If this is your first time visiting Quanzhou, please copy this 3-day, 2-night travel itinerary directly
Quanzhou is a city that you must visit at least once in your life🏙️❗❗
Half of the city is bustling with life, while the other half is like a fairy tale – this place has a strong sense of livelihood❗❗
This is a seaside World Heritage ancient city that I've been longing to visit, and I really love the feeling here❤️
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🚗【3-Day 2-Night Itinerary】
Day1: Tianhou Palace - Guan Yue Temple - Overseas Chinese Commodity Street - Quanzhou Poster Wall - Bell Tower - Zhongshan Road Cultural Street - Quannan Church - Ju Ruo Integrated Service Center - Mei Chao Feng Rooftop - Kaiyuan Temple - Xiangfeng Alley - West Street Tourist Service Center - Youli Rooftop
Day2: Xunpu Village Hairpin Flower Photography - Wulin Ancient Village - Luojiang Temple - Golden Coast - Xiangzhi Wharf - Shishi Liusheng Pagoda Park
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👭【Must-Visit Places for Photos, Strolls, and Food】
1️⃣ Tianhou Palace: A thousand-year-old Mazu temple with beautiful porcelain carvings on the roof
2️⃣ Guan Yue Temple: The most popular temple in Quanzhou with a sense of history and livelihood
3️⃣ Overseas Chinese Commodity Street: Retro 1980s architecture with a full-on retro vibe from the spiral staircase
4️⃣ Quanzhou Poster: On the rooftop of the Rui Bai Yun Hotel, take the elevator to the 8th floor, give the lady five yuan, and you can take a photo with the Kaiyuan Temple Quanzhou poster in the same frame
5️⃣ Kaiyuan Temple: A temple worth visiting with distinctive architecture
6️⃣ Xiangfeng Alley: The best spot to photograph Kaiyuan Temple, right across from the temple's main gate
7️⃣ West Street Tourist Service Center: The rooftop for photos of 'Half the city is bustling, half is like a fairy tale,' with beautifully scattered colorful buildings
8️⃣ Youli Rooftop Cafe: Best to go at sunset when it's not crowded, great atmosphere and photo opportunities
9️⃣ Mei Chao Feng Top Floor: Overlooking West Street and the East and West Towers, the characters for Quanzhou are also here, and the window frames are beautiful but crowded
🔟 Ju Ruo•West Street Comprehensive Creative Space: Enter to see the Quanzhou calendar wall
1️⃣1️⃣ Bell Tower: At the intersection of Zhongshan North Road and West Street, with many angles to choose from
1️⃣2️⃣ Xunpu Village: The Xunpu women wearing hairpin flowers are a beautiful sight, and it's very photogenic to wear one yourself
1️⃣3️⃣ Wulin Ancient Houses: A traditional village with Southeast Asian architectural style, worth visiting
1️⃣4️⃣ Luojiang Temple: The seaside temple is stunning on a sunny day, a must-visit for fans of Li Xian
1️⃣5️⃣ Golden Coast: View the sea and Luojiang Temple, with the rocks, beach, and temple creating a stunning photo
1️⃣6️⃣ Xiangzhi Wharf: Xiaowei Sea Road, with colorful houses and the sea just 500 meters away, highly recommended
1️⃣7️⃣ Zhongshan Road Cultural Street: Quannan Church, sit by the street and take a photo with the giant 'love' character
1️⃣8️⃣ Shishi Liusheng Pagoda: Beautiful for photos by the sea, worth a visit if you have time
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There's so much to see and photograph in Quanzhou – let's have a date with Quanzhou this spring❗❗
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The largest Tianhou Palace in China, in front of the gate is the site of Dejimen and the Song Dynasty city wall. It belongs to the world cultural heritage site and the key cultural relics protection unit of the country. It is free to visit. The back of the Temple of the Tianhou Palace is a related cultural relics exhibition, and there are several alliance letters of the Tianhou Palace on both sides of the Strait.
Quanzhou Tianhou Palace, located in the south gate of Tianhou Road, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, was built in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1196), is the earliest and highest-standard ancient building in the middle age of the Mazu Temple at home and abroad. The Tianhou Palace complex is preserved with the components of the Song Dynasty and the wooden structures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main buildings are distributed on the north and south central axis. There are mountain gates, stage, east and west, main hall, east and west corridors, bedroom halls, east and west, four pavilions, two pavilions and dressing buildings.
The Tianhou Palace is also known as the Mazu Temple. It is dedicated to the Mazu Temple. There are Mazu Temples in many coastal cities. The local residents are dedicated to the Mazu Temple. The building of the Tianhou Palace is very beautiful, the carvings on the eaves are beautiful, the colors are also very bright, and they are very local in southern Weinan. The Tianhou Palace is free to visit, the whole Tianhou Palace is not big, a quick turn for 15 minutes is enough.
The Tianhou Palace and Dejimen ruins are next to one piece, you can visit together, this is the highest building specification Mazu Temple, enter the temple, the temple is simple and atmospheric, there is an ancient stage, occasionally there will be opera performances, there is a dressing building and Mazu cultural relics exhibition behind, there are also some cultural and creative sales.
The mazu temple is the highest building specification in China. The earliest mazu temple in the era has an ancient stage. There is also an exhibition of mazu cultural relics behind the hall. There are also some surroundings. There are Quanzhou snacks mung bean cakes and stone flower paste nearby. There is a Dejimen site in front of the door.
In the center of Quanzhou City, it is very convenient to drive and take a taxi. The history is very deep and there is no ticket ~ worthy of praise! The main hall is magnificent. The bedroom hall has many antique exhibits from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China. Unfortunately, the Xingtai Relations Museum has been temporarily closed. Generally speaking, the check-in point that must be visited in Quanzhou is a must. There are many niche monuments and attractions around ~ Dejimen Site, Li Yan's Former Residence, Qinglong Ancient Land, and Huangdi Palace. You can bundle and visit together, the opposite Tianwang Palace is a private contracted very pit ~ must be avoided
Quanzhou Tianhou Palace, located on Tianhou Road, South Gate of Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, was built in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1196). It is the earliest and highest-standard ancient building in the middle age of the Mazu Temple at home and abroad. The Tianhou Palace Building Group has preserved the components of the Song Dynasty and the wooden buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For the third batch of key cultural relics protection units nationwide. The bedroom has retained a pair of stone pillars of the 16-sided blue stone carving Hindu temples in the Yuan Dynasty, which is a treasure of the national wooden structure.