What are the top ten famous scenic spots in China?

The Ten Great Scenic Spots of China refers to the results of the selection initiated by the China Tourism Newspaper in 1985, which are the Great Wall, Guilin Landscape, West Lake in Hangzhou, the Forbidden City in Beijing, Suzhou Gardens, Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the Sun Moon Lake, the Summer Resort in Chengde, and the Terracotta Army of the Qin Tombs.

1, the Great Wall

The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall of China, is an ancient Chinese military defense project, is a tall, strong and continuous wall, used to limit the enemy's actions. The Great Wall is not a mere isolated wall.

Rather, it is a defense system that combines a wall as the main body with a large number of cities, barriers, pavilions and markers. The history of the construction of the Great Wall dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the famous story of the "Beacon Fire Playing with the Lords" took place in the capital of Haojing (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province).

The construction of the Great Wall entered its first climax during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, when the Great Wall was built to defend each other against the rivalries of the great powers, but the length of the wall at this time was relatively short. After Qin destroyed the six states and unified the world, Qin Shi Huang connected and repaired the Great Wall of the Warring States, which was called the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles.

2, Guilin landscape

Guilin landscape is a general term for tourism resources in Guilin. National AAAAA level tourist attractions, one of China's top ten scenic spots, Guilin landscape is a representative of China's landscape, typical karst terrain constitutes a unique Guilin landscape.

Guilin landscape refers to a wide range of projects. Guilin's landscape is characterized by "green mountains, beautiful water, strange caves, and beautiful stones", including mountains, water, karst caves, and stone carvings, etc. The landscape scenery within its territory is world-famous, and it has enjoyed the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is superior to the rest of the world" for thousands of years.

On June 23, 2014, at the 38th session of the World Heritage Conference, the second phase of the South China Karst Project, led by Guilin, succeeded in its bid to become a World Natural Heritage site, and Guilin's mountains and waters were added to the list of World Natural Heritage sites.

3, Hangzhou West Lake

West Lake, located in the west of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots and one of China's top ten scenic spots in mainland China. It is one of the major ornamental freshwater lakes in mainland China, and is one of the few and China's only lake-type cultural heritages on the current World Heritage List.

The West Lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, covering an area of about 6.39 square kilometers, about 2.8 kilometers wide from east to west and 3.2 kilometers long from north to south, with a circumference of nearly 15 kilometers around the lake. The lake is separated by Lone Mountain, White Causeway, Su Causeway and Yang Gong Causeway.

By the size of the outer West Lake, Xili Lake, Beili Lake, small South Lake and Yuehu Lake and other five pieces of water, Su Causeway, White Causeway across the lake, small Yingzhou, Huxinting Pavilion, Ruan Gongdun three small islands standing in the heart of the outer West Lake.

The Leifeng Pagoda on the Xizhao Mountain and the Baobao Pagoda on the Jewel Mountain reflect each other across the lake, thus forming the basic pattern of "one mountain, two pagodas, three islands, three embankments and five lakes".

4, the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is the royal palace of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of the central axis of Beijing, is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. Centered on the Three Great Halls, the Forbidden City of Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a building area of about 150,000 square meters.

There are more than seventy palaces of various sizes and more than nine thousand houses. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Chengzu Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), with the Forbidden City in Nanjing as the blueprint.

By the 18th year of Yongle (1420), it was completed. It is a rectangular city, 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded on all sides by a 10-meter-high wall, with a 52-meter-wide moat outside the city. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court.

The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Baohe, collectively known as the Three Great Halls, where the country's great ceremonies are held. The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Hall and Kunning Palace, collectively known as the latter three palaces, the main palace where the emperor and the empress reside.

5, Suzhou Garden

Suzhou Classical Garden, referred to as Suzhou Garden, is a world heritage site, national AAAAA level tourist attractions, one of China's top ten scenic spots. Suzhou classical gardens known as the "city of gardens".

Enjoys the reputation of "Jiangnan gardens 甲天下, Suzhou gardens 甲江南", known as "within a stone's throw to recreate the Qiankun". Suzhou classical gardens began in the Spring and Autumn Period when Wu built the capital of Gusu, formed in the Five Dynasties, mature in the Song Dynasty, flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou has more than 170 gardens of various colors, now preserved more than 60, open to the public 19, mainly Canglang Pavilion, Lion Grove, the Humble Administrator's Garden, Liouyuan, the network of the Master Garden, Yiyuan Garden and other gardens.

Suzhou classical gardens have their unique historical status and value in the history of gardening in the world, with the superb artistic technique of writing landscape, containing strong traditional Chinese ideas and cultural connotations, it is a model of gardening art of oriental civilization, and it is the leading and proud of Chinese gardening culture.

6, Anhui Huangshan

Huangshan is located in southern Anhui Province, Huangshan City, there are 72 peaks, the main peak of Lotus Peak elevation of 1,864 meters, and the top of the bright, Tendu Peak, and known as the three main peaks of the Huangshan Mountain, one of the 36 peaks. Huangshan is the symbol of Anhui tourism, is China's top ten scenic spots only mountain scenery.

Huangshan original name "Yixian Mountain", because of the peak rock green and black, looking at CangDai name. Later, because of the legend that Emperor Xuanyuan had alchemy here, it was renamed "Huangshan". The representative landscape of Mount Huangshan has "four great three waterfalls".

The four best: strange pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds, hot springs; three waterfalls: the human character waterfalls, Baizhang Spring, the Nine Dragons Waterfall. Mount Huangshan Welcome Pine is a symbol of the warmth and friendship of the people of Anhui, carrying the Eastern etiquette culture of embracing the world.

7, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, also known as the Gorge or the Great Three Gorges, is located in the territory of China's Chongqing Municipality and Hubei Province on the Yangtze River's main stream, starting from Baidi City in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality in the west, and ending in Nanjin Pass, Yichang City, Hubei Province in the east, with a total length of 193 kilometers, consisting of the Qutang Gorge, Wushu Gorge and Xiling Gorge.

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River was built in Yichang, Hubei Province as the world's largest water conservancy hub project, the Three Gorges Water Conservancy Hub Project. Among them, Qutang Gorge is located in Fengjie, Chongqing, and Wu Gorge is located in Wushan, Chongqing and Badong counties in Enshi Prefecture, Hubei.

Xiling Gorge is in the territory of Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province. In between the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are two national 5A-level tourist attractions: the Three Gorges Dam and the Three Gorges Home Scenic Area, one of China's top 10 scenic spots.

The first national scenic spots. The view of the Three Gorges Kui Men on the back of the RMB ten-dollar bill further highlights the important iconic status of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China's long history and culture.

8, Sun Moon Lake

Sun Moon Lake is located in Nantou County, Yuchi Township, Shuishe Village, is Taiwan's only natural lake, by the Jade Mountain and Alishan between the fracture basin of water accumulation. The lake is 760 meters above sea level and covers an area of about 9 square kilometers, with an average depth of 30 meters and a circumference of about 35 kilometers.

Sun Moon Lake is surrounded by mountains and ranges, the water is crystal blue, the lake is vast, and the peaks are reflected in the lake, which is beautiful and picturesque. Whenever the sun sets and the crescent moon rises in the east, the sunlight and moonlight reflect each other, which makes the lake even more elegant and peaceful.

There is a small island in Sun-Moon Lake that looks like a pearl floating on the water surface from afar, called Pearl Island (Guanghua Island), which is the boundary of the northern half of the lake shaped like a round sun, and the southern half of the lake is shaped like a curved moon, thus giving Sun-Moon Lake its name.

9, Chengde Summer Resort

Chengde Summer Resort, also known as "Chengde Palace" or "Hot River Palace", located in the north of Chengde City, Hebei Province, north of the center, the west bank of the Wulie River along the long, narrow valley, is the Qing Emperor's summer summer and the place to deal with political affairs. It was a place for the Qing emperors to escape the summer heat and deal with political affairs in the summer.

The Summer Resort was built in 1703, after the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, and took 89 years to complete. Summer Resort to the simple and elegant style of the mountain villages, take the natural color of the landscape, absorbing the scenery of Jiangnan Sebei.

Became China's largest existing ancient imperial palace. Summer Resort is divided into palace area, lake area, plains, mountains, four major parts of the area, the entire mountain village southeast of the water, northwest of the mountains.

It is the epitome of China's natural landscape, a brilliant milestone in the history of Chinese gardens, a masterpiece of Chinese classical garden art, and the highest example of Chinese classical gardens.

10, Qin mausoleum terracotta warriors and horses

Terracotta Warriors and Horses (Terracotta Army; Terra-cotta Figures; soldier and horse figures), that is, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the first emperor of Qin, also referred to as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin or the Terracotta Warriors, is located in today's Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Lintong District of the Mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin 1.5 kilometers east of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit.

The Terracotta Warriors are a category of ancient tomb sculpture. In ancient times, human martyrdom was practiced, and slaves were subordinate to the slave masters during their lifetime, and after the death of the slave masters, the slaves had to be buried as martyrs for the slave masters. Terracotta warriors and horses were made in the shape of soldiers and horses (chariots, horses and soldiers).

On March 4, 1961, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses were discovered in March 1974, and in 1987 the Mausoleum and Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Pits of the First Qin Emperor were approved for inclusion in the World Heritage List by UNESCO.