Located in the northwest foot of the Yellow Mountain with 11 kilometers away from the Yixian County, the Hongcun Village is a peculiar ancient village in the ancient Yi peach garden showing as the cattle shape. Covering an area of 19.11 hectares, the Hongcun Village has a history of 900 years. The whole village was built relying on the mountains and along water, and the green mountains in its back is its protective screen to leave the village clear and refreshed topography and keep off the strong wind from the north side to make it avoid the danger of the strike of mountain torrents break out and also offer tourists ideal place to enjoy the fun of beautiful mountain scenery and fair spring sound.

Hongcun Village

Walking around the Hongcun Village, you can sense the spirituality of water in the village. Its high topography leaves the poetic scenery in front of you, which makes the Hongcun Village a combination of natural landscape and humanistic landscape, and it is honored as the village in the picture. The Hongcun Village features different scenery in different seasons, whose people, architecture and landscape are in harmony. People there feel like walking in the picture and the Hongcun Village is the shining example of the combination of human and nature.

Hongcun Village

The main architectures of the Hongcun Village are residences and private gardens, besides, there are also some other communal facilities such as Ancient Academy and ancestral halls, whose construction group is complete. All kinds of buildings pay attention to sculpture decoration including wood carving, tile carving, stone caving of exquisiteness and elegance full of high artistic value. The village streets mostly built along water and its dwellings are mainly distributed along and around the lunar palus. When have a travel there, just appreciate the unique ancient buildings there and enjoy its beauty!

Hongcun Village

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 24 hours; 2) Ticket price: 104 RMB/adult; 3) Duration: 1 day; 4) Best time to visit: March-April and November as you can appreciate large area of rape flower, and green hills and blue waters during March to April and view the beautiful red autumnal leaves in early November.

The Yellow Mountain, located in the south of the Anhui province is the Taoist Holy Place with a plenty of site and relic. It is one of the ten famous mountains in China enjoying the reputation of “ No.1 Strange Mountain under the Heaven.” Yellow Mountain is the most beautiful and one of the impressive ten famous mountains in China, famous summer resort, national scenic spot and health resort in China, it has listed as one of the “ Top Forty Tourist Resorts in China” and one of “ the National Top Ten Scenic Spots” in 1985 and listed in the world cultural and natural heritage list by UNESCO in 1990 and listed as World Geo Park in 2004.

Yellow Mountain

As a famous attraction in China, the Mount Yellow is the only one attraction in China that possesses two top world crowns: the world cultural heritage, natural heritage and the World Geo Park. Located in the subtropical monsoon climate zone with high mountain and deep valley, the climate there shows vertical changes, whose main characteristic are much cloud and mist, heavy humidity and much precipitation, all of these make the scenery there beautiful and wonderful.

Yellow Mountain

There are four wonders in Yellow Mountain: odd pines, strange stones, sea of clouds and hot springs, which are the four unique landscape there. The pines there are the variants made by the unique landform and climate of the Yellow Mountain; the strange stones are famous for its oddness and its large number; the sea of cloud, however, you can view its best scenery in winter; its hot springs, also called the soup spring, can be drunk and also can be bathed.

Yellow Mountain

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 6:30 a.m. -17:00 p.m. and the ropeway running time is 08:00 a.m. -16:00 p.m. in winter time and 06:30 a.m. -17:00 p.m. in other seasons. 2) Ticket price: 230 RMB/ adult in the peak season from 1^st March to 30^th November and 150 RMB/ adult in slack season from 1^st December to 28^th February. 3) Duration suggestion: 2 days. 4) Best time to visit: all seasons are suitable: in spring time from March to May you can enjoy the all kinds of flowers blooming and pine sprouting and birds singing; in summer time from June to August you can view the pine, the cloud and mist and cool yourself there; in autumn time from September to November you can appreciate the green pines, pale stone, red maple and yellow chrysanthemum there; in winter time from December to February you can see the ice, snow flower and fog pine there.

Mount Lu Scenic Area

Mount Lu Scenic Area, also called Kuang Mountain or Kuang Lu Scenic Area, is a famous mountain located in the Jiujiang city of the Jiangxi Province, standing erectly near the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Panyang Lakes and also extending for 25 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide from the northeast to southwest and stretching among more than 90 peaks.

Being an AAAAA level scenic spots in China, the Mount Lu Scenic Area is one of the developments to the Chinese civilization. The Buddhism and Taoism temple here are on behalf of the White Deer Cave Ancient Academy of the neo-Confucianism idea and on behalf of the Guanyin Bridge of the high-tech architecture in ancient times, and it integrates into the natural beauty of outstanding value by its unique way so as to form into one of the cultural landscapes with high aesthetic value and closely contact with the Chinese national spirit and cultural life. It is one of the Four Major Summer Resorts in China together with the Jigong Mountain, Beidaihe and Mogan Mountain.

Mount Lu Scenic Area

Those tall and straight and green mountains, spraying-snow-and-sound-ray like silver springs and plunging waterfall, rapidly changing sea of clouds, beautiful and spectacular and exquisite garden architectures, cloud and mist of all the year round, and all kinds of strange stones and pines and most of all the spring-like cool climate in the midsummer make the Mount Lu Scenic Area a ideal place for travelers from home and abroad yearning to have a visit—it is most famous scenic spot and summer resort in China.

Lushan region is rich in water resource and it has a wealth of precipitation, surface water and groundwater, besides, it is rich in biological resources with the forest coverage rate of 76.6%; most of all, it features moderate climate with the cool summer and not so clod winter and the characteristic of its season is late spring, short summer, early autumn and long winter.

Mount Lu Scenic Area

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 6:00 a.m. – 20:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 180 RMB/adult in peak season and 135 RMB/adult in slack season. 3) Duration suggestion: 3 days. 4) Best time to visit: summer time as it is very cool at that time.

Lingyun Mountain

Located in the Leshan Giant Buddha scenic area, the Lingyun Mountain is an AAAA level attraction in China and a national forest park and Lingyun mountain scenic spot of Gao Ping area in Nanchong city of Sichuan Province. It was honored as one of the best scenic spots for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the new China in the year of 2009.

Lingyun Mountain is 562.6 meters above sea level, and it is characterized by the unique geomorphology of Green Dragon in left, White Tiger in right, Vermilion Bird in front and Sable Serpent in the back. The landform there is continuous with the towering trees. You will experience its “grandness, oddness, danger and quietness when you have a climb there. The Lingyun monastery in its mountaintop was built in the end of Han dynasty, and the Zhenwu Palace remaining there was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, featuring Yuxian Hill, Xiangmo Stand, Laojun Cave, Old Dragon Cave, Wangfu Cliff, Sheshen Cliff, General Tomb and other natural wonders, enjoying the reputation of “ Fruit County Soul Mountain.”

Lingyun Mountain

Covering an area of near 20 square kilometers, the Lingyun Mountain scenic area sets Lingyun Mountain Taoism City, Baishan Buddhism City, Tushan Confucian Culture Center as its main body. The traditional culture of the Lingyun Mountain has a long history, which makes it be a Buddhist attraction for a long history since Tang dynasty, where you can view a plenty of monasteries there. What’s more, there is a temple complex newly built on its top which contains hundreds of statues, from where you can appreciate the wonderful view of the Leshan Giant Buddha.

What make the Lingyun Mountain famous is its geomantic geography, geomorphology of the mountain shape, monastic temples, stone carving art and good natural ecology. It is really a good place for you to visit during you tour to Mount Emei, especially for those Buddhists.

Being an AAAAA level scenic spot, the Leshan Giant Buddha, also called the Lingyun Giant Buddha, is located in the infall of the Minjiang River, Qingyi River and the Dadu River, facing the Leshan city in the other side of the river. Leshan Giant Buddha was caved in the crags of the infall of the three rivers and it is a Maitreya Buddha statue in the cliff of the Lingyun Mountain along the south band of the Minjing River. It is one of the art boutiques of the inscriptions statues in Tang Dynasty and the biggest stone carvings Maitreya Buddha statue in the world.

Leshan Giant Buddha

The Giant Buddha sits in the square and serious posture with his hands on his knees, whose appearance looks so solemn. With the exquisite and clever design, the drainage facilities of the Giant Buddha are implicit and invisible.

Leshan Giant Buddha

The Leshan Giant Buddha scenic area is composed of Lingyun Mountain, Wulong Mountain, giant sleeping Buddha landscape etc. Covering an area of 8 square kilometers and belonge to the Mount Emei scenic area, the Leshan Giant Buddha is a famous scenic area that has attracted a plenty of travelers from home and abroad. There goes a saying for Leshan Giant Buddha, “Go up for Mount Emei and go down for Lingyun Mountain.”

Leshan Giant Buddha

With its height of more than 70 meters and 20 meters higher than the biggest standing Buddha statue in Afghanistan, the Leshan Giant Buddha has been sitting here quietly for thousand years, watching the river running in front of it and seeing the world changing.

Travel tips: Opening time: 7:30 a.m. -18:30 p.m. in peak season during 1st April to 7th October and 8:00 a.m.-17:30 p.m. during the slack season from 8th October to 31st March; 2) Ticket price: 90 RMB/ adult including the ticket prices of the Leshan Giant Buddha, Wurao Temple and Mahaoya Tomb. 3) Duration: 4 hours. 4) Best time to visit: all the year round.

Emei Mountain

Emei Mountain, located in the Emei city of Sichuan province in the southwest of Sichuan basin with 7 kilometers away from the Emei city center in the west and 37 kilometers away from the Leshan city center in the east, covers an area of 154 square kilometers, whose peak is 3,099 meters above the sea level. Featuring the steep terrain and the beautiful scenery, the Emei Mountain enjoys the reputation of “ Top Mountain under Heaven.” The climate there is various and the vegetation is rich with a total number of more than 3,000 plants, among which including some rare tree species in the world. There are also many Monkey Folk along the mountain path, which often in droves to tourists to beg for food, and this is one main unique feature of the Emei Mountain.

Emei Mountain

Emei Mountain is one of the four great Buddhist mountains in China and also an AAAAA level scenic spot in China, and the Leshan Giant Buddha of the Emei Mountain has been listed in the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO as both cultural and natural heritage in 6^th, December 1996.

The Emei Mountain is a famous scenic spot that has attracted numerous travelers from home and abroad. It is characterized by grandness, elegance, miraculousness and spectacularity and profound Buddhist culture. It is also famous for its foggy weather as it is always curled up by the cloud and mist all the year round and they are permeated among the mountain with various shapes to make the Emei Mountain very pretty and charming.

Emei Mountain

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 6:00a.m. -18:30p.m. during the peak season from 16^th January to 14^th December and 7:00 a.m. -17:50 p.m. during the slack season from the 15^th December to 15^th January. 2) Ticket price: 185 RMB/ adult in peak season and 110 RMB/ adult in slack season. 3) Duration: 3 days. 4) Best time to visit: spring time and autumn time as the climate is moderate and the scenery is charming. 5) Best time to appreciate the sunrise is the 5:45 a.m. in summer and 6:50 a.m. in winter; appreciate the sea of clouds and the Light of Buddha in 9:00-10:00 in the morning and 3:00-4:00 in the afternoon; appreciate the rhododendron in the end of April to May and the red autumnal leaves in October; Play with snow and go skiing in November to March.

Covering an area of more than 5 square kilometers, the Jinsha Ruin is located in the one site of the Shang and Zhou ages in Jinsha Village, Chengxi Supo County, Chengdu in Sichuan province. It is one of the national key cultural relics protection units in China and the first important archaeological discovery when China entering into the twenty-first century.

The Jiansha Ruin is discovered by those civilian workers who excavated the construction plant of the Shufeng garden street. It became famous the moment being excavated out after being burnt under ground for more than 3,000 years as its Sun God Bird Ring is so magnificent and glorious. Being 50 kilometers from the sanxingdui relics site, the Jinsha culture was found in 1250 BC to 650 BC, among which it was the most prosperous in the 1000 BC. The Jinsha Culture and the Sanxingdui Culture is similar, however, the Jinsha culture has no wall and it equals to the last issue of the Sanxingdui, which stands of one transfer of the political center of the ancient Shu country in China.

Jinsha Ruin

The Jinsha Ruin Museum is open in 2007, which exhhibit the relics and the sacrificial area spot of the site. Covering an floor area of 300, 000 square meters and overall floorage area of 38, 000 square meters, the Jinsha Ruin Museum is built to protect, research and exhibit the Jinsha Ruin and the unearthed cultural relics, which composed of four main parts: the ruins museums, the exhibition hall, the relics protection center and the garden area. Traveling here, you will find sacrifice places, huge buildings, normal residences, and graveyards.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 8:00 a.m. to 17:30 p.m. all the year round; 2) Ticket price: 80 RMB/adult; 3) Ways to go there: take the city public buses No. 5, 7, 32, 41, 79, 82, 83, 84, 88, 96, 100, 111, 163, 305,311 and 320 to the Jinxi Road West stop near the Jinsha Ruin Museum within 20 meter; 4) 18th, May is the “ International Museum Day”, and the Jinsha Ruin Museum if free to all travelers during that day.

Sanxingdui in Chengdu

Located in the Guanghannanxing County in Sichuan province, the Sanxingdui got its name because of three towering yellow hills in the Chengdu plane and it has been the national key cultural relic protection unit and the ruin site of the “Green Bronze Period” in the north-west China. It is the representative of the earlier culture of the Yangtze area and the earliest culture that has been known in the letter history until now in China, which characterized by both the Baodun Culture of the ancient Shu country and the Jinsha Culture with a long history of about 2,000 years.

Sanxingdui in Chengdu

The Sanxingdui has broken a plenty of the world record and among which some are listed in the World Record Association in the follows: 1) the earliest and tallest Bronze Tree in the world whose weight is 384 centimeters, it is judges as the hibiscus tree in the ancient fairy tales. 2)  The earliest gold scepter in the world whose length is 142 centimeters, diameter 2.3 centimeters and weight about 700 grams with some emblazonry such as human heads, fish and birds engraved on it. 3) The biggest and most intact statue of the bronze great standing person in the world, known as the king of the bronze statue, is 262 centimeters high and 180 kilograms weight. 4) The biggest bronze lengthways-view human statue in the world with its height 64.5 centimeters and the distance between two ears 138.5 centimeters. 5) It produced the most bronze human head statues and masks one time in the world reaching 50 pieces.

Sanxingdui in Chengdu

The historical value of the finding of the Sanxingdui in the field of history features the following important meanings: 1) It helps people to reknow about the Bashu culture; 2) It spreads the bronze culture over the world. 3) It expresses the national worship of the Chinese people.

Travel information: 1) ticket: 80 RMB/adult for the Sanxingdui Museum and 5 RMB/ adult for the garden visiting. 2) Ways to go there: Take the long-way Shifang bus in the Chengdu bus station and get down in the Sanxingdui in the mid-way with the distance of about 1hour drive and price of 6 Yuan; besides, there are non-stop tourist cars to the Sanxingdui from Chengdu.

Wuhou Memorial Temple

Wuhou Memorial Temple, located in Chengdu of Sichuan province and covers an area of 150,000 square meters, is first built in the year of 223 during the Liubei period and it is the only memorial temple in China for both emperor and officials and the most famous memorial site for Zhugeliang, Liubei and other heroes in Shuhan period in China. Moreover, it is the biggest museum for the Three-Country heritage in the world. It has been listed as the key cultural relics protection unit in 1961 and the first level museum in China in 2008.

Divided into three main parts historical heritage area (relics area), west area (the experience area of the Three-Country), Liji customer area (Liji), the Wuhou Memorial Temple enjoys the reputation of the “Holy Site of the Three-Country” and it has attracted hundreds of thousands travelers from home and abroad.

Wuhou Memorial Temple

Also called the Temple of Marquis, the Wuhou Memorial Temple was built to remember the master of Zhugeliang in Three-Country period and it got the name because of the “Marquis” honor that Zhugeliang got before he died. It is a AAAA attraction and the major scenic spot introducing and memorizing the Zhugeliang in China and also a famous attraction in Chengdu. Traveling here, you will find all the buildings such as the main gate, the second gate, the Hanzhao Temple, the Wuhou Memorial Temple etc. were arrayed in the middle axis line from the south to the north. Besides, you can also find the Liubei Palace is the tallest and its architecture is the most majestic. I’m sure you will feel shocked when having a visit here.

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 7:30 a.m. to 21:00 p.m. in summer and 8:00 a.m. to 18:30 p.m. in winter. 2) Ticket price: 60 RMB/ adult. 3) Ways to go there: take the city public buses No.1, 10, 57, 82, 301, 334, 335, 123, 321, 901 or 904.

Dufu’s Thatched Cottage， also called the Huanhua Cottage, Gongbu Cottage or Shaoling Cottage, is located in the side of a stream called the Huanhua in the west suburbs of the Chengdu city of Sichuan province. It is nowadays a Dufu’s Thatched Cottage museum in honor of the great realism poet Dufu in Tang dynasty in China. It was the residence of Dufu when he reached Chengdu and was rebuilt and protected by the later generations.

Dufu, a famous representative of the realism, lived in the turning period from the prosperous to the decline in the Tang Dynasty. His poems are characterized by the archaism, eight lines, and various styles and depressed feeling to show the historical process of economy of the Tang Dynasty changing from the prosperity to the depression, and it has been called the “Poem History”. He has also been praised as the “Poet Sage” because of his great attainments of his thought and artist for his creation of poems and his glorious achievement. He has written more than 1,400 poems in total.

Dufu's Thatched Cottage

Covering an area of nearly 300 hectares, the Dufu’s Thatched Cottage completely maintains the pattern of the Jiaqing period in Qing Dynasty. The gardens inside it are very unique mixed Chinese classical gardens and the museum is divided into 3 parts according to its functions: the cultural relics sightseeing area, the garden sightseeing area and the service area. In the cultural relics sightseeing area, you will see the river winding across the bridge with the bamboo trees surrounding along both banks, which makes it not only solemn, simple and elegant, but also deeply quiet and pretty. The Stele Pavilion “Shaoling Cottage” inside the museum symbolizes the cottage of Dufu, and it has been the symbolic attraction of the Dufu’s Thatched Cottage and the famous attraction in Chengdu.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 7:30 a.m. to 19:00 p.m. in summer and 8:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m. in winter. 2) Ticket price: 60 RMB/ adult. 3) Ways to get there: take the city buses No. 208, 82, 59, 35, 170, 58 and 165 to the Dufu’s Thatched Cottage stop.