Fortune telling on Zhongxin North Road
When you go to Kaifeng, Henan, the Seven Dynasties can also put themselves in paintings.
Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a huge scroll painting created by Hanlin Zhang Zeduan with Kaifeng in Tokyo as the background. It depicts the prosperity of traffic on the Bianhe River and truly and clearly reflects the social features of the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Riverside Garden on Qingming Festival is a large-scale park with the theme of folk customs in Song Dynasty.
Qingming Shanghe Garden is located in the northwest of Kaifeng City, adjacent to Longting Park, covering an area of more than 500 mu. It has eight functional areas, such as post station, folk custom, special food street, Song Wenhua convention and exhibition, flowers, birds, fish and insects, bustling capital, leisure shopping and comprehensive service, and four cultural areas, such as school yard, Hongqiao, folk custom and juniper. The main buildings include shops, docks, rivers, ships, towers and Hongqiao. Visitors can not only have cultural programs arranged according to the historical stories of the Song Dynasty, performances of wedding customs in the Song Dynasty, and large-scale parties of "Tokyo Dream Chinese Soul", especially "Tokyo Dream Chinese Soul", which combines the costumes, music and dances of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty, and is the climax of garden activities, which should not be missed. It is worth mentioning that the Qingming Shanghe Garden will hold an opening ceremony at 9: 00 every morning. The scene is grand and exciting.
Admission: 60 yuan/person
Arrival mode: 1, 15 and 20 buses can all arrive.
Opening hours: 09:00-22:00.
Diet: Xiuye Garden, Special Food Street and Taiyangzheng Store provide various snacks, barbecues and dinner dishes.
Accommodation: There are post stations built according to star hotels in the park, which can provide accommodation.
Kaifeng Bao Zheng ancestral hall
Baogong Temple is located on the west bank of Baogong Lake in Kaifeng, covering an area of more than one hectare. It is a typical imitation of the Song Dynasty buildings. It is magnificent and elegant, and it is divided into three parts: the main exhibition area, the garden scenic area and the service area.
In the main exhibition area of Baogong Temple, there are main halls, secondary halls, east and west halls, zhaobi, stele pavilions and other buildings. There are history books, inscriptions, rubbings, statues, paintings and calligraphy, which show the life and achievements of Bao Gong, especially the bronze statue of Bao Gong in the main hall. Bao Gong sat in a dangerous position, wearing an embroidered robe, full of integrity, which made people admire him very much. In the second exhibition hall, besides family instructions, official career poems, calligraphy handwriting and epitaph, there is also an inscription roster of Fu Yin in Kaifeng before the Northern Song Dynasty. The name on it has a deep dent, which is said to be caused by people always touching under his name when watching the inscription for a long time. The East Pavilion displays lifelike wax figures, while the West Pavilion mainly displays books and video materials about Bao Gong's legend, romance and folk stories.
There are rockery waterfalls, small bridges and flowing water, strange rocks and green grass in the park. The service area not only has parking lot, restaurant, tour guide department, information desk and other facilities. It also provides a voluntary explanation service for all tourists, which provides great convenience for tourists to visit Baogong Temple and understand Baogong culture.
Admission: 20 yuan/person
Arrival mode: No.8, 10, 16 and No.20 can all be reached.
Diet: Visitors can taste local food at Qingfeng Restaurant in Baogong Temple.
iron tower
The tower is located in the tower park in the northeast of Kaifeng, and was built in 1049. Because it was built in Kaibao Temple that year, it is also called Kaibao Temple Tower.
This tower has a history of more than 900 years. Although it has experienced earthquakes, floods, windstorms, wars and other disasters, it still stands tall and enjoys the reputation of "the first tower in the world". This tower is the tallest glass tower in China. Wood-like brick structure, 55.88 meters high, 13-story octagonal building. Covered with ochre-colored glass bricks, it looks like iron from a distance, so it is called the iron tower. Although this tower is made of bricks, there are tenons, holes, grooves and ditches between bricks, and the foundation is closely connected, which is amazing. In addition, dozens of patterns such as flying sky, Buddha statue, geisha music and flowers are carved on the tower brick. There is a Guangxi-shaped door in the southeast and northwest of the tower. Visitors can enter the tower from the north gate, circle around the tower center along the trail and reach the top of the tower. There are also doors on all sides of other floors of the tower. All doors are fake doors for decoration, except one that is daylighting, ventilation and overlooking.
Besides the Tower, there are dozens of scenic spots in the Tower Park, such as the Buddha Hall, the Tower Historical Relics Exhibition Room, the Yu Hao Memorial Pavilion and the Tower Lake, which visitors can visit together.
Admission: 20 yuan/person
Arrival mode: 1, 3, and 20 buses can all arrive.
Opening hours: 07:00- 19:00.
Dragon Pavilion Park
Long Ting Park is located in the northwest of Kaifeng City. Its main building, Longtingtang, is built on a huge blue brick abutment with a height of13m. It was once the palace of the Six Dynasties (Hou Liang, Houjin, Houhan, Houzhou, Northern Song and Jin) and was very prosperous.
Long Ting Park mainly includes Long Ting Hall, Panyang Lake, Wax Museum, Fangchao, Daiyuqiao, Monument Pavilion, Tongchun Garden, Ceramic Garden and Plant Modeling Garden. Among them, Longtingtang is a wooden building, facing south, with a height of 26 meters, resting on the top of the mountain and double eaves, with 72 steps from the ground to the hall. Yunlong pattern is carved in the middle of the steps, and cultural relics are mainly displayed in the hall. On the west side of the main hall is a wax museum reflecting the history of the Song Dynasty. There are 9 groups of 63 lifelike wax figures in the museum, and each group of wax figures is carefully designed according to historical materials. In front of Longtingtang, there is a broad avenue-Song Duyu Street, which was reconstructed after the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. The shops on the street are all imitation Song buildings, mainly selling local products, handicrafts, calligraphy and painting. On both sides of the Imperial Street in Song Dynasty is Panyang Lake, which is named after the legend that it used to be the residence of Pan Renmei of Song Dynasty, and on the west is Yanghu Lake, which is the residence of Yang Jiye, a famous anti-Liao star.
In addition, Long Ting Park, with its own advantages, has also launched cultural programs such as "Grand Ceremony of Emperor Da Song Coming to the DPRK", "Costume Exhibition in Song Dynasty", "Treading on the Waves" and "Nine Emperors Welcome Guests", which makes the scenic spot even more icing on the cake.
Admission: 25 yuan/person
How to get there: Take bus 1, 15, 20 and get off at Longting Park Station.
Opening hours: 07: 00 to 19: 00.
Best travel time: 65438+ 10. A chrysanthemum exhibition will be held in Longting Park.
Guo Xiang Temple
Suoguo Temple, located in the west section of Ziyou Road, Kaifeng City, was founded in Tianbao, Northern Qi Dynasty for six years. It is one of the famous temples in the history of Buddhism in China. In its heyday, it covered an area of more than 540 mu, governed 64 monasteries and law schools, and had more than 0/000 monks/kloc. Because it was enshrined by the emperor, it became the first "royal temple" in the history of China.
Suoguo Temple was formerly known as Jianguo Temple. In 7 12 AD, Tang Ruizong awarded the plaque "Sokokuji" to commemorate his accession to the throne. Since then, although it was renamed as "Chongfa Temple" in the Ming Dynasty, the name "Suoguo Temple" has remained. The existing buildings were rebuilt during the reign of Qing Qianlong.
Suoguo Temple is magnificent in architecture and rigorous in layout. The main buildings are the mountain gate, the memorial archway, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Luohan Hall, the Tang Jie, the Sutra Building and the Bell Tower. , bright and solemn. Among them, Luohantang architecture is the most distinctive. Luohantang is located in the north of Daxiong Hall, which is octagonal, so it is also called octagonal glazed pavilion. The octagonal pavilion is towering into the sky, surrounded by verandahs covered with yellow-green glazed tiles, and there is a glittering bronze vase brake on the top of the pavilion. There is a Buddha statue of Guanyin with thousands of hands and eyes, which was molded in the Qing Dynasty. It is 7 meters high, divided into four sides, each side is divided into four layers, and each arm is carved, which is extremely beautiful.
In addition, Suoguo Temple will hold Lantern Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Land and Water Dafa Festival and other activities every year. At that time, many pilgrims and tourists from home and abroad will gather together to share the joy of the festival.
When you arrive at Suoguo Temple, don't forget to try the fried bean jelly of Suoguo Temple.
Admission: 30 yuan/person
How to get there: No.5, No.9 and No.20 buses are all available.
Opening hours: 08:00- 18:30.
In addition, Kaifeng snacks are also very famous. During the day, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and feel the history. In the evening, you can take bus No.4, No.6, No.8, 10, 13, 14, No.20, No.22 and No.24 to enjoy Kaifeng snacks in Gulou Night Market.
Kaifeng peanut cake has to say: peanut cake made of peanuts has unique local characteristics. Peanut cake is made of refined peanut powder, sugar, maltose and other raw materials. The finished product is light yellow in color, multi-layered loose and flaky, crisp and sweet. Don't forget to bring some for friends and family.