Are there any interesting attractions in Xiangtan?

Shaoshan is the most famous attraction in Xiangtan, where Comrade Mao Zedong was born. Located in xiangxiang, ningxiang, xiangtan junction, 40 kilometers from xiangtan city, 120 kilometers from changsha city, the population of 100000 people. Legend has it that Emperor Shun came here on his southern tour, saw the beautiful scenery, so he played shao music, attracting phoenixes, birds and chirping, and rumor has it that "shao's three women in this, a phoenix bird with the book of the sky to the women are immortal." Shaoshan therefore named. Now belongs to Xiangtan City. Hunan Province set up Shaoshan Administration.　

Shaoshan, surrounded by mountains, peaks and mountains, magnificent, green bamboo and pine, idyllic and beautiful, mountains and rivers. Shao Peak is one of the seventy-two peaks of Nanyue, the color is magical; Youth Reservoir melting blue sky, reflecting the green hills, blue waves; CiYueNan's six pines, the mysterious "Western Cave" - Dishui Cave, HuXiePing, Dishui Cave, such as the eight famous landscapes, embellished with the beautiful mountains and rivers.

Today's Shaoshan is visited by many people every day, and the main attractions are the former residence of Comrade Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong Bronze Statue Square, Mao Ancestral Hall, Mao Zedong Poetry Monument Forest, and Shao Peak, where you can also enjoy the Shao music and taste Chairman Mao's favorite Mao's braised pork.

Lu Ban Hall is located in Xiangtan City Autonomous Street. It was built in the early years of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty by the territory's carpenters as a public office. The first year of the Republic of China (1912) year burned down, 3 years later rebuilt. The temple is all-wooden structure with two floors above and below, and the temple is wide. The front of the gatehouse is a eight-character wall, and above the doorway is a clay relief "Actual Map of Xiangtan City".

The picture scene consists of 3 parts. The right picture is 4 meters long, 0.6 meters wide, for the Wenchang Pavilion to the small east gate scene; in the picture is 5.2 meters long, 2.6 meters wide, for the county to the kiln bay of the streets, alleys, wharves;, for the panoramic view of Yangmei Chau, the background of the Huanglong Mountain, Xianfengling, etc.; close up for the Xiangjiang River, the flying boat, the market houses standing, the rainy lake, swaying willows, works of subtle and realistic. It is a treasure of Xiangtan clay art. During the period of the People's Republic of China, there was a school for the children of clay workers here. In the 25th year of the People's Republic of China (1936), when repairing the main hall, the doorway of the main hall was hung with a wooden plaque of "invincible world". "Cultural Revolution" in the serious damage. Has been restored and announced as Xiangtan City Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Qi Baishi Memorial Hall is located in Xiangtan City, Baimahu Scenic Area. In order to commemorate the outstanding people's artists, world cultural celebrities Qi Baishi, in 1983 the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture approved the Xiangtan construction of Qi Baishi Memorial Hall, which lasted 10 years, was completed in 1993, May 23 of the same year, the opening ceremony was held. Pavilion site 10,000 square meters, the main building 2000 square meters. The museum collection of qi baishi paintings and early carving works dozens of pieces and the collection of recent and contemporary calligraphy and painting works of hundreds of famous artists. Memorial Hall often organizes domestic and foreign calligraphy and painting masterpieces exhibition. Memorial Hall around the beautiful scenery, for Xiangtan City, cultural relics protection units.

The building of the Memorial Hall is just like the residential houses in Jiangnan, delicate and elegant, revealing a different kind of peace and cordiality, which has become a new tourist attraction in Xiangtan City. Memorial hall on the forehead of the black stone gilded letters "qi baishi memorial hall" glittering. Into the museum, you can not only appreciate the Bai Shi old man exquisite more than 30 original paintings and early wood carvings, bamboo carvings, stone carvings, but also to appreciate the Qi's descendants and disciples of the old man's art of inheritance and development. Various exhibition halls are connected, spacious and bright, and as in the south of Jiangnan farmhouse walking, and the white stone old man painting art of the kind of childish simplicity, naive farmhouse atmosphere. More ingenious is, in the middle of the memorial hall carefully designed bridge and water, trellis leakage shade, make the whole memorial hall in the clear water through a kind of flowing aura. 1997, xiangtan city people's government and decided to change the name of the people's road school at baima lake for the white stone school, in order to enhance the commemoration of the old man of the white stone sentiments.

Xiangxiang Confucius Temple, also known as the Temple of Culture, is one of the oldest Xiangxiang magnificent building, built in the Northern Song Dynasty Dazhongxiangfu two years (1009), the temple site was in Lianshui East Xianlin Gang (now East Bank of the Ping), the Song Dynasty, Yuan, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, had successively repaired, rebuilt, expanded up to seven times. Qing Yongzheng eleven years (1733), all over the world by order of the investigation and repair of the world's temples, people Huang Yizhong, Xiaoyan, etc. Because the temple outside the Kwok, near the collapse of the bank, they set silver 5,000 taels, the proposal to move the construction of the Huangjia Ling. This is the Confucius Temple located in the campus of Xiangxiang No.1 Middle School. The last restoration of the Confucian Temple in the old days was carried out in the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1864), which was organized by Xu Long'a, the head of the Hunan provincial government. More than two hundred years later in 1994, by Xiangxiang, a middle school run, many fund-raising, raising funds of more than one million yuan to repair again, so that the Confucian Temple, a masterpiece of ancient architectural art, reappeared in brilliant, solemn splendor.

The main building of the Confucian Temple Dacheng Hall is a typical Ming and Qing dynasty ancient architectural structure, heavy eaves and arches, red walls and tiles, similar to the Tiananmen Square Citadel. Dacheng Hall, used to be enshrined in the "Dacheng to the saint of the master Wensuan Wang Confucius" of the tablets, now the tablets do not exist, and replaced by a statue of Confucius in a similar manner. Behind the Dacheng Hall is the Chongsheng Hall, because of its collection of many Confucian classics and other precious ancient books, so it is also known as "Zunjing Pavilion". Now it has been transformed into a luxurious and elegant small conference room. The four rooms on both sides in front of the two halls have been fully utilized by the school and built into a school history room and an exhibition room of education and teaching achievements. By the Dacheng Hall down the steps, through the courtyard, is the Dacheng door. In front of the door hangs a horizontal plaque with black characters on a red background and a gold border, inscribed with three big characters "Dacheng Gate". Walking out from the Dacheng Gate, there is the latticed star gate, which is a majestic and stable linen stone pagoda. The latticed gate consists of six upright square stone pillars and 15 horizontal square stone beams, which are symmetrical to each other. At the top of each upright stone pillar there is a small stone lion squatting, a tiger with vitality. Its carving can not be said to be fine, but not sloppy, the form can not be said to be magnificent, but not shrinking, following the middle way. In the past, in front of the latticework door, there is the Scholar's Bridge. The Scholar's Bridge is a stone arch bridge surrounded by stone railings on both sides, spanning the lotus pond. In front of the lotus pond, the left and right sides of the pond are protected by red, pink and green brick walls, and there is a semi-circular open area inside. The left and right walls have a door, closed on weekdays, only in the holding of major ceremonial activities will be opened. Outside the left door on the left wall embedded with "civil and military officials, to this dismounted" stone tablets. Legend has it that only the high school scholars are qualified to board the Scholarship Bridge, through the latticework door, footsteps under the front lawn of the Hall of Dacheng with the marble carved from the "dragon out of the sea" pattern on the head of the dragon head, straight to the Hall of Dacheng. Nowadays, the Scholar's Bridge is gone, and the Lotus Pond has been filled in and built into a standard sports ground with a 400-meter track. This ancient legend has become a popular historical anecdote.

For thousands of years, Confucius has been worshipped as the purveyor of Chinese culture, and the Temple of Literature is a symbol of civilization. Successive generations of feudal emperors have worshipped Confucius, and he has been honored for generations. Dacheng Hall of Xiangxiang Temple has been built in the main hall of the "master Confucius praise" and "four great sages praise" two imperial monuments, but also hang a variety of imperial flat, counting the twenty-second year of the Kangxi Emperor (1683) awarded the "world teacher table "plaque; Yongzheng first year (1723) awarded the" first people have not" plaque; Qianlong first year (1736) awarded the" and heaven and earth to participate in" plaque; Jiaqing four years (1799) awarded the" holy set of great" plaque; Daoguang first year (1736) awarded the" holy set of great" plaque; Daoguang first year (1799) awarded the" holy set of great" plaque"; Daoguang first year (1799) awarded the" holy set of great The first year of Daoguang (1736) awarded the "Sheng Xiexie time in the" plaque; Xianfeng first year (1851) awarded the "moral Qi canopy" plaque; Tongzhi two years (1863) awarded the "Sheng Shen Tianzhong" plaque. "tablet. It is really "heaven is not born Zhongni, as long as the night" ah.

Now, Xiangxiang Confucius Temple has been listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Hunan Province for its unique architecture, exquisite carvings and long history.

Baozhong Mountain is about 35km west of Xiangxiang City in the Tao Yue Mountain area. A mountain rises up, straight into the sky, cloudy and misty, misty, this is the ancient name "Xiangzhong the first mountain" Berg Zhongshan. Baogzhong Mountain is more than 800 meters above sea level, once known as "Chaste Woman Mountain", according to legend, there are two women of Qiu's lifelong not word, in this mountain cultivation to become immortal. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Liu Shurong, a villager, rose up against the Yuan Dynasty and stayed on the mountain. In the end, his troops ran out of food and sacrificed his life by falling off a cliff. Later generations to honor his memory, praise loyalty, so the name was changed to praise Zhongshan.

Baizhong Mountain landscape has Baiyun Pass, the ruins of the Temple of Retribution, the old site of the Temple of the Immortals, Sheshi Rock, a peak, two peaks and so on. Among them, Baiyun Pass is the most spectacular. Along the hiking trail and up, alongside a huge stone engraved with "Baiyunguan" three big words, this so-called white clouds in and out of the gate. Whenever the white clouds "out of the pass", the pass under the clouds and mist, and the head of the clear blue; if the white clouds "into the pass", the head of the clouds and mist cover, and the pass under the clear as a mirror, for the Bergdorf Mountain, a spectacle. "Shedding Rock" such as knife and axe, towering, legend has it that Liu Shurong retreated to this place, vowed not to surrender, jumping rock to give up his life.

Baozhong Mountain peaks and repair, bamboo swaying, forest shade, mountain flowers fragrant, birds singing; valley, spring waterfalls, streams and gurgling, such as song like song. Enchanting. There are Metasequoia, black shell nanny, Run Nan, Hongtong and many other valuable species, is a rare natural botanical gardens, has now been opened for the Berg Zhongshan Forest.

Shiyu Mountain in Xiangxiang City, ten miles west of Hushan Township territory, also known as the stone fish screen, once known as "stone fish Peng hyena", one of the eight scenic spots in Xiangxiang.

Over a thousand years ago, China's ancient outstanding geographer Li Daoyuan in the "Water Classic Note" recorded: "Lianshui east into Xiangxiang, through the stone fish mountain, mountain dozens of feet high, wide ten miles, under the mountain of multiple stones, color black and reason as mica, chiseling a layer of fish shape, scales, fins, heads and tails, just like carving and painting, a few inches long, the fish shape is ready for the feet, burned as fish paste fishy, because of the name! The name."

Stonefish Mountain "fish" for thousands of years has been attracting people to visit here, looking for. Six Dynasties celebrity Zhang Zheng had visited the mountain, see the stone said: "fish jump Xiangxiang water", and engraved stone monument. In the Tang Dynasty, the literary scholar Duan Chengshi also came here, in the "Youyang Miscellany Chopper", recounting what he saw and heard in the stone fish mountain.

Stonefish gives people a strange and mysterious feeling, it is a kind of stone. According to the evidence, millions of years ago, Xiangxiang's Hushan and to the area of Supo Township is a large lake, the lake grows fish and other plankton. Later, due to the violent movement of the earth's crust, these organisms were buried in a batch of sediment below, long-term pressure and the role of geocentric heat, the formation of sediment into rock, the fish after carbonization is also gel in the rock layer, become a fossil.

Stone fish, can be said to be a reflection of the geological evolution of the art treasures. It can not only give people the enjoyment of simplicity and innocence, but also give people the enlightenment of knowledge. 1958 when the construction of Xiangqian Railway, the roadbed through the stone fish mountain, had found a large number of stone fish. Now, although the mountain has been laid under the railroad, but the railroad is still on both sides of the fish stone disclosure, if the development, there are always "fish".

Dripping Water Cave is the President's villa, located in the corner of the west of Shaoshan Chong, and the President's former residence 3 kilometers away. Dripping Cave, is a famous attractions in the Shaoshan landscape group, by dripping the water of the Yuyu Gully, Hu Xieping, Longtou Mountain and other natural scenery and Dripping Cave No. 1 and other architectural composition. Dripping Water Cave is about 2.8 kilometers long, and there is a small stream inside the cave, which curves and bends, and the mouth of the gully opens toward the northeast. The forests along the creek are lush, and the upright pine forests are interspersed with dense nanzhu, while hundreds of wildflowers grow all over the mountain.

Yaowan is located near Xiangtan 18th Middle School, the largest old town and shantytown in Xiangtan, and can be accessed by 18 buses from Xiangtan Railway Station after arriving at Xiangtan from Changsha.

Yaowan a little bit past there is a similar Changsha Orange Island head of the place, is Yangmeizhou. Yangmeizhou is basically a barbecue site, across the river is also more unique, not far in front of the Xiangjiang Iron Bridge. Nearby Yangmeizhou is the former residence of Qiu Jin, a famous heroine in modern Chinese history, which has been dilapidated due to lack of protection, which is a pity. The best view of Yangmeizhou should be the June-July floods, said to be flooded every year, may be okay to go now, but you can still see the more fierce river. In addition, there are also Wangheng Pavilion, Guansheng Hall and other monuments.