Yueyang County Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Yueyang Museum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Changsha to Yueyang One-Day Trip
Really had so much fun!|||Changsha🚊Yueyang One-Day Trip was really a blast! Changsha is so close to Yueyang! A 23.5r train ride and just over an hour later, you're there! Not tiring at all even after a full day of fun!
📍Dongting Lake Scenic Area
Arrived at Yueyang Station at 8:00am
Took a taxi to Yueyang Museum only to find it hadn't opened yet! So I took a stroll around Dongting Lake nearby. The lake is especially peaceful in the morning! The cool breeze and the fresh air, accompanied by the chirping of birds, were delightful. Many people were jogging around the lake🏃
📍Yueyang Museum
Opens at 9:00am, no admission fee, no reservation needed
Yueyang Museum is a microcosm of the city's culture! When I went there, I saw kindergarten kids on a field trip, and some were even recording explanatory videos inside. The venue is quite small, and you can finish browsing in no time!
📍Shengguan Temple
10:30 am, student ticket 10r
Arrived at Shengguan Temple, which was very quiet in the morning with few visitors. As soon as you enter the temple, you can smell the incense and hear the monks chanting. The monks were also sweeping and offering incense...
If you want to pray, you can go directly into the various halls. The commercial atmosphere is not very strong, it feels ancient, and the monks are very devout.
The architecture inside is beautiful and well-designed, great for taking photos!
In a short while, you can climb to the top of the hill to see the ancient pagoda. To go to the top of the pagoda, you need to spend another 10r, but even without climbing it, you can see the whole cityscape of Yueyang!
📍Yueyang Tower
Arrived at Yueyang Tower at 12:00am
There are many snack streets near Yueyang Tower, perfect for lunch!
Student ticket 35r
Yueyang Tower is really stamp-collector friendly! Visitors can bring a small notebook, as there are many stamping stations set up throughout the scenic area, all for free🆓🆓🆓!!! I stamped half a notebook in one afternoon! Following the stamping stations, you can visit all the scenic spots!
Walking inside, you can truly experience the prose of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower.' Being there completes a perfect loop with the text!
The scenes described as 'glittering light and tranquil shadows' and 'embracing distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, vast and boundless' are right before your eyes!
Climbing Yueyang Tower, you might as well open the full text of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' and compare the scenery with the descriptions in the prose!
📍Bianhe Street—Baling Square—Dongting Lake
At 3:00pm, you can stroll through these three spots, all very close to Yueyang Tower, just a few hundred meters walk🚶.
Bianhe Street is a snack street where you can grab a bite.
Baling Square features a sculpture of Hou Yi shooting the sun.
Finally, you can wait for the sunset around Dongting Lake!
The lakeside is muddy, but the sunset is uniquely beautiful every day!
Make sure to walk to the lakeside for a check-in!
'Although Yueyang is a small city, it has a quiet and strong cultural atmosphere with less commercial vibe! You definitely shouldn't miss Yueyang
WandererInTransit
Winter Travel Guide|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower
|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower.
Yueyang, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake||Land of fish and rice
🗺Travel route:
Yueyang Tower, Bianhe Street, Baling Square, Dongting Lake South Lake Scenic Area, Yueyang Museum, Jinyi Mountain Park
✅Yueyang Tower
🎫Ticket ¥70, can be purchased online, if you need a paper ticket, you need to use your ID to buy a ticket
🎈Yueyang Tower is right by Dongting Lake, standing on Yueyang Tower, you can also feel the vastness of Dongting Lake, the hundreds of boats competing, it is really shocking
🔥Fan Zhongyan actually never went to Yueyang Tower, 'Yueyang Tower' is based on his friend Teng Zijing's renovation of Yueyang Tower after he was exiled to Baling County (now Yueyang), and a 'Request for Records' and a 'Dongting Late Autumn Picture' sent to him. Just based on a painting, he was able to write such a majestic poem and connect it with the concern for the country and the people, we are really shocked!
🍃Don't ignore the deep cultural charm of Yueyang Tower and the city of Yueyang
✅Bianhe Street
Folk commercial street, similar to many cities' folk streets, such as Beijing's Nanluoguxiang, Changsha's Taiping Street, etc., there are many restaurants
✅Baling Square
After visiting Yueyang Tower, you can see a huge statue of 'Houyi Shooting the Bashe' in the square from Zhan Yue Gate, which is very attractive. Unfortunately, it was foggy when we went, otherwise it would be a beautiful thing to watch the sunrise and sunset in this square on a clear day.
✅Hunan Yueyang Dongting Lake Tourist Resort (South Lake Scenic Area)
🍃Free, the scenic area is very large, it took an hour to tour the entire scenic area by sightseeing car (¥30/person), the scenery along the way is really beautiful: lush forests, plum blossoms blooming alone in the cold, egrets flying over the lake, the boundless lake is like the sea......
👍The master of the sightseeing car is a local, and he explained many stories we didn't know about along the way for free.
🍃We also took a boat at Nanjin Ancient Ferry, ¥59/person for 40 minutes, it is not recommended to go if the weather is bad.
✅Yueyang Museum
🍃Free, you can learn about the development history and folk customs of Yueyang through various exhibits, but some of the collections were on display in museums in other cities when we went
✅Jinyi Mountain Park
🍃Free, the park is also very large, very good for taking pictures📷
As soon as you enter, it is Wenchang Pavilion.
lyriana_7992
Yueyang Tower Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Dongting is known for its waters far and wide, as Yueyang Tower is for its height
The renowned Yueyang Tower, located on Dongting North Road in the Yueyang Tower District of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, stands atop the western gate wall of the ancient city of Yueyang, adjacent to Dongting Lake, overlooking the lake to the south and Junshan Island to the front. It was first constructed in the 20th year of Jian'an during the Eastern Han Dynasty (215 AD), and has been repeatedly renovated throughout the dynasties. The current structure follows the form and layout from its reconstruction in the 6th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1880 AD). The tower gained its fame from the 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' written by Fan Zhongyan, a friend of Teng Zongliang who renovated the tower during the Northern Song Dynasty. It has since been celebrated with the saying, 'Dongting for its waters, Yueyang for its tower,' and is listed among the 'Three Great Towers in the south of the Yangtze River' alongside the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei, and the Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi. It is one of the 'Top Ten Historic and Cultural Towers in China,' one of the four great ancient towers, and is known as 'the foremost tower under heaven.'
🏮The main building of Yueyang Tower is rectangular, 19.42 meters high, 14.54 meters deep, and 17.42 meters wide. It is a three-story structure with four pillars, flying eaves, a helmet-shaped roof, and a pure wooden frame. The four nanmu golden pillars in the center of the tower reach straight to the top, surrounded by corridors, beams, rafters, and purlins that interlock to form a whole. The roof is covered with glazed yellow tiles, giving it a solemn and grand appearance. The first floor of Yueyang Tower houses a carved screen of the 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' along with poetry, couplets, and carvings; the second floor features a purple sandalwood carved screen with the 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' written by Qing Dynasty calligrapher Zhang Zhao; the third floor displays a carved screen of Mao Zedong's handwritten poem 'Ascending Yueyang Tower' by Du Fu, and the eaves columns are adorned with the couplet 'Water and sky blend in one color, wind and moon are boundless,' written by 'Changgeng Li Bai,' offering significant aesthetic value. As the only one of the three great towers to maintain its original structure, Yueyang Tower's unique helmet-shaped roof reflects the ingenuity of the ancient working people and the exquisite design skills of skilled craftsmen.
🏮In January 1988, Yueyang Tower was announced by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units; in August of the same year, it was listed as a national key scenic spot. On January 30, 2005, Yueyang Tower was selected as one of Hunan's top ten cultural heritages. In September 2011, Yueyang Tower Scenic Area was officially approved by the National Tourist Attraction Quality Grade Evaluation Committee as a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.
🎫Ticket: Yueyang Culture and Tourism Company
🎫Adult ticket: 70 yuan
🎫Discounted ticket for seniors and students: 35 yuan
🎫The above tickets do not include night visits; for night tickets or free admission, please refer to the announcements made by the scenic area
🈺️Business hours: 07:00-18:00
🕐Recommended duration of visit: 3h
📇Address: No. 60, Dongting North Road, Yueyang Tower District, Yueyang City, Hunan Province
cloyingbrianna
Yueyang Tower
Yueyang Tower, known as 'Dongting the world's water, Yueyang the world's tower', stands alongside Hubei Wuhan's Yellow Crane Tower and Jiangxi Nanchang's Tengwang Pavilion as one of the 'Three Great Towers of the South of the Yangtze'. It is one of the 'Top Ten Famous Historic & Cultural Towers in China', and one of the ancient Four Great Towers, acclaimed as 'the foremost tower under heaven'.
LAILA TYLER
Changsha to Yueyang One-Day Trip
Really had so much fun!|||Changsha🚊Yueyang One-Day Trip was really a blast! Changsha is so close to Yueyang! A 23.5r train ride and just over an hour later, you're there! Not tiring at all even after a full day of fun!
📍Dongting Lake Scenic Area
Arrived at Yueyang Station at 8:00am
Took a taxi to Yueyang Museum only to find it hadn't opened yet! So I took a stroll around Dongting Lake nearby. The lake is especially peaceful in the morning! The cool breeze and the fresh air, accompanied by the chirping of birds, were delightful. Many people were jogging around the lake🏃
📍Yueyang Museum
Opens at 9:00am, no admission fee, no reservation needed
Yueyang Museum is a microcosm of the city's culture! When I went there, I saw kindergarten kids on a field trip, and some were even recording explanatory videos inside. The venue is quite small, and you can finish browsing in no time!
📍Shengguan Temple
10:30 am, student ticket 10r
Arrived at Shengguan Temple, which was very quiet in the morning with few visitors. As soon as you enter the temple, you can smell the incense and hear the monks chanting. The monks were also sweeping and offering incense...
If you want to pray, you can go directly into the various halls. The commercial atmosphere is not very strong, it feels ancient, and the monks are very devout.
The architecture inside is beautiful and well-designed, great for taking photos!
In a short while, you can climb to the top of the hill to see the ancient pagoda. To go to the top of the pagoda, you need to spend another 10r, but even without climbing it, you can see the whole cityscape of Yueyang!
📍Yueyang Tower
Arrived at Yueyang Tower at 12:00am
There are many snack streets near Yueyang Tower, perfect for lunch!
Student ticket 35r
Yueyang Tower is really stamp-collector friendly! Visitors can bring a small notebook, as there are many stamping stations set up throughout the scenic area, all for free🆓🆓🆓!!! I stamped half a notebook in one afternoon! Following the stamping stations, you can visit all the scenic spots!
Walking inside, you can truly experience the prose of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower.' Being there completes a perfect loop with the text!
The scenes described as 'glittering light and tranquil shadows' and 'embracing distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, vast and boundless' are right before your eyes!
Climbing Yueyang Tower, you might as well open the full text of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' and compare the scenery with the descriptions in the prose!
📍Bianhe Street—Baling Square—Dongting Lake
At 3:00pm, you can stroll through these three spots, all very close to Yueyang Tower, just a few hundred meters walk🚶.
Bianhe Street is a snack street where you can grab a bite.
Baling Square features a sculpture of Hou Yi shooting the sun.
Finally, you can wait for the sunset around Dongting Lake!
The lakeside is muddy, but the sunset is uniquely beautiful every day!
Make sure to walk to the lakeside for a check-in!
'Although Yueyang is a small city, it has a quiet and strong cultural atmosphere with less commercial vibe! You definitely shouldn't miss Yueyang
WandererInTransit
Yueyang Tower One-Day Tour Babysitter-Level Guide
1️⃣ Yueyang Tower 💰Full price 70r, student ticket 35r
The scenic area is not large, and it takes about two hours to visit the whole area. It is recommended to come in the evening when you can see the sunset🌅.
Known as the "foremost tower under heaven," it stands alongside Hubei's Yellow Crane Tower and Jiangxi's Tengwang Pavilion as one of the "three great towers in the south of the Yangtze River." Besides Yueyang Tower, there are also Huai Fu Pavilion, Shuang Gong Temple, Xiao Qiao's Tomb, and more.
2️⃣ Bianhe Street 💰Free
Right outside Yueyang Tower is this food street where you can find local Yueyang delicacies such as top cake, sugar oil glutinous rice cake, and stinky tofu, but some food items are slightly overpriced, with stinky tofu costing 15r for seven pieces.
❌ Not recommended: Mao Ge Stinky Tofu (tasteless, long queue time)
⭕ Recommended: San Da Pao (glutinous rice balls with soybean flour and brown sugar), Top Cake (the old man's stall at the entrance of Bianhe Street is delicious), baked sesame seed cake, Huogongdian Stinky Tofu (15r per serving, but tastes good)
3️⃣ Baling Square 💰Free
The statue of "Hou Yi Slaying the Ba Snake" stands in the center of the square, with many small vendors around, allowing for a close view of Dongting Lake.
4️⃣ Dongting Lake 💰Free
Dongting Lake has been known since ancient times as the leader of the five lakes and is the largest river-connected lake in China in terms of water volume. Dongting Lake is close to Yueyang Tower, Bianhe Street, and Baling Square. The sunset reflected on the lake with a gentle breeze is perfect for a lakeside walk.
It is highly recommended to bring your own stamp book, as there are many stamping points inside Yueyang Tower, so don't miss out.
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Dongting Lake Tourism and Resorts Zone Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Changsha to Yueyang One-Day Trip
Really had so much fun!|||Changsha🚊Yueyang One-Day Trip was really a blast! Changsha is so close to Yueyang! A 23.5r train ride and just over an hour later, you're there! Not tiring at all even after a full day of fun!
📍Dongting Lake Scenic Area
Arrived at Yueyang Station at 8:00am
Took a taxi to Yueyang Museum only to find it hadn't opened yet! So I took a stroll around Dongting Lake nearby. The lake is especially peaceful in the morning! The cool breeze and the fresh air, accompanied by the chirping of birds, were delightful. Many people were jogging around the lake🏃
📍Yueyang Museum
Opens at 9:00am, no admission fee, no reservation needed
Yueyang Museum is a microcosm of the city's culture! When I went there, I saw kindergarten kids on a field trip, and some were even recording explanatory videos inside. The venue is quite small, and you can finish browsing in no time!
📍Shengguan Temple
10:30 am, student ticket 10r
Arrived at Shengguan Temple, which was very quiet in the morning with few visitors. As soon as you enter the temple, you can smell the incense and hear the monks chanting. The monks were also sweeping and offering incense...
If you want to pray, you can go directly into the various halls. The commercial atmosphere is not very strong, it feels ancient, and the monks are very devout.
The architecture inside is beautiful and well-designed, great for taking photos!
In a short while, you can climb to the top of the hill to see the ancient pagoda. To go to the top of the pagoda, you need to spend another 10r, but even without climbing it, you can see the whole cityscape of Yueyang!
📍Yueyang Tower
Arrived at Yueyang Tower at 12:00am
There are many snack streets near Yueyang Tower, perfect for lunch!
Student ticket 35r
Yueyang Tower is really stamp-collector friendly! Visitors can bring a small notebook, as there are many stamping stations set up throughout the scenic area, all for free🆓🆓🆓!!! I stamped half a notebook in one afternoon! Following the stamping stations, you can visit all the scenic spots!
Walking inside, you can truly experience the prose of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower.' Being there completes a perfect loop with the text!
The scenes described as 'glittering light and tranquil shadows' and 'embracing distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, vast and boundless' are right before your eyes!
Climbing Yueyang Tower, you might as well open the full text of 'Memorial to Yueyang Tower' and compare the scenery with the descriptions in the prose!
📍Bianhe Street—Baling Square—Dongting Lake
At 3:00pm, you can stroll through these three spots, all very close to Yueyang Tower, just a few hundred meters walk🚶.
Bianhe Street is a snack street where you can grab a bite.
Baling Square features a sculpture of Hou Yi shooting the sun.
Finally, you can wait for the sunset around Dongting Lake!
The lakeside is muddy, but the sunset is uniquely beautiful every day!
Make sure to walk to the lakeside for a check-in!
'Although Yueyang is a small city, it has a quiet and strong cultural atmosphere with less commercial vibe! You definitely shouldn't miss Yueyang
WandererInTransit
Beside Dongting Lake - Bird Watching!!
Enjoy the scenery and bird watching in the great prairie of Dongting Lake
Head to the great prairie of Dongting Lake in Yueyang to enjoy the scenery and bird watching. There is a self-discharging gate at the connection between the west bank of Dongting Lake and Huarong River, named Liu Men Gate. Because this gate has six gates lined up in a row, it gradually became a well-known landmark on the shore of Dongting Lake. Here in winter, there are still endless green grass and reeds, as well as various migratory birds overwintering, with a walking distance of 8 kilometers.
DIYGenius
Winter Travel Guide|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower
|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower.
Yueyang, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake||Land of fish and rice
🗺Travel route:
Yueyang Tower, Bianhe Street, Baling Square, Dongting Lake South Lake Scenic Area, Yueyang Museum, Jinyi Mountain Park
✅Yueyang Tower
🎫Ticket ¥70, can be purchased online, if you need a paper ticket, you need to use your ID to buy a ticket
🎈Yueyang Tower is right by Dongting Lake, standing on Yueyang Tower, you can also feel the vastness of Dongting Lake, the hundreds of boats competing, it is really shocking
🔥Fan Zhongyan actually never went to Yueyang Tower, 'Yueyang Tower' is based on his friend Teng Zijing's renovation of Yueyang Tower after he was exiled to Baling County (now Yueyang), and a 'Request for Records' and a 'Dongting Late Autumn Picture' sent to him. Just based on a painting, he was able to write such a majestic poem and connect it with the concern for the country and the people, we are really shocked!
🍃Don't ignore the deep cultural charm of Yueyang Tower and the city of Yueyang
✅Bianhe Street
Folk commercial street, similar to many cities' folk streets, such as Beijing's Nanluoguxiang, Changsha's Taiping Street, etc., there are many restaurants
✅Baling Square
After visiting Yueyang Tower, you can see a huge statue of 'Houyi Shooting the Bashe' in the square from Zhan Yue Gate, which is very attractive. Unfortunately, it was foggy when we went, otherwise it would be a beautiful thing to watch the sunrise and sunset in this square on a clear day.
✅Hunan Yueyang Dongting Lake Tourist Resort (South Lake Scenic Area)
🍃Free, the scenic area is very large, it took an hour to tour the entire scenic area by sightseeing car (¥30/person), the scenery along the way is really beautiful: lush forests, plum blossoms blooming alone in the cold, egrets flying over the lake, the boundless lake is like the sea......
👍The master of the sightseeing car is a local, and he explained many stories we didn't know about along the way for free.
🍃We also took a boat at Nanjin Ancient Ferry, ¥59/person for 40 minutes, it is not recommended to go if the weather is bad.
✅Yueyang Museum
🍃Free, you can learn about the development history and folk customs of Yueyang through various exhibits, but some of the collections were on display in museums in other cities when we went
✅Jinyi Mountain Park
🍃Free, the park is also very large, very good for taking pictures📷
As soon as you enter, it is Wenchang Pavilion.
lyriana_7992
Baling Square Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Winter Travel Guide|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower
|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower.
Yueyang, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake||Land of fish and rice
🗺Travel route:
Yueyang Tower, Bianhe Street, Baling Square, Dongting Lake South Lake Scenic Area, Yueyang Museum, Jinyi Mountain Park
✅Yueyang Tower
🎫Ticket ¥70, can be purchased online, if you need a paper ticket, you need to use your ID to buy a ticket
🎈Yueyang Tower is right by Dongting Lake, standing on Yueyang Tower, you can also feel the vastness of Dongting Lake, the hundreds of boats competing, it is really shocking
🔥Fan Zhongyan actually never went to Yueyang Tower, 'Yueyang Tower' is based on his friend Teng Zijing's renovation of Yueyang Tower after he was exiled to Baling County (now Yueyang), and a 'Request for Records' and a 'Dongting Late Autumn Picture' sent to him. Just based on a painting, he was able to write such a majestic poem and connect it with the concern for the country and the people, we are really shocked!
🍃Don't ignore the deep cultural charm of Yueyang Tower and the city of Yueyang
✅Bianhe Street
Folk commercial street, similar to many cities' folk streets, such as Beijing's Nanluoguxiang, Changsha's Taiping Street, etc., there are many restaurants
✅Baling Square
After visiting Yueyang Tower, you can see a huge statue of 'Houyi Shooting the Bashe' in the square from Zhan Yue Gate, which is very attractive. Unfortunately, it was foggy when we went, otherwise it would be a beautiful thing to watch the sunrise and sunset in this square on a clear day.
✅Hunan Yueyang Dongting Lake Tourist Resort (South Lake Scenic Area)
🍃Free, the scenic area is very large, it took an hour to tour the entire scenic area by sightseeing car (¥30/person), the scenery along the way is really beautiful: lush forests, plum blossoms blooming alone in the cold, egrets flying over the lake, the boundless lake is like the sea......
👍The master of the sightseeing car is a local, and he explained many stories we didn't know about along the way for free.
🍃We also took a boat at Nanjin Ancient Ferry, ¥59/person for 40 minutes, it is not recommended to go if the weather is bad.
✅Yueyang Museum
🍃Free, you can learn about the development history and folk customs of Yueyang through various exhibits, but some of the collections were on display in museums in other cities when we went
✅Jinyi Mountain Park
🍃Free, the park is also very large, very good for taking pictures📷
As soon as you enter, it is Wenchang Pavilion.
lyriana_7992
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