1. Meizhou Island
Meizhou Island is located in the south of Putian City. It is a long and narrow island from north to south, about 42 kilometers away from the urban area. Meizhou Island is the birthplace of Mazu culture. The island is home to the majestic Mazu Temple. It has been a place of pilgrimage for believers along China's coast for thousands of years and is known as the Mecca of the East. The island has beautiful scenery, geological landscapes with strange boulders everywhere, and wide and soft sandy beaches. It is a tourist attraction.
From Putian city, you can take a bus to Wenjia Pier and then take a ferry to the island. Meizhou Island is not that big, so as long as you go early and arrange your visit time reasonably, you can visit the main attractions in one day. There are Mazu Temple, Mazu Cultural Park, El Wei Shen Stone Garden, Golden Beach, Mazu Film and Television City and other attractions on the island, which can be reached by taking the island's bus, which is very convenient. Of course, you can also stay on the island for a night or two and enjoy the sunshine and beaches here, or rent a bicycle and ride around the island to savor the customs and beauty.
Go out from Meizhou Pier and walk a few dozen meters to the right. You can see a stone staircase across the road. From here, you can walk five minutes up the mountain to the Mazu Temple. Meizhou Mazu Ancestral Temple was built in the fourth year of Yongxi reign (987) in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the ancestral temple of more than 5,000 Mazu temples in the world. The ancestral temple mainly includes Tianhou Palace, Chaotian Pavilion, Bell and Drum Tower and other imitation Song Dynasty buildings.
2. Putian
Putian City was called Pukou in ancient times. It was also called Licheng because it was rich in lychees. Putian has a long history, beautiful scenery, many national key protection units and the famous South Shaolin Temple ruins. It is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in Fujian Province.
Putian has a deep-water port on Xiuyu Island in Meizhou Bay, which is rare in the world and rare in China, as well as auxiliary ports such as Sanjiangkou and Fengting, as well as more than 150 islands of various sizes such as Meizhou and Nanri. The Mazu Temple on Meizhou Island is well-known and admired all over the world; the large ancient weir Mulanpo, 5 kilometers away from the urban area, is one of the most complete ancient large-scale water conservancy projects in my country.
The Xuanmiao Temple Sanqing Hall is one of the best-preserved Tang Dynasty Taoist Xuanmiao Temple buildings in the province; Putian Shaolin Temple is a famous Zen temple with a long history and an important birthplace of Chinese Nanquan. Since the Thirteen Warrior Monks helped Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty unify China, ten branch temples have been established across the country. Among them, the earliest and most influential one is the South Shaolin Temple in Jiulian Mountain, Putian.
3. Jiuli Lake Scenic Area
Jiuli Lake Scenic Area is located in Zhongshan Town, Xianyou County, 31 kilometers away from the county seat. The most worth seeing in the scenic area is the lake and mountains, and The famous Jiu_Fei Waterfall.
Entering the gate of the scenic spot and passing the Tongxian Bridge is the Jiuzhen Temple, which enshrines the Nine Immortals of the He family and focuses on the culture of praying for dreams. Jiuzhen Temple is built near the water. It is full of incense and is said to be very efficacious. You can see many merit monuments from surrounding pilgrims who come here to return their donations.
As you go down the trail in the canyon, you will pass several waterfalls. This is the famous Jiu_Falls. These waterfalls are named Lei Hong, Waterfall, Pearl Curtain, Jade Pillar, Shimen, Five Star, Feifeng, Chessboard and General. Each one has its own characteristics and can be as large as more than 100 meters. , as small as three or four meters. Particularly spectacular are the waterfall, bead curtain and jade pillar. The waterfall is hundreds of meters high and majestic. The bead curtain slides down from the thousand-year-old boulder like an axe, forming thousands of water droplets, like a hanging curtain. On the east side of the bead curtain, water flows from the plate. The top of Longshan Mountain slides down against the stone wall, forming two crystal clear streams, which look like twin pillars carved from jade. These are the jade pillars.
Generally, after visiting the most classic waterfall, tourists can walk near the cable bridge and take a sightseeing car (10 yuan) back to the entrance parking area, saving time and effort. If you have enough energy, you can continue walking deeper, where you will find the Root of Life and Dongfeng Village...
4. Jiulong Valley Scenic Area
Jiulong Valley Forest Park is located in Putian City To the west, the scenery is dominated by mountains, streams, and waterfalls. There are exceptionally rich entertainment options such as bamboo rafting, rafting, and cruise ships, as well as cabins providing accommodation. It’s a good choice to get close to nature on the weekend.
The tourist trails in the scenic area are basically built along the stream. Walking in from the visitor center, you will find Jiulong Pond and Julong Pond not far away. There are villas on both sides that can provide food and accommodation (standard rooms cost 200 yuan per person) (left and right), the conditions are good, and there are also artistic gadgets such as swings, which are very popular among girls. Walking along the Xiake Ancient Trail, you will soon see a rope bridge that spans both sides of the stream. Walking on it, you can see the valleys on both sides. Below you can see the cruise ships going back and forth. It feels a bit like the movie "A Little Thing About First Love".
5. Putian Arts and Crafts City
Putian Arts and Crafts City is a large-scale professional crafts market, divided into wood carving area, jade carving area, stone carving area, and gold and silver jewelry center Wait for a few parts. There are merchants of all levels concentrated here, and you can find handicrafts ranging from tens of yuan to hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can just enjoy the exquisitely crafted and priceless treasures at will, or you can find some of your favorites to give to relatives and friends or as souvenirs.
With the archway-central square-leisure square as the central axis, the Arts and Crafts City is divided into two roughly symmetrical parts. The left side near the tourist reception center is the jewelry center, jade carving area and stone carving area, and the right side is the jewelry center, jade carving area and stone carving area. It is mainly wood carving. Starting from the visitor center, you can visit in order, and the whole journey is about 2.5 kilometers. Ordinary tourists usually spend two to three hours visiting the highlights, which is about 1 kilometer.
The more recommended ones in Arts and Crafts City are: Jewelry Center, which not only gathers many famous jewelry brands, but is also the main trading platform for Putian gold and silver jewelry. On the second floor of the jade carving area, you can watch live jade processing performances. In the wood carving area, you can see a lot of classical furniture, ivory carvings, agarwood carvings, etc., including many works by masters. The scale of sandalwood and agarwood is one of the best in the country.
6. South Shaolin Temple Ruins
It is said that after the 13 warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan helped Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty unify China, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty gave the monks soldiers and allowed the establishment of ten branch temples across the country. Linquanyuan in Jiulian Mountain, Putian County, is one of the earliest branch temples among the ten branches of Shaolin Temple.
During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, monks from Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain went south and traveled thousands of miles to Jiulian Mountain and lived in Linquanyuan. After that, Linquan Temple was renamed Linshan Shaolin Temple. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the temple became more prosperous, with more than 500 monks, and the martial arts was extremely prosperous. Because of its large scale (covering an area of ??about 30,000 square meters) and the flourishing martial arts, it influenced southern China, so it was called the Southern Shaolin Temple, forming the Southern Shaolin Boxing, which is closely related to the martial arts. The kick skills of Northern Shaolin are also known as North Legs and South Boxing. During the Southern Song Dynasty, temples still maintained their prosperity. Liu Kezhuang also praised Songshan Shaolin in the city.
Linquanyuan was destroyed in the early Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Southern Shaolin Temple was inextricably linked to the Tiandihui in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was deeply jealous and sent troops to burn it down. The Southern Shaolin Temple has since been lost in the dust of history. Now there are only a few affiliated temples left in the area around the South Shaolin Temple ruins, such as Zifu Temple and Honghua Pavilion. From 1986 to 1988, Putian County discovered the ruins of this temple that had been annihilated for hundreds of years during a cultural relics survey, and discovered five stone troughs from the Northern Song Dynasty with inscriptions such as "Monk Soldiers" and "Zhu Luohan Yu Jiancha Powder".
7. Ruiyun Mountain Forest Park
Putian Ruiyun Mountain Red Ecological Tourism Area is located in Ruiyun Village, Dayang Township, Hanjiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province, at the junction of Yongtai and Fuqing, 100 meters away from It is 60 kilometers away from the urban area of ??Putian and 46 kilometers away from the urban area of ??Hanjiang. It is close to the former site of the Minzhong Revolutionary Base in Fujian. The natural landscape in the scenic area is one of a kind, with the reputation of eighteen large sceneries and thirty-six small scenes. The tourist area has a planned area of ??21 square kilometers, with an average altitude between 500 meters and 1,000 meters. The main peak, Ruiyun Mountain, is 1,080 meters above sea level.
The forest coverage rate of the scenic area reaches 95.3, with lush plants and a wide variety of plants, including more than 400 species of more than 80 families. There are 200 acres of yew and three-needle fir, as well as spiny alpinia, chrysanthemum trees, bamboo and cypress trees. , metasequoia, Guanyin seat lotus, Guanyin bamboo and other precious forests.
The scenic spot has successively won the titles of National Red Tourism Classic Scenic Spot, Provincial Forest Park, Three-Star Rural Tourist Attraction, Putian Ping An Scenic Spot, etc. It is a combination of ecological sightseeing, religious pilgrimage (Zhang Gong Culture), leisure vacation, and experience. It is an integrated famous red eco-tourism scenic spot.
8. Guanghua Temple (Sakyamuni Buddha Pagoda)
Guanghua Temple was first built in the second year of Chen Yongding in the Southern Dynasty (558 AD) and was first named Jinxian Temple. Later it was expanded into a temple. In the second year of Jingyun of the Tang Dynasty (AD 711), Emperor Ruizong named Lingyan Temple, which was inscribed by the famous calligrapher Liu Gongquan. In the first year of Taiping and Xingguo in the Song Dynasty (AD 976), Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty renamed it Guanghua Temple.
The Song Dynasty was the heyday of Guanghua Temple. At that time, there were 10 courtyards, 120 nunneries under its jurisdiction, and more than a thousand monks. The current building complex was rebuilt in the early years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. In recent years, Guanghua Temple has undergone comprehensive renovation and expansion. The total area is more than 32,000 square meters. The entire layout takes the Zhaobi, archway, mountain gate, release pool, Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Dharma Hall (with the Sutra Pavilion on the top), and the Ancestral Hall (the Reclining Buddha Pavilion on the top) as the central axis. Running from north to south, with a total length of 385 meters, it is majestic.
The Main Hall is built on a 2.7-meter-high pedestal and has a beam-carrying structure. The hall is 22 meters high and covers an area of ??837 square meters. In front of the Tianwang Hall, there are two stone pavilions built in the second year of Zhiping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1065). They are about 3 meters high. One of them is engraved with the "Buddhist Dharani Sutra and Mantra". This is a study of the Chinese translation of Sanskrit and the local Precious physical information on dialect relations.
9. Yuzhuang Hot Spring Resort
Yuzhuang Hot Spring is located in Putian, a land of literature and seaside Zoulu with a profound tourism culture. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Qian Siniang built Mulanpo. During the survey along Mulan Creek, a natural hot spring was discovered at Xialin Street, which has been mined and used to this day. According to geological expert exploration and laboratory physical and chemical analysis, Yuyuan Hot Spring is a chloride-type medical hot spring with good water quality and an average water temperature of Above 60℃, the daily surge volume reaches 1,500 tons.
The hot springs contain trace elements necessary for the human body (iron, zinc, iodine, copper, manganese, chromium, fluorine) and special ingredients with medical value (iron, iodine, bromine, strontium, etc.). Chloride-type hot springs not only have the effects of disinfection and recuperation, but also stimulate the skin, dilate blood vessels in the skin, increase blood circulation on the body surface, accelerate the secretion of sweat and sebaceous glands; treat neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis, skin diseases, and gout , hypertension, thrombotic pulse, tracheitis, gastritis and duodenitis, etc. At the same time, the hot spring contains radon element, which makes it have better weight loss, skin care and beauty effects.
10. Meifeng Temple
The predecessor of Meifeng Temple was originally a Guanyin Pavilion. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng in the Song Dynasty (1085), the Huang family, the mother of local celebrity Li Fu, built more than 100 acres of land and expanded the pavilion into a temple. In the seventh year of Shaoxing (1137), he was named Guangxiao Temple to repay his kindness. In the Yuan Dynasty, official lectures were set up in the temple. In the 41st year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty (1562), Japanese pirates invaded Pu and the temple was burned down.
It was rebuilt during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, more than ten large and small palaces were built, rising close to the mountain and scattered in an orderly manner. On both sides of the mountain gate, there are four-cornered, three-story bell and drum towers. On the third floor of the bell tower, there was originally a bronze bell cast by Cai Tong, a famous craftsman from the Song Dynasty. Its sound could predict the weather and could reach forty miles away.
In the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1887), the temple stationed by the Chu army burned down and burned down. In the early years of the Republic of China, a bell was recast after the Song Dynasty. It weighed about 1,500 kilograms and contained more than 500 words of sutras and mantras. The bell body was simple and elegant, and the pronunciation was extremely loud. Whenever the morning light fades, the bell suddenly sounds, melodious and sweet, and it is called the morning bell of Mei Temple.
In recent years, with the enthusiastic sponsorship of overseas Chinese, large-scale renovation and expansion have been carried out. A new Guanyin Pavilion is built on the top of the mountain, tens of meters high, making it the tallest building in the city. Looking down from the pavilion, you can have a panoramic view of the city's far and near scenery. All kinds of plum blossoms are still planted all over the mountain, and the fragrant snow sea is a unique landscape in the urban area.
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