If you want to ask, I think that everyone should have a favorite city in their hearts.
Maybe you've lived there, maybe you've read books there, you've worked there.
Or maybe you're just traveling there and find yourself in the ideal city.
In the hearts of many people, Jinan is such a city.
Photo: Chen Yan
Some people say that they love the beauty of Jinan
It is the world-famous "spring city", hundreds of natural springs flowing in the streets of the city. Distant mountains and near water, buildings and tobacco trees, are all pictures, known as "home spring water, household weeping Yang" reputation.
Photo: Li Feng
Many springs converge to form Daming Lake, the southern part of the city stands green mountains, the northern Yellow River meanders through, "mountains, springs, lakes, rivers, cities" are integrated, "four sides of lotus flowers, three sides of willows, a city of mountains and half a city lake" outlines the endless charm of the city style.
Photography: Shao Kai
Photo: Wang Chengyong
Some people say that they love the thickness of Jinan
Jinan is a famous national historical and cultural city, with a long history and culture, and is also one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Around the 22nd century BC, Shun, the leader of the primitive tribes of China, lived in the Area of Jinan.
Photography: Wang Qin
Chengziya on the eastern outskirts of Jinan is the site of the discovery of the Longshan culture (more than 4,000 years ago) marked by black pottery in the late Neolithic period of China.
Longshan Black Pottery | Photography: Wei Hua
There are many cultural relics and monuments in Jinan, including shun cultural sites - Shungeng Mountain, the Great Wall of Qi before the Great Wall of Qin, the oldest ground house building in China - the Guo Tomb Stone Ancestral Hall of Xiaotang Mountain in the Han Dynasty, the oldest stone pagoda in China - the Sui Dynasty Liubu Four-Gate Pagoda (7th century AD) and the Lingyan Temple Painted Luohan (11th century AD), which is known as the "first sculpture in the sea".
Some people say that they love Jinan's fireworks the most
People often use "Han City, Jin Dingbang, Song Shifu, Qing Kaibu" to summarize the long history of the old city, and the old city is even more because of this time to add endless "classical beauty". Today, if you feel this long history, don't forget to walk into those old streets and alleys of Jinan.
Compared with the modern high-rise buildings that surround it, there are still many old courtyards and old buildings. Brick by brick, room by courtyard, all emit fireworks and ancient charm.
Jinan Fuxue Confucian Temple was once the cultural and educational center of Jinan and even Shandong, and its courtyard wall also has a unique aesthetic and cultural atmosphere, with gray bricks stacked and hollow patterns, known as "flower walls". The street where the Fuxue Confucian Temple is located is therefore called "Donghuaqiangzi Street".
Photography: Dong Chenghua
Wangfu Pond belongs to the Pearl Spring Group, and during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the beauty of this place was favored by many literati and scholars, who often gathered by the pool to drink "Qushui Liuxiang", and called it "Liubei Pond".
Some people say that they love Jinan's literary and artistic sense
Photo: Wang Xiao
At night, strolling through the shopping district, the melodious music comes from one of the upper floors, and you can't help but stay here for a while.
Photograph: Chen Zezhen
The net red street is through the third road, Korean style, European style, modern bar style and so on a new romantic and small fresh, mixed in the strong taste of the commercial port of the old Jinan Jingsan Road.
In Jinan in the summer, there are often bands singing on the streets, and the focused look of the singers on the stage follows the rhythm of the gentle swaying, making the singing in the ears appear more melodious, and also making people deeply feel a poem and a distant place in addition to the tense and busy life.
In the streets and alleys of Jinan, there is also the aroma of book pages and the strong aroma of coffee.
Jinan
A city that everyone loves
A city that had to go
A city that will be addictive when it comes