1. Baotu Spring

Baotu Spring Scenic Area is located in the bustling area of ??Jinan city center. It is known as Jinan's three major scenic spots along with Jinan Qianfo Mountain and Daming Lake.

Baotu Spring is the main attraction in the park. The spring water has three streams, which are crystal clear and clear. It gushes out day and night. When the water is at its peak, it reaches several feet high. Near Baotu Spring, there are more than 30 famous springs such as Jinxian Spring, Shuyu Spring, Xibo Spring, Liuxu Spring, Huanghua Spring, Dukang Spring and Bailong Spring, forming the Baotu Spring Group.

The south gate of the park is magnificent, graceful and luxurious. The horizontal plaque on the gate with the words "Baotu Spring" in blue and gold is the imperial pen of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It is known as the "first gate" of Chinese gardens.

2. Daming Lake

Do you still remember the Xia Yuhe beside Daming Lake? That's right, it's Daming Lake.

Integrating water scenery, garden landscape and ancient buildings, it is known as "China's No. 1 Spring Lake".

It is known as "one pavilion, three gardens, three floors, four temples, six islands, seven bridges and ten pavilions". There are 16 famous views of Minghu Lake to enjoy.

In addition to walking on Daming Lake, boating is also a good choice. Boating on Daming Lake is both relaxing and sightseeing.

There are jasmine, orchid and bonsai exhibitions from time to time every year; the lotus exhibition is highly recommended, with the flowering period from July 15th to August 31st.

3. Qianfo Mountain Scenic Area

Together with Baotu Spring and Daming Lake, it is known as the "three major scenic spots in Jinan"; it is the remnant of Mount Tai. The mountain is not high, but the peaks are undulating. , lush forests.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave here has nearly 30,000 Buddha statues. The largest reclining Buddha is 28 meters long. There are also exquisite murals in the cave, showing the profound connotation of Buddhist culture.

When coming to Qianfo Mountain, you usually enter from the north gate and start climbing. You can usually reach the top in less than an hour and overlook the panoramic view of Jinan city.

Temple fairs are held every year on the third day of the third month and the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, lasting for a week; you can see performances such as gongs and drums, martial arts, and Shandong Kuaishu.

4. Black Tiger Spring

There is a natural cave with huge rocks lying inside, like a tiger hiding deep, and the sound of the spring water is like the roar of a tiger, so it is called Black Tiger Spring.

Black Tiger Spring is majestic and its volume is second only to Baotu Spring, ranking second among the springs in Jinan.

Many citizens draw water here, and the water is clear. You might as well try the spring water here.

5. Quancheng Square

Quancheng is another name for Jinan. The design of the entire square closely follows the theme of "spring", with the shape of the Chinese character "quan" in seal script sitting in the center.

The lotus musical fountain in the east of the square has a lotus statue in the middle. The fountain will change into different shapes, and each fountain will last about 30 minutes.

There is the Ginza Shopping Plaza underneath Quancheng Plaza, and not far away is Furong Snack Street. It is a good choice to come here for leisure in the evening.

6. Wulongtan Park

Located outside the west gate of the old city of Jinan, it is adjacent to Baotu Spring in the south and Daming Lake in the north. There are many famous springs around the pond, forming the Wulongtan Spring Group.

The main landscape is named after Wulongtan. Legend has it that Wulongtan was the residence of Qin Qiong, a hero of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It later collapsed and sunk due to heavy rains and became today's Wulongtan.

The architectural style of the garden combines the essence of northern and southern gardens. It is composed of landscapes such as pools, ponds, streams, and harbors, and 27 spring pools around the springs are connected into one.

The scenic spots and newly built landscapes in the park include: the ruins of Qin Qiong’s former residence, the former site of the Shandong Provincial Leadership Agency of the Communist Party of China, the Pavilion of Celebrities, etc.

7. Qushuiting Street

Qushuiting Street is an old street with historical and cultural characteristics in Jinan, Quancheng City, which is famous both at home and abroad.

On one side are old houses with blue bricks and red tiles, and on the other side is a clear spring that flows calmly. People on the street wash rice and do laundry here, making the old street full of vitality.

The spring city style of "every house has spring water and every house has weeping willows" in "Lao Can's Travels" is still completely preserved.

8. Catholic Church

A twin-tower Gothic building, Jinan City is also the largest Catholic church in East China and one of the three famous Catholic churches in China.

The building is majestic and majestic. Such grand beauty and majesty. Compared with many Christian churches and Catholic churches in Qingdao, it is by no means inferior.

The church has a large space with windows on all sides. The afternoon sunlight passes through, which matches the ritual feeling of a religious place and gives a sense of spiritual purification.

9. Furong Street

Furong Street is named after the Furong Spring in the street. The street is located among the Pearl Spring Group. Some people say, "If you haven't been to Furong Street in Jinan, you haven't been to Jinan." This old street in the old town of Jinan is famous for its distinctive folk traditions and various special snacks.

Here, you will see that Furong Street is always crowded with people during holidays. This street, which is neither wide nor long, not only gathers many local delicacies, but also has a dazzling array of small shops on both sides of the street. Strolling along, you can also admire the houses in Jinan’s old town and experience Jinan’s old culture. Of course, most tourists come here for the snacks. If you are a foodie, don’t miss it.

10 Shandong Museum

Shandong Museum is located in the eastern part of Jinan City. It is the earliest provincial comprehensive topography museum in China, covering an area of ??34,000 square meters and a construction area of ??21,000 square meters. . So far, the museum has collected more than 140,000 cultural relics and nearly 10,000 natural specimens. The display categories are very rich. The magnificent and elegant building complex embodies the combination of national style and modern art, and has become a major landscape of Jinan, a famous historical and cultural city in China. Here, you can see a large number of ancient ceramics, bronzes, ancient calligraphy and painting books, oracle bones, Han portrait stones and other cultural relics. Among them, the red pottery animal-shaped pot unearthed from the Dawenkou site, the oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty, the large jade jade from the Lu State during the Warring States period, the bamboo slips of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Sun Bin's Art of War", and the murals from the Dongping Han Tomb are all treasures of the museum. Very rare, some are only occasionally displayed. There is a souvenir shop and a cafe on the first floor of the museum. The cafe can provide simple meals; there are drinking fountains on each floor to provide boiled water. If you are tired from visiting, there are many resting seats in the museum for you to rest.

11. Moat Ring Mountain Park

Jinan City Ring Park is built along the moat, with a total length of 6.26 kilometers. The park mainly consists of three parts: First, the east moat, with plant landscape The main four-season garden scenic area is divided into four areas: spring, summer, autumn and winter; the second is the west moat, the southern section of the river is the "May 3rd" Flower Memorial Garden, the northern section of the river is the spring stream waterscape garden; the third is the south moat east Section 1 is a spring stone garden dominated by Black Tiger Spring.

12. Jiurushan Waterfalls Scenic Area

Jiurushan Waterfalls Scenic Area is a national AAAA-level scenic spot and a national forest park. It is located in Xiying Town, Jinan City, Shandong Province. One of the birthplaces of Erming Spring is the source of Geumxiuchuan Reservoir, and one of the new eight scenic spots in Quancheng, "Jiuruting Waterfall" is also among them. The scenic area covers an area of ??36 square kilometers, creating a core landscape of "mountains, waterfalls, stacks, streams and pools", forming a rare and unique large-scale natural ecological landscape in northern China.

The entire scenic area is divided into six areas: the clear spring waterfall area, the canyon exploration area, the children's play area, the rivers and lakes cultural area and the mountain resort area. The scenic area is densely covered with mountain springs and has the largest waterfall community in Shandong Province. The springs, waterfalls and pools are connected by domestic wooden plank roads, and the largest European-style wooden house communities in China are scattered among the mountains.

13. Jiefang Pavilion

Jiefang Pavilion is a famous scenic spot in Jinan City. It is located at the southeast corner of the original Jinan Old City wall, east of Black Tiger Spring, across the moat from Black Tiger Spring. . It adopts Chinese classical architectural form, with golden glazed tiles and external granite veneer. The pavilion is divided into two floors and has square sides. The lower floor is surrounded by corridors, and the corridors and pavilions are connected by Baosha. The corridors and pavilions are painted with landscapes, flowers, fish, insects, birds, animals and other sketches. Outside the corridor is a platform with stone railings around it. The upper level has a pointed roof, double eaves with raised corners, supported by brackets, flying kissing beasts, and rhyming wind chimes. The whole building is majestic and magnificent.

At the same time, Jiefang Pavilion is one of the patriotic education bases in Jinan. Standing on the Jiefang Pavilion, people can not only pay tribute to the heroic achievements of the martyrs, but also overlook the lush green Nanshan Mountain, which is refreshing and refreshing.

Looking down at you, the Black Tiger Spring Group, hidden in the green shade, is particularly charming. The gurgling spring water is like a hymn with beautiful tunes, refreshing the heart and mind.

14. Pearl Spring

Pearl Spring is one of the four famous springs in Jinan (Baotu Spring, Black Tiger Spring, Pearl Spring, and Wulongtan). It is located on the south side of Daming Lake Park Located in the courtyard of the Shandong Provincial People's Congress (also called the Pearl Spring Courtyard), this was the residence of the governor of Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Compared with Baotu Spring, which is crowded with tourists, the courtyard where Pearl Spring is located is much quieter. It is very pleasant to enjoy the spring and take a walk here. Come and see Pearl Spring. The water of Pearl Spring is as clear as blue. Standing on the Fuji Pavilion on the south bank of the pool, you can see a string of white bubbles gushing out from the bottom of the pool not far away, like floating pearls, so it is known as the "Pearl Spring". Legend has it that the strings of "pearls" in Pearl Spring were formed from the tears of Shun's two concubines - Ehuang and Nvying. There are many fish in the spring pool (most of the fish in Jinan's spring water are golden scales), showing great vitality. You can also see kind people bringing big white steamed buns to feed them. Compared with Daming Lake, this is really a paradise for fish.

15. Li Qingzhao Memorial Hall Li Qingzhao Memorial Hall is located by the Shuyu Spring. It was first built in 1959 and expanded in 1999 to an area of ??more than 4,000 square meters. It is a typical Song Dynasty building and absorbed Suzhou gardens. of essence. This place includes 15 groups of buildings, including Yinfeng Pavilion, Wenzhai, Shuyutang, Haitangxuan, Yanxi Ningxiang, Stele Gallery, and Yi'an Building. There are beautiful and colorful eaves on the resting hills, rich and varied hanging hills and buildings, concave and convex corridors, sparse flowers and trees in the courtyards, and flying pavilions and waterfalls. The interior styles of the exhibition rooms are different, and they are displayed from different levels such as pictures, texts, images, calligraphy, and paintings. It reflects the great achievements and rich life of a generation of poets.

16. Kuanhouli

Jinan Kuanhouli and Shimao Kuanhouli are located in the core area of ??Quancheng Road, Jinan City, Kuanhousuo Street in old Jinan. They are Shimao Co., Ltd.’s efforts to continue the old Jinan architecture and The traditional vocabulary of folk customs is used to create a century-old historical district of Qilu Dadi in the center of the city where the trees and streets dialogue, the river and the city enjoy, the river echoes the city, the spring and water merge, and the history and modernity blend.

17. Hongye Valley

Hongye Valley is "the source of springs, the hometown of clouds, the world of flowers, the ocean of forests, and a paradise for leisure and vacation." The unique wild cotinus dense forest, with red leaves all over the mountain in late autumn, forms a unique natural landscape.

There are four seasons in Hongye Valley, and the weather is different in each season. In spring, assorted peanut trees, flocks of orioles flying around, red peach, white pear blossoms, and yellow forsythia are dotted in a vibrant mountain forest; in summer, the valley is filled with heart-stopping lush greenery, waterfalls, and mountain breezes. It is refreshing, with long valleys, deep fields, and gurgling water: in autumn, when you climb high to see the mountains, the mountains are red, and the forests are dyed, it is so beautiful; in winter, the snow is capped, the jade trees and flowers are green, and the sunshine is pure and bright.

18. Shandong University

Shandong University is a famous comprehensive university with a long history in China and one of the key universities directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Its predecessor was the government-run Shandong University founded in Jinan in 1901 (the 27th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). Since its establishment, Shandong University has experienced two historical stages: semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and socialist society, from the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China to the Republic of China. During this period, it changed its name several times, went through many changes such as closure, reconstruction, merger, and relocation. It has integrated various universities at different times, and has also branched out into more than ten colleges and universities.

19. Lingyan Temple

Jinan Lingyan Temple is a national scenic spot and a Buddhist holy place. It was first built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years.

When you stop at the scenic spot of Lingyan, you will see that it is surrounded by mountains, with secluded rocks and steep cliffs; beautiful cypresses and sandalwood trees, the fragrance of sweet spring tea; a collection of historical sites and the lingering sound of Buddha. There are not only the towering Pizhi Pagoda and the legendary iron cassock; there are also Banzhou Hall from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and colorful clay sculptures of Arhats from the Song Dynasty; Clear snow” and other natural wonders. Therefore, Wang Shizhen, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, said that "Lingyan is the most secluded and secluded place on the back of Mount Tai. It is impossible to visit Mount Tai without reaching Lingyan."

20. Chaoran Building

Chaoran Building was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It has seven floors and is very majestic. It is known as "the first building in Jiangbei".

In the building there are the 8-meter-high "No. 1 Woodcarving in Jiangbei", the "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" that has been passed down for nearly a century, the authentic works of the leading figures in Shandong's calligraphy and painting circles in the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely precious works. ancient rubbings.

·Chaoran Building is also the main content of the Daming Lake expansion and reconstruction project, mainly showing Jinan Quancheng culture, urban garden culture and the national culture of old Jinan.