Are you tired of going to those crowded and cookie-cutter popular tourist cities? Are you looking for some off-the-beaten-path cities with unique charm, history, culture, and natural beauty? If your answer is yes, then take a look at the following 8 lesser-known and fun cities. Songyang, Zhejiang
Songyang, Zhejiang Province is a city with a thousand-year-old city style, known as "the last secret land in the south of the Yangtze River". There are the ancient streets of the old city of the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the "living Qingming Shanghe map", the Mao Mountain, which is known as the holy mountain of Taoism, and the Yanqing Temple Tower, the only and most complete original of the Northern Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. The food is also unique, such as yellow rice cake, wheat bean rice, ash juice cake, eight treasure vegetables and so on.
Jianshui, Yunnan
Jianshui is a historical city with a history of more than 1,200 years, known as "Zou Lu in southern Yunnan, a famous state of literature". Since ancient times, Jianshui has emphasized education and culture, and has the largest Confucian temple in southern China.
1. In addition, there are Zhujia Garden, Swallow Cave and other scenic spots.
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
Zhenjiang has always been a battleground for soldiers, with a history of more than 3,000 years, and is a national historical and cultural city. Zhenjiang has an extremely rich cultural accumulation, leaving behind many historical relics, poetry classics and legends, such as "Hug Puzi" and "Mengxi Writings" and other masterpieces, as well as "The White Lady Water Floods the Golden Mountain" and "Ganlu Temple Liu Bei Recruits Relatives" and other popular stories.
Zhenjiang urban area has many beautiful scenes, such as three mountains, Xijindu, Zhenjiang vinegar culture museum, China Mi Fu calligraphy park, etc.
Anhui Chengkan
Chengkan is a famous Chinese historical and cultural village with a history of more than 1,800 years, and is the only and most well-preserved ancient village of the Ming Dynasty in the country, which completely preserves the ancient architectural groups of the Song, Yuan, Ming and other dynasties. As early as the Song Dynasty, it was praised as "Chengkan Shuangxianli, the first village in the south of the Yangtze River", and was known as the "hometown of national treasures".
Yantai, Shandong
Yantai is an internationally famous coastal city, embraced by mountains and seas, with beautiful scenery, with endless golden sand and blue waves, wonderful landscapes of large and small islands, the famous Penglai Immortal Pavilion, and the ethereal and fantastic mirage, which is a famous tourist and leisure resort.
Shaoxing, Zhejiang
Shaoxing is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of 2,500 years, and is a cultural and eco-tourism city with the characteristics of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River in China, known as the "State of Cultural Relics, the Land of Fish and Rice". The famous cultural monuments here include Lanting, Shen Garden, Shaoxing Lu Xun's hometown, ** ancestral residence, Wang Xizhi's former residence, etc., allowing you to appreciate the ancient water town scenery and literati elegance.
Quanzhou, Fujian
Quanzhou is an international garden city famous at home and abroad, the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road recognized by the United Nations, and is known as the "Seaside Zoulu" and "City of Light". As a national historical and cultural city, Quanzhou is a rare cultural relics city in southern China, with Kaiyuan Temple, Fuwen Temple, Tianhou Temple, Qingyuan Mountain, Qingshui Rock and other scenic spots.
Datong, Shanxi
Datong is the second largest city in Shanxi Province and one of the nine ancient capitals of China, and was once the political, economic and cultural center of the ancient country. Datong is also one of China's largest coal energy bases, known as the "Phoenix City" and the "Coal Capital of China".
Datong has the reputation of "three generations of Jinghua and two dynasties", and has the Northern Wei culture represented by Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple of the Northern Wei Dynasty; Liaojin culture represented by Guanyin Hall and Jueshan Temple Tower; The culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, represented by the Great Wall and the Fortress, allows you to appreciate the charm of ancient civilizations.
Each of these cities has its own character and charm that is worth discovering and experiencing.