What’s interesting in Changde?

NO.1 Peach Blossom Spring

The Chinese Peach Blossom Spring is located 34 kilometers southwest of Changde City, Hunan Province, in the lower reaches of the Yuanshui River and in ancient Wuling County. It was first built in the Jin Dynasty, first flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It has a long history. It is the location of the Peach Blossom Spring described by the great poet Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in "The Peach Blossom Spring" and has been praised by the world for thousands of years. "Cihai" and "Ciyuan" explain the Peach Blossom Spring. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national forest park, a national AAAA tourist area, and a national important scenic spot. It is well-known both at home and abroad for the beauty of its landscapes and countryside, the prosperity of temples and pavilions, the richness of poems and inscriptions, and the wonders of history and legends. It is the spiritual hometown that Chinese people across the country yearn for.

NO.2 Liuye Lake Tourist Resort

Liuye Lake Tourist Resort is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction with a water area of ??21.8 square kilometers. It is a collection of mountains, water, pastoral, It is a four-in-one complex tourist resort in the city, known as "the first lake in Chinese cities" and "a water paradise surrounded by the city". It has scenic spots such as Happy Water World, Beach Park, Scenic Belt Around the Lake, Baihe Tourist Town, Sports Ecological Park, Sun Mountain Forest Park, Big and Small River Street, German Town, Liu Yi Chuan Shu, Liu Ye Shi Yun and other scenic spots, basically forming a lake. The development pattern of leisure, forest leisure, urban leisure and rural leisure has become a leisure and vacation destination for many tourists.

Photographed by Zhou Peiyi and Qin Meihua

NO.3 Changde Happy Water World

Changde Happy Water World is located in Liuzhou, which has the reputation of "the first lake in Chinese cities". Yehu Resort, the project covers an area of ??approximately 200,000 square meters, covering multiple functions such as theme entertainment, tourism and leisure, and specialty commerce, forming a diversified spatial form such as waterfront, water, island bay, etc. Happy Water World takes 5A-level scenic spots as its standard and fully integrates amusement equipment, supporting facilities, landscapes, lighting, performing arts, etc., and is committed to creating a leisure tourism destination with unique core advantages.

NO.4 Changde River Street

Changde River Street is a new model based on historical stories, culture, sculptures and antique buildings that integrates tourism, commerce, culture and leisure. A memory of the ancient streets of Changde. It has good natural and architectural landscapes, complete supporting functions, extremely high commercial investment value and broad market prospects. It is also a place where Changde people can retain and extend their homesickness, and it is also a place where foreigners can feel their homesickness and be affected by it.

NO.5 German Style Street

German Style Street is located on the bank of Chuanzi River, connected to Qili Bridge and Danyang Road to the south, and Liuye Avenue to the north. It is a testimony of the friendly exchanges between Changde City and Hannover City, Germany. The entire block is elongated, extending to both sides with "Hannover Square" in the middle as the center, integrating with the green and ecological landscape along the Chuanzi River, forming a block scene where modernity and natural landscape complement each other.

NO.6 Old West Gate

Old West Gate is located in the city center of Changde, adjacent to Wuling Pavilion Square, and contains many historical accumulations such as Da Ximen and Xiao Ximen. Lao Ximen transformed the water body of the moat that was once the edge of the city, and brought the moat back to the city center through "sponge city" technology. It won the "Oscar Award" in the field of Chinese architectural creation - the China Architectural Association's Public Architecture Gold Medal. Laoximen Excavates and integrates the two intangible cultural heritages of Changde Silk String and Flower Drum Opera, gathers and collects time-honored brands, Chinese names and Changde craftsmen scattered in the streets to create a cultural experience, architectural expo, tourism shopping, and creative market. A "cultural tourism innovation block" with Changde characteristics.

NO.7 Changde City Planning Exhibition Hall

Changde City Planning Exhibition Hall is located in Baima Lake Cultural Park, with the theme of "Pan-Northwestern Hunan Modern Regional Central City". Planning and display, tourism, culture, and education are integrated. With the support of modern high-tech means, urban planning, global tourism, historical development, etc. are integrated into each exhibition area to combine serving the public with scientific planning, and combining knowledge and interest. , experiential interaction and ecological artistic conception are combined to vividly and detailedly display the past, present and future of Changde, showing the urban changes, history and culture, planning and construction and social and economic development of Changde to tourists. It was rated in December 2014 It is a national AAAA tourist attraction.

NO.8 Chengtoushan Scenic Area

Chengtoushan Scenic Area is a national 4A-level tourist attraction located in Chengtoushan Town, 10 kilometers northwest of Lixian County, Hunan Province. It is the oldest ancient city site discovered in China so far (6,000 years ago), with very complete preservation, extremely rich connotations, and very clear cultural sequence; its archaeological excavation results have been engraved in the bronze corridor of the China Millennium Monument in Beijing and written into the Great Wall of China. , middle school history textbooks. The value of the Chengtoushan site as "China's earliest city" has been generally recognized by experts, scholars and the general public.

NO.9 Huayanxi National Forest Park

Huayanxi is a national AAAA tourist attraction, a national forest park, and a national youth outdoor sports camp. It is located in the remnants of Xuefeng Mountain, 50 kilometers south of Changde City, Hunan Province, with the same mountains and rivers as the Peach Blossom Spring Scenic Area. The scenic area covers an area of ??70 square kilometers, with a forest coverage rate of more than 90%. With its beautiful lakes and mountains, simple folk customs and tens of thousands of egrets that live here, it attracts tourists from home and abroad to come here for sightseeing, leisure and vacation. It is known as the "Chinese Egret" It has the reputation of "hometown and leisure resort in the south of the Yangtze River".

NO.10 Jiashan National Forest Park

Jiashan National Forest Park integrates Zen Buddhism, Tea Zen Ancestral Court, Chuangwang Zen Hermitage, Biyan Zen Spring, and Forest Meditation. Integrated into one, it is a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAAA tourist attraction, and a national forest park demonstration park. The forest coverage rate reaches 93.6, and there are 204 plant species, including Davidia involucrata, xiangguo tree, Liriodendron tulipifera and other precious tree species. Jiashan has a profound cultural heritage. It is the birthplace of "The First Book of Zen" "Biyanlu", the birthplace of the world's tea Zen culture, the source of the world's tea ceremony, the place where King Chuang Li Zicheng passed away in Zen, and one of the sources of Huxiang culture. There are 7 tourist projects in the scenic area: worshiping Buddha in the ancestral court, sightseeing in Zihe, asking questions on Biyan, enlightening Zen in Lingquan, experiencing tea practice, exploring the secrets of King Chuang, and colorful flower fields. Since its opening, Jiang Zemin and many other party and state leaders have visited and inspected the park.

Photographed by Yuan Xinmin

NO.11 Pengshan Scenic Area

Pengshan Scenic Area is located ten miles west of Li County, Hunan Province. It consists of 1,000 acres of wetland and 2,000 acres of water. , a national AAAA-level tourist attraction built on 3,000 acres of natural landscape, a national five-star leisure mountain villa, the most beautiful mountain villa in China, and a rural tourism demonstration site in Hunan Province. The entire scenic spot is based on the concepts of original ecology, health preservation, and nature protection. It is constructed according to local conditions without destroying the original ecology. It enjoys the reputation of "ecological scenic spot, great love for Pengshan".

NO.12 Lin Boqu’s former residence

Lin Boqu’s former residence is located in Liangshuijing Village, Xiumei Township, Linli County. It was built during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a typical residential building of the Qing Dynasty. It was built by his great-grandfather Lin Changhuai when he was the county magistrate in Linshui, Yibin, Sichuan. It was locally called the "Lin Family House". After several major construction developments in 1986, the 100th anniversary of Lin Boqu's birth, and in 2006, the 120th anniversary of Lin Boqu's birth. Especially since 2011, the large-scale transformation around the overall construction plan of "hometown, cemetery, and pastoral" has given Lin Boqu's former residence a completely new look, forming a The "Three Districts and Three Lines" characteristic scenic spot covers an area of ??more than 500 acres. At present, Lin Boqu's former residence is a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAA tourist attraction, a patriotism education base in Hunan Province, a red tourist attraction in Hunan Province, a cultural education base for clean government in Hunan Province, and a national defense education base in Hunan Province.

NO.13 Maple Forest and Sea of ??Flowers

Maple Forest and Sea of ??Flowers Uighur National Customs Garden is located in Fengshhui Hui Township, Taoyuan County, known as the "second hometown" of the Uyghurs. 18 kilometers from Changde city. There are many scenic spots in the park, including the former residence of the famous Marxist historian Jian Bozan; the "Maple Forest and Sea of ??Flowers" covering an area of ??370 acres, mainly composed of red maples, supplemented by golden osmanthus, and a variety of flowers echoing in height; Enter mosques at key religious activity sites in Hunan Province. On August 7, 2017, the Maple Forest and Sea of ??Flowers Tourist Area passed the national AAAA level tourist attraction landscape quality assessment.

NO.14 Yiwangxi

Yiwangxi Scenic Area is located in the southwest of Taoyuan County at the junction of Changde City and Huaihua City. The Yuanjiang River and Yiwangxi in the scenic area form a "blue water jade belt" ", connecting Shuixinzhai, Yiwang Gorge, Nanhai Raging Tide, Leidayan, Xiangshan, Snake Mountain, Turtle Mountain, Zhongguyan, Shuangrufeng, 100 acres of tea garden, thousand-year-old camphor, 10,000 acres of bamboo sea and many other places. The scenic spots form a jade belt and beads on the water upstream. Yiwang Creek is also known as the "Little Guilin of the Yuan River" because of the ancient saying that "the green mountains and clear water are not the same as the Li River, but better than the Li River". In addition to admiring the mountains and rivers, you can enjoy the countryside scenery, eat farmhouse meals, stay in stilted buildings, stay in Linzhongdian, enjoy the night scenery, listen to the sounds of nature, relax in the natural mountains and waters, and enjoy Wuling's original ecological water trip.

NO.15 Xingde Mountain

Xingde Mountain is located in Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province. The characteristics of Xingde Mountain's tourism resources are mainly reflected in the "Four Wonders" - wonders, strange pines, strange rocks, and strange peaks. The wonders are the most prominent, so the function is mainly focused on viewing and experiencing the profound Taoist culture. Xingde Mountain is 842.5 meters high, across the mountain from Wulei Mountain, the Taoist holy land of Cili. It is a famous Taoist mountain that integrates natural and cultural landscapes and has extremely profound cultural heritage.

NO.16 Wuyunjie Ecological Tourism Area

Wuyunjie Ecological Tourism Area is located in the experimental area of ??Wuyunjie National Nature Reserve in Taoyuan County. It echoes the Taohuayuan Scenic Area and is a unique It is an eco-tourism resort with functions such as sightseeing, cultural experience, outdoor sports, ecological leisure, farming experience, leisure vacation, etc., a national-level outstanding demonstration site for rural tourism, and a 3A-level tourist attraction. The scenic spot has charming scenery, high forest coverage, high negative oxygen ion content in the air, many species of animals and plants, profound cultural heritage, and unique food, accommodation, travel, transportation, and entertainment.

NO.17 Huping Mountain, the Roof of Hunan

Huping Mountain is the boundary mountain between Hunan and Hubei provinces. It has an altitude of more than 2,000 meters and the main peak is 2,098.7 meters high. It is called the "Roof of Hunan". The top of Huping Mountain is high on all sides and low in the middle, shaped like the mouth of a pot, so it is named Huping Mountain. Hupingshan Tourist Area is one of the world's 200 key ecological areas, a national nature reserve, and a provincial ecotourism demonstration area. It is known as the "natural labyrinth" on the "Earth's strange circle" (30 degrees north latitude) and the "Noah's Ark" on the Eastern Hemisphere. Hupingshan is rich in species resources and is praised by biological experts as a "green treasure house containing millions of gold".

NO.18 Dragon King Cave

Long Wang Cave is located in Baiyun Town, Shimen County, a major tourist county with beautiful scenery. It is connected to the waters of Xianyang Lake and is a unique landscape cave at the northern foot of Wuling Mountain. Big cave. According to the assessment of the China Geological Research Institute, Longwang Cave has a history of 600 million years and is still growing today. It is one of the few living caves in the world. The Dragon King Cave is connected to the water caves, with a total length of 2.5 kilometers. There are more than 60 large and small scenic spots. Some of the milkstones and stalagmites look like the ten sons of the Dragon King, so they are called the Dragon King Cave. During the Great Revolution, Marshal He Long once led troops to station in this cave, so Marshal Xu Xiangqian personally inscribed the name of the cave "Dragon King Cave". Dragon King Cave is also the filming location for the TV series "Wulong Mountain Bandit Suppression". The climate inside the cave is suitable, with warm winters and cool summers, making it an excellent place for leisure and sightseeing.

NO.19 Qingshui Lake Tourist Resort

Qingshui Lake Tourist Resort is located in Hanshou County, Changde, 20 kilometers away from the urban area. It is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. With the mountains as the background and the lake as the backing, Qingshui Lake has initially formed a new scenic spot integrating education, gardens, sightseeing, entertainment, sports and leisure after several years of construction.

NO.20 West Dongting Lake National Wetland Park

The West Dongting Lake National Urban Wetland Park is located in the West Dongting Lake Wetland in the eastern part of Hanshou County, Hunan Province, with a total area of ??35,680 hectares. In 1998, with the approval of the Provincial People's Government, a provincial nature reserve was established; in 2002, the West Dongting Lake Wetland was included in the list of internationally important wetlands; in 2005, it was named "West Dongting Lake National Urban Wetland Park" by the Ministry of Construction . There are 140 rarely visited islands and islands scattered on the lake. The land is fertile, the climate is warm and humid, and the four seasons are distinct. There are 865 species of wetland plants, 207 species of birds, and 114 species of fish. Among them, there are more than 10 national first-level protected animals including Chinese sturgeon, white crane, bald crane, Chinese merganser, etc. It is one of the largest reed community in the world.