What are the best places to visit in Quanzhou? What are the must-see attractions?

There are Kaiyuan Temple, Fuwen Temple, Qingjing Temple, Tianhou Palace, Qingyuan Mountain and so on, which are all worth visiting.

1, Kaiyuan Temple

Kaiyuan Temple is located in West Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, is an important cultural relics along the southeastern coast of China, and the largest Buddhist temple in Fujian Province.

The temple was founded in the early Tang Dynasty in the second year of the arch (686), initially known as the Lotus Road, the twenty-sixth year of the Kaiyuan (738) renamed Kaiyuan Temple. The existing main temple was built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with a length of 260 meters from north to south and a width of 300 meters from east to west, covering an area of 78,000 square meters.

2, Fuwen Temple

Fuwen Temple is located in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, Leicheng District, Baiyuanchuan Pond, also known as the House of Learning, is a national key cultural relics protection units. Built in the Tang Kaiyuan end of the Northern Song Dynasty Taipingxingguo early (AD 976-981 years) moved to the present site.

Fuwenmiao has a long history, grand scale, magnificent halls, is a set of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties of the architectural form of the Confucian temple complex, for the Southeast region's largest temple complex, architectural style in the country's existing Confucian temples are rare.

3, Qingjing Temple

Qingjing Temple, the first name of the Temple of the Holy Friends, also known as the Aisu Hab Da Mosque, located in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, Tu Men Street, is the Arab Muslims in China to create the oldest surviving Islamic Temple, built in the Northern Song Dynasty, Dazhongxiangfu two years (A.D. 1009), is the year for the year of 400 years of the Hijri calendar.

The temple covers an area of 2,184 square meters, the whole for the stone building, modeled on the Damascus, Syria, Islamic chapel of the architectural form of the Islamic mosque in the function of the space on the dispersion of the Islamic religion, the small concentration characteristics. Retained main buildings for the gatehouse, the Hall of Worship, Ming Shan Hall and other parts.

4, Tianhou Palace

Located in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, South Gate, Tianhou Road No. 1, was built in Song Qingyuan two years (1196), is located in the city of Quanzhou south of the Jinjiang River, "Tomato Hublot passenger shipping gathering place.

The palace is China's southeastern coast of Putian Meizhou A-Ma Zu Ancestral Temple of the spirit of the temple in the existing earlier, larger scale of an A-Ma Temple.

Quanzhou Tianhou Palace has always been considered the highest architectural specifications at home and abroad, larger temples dedicated to A-Ma, and is also one of the few mainland A-Ma temples that have been validated and announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

5, Qingyuan Mountain

Qingyuan Mountain National Key Scenic Area is one of the eighteen scenic spots in Quanzhou, but also a national key scenic spot, consisting of three large areas of Qingyuan Mountain, Jiuri Mountain, Lingshan Sacred Tomb, with a total area of sixty-two square kilometers. Qingyuan Mountain scenic area has a circumference of forty miles, the main peak is 498 meters above sea level, and the mountain city of Quanzhou City, attracting many overseas tourists.

Since ancient times, Qingyuan Mountain National Key Scenic Area has been famous for its 36 caves and 18 scenic spots, among which Laojun Rock, Thousand Hands Rock, Mituo Rock, Bixiao Rock, Ruixiang Rock, Tiger Milk Springs, Nantai Rock, Qingyuan Cave, and Zhi'en Rock are especially famous.