Brief introduction of Kaifeng ancient city wall

Kaifeng City Wall, located in Kaifeng City, Henan Province, was built in the Tang Dynasty and is the second largest existing ancient city wall building in China.

With a total length of 14.4km, Kaifeng City Wall is the second largest ancient city wall building in China after Nanjing City Wall. Kaifeng city wall has a long history, a long history, many twists and turns, endless, through war and the Yellow River flood.

There are five layers of ancient city walls under the existing city walls. Although it has been restored for several dynasties, its scale, pattern and even important coordinates have not changed. Kaifeng City Wall has witnessed the development of Kaifeng city and the indomitable spirit of Kaifeng people, which has great historical and cultural value. From 65438 to 0996, Kaifeng City Wall was announced by the State Council as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Today, all the surrounding areas of Kaifeng city wall are planned to be green parks around the city. Every day, citizens of the ancient city come to the park to exchange various folk activities such as running, diabolo, Henan Henan opera, ballroom dancing and gyro in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Recommended scenic spots in Kaifeng:

1, Riverside Garden on Qingming Festival:

Qingming Shanghe Garden is a large-scale cultural landscape theme park in Song Dynasty, which was jointly built by Kaifeng Municipal People's Government of Henan Province and Hainan Land Group Company. Located on the west bank of Longting Lake in Kaifeng City, it is the first batch of AAAAA-level tourist attractions in China and the exhibition base of China's intangible cultural heritage.

It is a cultural theme park based on painter Zhang Zeduan's realistic painting "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", with "building French customs" as the construction standard, with the theme of street culture, folk customs, royal gardens and ancient entertainment in Song Dynasty, and featuring tourists' participation and experience. The large-scale folk amusement park in Song Dynasty, which reproduces the original landscape, reproduces the prosperous scenery of Bianjing, a thousand-year-old ancient capital.

As a theme cultural park integrating historical and cultural tourism, folk customs tourism, leisure and holiday tourism, interesting entertainment tourism and ecological environment tourism, Riverside Garden on Qingming Festival highlights the characteristics of appreciation, knowledge, entertainment, participation and interest.

2. Bolshoy Sokogi

Dasuoguo Temple, located in the center of Kaifeng, is a national AAAA-level scenic spot and a famous Buddhist temple in China. Founded in Tianbao, Northern Qi Dynasty for six years. Later, it was destroyed by wars and floods.

Ten-year reconstruction of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. There are many temples and historical sites, such as the Temple of the King, the Hall of the Great Hero, the Hall of Octagonal Coloured Glass, the Temple of Scripture and the Buddha with Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes. 1August, 992, Buddhist activities were resumed and buildings such as the bell and drum tower were rebuilt. In 2002, it was rated as a national AAAA tourist attraction.

3. Longting Park

Long Ting Park, located in the northwest corner of Kaifeng City, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. Covers an area of 1300 mu. The whole park includes buildings of Wanshou Palace in Qing Dynasty, such as Wumen Gate, Bridge, Chaomen, Zhaobi and Long Ting, ruins of Gongchen archway in Northern Song Dynasty, stele pavilion, north gate and east gate, as well as lake landscape, spring garden, bonsai garden, plant modeling garden and promenade waterside pavilion.

The whole scenic spot was built on the ruins of the Song and Jin Palace and the Zhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty. Longting Hall is 26.7 meters high, 13 meters, facing south; There are eight courtyards on the east and west sides, which form a complete court courtyard with the main hall, and the first large wax museum of Song Dynasty in China was built in it. From the meridian gate to the main hall is the Imperial Road, with Yangjiahu and Panjiahu on both sides.

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