Jinci Temple, located 25 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, is one of the national key cultural relics protection units. Founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was once the ancestral hall of Yuji, the second son of West Zhou Wuwang and the founding monarch of Jin State.

Jinci Temple includes dozens of classical garden-style buildings with elegant and comfortable environment and beautiful scenery. The landscape layout can be divided into three parts: the middle part, entering the gate of Jinci, starting from the water mirror platform, passing through Huixian Bridge, Jinrentai, Yue Yue Square, Bell and Drum Tower, Fairy Hall, Fish Pond Flying Beam and Notre Dame Cathedral, is the main body of Jinci; In the north, starting from Wenchang Palace, this group of buildings has ups and downs and high artistic value through Dongyue Temple, Guandi Temple, Sanqing Cave, Tang Shuyu Temple, Chaoyang Cave, Daifengxuan, Santai Pavilion, Reading Desk and Lvzu Pavilion. It starts from Yingsheng Building in the south, passes through Baihe Pavilion, Sanshen Temple, Zhenqu Pavilion, Difficult Old Pavilion and Jellyfish Building, and reaches Gongbozi Temple.

There are also statues of Nanhe girls in the shrine, which are called the three wonders of Jinci. Among them, 43 maid statues have high artistic value because of their different costumes and shapes. Jinci Temple is also a holy place for "Wang" and "Zhang" to seek roots and worship their ancestors at home and abroad.

Opening hours: 7: 30- 18: 30.

Admission: 40 yuan (half price for primary and secondary school students).

Transportation: Take bus No.804.856 from Taiyuan Railway Station (the fare is 2 yuan, and it takes about 45 minutes by car).

Changshi manor

If the Qiao Family Courtyard made the quadrangle culture in Shanxi known to Chinese people for the first time, then Changjia Manor brought the quadrangle culture to an unprecedented height.

Changjia Manor, located in Yuci District, Jinzhong City, southeast of Taiyuan City, is a private manor of Changshi family, a Shanxi businessman in Qing Dynasty. The tall castle gate is named Guo Yuanshi from west to east. There is a high wall and deep courtyard river outside the gate, and a white stone arch bridge stands at the gate. Opposite Baomen is an east-west stone street, and all the restored houses are lined up in the north of the street. Corresponding to the house, there are more than 100 acres of north-south style gardens-"Jingyuan". There are pavilions, apricot gardens and mulberry gardens in the garden. The lake freezes in winter, and apricot trees are fragrant in spring.

During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the Chang family moved from Huian in Taigu to Chelan in Yuci. After several generations' efforts, it reached its peak for 150 years after Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuan Tong and other dynasties. /kloc-In the mid-8th century, it was often found that the demand for tea in Russia and Mongolia was increasing day by day, so a "Wanli Tea Road" was opened, which started from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian, traveled to Vandory by land, water and camel, and reached Moscow as far as possible.

As a family of Confucian businessmen who insist on "learning to be an excellent official", the Chang family attaches great importance to their children's academic education. There are not only literati and scholars at home, but also famous painters and painters. In addition to the profound Confucian cultural connotation, the artistic content here is also high. Doors, window decorations, colored paintings, plaques, couplets, brick carvings, wood carvings and inscriptions on French stickers distributed in various courtyards can all be regarded as cultural products of Shanxi merchants.

Transportation: It takes 1 hour to drive from Taiyuan to the southeast to Yuci, and there are signboards on the expressway.

Admission: 60 yuan.

Tianlongshan

On the mountainside of Tianlong Mountain, 40 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City, there are 24 caves excavated in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, including works from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Among them, the Tang Grottoes in the ninth cave "Manshan Pavilion" are the most in Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, with well-preserved statues of Sakyamuni Buddha, harmonious proportion and dignified appearance, which embodies the exquisite carving skills of ancient craftsmen in China.

As Tianlong Mountain and Jinci Temple are both in the southwest of Taiyuan City, and there is a newly-built expressway connecting them, you can take these two places as a tourist route.

Transportation: After visiting Jinci Temple, take a bus at the gate, and you can reach Tianlong Mountain in about 20 minutes (note: the price should be negotiated before getting on the bus).

Admission: 20 yuan.

Chongshan Temple 4 yuan

Shuangta Temple, a famous temple in Sanjin, is located in the southeast of Taiyuan, at the southern foot of Haozhuang Village, about four kilometers away from the city center.

Chunyanggong 5 yuan

Northwest corner of Wuyi Square, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. Built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a three-story Covey Pavilion was built between Qinggan and Longlong. There are four courtyards in the palace, namely, the temple, the square single-room cloister pavilion and the Wei pavilion. There are houses and brick pits around. Lv Zu Hall is the main hall, with the width of three rooms, which is very spectacular. The two houses behind the main hall are pavilions-style buildings, which are strewn at random, winding and unique in shape. The backyard pavilion is the highest, and the scenery in the city is vivid. The front yard is also a pavilion-style building, with square corners on the plane and octagonal pavilions at the four corners to enhance elegance. After liberation, rockeries were added and 20 pavilions and stone tablets were built, which have now become two museums in Shanxi Province.

Tianlongshan 15 yuan

Tianlong Mountain, formerly known as Fangshan, is a branch of Luliang Mountain, with an altitude of 1700 meters. Located 36 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, it is 4 kilometers away from Jinci Scenic Area/kloc-0. It is connected by a dedicated road. Tianlong Mountain has beautiful peaks and hills, covered with pine and cypress, cool climate, gurgling streams and springs. As early as Gao Huan in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Summer Palace was built, and Tianlong Temple was built in Levin in the Northern Qi Dynasty, all of which were grottoes. The mountain is named after the temple, which is famous for its caves. From then on, Tianlong Mountain became famous.

Shuangta Temple 10 yuan

Shuangta Temple, a famous temple in Sanjin, is located in the southeast of Taiyuan, at the southern foot of Haozhuang Village, about four kilometers away from the city center. Here, there are green trees and red walls, Buddhist pagodas and Vatican halls, exquisite Buddhist niches, comb-shaped stone tablets, fragrant flowers, verdant pines and cypresses, which are solemn and antique.

Fenhe Park

Fenhe Park is a large-scale urban ecological landscape park located in the center of Taiyuan. The first phase of the project was completed on June, 2000 198 with a total investment of 560 million yuan. It is a landscape park with the northern garden style of China and the regional culture of Fenhe River in Taiyuan. It is 6 kilometers long, 500 meters wide and covers an area of 300 hectares, forming a water surface1300,000 square meters, 65,438. At the same time, it is also a water storage beautification project in Fenhe section of Taiyuan City. The artificial composite river channel is divided into east and west rivers. The Qinghe River channel on the east side is 220 meters wide and divided into three-level water storage lakes by four rubber dams. The muddy water channel on the west side is 80 meters wide, discharging upstream flood and reservoir irrigation water. Box-shaped sewage culverts are arranged on the east and west banks to receive water from urban sewage pipelines and side mountain branches and send them to downstream sewage treatment plants for purification.

wujin mountain

There is a Wujin Mountain in the eastern suburb of Taiyuan 10 km, and it is adjacent to Hanshan Mountain in the north. Now it is a national forest park, but there are ten national forest parks among Taiyuan citizens, but nine out of ten Taiyuan citizens don't know that there is such a good place next to Taiyuan.

Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi, the distribution center of tourism and the epitome of modern Shanxi. This area is located in Shanxi Plateau, north to the northern end of Taiyuan Basin, east to the west of Taihang Mountain, west to the bank of Yellow River and south to Linfen area. Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Lvliang and Yangquan are humanistic landscape tourist areas with many tourist spots in Fenhe River Basin as the main body.

The distribution of tourist spots is centered on Taiyuan and spreads around along railways and highways. Among them, the two banks of Fenhe River and the surrounding mountains extending southwest along the south Tongpu line form the scenic spots with the highest tourism value.

The elite tourist attractions here are:

Jinci classical garden, its architecture and statues in Song Dynasty are particularly precious;

Tianlongshan Buddhist Grottoes, whose stone statues are rare masterpieces in the Central Plains;

Longshan Taoist Grottoes, the only Taoist Grottoes in Yuan Dynasty in China;

Shuangta Temple, the Twin Towers, has become a symbol of Taiyuan.

Jiaocheng Xuanzhong Temple, the ancestral home of Buddhism Pure Land Sect;

Pangquangou National Nature Reserve in the northwest of Jiaocheng is a well-preserved green treasure house on the Loess Plateau.

Fangshan county North Wudang Mountain is a national scenic spot, which is breathtaking, dangerous, strange and beautiful.

Yuci Town God Temple is one of the oldest Town God temples in Shanxi Province.

Pingyao Ancient City is one of the three complete cities in China.

There are thousands of colored sculptures in Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao, which is a rare five-generation original in China.

Niangziguan, where Yangquan settled, is a famous pass where Princess Pingyang was stationed in the Tang Dynasty.

Xiyang Dazhai was once famous in the history of modern rural development;

Fenyang's Xinghua Village Fenjiu Factory is a famous Fenjiu town.

Qiaojiabao Folk Museum in Qixian County has turned the former residence of Shanxi merchants into a scenic spot to show Jinzhong folk customs. You can go to the Shanxi Provincial Museum in the downtown area, just in the downtown area, and the Fen River is worth seeing. If time is loose, you can go to Taiyuan, Qiao Family Courtyard in Qixian County and Pingyao Ancient City. According to Taiyuan, the traffic is very convenient. When you say home, you should be in the city, right Jinci is not in the city, so it should be far away from there. Jinci Temple can be reached in Jinyuan District in 40 minutes.