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Ancient Phoenix City

By Findley LeePublished 2 years ago 4 min read

We set out from Changsha, through Xiangtan, zhuzhou to see all. I got to know the unique scenery and tasted the special food there. Today we go north, together to see more than one thousand years ago, Meng Haoran's poem "steam cloud dream ze, wave shaking Yueyang City" yueyang, and in the west, the mysterious Xiangxi and the mountains and mountains of zhangjiajie.

Yueyang paper

Yueyang, known as "Baling" in ancient times, also known as "Yuezhou", is a famous cultural city with a long history of more than 2500 years.

When you come to Yueyang, you must go to yueyang Tower, where countless poets left their famous works. Located on the west gate wall of Yueyang ancient City, close to the bank of Dongting Lake, overlooking dongting and overlooking Junshan Mountain in front, it is known as the first floor of the ages. The first floor of Yueyang Tower is hung with carved screen of Yueyang Tower, poems, couplets, carvings, etc. In the middle of the second floor is a rosewood carved screen with a picture of yueyang Tower written by a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to Yueyang Tower, there are 4A scenic spot junshan Tuanhu Wild Lotus World. There are more than 10,000 mu of wild lotus here, which is rated as "the largest area of wild lotus gathering place" by Shanghai World Guinness.

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In fact, from here you can see the beautiful and rich Dongting Lake, wujianshan National Forest Park, Tianyue Moufu Mountain and Zhangguying Village are all places worth experiencing.

After seeing the scenery here, let's look for the delicacies and specialties here.

There are many delicacies in Yueyang, but yueyang yellow tea and Junshan silver needle are the most famous. Yueyang yellow tea is a national geographical indication product, and Junshan silver needle is the representative of yellow bud tea in Yueyang yellow tea. If you like tea, you should not miss it.

Of course, yueyang certainly not only tea to entertain friends from afar, Huarong mustard, Yueyang crayfish, Pingjiang sauce, Dongting whitefish, changle sweet wine are very good food.

After seeing Yueyang, we will set out again, this time we go west, first go to Zhangjiajie, look at the beauty of the stone forest junxiu and the regret of the mountains.

Zhangjiajie article

Zhangjiajie is one of the most important tourist cities in China. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park became the first national forest park in China.

Come to Zhangjiajie, must go to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, here, the natural scenery to the peak is amazing, to the valley is secluded, to the forest to see the show. Its famous scenic spots are: Wulingyuan Scenic Spot, Sangzhi County Jiutian Cave, Badagong Mountain, Yongding District Maoyan River rafting, Tianmen Mountain and so on.

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In Tianmen Mountain, you can take a cableway to see tianmen Cave. Tianmen Cave is the highest natural mountain cave in the world. The "Tianmen Spitting fog" and "Tianmen Radiant light" here are known as the rare spectacle in the world.

Wulingyuan Scenic Area is a must-visit if you are with children or are very interested in natural scenery. Wulingyuan is known as a labyrinth of nature, a museum of geology, a kingdom of forests, a garden of plants and a paradise of wild animals. There are so many beautiful spots that I won't go into detail here for lack of space.

Zhangjiajie in addition to rich tourism resources, delicious food and specialty naturally will not be less.

Zhangjiajie wine, wild fungi, stone fungus, eucommia ulmoides, kudzu powder, rock berry tea are very famous here specialty snacks. Kiwi fruit, moire colored stone, Tujia brocade, chestnut, stone ear stewed chicken and duck, loach diamond tofu, acid oxale, Tujia three pot is the characteristic food here, come to Zhangjiajie can not miss it.

After feeling the beauty of zhangjiajie, let's go to another mysterious and unique cultural place - Xiangxi.

Xiangxi article

Xiangxi, located in the west of Hunan province, is an autonomous prefecture (prefecture-level administrative region) under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, with its capital in Jishou city. Xiangxi has a long history and splendid culture. Fenghuang County, one of the first national historical and cultural cities, is under its jurisdiction. It is also the national all-for-one tourism demonstration area and one of the birthplaces of Wuling culture.

In the western hunan tourist attractions, the most famous when the ancient city of Phoenix. Fenghuang Ancient City is a famous historical and cultural city in China, and also a national 4A level scenic spot. Its interior is the main scenic spots are god phoenix cultural scenic spot, tian Ancestral Temple, north gate ancient tower, etc. At the same time, there are wanming Tower, Qifeng Mountain and Wulong Mountain scenic area. So if you come to the ancient city of Phoenix here, tourist attractions that is never lacking.

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In addition to the ancient Phoenix city, there are lvdong Mountain scenic area, Qifeng Lake scenic area and ancient miao Village. It can also give you a taste of different cultures. After seeing the view here, it's time to get ready for a hearty meal.

In gastronomy, Xiangxi also has its own characteristics. Hot and sour are two indispensable flavors in the daily life of people in Western Hunan. There are "pepper as salt, pickled cabbage as rice" said. Almost every family here will have chili fields, families with pickled vegetables. More famous delicacies are miao bamboo fragrant fish, bacon, blood ba duck, ginger candy, plate eel and so on.

In a word, there are plenty of places to play and eat. So what else do you think these places have fun and delicious, you can feedback in the comments section, or you want to recommend your hometown can also be sent in the comments section, subsequent xiaobian collation sent out.

The next article, xiaobian then take you to feel the scenery of Hunan, to feel more scenery and food, we can pay attention to xiaobian if you like.

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