Tianfu Travel 1 - Chengdu City

Number of days: 11 days
Time: September
Average cost: 7000 yuan
With whom: husband and wife
Updated: 2024.10.30

The only one that China can call the country of abundance is Sichuan. The achievement of the country of heaven mainly depends on the Dujiangyan water conservancy project built during the Warring States period, and is now a well-known tourist destination. Sichuan is rich in tourism resources, very attractive and shocking, even if you play for ten days and a half months, you can only choose the travel part.

From September 26th to October 6th, 2024, our old couple, our daughter and son-in-law 4 traveled in Tianfu and traveled freely, as relaxed, comfortable and casual as possible. The record of this trip to Sichuan will be divided into 4 units: Tianfu Travel 1 - Chengdu City, Tianfu Travel 2 - Jiuzhai Huanglong, Tianfu Travel 3 - Water Worship and Tianfu Travel 4 - Mythical Three.

This article is the first unit "Tianfu Travel 1 - Chengdu Metropolitan Area".

Airport Lounge

on the flight

to Chengdu Tianfu Airport

At 9:25 a.m. on the 26th, we left Nanjing on flight CA2618. Arrived at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport on time, and at 1:30 noon, the online car-hailing took us to Yinqitang Hotel (Chunxi Road Luoma City Metro Station Store) to check in. The hotel suite booked, the long table in the room, our luggage is spread out, very spacious.

Room washbasin

We stayed in Chengdu for 3 and a half days with the Yinqitang Hotel as the center (the surrounding attractions are not far away, the transportation is convenient, and some are within walking distance), and the children have something to do, and the main old couple plays by themselves. After a short rest in the afternoon of the same day, we first went to Kuixinglou Street Food Street, and at 5:20 to the Internet celebrity Ming Hong Hoof Flower Snacks, the set meals we bought, including stewed pig's trotters, apricot blossom chicken, vegetarian three fresh, sauce noodles, etc. Then I went to Kuanzhai Alley.

Kuixing Building Street

The wide and narrow alleys are composed of wide alleys, narrow alleys, and well alleys, which were first built during the Kangxi period. The wide alley was originally called Xingren Hutong, the narrow alley was called Taiping Hutong, and the well alley was called Ruyi Hutong. In 1948, during an urban survey, after measuring, the staff casually marked the wider alley as "wide alley", the narrower one was called "narrow alley", and the one with a well was called "well alley", hence the name. The total length of the wide alley is about 350 meters, and the narrow alley is about 200 meters. Kuanzhai Alley is an ancient street left over from Chengdu and is a protected block for a famous historical and cultural city. The "old Chengdu" atmosphere of Kuanzhai Alley is strong, and market life scenes such as gaiwan tea and tofu flower rice are full of eyes, and there are many restaurants, coffee houses, and souvenir shops along the street, and there is no shortage of modern elements.

Jing Xiangzi

went to Du Fu thatched cottage on the morning of the 27th, The elderly can enter for free by swiping their ID cards (tickets for Sichuan attractions are basically free for the elderly).

In the winter of 759 AD, in order to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, Du Fu took his family from Long to Shu, and took a fancy to a treasure land next to Huanhua Creek in Chengdu, so he established Du Fu's thatched cottage along the stream. Du Fu lived here for nearly four years and wrote more than 240 poems. Among them, the poem "A thatched cottage west of Wanli Bridge, a hundred flowers pool water is Canglang" is a description of the thatched cottage. In 765, Du Fu left Chengdu and lingered in Jing, Hunan and other places, and the thatched cottage was no longer there. The poet Wei Zhuang of the later five generations found the ruins of the thatched cottage, rebuilt the thatched hut, and restored it many times in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The thatched cottage building is simple and elegant, the garden is quiet and beautiful, and it is a holy place in the history of Chinese literature.

How can there be tens of millions of spacious buildings to protect the poor people of the world?

Statue of the poet Li Bai

When will the bright moon be there? Raise your wine to ask the blue sky

Authentic calligraphy

Redwall selfie

The thatched cottage is left for future generations

Fairy in Green

The unopened Caotang Tea House

Du Fu thatched cottage, take bus No. 58 to Chunxi Road Station, and check in at the century-old Chunxi Old Street. Chunxi Road is named after the Tao Te Ching, "Everyone is bustling, like enjoying a prison, like ascending the spring platform ". Today, a group of statues at the intersection vividly show the prosperity and fashion here.

Let's walk together

Check in for a hundred years of spring

Chunxi Old Street

Then I went to the main store of Chen Mapo Tofu in Chengdu and tasted gold medal mapo tofu, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, and tomato and egg soup. Walk more than 400 meters back to the hotel to rest. At more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, take bus No. 1 to Wuhou Temple.

In-store decoration

The Wuhou Temple is an ancestral hall commemorating Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Zhuge Liang died in 234 AD and was named the Marquis of Wuxiang during his lifetime. In fact, the "Wuhou Ancestral Hall" existed before Zhuge Liang's death. In 223, Liu Bei died of illness in Baidi City, and the coffin was transported back to Chengdu and buried here, known as Huiling in history. Wuhou Temple is the only ancestral temple in China where the monarch and his ministers are worshipped together. The temple enshrines more than 50 statues of Shu Han heroes such as Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, more than 50 inscriptions of Tang and later generations, and more than 70 plaques and couplets.

Wheeling

Huiling (Liu Bei's Tomb)

Zhuge Liang statue

Ming kings and good ministers, passed down through the ages

Longzhong

Liu Bei statue

Let's also come to the "Three Righteousness"

Liu Guanzhang sculpture

Wen Shan Fu Guo

Takeo knows the soldiers

Rejoice in God's direction, rejoice in God's existence

Redwall

Out of the east gate of the Wuhou Temple is Jinli (similar to the Confucius Temple in Nanjing), and we simply strolled around.Jinli is an ancient street that reflects the architectural style of Sichuan houses in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, with a total length of 550 meters. This street takes the culture of the Three Kingdoms and the traditional folk culture of Sichuan as the elements, plus teahouses, restaurants, theaters, snacks, handicrafts, local products, etc., condenses into the simple and exquisite leisure life of Chengdu people, showing the unique charm of Sichuan folk customs and folk customs.

Alliance Building

Kongmingge

Zhang Fei Beef

Food Street

Silver Treasury

I was tired from playing today, When I arrived at the hotel, I rested early.

On the morning of the 28th, I walked 800 meters to Wenshu Monastery.

Wenshu Monastery is a Buddhist holy place integrating Zen forest relics, ancient gardens, worship and sightseeing, and religious practice. Wenshu Monastery was founded during the Sui Dynasty (605-617), formerly known as Xinxiang Temple, and was destroyed and repaired many times. After the complete destruction in the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, legend has it that a red light appeared at night, and there was a statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva in the red light, which was rebuilt in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi and renamed Wenshu Monastery. The word "empty forest" written by Kangxi still exists in the courtyard.

Wenshu Monastery Wall Illumination

Entrance to Wenshu Monastery

Kangxi Imperial Pen "Empty Forest"

Konglin Buddhist Library

After lunch, I went back to the hotel to rest, and in the afternoon I went to People's Park and Heming Tea House. People's Park was founded in 1911 and is said to be the first landscape landscape historical park in Chengdu's history. Heming Tea House is located in People's Park. Taxi drivers have recommended that Heming Tea House is famous in Chengdu for a long time, suitable for couples dating, family gatherings, friends gatherings, and leisure breaks. In front of the tea house is an artificial lake, with peach blossoms, spring blossoms, weeping willows, hibiscus, begonias and other beautiful purple and red on the lakeside, and the environment is very quiet. When we came here, we saw that it was overcrowded, and it was difficult to find a table, so it was inconvenient to enjoy the leisure of Chengdu people.

It's still early, find another place to play - go to Shu style and elegant rhyme to watch Sichuan opera! Shu style elegance is set in Chengdu Cultural Park, and the performance only starts at 6 o'clock, and we arrived two hours early and went to the nearby Qingyang Palace first.

Lao Tzu rode a green ox statue and bowed

Tang Wang Palace

Qingyang Palace is the "first Taoist temple in western Sichuan", and it is said that Lao Tzu once lectured on the Tao Te Ching here, which is a holy place for immortals to gather and Laojun to preach. Qingyang Palace was built in the Zhou Dynasty, and by the Ming Dynasty, the palace was destroyed due to military disasters. The existing buildings were rebuilt from the sixth to the tenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty (1667-1671).

Before the start of the Sichuan opera, I hurriedly ate preserved egg porridge and lotus noodles at a Cantonese restaurant near the theater. Seeing the program list at the door of the theater, 8 programs will be performed that night, including Mu Guiying in charge, puppet show, Erquan Yingyue, Monkey King, hand shadow play, Hundred Birds to the Phoenix, rubber band rolling lamp, and changing faces and spitting fire. We sat at table No. 4 in Block A, with a good view, and it was very comfortable to drink tea while watching the performance. The performance was still very exciting, especially before the performance, the organizer launched a costume wearing activity, and we also showed it off.

looks good

Mu Guiying is in charge

Puppet show

Monkey King

Actor curtain

call It rained on the 29th, I left for Taikoo Li Chengdu at more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Taikoo Li is located at Chunxi Road MRT Station, adjacent to the thousand-year-old temple Daci Temple. Divided into two parts, ground and underground, with a total floor area of more than 120,000 square meters, it is an open-plan and low-density shopping block, and has been rated as "National Five-Star Shopping Center" and "Chengdu-Chongqing Trend New Landmark". It brings together many international and domestic luxury, trendy and well-known brands, allowing you to personally feel and play with the modern life atmosphere, fashion and leisure taste, exquisite special catering and historical and cultural charm. Since Daci Temple is adjacent to Taikoo Li, we arrived at Daci Temple first.

Daci Temple was founded in Wei and Jin, and was extremely prosperous in the Tang and Song dynasties, with a long history, profound culture, grand scale, and many eminent monks. In 622 AD, Xuanzang turned twenty years old and officially received full ordination in this temple. Daci Temple has been destroyed many times by war, and the existing halls have been rebuilt one after another from the Qing Dynasty to the Tongzhi period.

At this time, it was still raining, and after leaving Daci Temple, we rushed into the Taikoo Li Underground Shopping Mall and went shopping while hiding from the rain. From an elevator to the seventh floor, a huge panda head stood out in front of me. In fact, this is the famous panda statue check-in place in Taikoo Li Chengdu. The panda statue is half-hung on the wall of the Taikoo Li International Financial Centre (IFS), weighing 13 tons and 15 meters high, consisting of nearly 4,000 triangular elements, with the panda facing the IFS's top floor garden and buttocks facing the bustling Chunxi Road. Naturally, we can only see a panda head on the roof and the buttocks below. It is said that you usually have to queue up here to check in, but now it is not necessary when it rains, and we braved the rain to take enough pictures. It is worth remembering that a few days later we returned to Chengdu from Sanxingdui, and went to Taikoo Li again to make up for the panda's butt.

Taikoo Li Dungeons

Taikoo Li Underground City

Panda check-in place

Blend of ancient and modern

Taikoo Li naked-eye panda 3D giant screen

Patch up the panda's butt

Convenient way back to the hotel from Taikoo Li, Take Metro Line 2 and then transfer to Line 1, a total of two stops away. Back at the hotel, prepare to leave Chengdu for a while, and take the high-speed train to Huanglong Jiuzhaigou the next day.

Let's take a look at the next unit: Tianfu Travel II - Jiuzhai Huanglong.