福满园山庄(张壁古堡店)

Fumanyuan Villa, this restaurant is located around Zhangbi Ancient Castle. The hygiene is... very average, and the fried dishes are also average, not really to my taste. The service is very good, the boss and waiters are very enthusiastic, many people ask for directions here, and they are very enthusiastic to give instructions.

The name of Fumanyuan Villa itself is very auspicious, and the preparation of Shanxi cuisine is also very particular and very much to the taste of consumers. Therefore, many customers choose to dine here.

Whenever I travel to the Forbidden City, I am always shocked by the magnificent roof, especially the various glazed decorations that make the ancient building shine brightly, making people can't help but admire such colorful objects. Looking back at the history of Chinese colored glaze craft, we can learn that craftsmen in Shanxi created colored glaze technology with their own hands thousands of years ago. It is reported that the technology of firing colored glaze had appeared in Shanxi as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was further developed during the Qin and Han Dynasties. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, colored glaze was used for the first time to decorate royal buildings. Since then, Chinese palaces, temples, towers, etc. have begun to use colored glaze decorations one after another. The so-called world's finest colored glass is in China, China's finest colored glass is in the Ming Dynasty, and all the fine colored glass of the Ming Dynasty came from Shanxi. Since the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi's colored glaze craft has reached its peak. Well-known ancient architectural attractions such as the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Forbidden City in Shenyang, the Nine Dragon Wall in Datong, and the Feihong Tower in Hongdong are all the earliest level of colored glaze products from the Ming Dynasty. No wonder there is a saying in the world that "colored glaze from Shanxi is everywhere in the world." In addition to the Houtu Temple and Aoshen Tower in the urban area, Zhangbi Ancient Castle is also a great place to appreciate colored glaze. ✅Exquisite colored glaze products can be seen on the top of the halls of the Kongwang Buddha Temple, Zhenwu Temple, and Erlang Temple. These three-color colored glaze decorations are delicately cut and exquisitely fired, especially the statues of gods, which are lifelike. ✅In the front corridor of Kongwang Foxing Temple, you can also see a very rare Chinese colored glaze stele, which is made of colored glaze, with a peacock blue background and black writing. The stele has two green, yellow and blue dragons playing with a pearl, and blue and black dragon patterns and floral decorations on both sides, which looks very exquisite. ✅Kehan ​​Temple is the main body of the Nanbaomen temple complex of Zhangbi Ancient Fort, built on a loess platform on the east side. There is a golden glazed decoration in the center of the main ridge at the top of the hall. It should be noted that only royal buildings could use this kind of yellow glazed tile at that time. This shows that the Kehan ​​Temple has a very high status. ✅Another very unique feature of Zhangbi Ancient Castle is that there are three stages hidden in the entire castle, namely the Guandi Temple Stage, the Erlang Temple Stage and the Kehan ​​Temple Stage. In particular, the Kehan ​​Temple stage demonstrates the "moving and reducing columns" construction method used in Liao Dynasty architecture. Even the National Grand Theater's Ancient Chinese Stage Museum has a miniature version of this stage in its collection. ✅In addition to the colored glaze and the stage, the layout of the entire castle is also very unique, especially the S-shaped main street is filled with a strong breath of life. In short, although Zhangbi Ancient Castle is not very famous and does not have many tourists, the colored glaze, stage and castle layout hidden inside make tourism here look extremely rich. 🚗How to get to Zhangbi Ancient Castle: At Jiexiu Station, you can take bus No. 301 directly to the entrance of the scenic spot. At Jiexiu East Station, you can take bus No. 223 and then transfer to bus No. 301 to reach the scenic spot.