Jiulongyuan Park

Jiulongyuan park is located in the south of jiulongqiao outside the east gate of Jingzhou Ancient City, Hubei Province, covering an area of 326000 square meters. The main building of the park is the dragon boat race field in Jiulongyuan and the statue of Qu Yuan. Jiulongyuan dragon boat race starts from jiulongqiao in the north and ends at Quyuan Peninsula in the south, with a total length of 1100 meters. There are 2600 meters granite guardrails and 3000 meters standard stands on the East and west sides of the race. The stadium can accommodate hundreds of thousands of spectators in four weeks. In June 2000, the first International Dragon Boat Festival in Jingzhou, China was successfully held here. The statue of Qu Yuan stands 8.83 meters high on the Quyuan peninsula at the south end of the dragon boat race. Qu Yuan was an important Minister of Chu, the earliest and greatest patriotic poet in Chinese history, and one of the four cultural celebrities in the world. Qu Yuan is the glory of Jingzhou in Chu and the pride of the Chinese nation. His patriotism and immortal personality charm will always be the spiritual power of Jingzhou people. Jiulongyuan park is adjacent to Jingzhou Ancient City in the west, Quyuan statue in the South and Phoenix Square in the north. It is a large-scale leisure and recreation place with beautiful environment, profound cultural heritage and unique conditions. Today, it has become a happy garden for citizens and Chinese and foreign tourists to stroll and enjoy themselves.

Jiulongyuan Park

Jiulongyuan park is located in the south of jiulongqiao outside the east gate of Jingzhou Ancient City, covering an area of 326000 square meters. The main building of the park is the dragon boat race field in Jiulongyuan and the statue of Qu Yuan.

geographical position

Jiulongyuan park is located in the south of jiulongqiao, outside the east gate of Jingzhou Ancient City

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Jiulongyuan is a water area between the east main gate of Jingzhou Ancient City and the ancient city. The ancient city of Jingzhou is surrounded by a moat outside the city. Each gate of the ancient city is connected with a stone bridge on the other side of the city. On both sides of the bridge at the East Main Gate are nine stone carving heads. Jiulongyuan park is adjacent to the ancient city of Jingzhou in the west, Quyuan statue in the South and Jinfeng square in the north. It is a beautiful and cultural park It is a large-scale leisure and recreation place with profound foundation and unique conditions. Therefore, Jiulongyuan has become the best natural venue for dragon boat race. In June 2000, the first International Dragon Boat Festival in Jingzhou, China, was successfully held here. In the following years, dragon boat races were also frequent.

Main attractions

Ancient tomb in Baling mountain

Baling mountain ancient tombs are located in Baling Mountain National Forest Park, 20 kilometers northwest of Jingzhou City. Baling mountain, also known as Longshan. With beautiful scenery, lush trees, eight longitudinal mountains and winding like a dragon, it was regarded as a geomantic treasure land by the ancients. There are many ancient tombs in the mountains. It has been proved that there are 498 large-scale sealed Mound Tombs. There are countless unsealed Mound Tombs, most of which are Chu tombs.

According to historical records, 18 kings of Chu, five emperors of Nanping and 11 vassal kings of Ming Dynasty were buried in the mountains. In 1988, Balingshan ancient tombs were listed as the national key cultural relics protection units. In April 1992, the Ministry of forestry approved baling mountain as a national forest park.

Baling mountain is located between the three ancient cities of Jingzhou City, Jinan City and Wancheng city. Its cultural landscape is extremely rich. Each large ancient tomb has a magical story, and each scenic spot has a moving legend. According to historical records, King Zhuang of Chu was buried in Gulong mountain. Ten tombs were buried in rows. This grave is as tall as a mountain. It is very impressive to accompany the grave. Pingtouzhong, located in the middle of Baling mountain, is also a huge earthen mound tomb in Baling mountain. It is said that Guan Yu, the famous general of Shu Kingdom, was overjoyed when he got the green dragon Yanyue sword. He jumped on his horse and waved the sword. When the horse passed the tomb, Guan Yu rose up and leveled a knife at the top of the tomb. The tomb became a flat top, hence the name of the flat head tomb. Similar to Guan Yu's life and achievements, there are ancient tombs such as simazhong and luomaozhong

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Qu Jiawan

Qujiawan is located 31 kilometers northwest of Honghu City, bordering Jianli County. It was the center of the revolutionary base in Western Hunan and Hubei during the second Civil Revolutionary War. In 1927, there was the organization of the Communist Party of China. In July 1929, the "Honghu guerrillas" were formally established. In 1931, the Soviet government of Western Hunan and Hubei Province moved here from Jianli to Zhoulaozui. Today, there are more than 20 sites of revolutionary organs and other revolutionary relics, such as the central branch of the Communist Party of China in Western Hunan and Hubei, the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in Western Hunan and Hubei, and the Soviet government in Western Hunan and Hubei.

In the former site of the CPC Hunan Hubei Provincial Committee, there is a Revolutionary Memorial Exhibition, displaying historical materials and cultural relics reflecting the revolutionary struggle of that year. The streets and architecture of the town are still the same as they were. Honghu Town, near the Changxia river. Overlooking the lake, the scenery is beautiful and gratifying.

Park around the city

The park around the city is a large-scale ecological garden with unique creativity and integration of ancient city protection and sightseeing. It was built in 1996. Taking the protection of historical and cultural city as the main body and Jingzhou Ancient City Wall as the core, the construction of the park around the city has repaired the collapsed ancient city wall, dredged the silted moat, built the inner and outer ring roads and the garden community around the city.

Today, the shimmering moat, the golden outer ring road, the colorful green vegetation community, the magnificent brick city with ancient charm, and the winding inner ring road are just like a giant jade belt, which is decorated on the ancient city harmoniously and magnificently, making the ancient city of Jingzhou a unique scenic spot. The moat, which is as old as the ancient city pool, is full of new charm due to dredging and specially built pump station: the dead water turns into the living water, and the bottom is clear; boating around the city gives you a panoramic view of the magnificent city outline.

The new outer ring road is located between the moat and the tall brick city, with a total length of more than 11000 meters and a width of 3 meters. It can be used for two carriages in parallel. The road surface is paved with artificial cement strips. The winding road and the dark green city wall reflect each other. On both sides of the ring road, we can adjust measures to local conditions, or vegetation, or garden sketches, or flower beds and lawns, which are naturally made and decorated with a new style. The rare carriages are also shuttling here, walking slowly. When visitors stand on it and look up at the long brick city with wind erosion, you will have a lot of imagination and a deep historical feeling.

Walking on the ancient city wall, the countless arrow stacks, the Tibetan army caves, the urn cities of different sizes, the well constructed towers, and many ancient buildings will make you marvel at them. Driving on the inner ring road, you can enjoy the historical vicissitudes of the ancient city wall, the charm of the ancient style of the Xima pool, the historical landscape of the Three Kingdoms Park, the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, and so on. Boating on the moat, horse racing on the outer ring road, walking on the city wall and driving on the inner ring road are today's Ring Park, which is the new landscape and style of the ancient city of Jingzhou.

Phoenix Square

Phoenix Square -- the Phoenix Square outside the east gate of Jingzhou Ancient City, covering an area of 120000 square meters, is the largest urban leisure Square in Hubei Province. There is an eye-catching landmark in the center of the square, which is Jinfeng take-off, the symbol of Jingzhou City. The main body of the city logo is a dazzling Golden Phoenix, which wants to take off on the brilliant sunrise. Jingzhou is the native place of Chu people. Chu people worship Phoenix, regard Phoenix as the most sacred, good and beautiful bird, and use Phoenix as totem. The ancient city of Jingzhou is marked by the Golden Phoenix, which vividly reflects the historical origin of the ancestors of Chu who respected Phoenix and worshipped fire,

It also highlights the spirit of the people of the ancient city.

Phoenix Square, with the ancient city wall, the ancient city building and the ancient moat as the background, and the Chu culture as the theme, is built according to the situation. The original and exquisite conception, the green community and the hard cover are scattered, magnificent and unique, adding a pure and beautiful new landscape to the ancient Jingzhou City.

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places of historic figures and cultural heritage

Jingzhou is the birthplace of Chu culture. During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the state of Chu established its capital in 411, leaving a rich culture with far-reaching influence. In the process of expanding and governing the country, Chu gradually formed a relatively complete political, military, economic, cultural, religious and ceremonial system. At the same time, it also incorporated the advanced Central Plains culture at that time and created a splendid Chu culture.

Jingzhou is also the cultural center of the Three Kingdoms. This is where the popular stories like "Liu Bei borrows Jingzhou" and "Guan Yu loses Jingzhou" take place. Jingzhou's historical figures are as bright as stars. King Zhuang of Chu, Qu Yuan, sun shuao, Zhang Juzheng From here, they all stepped onto the grand stage of Chinese history. With the torchbearers running through the line, we seem to bathe in a deep, magnificent and galloping history.

Jingzhou is an excellent tourist city in China. Jingzhou has unique tourism resources, cultural tourism and ecological tourism. The city's tourist attractions present a pattern of "one city, three areas". "One city" is the famous ancient city of Jingzhou, among which Jinan City, Guangong temple, Zhanghua temple, Wulin ancient town, Huarong Road and other cultural landscapes are enduring. Jingzhou Museum has been rated as one of the first batch of "4A" museums in China, ranking first among the municipal museums in China, with a collection of more than 120000 pieces, including nearly 300 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics such as ancient corpses of the Western Han Dynasty. A number of landmark projects, including the ancient city park, the Jiulongyuan Park, the Phoenix Square, the salongda square, the Kaile Grand Theater and the Olympic Sports Center, have been completed one after another. The "three areas" are the newly developed Songzi Jishui scenic spot, Honghu fishing resort and Shishou Tianezhou elk nature reserve. Jingzhou is a typical water garden city with beautiful mountains, rivers and lakes. "A song of Honghu water is known all over the world"

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