Shanxi Taiyuan + Mount Wutai + Pingyao + Shanxi Wang Family Courtyard + Jinci Museum 6-Day Private Tour

Day 1: 〖Welcome to Splendid Dragon City-Taiyuan〗Take a train or plane from all over the country→Go to the capital of Shanxi Province-Longcheng Taiyuan→Pick up by the master→Check in the hotel→Free activities

Time: All day: Welcome to Longcheng Taiyuan, we provide free pick-up service for you 24 hours a day; pick-up location: A: Taiyuan Wusu Airport, B: Taiyuan South Railway Station, C: Taiyuan Station, D: Taiyuan City Area
▼〖Reminder〗:
[1]: The pick-up master will contact you from 14:00 to 18:00 the day before your arrival in Taiyuan. Please keep your phone open, and keep the driver's contact number and emergency contact number for timely contact.
【2】: This group is your private small group, exclusive car pick-up, pick-up by the driver, no tour guide, the master pick-up station will pick up the station and airport according to the actual arrival time announced by your station and airport.
[3]: The hotel staff usually go to work at 9 o'clock and start cleaning. Check-in can only be done after about 12 o'clock. If there are early tourists, they can store their luggage at the front desk first and move freely first.
[4]: This product can arrange an extra bed in the room, and an extra bed can be arranged in the room when three adults submit an order [including three breakfasts].

Time: All day: Tour time: About 1 hour ▲〖Reminder〗: The above itinerary is free choice, according to the time to Taiyuan, free choice, go by yourself, without a tour guide, please know.
█【Taiyuan】——the capital of Shanxi Province, referred to as Bing, also known as Bingzhou, Jinyang in ancient times, also known as Dragon City, a national historical and cultural city, a national garden city, a core city in the Taiyuan metropolitan area, and a political, economic, cultural, transportation and The International Exchange Center is a historical ancient capital with a history of more than 5,000 years and a city construction history of more than 2,500 years.
【1】: Places worth visiting: Shanxi Provincial Museum, Shanxi Provincial Coal Museum, Shanxi Jinci Museum, Fenhe Park, Taiyuan Jinshang Museum.
[2]: Places worth eating: Taiyuan Food Street [Snack Street], Taiyuan Noodle Restaurant [Boutique Noodle Restaurant] Hao Gang Haggis Shop [Winter Selection].
[3]: Places worth visiting: Liuxiang Commercial Street, International Trade Hall Six, Wuyi Square, Taiyuan Food Street, etc., to experience the cultural history with local characteristics.
█[Shanxi on the tip of the tongue]: Among the eight major cuisines in China, there is no Jin cuisine, but this does not mean that Shanxi has no delicacies that can satisfy your taste buds. Shanxi is known as the hometown of noodles. Characteristic, simple flour through the hands of Shanxi skillful women, with a variety of patterns and tastes.
█【Some recommended restaurants in urban areas】
【1】: Taiyuan City: Old Taiyuan Restaurant: The origin of Chinese food culture is in Shanxi, and the inheritance of Shanxi food culture is in Taiyuan. Recommended: squirrel mandarin fish, fried pork, sweet and sour meatballs and other specialties.
【2】: Taiyuan City: Shanxi Guild Hall: Mainly Jin cuisine, appreciate the superb cooking skills of the chefs. Recommended delicacies such as sesame oil yam, beef steamed bread, Yanbei buckwheat noodles, skin jelly, old stewed tofu, copper pot and so on.
【3】: Taiyuan City: Shunliu sliced ​​noodles: the essence of Shanxi noodle culture tradition, dry noodles, Wuchang fish, sesame cakes, tomato three fresh noodles, jelly, marinated eggs, tomato egg noodles, and other authentic delicacies.

Day 2: "Buddhist Pilgrimage-Wutai Mountain" hotel pick-up → Taiyuan → Wutai Mountain → Tayuan Temple → Xiantong Temple → Bodhisattva Peak → Shuxiang Temple → Hotel〖Sustain Wutai Mountain〗

Time: 08:00: Meal time: about 30 minutes 〖Reminder〗▶▶ This itinerary is a self-selected hotel. It depends on whether the room type you choose includes breakfast or not. If breakfast is not included, you can taste special breakfast around the hotel, fried noodles, brains, braised noodles, fried pork and other delicacies.

Time: 11:00: Activity time: About 30 minutes【Wutai Mountain】—{Tickets included}Wutai Mountain is located in Wutai County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. It belongs to Wutai County, Xinzhou City. Mount Jiuhua in Anhui and Mount Emei in Sichuan are collectively known as the "Four Famous Buddhist Mountains in China". Mount Wutai, Lumbini Garden in Nepal, Sarnath in India, Bodh Gaya, and Kushinagar are known as the world's top five Buddhist holy places.
▶〖Reminder〗:Buddhist activities in Wutai Mountain belong to personal belief and personal behavior. It is not allowed to burn incense on the mountain now. If there are tourists who need to pay their vows, they can go to the side of the temple to buy it by themselves. Temple visits, everyone visits in different ways, so the tour guide will give an explanation at the door. After the explanation, guests will go to the scenic spot to visit by themselves. Please pay attention to the gathering time.

Time: 13:00: Activity time: about 1 hour 〖Tayuan Temple - Prayer Wheel〗:▶There are pagodas and rows of scriptures, which make people believe that turning scriptures can repent the past, cultivate virtue and accumulate blessings. This is a kind of belief and a habit of praying for blessings; the Tayuan Temple is located in the Buddhist center of Mount Wutai, Shanxi. Taihuai Town was originally the pagoda courtyard of Dahuayan Temple. In the fifth year of Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty (1407), the temple was expanded and built, and its current name was changed. It is one of the five major Zen forests in Mount Wutai and one of the top ten temples in Qingmiao. The buildings on the central axis include screen walls, archways, stone steps, crossing gates, mountain gates, bell and drum towers, the Daci Longevity Hall, the Pagoda Hall, and the Shanhai Tower, Wenshu Temple Pagoda and other buildings. Covers an area of ​​15,000 square meters. There are three wooden archways in front of the temple, which are exquisite and elegant, and were built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a symbol of Mount Wutai and a national key temple. You can chant scriptures along the 108 prayer-turning pagodas around the pagoda, praying for peace and disaster relief.

Time: 14:00: Activity time: about 1 hour 〖Xiantong Temple - Sightseeing and worshiping Buddha〗:▶Xiantong Temple, located on the north side of Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, is the largest temple in Wutai Mountain with a long history. The temple was first built in the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 69), and was originally named Dafu Lingjiu Temple. It was expanded during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, and renamed "Dahuayan Temple". It was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty, and Taizu bestowed the forehead "Daxiantong Temple". In 1982, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Time: 15:00: Activity time: about 1 hour 〖Bodhisattva Top - Eliminate disasters and pray for blessings〗:▶"If you follow the Buddha, you will not fall into hell; if you follow the law, you will not fall into evil spirits; if you follow the monk, you will not fall into another life." Bodhisattva Ding is the name of the Manchu language, which means the place where Manjusri Bodhisattva lives. Climbing along the 108 stone steps, according to the Buddhist saying, will step on the 108 kinds of troubles in the world. Standing under the archway, touching the door and looking back at the 108-level stone steps, turning around and looking around, you can see the mountains in the distance, the clouds on the mountains, the Qingshui River nearby, and the majestic and colorful temple complexes. In the spring of the eighth year, the Party Central Committee departed from Yan'an to Xibaipo, Hebei Province, and passed Mount Wutai on the way. A poet once wrote a poem: "I didn't visit Wutai at first, and time is tight on the circuitous road. So far, I have had more fun and once stepped on the top of the Bodhisattva.

Time: 16:00: Activity time: about 1 hour and 30 minutes 〖Shuxiang Temple — 〗:▶"Light up your wisdom, live up to your youth, and be named on the gold list" The core building in the temple is Wenshu Pavilion (main hall), the existing temple was built in the second year of Ming Hongzhi (1489) by Zen Master Tielinguo. The main hall is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with double eaves and nine ridges resting on the top of the mountain. The statue of Manjusri riding a lion enshrined on the Buddha platform in the middle of the hall is nearly ten meters high. "Worship and pray for the health and safety of the family members, and the double increase of blessings and wisdom." Together with Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Bodhisattva Temple and Luohou Temple, it is called the "Five Zen Places" of Wutai Mountain.

Day 3: "Blessing Dachaotai" Hotel → Wuye Temple → East Terrace {Wanghai Peak} → West Terrace {Guayue Peak} → South Terrace {Jinxiu Peak} → North Terrace {Yedou Peak} → Middle Terrace {Cuiyan Peak} 〖Wutai Mountain〗

Time: 06:00: Meal time: about 30 minutes 〖Reminder〗▶▶ This itinerary is a self-selected hotel. It depends on whether the room type you choose includes breakfast or not. If breakfast is not included, you can taste special breakfast around the hotel, fried noodles, brains, braised noodles, fried pork and other delicacies.

Time: 06:30: Activity time: about 1 hour 〖Wuye Temple — 〗:▶

The master said, "All kinds of experiences have cause and effect. If something goes against your wishes, there are other arrangements." Wuye is the honorific title of Manjusri Bodhisattva, the Dragon King of Guangji. Roar", Samantabhadra rides an elephant, the statue is tall. One pillar of incense is offered here to pray for success and wealth, and in the "Sanskrit sound" feel "one pure land, three pillars of fragrance, wishing that all wishes can be fulfilled".

Get up early to visit Wuye Temple, and then have breakfast. When worshiping and praying in the morning, fasting is important, so worship Wuye first and then eat. On the first and fifteenth day of the new year, there will be more people visiting, so they will go to Wuye Temple a little earlier.

Usually go to Wuye Temple on an empty stomach in the morning to make a wish. You can go there at midnight on the fifteenth or first day of the lunar calendar. It is said that you can make three wishes, and the wish must be fulfilled. You can also make a wish, but you don’t have to come to Wuye Temple to fulfill your wish.

When making a wish, burn incense first, which is to communicate with gods and Buddhas. The second step is to worship in the four directions of east, west, north, south, because there are Buddhas on all sides of Wutai Mountain. The third step is to worship or pray in front of the statue of Wuye.

Time: 17:00: Activity time: about 1 hour and 30 minutes [Zhongtai]—Cuiyan Peak, the name of Wutai Mountain Zhongtai, is 2894 meters above sea level. Often down to -45°C. In summer, it is sunny and sometimes rainy, and there are often heavy rains under the mountain, and the red sun on the mountain is a wonderful sight. Five weather stations are built on the top of the middle platform. There are many beautiful views on the top of Zhongtai. Looking north, you can see the Fanshi and Daixian areas. Looking east, you can see the Yizhong Plain of Hebei Province. Bowing your head and watching the huge temple complex in Taihuai Town is like bowing your head to appreciate the art of bonsai, full of wit and wit. There is a spectacle of "Wannian Ice" at the intersection of Zhongtai and Beitai. Another magnificent scene to watch from the top of Zhongtai is: the red sun is in the sky above the head, and the Cangshan Mountain is green in the distance, while at the foot of the mountain in Taihuai, it is covered with gray and white clouds. , it is raining in the hinterland of Taihuai at the moment.
▲〖Warm Reminders for Qibla Wutai〗:
【1】:

Weather at the top of the platform: Wutai Mountain, commonly known as "Qingliang Mountain", has a low temperature of -44.8°C and a high temperature of 20°C over the years. The annual average temperature is -4°C, 9.5°C and 8.5°C in July and August respectively.

Route towards Taiwan: generally follow the clockwise direction [the specific way of walking will be subject to the arrangement of the tour guide] the total length is about 100 kilometers. South Taiwan - West Taiwan - Middle Taiwan - North Taiwan - East Taiwan - Taihuai Town.

Super worship etiquette: there are five things in the circle. one. looked down. two. No stepping on insects. three. Don't look left and right. Four. Do not spit on the ground. Fives. Do not speak to others. Get five blessings again.

Equipment for facing the stage: The less things the better, it is easy to move forward with light clothes~ clothing is recommended for assault clothing, light and windproof and rainproof, long sleeves are required in summer to prevent sunburn, the weather in summer is unstable, please bring your own raincoat at any time. A thermos cup or mineral water, a camera is essential to record the beautiful scenery at any time~; in addition, you must bring your own garbage bag at any time, the beautiful scenery needs to be protected by all of us~

Day 4: "Hiking on Xiaochaotai-climbing Dailuoding-first meeting Pingyao" hotel pick-up→Baohua Temple→Dailuoding→ Wutai Mountain→Pingyao Ancient City→ {See Pingyao}→Hotel〖Pingyao Ancient City〗

Time: 06:00: Activity time: about 1 hour 〖Baohua Temple—Morning lesson on scripture copying〗:▶

【Baohua Temple】——Baohua Temple was built by Master Zhengcan, a monk in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a Huayan Taoist temple. In the 50th year of Kangxi, Lao Zang Danbei, the great lama of Zasak, rebuilt the temple and became the Taoist temple of the Yellow Sect. Baohua Temple was built by Master Zhengcan, a monk in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a Huayan Taoist temple. In the 50th year of Kangxi, Lao Zang Danbei, the great lama of Zasak, rebuilt the temple and became the Taoist temple of the Yellow Sect.

[1]: Present morning classes at Baohua Temple. Interested guests can get up early and go to [Baohua Temple] to participate in [Morning Class Practice]. If you need to replenish energy, you can also continue to supplement sleep at the hotel.

【2】: Baohua Temple has no additional fees, but the temple can provide other services such as masters’ explanations and guidance. If you need it, you may need to pay a fee. It is not recommended that you consume it. Please be cautious.

Time: 08:00: Activity time: about 2 hours 〖Take the Great Wisdom Road to Dailuoding—Xiaochaotai〗:▶Before entering the temple, you need to climb 1080 steps or take the cableway to {cableway at your own expense}. In the temple on the top of Dailuo, there are 5 kinds of statues of Manjushri Bodhisattva on the 5 tops of Wutai Mountain. Here, you can worship 5 Manjushri Bodhisattvas at one time. Mount Wutai got its name because of its five peaks. A Manjusri Bodhisattva is enshrined on each peak of Wutai Mountain, namely Manjusri of Wisdom, Manjusri of Wisdom, Manjusri of Lion, Manjusri of Wugou, and Manjusri of Rutong. And Dailuoding is a small mountain within the five platforms. Five Manjushri Bodhisattvas are enshrined here in the main hall of Dailuoding, so it is called the small Chaotai of Mount Wutai. of five platform tops. The five-party Manjusri Bodhisattva of Mount Wutai is enshrined in a temple here.

Day 5: "Cultural Ancient City - Brilliant Shanxi Merchants - Jinci Scenic Spot" Ancient City of Pingyao {Pingyao County Government-Rishengchang Bank-North China Escort-} → {Qiao Family Courtyard} or {Wang Family Courtyard} Choose 1 from 2→ Jinci Temple→ 〖Stay in Taiyuan〗

Time: 08:00: Activity time: about 2 hours 〖Playing in Pingyao Ancient City〗:

— Climb the city wall of the Ming Dynasty, touch the traces of the years with your own hands, and admire its majestic grace in silence; visit the National Bank of China, enter the underground vault, go to the Synergy Qing Bank, Rishengchang Bank, and delicious beef is waiting for you ; Watching the Chinese county government, there are regular performances every day, restoring the ancient process of judging the case, the plot and the characters are vivid. It shows people a complete picture scroll of extraordinary Shanxi merchant culture, society, economy and religious development.

— Ming and Qing Streets: The traffic network of Pingyao Ancient City is composed of criss-crossing 4 main streets, 8 small streets, and 72 alleys. South Street is the central axis of the ancient city of Pingyao, with ancient market buildings running through the north and south. On both sides of the street, there are money shops, pawn shops, medicine shops, grocery shops, butcher shops, tobacco shops, silk and satin shops, etc., all of which are more than one hundred years old. There are many famous traditional shops, which is a prosperous tradition. Commercial Street, South Street controlled more than 50% of the country's financial institutions during the Qing Dynasty. Known as China's "Wall Street".

Time: 13:00: Activity time: about 1 hour and 30 minutes 〖Reminder〗: ▶▶▶▶【Show the style of Shanxi merchants-historical picture scroll-visit the houses of Shanxi merchants】Due to time reasons, choose 1 from [Wang Family Courtyard] or [Qiao Family Courtyard]

Day 6: Sleep until you wake up naturally → After breakfast → Free activities throughout the day → Drop off at the airport or station → Return to your warm home

Time: Morning: Tour time: about 2 hours ▲〖Reminder〗: The above itinerary is free choice. According to your return time, you can choose freely and go by yourself without a tour guide. Please know.
No travel arrangements will be arranged today, free activities throughout the day. If you have enough time for the return trip, you can go to [Wuyi Square] [Taiyuan Food Street] by yourself to experience the charm of Dragon City Taiyuan again.

Time: 13:00:
▼〖Reminder〗:

End the happy six-day tour of Jinshan and Jimei. The master sends the plane to the station, Taiyuan high-speed rail station, airport

If you take an early flight or return too early by the high-speed rail, the hotel cannot provide table meals, and will provide you with packed breakfast, please pick it up at the front desk by yourself.

When the staff of our agency contacts you, please check the return flight or high-speed rail time again with the staff to avoid delaying your itinerary.

Before leaving the hotel, please carefully check your documents, valuables, accompanying luggage, etc., to avoid omissions.

If the departure time is after 12:00, please check out before 12:00 noon (please pay attention to the check-out time, so as not to cause unnecessary losses to you), if you need to check out after 12:00, please notify our agency in time to handle it for you , the expenses are at the guests' own expense. You can also visit other scenic spots in Taiyuan by yourself.