Hebei doesn't promote this place, you're missing out! A one-day guide to Zhengding Ancient City
After visiting Zhengding, you'll understand what a treasure trove of an ancient city it is! Ancient temples, pagodas, and city walls, you'll be immersed in the rich architecture and historical atmosphere all day long.
🚗Transport
Three hours by car from Beijing, or one hour by high-speed train to Shijiazhuang or train to Zhengding then transfer to a bus.
Free parking is available at various scenic spots within the ancient city, which is very considerate.
You can also choose to walk between the sights, as the distances are not too far.
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🚶🏻♀️Tour Route
1️⃣Longxing Temple: A must-see! One of China's top ten famous temples, built during the Sui Dynasty, expanded in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has witnessed numerous prosperous eras, with all Buddha statues and murals exquisitely stunning.
▪️The Reclining Guanyin, hailed by Lu Xun as the "Eastern Goddess of Beauty," captivating to the point where it's hard to look away.
▪️The bronze Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Eyed Guanyin statue, over 20 meters tall, a miracle of ancient metallurgy.
▪️The bronze Vairocana Buddha, made by the order of Emperor Wanli during the Ming Dynasty, with over a thousand Buddha figures on its surface, a rare artistic treasure.
▪️The wooden Maitreya, carved from a single piece of wood during the Northern Song Dynasty.
▪️Giant murals, with walls in the Mani Hall fully painted, using lead powder and gold leaf, the colors and layers are of superior quality.
▪️The revolving sutra cabinets, wooden scripture storages from the Song Dynasty, are also the oldest existing ones.
🎫50
🕘2-3 hours
2️⃣Have lunch at Wangquan Ancient Street, with local delicacies like the Eight Great Bowls, donkey meat, covered pancakes, meatball soup, and Hele noodles.
3️⃣Rongguo House: If you like 'Dream of the Red Chamber,' you can visit here. It's quite large and includes some scenes from the 1987 TV series, but the Grand View Garden is not here.
🎫40
🕜30 minutes
4️⃣Tianning Temple: The entire structure is made of brick and wood, and the design of the central pillar of the fourth floor reaching to the sky is unique in the country.
🎫15
🕑15 minutes
5️⃣Kaiyuan Temple: Home to the largest existing Pixiu in China, and the only remaining Tang Dynasty bell tower. Also, the stone carvings of the powerful warriors at the base of the tower are worth seeing.
🎫20
🕑20 minutes
6️⃣Linji Temple: The origin of the Linji school, one of the most widely spread schools of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China.
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🕑15 minutes
7️⃣Guanghui Temple: An octagonal brick-carved, wood-structured pagoda, very exquisite, called a 'unique treasure within the seas' by Liang Sicheng.
🎫15
🕑15 minutes
(Personally, I think Kaiyuan Temple is worth entering, the others can be appreciated from a distance as well)
8️⃣Yanghe Building: Originally built during the Jin Dynasty, recently reconstructed, climbing the building offers a bird's-eye view of the ancient city's central axis. The night view is also beautiful.
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🕑15 minutes
9️⃣South City Gate: Climbing the city wall allows you to see all four pagodas in one frame. Inside the city gate, there is also a barbican.
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🕑30 minutes
Very good ancient temple of the Northern Song Dynasty, I will come here to visit if I have time to see if there are any cultural relics I like. If you study ancient buildings, it will be more interesting to feel it for yourself.
Note that this is a famous temple, tourists should not ignore it. In addition to Longxing Temple itself, there is a small yard inside, Liang Sicheng's exhibition, recording how he and Lin Huiyin have protected records during the war to organize ancient buildings, Longxing Temple also benefited from this. A 400-year-old wisteria, wisteria is not big, and the exhibition is as easy to ignore.
Just in time for the rainy day, hesitant to set off for a long time. It takes more than 40 minutes to get from the city. The ancient city is very large and it is quite difficult to walk, but there are private electric cars that can carry people, and it is not bad to pull around. The peony flowers in the back garden are blooming well.
Zhengding's most worth visiting attractions, the first of the six majors is finished, the architecture is exquisite, and the sculptures are unparalleled!
The first time I punched in Longxing Temple in Zhengding County, the experience was good. On the Lantern Festival, I went to the temple to incense with my family; it was both a holiday and the last day of the holiday, and I took the children to play for a day. The temple sells electronic incense, 30 yuan a; safe and environmentally friendly; The blessing strip is a wish for 10 yuan, and the family writes a New Year's wish and is tied to the tree. The environment in the temple is clean and tidy, and the area is not small. It takes more than an hour to stroll around. There are several temple buildings, back gardens, etc. that are still very suitable for taking pictures and taking pictures.
Longxing Temple is located on the northeast side of Zhengdingfu. The ancient complex that exceeds expectations is large in size and needs to be visited for3-4 hours. The Mani Temple with the highest existing historical, artistic and scientific value is built in the Northern Song Dynasty. The cross-shaped Moni Temple, its plane shape and architectural form are unique in the ancient Chinese temple architecture. Mr. Liang described the architectural shape of the Mani Temple in Zhengding Survey Jiluo: "The artistic chic, ancient solemnity, does make a sense of ineffable, especially in the view of the three-dimensional layout, this Mani Temple overlaps majestic, can be regarded as the best art, And in Chinese buildings, it is also a different face.” The four-sided building of the Mani Temple is not only for decoration purposes, but also for painting murals on Buddhist stories. These Ming and Qing murals have been so colorful and bright for so many years, you can imagine how beautiful the painting was at the beginning.
2023.10.30 Zhengding Longxing Temple was built in Yuan Kangxi Gi'e ~ One of the top ten famous temples in China. Apparently, the Big Buddha Temple is the largest in China. The Song Dynasty Buddhist complex was preserved in the early years. Mr. Liang Sicheng called the "First Temple outside Beijing" monastery was built in Yuan Kaihuang six years (586). It has a history of more than 1400 years. In 1961, it was announced by the State Council as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units. Kangxi 49 (1710) gave the "Longxing Temple" and has been used so far. Six cultural relics in the temple are called the most in the country. It is called the six most time axis of Longxing Temple: () Longzang Temple → (Tang) Longxing Temple → (Song) Mani Temple → Golden Wood Carving Big Belly Maitreya Buddha → (Song) Forty-two-arm bronze thousands of hands Guanyin Bodhisattva statue → (Song) turn wheel Tibetan Pavilion → (Ming) Jietan double-sided Buddha Longxing Temple 6 most 1. China's oldest and largest turn wheel Tibetan 2. Mani Temple: art and art in China's existing ancient buildings 3. Colorful hanging plastic free Guanyin image: Lu Xun is known as "Oriental beauty god" 4. Bronze cast Pi Lu Buddha pier: clever design and fine work can be called a must 5. Bronze cast thousands of hands and thousands of eyes Guanyin Bodhisattva statue: the highest bronze cast Buddha statue in ancient China 6. Longzang Temple Monument: China's earliest existing Shushu monument inscription is praised as "The First Place of the Book"