In fact, after New Year’s Day, I started to plan where to go during the New Year, but in winter, the choice is too small. The Northeast is too cold, and there are too many people on holidays in the South. There are also many people who go abroad and it is expensive. People all over the world know that Chinese people are waiting for the New Year. There are only 7 days of vacation, and there are only 5 days left after excluding the head and tail. Let’s drive by car. There are really no places left for hundreds of miles. I am very interested. Fortunately, this winter is not cold, so it is Shanxi. Shanxi is colder than Tianjin, so this I haven’t been there for several years. I went when the weather was good in spring and autumn. I opened the map to look at the map of Shanxi. I still haven’t been to Luliang. There is an ancient town of Qikou in Luliang, Lijiashan. This place is very popular this year. Tianjin is 700 kilometers away from Luliang, which is still acceptable. This is the line. Let’s see how many stops we can stop within the 700 kilometers. Finally, we have decided on Luliang, Taiyuan, and Baoding.
I remember that I went to Taierzhuang, Shandong Province during the Chinese New Year last year. I drove for nearly 10 hours on a 600-kilometer road. When I was stuck in traffic, I had to know how my classic car felt. It was still blocked when I went south. So I don’t want to go south this year. It’s too cold to go north. It’s still all the way. Go west to the most familiar province - Jin
d1: Tianjin - Luliang (710 kilometers)
I spent New Year’s Eve at home. I left at 6:00 am on the first day of the new year. If there was no traffic jam, I would arrive before 5:00 pm. Sure enough, there was no traffic jam in Shanxi. The journey was smooth. I arrived at the hotel on time at 5:00 pm. I booked Luliang Hotel. It’s in the city center. The location is very good. Settling in I really want to go to Luliang Wantuo or eat Shanxi noodles, but because of the Chinese New Year, most of the restaurants on the street are closed. Fortunately, there is a shopping mall not far from the hotel in the city center. Half of the restaurants in the shopping mall are closed. Let’s eat kfc. After eating, it’s 6 It’s too late and the sky is still bright. I think it’s more than 700 kilometers away from Tianjin to the west. It should have crossed a time zone. Theoretically, there should be a 30-minute time difference. This season, I get off work at 5:30 every day. It’s just when it’s dark. It's not very cold to go shopping. The Chinese New Year is filled with festive lights and festive everywhere. It's still very beautiful. However, I feel that the distance between Luliang and Datong is not small. Datong already has the taste of a big city. It actually feels similar to a county town. I have been to it in recent years. There are many large and small cities. Shanxi still needs to be developed.
Go shopping and watch the lights, go back to the hotel and go to bed early, start playing tomorrow!
d2: Qikou Ancient Town Lijiashan (52 kilometers)
I had breakfast at the hotel, but I didn’t have noodles in Shanxi. . . I really miss the knife-sliced noodles I ate in Datong in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year. It was delicious. Let’s eat together and go out to play. There is no high-speed mountain road on this road, but the road is not difficult to walk. It can be reached in more than an hour. If it is not a holiday, it is recommended to go to Lijiashan first and then go there The ancient town is because it is Chinese New Year. If you go to the ancient town at the end, there is no place to park, so first park the car outside the ancient town and then go in, because although you can drive in, you will not be able to drive out after shopping at noon. There are too many people on the festival
Qikou Ancient Town, located 50 kilometers south of Linxian County, Shanxi Province, is a famous historical and cultural town in China, and Xiwan Village in the town is a famous historical and cultural village in China.
Qikou is located in the middle of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge on the Yellow River, 48 kilometers south of Linxian County, and adjacent to Mengmen Ancient Town in the south. It is named after Datong Qi of the Yellow River. The Yellow River comes from the north, the Qiushui comes from the east, the Crouching Tiger Mountain runs across the north of the town, and the Black Dragon Temple stands on the east of the river. The mountains are surrounded by water, and the yin and yang meet. The magnificent picture of "Longyin Qikou".
After seeing the ancient town, I drove to Lijiashan, which is 3 kilometers away. Because my car is in hand gear, I put it at the bottom of the mountain and walked up. This way, I can see the scenery along the way. There are cave dwellings with Shanxi characteristics everywhere. You have to go to the top to look down to see this. Known as the Potala Palace on the Loess Plateau
Lijiashan is located on the high slope of the loess, hidden in the depths of the mountain, ethereal and elegant, and was praised by Mr. Wu Guanzhong, a master of Chinese painting, as one of the three major discoveries in his life. The cave dwellings here are exquisitely constructed, looking like a desolate Han tomb from a distance, and the ancient village is relatively closed, like a peach blossom garden isolated from the world.
Lijiashan Village is shaped like a phoenix, and the houses are built according to the body and two wings of the phoenix. They are scattered and distributed on the 70-degree hillside, forming a very visually shocking effect. These cave dwellings are superimposed layer upon layer along the mountain, and there is a path in front of the house to connect with each other.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was the place where Qikou merchants resettled their families. Because of its good geographical location, it is the family residence of a businessman surnamed Li, so it is called Lijiashan. These cave dwellings were built very meticulously, and the exquisite stone carvings and carefully carved eaves and corners all revealed the gorgeousness and exquisiteness of the wealthy families at that time.
The typical loess landform, elegant natural environment, cascading cave buildings, rich style of the Yellow River, and simple folk houses attract many artists from all over the country to collect and create.
Going back to Lishi in Luliang City, because the entrances and exits near the ancient town of Lijiashan were blocked, I chose a relatively unblocked road on Gaode, but it needed to pass through the Liulin mining area. When you go out to play, you still have to be careful. There are traffic jams everywhere. After a lot of hard work, I went back to the hotel. It was completely dark after 7 o’clock. I was crazy for a day. I was so hungry. What kind of beef jerky did I bring when I came out to play? Fortunately, I don’t have a big appetite, and I can pass me with only a few pieces of beef jerky. It’s cold when the sun sets in this winter. Go back to the hotel and take a milk bath
d3: Mengshan Giant Buddha (175 kilometers)
I had breakfast and checked out. I went to live in Taiyuan today. I still didn’t have the noodles I wanted today. Fortunately, I have rice noodles, so let’s make it together. I always go to Taiyuan in recent years, but I still haven’t been to the Mengshan Giant Buddha. Last summer, I met friends in Taiyuan and went to the scenic spot. It is said that the decoration will not open until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the decoration will not be announced online. . . My friend is a native of Shanxi. He also said that there is no way for Shanxi to be backward. This time, I saw the true face of the Buddha.
Mengshan Giant Buddha, also known as Xishan Giant Buddha, is located in Mengshan, more than 20 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The Mengshan Giant Buddha was excavated during the Tianbao period of the Northern Qi Dynasty. It was originally a cliff Buddha statue behind the Kaihua Temple in Mengshan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mengshan Giant Buddha was destroyed. The Buddha was rediscovered in 1980, but the head of the Buddha has disappeared. The head of the current Buddha was newly chiseled by later generations.
The height from the bottom of the two legs of the Mengshan Buddha to the neck is about 30 meters. Calculated according to the proportion, plus the height of the Buddha's head, the original height of the Buddha is about 46 meters. On the platform in front of the Buddha, there are architectural relics with a width of three rooms, and the gate stone and the basement are still there. There is a tortoise on the north side of the ruins, but the stele has been lost. There are several small stone holes on the west wall of the Buddhist niche, which were used to insert beams and purlins when building the Buddhist pavilion. On the east side of the Great Buddha Shrine, there are remains of a cliff inscription and two caves on the cliff face.
Climb Mengshan and see the Big Buddha. Go to the city to stay. The location is not far from Yifen Bridge. In order to go to the Shanxi Museum tomorrow, the room can see the scenery of the Fen River. It can be regarded as a river view room. It’s colder today than yesterday. It’s a good place to settle in. 4 Too many orders, go out to find something to eat, hurry back to the hotel, it's still too cold in Shanxi
d4: Shanxi Museum Baoding accommodation (360 kilometers)
"Looking at Shanxi with a History of 5,000 Years", the Shanxi Museum located on Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, gathers the essence of Shanxi cultural relics. Shanxi Museum consists of the main building and the four-cornered auxiliary building. The main building looks like a bucket and a tripod. It is the main place for tourists to visit the collections in the courtyard.
The main building has four floors. The lobby on the first floor is equipped with a general service desk, the second and third floors have special exhibitions on history and culture, and the fourth floor has special exhibitions on art. These exhibitions constitute the basic display of Shanxi Museum. After stepping into the hall on the first floor, follow the stairs to the second floor, where the historical journey with the theme of "Jinhun" begins.
The special exhibition of history and culture, from the relics of ancient human beings in ancient times, to the rise and fall of Shanxi merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties for 500 years, through numerous cultural relics and treasures, shows the splendor of Shanxi in the process of 5,000 years of civilization. When visiting, several fine cultural relics must not be missed.
Bird Zun, a bronze ware of the Western Zhou Dynasty, is a ritual vessel for sacrifices in the Jinhou Ancestral Temple. The shape of the bird statue is extremely delicate, with the phoenix bird as the main shape, and a small bird on the back of the phoenix bird, which is used as a handle on the cover of the bird statue. At the tail of the phoenix bird, there is an elephant. Its long nose fits perfectly with the feet of the phoenix bird to form a tripod, ensuring the stability of the bird statue. This collection is a representative work of the bronzes in the courtyard.
In addition, you can also see: Hou Ma's League Letter, the letter of oath held by the senior officials of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period; wooden lacquer paintings, lacquer painted screens from the Northern Wei Dynasty, painted with colorful stories of "Biography of Women"; Han white marble The coffin is a cultural relic of the Sui Dynasty. The owner of the tomb was from the Central Asian country of fish at that time. There are patterns carved inside and outside the stone coffin. The characters in the patterns have deep eyes, high nose and black hair, and belong to the Mediterranean Caucasian race. In the cultural thematic exhibition, you can also learn about the origin or development of Buddhism and traditional opera in Shanxi.
On the fourth floor of the main building, there is an art exhibition area. Among them, "Civil, Wood and Huazhang" - a special exhibition of ancient architectural art, reflects Shanxi's side as a province of cultural relics and ancient buildings. "Look at Shanxi for cultural relics on the ground". Shanxi has the reputation of "treasure house of ancient Chinese architecture". It has more than half of the ancient buildings on the ground in China, with a complete range of categories, especially the large number of religious buildings. If you are a fan of ancient buildings, you must come here.
Personally, I feel that the management of the Shanxi Museum is not as good as when I went to the Shandong Museum last year. The self-service machines did not recognize our 2 ID cards. Many people have no ID cards and need to manually queue up to get the tickets. Then they took the tickets and queued outside for security checks in cold weather. The key If you bring a bag, you just need a security device. How many people are there during the Chinese New Year? It’s almost freezing before you go in. You don’t need to check the ticket when you go in. No one looks at the ticket in your hand. It’s like queuing up for nothing. It’s just because it’s cold that museums and other attractions are arranged. It’s good to stand in line and get cold. In Shandong, you can pick up your tickets indoors. Then you will pass through 2 security inspection machines. What is the weather like in Shandong? How can it be so cold?
After shopping around 1:00, I returned to the hotel and checked out. I set off for Baoding. It takes about 5 hours to arrive. It’s already dark in Baoding. It’s so cold. Go into the room and turn on the air conditioner and take a hot shower. It’s getting colder every day during Chinese New Year. Go to Qi It’s the best day, wearing a down jacket and sweating even climbing the mountain
d5: Zhili Governor's Office back to Tianjin (200 kilometers)
The hotel in Baoding is the cheapest hotel this time. It is equivalent to a fast hotel like Home Inn. But the breakfast is like a 5-star big hotel. Fortunately, the breakfast is good. Otherwise, how can I keep out the cold in such a cold day? I chose this hotel accidentally because Baoding is a place I didn’t see any benefit from the expensive ones. I grabbed a lot of cheap ones. That’s it. Anyway, I went home in one night. It’s a mistake. The food is better than the previous two.
The Zhili Governor's Office, also known as the Zhili Governor's Office Museum, is located in the urban area of Baoding, adjacent to the famous ancient lotus pond in Baoding. It used to be the office of the governor of Zhili in the Qing Dynasty, and it is now well preserved, and it is also the most complete one among the provincial government offices in the Qing Dynasty. When you come here, you can enjoy the historical buildings in the north, see the restored office and residence of the governor, and learn about the official customs, stories, and exquisite costumes of officials in the Qing Dynasty through the exhibitions set up in the mansion. The content is rich, and you can visit Baoding City Tourists in the area can come here to have a look.
The Zhili Governor's Office is small in size. It is an ancient courtyard about 200 meters deep and nearly 100 meters wide. The central axis of the courtyard is distributed from the outside to the inside with the gate, the courtyard gate, the lobby, the second hall, the third hall, and the fourth hall. There are some small houses symmetrically distributed on both sides. The whole building is of ancient style, and it was built in strict accordance with the provincial government system in the Qing Dynasty. It looks solemn and neat, and it is also very grand. Tourists can visit the courtyards and houses from the outside to the inside after entering the distance, which usually takes about 2 hours.
The buildings from the lobby to the four halls in the middle are places for the governor's celebration, trial, meeting, reception, official business, and daily life. Now it is restored as it is, and you can enter to watch them one by one. The lobby is particularly special. In many costume dramas, we can see the scenes of officials going to court. This is where these stories really happened.
It was only after 12 o'clock after the visit. I went out of the gate because it was too cold and went straight to the car. I got in the car and drove away. When I came out in the morning, I put on everything I could wear. It was still freezing. I thought about shopping before. Mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother is from Baoding. Mother’s mother came here when she was a child. She wanted to find memories, but it was too cold to go for a walk. I drove home. It was less than 3 o’clock when I got home. This is a 5-day tour, so it’s only 4 and a half days. I had a lot of fun this time. It was a meaningful cultural tour. There was no traffic jam. It’s getting colder every day. We really can’t stand it. Let’s go home and enjoy the sun room.
