Top 10 Best Things to Do in Chengde

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城市中的小亮点

The Emperor-Led Team Building Project—Mulan Autumn Hunt at the Mountain Resort The Emperor Leads Team Building A trip to Chengde is essentially a journey revisiting the emperors' team building activities. If we remove the historical context and simply look at the Qing emperors' attitudes towards the Mountain Resort and the Mulan Autumn Hunt, we understand that this was a purposeful, strategic, and practical team building activity. 1. The Mountain Resort was not as important as Chengde locals portrayed it, not even exaggerating its status as a secondary capital in Qing Dynasty history. The Mountain Resort was simply a team building base, albeit one with historical significance, psychological, ethnic, and religious considerations. The main activity of this team building event was the Mulan Autumn Hunt—a popular activity in ancient times. The main participants were: Manchu nobles, Han Chinese scholar-officials, and Mongol princes. The main purpose of this team building event was to foster unity and reconcile conflicts between internal and external forces within the dynasty.

Anonymous user

Cultural sites leave us with historical imprints, and the gilded tiles of the Little Potala Palace are awe-inspiring, highlighting the weakness of a nation that can't even protect its own treasures! The tourism regulations regarding fire prevention at the Little Potala Palace are played on repeat, and the background music during the tour is a bit unbearable. I don't understand it, but I respect it!

我爱安安公主

It's a performance worth watching. The latest stage technology is used and the scale is large. However, it is located in the mountains and it is an open-air performance. It will be a bit cold if you go to see it during the National Day holiday, so it is recommended to wear more clothes.

秋儿的足迹

During holidays, we don't take the cable car unless we're with elderly people. We waited almost an hour for it, even though walking up wouldn't take that long. A one-way cable car ride up the mountain is fine; taking the cable car back means walking back, which is unnecessary. The downhill walk is much easier.

_ZF***93

The Eight Outer Temples are actually an abbreviation for the Eight Temples Outside the Pass. Puning Temple was the first temple built by Emperor Qianlong after his ascension to the throne (Puning, as the name suggests, means "universal peace"). Putuo Zongcheng Temple was the last temple he built. This is the only one of the Eight Outer Temples managed by the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau (Lama); the others are managed by the Cultural Relics Bureau. A must-see here is the Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Eyed Guanyin Bodhisattva (the world's largest existing gilded wooden standing Buddha statue). Emperor Qianlong liked to erect steles. The steles describe the background of the temple's construction, and the steles even use puns, with money and dragon patterns carved at the bottom. I heard a story from Director Wang that made me realize Emperor Qianlong was a person of extremely high emotional intelligence. When asked if the use of Chinese characters on the back of the steles was because Chinese was considered inferior to Manchu, Qianlong replied, "No, it's precisely because the Chinese language of the Central Plains is so profound that the back is written as a backing for the Manchu script." (This is anecdotal and not even historical; just something I heard.)

M60***67

Hiking enthusiasts can enter through the South Gate and reach Toad Rock in about 40 minutes. From there, you can reach Qingchui Peak in less than half an hour, then take the cable car down from the North Gate. I saw a relaxing little orange cub at the Toad Rock Observation Deck.

M66***28

Autumn in Yudaokou is like nature overturning its palette. Golden leaves, fiery red maple leaves, and emerald green pines and cypresses interweave into a brilliant and colorful painting.

不乐不归

It's a great attraction, but not many people are there. Not many of the Outer Eight Temples are open to the public at the moment. The main ones that can be visited are Putuo Zongcheng Temple, Xumi Fushou Temple, Puning Temple and Anyuan Temple.