Chuxiong is an autonomous prefecture under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the middle of Yunnan Province, and is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Xiongchu Yi Autonomous Prefecture. So what are the most worthwhile attractions in Chuxiong? The following are the top ten tourist attractions in Chuxiong. Let's have a look.
10. Shiyang Ancient Town
Shiyang Ancient Town is one of the first three famous historical and cultural towns in Yunnan, located between Chuxiong, Dali and Panzhihua, and within the middle distance of Kunming and Dali. The best-preserved and largest bronze statue of Confucius is in the Confucius Temple in the ancient town.
9. Zixi Mountain Scenic Area
The forest coverage rate of Zixi Mountain Scenic Area is 96%, and the main peak is 2500 meters above sea level. It is the largest natural park in Yunnan Province. The whole mountain is lush, with dense forests, ancient temples and unique landscape. This is a fascinating plant kingdom, a world where 100 kinds of birds and animals live together.
8. Heijing Town
Heijing is one of the only nine salt wells in Dali. Heijing Town has a long history, prosperous economy and profound culture, and is known as "the lost salt capital, the living fossil of Ming and Qing architecture".
7. Yuanmou Man Museum
Yuanmou Man Museum is the ancestor of human history in China, with a history of 6.5438+0.7 million years ago. Yuanmou People's Museum displays prehistoric paleolithic, neolithic and microlithic, with a total of 1500 cultural relics and more than 500 pictures.
6. Yi ancient town
Yi ancient town is a cultural tourism project integrating commerce, residence and cultural tourism. It takes the ancient buildings as the platform, takes the Yi culture as the "soul", and integrates many functions such as cultural scenic spots, tourist distribution centers and urban conference rooms, becoming a beautiful city card for Chuxiong.
5. Yuanmou soil forest
Walking into Yuanmou soil forest and seeing various shapes is like entering another novel world. Speaking of the wonders of taking soil as forest, Yuanmou soil forest is really a treasure. Its group of columnar terrain looks like a forest from a distance, which is very strange.
4. Lion Mountain in Wuding
The main peak of Lion Mountain in Wuding is 2419.8m above sea level, and the annual average temperature is 13.2℃, with no severe cold in winter and no intense heat in summer. It is a scenic spot with one mountain, one lake and one village as the main body, integrating landscape, cultural relics, human geology and ethnic customs.
3. Chuxiong Museum
Chuxiong Prefecture is the earliest ancestor of the Chinese nation, the hometown of Lufeng dinosaurs, and the earliest place where bronze drums have been discovered so far, with rich cultural relics.
2. Guanglu Ancient Town, Yao 'an
The ancient town of Guanglu in Yao 'an has a long history and profound cultural heritage. It is one of the eight famous houses in Dali. Yao 'an is also the only place where the ancient Silk Road passes, and it is also the throat where the Central Plains enters Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
1. Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley
Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley is a popular science tourism base and dinosaur cultural tourism theme park based on the burial place of stone dinosaur fossils in Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. Visitors can enter the dinosaur kingdom here, travel through Jurassic World and interpret the rise and fall of life on earth.
What are the interesting places in Chuxiong?
Lufeng world dinosaur valley 1
The World Dinosaur Valley Scenic Area is located in Lufeng County, Wei Chu City. The scenic spot is a national AAAA tourist area, a popular science tourism base and a dinosaur cultural tourism theme park based on the burial place of stone dinosaur fossils in Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The scenic spot is divided into two areas: dinosaur site research and sightseeing area and Jurassic World tourist area. Visitors can travel through Jurassic World here, interpret the rise and fall of life on earth and share the wonders of the world that have been preserved for hundreds of millions of years.
2. Yunnan Zijinshan National Forest Park
Zijinshan National Forest Park is located 28km southwest of Lucheng, the capital of Chuxiong City, Wei Chu. It was built in 2000 and covers an area of 65,438+0,700 hectares. Forest coverage rate is as high as 94.8%. Zijinshan Mountain belongs to the eastern branch of Ailao Mountain System in Central Yunnan Plateau. Purple Mountain, Weixi Mountain, Hushan Mountain and Wansongling Mountain are flat, with towering peaks and many gullies cut off on all sides. There are five types of forest landscape in the park: semi-humid evergreen broad-leaved forest, coniferous forest, mountain secondary evergreen broad-leaved forest, dwarf forest, grassland and emergent plant community.
3. Guanglu Ancient Town, Yaoan, Chuxiong
Guanglu Ancient Town is located at the north of yaoan, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province 12km. This is an ancient town with a history of thousands of years, and it is called "the hometown of lanterns". The ancient town has a long history, beautiful mountains and rivers, and many places of interest, mainly including Longhua Temple, military and civilian headquarters, former site of Hannongdong County, Tuli Temple, Songzi Niangniang Temple, Longwang Temple, Doumu Pavilion, Huangyu Pavilion, Guanyin Pavilion, Wenchang Palace, Zhide Temple, Gaoxue Junci Temple, Feilaishi and other scenic spots.
4. Yuanmou Museum, Yuanmou County
Yuanmou People's Exhibition Hall has 394 cultural relics and 245 paleontological fossils. The exhibition hall is divided into three parts: human origin, Yuanmou ancient ape and Yuanmou prehistoric culture. The first part shows the relevant scientific knowledge of human origin and evolution based on the data of ancient apes and ancient human fossils unearthed in China.
The second part mainly focuses on the fossil data of Archaeopteryx, Lufeng Australopithecus and Yuanmou Australopithecus, reflecting the process of the evolution of ancient apes into adults, and the position of Yunnan, especially Yuanmou, in the history of human origin and evolution. The third part mainly focuses on the remains and remains of paleolithic culture, microlithic culture and Neolithic culture, reflecting the various stages of the prehistoric historical development of human society.
5. Chuxiong Yi Ancient Town
Located in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province, Yiren Ancient Town Scenic Area is an important connection point between Kunming and Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La and Tengchong, and is known as "the gateway to the provincial wall and the throat of the west". Ancient towns, with ancient buildings as the platform, Yi culture as the soul, integrate architectural culture and tourism culture, and show Yi Tusi culture in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. The scenic spot has become a famous night tour scenic spot in Yunnan, with the main line of "Everyday Long Street Banquet, Night Torch Festival and Day Dressing Festival".
What ancient sites are there in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province?
1. Fengtai, Chuxiong, Yunnan
The pagoda in Chuxiong, Yunnan stands at the top of Dongshan Mountain in Lucheng, Chuxiong City, and was rebuilt on the site of the ancient pagoda in Ming Dynasty. The tower is an octagonal nine-story pavilion building with a height of 59 meters. It is the first landscape tower in China to show the profound connotation of China Fu culture with color painting, wood carving, stone carving and copper casting.
2. Zixishan Forest Park
Zixishan Forest Park is located in the southwest of Chuxiong City, with a total area of10.6 million hectares, and the main peak is 2500 meters above sea level. It is the largest natural park in Yunnan Province.
3. Chuxiong Museum
Chuxiong Museum was completed and opened in July, 1995. It is a cultural institution integrating cultural relics protection, archaeological excavation, cultural relics collection, exhibition education, academic research and cultural tourism. It is also a patriotic education base, a popular science education base and a national defense education base in Yunnan Province. It is a national second-class museum and won the title of National Youth Civilization.
What are the tourist attractions in Chuxiong?
Wei Chu's tourist attractions include World Dinosaur Valley, Lion Mountain in Wuding, Chuxiong Museum, Yuanmou Tulin and Yuanmou Man Museum.
World Dinosaur Valley: Located 23 kilometers south of Lufeng County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, it is a national AAAA-level scenic spot, the overlord of Jurassic era and the lost dinosaur kingdom. The ticket price is around 35 yuan.
Wuding Lion Mountain: Located in the Lion Mountain Scenic Area in Wuding County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, it is a national AAAA-level scenic spot with deep valleys and lush trees. The ticket price is around 40 yuan.
Guanglu Ancient Town in Yao 'an: Guanglu Ancient Town is located in the north of Yao 'an County, which is 12km away from the county. It has a long history and profound cultural heritage. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (BC 109), Dongnong County was established, and the city site is now Guanglu Guzhen Village.
Chuxiong Museum: Chuxiong Museum is located outside the south gate of Chuxiong City, covering an area of nearly 60 mu, with a total construction area of11200m2. There are 7 exhibition halls, including sorting hall, paleontology hall, historical relics hall, national museum, 0 Chuxiong local party history hall, painting and calligraphy hall, and animal and plant specimen hall, and 12 exhibition rooms, covering an area of more than 7,000 square meters, exhibiting more than 8,400 pieces of various cultural relics.
Yuanmou soil forest: As soon as you step into Yuanmou soil forest, all kinds of shapes seem to make people enter another novel world. The mixed distribution of various forms of soil columns makes the soil forest form a colorful and endless posture, which is amazing.
Yuanmou Man Museum: Yuanmou Man was the ancestor of human history in China 6.5438+0.7 million years ago. 1987 10 The "Yuanmou Man Exhibition Hall" with a total area of 980 square meters is open to the public. The museum collects more than 600 historical materials and cultural relics, and receives 65,438+million domestic and foreign tourists every year.