According to the news of the Chinese government network on January 19, 2022, the State Council issued a reply on agreeing to list Fuzhou City in Jiangxi Province as a national historical and cultural city. Up to now, there are 139 national historical and cultural cities.
Fuzhou has a long history, a rich culture, distinct regional cultural characteristics, rich traditional patterns, historical features and cultural relics, and many cultural relics and monuments, which have important historical and cultural value. Nancheng County is one of the first 18 ancient counties in Jiangxi Province, which has been more than 2,200 years. Fuzhou also has a history of more than 1,700 years.
Fuzhou is known as the "hometown of talents and the state of culture", and a large number of famous Confucian giants have emerged in history, such as Wang Anshi, a politician and thinker of the Northern Song Dynasty who was keen on reform; Zeng Gong, a great essayist; Yan Shu and Yan Jidao, a giant in the circle of words; Lu Jiuyuan, a philosopher and thinker known as the "Great Confucian of the Hundred Generations"; and Tang Xianzu, a dramatist, thinker, and writer of the Ming Dynasty. Traditional cultures such as Magu culture, which relies on Magu Mountain in Nancheng, opera culture based on the "Four Dreams of Linchuan", and Zen culture with Caoshan Temple as the platform, are well-known at home and abroad.
Nanfeng Dance, Guangchang Meng Opera, Yihuang Opera and Linchuan Tea Picking Opera were listed as national intangible cultural heritage, and 9 historical relics such as Le'an Liukeng Ancient Village and Fuzhou Yulong Wanshou Palace were listed as national cultural relics protection units.
List of National Historical and Cultural Cities
Some of these 139 cities were once the capital of the dynasty and experienced the baptism of wind and frost; some were once political and economic towns at that time, famous all over the world; some were once the places where major historical events occurred, which can be traced back to the past.
Beijing
Beijing is one of the first national historical and cultural cities and the city with the largest number of world cultural heritages in the world, with a history of more than 3,000 years, which has bred many places of interest and monuments such as the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Badaling Great Wall, and the Summer Palace.
Tianjin Municipality
Tianjin has been a city officially built in 1404 since ancient times due to the rise of water transport, and is the only city in ancient China with an exact record of the founding time of the city. After more than 600 years, it has created a unique urban style of Tianjin that combines Chinese and Western styles and is compatible with ancient and modern times.
Hebei Province
Chengde City
Chengde is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities. Located in Chengde City, the summer resort and its surrounding temples are China's top ten scenic spots, top 40 tourist attractions, and national key scenic spots, which were approved as world cultural heritages by UNESCO in 1994, and the summer resort and its surrounding temples are also the first batch of world cultural heritages in China.
Baoding City
Baoding is named after "defending the capital and stabilizing the world", and is known as "controlling the three passes in the north, reaching nine provinces in the south, the important land of Kifu, and the capital of Pinghan in the south". Baoding is the hometown of the legendary Yao Emperor, with a history of more than 3,000 years, is the historical Yan Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, Later Yan Li capital of the land, the territory of many cultural relics and monuments, such as the Great Ci Pavilion, the Directly Subordinate Governor's Office, the Qing Xi Mausoleum and so on.
Zhengding County
Zhengding County is located in the southwest of Hebei Province, the jizhong plain in the middle of the North China Plain, known as Changshan and Zhending in ancient times, and was once called "Northern Sanxiong Town" with Beijing and Baoding in history, which is a national historical and cultural city and the hometown of Chinese folk art.
Handan City
Handan gave birth to the early Neolithic Magnetic Hill culture 8,000 years ago; the Warring States of Handan was the capital of the Zhao State, and Wei County was the capital of the State of Wei; the Han Dynasty shared the reputation of the "Five Metropolises" with Luoyang, Linzi, Nanyang, and Chengdu; and cao Wei built the capital in Linzhang at the end of the Han Dynasty, successively cao wei, ran wei, former Yan, eastern Wei, and northern Qi.
Shanhaiguan District
Shanhaiguan District is located in the northeast of Hebei Province, is one of the jurisdictions of Qinhuangdao City, is the throat of the northeast and north China, known as "the two Beijing lock key matchless, the first pass of the Great Wall". There are many historical and cultural relics in the territory, including mountains, seas, passes, cities, buildings, lakes, seas, caves and temples.
Wei
Wei County is located in the northwest of Hebei Province, east of Beijing, south of Baoding, west of Shanxi Datong, north of Zhangjiakou, is an advanced chinese culture county, folk art town, paper-cutting art town, paper-cutting art research center, the best folk culture tourism city.
Shanxi Province
Pingyao County
Pingyao County is the prototype of an ancient county town in China that is well preserved during the Ming and Qing dynasties. With a history of more than 2,700 years, Pingyao Ancient City is a major cultural relics county in Shanxi Province, with more than 300 monuments. The Rishengchang ticket number of "Huitong Tianxia" is known as "the originator of China's modern bank", Shuanglin Temple is praised by experts as "the treasure house of oriental painted sculpture art", and the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas of Zhenguo Temple is one of the earliest and most precious wooden structures in China.
Datong City
Datong, a municipality under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, is one of the first 24 national historical and cultural cities in China. Datong ancient known as Yunzhong, Pingcheng, was once the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Liao, Jindu, there are many historical sites, famous cultural relics and monuments include Yungang Grottoes, Huayan Temple, Shanhua Temple, Hengshan Hanging Temple, Nine Dragon Wall and so on.
Xindi County
Daizhou is an ancient city with a long history, which was the capital of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period and Wei during the Warring States period. In the third year of the Sui Kai Emperor (583), the prefecture was moved from Yubi to the present county seat, which has a history of more than 1,400 years.
Dai County
Dai County has a long history and splendid culture. Ancient name Yanmen County, Dai Prefecture, Spring and Autumn belonged to Jin, Warring States belonged to Zhao, Qin Dynasty Jian County, Northern Wei set up a county, Sui Dynasty set up a state, Ming and Qing Set Up Road, has been a prefecture, county, road, county seat, there are "Zhao State Gateway, Han Room Fortress, Great Song Border Defense, Zhu Ming Town", is a famous northern political stronghold in Chinese history, military strong domain, commercial port important town.
Qi County
Qi County is located in the central part of Shanxi Province, known as "Zhaoyu" in ancient times, and was named after "Zhaoyu QiZe xue". It belongs to Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. Qi County's Qi Tai Yang Ge and Dai's Xinyi Fist were listed as national intangible cultural heritage.
Taiyuan City
Taiyuan is the capital city of Shanxi Province, China, a famous historical and cultural city in China, an excellent tourist city in China, a national garden city, a famous stainless steel city, and the capital of Jinshang. Taiyuan, abbreviated as "He", ancient name Jinyang, was once the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties and has a history of more than 2,500 years of city building.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Hohhot City
Hohhot has a long history and splendid culture, and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. In the pre-Qin period, King Wuling of Zhao set up Yunzhong County here, and the original site was in the southwest of present-day Hoshi Tokto County. The downtown area of Hohhot was originally formed by the merger of the two cities of Naturalization City and Suiyuan City, so it was named Sui. In 1954, it was renamed Hohhot, which means "green city" in Mongolian.
Liaoning Province
Shenyang city
Shenyang is a national historical and cultural city, known as "the birthplace of one dynasty, the capital of two generations of emperors". During the Western Han Dynasty, it was originally called "Houcheng", which belonged to The Eastern Liaoning County of the Han Dynasty, which was the beginning of the formal establishment of the city for Shenyang. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed "Shenzhou". The name "Shenyang" officially appeared in the historical data, which has a history of more than 700 years.
Liaoyang city
Liaoyang has a long history, distinctive traditional patterns and historical features, rich and diverse cultural relics, clear urban development context, and important historical and cultural value. More than 130 cultural relics and monuments have been discovered in Liaoyang. There are tombs from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, ancient tomb murals from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the White Pagoda of the Liao Dynasty, and the Qingfeng Temple of Shoushan in the Ming Dynasty.
Jilin Province
Jilin City
The Manchu name of Jilin City is "Jilin Ula", which means "city pool along the river". Jilin City is the birthplace of prehistoric culture and one of the birthplaces of the Manchu people in China.
Ji'an City
Ji'an is a world heritage ancient capital with a long history and a rich cultural heritage. So far, more than 10,000 ancient ruins and tombs have been found in Ji'an, and the tombs of Goguryeo kings, royal tombs and nobles have been included in the list of world cultural heritage, and Ji'an is the 30th world cultural heritage site in China.
Changchun city
Located in the geographical center of Northeast China, bordering Songyuan, Siping, Jilin and Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, Changchun is a concentrated witness to the complete course of political and military conflicts in modern Northeast Asia, with many historical monuments, industrial heritage and cultural relics.
Heilongjiang Province
Harbin City
Harbin is a famous historical and cultural city and tourist city, with the reputation of "Cultural Capital" and "Music Capital", as well as "Ice City", "Pearl under the Swan", "Moscow of the East", "Little Paris of the East".
Qiqihar City
There are many historical and cultural relics in Qiqihar City, including the ancient Ang'angxi civilization and the emerging industrial civilization; there are both the ruins of official offices that effectively control the frontier such as the Heilongjiang General's Palace, the General Yamen, and the Overseer's Office, as well as precious historical and cultural relics such as Tazi City, the Golden Great Wall, and the century-old Middle East Railway Station. Crane culture has become an important characteristic culture of Qiqihar.
Shanghai
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shanghai was the fiefdom of Huang Xie, the Emperor of the Chu State, so it was also called Shen. During the Jin Dynasty in the fourth and fifth centuries, because fishermen created fishing tools "扈", the river flowed into the sea called "Du", so the lower reaches of the Song River were called "扈渎", and later changed to "Shanghai", so Shanghai was referred to as Shanghai. The Tang Dynasty set up Huating County. Shanghai has a profound modern urban cultural heritage and many historical monuments. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wuyue culture and industrial culture imported from the West are integrated to form Shanghai's unique Shanghai culture.
Jiangsu Province
Nanjing City
Nanjing is one of the four ancient capitals of China, and has blessed Zhengshuo of Huaxia several times in history, and has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China. In 229 AD, Emperor Sun Quan of Wu built the capital here, and after that, Liu Song, Xiao Qi, Xiao Liang, and Chen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty built the capital here, so Nanjing is known as the "Ancient Capital of the Six Dynasties".
Suzhou City
With a history of nearly 2,500 years, Suzhou is the birthplace of Wu culture. Most of the Suzhou people belong to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang ethnic groups and use the Wu language. Suzhou Gardens is a representative of China's private gardens and is listed as a Unesco World Cultural Heritage. The Suzhou section of the Grand Canal of China was inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Yangzhou City
Historically, Yangzhou, because of its superior geographical location, experienced almost a general history-style prosperity from the Han to the Qing Dynasty. Yangzhou has had three booms in history: the first in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty; the second in the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Zhao and Song dynasties; and the third in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Xuzhou City
Xuzhou is the famous hometown of emperors, and it is said that "the emperor of the Nine Dynasties Xuzhou nationality". Xuzhou is the birthplace of the two Han cultures, known as the "Pengzu Homeland, Liu Bang's Hometown, Xiang Yu's Hometown", because it has a large number of cultural heritage, scenic spots and profound historical heritage, also known as "Oriental Athens".
Zhenjiang City
Zhenjiang is the famous fish and rice town in Jiangnan, and there are many scenic spots and monuments in the city, such as Jinshan Temple and Xijindu. The Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal meet here, known as "the world's first Jiangshan" reputation. The Zhenjiang section of the Grand Canal of China was inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Huai'an City
Huai'an has a history of more than 2,200 years. Huai'an humanities. In history, there have been great military figures Han Xin, Han Fu Dabi Cheng, Liang Hongyu, hero Liang Hongyu, Wu Chengen, author of Journey to the West, Guan Tianpei, national hero, and Liu Hu, author of "The Journey of the Old Remnant".
Wuxi City
Wuxi has been the hometown of fish and rice since ancient times, known as cloth wharf, money wharf, kiln wharf, silk capital, rice market. Wuxi is the cradle of China's national industry and township industry, and the birthplace of the southern Jiangsu model. Wuxi culture belongs to Wuyue culture.
Nantong City
In the history of modern Chinese culture, science and education, Nantong founded the "seven firsts" such as the first normal school, the first folk museum, the first textile school, the first embroidery school, the first drama school, the first blind and dumb school run by Chinese and the first meteorological station, which is known as "the first city in modern China".
Taizhou City
Taizhou has a history of more than 2100 years of city building, Qin is called Haiyang, Han is called Hailing, Zhou Jiannan Tang, Wenchang Northern Song Dynasty, and the rhyme of Wu Chuyue, gathering the wind of Jianghuaihai. For thousands of years, the wind and rain have been smooth, stable and peaceful, and it is known as the state of Xiangrui fudi and Xiangtai.
Changzhou City
Changzhou is a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 3200 years, once had the names of Yanling, Biling, Jinling, Jinling, Nanlanling, Wujin, etc. Emperor Wen of Sui began to change Changzhou in the ninth year of the reign (589) and was established as a city in 1949. The Changzhou section of the Grand Canal of China is inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Changshu City
Changshu, referred to as Yu, is named "Changshu" because of "the soil is fertile, and there is no water and drought disaster", which is an ancient city of a thousand years. Changshu is located in Jiangnan Water Town, known as "Jiangnan Blessed Land", is one of the birthplaces of Wu culture. Changshu culture belongs to the Wuyue culture, and Changshu people belong to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang ethnic groups that use Wu language.
Yixing City
Yixing is known as "the ancient capital of pottery, the world of caves, the oasis of tea, and the ocean of bamboo". Yixing is the origin of "purple sand pot", with more than 80 limestone caves, more than 3,500 hectares of tea gardens, and 800 miles of bamboo sea.
Gaoyou City
Gaoyou has a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization and a history of 2240 years of city building. Historically known as Jiangzuo Ming District and Guangling Shouyi, it is the hometown of Emperor Yao and the birthplace of Yao culture, and is an important area of Jianghuai civilization and postal culture. There are 6 national key cultural relics protection units.
Zhejiang Province
Hangzhou City
Hangzhou was once the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty, and was one of the eight ancient capitals of China. Because of its beautiful scenery, it is known as "paradise on earth". There are many cultural monuments in Hangzhou, and there are a large number of natural and cultural landscape relics in and around the West Lake.
Shaoxing City
Shaoxing has a history of more than 2,500 years of founding, and is a famous water town, bridge town, wine town, calligraphy town, and famous people's town. Shaoxing is known as "the land of cultural relics and the land of fish and rice". Famous cultural monuments include Lanting, Yuling, Lu Xun's hometown, Shen Yuan, Keyan, Cai Yuanpei's former residence, Zhou Enlai's ancestral residence, Qiu Jin's former residence, Ma Yinchu's former residence, Wang Xizhi's former residence, He Zhizhang's former residence, etc.
Ningbo City
Ningbo has rich cultural accumulation and a long history and culture, as early as 7,000 years ago, the ancestors flourished here and created a splendid Hemudu culture. Ningbo is a typical Jiangnan water town and harbor city, the southern end of the Grand Canal of China, the eastern departure port of the "Maritime Silk Road".
Quzhou City
Quzhou is located at the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang, Gansu and Anhui, from carved architecture and eating habits to local music and folk customs, it is deeply influenced by the surrounding regional culture. Quzhou has a long history and rich humanities. In ancient times, it was the land of Baiyue, and there are still Shes living here.
Linhai City
Linhai is a national historical and cultural city, after the Tang Dynasty has been taizhou capital, Taizhou capital in the Southern Song Dynasty as a kifu, Linhai as its seat of governance, in all aspects have been greatly improved. It has a large number of cultural relics and monuments, known as "Xiao Zoulu" and "cultural state", forming a famous city, celebrities, famous monuments, famous "four" city.
Jinhua City
Jinhua, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, has a history of more than 2,200 years since the establishment of the county in the 25th year of the Reign of the Qin Dynasty (222 BC), and is named Jinhua because it is "located in the place where the two stars of Venus and Wunu compete for China", referred to as Jin, and was called Wuzhou in ancient times.
Jiaxing City
Jiaxing system began in Qin and has a humanistic history of more than 2,000 years. Jiaxing has been a prosperous and rich place since ancient times, known as the "hometown of fish and rice" and "the house of silk", and is a national historical and cultural city.
Huzhou City
Huzhou is an ancient city in Jiangnan with a history of more than 2,300 years, which began with the Warring States, with beautiful natural landscapes and many historical and cultural landscapes. Since ancient times, it has been known as the silk house, the hometown of fish and rice, the reputation of the state of culture, and is known as the pearl of South Taihu Lake.
Wenzhou City
Wenzhou is known as "Southeast Landscape Jia Tianxia" reputation. Wenzhou was ancient Oudi, also known as Dong'ou, which was first called Wenzhou during the Tang Dynasty, and has a history of more than 2,000 years of city building. Wenzhou culture belongs to the Ouyue culture, Wenzhou people belong to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang ethnic groups to use Wu language, Wenzhou dialect is rated as one of the most difficult dialects in China.
Longquan City
Longquan City has a long history, since the ancient people flourished, is a famous celadon capital, sword state, the ancient city traditional pattern and style is well preserved, rich in intangible cultural heritage, has important historical and cultural value.
Anhui Province
Bozhou City
Bozhou is an ancient city with a long history, where humans have been active since the Neolithic period. Since the establishment of The County in the Qin Dynasty, after the change of dynasties, most of the capitals were prefectures, counties or counties, during which emperor Wei's second year (221) was crowned as the "Capital of Companions".
She County
Shexian is the seat of the ancient Huizhou prefecture, the birthplace of Huizhou culture and national essence Peking Opera, and the main birthplace of Huishang and Hui cuisine. The main source of the four treasures of the literary house is Shexian County, which has been awarded the honorary titles of "The Capital of Chinese Emblem Ink", "The Hometown of China's Sheyan", "The Hometown of Hui Opera (Huiban)", "The Hometown of Chinese Emblem Culture" and "The Hometown of Chinese Archway".
Shou County
In the history of Shou County, it has been the capital 4 times and the county 10 times. Is the hometown of Chu culture, the birthplace of Chinese tofu, the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Shuishui, known as the "underground museum", Shouchun Chu Culture Museum treasures more than 160 national first-class cultural relics, more than 2,000 second- and third-class cultural relics.
Anqing City
Anqing is known as the "State of Culture", "the Hometown of Drama" and "the Holy Land of Zen Buddhism". It is the place where famous stories such as "Peacock Flying Southeast", "Big Qiao Little Joe", "One Step Beyond the Thunder Pond", "Six Foot Lane" and so on take place, the hometown of the "Tongcheng School" that ruled the Chinese literary scene for more than 200 years, the cradle of the growth of the Huiban represented by Cheng Changgeng, the originator of Peking Opera, and the place where Huangmei Opera was formed and developed.
Jixi County
Jixi County is located in the south of Anhui Province, one of the six counties of Huizhou, one of the birthplaces of Huizhou culture, known as "the hometown of Hui kitchen", "no emblem, no town, no achievements and no street", and is now under the jurisdiction of Xuancheng City.
Yi
Yixian is one of the important birthplaces and inheritance places of Hui culture, and is known as the "Museum of Ancient Residences of the Ming and Qing Dynasties of China". Historical and cultural resources are well preserved, systematic and abundant. There are 1684 immovable cultural relics preserved and registered within the territory, 4 national key cultural relics protection units, 11 provincial cultural relics protection units, 20 municipal cultural relics protection units, and 57 county-level cultural relics protection units. Yixian county has 1 xidi and hongcun world cultural heritage sites, 6 famous Chinese historical and cultural villages, 44 traditional Chinese villages, 3 provincial-level historical and cultural blocks, and 66 intangible cultural heritages.
Tongcheng
Tongcheng is known as the "Seven Provinces Thoroughfare", 90 kilometers north to the provincial capital Hefei, south of Anqing City 68 kilometers, belongs to the hefei metropolitan circle of the southern wing gateway city and Anhui River urban belt to undertake industrial transfer demonstration zone; Shanghai-Rong Expressway, Hejiu Railway, 206 National Highway 3 major traffic arteries run through the whole territory; enjoy the reputation of "Wendu", is the origin of the "Tongcheng School", the birthplace and concentration of the Jianghuai cultural circle; Tongcheng specialties include Tongcheng small flowers, cress, grass fragrant rice, Tongcheng old wine, feng cake and so on. There is also the famous "Six Foot Alley".
Fujian Province
Fuzhou City
Fuzhou, abbreviated as "Rong", the capital of Fujian Province, is located in the east of Fujian Province and is a famous historical and cultural city in China. Founded in 202 BC and established as a city in 1946, it has long been the political center of Fujian.
Quanzhou City
Quanzhou was first developed in the Zhou And Qin Dynasties, in 260 AD began to set up Dong'an County, during the Tang Dynasty was one of the world's four major ports, by Marco Polo as the city of light, the Song and Yuan Dynasties as the largest port in the East, there were "ten continents in the city well", "the sound of the rising sea in the world merchants" of the grand scene.
Zhangzhou City
Zhangzhou is one of the birthplaces of southern Fujian culture, where ancestors flourished as early as 10,000 years ago. In 686, Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, established Zhangzhou County, which has a history of more than 1,300 years. History has come out of Lin Yutang, Zodiac Zhou and other celebrities.
Changting County
Changting is the hakka capital of the world. It is the birthplace and distribution center of the Hakka people, the ancestors came from the Central Plains, and the indigenous people in Changting influenced and integrated with each other in production and life, forming a unique Hakka folk culture, Hakka costume culture, Hakka architectural culture, Hakka customs culture and Hakka food culture.
Jiangxi Province
Nanchang city
The name of Nanchang originates from the meaning of "Changda Southern Xinjiang, Southern Prosperity", and was founded in 202 BC. Wang Bo, the fourth jie of the early Tang Dynasty, called it the land of "Wuhua Tianbao and Renjie Diling" in the "Preface to the Pavilion of king Teng". On August 1, 1927, the "Nanchang Uprising" that shocked China and foreign countries broke out, and Nanchang became a "place where the military flag was raised" and was known as the "Hero City".
Ganzhou City
Ganzhou is the seat of the former Central Soviet District and the starting point of the Long March. Ganzhou has a history of more than 2,200 years of founding, and has always been an important political, economic, military and cultural town in Jiangnan, and Wen Tianxiang, Zhou Dunyi, Hai Rui, Wang Shouren, Xin Shuyi and so on have all ruled in Gannan.
Jingdezhen City
Jingdezhen is the porcelain capital of the world and the cradle of China's helicopter industry. During the Republic of China period, it was called the four famous towns in the country together with Foshan in Guangdong, Hankou in Hubei and Zhuxian in Henan.
Ruijin City
Ruijin City has a long history, outstanding red cultural characteristics, rich revolutionary historical relics, is the cradle of the People's Republic and the main birthplace of the spirit of the Soviet Union, the traditional pattern of the city is well preserved, and has important historical and cultural value.
Fuzhou City
Fuzhou has a long history, a rich culture, distinct regional cultural characteristics, rich traditional patterns, historical features and cultural relics, and many cultural relics and monuments, which have important historical and cultural value.
Shandong Province
Jinan city
Jinan has a long history, is the birthplace of the prehistoric culture "Longshan culture", the Neolithic ruins of the region Chengziya, there are before the Qin Great Wall of qi Great Wall, there is known as the "first plastic in the sea" Lingyan Temple Song Dynasty color sculpture Luohan, Sui Dynasty Buddha (located in Licheng District Big Buddha Village, chiseled mountain, built in the Sui Dynasty, for the first big Buddha in Shandong).
Qufu, Kumamoto
Qufu, the ancient capital of the State of Lu and the hometown of Confucius, is known as the "Holy City of the East" and "the Jerusalem of the East". Qufu is home to the Confucius Institute, the world center for Confucian studies and exchanges. In 1994, the Confucius Temple, Confucius Temple and Konglin were inscribed on the United Nations World Heritage List.
Qingdao City
Qingdao is the birthplace of Taoism in China, where humans survived and multiplied 6,000 years ago. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he visited Langyatai, which is now located in Jiaonan City, Qingdao, three times.
Chat about the city
More than 6,000 years ago, Liaocheng had the ancient city of Dawenkou culture, which successively created prehistoric culture, canal culture, red culture and so on. There are 18 Dawenkou cultural sites, 45 Longshan cultural sites, and 9 Longshan cultural ancient city sites, accounting for half of the number of Longshan cultural ancient cities in Shandong Province.
Zou City
Zoucheng is the hometown of Mencius, a great thinker, educator and representative figure of the Confucian school in the Warring States period, known as "the state of Kong Mengsangzi, the birthplace of culture", "the country of oriental gentlemen, the hometown of Zoulu sages", the Spring and Autumn Warring States period as the capital of Zou Guoguo, and together with the Lu state, it is called "Zoulu Holy Land".
Linzi District
Linzi District, which belongs to the district of Zibo City, is located at the junction of Luzhong Hills and Lubei Plain, and the Linzi Tomb Group and Tonglin Tianwang Ruins are provincial key cultural relics protection units.
Tai'an City
Tai'an is named after Mount Tai, "Taishan An is safe in all parts of the world", which means Guotai Min'an. The city is located at the foot of Mount Tai, built on the mountain, and the mountain city is integrated. Mount Taishan in Tai'an City is a national key scenic spot, with the reputation of "the first of the five mountains" and "the first mountain in the world", and is a world natural and cultural heritage.
Penglai City
Penglai has more than 100 historical places of interest and historical sites. Penglai Pavilion, built in the sixth year of Song Jiayou (1061), and Penglai Water City, built in the second year of the Song Qing calendar (1042), are both national key cultural relics protection units. There are also tourist attractions such as Qi Jiguang's hometown, Sanxian Mountain, Ocean Polar World, Eight Immortals Crossing Haikou, Aishan National Forest Park, Xiyuan Zoo and so on. In 2020, Penglai City and Changdao County merged and withdrawn into Yantai City.
Yantai City
Yantai has a long history, rich relics, profound cultural heritage, many scenic spots and monuments, modern buildings are concentrated in pieces, the characteristics of the neighborhood are distinctive, and the traditional pattern and style of the urban area are well preserved, which has important historical and cultural value.
Qingzhou City
Qingzhou has a national key scenic spot Yunmen Mountain Scenic Area, a national forest park Yangtianshan Forest Park and a national key cultural relics protection unit Tuoshan Mountain. Including the rebuilt Song City and the repair and protection of Qingzhou Ancient Street, it has gradually become the center of folk culture tourism unique to the ancient city.
Henan Province
Luoyang City
Luoyang is one of the four ancient capitals of China and a famous cultural city in the world. Luoyang has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city building history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, and is known as the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties. Peony is famous for Luoyang, known as "Luoyang Peony Jia Tianxia", known as "millennium imperial capital, peony flower city", China Luoyang Peony Cultural Festival is well-known at home and abroad.
Kaifeng city
Kaifeng is one of the six ancient capitals of China and the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties. Kaifeng carries a heavy history and culture. It has four characteristics: "rich cultural relics, long urban pattern, rich ancient city style, and unique northern water city". Kaifeng has more than 4,100 years of history of city building and capital construction, known as the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties.
Shangqiu City
Shangqiu is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation, and an important ancient capital of China. The Three Emperors and Five Emperors, as well as the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Han Jin Liang Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty, all built their capital here. Shangqiu enjoys the titles of "the source of the three merchants and the capital of Chinese merchants", "the land of Hanxing" and "the land of the two Song Dynasty dragons".
Anyang city
Anyang is one of the eight ancient capitals of China, the ten oldest cities in China, has been the Shang Dynasty, Cao Wei, Later Zhao, Ran Wei, Former Yan, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi and other seven dynasties to build the capital here, known as the "Ancient Capital of the Seven Dynasties", Anyang Yin Ruins is the first capital city site in China so far with documentation and confirmed by archaeology and oracle bones.
Nanyang City
Nanyang has a history of 3,000 years of founding and is the birthplace of Chu and Han culture. He has bred historical celebrities such as Zhang Heng, Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing, Shang Sheng Fan Li, Zhi Sheng Zhuge Liang, Mou Sheng Jiang Ziya, and MingXiang Baili Xi. During the Three Kingdoms period, Nanyang County was the place where Zhuge Liang worked hard and liu Bei's "Three Gu Maolu" originated.
Zhengzhou City
Zhengzhou is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization, the hometown of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, the ancestor of Chinese humanities, which has been the capital five times and the state for eight generations in history, and is one of the "Eight Ancient Capitals of China" and a member of the World Historical Cities Alliance. The city has 2 world cultural heritage sites and 43 items in 38 national key cultural relics protection units.
Xun County
As a thousand-year-old city, Xun County has many scenic spots and monuments in the territory of Junxian County, and the Junxian section of the Grand Canal and the ruins of Liyangcang in the ancient city of Junxian county have been listed as world cultural heritage. The Giant Buddha of Xunxian County is "the earliest in the country and the largest in the north" of large-scale cliff statues. Mudgugu was included in the first list of intangible cultural heritage by the Chinese government.
Puyang City
Puyang is one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese nation, or an important origin of Chinese surnames, Lu, Zhang, Fan, Yao, Qin, Gu, Meng, Luo and other surnames originated from this. As the "hometown of Chinese acrobatics", it has a broad mass base.
Hubei Province
Jingzhou City
Jingzhou, also known as "Jiangling" in ancient times, was the seat of the capital of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period. With a rich history and splendid culture, Jingzhou is a riverside city where ancient culture and modern civilization shine together. "Yu divided Kyushu, and there was Jingzhou from the beginning." The history of Jingzhou is more than 2700 years.
Wuhan
Wuhan is an important birthplace of Chu culture. The Neolithic Age, which dates back 6,000 years, has ancestors flourishing here; the ruins of Panlong City in the territory have a history of 3,500 years; the Western Affairs Movement in the late Qing Dynasty promoted the industrial rise and economic development of Wuhan, making it an important economic center in modern China. Wuhan is the birthplace of China's democratic revolution, and the Wuchang Uprising, as the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution, is of great historical significance.
Xiangyang City
Xiangyang, the main birthplace of Chu culture, Han culture and Three Kingdoms culture, has a history of more than 2,800 years of establishment, and has been an economic and military important place for generations. It is known as "the first city in China", "Xiangyang of iron fighting", and "the place where soldiers must fight". Xiangyang Scenic Spots and Monuments Tourism takes the culture of the Three Kingdoms as the main feature, and there are famous attractions such as Longzhong Scenic Area and Xiangyang City.
Suizhou City
Suizhou was called "the country of Handong" in ancient times, and was known for its "ancient, strange, beautiful and new". According to historical records and the research of experts and scholars at home and abroad, the ancestor of China, the Yan Emperor Shennong, was born in Suizhou Lieshan (Lishan Town), and Suizhou Lieshan has become a sacred place for the descendants of Yanhuang at home and abroad to seek their roots and ask their ancestors. The large-scale complete series of chimes (percussion instruments) excavated from the drum pier in the west of Suizhou City has been praised as a world miracle at home and abroad.
Zhongxiang City
Zhongxiang is one of the important birthplaces of Chu culture, with a written history of more than 2,700 years. Zhongxiang is widely distributed in cultural relics and monuments, and is the site of the World Cultural Heritage - Mingming Mausoleum. Zhong Xiang also created a number of historical celebrities such as the Chuci literary scholar Song Yu and the Chu song and dance artist Mo Shuonu, and gave birth to historical allusions such as "Yangchun White Snow" and "Xialiba People".
Hunan Province
Changsha city
After three thousand years of city name and city site, Changsha has been known as "the hometown of Qu Jia", "the famous city of Chu and Han", and "Xiaoxiang Susi". There are historical sites such as the Mawangdui Han Tomb, the Siyang Fangzun Tomb, the Three Kingdoms Wujian, the Yuelu Academy, and the Tongguan Kiln, and patriotic salvation movements such as the Late Qing Restoration Movement, the Old Democratic Revolution, and the New Democratic Revolution.
Yueyang City
Yueyang has a history of more than 2,500 years. Yueyang Lou- Junshan Island is a 5A-level scenic spot, Zhangguying Village is known as the "Folk Forbidden City", and the Miluo River is known as the "upstream of blue ink".
Phoenix County
Fenghuang County has a long history and strong cultural heritage. The Ming and Qing dynasty buildings in the ancient city are well preserved, and it is one of the counties and cities with the most existing cultural relics and monuments in the southwest region. The combination of Chu culture and Phoenix indigenous culture, and the fusion of Miao culture and Han culture, form a unique regional culture.
Yongzhou City
Since the establishment of the Marquis of Quanling in 124 BC, Yongzhou has a history of more than 2,100 years. In addition, Yongzhou is also the hometown of historical celebrities such as Huai Su, Huang Gai, Zhou Dunyi, Li Da, Tao Zhu and so on. When Liu Zongyuan, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was demoted to Yongzhou, he left the Eight Records of Yongzhou, which had a great influence on literary history.
Guangdong Province
Guangzhou
Since the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou has been the political, military, economic, cultural and scientific and educational center of South China. Guangzhou became the main port of the Maritime Silk Road from the 3rd century, the Tang and Song dynasties became the largest port in China, and the Ming and Qing dynasties became China's only foreign trade port.
Chaozhou City
Chaozhou is an important birthplace of Chaozhou culture and the cultural center of eastern Guangdong. Historically, it has successively been county, state, road, and prefectural office. It was also the origin of overseas trade.
Zhaoqing City
Zhaoqing is one of the birthplaces of ancient Lingnan indigenous culture. The bronzes excavated from the late Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States tombs in the territory have traces of influence by the Central Plains Shangzhou culture and the Chuyue culture in the Yangtze River Basin, as well as the prominent characteristics of the Lingnan culture.
Foshan city
Foshan is one of the four famous towns in China, one of the four famous towns in China, the famous city of Dragon Boat dragon and lion culture in China, the birthplace of Cantonese opera, and the birthplace and prosperity of Cantonese culture, one of the branches of Lingnan culture.
Meizhou City
Meizhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gansu provinces. Meizhou is one of the more concentrated Settlements of hakka people and is known as the "Hakka Capital of the World".
Leizhou City
Leicheng (Gulei Prefecture Fuzhi) is the only "National Historical and Cultural City" in Guangdong Province, the only county-level city in Guangdong Province. Leizhou culture is one of the four regional cultures of unique Guangdong.
Zhongshan City
The Xiangshan culture originated in Zhongshan is an important source of modern Chinese culture, enjoying the reputation of the hometown of Quyi (Cantonese opera) and overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province.
Huizhou City
Huizhou has a long history, rich heritage, diverse cultures, profound heritage, and the traditional pattern and style of the urban area are well preserved, which has important historical and cultural value.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Guilin City
Guilin is the birthplace and prosperity of Guiliu culture. Since the Qin Dynasty, Guilin has been the political, military, economic, cultural and scientific and educational center of South China. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guilin became the first provincial capital in China to be restored (before liberation, it was the capital of Guangxi Province).
Liuzhou City
Liuzhou is located in the north-central part of Guangxi, the terrain is "three rivers and four combinations, hugging the city like a kettle", so it is called "kettle city". Modern times called Dragon City, because everyone in the city is a descendant of the dragon, as early as 50,000 years ago there were "Liujiang people" living here, from the founding of the city has a history of more than 2,100 years. The ethnic customs of Liuzhou have a unique charm, and the songs of the Zhuang ethnic group, the dances of the Yao ethnic group, the festivals of the Miao ethnic group and the building of the Dong ethnic group can be called the "four national customs" of Liuzhou.
Beihai City
Beihai has a long history of opening up and profound cultural heritage, and is an important starting port of the ancient "Maritime Silk Road", a national historical and cultural city, and an important constituent city of Guangxi Beibu Bay Economic Zone.
Hainan
Qiongshan District
Qiongshan Mountain is a place where talents and elites gather in Hainan. It is one of the earliest counties in Hainan Island where culture spreads. Famous figures include Wenzong Qiutao, "Hai Qingtian" Hai Rui, Hubu Zuo Zhizhong Xu Ziwei, general Feng Baiju and so on. There are a total of 52 cultural relics protection units in the region. (It was merged into Haikou City in 2002 Photo)
Haikou City
Haikou, also known as "Coconut City", has a history of thousands of years since the opening of the Northern Song Dynasty, is an important fulcrum of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, and is an important hub for sea, land and air transportation in the South China Sea.
Chongqing Municipality
Chongqing has a history of more than 3,000 years, and is also the birthplace of Bayu culture; because the Jialing River was called "Yushui" in ancient times, it was referred to as "Yu"; and because song Chunxi was sixteen years old, Emperor Guangzong Zhao first crowned King Gong and then became the emperor, calling himself "double celebration", hence the name; "China's hot pot capital", "China's famous exhibition city", "the world's hot spring capital".
Sichuan Province
Chengdu City
Chengdu is the starting point of the Southern Silk Road, one of the "Ten Ancient Capitals", built around the 5th century BC, the Western Han Dynasty has become one of the six major cities in China, the Three Kingdoms period as the capital of the Shu Han State. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Chengdu people jointly issued the world's earliest paper money exchange, and the government set up the world's earliest management savings bank in Chengdu. More than 2,600 years of city history have bred many scenic spots and monuments such as Dujiangyan, Wuhou Ancestral Hall, Du Fu Caotang, Jinsha Ruins and so on.
Zigong City
Zigong, the central city of the southern region of southern Sichuan and the southern central city of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, enjoys the reputation of "thousand-year-old salt capital", "dinosaur town", "southern lamp city" and "food house".
Yibin City
The developed winemaking industry represented by Wuliangye has made Yibin a veritable "Chinese wine capital". Yibin is one of the earliest developed and oldest cities in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the starting point of the Southern Silk Road, known as the "Southwest Half of the Ancient Rong Prefecture", known as "Yandao", "Rongzhou" and "Xuzhou".
Langzhong City
Langzhong, known as "Langyuan Wonderland" and "Bashu To Chong", the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu left here the ancient famous sentence "Langzhou City South World Is Rare". The territory is home to the ancient city of Langzhong, one of the four most well-preserved ancient towns in China.
Leshan City
Historically, it belongs to the ancient Shu kingdom and has the reputation of "Begonia Fragrant Country". Leshan is the only city in China with three World Heritage Sites (Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area, Emei Mountain Scenic Area, and Dongfengyan).
Dujiangyan City
Dujiangyan has been playing the role of flood control irrigation for more than 2,000 years, making the Chengdu Plain a "country of heavenly capital" with water and drought from people and fertile fields, and so far the irrigation area has reached more than 30 counties and cities, covering an area of nearly 10 million mu, which is the world's longest-standing, only surviving, still in use, and characterized by damless water diversion, condensing the crystallization of the industriousness, bravery and wisdom of the working people in ancient China.
Luzhou City
Luzhou, since the Establishment of the Marquis of Jiangyang in the Western Han Dynasty in 161 BC, has a history of more than 2,000 years. Luzhou is a world-class liquor industry base, the only city in China with two well-known liquor brands, and the only liquor city in China.
Huili County
In ancient times, it was the capital of Qiongdu. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed Shu, Huili actually set up a county, and in the sixth year of the Western Han Wu Emperor Yuan Ding (111 BC), sima Xiang was sent to Open Lingguan Road, through southwest Yi, and jianhui wuxian belonged to Yue County, which was the beginning of Huili's written system, which has a history of more than 2100 years.
Guizhou Province
Zunyi City
Zunyi is home to the World Cultural Heritage Site Hailongtun and the World Natural Heritage Site Chishui Danxia. It enjoys the titles of China's longevity town, China's magnolia town, China's honeysuckle town, China's high-quality green tea production area, China's famous tea town, China's guitar manufacturing town and so on. It is also the hometown of Moutai wine, one of the three famous Chinese wines "Mao Wujian". In 1935, the Communist Party of China held the famous "Zunyi Conference" in Zunyi, which became a turning point in the life and death of the party.
Zhenyuan County
Zhenyuan is the China Mountain Cliff Architecture and Culture Museum. There are more than 160 majestic and peculiar national key cultural relics protection units such as Qinglong Cave Ancient Building Complex and Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient houses, ancient laneways, ancient wharves, and ancient city walls, and the ornamental value and scientific research value are high. This ancient city with a history of more than 2,200 years is located on the main road of Jinqian, with many cultural monuments and beautiful natural scenery.
Yunnan Province
Kunming city
Kunming has a long history and splendid culture, with more than 2,200 years of city history, and the Dianchi area has a 3,000-year history of civilization. About 30,000 years ago, there were humans living in the Dianchi Lake area.
Dali city
Dali is located in the Erhai Plain on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the foothills of the Cangshan Mountains, the shores of the Erhai Sea, is the capital of the ancient Nanzhao State and the Dali State, as the political, economic and cultural center of the ancient Yunnan region, for more than 500 years.
Lijiang City
Lijiang is a multi-ethnic place, in addition to the Han nationality, there are 12 hereditary ethnic minorities, 22 kinds of ethnic minorities; rich in tourism resources, there are 104 tourist scenic spots, there are Lijiang Ancient City, Yulong Snow Mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Laojun Mountain, Shuhe Ancient Town and other well-known tourist attractions.
Jianshui City
Since the Yuan Dynasty, Jianshui has been the political, military, economic, cultural and transportation center of southern Yunnan, flourishing for seven centuries, known as "Zoulu in southern Yunnan, famous state of literature", "millennium Lin'an Ancient City" and "millennium Jianshui purple pottery" have become two business cards of Jianshui.
Weishan County
Weishan is a famous state of literature, with a long cultural history, many cultural relics and monuments, and scenic spots. There are many ancient cultural relics and monuments preserved in the territory, and there are nearly 3,000 cultural relics in the existing collection, which have been appraised by the national and Yunnan Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Group, of which 36 are precious cultural relics.
Huize County
Huize County, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is located in the northeast of Yunnan Province. Huize County has a long history, rich relics, concentrated blocks, the traditional pattern and style of the ancient city are well preserved, and the historical status is outstanding.
Tonghai County
Tonghai County is located in the south-central part of Yunnan Province, with a long history and a long cultural stream, and was the political, economic and military center of southern Yunnan in ancient times, and administrative institutions were set up here by the Han, Tang, Song, Ming and other dynasties. Tonghai County is inhabited by Han, Yi, Hui, Mongolian, Hani and other ethnic groups, multi-ethnic cultural integration makes the foundation of Tonghai's brilliant culture more profound, and the special geographical and natural conditions and rich products have also achieved the reputation of Tonghai "Lile Famous State", "Xiujia Nandian" and "Little Yunnan".
Tibet Autonomous Region
Lhasa
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, an international tourist city with plateau and ethnic characteristics, and a sacred site of Tibetan Buddhism. As one of the first famous historical and cultural cities in China, Lhasa is famous for its beautiful scenery, long history and unique customs and folk customs.
Shigatse City
The Shigatse region is roughly located between the middle of the Himalayas and the middle section of the Gandhis-Nianqing Tanggula Mountains, and there is the world's highest peak in Dingri County, Mount Everest. There is Yangzhuoyong Lake, one of the three sacred lakes in Tibet.
Gyantse County
Located on Zongshan Mountain in the center of the county seat, Gyantse is a historical testimony of the people of Gyantse who bravely resisted the British invaders. Baiju Temple, located in the western suburbs of the county, was founded in 1418.
Shaanxi Province
Xi'an City
Xi'an, known in ancient times as Chang'an and Hojing. Xi'an is one of the four ancient capitals of China. Chang'an has been the imperial capital since ancient times, and its 13 dynasties have built their capital here. Xi'an has two six heritage sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, namely: the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin and the Terracotta Warriors, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, the Ruins of daming palace in Tang Chang'an City, the ruins of Weiyang Palace in Han Chang'an City, and the Xingjiao Temple Pagoda.
Xianyang City
Xianyang is an important birthplace of Qin and Han culture. Xianyang was also the first stop on the ancient Silk Road, the key point of the Central Plains of China to the Great Northwest.
Yan'an City
Yan'an City, known as Fushi and Yanzhou in ancient times, was the former capital of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government. The urban area is located at the confluence of the three mountains of Baota Mountain, Qingliang Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, and the confluence of the two waters of the Yanhe River and the Fenchuan River, and has become a place where soldiers must fight, with the name of "plugging the throat" and "military town", and is known as "the key of the three Qin locks, the throat of the five roads".
Han city
Hancheng is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the hometown of Ma Qian, the company of Shi ShengTaishi. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou sealed his son here, called Korea, the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the King of Zhou Ping sealed Qin Zhong's son Kang here, called liangguo, during the Warring States period, Qin set up Xiayang County. In the eighteenth year (598) of the Sui Kai Emperor, Hancheng County was established. In January 1984, it was changed to Hancheng City.
Yulin City
Yulin, ancient known as "Shangjun", began in the Spring and Autumn Warring States, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ming Dynasty nine-sided important town "Yansui Town" (also known as Yulin Town) station, has the reputation of "Little Beijing", the Kangxi Emperor gave "two guarding the lonely city, Qianqiu Zhongyong" inscription, there is "South Tower North Taichung Ancient City, the sixth floor riding street world famous" reputation, such a peculiar city construction, in the land of Shenzhou is rare.
Hanzhong City
Hanzhong is the source of Hanshui, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, the largest city in southern Shaanxi, an important connecting hub between the Guanzhong Tianshui Economic Zone and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, a must-pass place from Xi'an to Chengdu, and the main birthplace of the culture of the two Han and three kingdoms, known as the "birthplace of the Han family, the cornucopia of China".
Gansu Province
Zhangye City
Zhangye is an important town of the ancient Silk Road and the main road of the New Eurasian Land Bridge. Zhangye has a long history, splendid culture, beautiful natural scenery and unique cultural landscapes, and has been known as Plugging Jiangnan and Jinzhangye since ancient times. There are Great Buddha Temple, Muta Temple, Tuta Temple, Xilai Temple, Horseshoe Temple, ZhenyuanLou, Shanxi Guild Hall, Minqin Hall and other places of interest in the city.
Wuwei City
Wuwei City (梁州), is the name of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to highlight the "martial arts military might" of the Han Empire's army, also known as the capital of Yongliang, a prefecture-level city in China. It is located in the central part of Gansu Province, the gateway of the Hexi Corridor, bordering Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Province, to the east, Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, to the west, to Lanzhou, the capital of The Southern Province, and to Dunhuang in the north.
Dunhuang City
Dunhuang is a node city of the Silk Road, famous for the "Dunhuang Grottoes" and "Dunhuang Murals", and is the location of the World Heritage Mogao Grottoes and the Yumen Pass and Yangguan on the border of the Han Great Wall.
Tianshui City
Tianshui is a national historical and cultural city, with 169 key cultural relics under national, provincial and municipal protection, representing the ruins of Dadiwan, Tianshui Fuxi Temple and Maijishan Grottoes.
Qinghai Province
Tongren County
Tongren County is the birthplace of "Regong Art" and the hometown of famous Tibetan painters. There are 1 national cultural relics protection unit (Longwu Temple) and 11 provincial cultural relics protection units.
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Yinchuan
Yinchuan is a historic saishang ancient city, as early as 30,000 years ago there were human beings in the Shuidonggou ruins flourishing, the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty in history, folklore also known as "Phoenix City", ancient called "XingqingFu", "Ningxia City", known as "Plugged jiangnan, the hometown of fish and rice" reputation, the west of the city has a famous national scenic spot Western Xia King Mausoleum.
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
City
Kashgar has a long history, with a written history of more than 2,100 years. Kashgar is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of southern Xinjiang, and the largest distribution center for agricultural and animal husbandry products. It is also an important commercial port on the ancient Silk Road, a throat hub for east-west transportation, and an important intersection point for economic culture and civilization in the east and west.
Turpan City
Turpan is an important town on the ancient Silk Road, with more than 4,000 years of cultural accumulation, and was once one of the political, economic and cultural centers in the western region. More than 200 cultural sites have been discovered, and more than 40,000 cultural relics from prehistory to modern times have been unearthed.
Turks County
Turks tourism resources are unique, there is the world's only well-preserved Bagua City, there is a well-preserved, the largest number of Wusun ancient tombs, Wusun Kingdom "Xia Du" former site, Han Dynasty Jingjun Princess here to open the Wusun Guohong Hall building precedent.
Kuqa City
Kucha is the world-famous birthplace of Guizi culture and the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, known as "the music capital of the western region" and "the hometown of song and dance". In December 2019, with the approval of the State Council, it was agreed to abolish Kuqa County and establish a county-level Kuqa City.
Yining City
Yining City is a multi-ethnic area. In the long historical years, all ethnic groups have formed their own unique customs and traditional cultures.
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Editor: Fu Xinxin
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