without falling.
🌸Third Wonder: Legend has it that the top of the tower is made of 'wind-dividing copper,' and with the Xixi Pagoda guarding it, even typhoons have to detour around it.
✅Grass Market Street:
A street full of the atmosphere of everyday life, it's simply a paradise for foodies! There's nothing better than enjoying a variety of specialty foods with a few good friends at night. Fish soup noodles, large meat buns, roujiamo, big plate chicken, strip mud seafood noodles - which one can heal your soul and taste buds?
📌Little Tips:
The ancient town is free to visit FREE, but watching the 'Celestial Love' performance requires a ticket purchase at 'Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies Cultural Park,' starting at 6:30 PM.
It's currently the National Day holiday, and the park has many FREE special performances, including fireworks at night.
There's a big temperature difference between day and night, so remember to bring a coat for the kids.
If you don't want to be in a crowd during the National Day holiday, why not visit this thousand-year-old town like I did?
I went there on the first day of the New Year, there were a lot of people, very lively. I saw a few performances inside, and the acrobatics were really kung fu. It was worth the fare, and there were monkey performances. The children were very happy! There are also a lot of food around.
The performance is good, and the actors are also very dedicated. Weiya dances on the dance floor, and the group performance has to step into the water. It is not easy in winter. The narrator cooperates with the performance, and it is also a sense of hierarchy, 45 minutes of performance. Input that can be seen
Dafeng Bus Station has a special bus for tourism, and there are also stations in the middle that can get on and off. 8 yuan, 100*du map is not allowed. This time I feel that the map of Gao*de is accurate. Play 40-2 for hours, non-free-range area, you can walk back later, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and be quiet. The road toll protected area is open, a group of elk standing in the middle of the water, I thought it was a specimen, and found that the head occasionally moved, there was a free-range elk.
Passing by by car, the scenery and ancient streets were accidentally discovered. Xixi is located on the banks of the ancient Yunyan River, the root of Dongtai culture, and is the birthplace of the national intangible cultural heritage "Dong Yong Seven Fairy Legend". Tickets for Tianxianyuan Scenic Area are 40 yuan/person, and children below1.4 are free. ❤ Recommended reason: Xixi Tourism and Cultural Scenic Area was established in 2008, with an area of 16 square kilometers from the east to the Chuanchang River, the west to the new 204 National Road, the south to the Taidong River and the north to the Xiangdong River. In recent years, Xixi Scenic Area adheres to culture as the soul and industry as the basis, and has invested more than 3 billion yuan to build a number of important landscapes with distinctive characteristics such as Dongyong Seven Fairy Cultural Park, Xixi Ancient City, Haichun Tower Garden, Xixi Botanical Garden, Film and Television Maker Center. 🌟 Highlights: "Tianxianyuan" Reality show is the first surreal flying fairy fantasy real scene drama in Jiangsu Province, with the love legend of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies as the story, telling a song and crying people's gods. The works are not limited to the performance of Dong Yong's filial piety, but the main pen and ink are focused on Dong Yong's just right in front of the cheating and evil people, and the fairy seven sisters are committed to adventure for love, even if the meta gods are annihilated without fear. This love not only contains two feelings of love, but also a deep praise for the integrity and good deeds. 👍 Most recommended: the neighborhood outside the scenic spot, the grass city street also formed a local specialty, pursuing exquisite market business style, composed of Jiangsu famous food stores, foreign names, scene workshops traditional skills, modern leisure dining, mobile dining, etc.
The environment can be, there is an atmosphere, and I feel that the publicity and overall planning of the legend will be further improved.