This is a special line of photography across Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi that can take you to appreciate the magnificent scenery of the Central Plains.    

Impression trip: walk along the Yellow River in Shanxi, Shanxi, enter the natural landscape photography resort, appreciate the beauty of nature, and experience the folk customs of the Yellow River.    

Impression photo: Historic sites in Zhengding County, Hancheng Ancient Town, Pingyao Ancient Town, close contact.    

Impression play: When the magical Wave Valley meets the legendary Yucha Grand Canyon; Shuanggu is wiped out, and you can feel the original Yellow River culture.   

Impressions: the red route in memory, Xibaipo, Yan'an, the mother river-the passion brought by the Yellow River chorus

Impressive praise: marvel at the land of Sanjin, the scenery of Jinci Temple, the dreamy ice cave, the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River, and the strange scene of smoking under the water makes people want to stop.    

Ten days of walking enjoy the transformation of different styles and different color expressions.

Crossing the route between Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, you can deeply experience the land of the Jin Dynasty and the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan. How many great changes have been staged here! Enjoy the stunning scenery of the Loess Plateau!    

Put a few photos first to let you feel the feeling of jumping:

The following is a brief introduction to the ten-day itinerary:

Number of days Itinerary Kilometers and time Scenic spot Check-in    

D1 Beijing-Zhengding County-Xibaipo 291/3:39 Zhengding County (Longxing Temple, Huata of Guanghui Temple, Zhaoyun Temple, Hutuo River Art Ecological Island), Xibaipo (Monument, Former Site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Memorial Hall) Xibaipo St. lake hotel    

D2 Xibaipo-Taiyuan 225/3:06 Mengshan Giant Buddha Taiyuan Davos Hotel    

D3 Taiyuan-Pingyao Ancient Town 100/1:57 Jinci. Pingyao Ancient Town Pingyao Donglaishun Hotel    

D4 Pingyao-Hukou Waterfall-Hancheng City 292/3:40 Hukou Waterfall, Dangjia Village Hancheng Qianlong Joy Hotel    

D5 Hancheng Ancient City, Sima Qian Temple, Confucian Temple, Dongmiaoying, Chenghuang Temple Ditto    

D5 Hancheng-Yan'an 267/3:54 Zaoyuan, Baota Mountain, Wangjiaping, Revolutionary Memorial Hall, Yangjiaping Jingcheng Business Hotel    

D7 Yan'an-Yucha Grand Canyon-Jingbian 75/1:16 206/2:45 Yucha Grand Canyon Jingbian Longwu Farmhouse    

D8 Jingbian-Wave Valley-Lvliang 28/0:40 242/3:32 Wave Valley Luliang Home Inn    

D9 Luliang-Shenchi County 393/4:52 Wannian Ice Cave, Hanging Village Shenchi County Shenchi Hotel    

D10 Shenchi County-Home 535/7:27 Ying County Wooden Pagoda, Hanging Temple Home    

The whole journey is 2820 kilometers. The overall cost is about 4950 yuan.

The following will be introduced according to our itinerary.

D1 Beijing-Zhengding County-Xibaipo

      Zhengding County, Hebei Province is a famous national historical and cultural city. It is located in the central Jizhong Plain. It was called Changshan and Zhending in ancient times. Art town. Zhengding's long history has left the ancient city with magnificent and unique cultural attractions. It is famous for "three mountains are missing, nine bridges are not flowing, nine floors, four towers, eight temples, and twenty-four golden archways". It can be seen that a county has a long history. Among them, "nine floors, four towers and eight great temples" refer to the four gate towers, four corner towers, and Yanghe Tower in the original city; the four towers are Lingxiao Tower, Hua Tower, Xumi Tower, and Chengling Tower; The most important ones are Longxing Temple, Guanghui Temple, Linji Temple, Kaiyuan Temple, Tianning Temple, Hongji Temple, Sheli Temple and Chongyin Temple. The last three temples have been destroyed. Moreover, the most precious of the historical sites is the Longxing Temple, which was built in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang (AD 586). It was conferred and expanded by Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.

  President Xi Jinping also served here (as you can see from his resume): 1982-1983 Deputy Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee of Hebei Province, 1983-1985 Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee of Hebei Province, the first political commissar and first secretary of the Party Committee of the Armed Forces Department of Zhengding County.

      Longxing Temple, also known as Dafo Temple, was rebuilt in the garden in 586 AD (the sixth year of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty), and was called Longzang Temple at that time. It was changed to Longxing Temple in Tang Dynasty and Longxing Temple in Qing Dynasty; it is a preserved temple in China. It is one of the earliest, large-scale and well-preserved Buddhist temples.

          The full name of the Longzang Temple Stele is "Hengzhou Inspector E Guogong persuaded the country to build the Longzang Temple Stele", which is the earliest extant regular script inscription in China. In the history of calligraphy development in China, the Sui Dynasty was a transitional period from Han Li to Tang Kai, and the Longzang Temple Stele is the representative work of this period. Its fonts are square and neat, with rigorous structure, heavy and broad brushwork, simple but elegant, solemn but not dull. It is in the position of connecting the past and the future in the structure of calligraphy and the use of brushes. It is a precious object for studying the development history of Chinese calligraphy art. material. Kang Youwei, a well-known modern scholar, praised "this stele of the six dynasties is not only the first stele of the Sui Dynasty", and later generations also called it the first stele of regular script.

        The Mani Hall is one of the main buildings of the temple. It is located in the front of the central axis. It was built in 1052 AD (the fourth year of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty), with a total area of ​​1400 square meters. The structure of the main hall is a beam-lifting wooden structure, and the plane is cross-shaped.

The structure of the main hall of Mani Hall is very peculiar. In the middle of the four sides of the square hall, there is a Xieshan-style building with flowers facing forward, making the plane form a "ten" shape. The bucket arches under the eaves are huge and sparsely distributed; the pillars are thick and have obvious rolling brakes, side angles and rises; the ridges and cornices of the hall are like waves, which are naturally smooth; the four corners are slightly warped, like birds flapping their wings to fly. Such an ancient building with a majestic appearance, rich in changes, and rather special shape is a model of Song "Zao Fa Shi", praised by Mr. Liang Sicheng as an isolated example of ancient architecture in the world, and has extremely high historical, scientific, and artistic values.

      Zhuanlunzang Pavilion was first built in the Northern Song Dynasty. The beam structure is very special. Due to the placement of Zhuanlunzang on the lower floor of the pavilion, the layout of the column network broke through the conventional method. This is extremely rare in ancient Chinese architecture. The wooden runner in the pavilion is a large bookshelf that can rotate, with a diameter of 7 meters. The whole is divided into three parts: the seat, the body and the roof. The weight of the entire runner is borne by the bottom needle. Zhuanlun Zang was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is the earliest existing one in my country and the one with the largest volume.

        Among the locust trees with a life span of more than 1,600 years, one is Longhuai and the other is Fenghuai. The crowns of this pair of ancient locust trees are connected in the air, and the roots are intertwined underground. When the national fortune is weak, the leaves are sparse, and when the national fortune is prosperous, the leaves are luxuriant. People perceive the spirituality of Longfenghuai, and if they circle the tree three times, they believe that there will be blessings.

There are two lifelike dragons in the double dragon screen wall. It is said that this screen wall was built in front of the gate of the Great Buddha Temple, and the two dragons were firmly embedded in the middle. In this way, the Jiaolong was locked so that it could not do evil, and secondly, it also covered up the embarrassment of the Great Buddha Temple without a mountain gate.

       The Pilu Hall is located at the end of the central axis of Longxing Temple. The Pilu Buddha in the hall is a national treasure. The Pilu Buddha is uniquely designed and exquisite. It was made by Ming Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun for his biological mother, the Empress Dowager. This Pilu Buddha is all cast in bronze, 6.72 meters high, and is composed of three layers of sitting Pilu Buddha and three layers of drum-shaped lotus seats. There is a small seated Buddha cast on the thousand-leaf lotus petals of the three-story rosette, with varied expressions and handprints. There are a total of 1,072 large and small Buddha statues on the whole statue. This royal Vairocana Buddha truly reflects the copper casting process at that time. It is said to have extremely high historical, scientific and artistic value, and it can be called an orphan in China.

   In history, there are not many cultural relics about Zhao Yun handed down, but there is a Zhao Yun Temple in Zhengding, Hebei, also known as the hometown of Zhao Yun.

After Zhao Yun's death, in order to commemorate this heroic general of the Three Kingdoms period, the Zhao Yun Temple was established.

The 80-jin gun used by the legendary Zhao Yun

      Huata of Guanghui Temple, also known as Duobao Pagoda. The Huata is composed of the main tower and the subsidiary towers, all of which are made of bricks. A fan-hexagonal pavilion-shaped tower is attached to the four corners of the bottom of the main tower. The small towers surround the main tower. It is a very rare pagoda architectural style.

     In terms of shape, it belongs to the type of flower tower. The important feature is that the upper half of the tower is decorated with various complicated flower ornaments, which looks like a huge bouquet of flowers. This kind of pagoda was formed in the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties, and almost disappeared after the Yuan Dynasty. The total number of existing Chinese pagodas in China is only a dozen. In 1961, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Huata is an octagonal pavilion style flower tower, and the tower body is composed of two parts. The main tower has four floors, standing in the center, about 40.5 meters high, and a small hexagonal pavilion-shaped tower is built on each of the four corners of the bottom floor, encircling the first to second floors of the main tower. This shape also has the meaning of the Vajra Throne Tower, giving people the impression that the shape of the entire tower is full of changes. The uppermost part of the main tower body is the essence of the whole tower body. The bouquet-shaped tower body accounts for about 1/3 of the whole body. Lions, elephants, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, animal heads, big The images of heavenly kings and wrestlers are scattered and varied in various carvings.

     The ancient city wall of Zhengding was first built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it was originally built of stone. In the first year of Tang Baoying (762), due to the flooding of the Hutuo River to irrigate the city, the city collapsed and was expanded. In the 14th year of Ming Zhengtong (1449), it was expanded into an earthen city with a circumference of 24 miles, a height of three feet and two feet, and an upper width of two feet. In the fifth year of Longqing (1571), Gu Shoushi, the magistrate of Zhending County, changed the earth city into a brick city

Shijiazhuang Zhengding County was once called "Northern Sanxiong Town" together with Baoding and Beijing in history

Overlooking the Huata of Guanghui Temple from the ancient city wall

     After visiting Zhengding County at noon, we drove to Xibaipo, which is not far away. It was more than three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at Xibaipo, and all scenic spots were closed at four o'clock in the afternoon. Therefore, the owner of the homestay where we stayed told us to book tickets for the attractions online and led us to the Memorial Hall of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo on a motorcycle. Gained time for us, allowing us to complete the visit plan in one afternoon.

   Tips: For self-driving tour friends, if you want to stay in the scenic spot, you can order online or tell the owner of the homestay your license plate number, so that you can drive into the scenic spot to play or visit various scenic spots. This arrangement is quite convenient.

It was past three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was still an endless stream of people coming to the Memorial Hall of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo

Bronze statues of the five secretaries. The bronze statues are 2.5 meters high. It artistically reproduces the scene of the first-generation leadership of the Communist Party of China during the Xibaipo period full of joy of victory and infinite vision for the future.

In addition to tourists, people who come here mainly come here for team building and party oath

The memorial hall stores the activities of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo in the late period of the War of Liberation as the main line, using a large number of cultural relics, photos and historical materials, supplemented by high-tech means such as paintings, sculptures, landscapes, phantom imaging, and half-view paintings To show the great revolutionary practice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo.

Xibaipo Monument: On the top of the hill behind the memorial hall. The total height is 20.5 meters, and the name of the stele "Xibaipo" is written by Comrade Deng Xiaoping.

The former site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo

     At present, the main places open to the outside world are the former residences of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi, and Dong Biwu, the war room of the Military Commission, the site of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the site of the September meeting, and the meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai People's Peace Representative. There are 12 old sites of delegation representatives, air-raid shelters and primary schools of the central government.

Site of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

In 1991, Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for Xibaipo, "Keep in mind two musts.

The sunrise scene seen on the balcony of the hotel where we stayed in the early morning

  Fresh air in the morning, clear sky. Give us a good mood to start a new day

to be continued