Yunmeng County is located in Xiaogan City, Hubei Province. It is the core area of ??the ancient Yunmeng Swamp. It retains many long-standing historical relics and excellent traditional cultural elements. Everyone can experience it here To experience unparalleled love and pleasure, here are some recommended attractions in Yunmeng County.
1. Huangxiang Memorial Park AAA
Huangxiang Cultural Park is located in Yitang Town, Yunmeng County, adjacent to the Han-Dan Railway and close to National Highway 316, covering an area of ??178 acres. With a construction area of ??11,886 square meters, construction started in May 2012 and was completed in October 2014 and open to the public free of charge.
The park is divided into three themed functional areas: the welcome area, the cultural area, and the festival area. It consists of four parts: Huangxiang Cultural Center, Jiangxia Hall, Huangxiang Tomb, and Xiaolian Hall. The main buildings include: Huangxiang Cultural Center, Xiao Cultural Performance Hall, Exhibition Hall, Jiangxia Hall (Huang Clan Ancestral Hall, Integrity Education Center, Ceremony Avenue and Square, Huangxiang Tomb, Xiaohun Stone, Huangxiang Statue, Tourist Reception Center, Parking Lot and other cultural facilities , is a large-scale retro building complex that integrates the essence of Han Dynasty architecture and classical garden landscape.
Huangxiang Cultural Park is an educational base and cultural livelihood project for Yunmeng County to inherit and carry forward the Chinese culture of filial piety and integrity. Yunmeng County’s key tourism county project is one of Xiaogan City’s standard buildings and public welfare facilities. In 2014, it was designated by Xiaogan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as the city’s cadre Xiaolian Cultural Education Base. In 2015, it was designated by Xiaogan City. The working committee named it the city's youth filial piety education practice base
Huang Xiang, a famous official of the Eastern Han Dynasty who was born and buried in Yunmeng, was a person in Chinese history who was famous for his filial piety and talent. He is famous for being a filial son, a scholar of the country, a wise minister, and an upright official. His official position has reached Shangshu Ling and Wei Jun Taishou. He is listed as one of the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" in ancient China; Huang Xiang's "fan pillow and warm seat" The allusion can be found in the "Three Character Classic", "Fragrant for nine years, can warm the mat, be filial to relatives, and do what you should do." Therefore, his deeds of filial piety have become a household name, known to all women and children.
2. Xiangshan Museum AAA
p>The Yunmeng Xiangshan Museum is located on Longgang Road in the east of the city. Construction started in 2005. Mr. Ouyang Xiangshan, a successful Yunmeng native and president of Shenzhen Beauty Group, donated nearly 40 million yuan to design and build the museum. The county government invested 20 million yuan. Yuan is used for infrastructure construction. The Xiangshan Museum covers a total area of ??35 acres and has a construction area of ??18,000 square meters. It is imitating the Tang Dynasty architectural style and is magnificent and majestic. It is the largest and highest-standard museum at the county level in Hubei Province.
The main buildings of Xiangshan Museum include a four-story central main building with an area of ??14,000 square meters, an office management building of 1,300 square meters, and an annex building of more than 2,000 square meters. It has a full-frame reinforced concrete structure and marble walls. , covered with blue-grey tiles, the main building of the center decreases in area from bottom to top. The outer wall of the second floor is hung with four huge copper sculptures reflecting Yunmeng's human history. There are terraces above the second floor, surrounded by white marble railings. There is an annex building in the southeast corner and northwest corner of the first-floor terrace. The whole building is simple, solemn and unique in style.
The exhibition layout of Xiangshan Museum is divided into two parts: historical exhibition and planning exhibition. Yunmeng’s historical customs and achievements of reform and opening up. The history exhibition hall is divided into six sections: Yunmeng History, Chu State Capital, Yunmeng Ancient City, Eastern Han Dynasty Pottery Tower, Brilliant Culture, and Millennium Heroes. The planning exhibition hall is divided into leadership care, development events, and more. Nine sections include the new look of the old city, construction achievements, urban planning exhibition area, four-in-one sand table, cinema, key projects and investment promotion, and message box.
3. Quyang River Park
Quyang River Park was originally called Yunmeng Park and was built at the beginning of the new century. The park is located along the road and water. The water refers to the Quyang River and the road refers to Huangxiang Avenue, with the park in between.
Mengze Lake. Wenfeng Tower
Quyang River Park starts from Ziwen Road in the northwest of the county and ends at Zixu Avenue in Wuluo Town in the southeast. The 10-kilometer-long Huangxiang Avenue landscape belt is a key project for Yunmeng County to develop cultural tourism and build a famous tourist county.
The design of the park follows the overall idea of ??"Thousand-year-old Yunmeng Lake, Ten-mile Quyang River", taking Yunmeng history as the axis, reproducing Yunmeng's history, culture and natural scenery. It builds a rubber bridge on the Fu River and diverts water from the Huanggang Gate in the northwest corner of the city into the city, forming a 20 kilometers of water system around the city. At the same time, it is connected to the surrounding three lakes Yangjia Lake, Zhengjia Lake, and Quyang Lake, and relies on the "Three Lakes Link (Fu River)" to build a waterfront platform, cultural corridor, ecological park, lakeside oasis and other characteristic landscapes. The landscape area along the avenue*** It is divided into four sections, namely the historical and cultural display section of the main building with Yingbin Square, Chu and Qin Forbidden Garden, and Qin Slip Square; the historical celebrity display section with bronze statues of historical representatives of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness; The contemporary Yunmeng display section is mainly symbolized by the harmonious Yunmeng, the bright stars, the four seasons of well-being, and the century dragon, and the Jianxinqu landscape section with the Phoenix Terrace Square and the Crouching Deer and Standing Bird Sculpture Square
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Quyang River Park is composed of Huangxiang Avenue, Quyang River (the lower section is Daughter Harbor and the green landscape belt in the middle) in a parallel shape, with a total area of ??about 1,200 acres. The park starts from Ziwen Road in the north and ends in the south. As far as Wuluosi Daughter Harbor, it has a total length of 8957 meters and a width of about 80 to 100 meters. The main road (Huangxiang Avenue) is 28 meters wide. There is a green area of ??more than 50 to 80 meters wide between the main road and Quyang River (Daughter Harbor). Landscape belt, historical celebrities and contemporary gathering display section (scenery). Mainly include Douziwen Cultural District, Qin Bian Cultural District, Huangxiang Cultural District, General Wu Luzhen Terrace, Civic Center Square, Yunmeng Shadow Play Stone Carving Group and Modern Handle Pavilion Gallery, etc. Scenic Area
Quyang River Park is divided into two parts with the Sanhu Bridge on Jianshe East Road as the middle line. The northern end is themed on ancient culture, and the southern end is themed on modern culture. The ancient culture at the northern end is divided into four parts. The first is Dougong Garden, the second is Qin Jian Garden, the third is Huangxiang Garden, and the fourth is Wu Luzhen General Terrace. In the southwest center of the four sub-gardens, there is a "Ziyuan Garden" with an area of ??about 200 acres that is being expanded and constructed in recent years. "Huangxiang Lake Park". 500 meters northwest of "Huangxiang Lake" is the "Yuntaishan Temple" antique building complex covering an area of ??more than 100 acres.
Climb up the three steps from the southwest bank of Sanhu Bridge and head towards The first scenic spot looking to the northwest is the "General Terrace" of Wu Luzhen, the commander of the sixth town of the New Army in the late Qing Dynasty. After passing Jiangjun Terrace Garden, you will arrive at Huangxiang Garden. You can see Huang Xiang holding a memorial in hand and presenting the outline of the country's governance to the emperor. Hundreds of officials leaned forward to listen to the stone sculptures. There was a large stone monument in front of the bronze statue of Huang Xiang. There was a tea house on the front of the monument. The walls of the tea house were painted with murals of Huang Xiang's filial piety and loyalty. From there, you walked through a thick glass path and arrived at Yunmeng. The Qin Dynasty bamboo slips "Qin Slips Garden" and "Dou Gong Yuan" unearthed from Shuihudi shocked China and the world.
Quyang River
Quyang River Park runs from Sanhu Bridge to the southeast. The scenic spots are Mengze Lake, the Baibu Pagoda on the island in the center of the lake, the grand "Xiangshan Museum", Chusheng Hall, the central square and Yunmeng Shadow Sculpture. The entire park combines antique architecture with modern construction, and combines ancient culture. Combined with modern life, people can experience the profoundness of Chinese culture in their spare time
4. Yunmeng Osmanthus Lake Scenic Area
Yunmeng County Osmanthus Lake Scenic Area is located in the west of the county. , the _Shui River east of Qingming River Township
It originates from Dahong Mountain in the southwest of Suizhou. In ancient times, it was the Wujiang River, Qingshui River, Fuhe River and Canglang River. It was known as the mother river of the four counties and cities of Yun'an and Yingxiao. Known as the ancient waterway, in the heart of the Xihe River flowing through the ancient city of Yunmeng, there is a thousand-year-old ancient pool with bottomless depth and fragrance that floats thousands of miles away. It is said that the Bodhisattva, the Patriarch of Emperor Xuanwu, became so powerful that he cast a spell on the pond in the middle of the river to connect it with the Wujiang River, Tongtian River, Shuiliandong and the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea. Thousands of osmanthus flowers were also moved from the Jiutian Moon Palace to surround the pond. It is also said that the Queen Mother passed by the Qingming River section and stopped by the pond in the middle of the river. She felt that the water in the pond was so clear, green and beautiful. She couldn't help but bend down to get a drink from the pond. Unexpectedly, she dropped the osmanthus flower on her head into the pond, causing The water in the pool became purer and sweeter, so later generations called it Osmanthus Pool.
"Yunmeng County Chronicles" records that "the water in Osmanthus Lake is clear and fragrant. Those who are addicted to it will pay several times the price for a cup. Every spring, scholars choose to boil the water and write poems and poems."
The river section of Guihua Lake is about two kilometers up and down. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a court official in the west of the river. Every year during the Qingming Festival, he returned to his hometown and traveled eastward with his family to worship his ancestors in water graves. Therefore, it has been built for more than 600 years. Visitors call it "Qingming River".
800 meters downstream of Osmanthus Lake is the "Baihekou" where water flows into the county river in ancient times. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the "Beihe Distribution", one of the eight scenic spots in Yunmeng ancient town. The county river "Baihekou" was blocked when the Fu River was diverted in 1960. Inside and outside the river embankment are the county's tap water supply engineering facilities. In the middle of the river, there is a very spectacular rubber boiling water for both drainage and irrigation.
The riverbanks on the east and west banks of Guihua Lake on the Qingming River are ancient battlefields where the peasant rebel army of Chuang King Li Zicheng fought bloody battles with the Ming and Qing Dynasty officials from 1643 to 1645. In 1984, the Beijing Film Studio chose this location for filming (there was also another location in Shahe Township for filming "The Club of Two Heroes".
In history, Guihua Lake has been successively known as "Qingshui Jindu" and "White Crane". "Kou Gang" and Wu surnamed Street Ferry. "Zuo Zhuan" records that in the winter of 506 BC, during the battle between Wu and Chu Baiju, "the Chu army retreated and transitioned here, and was attacked by Banji." Before and after liberation, Guihuatan Ferry has always been a wooden boat ferry. In the early 1990s, it was converted into a boat-bridge floating ferry. At the beginning of the new century, from 2001 to 2002, a 226.54-meter long ferry was built on the Tandu. , 12.5 meters wide, with a total investment of 8 million yuan, the "Osmanthus Pond Bridge"
There are several leisure farms on the west bank of the Osmanthus Pond Bridge, which is surrounded by slopes, shaded by trees, and elegant bamboo fences. It is unique, has the charm of a water town, and has endless scenery. When you climb the embankment and look to the west, you will see the Huangjiang Estuary, "Huangjiang Xiaoxue", Qingming River, "_Shui Chunxi", and the Wujiashan Scenic Area on the east bank of a strip of water. There are towering trees and four 2- to 3-story barges on the river. They look like sedans and towers, with dragons and phoenixes dancing and colorful flags flying. They sell snacks all year round, and there are also many small boats for tourists to enjoy sightseeing in the middle reaches of the lake, about one kilometer north of the east bank. , is a Shahechang covering an area of ????100 acres and the famous Huanggang Gate of the military and civilian port
5. Yunmeng Wenfeng Tower
Wenfeng Tower is located in the east pearl of Yunmeng City. Therefore, the tower is only a hundred steps away from the city, so it is called "Hundred Steps Tower". When cloth merchants from other places traveled thousands of miles to Yunmeng to catch the Baibu Market, they knew they were near Yunmeng City when they saw the top of the tower, so they called it "Hundred Steps Tower". The pronunciation of "Bu Pagoda" is changed to "White Cloth Pagoda".
Wenfeng Pagoda is a brick and wood structure, regular hexagon, 3 floors, 3 feet 6 feet high, the top of the tower points directly to the sky, and the top of the tower has the words The two characters "Yingkui" refer to the Kui constellation. The 16 stars in this constellation are arranged in a curved and interlocking shape, like the strokes of words, so they are used to symbolize articles and literary fortunes, which are the Wenqu stars in folklore. The purpose of writing these two words on Feng Pagoda is very clear.
The construction of Wenfeng Pagoda is indeed related to Yunmeng's literary fortune. Although Yunmeng is a small county, in the early Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination was very difficult. The examination results can be regarded as the best in De'an Prefecture and even Hubei Province. The enrollment scale of Yunmeng Confucianism was upgraded from primary school (20 Confucian students) to middle school (30 Confucian students) during the Kangxi period, and was upgraded to university (Confucian students) during the Yongzheng period. 40 children. In the 150 years from the founding of the Qing Dynasty to the end of Qianlong, Yunmeng had passed the imperial examination for 22 years. After Jiaqing, Yunmeng's literary fortune declined. There were two Jinshis named Peng Yuanhai and Dai Qisong. This was undoubtedly a strong shock to the local officials and gentry. They thought that Yunmeng's literary fortune would be revived from now on. In the spring of 1834 AD, De'an Prefecture sent Xiang Ying, an alternate magistrate, to serve as the magistrate of Yunmeng County. The county magistrate complied with public opinion and decided to build a Feng Shui pagoda in order to revitalize Yunmeng's cultural movement. Under his initiative and auspices, The local government raised three hundred taels of money to build the Wenfeng Pagoda next to Dongyue Temple on Pearl Slope in the east of the city.
6. The ancient tombs in the suburbs of Yunmeng City
It is located in the east of Chengguan Town, Yunmeng County. Southern suburbs, western suburbs, Eastern Zhou and Han tombs. It consists of five small tomb groups, namely the Pearl Slope Tomb Group, the Longgang Tomb Group, the Carpenter Tomb Group, the Shuihudi Tomb Group, and the Dafantou Tomb Group. Among them, two tomb groups, Zhenzhupo and Longgang, are located in the southeastern suburbs, and three tomb groups, Carpenter Tomb, Shuihudi and Dafantou, are distributed from north to south in the western suburbs. The Pearl Slope tombs cover an area of ??about 70,000 square meters. 18 small rectangular earth pit tombs have been excavated, including 16 Eastern Zhou tombs and 2 Qin and Han tombs. Unearthed from Eastern Zhou tombs are imitation copper pottery tripods, painted pottery beans with lids, painted pottery pots, painted pottery small mouth tripods, wood carvings of lying deer and standing birds, etc.
Unearthed from Qin and Han tombs were pottery cauldrons, urns, bronze mirrors, corner ornaments, ironware fragments, etc.; the carpenter tomb group covers an area of ??about 40,000 square meters. In 1975, two earthen pit and wooden coffin tombs were excavated. The unearthed pottery includes tripods, pots, urns, cauldrons, jars, bowls, bowls, etc.; bronze wares include bowls; lacquer wares include flat pots, ear cups, round boxes, 獮, etc. Some of the wares are stamped with the characters "Ting" and "三". ; Wooden utensils include ear cups, grates, etc.; Shuihudi tombs cover an area of ??about 120,000 square meters. In 1975, 1977 and 1978, 50 tombs were excavated. Most of them are tombs with a single coffin and a single coffin in a north-south vertical pit. The unearthed artifacts include copper, iron, pottery, lacquered wood, silk, jade, bamboo, etc. Among them, Qin slips were unearthed at M; the large tomb group covers an area of ??about 5,000 square meters. In 1972, three earth-pit wooden coffin tombs were excavated, and artifacts unearthed included copper, lacquer wood, bamboo, pottery, porcelain, jade, etc.
7. Xin'an Temple
Xin'an Temple is located in the Xin'an section of Shahe, Yunmeng County, National Highway 316, at the junction of Xin'an Village, Shahe Township, Yunmeng County and Qili Village, Wolong Township, Xiaonan District , only 2 kilometers away from Xiaogan city center.
The temple has yellow walls and orange tiles, which are magnificent, majestic and solemn. The courtyard is surrounded by cloisters, winding paths, towering trees, and flowers blooming in all seasons. It is a good place to devote yourself to spiritual practice and purify the soul. A good place for travel and leisure.
Xin'an Temple was originally called Xin'an Temple. According to historical records, Xin'an Temple was where Wu Zixu took refuge. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Wu She, the Taifu of the Chu State, was framed by the traitor Fei Wuji. Wu She and his eldest son Wu Shang were killed by King Ping of Chu, and his second son Wu Zixu defected to the State of Wu. Wu Zixu fled to Danyang County, 4 kilometers west of the south of the river (now a temple in Xin'an Village, Shahe Township, Yunmeng County), where he hid him and escaped disaster. After Wu Zixu defected to the State of Wu, he was named a doctor and led his troops to defeat Chu State. In order to repay his life-saving grace, Wu Zixu allocated ten thousand taels of silver to expand the temple where he took refuge and named it Xin'an Temple.
In September 2003, Yunmeng County raised 3 million yuan. It took 4 years to rebuild the Xin'an Temple, a relic of the Warring States Period, and built the Amitabha Hall, Tianwang Hall, Ksitigarbha Hall, guest hall, Buddhist hall circulation area, and living facilities such as the dining hall and dormitories for 300 people. On March 5, 2007, Xin'an Temple held the temple completion and Buddhist statue consecration ceremony. The temple educates believers to love the country and religion, cultivate charity, and actively carry out charity work, help the poor, help the disabled and respect the elderly, provide disaster relief, build bridges and roads, and protect the people. Ecological and other social welfare activities. In June 2008, the Hubei Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee awarded Xin'an Temple the title of "Five Best" religious activity sites.
In recent years, Yunmeng County has listed Xin'an Temple as a famous tourist county. Build one of the ten key projects, deeply explore religious cultural resources, effectively promote the development of religious cultural tourism, and strive to create unique religious cultural tourism attractions.
8. Yunmeng Confucian Dacheng Hall
The Confucian Dacheng Hall is located on Wenhua Road, Chengguan Town, Yunmeng County. It was built in the Qing Dynasty in the third year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty (1337) and rebuilt twice in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648). It is now a Qing Dynasty building. The main building of the Confucian Temple (no other buildings survive) was moved from the downtown area of ??Chengguan, Yunmeng County to its current location in 1985. Facing north and south, it has five rooms in width, three rooms in the deep and bright rooms, and four rooms in the secondary and small rooms. It is 20 meters wide, about 13 meters deep, with a column network area of ??about 260 square meters and a floor area of ??about 330 square meters. It has double eaves, a yellow glazed tile roof, and a raised beam structure in the first and second rooms. There is a cross-bucket structure between the two mountains. The upper and lower eaves are decorated with five steps, and the front eaves are equipped with a lattice door. There is a Confucian monument renovated in the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933). This building is a study of the Qing Dynasty in Hubei. Important physical data of modern large-scale buildings and Confucian temple buildings
Protection scope: extending 10 meters from the outer wall of the Confucian Dacheng Hall building
9. Yunmeng Sizhou Temple.
Sizhou Temple is located in Xiaxindian Town, Yunmeng County, Xiaogan City, backed by Han-Dan Railway and close to Han-Yi Highway, 60 kilometers away from Wuhan City and 40 kilometers away from Xiaogan City.
Sizhou Temple was built in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, and rebuilt in the fourth year of Taiding in the Yuan Dynasty. The main hall and bell and drum tower in the temple are simple in shape, with unique cornices and unique craftsmanship. It is the only Yuan Dynasty-style ancient temple in Hubei Province. The building is now listed as one of the 450 large temples in the country.
In recent years, Sizhou Temple has become a well-known Buddhist tourist attraction. "It swallows the Yunmeng Ze and shakes the Yueyang Tower." Sizhou Temple is like a dazzling pearl embedded in the water town Zeguo. In the temple, you can feel the Sanskrit music of bells in the morning and drums in the evening, and look at the white water in the fields. It is like dreaming in a fairyland, and you feel relaxed and happy.
In early 2002, a physical Buddha was discovered in the temple. It was formed after a senior monk in the temple took a seat and was sealed underground for three years to prevent decay. It is now intact as before.
Transportation Guide
Take a bus from major bus stations in Wuhan directly to Yunmeng County, and then transfer to Xiaxindian Town.
10. Yunmeng_Shui National Wetland Park
Yunmeng_Shui National Wetland Park covers an area of ??1057 hectares and is located near the county seat, starting from Yunmeng and Anlu_ in the north. The junction of water rivers, south to the junction of Yunmeng and Yingcheng water rivers, connects Quyang River and Laoxian River through Junmin Port at Huanggang Gate, and merges into the water at Baihekou after encircling the city.
_Wetlands have rich habitats, a wide variety of animals and plants, and obvious ecological characteristics. They have multiple functions such as maintaining biodiversity, regulating water storage for irrigation, and purifying water quality. They are an important component of the wetland ecosystem in watersheds. Some of them are typical and representative in the Jianghan Plain Lake Area.
The Yunmeng_Shui National Wetland Park was approved for construction in December 2015, and was approved as a national pilot project in 2016.
Yunmeng County is not only surrounded by mountains and rivers, the lake inside the county is also scattered with blossoming lotus flowers, decorating it like a fairyland. Yunmeng County was also called Yunmengze in ancient times. The local residents lived by the water. Nine rivers, large and small, meander through this small county. The scenery of the water town makes people forget to leave.
This Yunmeng County has become a place for Internet celebrities to check in, and there are countless surprises waiting for everyone to discover. The interesting shadow puppet show that everyone has seen on TV, the Han dragon lantern dance that has been passed down from generation to generation, and the local delicacies also make everyone drool. Local delicacies such as Yunmeng fish noodles and steamed buns also make everyone fall in love with this county.