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What places of interest are there in Henan?
Yin Ruins in Anyang 1

Yin Ruins, formerly known as "Northern Mongolia", is the capital site of China in the late Shang Dynasty, located in Anyang City, Henan Province.

At the beginning of 20th century, Yin Ruins were famous for the excavation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. 1928 started the archaeological excavation of Yin Ruins, and unearthed a large number of architectural sites in the capital city and rich cultural remains represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronzes, which systematically displayed the splendid bronze civilization in the late Shang Dynasty in China and established the scientific status of Yin Shang society as a history of trust.

Yin Ruins is the first capital city in China recorded and confirmed by archaeology and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. It consists of Yin Ruins Tomb Site, Yin Ruins Palace Temple Site and Huanbei Mall Site.

2. Yuntaishan Geopark, Henan Province

Yuntaishan World Geopark is located in the southern foot of Taihang Mountain and the north of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, with an area of about 556 square kilometers. It is a comprehensive geological park with rift structure, hydrodynamic action and geological landscape as the main body, supplemented by natural ecology and human landscape, and integrating scientific value and aesthetic value.

Yuntaishan World Geopark is a world geopark, a national AAAAA tourist attraction, the northern boundary of China's special vegetation, and the highest latitude macaque reserve.

3. Longmen grottoes

Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasures of stone carving art in China. It is now a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. It is located in Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain on both sides of the Yihe River in Luolong District, Luoyang City, Henan Province.

The Longmen Grottoes were dug in the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and after more than 400 years of large-scale construction in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the length from north to south was 1 km. Today, there are 2,345 grottoes, more than 654.38 million statues and more than 2,800 inscriptions.

4. Luoyang Baima Temple

Baima Temple is located in Baima Temple Town, Luolong District, east 12km of the old city of Luoyang City, Henan Province. The world-famous Galand, the first ancient temple in China, which was built in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 68), is the first official temple built after Buddhism was introduced into China. It is known as the "ancestral temple" and "source of Buddhism in China, with a history of 1900 years.

196 1 year, the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC) announced that Baima Temple was the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1983 was identified as the key temple of Chinese Buddhism in the State Council. 200 1, 1, Baima Temple was named as the first AAAA scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration.

5. Yangshao Village Site

Yangshao Cultural Site is located in Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, 9 kilometers away from the county seat. The factory site is adjacent to Shao Feng in the north, surrounded by water on three sides, with pleasant scenery, beautiful landscapes and fertile land. It is an ideal place for our ancestors to hunt, fish, graze and settle down.

The site is more than 900 meters long from northeast to southwest and 300 meters wide from northwest to southeast, with a total area of about 300,000 square meters. The cultural layer is 2 ~ 4 meters thick, which shows that our ancestors lived here for a long time.