The City Wall of the Ancient City of Taizhou

🗺️Two-day one-night travel itinerary: Day1: Hotel🏨🔜Taizhou Mansion Wall🕋🔜Lunch🍽️🔜Ziyang Street🎆🔜East Lake⛲️🔜Dinner🍴 Day2: Breakfast🥞🔜Guoqing Temple⛩️🔜Tiantai Mountain Waterfall🌊🔜Dinner🥘🔜Return home💕 🖼️Attractions: ✅Ziyang Street Lots of delicious food, and you can also visit nearby places like Taizhou Mansion and Longxing Temple Ticket🎫: Free Opening hours⏰: All day ✅East Lake Taizhou's 'Little West Lake', with pavilions and terraces, every brick and tile is photogenic, especially beautiful under the sunlight Ticket🎫: 14/person (half price for students & seniors) Opening hours⏰: 7:00～18:00 ✅Guoqing Temple: The architectural style is simply the pinnacle of domestic temple aesthetics, with bamboo paths leading to secluded spots and a tranquil atmosphere Ticket🎫: Free Opening hours⏰: 7:00～16:00 ✅Tiantai Mountain Waterfall Here you can directly experience the scene described in Li Bai's poem: 'The waterfall descends like a flowing stream from three thousand feet, it seems like the Milky Way is falling from the sky' Ticket🎫: 100/person Opening hours⏰: 8:00～16:00 (entry stops at 15:30) 🏠Accommodation: Recommended hotels🏨 in Linhai area, great value for money, with nearby shopping malls and convenient transportation 🍧Cuisine: Buddha's hand, Tanhu, Wangchao, Sand garlic, Sanmen green crab, Egg white lamb tail, Wheat shrimp, Seaweed cake, Black rice mochi, Wheat cake, Bubble shrimp, Qian cake, Date cake, etc. 🚗Transportation: High-speed train🚄: Linhai South Station/Taizhou West Station➡️Bus🚌/DiDi Airplane✈️: Taizhou Luqiao Airport➡️Taxi🚖

Taizhou Prefecture City was first built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty! It is a thousand-year-old city full of rich cultural heritage! Glutinous rice cakes, egg white lamb tails, rice cakes, soaked shrimp... It's also a paradise for delicious snacks, how can glutinous rice lovers resist! Take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday or weekend, go for a stroll 📷 ... 📝I've put together a 2-day evening Taizhou Linhai guide for you~ 📍Navigate to 'Zhejiang Taizhou Linhai Ziyang Ancient Street' High-speed rail 'Linhai' Hangzhou is over an hour away, Shanghai is over two hours away 🗺Recommended route: day1️⃣: Xingshan Gate of the Prefecture City (starting point) Longxing Temple ➡️ Jinshan Park ➡️ Ziyang Ancient Street East Lake Park ➡️ Chicheng Road (night market) ➡️ Ziyang Ancient Street (night market) day2️⃣: Lansheng Gate of the Prefecture City (up to Taizhou Prefecture City Wall) ➡️ Plum Garden (walk to Chaotianmen) ➡️ Xingshan Gate (down Taizhou Prefecture City Wall) ➡️ Bear Infested Happy Harbor (direct bus available) … ✅Taizhou Prefecture City Wall Built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Great Wall of Jiangnan, 6 kilometers long, 'Jiangnan Badaling', 198 steps up Lansheng Gate, worth a challenge! The whole journey takes 2-3 hours! ✅Ziyang Ancient Street Zhejiang's first ancient street, paradise for glutinous rice lovers, seaweed cakes, wheat shrimp🦐, black rice glutinous rice cakes, fried glutinous rice cakes, flat food, wheat oil fat, wheat cakes, egg white lamb tails, white water tofu, baked buns🫓, soaked shrimp🍤, ginger juice scrambled eggs🍳, green grass paste.. Almost all local snacks in Taizhou are gathered on one street! Recently, the New Year's Song Rhyme Good Things are coming, various activities.. Full of New Year's flavor, the old street full of fireworks! Worth a slow stroll! ✅Longxing Temple A thousand-year-old temple, preserving the complete Tang Dynasty's Thousand Buddha Tower Jinshan Park, overlooking Linhai, Jinshan Tower Group ✅East Lake Park Founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, representative of Jiangnan gardens, not inferior to Suzhou and Hangzhou, 'half of West Lake', plum blossoms are blooming, very beautiful and suitable for Hanfu ✅Chicheng Road Night market in the evening, brightly lit all the way, also super lively, ✅Plum Garden Large plum blossoms🌸 at the city wall of the prefecture (Chaotianmen), it is the best time to appreciate plums ✅Bear Infested Happy Harbor Linhai people's own little Disney, colorful door head, Ferris wheel🎡, carousel🎠, helicopter✈️, various anime elements. You can have fun for an afternoon~ … 🏨About accommodation Local homestays and hotels are quite convenient 🍲About food People's Road is all about eating small seafood🥘, brightly lit, local market fireworks~ Eat Taizhou local snacks in Ziyang Ancient Street~ Good food is coming to the small tavern to experience...

National 5A-level tourist attraction. It was initially built during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, expanded in the Tang Dynasty, took shape in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and was perfected in the Qing Dynasty. The wall is over 6,000 meters long, with more than 4,700 meters still in existence. It is one of the few remaining ancient city walls in China that served military, flood control, and water conservancy functions. It is very well-preserved. Climbing up and walking around requires good physical strength. Standing on top of the city wall, you have an unobstructed view of the surrounding scenery. Especially when there is a light drizzle, driving on the wall, the water and sky blend into one color. The distant mountains appear faintly, like walking in the clouds.

🌟Day One: Ziyang Ancient Street + Taizhou Prefecture City Wall + Donghu Morning: Ziyang Ancient Street Departing from Hangzhou, take the high-speed rail🚄 to Linhai Station, then take a taxi🚗 to the ancient city. First come to , this is a historical ancient street that runs through Taizhou Prefecture City. It is well preserved here, like a picture of "a thousand-year-old street, with shops on both sides". Walking on the ancient street, it seems to have traveled through time and space. The bluestone road under your feet and the wooden shops on both sides make people feel like returning to ancient times. The food here is also not to be missed, such as seaweed cakes, wheat shrimp, egg white lamb tail, etc., are all worth a try. 😋 Afternoon: Taizhou Prefecture City Wall Next, we come to the which is as famous as the Great Wall. It is also known as the "Great Wall of Jiangnan" or "Badaling of Jiangnan". Start climbing from Chaotianmen, feel the heaviness of history, and then come down from Lanshengmen, you can enjoy the magnificent scenery. 🏯 Evening: Donghu In the evening, we come to to experience the leisurely life of the people of Linhai. Donghu is a lake garden that began in the Northern Song Dynasty and is known as "Little West Lake". There is a small island in the lake with pavilions and pavilions on the island, which is antique. It is very close to Lanshengmen. It is very comfortable to come here for a walk in the evening and enjoy the evening breeze. 🍃 🌟Day Two: Longxing Temple + Jinshan Park + Linghu Scenic Area Morning: Longxing Temple In the morning of the second day, we come to , which is a thousand-year-old temple with a Thousand Buddha Pagoda built in the Tang Dynasty well preserved. Located next to Xingshanmen, the Buddhist culture here is also a major highlight. 🗽 Afternoon: Jinshan Park In the afternoon, we come to . There are one mountain, two peaks and four towers here. Not only can you climb the mountain to overlook the entire Linhai ancient city, but there are also many ancient sites worth visiting. The park is shaded by green trees, and the birds and flowers are fragrant. It is a good place for outdoor fitness and leisure. 🌳 Evening: Linghu Scenic Area In the evening, we come to , a beautiful forest park. Here you can enjoy the autumn scenery around the lake, and there are outdoor carnival activities and open-air movies to participate in. The scenery in the Linghu Scenic Area is mainly lakes, the lake is clear and bottomless, the lake surface is like a mirror, and it complements the surrounding green mountains and green trees. 🌳🌉 Transportation🚗: Depart from Hangzhou, take the high-speed rail🚄 to Linhai Station, and then take a taxi🚗 to the ancient city. Accommodation🏠: It is recommended to stay in the ancient city, which is convenient for visiting Ziyang Ancient Street and various attractions. Food🍰: Embedded cakes, wheat shrimp, egg white lamb tail, seaweed cakes, black rice sesame dumplings and plum cakes and other glutinous foods are the characteristics of Linhai, don't miss it! 😋 🌟Summary: This trip to Linhai made me deeply feel the charm of this city. Whether it's the heaviness of historical culture or the beauty of natural scenery, it has left a deep impression on me. If you also like to travel, why not come to Linhai! ✨

📍Detailed address: Taizhou Linhai City, Taizhou Prefecture City Cultural Tourism Area, Zhejiang 🚗Transportation strategy: About 2.5 hours by car from Hangzhou. About 2 hours by car from Ningbo. 50 minutes by car from Taizhou For those from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, or other provinces, you can take the high-speed train to 'Linhai Station' and then take a taxi/bus directly to the downtown area. 🌟Highlights: Taizhou Prefecture City Wall 🎫55 Known as the 'Great Wall of Jiangnan', the Taizhou Prefecture City Wall is a city wall built during the Ming Dynasty by Qi Jiguang to resist Japanese pirates. The whole site is six kilometers long, and from the Lancheng Gate, you can overlook the entire city. Ziyang Street 🎫Free A street in Taizhou that combines snacking and shopping, covering almost all the local specialties of Taizhou. The street's architecture still retains buildings from the Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing periods. Donghu Park 🎫15 Known as the 'Little West Lake', Donghu Park features typical Jiangnan courtyard and pavilion architecture, with willows by the lake and stone bridges that are unique to Jiangnan. Guoqing Temple 🎫Free The birthplace of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism in China. The temple has a history of over 1400 years. Guoqing Temple still maintains its original practices of cultivation and labor, which are compulsory for them. Longxing Temple 🎫Free Located next to Ziyang Street. It is the foremost among the eight great temples of Linhai. It was the residence of Jianzhen during his eastward journey to Japan and is also one of the birthplaces of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism in Japan.