How is Zigong?

Zigong is surrounded by mountains and waters, with a beautiful and pleasant environment. It is famous as "the Millennium Salt Capital", "the hometown of dinosaurs" and "the Southern Light Capital". Since 1986, Zigong has been identified as a national historical and cultural city and an open city, and "Ziliujing-Dinosaur Scenic Area" has been identified as a provincial-level scenic spot. Due to the transportation mode of well salt in history and the topographical conditions of shallow hills, the urban layout with artesian wells and tribute wells as the main body is intertwined with rolling mountains and winding rivers and streams, forming a "half-city, half-castle and half-tower" mountain city style integrating mountains, water and cities. Even in the center of the city, although the buildings are uneven and the streets are bustling, there are still mountains dotted with clear water. Surrounded by green mountains and green waters, under the shadow of hundreds of ancient banyan trees, you can still see all kinds of well-preserved salt industry fellow villagers and guildhall, as well as traditional blocks paved with slate and wooden headframes dozens of meters high-crape myrtle and camphor are all over the city, flying red and inlaid with jade, which makes the salt more exquisite, subtle and elegant.

The historical and cultural connotation with well salt culture as the main body is very rich. There are 88 cultural relics protection units in the city. Among them, Xiqin Hall and Yanhaijing, where Zigong Salt History Museum is located, are national key cultural relics protection units; Rongxian Giant Buddha and Fushun Confucian Temple are provincial key cultural relics protection units. Zigong dinosaur museum, one of the three largest dinosaur museums in the world, was built in the famous Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site. The traditional Zigong Lantern Festival is famous at home and abroad, and the Lantern Festival Museum also has its own characteristics. Zigong Sichuan Opera has caused a sensation in the drama world. Gong Fan, tie-dye, Zigong paper-cut, flat beef and other famous local products are known as the three characteristic folk crafts in Zigong, which enrich the historical and cultural connotation of this famous city. Many historical and cultural celebrities in modern times have made Millennium Salt more brilliant.

It is famous for its unique Lantern Festival. Paper, silk and silk with different textures, colors and sizes are lamp materials in Zigong, as well as glass, medicine bottles, porcelain, silkworm cocoons, bamboo weaving, tie-dyed cloth and other lamp-making raw materials with unique local conditions and industrial characteristics. Zigong's Lantern Festival especially wins with all kinds of lights and scenery. All kinds of dragon lights, lanterns, seat lights, series lights, craft lights, animal lights, figure lights, flower and bird lights, etc. They are all dazzling. Every Lantern Festival, there are thousands of lanterns in the garden landscape. There is a landscape in the lantern, and there are lights in the landscape. The lights are intertwined with the scenery, and the shape, color, light, sound and movement are organically integrated, and the levels are blurred and magnificent.