What are the attractions in Fuzhou fun place - food recommendations

If you are going to Fuzhou to play, there are these scenic spots are not to be missed, in addition to this, there are some food can try, local food and other cities may have some differences in food, but most of them are still not bad, you can go to feel for yourself.

Fuzhou City

Sanfangqixiang

There are two kinds of people who like Sanfangqixiang. A southern backstreet can satisfy anxious tourists with one-stop eating, drinking, entertainment and shopping; while for fans of literature, history and architecture, the layout of the lane, the Ming and Qing buildings and the countless modern celebrities who have come out of here are more appealing to the eye.

Three Square Seven Alleys is the representative of the ancient city of Fuzhou in the neighborhood, originated in Jin, built in the end of the Tang Dynasty, flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Only two squares and five alleys actually exist. You can take the South Back Street as the main road to visit Sanfangqixiang.

Yonghe Fish Balls, Mujin Meat Balls, Tongli Meat Swallow, etc., which are famous among Fuzhou snacks, are all on this street, so if you want to get all the snacks of Fuzhou, this is a time-saving and worry-free choice. And Fujian Provincial Non-legacy Culture Expo Court can give you a general understanding of Fujian folk crafts. Although most of the buildings are rebuilt now, several mansions still retain the grandeur of the time. If you are traveling from north to south, Lin Jiumin's former residence is located at the west end of the street. In the Letter to His Wife, Lin Jiemin wrote, "The house on the back street is the place where I live with you", referring to this small courtyard. Bing Xin, a later tenant of the house, also mentioned her childhood here many times.

Yan Fu's former residence can be seen on the first Langguan Lane on the east side, where the "first person to study the West in China" spent the last two years of his life. The main building of the courtyard is in typical Qing style, while the corridors and railings of the flower hall are decorated with a large number of Western-style ornaments. Ermei Study House was the small study house of Lin Xingzhang, a scholar during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, named after the two plum trees visible through the window. The whole house is now the Fujian Provincial Folk Museum, but the intricate colorful gold paintings and wood carving patterns on the nanmu doors and windows are even better than the exhibits.

Continuing to the south, the Shuishe Playground is the largest mansion in the whole square, with a flower hall in the courtyard surrounded by water on three sides and accompanied by rockery and snow caves. Nowadays, there are daily performances of ethnic instrumental music here (10:30, 15:30), so you can experience the elegant scene of dignitaries listening to music across the water back in the day.

Lin Congyi's former residence was the mansion of Lin Zexu's second son, with a magnificent layout. Especially worth seeing are the moon beams, sparrow dowels, arches and other wooden components, which are beautifully modeled and finely carved. It is now the Fuzhou Lacquer Art Museum, where you can enjoy lacquer ware and lacquer painting, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuzhou".

Gushan Mountain

Climbing Gushan Mountain, burning incense at Yongquan Temple, and drinking tea at Drinking Water Rock have long been favorite activities of Fuzhou people. The starting point of the ancient stone path on Drum Mountain is right next to the lower courtyard ropeway station on Drum Mountain, and it takes about one hour to climb to Yongquan Temple. The good thing is that there is a pavilion for resting at every interval of the ancient path, and there are even advertisements from the Republican period in the cliff carvings of the literati along the way, so you may want to look for them.

The Yongquan Temple, located halfway up the mountain, is the most important attraction of Gushan. In the temple, a thousand years of iron tree, chicken wire wood table and blood scripture is known as the town of mountain "three treasures", in front of the main hall there is a pair of ceramic fired pagoda. Temple to the east of the Lingyuan Cave on both sides, a collection of more than 200 since the Song Dynasty cliff stone carvings, known as the "Southeast Tablet Forest", which the Song Dynasty calligrapher Cai Xiang wrote "forgetting to go back to the stone" and science Zhu Xi handwritten as high as 4 meters high Shouzhi are not to be missed.

There is a drinking rock next to Lingyuan Cave, where the spring water seeping out of the dragon's head is said to be the best for making tea, and there is a teahouse next to the spring to receive tea drinkers. The locals love to bring their own tea here, make a pot of good tea, blowing the mountain breeze, a wash of mountaineering fatigue.

Gu Huan Highway

Gushan is a traditional scenic spot loved by people in Fuzhou, while Guling is a new resort area. A 7.5-kilometer-long Drum Huan Highway connecting Yongquan Temple of Gushan and Huanxi of Guling is a hot Fuzhou highway landscape in the past two years. You can take a walk on this most racy highway by hiking, cycling and self-driving.

The highway is lined with tall willow fir forests, and the early morning mist fills the woods, making it very dreamy. Along the line of repair a viewing platform, when the weather is fine, you can see the panoramic view of downtown Fuzhou City: butterfly-shaped Straits Convention and Exhibition Center can be seen clearly, the Minjiang River seems to be a floating belt through the city. In Gushan, you can stroll past the Yongquan Temple and take a look at the old streets and old Western buildings. Guling, on the other hand, was one of the four major summer resorts chosen by foreigners in the early 20th century, on a par with Mount Lu.

Tourist information

Transportation: To hike the Guling Highway, you can first take a bus to Yongquan Temple on Gushan Mountain, or you can take the No. 63 Guling special bus in front of the Police College to the Willow King Park, where the Guling Scenic Spot Visitor Center is located. If you want to ride up the mountain, there is a Fuzhou Tianya Line Bicycle Club station next to the bus terminal in the lower courtyard of Gushan, where you can rent mountain bikes for as little as 20 yuan/hour, depending on the model.

Temples in Fuzhou

There are many temples in Fuzhou, so you may want to forget about their religious connotations and come here purely for leisure. The Xizen Temple, which holds the title of "one of the five great Zen forests of Fuzhou," is luxurious and atmospheric. The downtown Kaiyuan Temple is the oldest surviving temple in Fuzhou, and was also a place of study for Japanese and Indian monks during the Tang Dynasty. Hualin Temple is technically no longer a temple, but the precious Tang-inspired, Song-dynasty wooden hall alone is definitely worth the trip.

Soaking in Fuzhou

Fuzhou is a city that soaks in hot springs. In the northeast of the city, there is a belt of hot springs 5 kilometers long from north to south and 1 kilometer wide from east to west. Locals have opened hot spring bathhouses and open-air hot spring pavilions according to local conditions, and many hotels and guest houses have introduced hot spring rooms. The Source Vein Hot Spring Park and the Golden Soup Hot Spring Resort are both good choices.

There are also many hot spring resorts to choose from on the outskirts of Fuzhou. Yongtai County Qingyunshan Royal Hot Spring and Guian Xishan Hot Spring, Minqing Huangzogolin Hot Spring are all good mountain hot springs and offer well-equipped hotels.

Fuzhou Literary Temple

The thousand-year-old Fuzhou Literary Temple, where the Confucius Sage is worshipped, is the surviving zui Qing Dynasty official building in the city center, and is also a good place for many of your buddies to pass the boring time.

The vermilion exterior walls, the Chinese alabaster-stacked pam bridges, and the Dacheng Hall, which is intersected by green stone and covered with yellow tiles ...... It's quite nice here whether you put on a Han Chinese costume to take a scene or feel the culture of the sages. And there are ginkgoes planted in the outer plaza, which makes taking photos in late fall even more enjoyable.

Inside the Temple of Literature on both sides of the exhibition halls are Confucius' holy deeds exhibition, Fuzhou education history exhibition, ritual and music culture exhibition ...... The vivid display is very suitable to bring children to feel some.

Fuzhou's cuisine

Fuzhou is one of the birthplaces of Min cuisine, with unique ingredients into the dish, pay attention to the original flavor, and eat by the sea also makes seafood an important part of the cuisine in Fuzhou. Someone once used the words "sweet and sour, soup and water" to describe the characteristics of Fuzhou cuisine, but this is far from enough. In fact, Fuzhou cuisine pays close attention to the selection and matching of ingredients, likes to use the local red wine lees into the dish, is good at soup to enhance the freshness, and the flavor is sweet and sour. If you want to experience these points, there are a few dishes you must try.

The first dish to talk about is of course the signature dish, Buddha jumps over the wall. This dish uses more than 10 kinds of rare seafood, put into the original soup boiled for 2 to 3 days, and then slowly boiled with a gentle fire. The order in which the ingredients are put into the soup is very important, otherwise the flavor will be very different.

Fuzhou people like to use red wine to make wine, and later invented cooking with the leftover wine lees. When ordering cold dishes, please prefer red lees chicken (fish), which is light red in color, has a fresh wine aroma, and tastes very special with a slight sweet and sour aftertaste. As for the representative of sweet and sour flavors, order the Lychee Pork.

There are no lychees in the dish, only pork and water chestnuts, but the knife work of cutting the meat must be very fine, cut the meat after stir-frying in order to look like a lychee; secondly, it will be thickened with seasoning, in order to balance the ratio of sweet and sour. Lychee meat is delicious or not, but also to consider whether the Fuzhou restaurant is the basic standard of authenticity.

Chicken soup blanch sea mussels this dish can best reflect the Fuzhou cuisine soup soup fresh, know that the sea mussels but there is a "Xishi tongue" of the beauty of the name. Chicken steamed and then stewed, pick the chicken breast meat made of chicken velvet ball stew soup is more fresh, mussels into the soup blanch to be dry and crisp, only fragrant and crispy.

Fancy Fuzhou snacks may also be an important reason for travelers to stay here. Meat swallow, fishballs, Lantern, meatballs, taro paste, pot side, lao hua, sea oyster cake, peanut soup? From the choice of ingredients to the fineness of processing, Fuzhou snacks are very elaborate, and many of them have a hundred-year history and a legendary story.

If you think there are too many tourists on Nan Hou Street and you can't eat enough, then go to the Qingcheng Farmers' Market at No. 31 Qingcheng Road. There are several snack bars in front of the market with narrow and shabby storefronts, but they are always crowded. This is the place where old Fuzhou people like to come for snacks. YiTuLaoHua is a century-old store, and old customers love to order sea oysters and cow slipper, with delicious soup and rich toppings, and you can add seafood and beef mince, Luo Han meat, etc. to your taste.

Others, such as Liancheng Pot Side, Linhua Guangcai, Dengxing Fish Balls, and Gujie Beef Luaohua, are also old and worth tasting. Fun street food stores are not hard to find either. The founder of Toothless Uncle's Lanterns is indeed a hearing-impaired old man, and the handmade meat-filled Lanterns are so flavorful and juicy that they melt in your mouth, fresh but not greasy. And while the Toothless Uncle's Peanut Soup gets its name from the peanut soup boiled until it's so rotten that even a toothless granny can eat it, the peanut cake and taro puree are also worth a try for foodies with a sweet tooth.

Pingtan's snacks include "Long Day" (a deep-fried snack made of groundnut flour and filled with nuts), "Luck of the Season" (made of groundnut flour and filled with meat, similar to a soup dumpling), oyster cakes, fish balls and so on. You can also enjoy Pingtan snacks such as dried taro vermicelli, nine braised fish ball soup, and "Luck of the Season" at Tan Zhiwei Specialty Snack Bar.