Today is December 26, 2023, and we are getting closer and closer to the traditional festival of our country, the New Year's Day. Here, I wish you all a happy New Year's Day in advance. With the New Year's Day holiday approaching, the heat of the winter tourism market continues to heat up. According to relevant data, the overall travel orders for the New Year's Day holiday in 2024 will increase by more than 3 times year-on-year, hotel orders will increase by more than 5 times year-on-year, air tickets will increase by 205, and vacation orders such as customized tours with groups will increase by 240. The number of travel bookings for the New Year's Day holiday increased nearly 4 times year-on-year. Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Harbin, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Nanjing, Changsha and other cities have become popular destinations for New Year's Day holidays. Winter snow roaming season
With the New Year approaching, more and more consumers are turning to travel as a ritual to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. From the perspective of the New Year's Eve crowd, although there is only a 3-day holiday, the enthusiasm of young people to travel is particularly high. During the New Year's Day holiday in 2024, the main group of people traveling is the post-00s, post-90s, and post-80s, accounting for % and 23% respectively. The post-00s "special forces" rose as a new force in the tourism circle and carried the main banner during this New Year's Day holiday. As the travel group becomes younger and younger, consumers are increasingly pursuing the ritual sense of New Year's Eve travel.
Therefore, those issues related to tourist attractions have also become one of the topics that everyone talks about and discusses after dinner. In my country, there is such a place, it is the only 5A scenic spot in China that has been rated as poor because of poverty. It was almost demolished back then, but now it has a profit of more than 100 million!Curious friends may ask, what is this place in?With these questions and curiosity, I will talk to you about those things about the ancient city of Pingyao today. The ancient city of Pingyao is about 85 kilometers away from Taiyuan City, and its specific location is at No. 58, Zhaobi South Street, Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province.
The ancient city of Pingyao is not only one of the relatively well-preserved ancient cities in China, but also the ancient county town that has successfully declared the world cultural heritage with the entire ancient city in China. The streets, shops, and houses in the old town still maintain their traditional layout and style. Throughout the ancient city of Pingyao, its streets are in the shape of "soil". Four main streets, eight side streets. Ascending high and looking into the distance, seventy-two alleys are connected to each other, forming a dense network connecting every corner of the ancient city. Pingyao was once the financial center of China in the late Qing Dynasty, and when you walk into this once prosperous ancient city, you can feel the breath of Jin merchant culture everywhere.
Although the evaluation of the ancient city of Pingyao is mixed, it is rated as 5A, which naturally has its reasons. However, it is hard to imagine that the actual reason for the "5A" rating here is because of "poverty". Why do you say that?Mainly because in the 50s of the last century, the economic development here was slow, and the city had no money to expand, and naturally there was no money to renovate the ancient city. But it is precisely for this reason that the ancient city has not been damaged too much, so it has been preserved intact to this day. At that time, a new road was to be built here, so it was decided to tear down the walls and build a road.
However, because of the lack of funds at that time, and there were many experts and scholars who strongly opposed it, the ancient city of Pingyao was preserved. After that, the tourism value of the ancient city of Pingyao was valued by people, and after some rectification, the ancient city of Pingyao came out with a new look. And as the ancient city of Pingyao is well-known to the public, the ancient city of Pingyao, which has a long history, has won more and more honors, and finally became a 5A-level scenic spot, with an annual tourism income of more than 15 billion yuan, which has made a great contribution to the development of Pingyao.
You don't need a ticket to enter the ancient city, and you need to buy an ancient city pass to climb the city walls and visit attractions such as ticket numbers. The ancient city is not big, it is enough to walk around, and you can take a battery car if you don't want to walk. In addition to the ancient city itself, the other two major attractions in Pingyao are Zhenguo Temple and Shuanglin Temple. There is not a single nail in the whole temple of Zhenguo Temple, and all the structures are made of wood and wood each otherThere are more than 10 halls in Shuanglin Temple that preserve the colored statues from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, which are very exquisite.
Here, I need to remind you that the opening hours of Pingyao Ancient City: 08:00-17:30 all year round. Especially for friends who work and live in Jinzhong, Shanxi and surrounding provinces and cities, if you say, for those who were almost demolished back then, now they have a profit of more than 100 million!What do you want to say about China's only 5A scenic spot that has been rated as poor because of poverty, and you are also welcome to comment and leave a message.