The total area exceeds 150 square kilometers, the highest altitude exceeds 1700 meters, and the lowest place falls only about 300 meters. It is the highest peak of the South Taihang Mountain, with beautiful scenery and charming scenery. The sea of clouds, sunrise, Qifeng, Songtao, wall-hung highway, Hongyan Grand Canyon and three-dimensional waterfall here constitute the most famous natural landscape in the 800-mile Taihang Mountain, and are known as "cool holy land", "summer paradise", "Xanadu" and "Supreme Taihang Mountain". Standing on the sea of clouds in Wangmang Ridge at sunrise, people look at the strange peaks and rocks in the south of Shannan, as if they were in landscape poetry and painting.
Address: Southeast of Lingchuan County, Jincheng, Shanxi Province
Ancient buildings on the cliff of Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu
Mianshan Scenic Area is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, a key scenic spot in Shaanxi Province, the birthplace of China Tomb-Sweeping Day (Cold Food Festival), China Cold Food Qingming Culture Research Center and China Cold Food Qingming Culture Museum.
Mianshan Scenic Area spans Jiexiu, Lingshi and Qinyuan, with the highest elevation of 2560 meters, which is a branch of Taiyue Mountain. Mianshan originated in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Jin Festival pushed her mother to live in seclusion and was burned on the mountain, so Mianshan was also called Jieshan. The antique buildings in Mianshan Scenic Area have different styles. From the architectural point of view, Mianshan antique architecture not only takes the advantages of the previous generation, but also integrates the modern creativity of designers and builders, and integrates the essence of ancient and modern China, which constitutes the unique style of modern antique architecture.
Address: 20km southeast of Jiexiu City, Shanxi Province.
The three churches in Lizhai have a deep collection of folk woodcuts.
There is a Buddha statue in the Third Hall of Seven Religions in Lizhai Township, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, with Sakyamuni Buddha in the middle and Tai Shang Lao Jun and Kong Old Master Q on both sides. "Sanhui" combines three different sects, namely, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, which represents a philosophy and is the integration and complementarity of the three schools of thought.
Lizhai Township in Jincheng, Shanxi Province is a simple and elegant village. The three churches in the village can be called China Northern Woodcarving Museum. Brick carving, wood carving and stone carving in the whole hall are brilliant and eye-catching. Because tourism has not yet developed, you need to go to the village entrance to find the old farmer to open the door if you want to see the customs.
Address: East of Qijiao Village, Lizhai Township, Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province
Diaozhuang in Ningwu | Heaven built along the cliff
Ningwu Diaozhuang, a whole village is hung halfway up the mountain. From a distance, it looks like a castle in the air and a family in the sky. Streets are "plank roads" supported by upright trees and paved with logs. Stone roads and antique houses can be seen everywhere. The villagers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, leading a leisurely farming life. This village is old and quiet, but it is famous.
The house in the village is on the cliff. Most of them are two or three hundred years old. Building materials are mainly stone and wood. People walking on the plank road seem to be in the air. Surprisingly, most of these people in the mountains have small attics, with their backs on cliffs and facing the abyss. Visitors can see all the lush green plants in front of the window and the sea of clouds at the door. Standing on the floating street with a bird's eye view, the baizhang cliff is at your feet. There is gurgling water at the bottom of the ravine, and its sound is like nature. Opposite is the mountain shade, dense pine forest, covering the sky, is "and?" The day immediately enters dawn and dusk. " In Du Fu's poems.
Address: Wanghuagou Village, Qianshan Township, ningwu county, Shanxi.
Pingyao Shuanglin Temple | Unique Millennium Colored Sculpture
Shuanglin Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is one of the national key Buddhist monasteries in the Han area. The murals and sculptures in the temple are very beautiful. After thousands of years, they still maintain gorgeous colors and vivid expressions. This is a place worth visiting for people who like ancient buildings and ancient art.
Shuanglin Temple faces south, and the temple group covers an area of about 15000 square meters, which is divided into east and west parts. There is a temple courtyard in the west, which is distributed along the central axis and consists of ten main halls. The front yard is the Sakyamuni Hall, Luohan Hall, Vu Thang Hall, Earth Treasure Hall, Yamaraja Hall and Tianwang Hall; The Intermediate People's Court is the Hall of Heroes, the Hall of Thousand Buddhas and the Hall of Bodhisattva. The backyard is the Queen's Hall and Yizhen Temple. In the east, there are Buddhist temples and Confucian classrooms. (used in primary schools now). In the Ming dynasty, there was a tall rammed earth wall around the temple with arrow piles on it, which looked like a small castle.
Address: Qiaotou Village, Zhongdu Township, Pingyao County, Shanxi Province
Ningwu Wannian Ice Cave | Ice World with Constant Seasons
According to on-the-spot investigation by cave experts from Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, this cave was formed during the Cenozoic Quaternary Glacier Period, about 3 million years ago, hence the name Wannian Ice Cave.
In the east of Madigou Village, Qianshan Township, ningwu county, there is a world wonder-Wannian Ice Cave on the mountain at an altitude of 2,300 meters. It is unique in that, based on the climatic conditions outside the local cave, it is impossible to form an icy environment. The icicles in the cave do not melt all the year round, and the deeper the ice, the thicker it becomes. Especially in summer, there are green grass outside the cave, flowers are in full bloom, air conditioning inside the cave is pressing, and ice bamboo shoots stand upright. It is also the largest ice cave in China, and it is also a rare large ice cave found outside the permafrost in the world so far. Icicles, ice curtains, ice waterfalls, ice bamboo shoots, ice flowers, ice clocks, ice buddhas, ice beds, ice hangings, ice beasts and ice people are all made of ice, which are diverse and lifelike and can be called an ice world. Throughout the year, the inside of the cave remains around zero, and outside the cave are two completely different worlds.
Address: East of Madigou Village, Qianshan Township, ningwu county, Shanxi.
Mount Hengshan Hanging Temple | A Wonder of Ancient Civilization in China
Hanging Temple, a temple floating on a cliff, has no thousand tons of foundation and only a few pieces of wood to support it. After 1500 years of storms, earthquakes and other disasters, the Hanging Temple still stands tall. Seen from a distance, this hanging temple looks like a pair of exquisite reliefs embedded in the cliffs of Wan Ren.
Address: At the foot of Hengshan Mountain in the southeast suburb of hun yuan, Datong, Shanxi.
Church of the Virgin Rose | A European church with a history of one hundred years.
This Catholic Church of Our Lady of Roses is actually a church called Our Lady of Roses, which is built on a huge stone. Its architectural style is unique, and the church and the house are integrated. It is a rare castle church in China.
Daji Catholic Church is called "Church of the Virgin Rose". 19 14, funded by local official Wang tailai, was built by two Dutch priests, Father Wen and Father Ai, on a boulder in Dajixiaozhai. The most striking feature is that the castle and the church are independent of each other in the architectural structure. The castle is purely Chinese and the church is purely western. It is said that the Church of Our Lady of Roses in Daji Castle is the only well-preserved castle-style church building in western China, and it is also the largest "European-style castle building" in Shanxi Province.
Address: Xiahe Village, Daji Town, Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province
Lijia Cave in Qiaokou | Potala Palace on the Loess High Slope
Lijiashan Village, Qiaokou Town, Linxian County, Shanxi Province, is one of the three great discoveries of the famous painter Wu Guanzhong in his life. Located 3 kilometers south of Qikou Town, hidden in the depths of the mountains, it is ethereal and elegant. When the famous painter Wu Guanzhong visited Lijiashan on 1989, he exclaimed that it looked like a "Han tomb". From the outside, it looks like a desolate Han tomb. Once inside, this is a very old and exquisite cave. The ancient village is relatively closed, like an isolated peach blossom garden, bringing people into a monotonous but pure world.
Address: Lijiashan Village, Qikou Town, Linxian County, Shanxi Province
Datong soil forest | Back to the ancient world
Different from the stone forest, the soil forest changes from time to time under the shape of wind and rain, but the charm of the whole soil forest remains unchanged, which does not affect its aesthetic feeling at all. The local people call the soil forest "Shibangou".
Datong soil forest, although not as famous as Yuanmou soil forest, is lifelike, lifelike and delicate. Primitive, desolate and rough, sand ditches, barren hills and valleys constitute a wild and unique ancient world with unique natural scenery, giving people a primitive and rough beauty. Being in it is like going back to the distant past, and the attraction of nature is revealed here.
Address: Duzhuang Village, Duzhuang Township, datong county
Hongti Village | The Ancient Village on the Neon Waterfall
Nihong village is called an ancient village on the cliff by donkey friends. The rainbow waterfall flies down, and the scenery is beautiful and charming. Autumn is coming. Looking down from the cliff, there are persimmons that are delicate and charming and red, and there are stone ladders that climb up from the other side of Nihong Village. You can go down and pick them. All the houses in Nihong Village are made of local materials, with slate tiles as roofs and stones as walls. Now there are only 30 families left in the village, most of whom are old people and children.
Address: 30km east of Pingshun County, Changzhi.
Shijiagou Village is the first village in the world.
Shijiagou cave dwelling in Qing Dynasty flourished in the thirty-second year of Qianlong. According to legend, it was built after the four brothers of Shijiagou became officials. Over the past 200 years, after several generations of careful construction and expansion, a cluster and family-style building complex with a total area of over 50,000 square meters has been formed. Its architectural style has typical northern and Shanxi residential characteristics, which is divided into two parts: the main building and the auxiliary building.
Looking around, the whole building complex is naturally connected with the mountain, integrated into one, and the buildings are stacked, scattered and arranged in rows. The magnificent landscape is permeated with the masculinity of the Loess Plateau, which can be said to be a classic of mountain architecture and a model of farming and reading civilization. Its unique style in space treatment, terrain utilization, cave dwelling, architectural decoration, carving and calligraphy is unparalleled among many Shanxi merchants' luxury houses. Its construction concept is also worth learning today, and it has been recognized as the "first village in the world" for the expansion and utilization of mountain space by international ancient architecture scholars.
Address: Shijiagou Village, Sengnian Town, Fenxi County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province
Take the ancient Great Wall of Liangshan and walk in historical sites.
Located at the foot of Cai Liang Mountain, 20km east of Datong, this ancient Great Wall was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was overhauled in the Song Dynasty to resist the invasion of Liao and Jin Dynasties in the north, and it is one of the only remaining ancient Great Walls in Shanxi in the north.
Datong was occupied by the Northern Emperor in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was the representative country at the beginning of the Warring States Period, and later merged into Zhao. Here, "three faces are the most important." It is connected with the valley in the east, constant in the south, bounded by the Yellow River in the west and controlled by the desert in the north. The real screen of the capital is the guarantee of the Central Plains. "There have been more than a thousand wars here in history, known as' three generations in Beijing, two dynasties'. Standing on Mount Cai Liang, we can see the castle standing on the earth, which is very desolate. These walls, which once blocked the invasion of ethnic minorities, are now incomplete. Towers and walls can be seen everywhere in villages walking at the foot of Cai Liang Mountain, feeling the heavy history.
Address: 20km east of Datong.
Pianguan Laoniuwan |360-degree gorgeous turn
Pianguan Laoniuwan is famous for the first handshake between the Great Wall and the Yellow River here. The Yellow River is one of the top ten most beautiful canyons in China, where it dances around 360 degrees. There are thousands of walls on both sides of the valley, the river is blue, the Great Wall stands above the river bank, and the beacon tower is opposite.
Laoniuwan Castle was built in Ming Chenghua for three years (1467). Located on the cliffs of the Yellow River, it is a castle for garrison defense. Wanghe Building is well preserved so far, and it is the landmark building of Laoniuwan. The ancient village of Laoniuwan is built on the mountain, almost all of which are made of stone chips, and stone cabinets can be seen everywhere. The whole village is a classic stone architecture museum. The villagers in Laoniuwan still live a life facing the loess and facing the sky, which is simple and leisurely. The traces of time have hardly changed and are well preserved.
Address: Laoniuwan Village, Pianguan County, Xinzhou City
The whole village is a classic stone architecture museum, with piles of stones, stone mills, stone warehouses and cabinets everywhere. The villagers in Laoniuwan still live a life facing the loess and facing the sky, which is simple and leisurely. The traces of time have hardly changed and are well preserved.
Address: Laoniuwan Village, Pianguan County, Xinzhou City