Jingzhou is also the cultural center of the Three Kingdoms. Popular stories such as "Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou" and "Guan Yu lost Jingzhou" happened here. Jingzhou is dotted with historical figures, and Qu Yuan, Sun Bin and Zhang all came to the stage of China history from here. Along the route of torchbearers running, we seem to be bathed in a deep, magnificent and endless history.
Jingzhou is an excellent tourist city in China. Jingzhou is endowed with unique tourism resources, and its cultural tourism and eco-tourism are spectacular. The city's tourist attractions present a pattern of "one city and three films". "One city" is the well-known ancient city of Jingzhou, in which Jinan City, Guan Gong Temple, Zhanghua Temple, Wulin Ancient Town, Huarong Road and other cultural landscapes are timeless. Jingzhou Museum was rated as the first batch of "4A" museums in China, ranking first among municipal museums in China, with a collection of more than 20,000 pieces of cultural relics/kloc-0, including nearly 300 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics such as ancient corpses of the Western Han Dynasty. A number of landmark projects such as Ancient City Park, Kowloon Garden Park, Phoenix Square, Salonda Square, Hyatt Theatre and Olympic Sports Center in the central city have been built one after another. The "three films" are the newly developed Songzi Weishui Scenic Area, Honghu Fisherman Resort Village and Shishou Swan Island Elk Nature Reserve. Jingzhou is a typical water garden city with beautiful scenery, lakes and mountains, and unforgettable natural ecological landscape. The whole world knows a song by Hong Hushui. The former sites of Hunan and Hubei revolutionary bases such as Qujiawan in Honghu and Zhoulaozui have been included in the national patriotic education base. The "new, green and beautiful" water garden city scenery, the "tall, large and special" modern architecture and the charm of the historical and cultural city complement each other, which makes the ancient city Jingzhou glow with new brilliance. Jiulong Garden Park is located on the south side of Jiulong Bridge outside the east gate of Jingzhou Ancient City, covering an area of 326,000 square meters. The main buildings in the park are the Dragon Boat Racecourse in Kowloon Garden and the statue of Qu Yuan. Dragon Boat Racecourse in Kowloon starts from Kowloon Bridge in the north and ends at Quyuan Peninsula in the south, with a total length of 1 100m. There are 2600 meters of granite guardrails and 3000 meters of standard stands on the east and west sides of the track. There are thousands of spectators around the stadium. In June 2000, the first International Dragon Boat Festival in Jingzhou, China was successfully held here. The statue of Qu Yuan stands on the Qu Yuan Peninsula at the southern end of the Dragon Boat Race, with a height of 8.83 meters. Qu Yuan is an important minister of Chu State, the earliest and greatest patriotic poet in the history of China, and one of the four cultural celebrities in the world. Qu Yuan is the glory of Jingzhou, the land of Chu and the pride of the Chinese nation. His patriotic feelings and immortal personality charm will always be the spiritual driving force for Jingzhou people to forge ahead. Jingjiang Iron Bull-Before the founding of New China, Jingjiang levee was riddled with holes and people suffered from floods. In this regard, the feudal rulers did not take active measures, but foolishly turned to the gods for help. In the fifty-third year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1788), Qianlong ordered nine iron oxen to be cast in Zhenjiang, and placed in the dangerous sections of important Beijing dikes such as Guanyinji. In the ninth year of Xianfeng (A.D. 1859), a statue of a water-iron cow was built on the banks of Haoxue River. It is said that the saying that iron cows can save floods stems from the fact that dragons in the water are afraid of iron, and according to the five elements, cows belong to soil, and soil can make water. Iron ox is a combination of the two, so it is used to guard the river bank. However, ten iron cows stayed by the river. Although they worked hard day and night, they failed to subdue the raging flood. Most of them were defeated in the struggle with the "dragon" and persisted in extinction. Now there are only two survivors, standing in Haodong and Ribuzhenjiang respectively. Both iron cows are squatting with their heads held high, looking straight at the river, looking focused and dignified. Hao Xuetie Niu has an inscription on his back: "Rugged and pure in virtue; Tuxiu Huaibao, guarding the riverside; Don't make waves, strange people tame; I will live for thousands of generations, bless me. " Although the inscription is concise, the historical conclusion is counterproductive. Nowadays, the inscription on Tieniu has become a historical witness of the Yangtze River flood and a rare and precious cultural relic in the history of Jingjiang flood control.
Driving down the river bank in Shashi for more than 40 kilometers, you can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery on both sides of Jingjiang River, but also witness the clank and iron bones of the iron cow in Haoxue. Now it is safely hidden among the cedars, and the Victory Pavilion in Gangneung War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is beside it, which is even more legendary. It has become a new tourist attraction. Jigongshan Paleolithic Site 1992 Jingzhou Museum and Peking University Archaeological Department cooperated with the Yihuang Expressway construction project, and excavated a paleolithic residence and paleolithic processing site in Jigongshan, Yun Bei Village, 4 kilometers away from Xiaobeimen, Jingzhou City. Paleolithic and its processing debris can be seen everywhere in the site, and its cultural layer thickness exceeds 1 m. The site is surrounded by pure clay layers, and there are no rocks, so it can be seen that the stones processed by it come from far away. Jigongshan site filled the blank of the Paleolithic plain houses in China, and was named as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China that year. 1996, the site was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Jigongshan is actually a small mound on Jianghan Plain. After the soil was taken from Yihuang Highway, only the ruins remained, less than 6 meters high and covering an area of about 3,000 square meters. Due to the exposure of the road construction borrow site, after two attempts by archaeologists, the remains of the paleolithic processing plant that have been dusty for tens of thousands of years are exposed at the mud end. The website covers an area of about 800 square meters. In order to effectively protect this important site, so that people can have a glimpse of the traces of primitive human activities 50,000 years ago, careful planning has been carried out according to the requirements of the site museum. At present, the site protection project has been initially completed, and a new long-span protection shed with brick-concrete wall and steel grid structure at the top has been built, with an area of1200m2.
Jigongshan Paleolithic Site is adjacent to Haizi Lake in the north, fish ponds in the south and Chujina ancient city in the west, with beautiful rural scenery. The newly-built cement driveway goes directly to the site with convenient transportation. It is becoming a new spiritual paradise for people to explore ancient times.