Zigong Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Overseas Chinese town · The 26th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
You can really trust Zigong lanterns forever! There is simply no competition
Once again!
I was amazed by the lanterns of Zigong 😭😭😭
For old Chengdu, the ritual of every Chinese New Year is
Setting off firecrackers🎉 family reunion dinner🍽️ watching lanterns🏮
Zigong is not only the millennium-old salt capital but also the lantern city of the south, with its fame for lanterns spreading across the globe! Every Spring Festival, I would drive here specifically to see them, so beautiful and stunning!
This year, they even held a lantern carnival during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, so I quickly made plans with friends to go!
I've specially organized a lantern viewing guide for everyone ✍🏻️ (suggested to save it)
📆2023.9.28-10.22
💡Lights on every day at 18:30!
⏰Opening hours during the National Day period are 16:30-23:00, and after the National Day, it's 17:30-22:30
🎫Real-name system, 68 RMB per person, students/elders 49 RMB
👀Key points for touring the park!
▫️A total of 21 lantern groups, all worth seeing!
The entrance's "Golden Autumn Welcome Gate"
The fairy-tale-like "Heavenly Palace"
The majestic "Sunshine on Golden Mountain"...
All great for photos📸
▫️Theme performances/node performances/accompanying performances/parades
Be sure to check the performance notice at the entrance!
The times and locations of the performances will be announced,
There will be various performances from 18:30 to 21:45
Plan your visit route wisely!
▫️Inside the park, there are 4️⃣ food zones + 1️⃣ snack restaurant
All kinds of local snacks, as well as domestic and international cuisines are available!
⚠️It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes👟, bring your ID card/power bank, etc. The park also has shared power banks, shared children's strollers/wheelchairs!
Get a sneak peek! Zigong Lantern Festival is different this year
On the evening of January 26, the 30th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival was lit up at the China Lantern World. The festival, which will officially open to the public on February 2, is themed 'Splendid, Fashionable, Technological, and Eco-friendly'. It is divided into four major thematic sections: 'Chinese Symphony, Prosperous Celebration, Taste of Chinese New Year, and Romantic China'. With thousands of lantern sets, the profound 5000-year Chinese culture is integrated into the shimmering lights, allowing visitors to appreciate the artistic charm of the Chinese civilization intertwined with Zigong's lantern art, as well as the cultural tension between traditional culture and cutting-edge trends.
Zigong Lantern Festival! Truly the pinnacle of lantern festivals in China! Here's a guide
Zigong Lantern Festival is indeed the pinnacle among lantern festivals. Having heard of its fame since childhood, I finally got the chance to go with friends to see the lanterns in Zigong this year!
Here's to share my experience and tips for the lantern festival:
Chengdu🚅Zigong: Direct high-speed train, just over an hour.
After arriving at Zigong station, it's just a ten-minute taxi ride, which is very convenient.
⏰The opening hours of the lantern festival venue are 16:00, but you have to wait until 18:30 for the lights to come on in the park after it gets dark.
PS: I suggest everyone to go in early, then walk to the inside, and start taking pictures as soon as the lights are on, as there are not many people inside at that time. If you enter after the lights are on, it's so crowded that it's difficult to take portraits.
There are thousands of lantern sets at the Zigong Lantern Festival site, dazzling to the eyes. A few areas that left a deep impression on me are:
✔️The incredibly stunning Dunhuang murals in the Dreamlike Flying to the Sky area, truly amazing!
✔️The Wuhua Tianbao area, which gives a feeling of dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty.
✔️The Salt Street Lantern Market is very lively, with performances, and a strong New Year atmosphere~
✔️The Pop Mart lantern area, super cute and adorable!
This time, the layout of the Zigong Lantern Festival park is circular, so if you don't want to backtrack, you can visit it like this:
Gate of Huaxia — Cyber Qin and Han — Dreamlike Flying to the Sky — Nian Beast Celebrating New Year — Glory Canyon — Wuhua Tianbao — Feast of Gluttony — Pop Mart — Joyful Chinese New Year — Flowers in Full Bloom — Brilliant Tribute — Praise of Bashu Civilization
Thank you for reading, see you next time👋🏻
Get a sneak peek at the 2024 Zigong Lantern Festival and count how many dragons there are
The top attraction of the lantern festival, the annual Zigong Lantern Festival is about to begin!
The festival is built along the mountain, with lanterns covering the hillside, lighting up the entire slope,
The surface of the lake is shrouded in dreamlike mist, with tree-shaped lanterns echoing the hilltop lanterns, creating a stunning spectacle!
🎈At the entrance, there is a huge sundial playing Chinese melodies. As you continue to walk inside, you can see various traditional Chinese elements and well-known stories. Of course, as the Year of the Dragon🐲, countless dragons have transformed into lanterns to come and celebrate!
🔸In addition to the familiar traditional Chinese elements,
🔸there are also themes like Honor of Kings, POP MART, Time and Space Dragon Knights, and many more,
🔸with numerous NPCs supporting the event, cosplay from Honor of Kings, realistic dinosaurs, sparkling armored figures, etc.
🔸Additionally, there are wonderful performances on various stages.
🏮Travel Tips
⭐️Preview from Jan 29 to Jan 31, officially opens on Feb 2
⭐️Lights on at 18:30, lights off at 22:30, with earlier lighting and later closing on holidays
🚶The whole tour takes about 2 hours
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Zigong Dinosaur Museum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Embark on a glittering billion-year rendezvous with a taste of saltiness
🚗🚗🚗 Travel Itinerary:
Day1: Zigong Station → Mudwood·SKY CITY HOTEL (Zigong Huashang City Store)
Day2: Zigong Dinosaur Museum → Xian Shi Ancient Town → Zigong·China Lantern World
Day3: Salt Industry History Museum → Shenhai Well → China Lantern Museum → Wangye Temple → Night Tour of Fuxi
Day4: Zigong Station
🌟 Highlights:
Zigong Dinosaur Museum Keywords: Site, Skull
It is a large site museum built on the world-famous 'Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site'. It is the third large on-site museum in China after the Banpo Site and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It is also the first professional dinosaur museum in China and one of the three major dinosaur museums in the world after the National Dinosaur Park in the United States and the Dinosaur Park in Canada. It is known as the 'Eastern Dragon Palace'. Although not large in area, the museum houses a very rich collection of unique dinosaur fossils, such as Jiaosaurus, Huayangosaurus, and Pingyongchuanosaurus, which are all worth seeing.
The second floor's treasure hall has three must-see exhibits. One is the Pansaurus bogged down in the swamp, maintaining its pre-death posture, with its head held high, desperately trying to breathe, which is very lifelike. The second is a very complete skull of Pingyongchuanosaurus, with clear skin texture and teeth. In fact, skull fossils are very precious and rare to be complete, one is difficult to separate from the fossils, and the other is easily broken and deformed and perished in the soil during geological changes. The third is a trace fossil, with clearly visible scale-like dinosaur skin fossils, which also overturns our understanding of dinosaur skin. It turns out that dinosaur skin is not smooth, but covered with scales.
Xian Shi Ancient Town Keywords: Millennium Ancient Town, Salt Guild Hall
A millennium-old town full of worldly life, it is one of the few ancient towns where I have rarely heard non-local dialects. Sitting in a small shop on the main street of the ancient town, eating double-cooked pork, watching the proprietress greeting acquaintances and bargaining with tourists in Sichuan dialect over specialty ingredients, I felt as if I was in the scene of the movie 'Furong Town', somewhat dazed.
The ancient town is not large, but it hides many salt guild halls of various sizes. Among them, the Guanyin Hall of the Fujian Salt Guild, the Nanhua Palace of the Guangdong Salt Guild, and the Jiangxi Temple of the Jiangxi Salt Guild are all buildings that have been preserved to this day and are worth a visit. The most impressive is the Guanyin Hall of the Fujian Salt Guild, which uses a piece of millennium-old Phellodendron wood as a beam, symbolizing 'a house full of gold', which makes one imagine the wealth and prosperity of the salt guilds back then.
You can also go to the distillery in the town that is still brewing to this day, taste some new wine, go to the teahouse by the river to drink a cup of tea, and enjoy the golden rapeseed flowers. In short, the relaxation and ease of the people of Shu seem to have never changed in this ancient town for a thousand years.
Zigong·China Lantern World Keywords: Lantern City
The lantern festival that started in the Tang and Song dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties was one of the highlights of my trip. The scene from Jiaxuan's poem 'The east wind blows thousands of trees at night, and stars fall like rain. The fragrance fills the road with precious horses and carved carriages, the sound of phoenix flutes moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and fish and dragons dance all night' comes to life here. The New Year Lantern Festival, which runs from the Spring Festival to the end of March, is the climax of the lanterns, with people entering from 4 pm to midnight, and it is really crowded, but it is really worth a visit. It is recommended to first visit the Lantern Museum located in People's Park during the day for a preliminary understanding, and then head to the lantern festival at night.
Salt Industry History Museum Keywords: Western Qin Guild Hall
Located in the city, the Salt Industry History Museum was originally a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants during the Qing Dynasty. The museum details the history of salt industry development and shows the process of well salt extraction. The highlight is the architectural complex completed over 16 years starting from the first year of Emperor Qianlong, with its majestic eaves and exquisite gardens that are unforgettable.
Shenhai Well Keywords: First, Kilometer
Shenhai Well is the first well in human drilling history to exceed one kilometer in depth, drilled using the traditional Chinese percussion drilling technique dating back to the Song Dynasty in the 15th year of the Daoguang era, with a depth of 1001.42 meters. This 180-year-old salt well can still produce salt today. Except for the power being changed to electric motors and the ropes to steel wires, the other main components have retained their original appearance. On-site, you can pay 150 yuan to watch the salt extraction process up close.
🍽 Cuisine:
Zigong's cuisine is also memorable. The unique Eight Treasure Porridge, the beautiful and tempting Bird's Nest Silk, the famous Cold Rabbit, the minced beef stir-fry, the afternoon tea at Wangye Temple... countless, if you have time, you must check them all out.
🚉 Transportation Tips:
Route 1: Chengdu Tianfu Airport - Zigong (High-speed train 40 minutes)
Route 2: Chengdu - Zigong (Self-driving 2 hours) You can stop by to see the Rong County Giant Buddha on the way
Route 3: Yibin Airport - Yibin High-speed Train - Zigong (The whole journey is about 1.5 hours)
Route 4: Yibin Airport - Zigong (Highway 50 minutes)
Zigong does not have an airport, but it has high-speed rail, and the highways are also very convenient.
Zigong City Zigong Dinosaur Museum
Zigong Dinosaur Museum is located in Dashanpu Town, northeast of Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It was established and opened in 1987, covering an area of more than 66,000 square meters. The museum's fossil collection encompasses all known dinosaur species from the Jurassic period 201 to 145 million years ago, and is a 'National First-Class Museum'. It is the core area of the 'Zigong World Geopark' recognized by UNESCO, a scenic spot within the Zigong Dinosaur Tourism and Holiday Area, and a National AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is also designated as a 'National Class A Paleontological Fossil Collection Unit'.
The Zigong Dinosaur Museum is a large on-site museum built on the 'Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site (a national key protected paleontological fossil concentration area)'. It is a medium to large on-site museum and the first specialized dinosaur museum in China, one of the three major dinosaur site museums in the world, and one of the three major museums in Zigong City.
The Zigong Dinosaur Museum is one of the places in the world with the most extensive collection and display of Jurassic dinosaur fossils.
The Jurassic paleontological fossil resources in the Zigong Dinosaur Museum are rich, with numerous fossil traces. It is particularly known for its abundant dinosaur fossils, diverse species, concentrated burial, and well-preserved characteristics, making it the 'Hometown of Dinosaurs' of the Jurassic world.
The variety of fossils is extremely rich. From fish, amphibians, reptiles to proto-mammals and mammals, it is a complete vertebrate group composed of at least 5 classes, 11 orders, 16 families, and more than 40 genera and species, almost covering all terrestrial vertebrate classes of the Jurassic period, with systematic and complete biological evolution.
The architecture of the Zigong Dinosaur Museum consists of several stone masonry buildings of varying sizes, shapes, and functions, scattered among a subtropical plant community like large sandstone bodies. One of the hollow oval stone masonry structures sits in the middle of a green circular lawn, resembling a large dinosaur head or a giant dinosaur egg from afar, and is a large stone sculpture: 'Prehistoric Soul'. The main building of the museum is rough and simple, concise and robust, with a majestic presence and a grotto-like shape. From a distance, it looks like a pile of yellow boulders, complementing the surrounding Mesozoic residual plants, giving an impression of the ancient wilderness.
Zigong Lantern Festival ceiling, 3 days 2 nights travel guide is here!
🕐🕐【Time】
1️⃣January 29-31 trial operation🕐, February 2 official opening🕐
2️⃣Current lighting time🕐: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm (The lighting time will be advanced and extended during the Spring Festival)🕐
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🎫🎫【Tickets】
1️⃣Ticket price🎫💰: Adult ticket🎫 (During the Spring Festival/First to Fifteenth: 168r/person💰+Before and after the Spring Festival: 118r/person💰)
2️⃣This year there are also student tickets, senior citizen tickets, and citizen tickets (tickets are cheaper)🎫💰
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🚗🚗【Transportation】
1️⃣City bus🚌: You can take the 6th, 8th, and 10th special bus lines for lantern viewing in the main urban area to the China Lantern World Tourism Distribution Center.🚌
2️⃣High-speed rail🚄: Transfer to the 11th special bus line for lantern viewing at the bus hub station of Zigong High-speed Rail Station🚄
3️⃣Self-driving🚗: Navigate🧭 to the parking lot🅿️ of the Lantern World Scenic Area (1, 2 parking lots can be walked🚶; 3, 4 parking lots take the shuttle bus🚗)
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🗺️🗺️【3 Days 2 Nights Route Recommendation】
1️⃣Zigong Dinosaur Museum—Shenhai Well—Zigong Salt Industry History Museum—Zigong China Lantern—Night Tour Fuxi
2️⃣Xianshi Ancient Town—Zigong Fantawild Dinosaur Kingdom—Wangye Temple to watch opera
3️⃣Rong County Big Buddha/Jiang Sister's Hometown—Fushun Confucian Temple—Fushun West Lake—Return
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🥘🥘【Food Recommendation】
1️⃣Cold rabbit🐰: Zigong specialty, spicy and tender, endless aftertaste!🐰🌶️
2️⃣Fire edge beef🐂🥩: The beef is as thin as cicada wings, chewy, and spicy!🌶️🥩
3️⃣Fushun Tofu Pudding🥣: Tender and refreshing, with specially made dipping sauce, the taste is amazing!😋👍
4️⃣Dan Dan Noodles🍜: The noodles are thin and spicy, authentic Zigong taste!🌶️👍
5️⃣Chuan Chuan Xiang🍖: Spicy and delicious, can't stop eating!👍
"Land of Dinosaurs, Millennium Salt Capital"||Zigong
||Zigong.✅Zigong, a small city known as the "Land of Dinosaurs, Millennium Salt Capital", has stunning dinosaur🦖sites, a long history of salt capital culture, unparalleled large colored lights, and a dinosaur kingdom that is not inferior to Disney. You can step into this mysterious "kingdom", hurry up and arrange it during the winter vacation!
🌟Three-day and two-night parent-child itinerary in Zigong:
❤️Zigong Salt Industry History Museum→Shenhai Well→Colored Light World→Dinosaur Museum
🌟Zigong Salt Industry History Museum: Understand the history and knowledge of the salt industry, suitable for primary school students to watch carefully, 🉑️please explain
Shenhai Well: It takes about 10 minutes by taxi from the Salt Industry Museum to understand the process of ancient salt making. The place is not big, I personally think it is worth going to increase knowledge
Chinese Colored Light World: I have to say that the colored light world is really dazzling, it is unparalleled! ⚠️It is not open yet, the colored lights are expected to be lit on February 2, 2024❗️
Fantawild Dinosaur Kingdom
Fantawild Dinosaur Kingdom: 🉑️Book tickets at the hotel front desk one day in advance, which is slightly cheaper than online, remember to download "Fantawild Tourism" in advance to check the map and queue situation at any time.
⭐️You must rush as soon as the park opens. Worth experiencing projects: Return to Jurassic, Flying (worth re-brushing), Dinosaur Crisis, Flying into the Blue Sky
Zigong Dinosaur Museum→Xianshi Ancient Town
🌟Zigong Dinosaur Museum: You can walk from the hotel, the Dinosaur Museum is very shocking, both adults and children like it, you can see dinosaur sites and fossil skeletons, we visited for three hours inside.
Xianshi Ancient Town: It is adjacent to the high-speed rail station, so it is arranged before the return journey. The ancient town is mainly composed of southern Sichuan-style houses, where you can not only appreciate the green bricks and black tiles but also understand traditional handicraft culture, such as century-old wineries, blacksmith shops, this atmosphere filled with simplicity and tranquility makes people feel comfortable!
🌟Dinosaur Museum:
✅Dinosaur🦖As the city's business card of Zigong, Zigong Dinosaur Museum has been rated as one of the ten best dinosaur museums in the world.
🌈Travel Tips:
✅It is recommended not to play water projects when going to Fantawild in winter, remember to bring spare clothes!
✅The time to travel to Fantawild is limited. If you watch the performance, you can choose one of the two. It is recommended to fly into the blue sky. Children may not understand the bronze sacrifice. The closing time during the winter vacation will be different, and the fireworks at night are not every day!
✅Don't🚗go to the Colored Light World, you can rent a baby carriage at the entrance of the park with a mini child, and the colored lights are expected to be lit on February 2, 2024
✅Famous food in Zigong: Toilet Rabbit, Liling Night Snack, Ruping Dipping Water Vegetables, Honghe Ginger Fresh Pot Rabbit, Changsheng Noodles, you can taste it if you have time!
🌟Dinosaur Museum 360°spherical flying hall, the price is expensive and the picture quality is not as good as Fantawild's 3D
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Ancient Town of Xianshi Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Embark on a glittering billion-year rendezvous with a taste of saltiness
🚗🚗🚗 Travel Itinerary:
Day1: Zigong Station → Mudwood·SKY CITY HOTEL (Zigong Huashang City Store)
Day2: Zigong Dinosaur Museum → Xian Shi Ancient Town → Zigong·China Lantern World
Day3: Salt Industry History Museum → Shenhai Well → China Lantern Museum → Wangye Temple → Night Tour of Fuxi
Day4: Zigong Station
🌟 Highlights:
Zigong Dinosaur Museum Keywords: Site, Skull
It is a large site museum built on the world-famous 'Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site'. It is the third large on-site museum in China after the Banpo Site and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It is also the first professional dinosaur museum in China and one of the three major dinosaur museums in the world after the National Dinosaur Park in the United States and the Dinosaur Park in Canada. It is known as the 'Eastern Dragon Palace'. Although not large in area, the museum houses a very rich collection of unique dinosaur fossils, such as Jiaosaurus, Huayangosaurus, and Pingyongchuanosaurus, which are all worth seeing.
The second floor's treasure hall has three must-see exhibits. One is the Pansaurus bogged down in the swamp, maintaining its pre-death posture, with its head held high, desperately trying to breathe, which is very lifelike. The second is a very complete skull of Pingyongchuanosaurus, with clear skin texture and teeth. In fact, skull fossils are very precious and rare to be complete, one is difficult to separate from the fossils, and the other is easily broken and deformed and perished in the soil during geological changes. The third is a trace fossil, with clearly visible scale-like dinosaur skin fossils, which also overturns our understanding of dinosaur skin. It turns out that dinosaur skin is not smooth, but covered with scales.
Xian Shi Ancient Town Keywords: Millennium Ancient Town, Salt Guild Hall
A millennium-old town full of worldly life, it is one of the few ancient towns where I have rarely heard non-local dialects. Sitting in a small shop on the main street of the ancient town, eating double-cooked pork, watching the proprietress greeting acquaintances and bargaining with tourists in Sichuan dialect over specialty ingredients, I felt as if I was in the scene of the movie 'Furong Town', somewhat dazed.
The ancient town is not large, but it hides many salt guild halls of various sizes. Among them, the Guanyin Hall of the Fujian Salt Guild, the Nanhua Palace of the Guangdong Salt Guild, and the Jiangxi Temple of the Jiangxi Salt Guild are all buildings that have been preserved to this day and are worth a visit. The most impressive is the Guanyin Hall of the Fujian Salt Guild, which uses a piece of millennium-old Phellodendron wood as a beam, symbolizing 'a house full of gold', which makes one imagine the wealth and prosperity of the salt guilds back then.
You can also go to the distillery in the town that is still brewing to this day, taste some new wine, go to the teahouse by the river to drink a cup of tea, and enjoy the golden rapeseed flowers. In short, the relaxation and ease of the people of Shu seem to have never changed in this ancient town for a thousand years.
Zigong·China Lantern World Keywords: Lantern City
The lantern festival that started in the Tang and Song dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties was one of the highlights of my trip. The scene from Jiaxuan's poem 'The east wind blows thousands of trees at night, and stars fall like rain. The fragrance fills the road with precious horses and carved carriages, the sound of phoenix flutes moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and fish and dragons dance all night' comes to life here. The New Year Lantern Festival, which runs from the Spring Festival to the end of March, is the climax of the lanterns, with people entering from 4 pm to midnight, and it is really crowded, but it is really worth a visit. It is recommended to first visit the Lantern Museum located in People's Park during the day for a preliminary understanding, and then head to the lantern festival at night.
Salt Industry History Museum Keywords: Western Qin Guild Hall
Located in the city, the Salt Industry History Museum was originally a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants during the Qing Dynasty. The museum details the history of salt industry development and shows the process of well salt extraction. The highlight is the architectural complex completed over 16 years starting from the first year of Emperor Qianlong, with its majestic eaves and exquisite gardens that are unforgettable.
Shenhai Well Keywords: First, Kilometer
Shenhai Well is the first well in human drilling history to exceed one kilometer in depth, drilled using the traditional Chinese percussion drilling technique dating back to the Song Dynasty in the 15th year of the Daoguang era, with a depth of 1001.42 meters. This 180-year-old salt well can still produce salt today. Except for the power being changed to electric motors and the ropes to steel wires, the other main components have retained their original appearance. On-site, you can pay 150 yuan to watch the salt extraction process up close.
🍽 Cuisine:
Zigong's cuisine is also memorable. The unique Eight Treasure Porridge, the beautiful and tempting Bird's Nest Silk, the famous Cold Rabbit, the minced beef stir-fry, the afternoon tea at Wangye Temple... countless, if you have time, you must check them all out.
🚉 Transportation Tips:
Route 1: Chengdu Tianfu Airport - Zigong (High-speed train 40 minutes)
Route 2: Chengdu - Zigong (Self-driving 2 hours) You can stop by to see the Rong County Giant Buddha on the way
Route 3: Yibin Airport - Yibin High-speed Train - Zigong (The whole journey is about 1.5 hours)
Route 4: Yibin Airport - Zigong (Highway 50 minutes)
Zigong does not have an airport, but it has high-speed rail, and the highways are also very convenient.
Zigong Xian City Ancient Town
There is no commercial atmosphere in Zigong Xian City Ancient Town, making it one of the alternative places to visit and check in when touring Zigong.
📍Detailed Address:
About 4 kilometers away from Zigong High-Speed Railway Station, you can consider visiting here first after getting off the high-speed train.
🌟Highlights:
A 1400-year-old salt capital ancient town;
No commercial atmosphere, shops are opened by the original residents;
The ancient town retains some ancient buildings;
The ancient town's dock was once an important hub of Zigong, and now you can take a boat to tour the Fuxi River;
Recently, the rapeseed flowers are blooming, and the boat shuttles between the banks are all rapeseed fields, making it a boat tour among the flowers.
Ancient buildings you can visit in the town: Nanhua Palace, Guanyin Hall, Jinqiao Temple, Chen Family Ancestral Hall. 'Yalin Pavilion' charges a fee to go upstairs for a panoramic view of the ancient town, which is very photogenic.
The ancient town is not very large, and it can be easily covered in 1-2 hours. There is a 'Sister Xu's Home Cooking' which is said to be very famous, but you must call in advance to reserve a spot, otherwise, you won't be able to dine there.
The first stop of Zigong one-day tour is Xianshi Ancient Town!
It's not far from the city, specifically checked in, there are quite a lot of people, but the ancient town is not big, it can be finished in half an hour, there are many tea shops by the river!
Revisiting the traces of Xian City and Yangliu Creek
After many years, I once again walked into Yangliu Creek in Xian City. I originally thought that I could see the old stone bridge under the stone arch bridge during the dry season, but I missed it again. I went upstream along Yangliu Creek to Nanhe Village Nanhuagong. The past mechanized road has turned into a rural road, and the new road in Xiantan along the beach crosses Yangliu Creek. Unfortunately, the green plants are dense now, and the reflection of Nanhuagong can no longer be appreciated in the pond in front of the mountain, but the entire architectural complex is still impressive from the right side of the pond in Nanhuagong. Nanhe Village Nanhuagong sits east to west, with a quadrangle layout, brick and wood structure, covering more than two acres, with a building area of over a thousand square meters. According to the records of Fushun County Chronicles, Nanhuagong was built in the 17th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1891), and a large-scale renovation was carried out in 1934. It is a well-preserved guild building in the Zigong area.
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Salt Making Industry History Museum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Let's visit the Zigong Salt Industry History Museum together, you'll regret it if you don't come~
The Zigong Salt Industry History Museum is a professional museum of the history of science and technology in China, and it is also a national first-class museum, located in Ziliujing District of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, on the bank of Fuxi River at the foot of Longfeng Mountain.
The museum was established in 1959, and the site is the Xiqin Guild Hall built in the first year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736). This is a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants with collected funds, integrating the architectural styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties and folk buildings. Well-preserved steles, wood carvings, stone carvings, and clay sculptures are physical specimens for the study of social life, economic conditions, and religious art in the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War.
The Zigong Salt Industry Museum has a collection of 18,214 movable cultural relics, and the basic display includes the history of well salt technology in China, the geological display of the Zigong salt industry, and the history of salt tax in Zigong.
The museum has a total of 1,975 sets of cultural relics related to the development of well salt, including historical documents, literature, and archival materials. Among them, there are 426 sets of historical relics, 730 sets of salt history relics, and 819 sets of specimen fossils. A total of 431 sets have been identified as precious cultural relics, including 55 sets of first-class cultural relics.
The museum's collection of 503 pieces of traditional drilling and well repair tools is the only relatively complete group of ancient percussion drilling tools preserved in China. These tools of different periods, forms, and purposes reflect the well salt technology and craftsmanship created by generations of salt workers, marking the development of China's drilling technology. The museum's collection of well stove management contracts, rock mouth books, and account books from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period are of value for the study of the history of science and technology and socio-economic history.
Zigong is so low-key, it's surprising that such a beautiful Xiqin Guild Hall has zero tourists
📍 Zigong Salt Industry History Museum
💰 Ticket: 35 yuan/person
🕕 Visiting duration: 0.5-1h
Continuing my travel notes in Zigong.
This small southwestern city is not very famous, indeed less known than Chengdu. But if you say it's famous, rabbit heads, lantern festivals, well salt, dinosaur fossils, each one is more popular than the last.
Today, let's talk about one of Zigong's specialties—well salt.
Historically, Zigong has drilled over 13,000 well salt mines, with the deepest reaching more than 1,000 meters underground, which is equivalent to drilling through Mount Everest more than 400 times.
To understand well salt, we must mention two destinations: one is Shenhai Well, and the other is the 'Zigong Salt Industry History Museum' we are visiting today.
Its predecessor, the Xiqin Guild Hall, was built by Shaanxi salt merchants during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Shaanxi + salt merchants can be said to be fully buffed, and you can imagine how 'extravagantly inhumane' it is here.
The salt industry history here is certainly present, but it's mainly about the displays, which are somewhat dull. Compared to the displays, the most worthwhile aspect to see here is actually the architecture.
The architectural style here blends the styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties, both royal and folk. In addition to its grand scale, the details are also very well-crafted. A large number of stone and wood carvings are exquisitely detailed, and the extensive gilding speaks to the cost-no-object construction, as well as the beautifully intricate caisson ceilings and complex flying eaves that you would only expect to see in Beijing. It can be said that whatever elements are luxurious and grand, they've been incorporated here. In all of China, aside from the emperor, perhaps only the fabulously wealthy salt merchants would dare to do this.
In 1959, Grandpa D personally designated this place as China's only salt industry history museum, allowing it to be perfectly preserved to this day.
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Hey~ Hello everyone, the must-go place for the Spring Festival
❤️ Recommendation reason: Come and play during the Spring Festival, full of New Year's flavor, the seasonal Zigong Lantern Festival, and you can also feel the local food and salt industry history~
The strategy includes the 2024 Zigong Lantern Festival Guide
✈️✈️How to reach Zigong✈️✈️
🚄Fastest by high-speed rail:
Departing from Chengdu: Chengdu South Station and East Station-Zigong Station, fastest 51 minutes
Departing from other provinces: You can land at Tianfu Airport (Tianfu Airport Station-Zigong Station) fastest 30 minutes
🚗Self-driving: Chengdu city area-Zigong, about 2h
✨✨Two-day tour itinerary✨✨
Day1️⃣: Arrive in Zigong in the morning → Lunch at Toilet Rabbit →🌟Salt Industry History Museum→Color Lantern Museum (optional)→Dinner at Coal Dam Dry Pot→🌟Watch Zigong Lantern Festival
Day2️⃣: 🌟Zigong Dinosaur Museum→Lunch at Ru Ping Traditional Dipping Vegetable (opposite is Feihong Fish House can also choose)→🌟Shenhai Well→Return trip
Day 1 itinerary:
1, Toilet Rabbit (only one store, no branches)
A very famous old shop, good at making rabbit, navigation📍 No. 39, No. 93, Tongxing Road
2, Salt Industry History Museum🌟
China's only salt industry history museum, here you can understand Zigong, about 1h
3, Color Lantern Museum
It can be considered as a substitute for the Lantern Festival, you can go and see it on the way, optional
4, Coal Dam Dry Pot
It's a place name and there are many dry pot shops nearby. The duck tongue and chicken wings are recommended. Navigation📍No. 20, Zhenzhu Temple Road
5, 🏮Zigong Lantern Festival·Lantern Viewing Guide🏮
This year is the 30th session, navigation📍 Zhonghua Color Lantern World, ‼️Note: Closed for one day on February 9
🚗Self-driving parking:
The No. 2 parking lot is close to the entrance, and other parking lots can take a free shuttle bus back and forth
👀Recommended for entering the park:
19:00-20:30 is the peak of entering the park. It is recommended to enter the park after 9 o'clock in the evening, and there will be fewer and fewer tourists. The park closes at 23:30 from February 10th to 17th, and at 23:00 from February 18th to 24th
🎫Tickets: If the online tickets are sold out, you can scan the code on site or buy tickets at the ticket window.
Day 2 itinerary:
1, Dinosaur Museum🌟
Almost includes all known dinosaur species from the Jurassic period
2, Lunch
Eat according to your preferences, recommend📍Ru Ping Traditional Dipping Vegetable, the dipping vegetable is special, the small stir-fried chicken offal and intestines are very delicious
3, Shenhai Well🌟
National 4A-level scenic spot. It is recommended to ask for a guide, play for 1h
🏨Accommodation recommendation:
For convenience, stay near the Lantern Festival and Dinosaur Museum, Zigong is small and easy to take a taxi, stay in the old city area, there are more food on Wuxing Street and Tongxing Road
🍭Specialty food:
Zigong cold rabbit, ginger fresh pot rabbit, dipping vegetable, boiled beef, Daan roast beef, Fushun tofu flower, Artemisia leaf chicken feet
✨ Above, finally suggest to collect, like not to get lost~㊗️Happy New Year to y
Zigong Salt Industry History Museum‖A building, a city!!
🏞【Zigong Salt Industry History Museum Guide】
The Salt Industry History Museum, located at the foot of Longfeng Mountain on the bank of Fuxi River in Ziliujing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, is one of the earliest professional museums established in China and the only salt industry science and technology history museum in China.
It displays the historical evolution of ancient well salt production in China and drilling, well management, and tool retrieval technologies, and uses modern means such as sound, light, and electricity to realistically reproduce the evolution and transformation of well salt production technology in the millennium salt capital.
The predecessor of the Salt Industry Museum was the Xiqin Guild Hall, also known as the "Guan Di Temple" (mainly offering Guan Di's position, also known as Guan Di Temple), which was a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants who came to Zigong to operate the salt industry, so it was called the Xiqin Guild Hall.
💰Average consumption:
Ticket: 35 yuan/person
Explanation: Chinese explanation 200 yuan/batch (within 10 people per batch, an additional 10 yuan for each additional person)
🕙Business hours:
Open all year round, Monday to Sunday 08:30-17:30
📍Detailed address:
No. 173, Jiefang Road, Ziliujing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province
Parking: There is a parking lot P opposite the museum gate
🌟Highlights:
Wangye Temple (also part of the "Salt Industry History Museum" building complex, a 10-minute walk away)
Shenhai Well (It is recommended to first visit the "Salt Industry History Museum" to understand salt culture, salt theory, and salt history, and then to see the real salt well, you will have a different feeling)
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Fantawild Dino Kingdom Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Of course, the Year of the Dragon comes from Fangte to explore dinosaur culture and ancient Shu culture!
The park contains nine indoor large-scale high-tech projects and thirty outdoor amusement projects, business hours 10:00-17:00 From the first to the sixteenth day of the lunar new year 9:00-21:00
Download 'Fangte Tourism' in advance, some projects need to be booked in advance! You can also check the map, see the navigation, and understand the queue situation of the project in real time.
Departing from Chengdu for 1 hour, there is actually a Dinosaur Kingdom in southern Sichuan
I really want to strongly recommend this super dreamy Dinosaur Kingdom to everyone!
The seriously underestimated treasure city of southern Sichuan!
The unforgettable Zigong cuisine, the mysterious prehistoric world that will come back unlimited times
Every time I will bring my friends back to the primitive era together.
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📍Name: Zigong Fantawild Dinosaur Kingdom
🚄Transportation: Chengdu high-speed rail 1 hour, Yibin high-speed rail 25 minutes direct to Zigong
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✅【I will be sad if you don't play these projects, OK?】
1️⃣【Flying】, recommended: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I don't allow anyone who comes here to miss 【Flying】, as the ace project here, it's like riding on a dragon's back, fully feeling the dinosaur's vision and speed!
2️⃣【Dinosaur Crisis】, recommended: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chasing with the dinosaur that destroys the city in the cyberpunk future city, it's like really being in a desperate racing car to save the world!
3️⃣【Journey to the Center of the Earth】, recommended: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Take a mine car into the mysterious and deep center of the earth to explore the unknown world! That kind of unknown mysterious space really makes people's hair stand on end
4️⃣Jungle Drift (raincoat required), recommended: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rotating and drifting in the tropical rainforest, there are occasional steep slopes, and there are dinosaurs and rainforests on both sides, and there will be rain from time to time
5️⃣Brave Dinosaur Valley (raincoat required), recommended: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ride the dinosaur train from the high place of the dinosaur skull and rush down, splashing rapids and water splashes
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📷Dinosaur Kingdom photo check-in point private recommendation
1️⃣【Bronze Sacrifice】Square at the entrance
The huge Sanxingdui mask and sacrificial pillars are like breaking into a mysterious alien world! It is recommended that the character run towards the pillar
2️⃣【Flying】Museum entrance
The super-large flying dinosaur is flying, it is recommended to take a low-angle shot of the character with the dinosaur as the background
3️⃣【Light of Life】Museum entrance
Future comic city architectural style! It is recommended to take a side shot
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✅Dinosaur Kingdom special performance
1️⃣Boonie Bears: Back to the Jurassic
Follow the three-person group of Bear Qiang to start an adventure journey. The whole scene follows the perspective of Bear Two, with a strong sense of substitution!
2️⃣Fly to the Blue Sky
Large-scale real-life performance with stunning visual impact, taking you back to the original experience of harmony between man and nature
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❤️Dinosaur Kingdom must-have strategy tips
1️⃣Download the "Fantawild Tourism" app in advance, you can make an appointment for the live performance and queue in the cloud, and understand the queue situation of each project in real time
2️⃣The current business hours of Zigong Fantawild are 10:00-17:00, and the New Year period from the first day of the new year to the sixteenth is 9:00-21:00, super long business!
3️⃣In 2024, Fantawild Dragon will celebrate the New Year! From the first day of the new year to the sixteenth, there is a dinosaur parade every day from 4:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon! The mecha dinosaur float and the theme phalanx are shocking and new! There are also hundreds of NPCs interacting with tourists!
4️⃣Don't miss the New Year's Eve performance and snow carnival during the Spring Festival! There is also a New Year's fireworks show! Celebrate the New Year together!
Zigong Lantern Festival ceiling, 3 days 2 nights travel guide is here!
🕐🕐【Time】
1️⃣January 29-31 trial operation🕐, February 2 official opening🕐
2️⃣Current lighting time🕐: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm (The lighting time will be advanced and extended during the Spring Festival)🕐
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🎫🎫【Tickets】
1️⃣Ticket price🎫💰: Adult ticket🎫 (During the Spring Festival/First to Fifteenth: 168r/person💰+Before and after the Spring Festival: 118r/person💰)
2️⃣This year there are also student tickets, senior citizen tickets, and citizen tickets (tickets are cheaper)🎫💰
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🚗🚗【Transportation】
1️⃣City bus🚌: You can take the 6th, 8th, and 10th special bus lines for lantern viewing in the main urban area to the China Lantern World Tourism Distribution Center.🚌
2️⃣High-speed rail🚄: Transfer to the 11th special bus line for lantern viewing at the bus hub station of Zigong High-speed Rail Station🚄
3️⃣Self-driving🚗: Navigate🧭 to the parking lot🅿️ of the Lantern World Scenic Area (1, 2 parking lots can be walked🚶; 3, 4 parking lots take the shuttle bus🚗)
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🗺️🗺️【3 Days 2 Nights Route Recommendation】
1️⃣Zigong Dinosaur Museum—Shenhai Well—Zigong Salt Industry History Museum—Zigong China Lantern—Night Tour Fuxi
2️⃣Xianshi Ancient Town—Zigong Fantawild Dinosaur Kingdom—Wangye Temple to watch opera
3️⃣Rong County Big Buddha/Jiang Sister's Hometown—Fushun Confucian Temple—Fushun West Lake—Return
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🥘🥘【Food Recommendation】
1️⃣Cold rabbit🐰: Zigong specialty, spicy and tender, endless aftertaste!🐰🌶️
2️⃣Fire edge beef🐂🥩: The beef is as thin as cicada wings, chewy, and spicy!🌶️🥩
3️⃣Fushun Tofu Pudding🥣: Tender and refreshing, with specially made dipping sauce, the taste is amazing!😋👍
4️⃣Dan Dan Noodles🍜: The noodles are thin and spicy, authentic Zigong taste!🌶️👍
5️⃣Chuan Chuan Xiang🍖: Spicy and delicious, can't stop eating!👍
I was hung on the 5th floor immersed in watching movies, blowing up Fangte
Blow up Zigong Fangte!! Zigong Fangte Dinosaur Kingdom
Who understands, rush a giant screen hanging project climbed 5 floors
Then I was hung in the "sky" immersive flying experience❗️
Zigong Fangte wins!!
All close your eyes and rush❗️
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🦕Zigong Fangte Dinosaur Kingdom
🚙Chengdu self-driving 1.5h, high-speed rail 1h, Chongqing self-driving 2h
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【My super super recommended project!】
🔺Flying
Children are very suitable for playing! The entire screen can't see the edge, it's really like flying in the sky, the feeling of diving is super real, just like sitting on the back of the Avatar Wyvern!! Must rush this!!
🔺Journey to the Center of the Earth
Ride a minecart to go underground for an adventure, I played this kind of project with a section of complete blackout for the first time, only sound effects in my ears, super immersive
🔺Triceratops Battle Car
Another super innovation, a roller coaster that drives backwards❗It's more exciting than a regular roller coaster
🔺Brave Dinosaur Valley (need raincoat)
My favorite rapids brave, you can rent a raincoat, dive down from the dinosaur's head, super exciting!
🔺Crossing the Volcano
A suspended roller coaster project, sitting in the car through the cave, up to the sky and down to the ground, the experience is unique
🔺Jungle Guardian
There is a shooting gun on each seat, defeat the monster to save the dinosaur baby, there is a score statistics for each visitor at the exit, children will definitely love this project! Parent-child king bomb
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【Theater Projects】
🐻Bear Infested Jurassic Return
A 4D movie where the seat will move with the picture, not the kind of 4D animation with a very boring plot, it is an educational movie about growth, gratitude, and friendship, I almost cried as an adult!
🗺Fly to the Blue Sky
Give us a close-up performance of the story of the dinosaur overlord from birth to extinction and then being excavated by humans! Get a lot of small knowledge points from it~ The scenes and live performances of the Magic Ball Theater, immersive visual feast~ Strong push!
❗❗New【VR Experience Hall】❗❗
.(Coming soon) Wear VR glasses and start a magical journey through time and space! Will lead you back to the prosperous era of the Summer Palace, to feel the artistic crystallization of Chinese royal gardens. This project has no age or height restrictions, men, women, old and young can come and experience it~
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🌟Little trips
✔Download the "Fangte Travel" app, you can queue up for the theater in the cloud, and there are queue times for various projects
✔Zigong Fangte has entered the Chinese New Year mode🧨~, the atmosphere is yyds! During the New Year, the first to the sixteenth day of the first month is 9:00-21:00❗
✔From the first to the sixteenth day of the first month, there are 🦕Cyber Dinosaur Parades every day! Mech dinosaur floats and theme formations, and NPCs interact with you~ Fireworks and you celebrate the New Year together! New Year fast rush duck!
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