1, tour route
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is located in Yingxian City, Shanxi Province. Usually it's go on road trip or traveling with a group. It is a must-see attraction of Datong tourist route. It takes about 40 minutes to an hour from joining a group to a tourist, which is enough for ordinary tourists. However, for those who like history and ancient buildings and want to savor this Millennium wooden tower, it is best to travel by yourself.
2. Understand the history of the wooden tower.
The wooden pagoda was built in A.D. 1056, which was the second year of Qing Ning in Liao Dynasty, when Liao Dynasty was in the same period as Jin Song Dynasty. Yingxian County is the border of Liao and Song Dynasties, and the famous Yang Jiajiang story happened in this area for dozens of kilometers. Liao built this tower, first to worship the religious belief of Buddha's tooth relic, second to show off its strength to other countries, and another important thing is its military function. Due to the huge project, it took 140 years to complete the construction, and four years have passed since all the additions and repairs were completed.
3. The focus of tourism
The wooden archway gate was built in the Qing Dynasty, and four pillars hung on the top of the mountain on the third floor. There are 2-meter-long and 0.5-meter-wide black and blue horizontal plaques on both sides of the wooden archway. The front is the "Futu Treasure Hall", and the back is the book written by Fu Suo in Yingzhou in the sixth year of Kangxi (AD 1667).
Yingxian specialty food recommendation:
1, Yingxian bean jelly
Yingxian bean jelly is made of potato starch. It is a kind of local snacks with unique flavor. There are four seasons stalls on the street. Every summer, there are many bean jelly stalls, and streets and alleys abound.
2. Yingxian rice noodles
Yingxian dough is a common delicacy made of pure white flour, and it is a rare natural green food suitable for all seasons.
3. Yingxian beef brisket
Beef loin in Yingxian County, a traditional snack in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, belongs to pasta. It is a kind of Yingxian cuisine that originated in the middle of Qing Dynasty. Its color is like coffee, soft and sweet. According to legend, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was a restaurant shopkeeper named Yu Yi in Yingxian County. He mixed white flour and syrup, kneaded them into small cakes, fried them in a frying pan with fried dough sticks, and fished them out to eat. The taste is sweet and moist, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it is. The color is very similar to that of cooked beef loin, so it is named Yingzhou beef loin.
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