If you are visiting Fuzhou, you must not miss these attractions. Plus, there are some delicious foods to try. There may be some differences between local food and food in other cities, but most of it is pretty good. You can feel them yourself.
Downtown Fuzhou
Three Lanes and Seven Alleys
There are two types of people who like Three Lanes and Seven Alleys. A South Back Street can satisfy impatient tourists with one-stop shopping for food, drink and entertainment; for lovers of literature, history and architecture, Fangli's layout, Ming and Qing architecture and countless modern celebrities are more attractive.
Three Lanes and Seven Alleys is the representative of the inner lanes in the ancient city of Fuzhou. It originated in the Jin Dynasty, was built in the late Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are only two and five lanes in existence. To visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, you can take the main road of South Back Street.
The famous Yonghe fish balls, Mujin meatballs, and Tongli meatballs among Fuzhou snacks are all on this street. It is a time-saving and worry-free choice to catch all Fuzhou snacks. Fujian Intangible Culture Expo Park can give you a general understanding of Fujian folk crafts. Although most of the buildings are now reconstructed, a few houses still retain the style of the time. If you walk from north to south, Lin Juemin's former residence is located on the west side of the street corner. In "Books with My Wife", Lin Juemin wrote, "The house in the back street is where you and I live together" refers to this small courtyard. Later, our tenant Bing Xin mentioned his childhood here many times.
The former residence of Yan Fu can be seen in No. 1 Langguan Lane on the east side. The "first person in China to learn Western learning" spent the last two years of his life here. The main building of the courtyard is a typical Qing Dynasty style, but there are a lot of Western decorations on the corridors and railings of the living room. The bookstore is a small bookstore owned by scholar Lin during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. It is named after two plum trees. The entire building is now the Fujian Folk Museum, but the complex gold paintings and wood carving patterns on the nanmu doors and windows are more exciting than the exhibits.
Going south, the Waterside Stage is the largest house in the entire square. The water pavilion stage in the flower hall of the courtyard is surrounded by water on three sides and is set off by rockeries and snow caves. Nowadays, there are folk instrumental music performances here every day (10:30, 15:30), and you can experience the elegant scenes of dignitaries listening to the sounds across the water.
Lin’s former residence is the residence of Lin Zexu’s second son. It has a magnificent layout, especially wooden components such as moon beams, bird stands, and brackets. Exquisite shape and meticulous carving. Now it is the Fuzhou Lacquer Art Museum, where you can appreciate the bodiless lacquerware and lacquer paintings, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuzhou".
Installing the drum
Climbing Gushan, burning incense at Yongquan Temple, drinking water and making tea have always been the favorite activities of Fuzhou people. The starting point of the ancient stone path leading to Gushan is next to the lower hall cableway station of Gushan. It takes about an hour to climb to Yongquan Temple. Fortunately, there is a rest pavilion every other section of the ancient trail. There are even advertisements from the Republic of China among the cliff carvings of literati along the way. Let's find them.
The Yongquan Temple located halfway up the mountain is the most important attraction in Gushan. The thousand-year-old iron tree, the chicken silk wooden table, and the Blood Collection Sutra in the temple are collectively called the "Three Treasures" of Zhenshan. There is a pair of ancient pagodas made of ceramics in front of the main hall. On both sides of Lingyuan Cave in the east of the temple, there are more than 200 cliff stone carvings since the Song Dynasty, which is known as the "Southeast Forest of Steles". Among them, "Forgetting to Return to the Stone" by Cai Xiang, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, and "Four Meters Longevity" by Zhu Zhu, a great Neo-Confucian philosopher, are not to be missed.
There is a drinking rock next to the source cave. The mountain spring water oozing from the faucet is said to be able to make the best tea. There is a teahouse next to the spring to receive tea guests. Local people like to bring their own tea here, brew a pot of good tea, and enjoy the mountain breeze to wash away the fatigue of climbing mountains.
Guhuan Highway
Gushan is a traditional scenic spot that Fuzhou people like to visit, and Guling is a new tourist attraction. A 7.5-kilometer-long Guhuan Highway connects Yongqu
Transportation: You can walk from Guhuan Highway to Gushan Yongquan Temple, or you can take bus No. 63 from Guling to Liushan King Park in front of the Police Academy , this is the visitor center of Guling Scenic Area. If you want to ride up the mountain, there is a Fuzhou Tianya Star Cycling Club station next to the Gushan Lower Court Bus Terminal. You can rent mountain bikes, starting at 20 yuan/hour.
Current location There are many temples in Fuzhou. You might as well forget their religious connotations and come here to relax. Xichan Temple, known as "one of the five major Zen forests in Fuzhou", is luxurious and majestic. Hidden in the downtown area, Kaiyuan Temple is the oldest existing temple in Fuzhou. It was also the place where Japanese and Indian monks studied in the Tang Dynasty. Strictly speaking, Linsi Temple is no longer a temple, but there is only a precious Song Dynasty and Tang-style wooden hall that is definitely worth visiting.
Destroyed in Fuzhou
Fuzhou is a hot spring city. There is a hot spring belt in the northeast of the city, 5 kilometers long from north to south and 1 kilometer wide from east to west. Local people have opened hot spring baths and open-air hot spring pavilions according to local conditions, and many hotels have also launched hot spring rooms. Yuanmai Hot Spring Garden and Jintang Hot Spring Resort are both good choices.
There are also many hot spring resorts to choose from in the suburbs of Fuzhou. Qingyun Mountain Royal Hot Spring in Yongtai County, Guian Xishan Hot Spring and Huanggulin Hot Spring in Minqing County are all good hot springs in the mountains, and they provide well-equipped hotel services.
Fuzhou Confucian Temple
The Fuzhou Confucian Temple, which has lasted for thousands of years, is a place where Confucius is worshiped. It is an existing Zuiguan building from the Qing Dynasty in the city center and is also a good place for many friends to spend their boring time.
The red exterior wall, the Panqiao made of white marble, the Dacheng Hall with intersecting bluestones and the roof covered with yellow tiles......................and the outer square There are also ginkgo trees planted, which makes it better to take photos in late autumn.
The exhibition halls on both sides of the temple include the Confucius Sacred Relics Exhibition, the Fuzhou Education History Exhibition, and the Ritual and Music Culture Exhibition. The vivid displays are very suitable for taking children to experience.
Fuzhou’s temple complex
Fuzhou is one of the birthplaces of Fujian cuisine. It brings unique ingredients into dishes and pays attention to the original taste. Eating near the sea also makes seafood an important part of Fuzhou cuisine. Someone once used the eight words "sweet and sour, soupy" to describe the characteristics of Fuzhou cuisine, but this is far from enough. In fact, Fuzhou cuisine pays great attention to the selection and combination of ingredients. It likes to use the unique local red wine grains as food, and is good at using soup to refresh, sweet and sour. To achieve these points, there are a few dishes that you must try.
The first thing I want to talk about is, of course, the famous dish Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. This dish selects more than a dozen kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, puts them into the original soup that has been simmered for 2 to 3 days, and then simmers them slowly. The order in which the ingredients are put in is very particular, otherwise the taste will be completely different.
Fuzhou people like to use red yeast rice to make wine, and later invented cooking with leftover wine grains. When ordering cold dishes, please choose the red wine lees chicken (fish) first. It is light red in color, has a fresh aroma of wine, and has a slight sweet and sour aftertaste in the mouth. The taste is very special. As for the representative of sweet and sour taste, just order the lychee meat.
There are no lychees in the dish, only pork and water chestnuts are used, but the knife for cutting the meat must be very delicate, so that the cut meat can be fried like lychees; secondly, seasonings can be mixed to balance the sweet and sour ratio. . Whether lychee meat tastes good or not is also the basic criterion for considering whether a Fuzhou restaurant is authentic.
The dish of sea clams in chicken soup best reflects the deliciousness of Fuzhou vegetable soup. You know, sea clams are known as "Xi Shi tongue". The chicken is steamed and then stewed. Use chicken breasts to make stewed chicken meatball soup for a fresher taste. When the sea clams are put into the soup, they should be crispy, fragrant and crunchy.
The wide variety of Fuzhou snacks may be an important reason for travelers to stay here. Yan, fish balls, yuanxiao, meatballs, taro paste, pot side, spareribs
Others such as Liancheng pot side, Lin Huaguang cake, Dengxing fish ball, Gujie Beef Lao are also old restaurants and worth it One taste. Interesting street food joints are not hard to find. The founder of the "Deaf Light Festival" is indeed a hearing-impaired old man. The hand-made minced pork Yuanxiao has a lot of fresh juice and melts in your mouth, fresh but not greasy. The name of Toothless Peanut Soup comes from the cooked peanut soup that Grandma Toothless can eat. Peanut cakes and taro paste are also worth eating as sweets.
Pingtan snacks include "Yongyong" (a fried snack with sweet potato flour as the skin and nuts as the inside), "Lucky Come" (sweet potato flour as the skin and the meat as the inside). Like dumplings), oyster cakes, fish balls, etc. At the Tanzhiwei specialty snack bar, you can taste Pingtan snacks such as dried taro powder, nine-stewed fish ball soup, and "Run".