Yuhe in Song Dynasty

Kaifeng great song Yuhe scenic area is a part of the song capital water system project of "six rivers connecting five lakes" implemented by Kaifeng Municipal Party committee and government to protect the style of the ancient city and highlight the characteristics of the northern water city. Six rivers are planned to connect the five lakes in Kaifeng to form a continuous and complete urban water system. The project is divided into four phases. The second phase of the water system project connects Baogong lake and Longting lake and is named dasongyu river.

With a total investment of nearly 550 million yuan, the grand song Yuhe scenic area has a total length of about 2500 meters, connecting the two scenic spots of Longting lake and Baogong lake. The surrounding area includes a 5A grade scenic spot, Qingming Shanghe garden, and a number of 4A grade scenic spots. Baogong temple water terminal is close to Xisi night market. As a link, Yuhe connects almost all the scenic spots in Kaifeng. From north to south, Yuhe river is divided into five landscape parks with different scenery, which are Jijin garden, spring garden, Xiayin garden, Qiuyun garden and Dongning garden. There are eleven imitation Song landscape bridges on the Yuhe River, all of which are modeled on the famous bridges of Song Dynasty. Yuhe has beautiful scenery and profound culture, which plays an important role in the song capital water system.

At present, the grand song Yuhe scenic spot is under the overall management of Kaifeng Songdu water system Tourism Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Kaifeng Cultural Tourism Investment Group Co., Ltd., mainly engaged in water cruise project. The water cruise project integrates the unique song rhyme of Kaifeng, the ancient capital of Kaifeng, and creates wonderful song rhyme performances on both sides of the Yuhe River, such as Song Ci music and dance, Henan Opera and classical folk music, so that the natural landscape, historical culture, commercial landscape and performing activities can be integrated, bringing tourists a charming journey with water, scenery, dance, street and cultural connotation.

Yuhe in Song Dynasty

Kaifeng Yuhe water tourism project has been invested and constructed since 2006 and started operation in May 2013, with an investment of about 600 million yuan and a total length of 2.5 km,

It runs through two major scenic spots of Kaifeng City, Longting lake and Baogong lake, including Baogong temple, Xisi, qishengjiao, Qingyuan and cultural living room.

The imperial river of the Song Dynasty has one 5A scenic spot, two 4A scenic spots and one 3A scenic spot around the Longting lake. The Palace site of the Six Dynasties is a national treasure sleeping at the bottom of the lake. There are two 4A scenic spots around Baogong lake, one national security area, and the Xisi night market on both sides of Yuhe wharf. They are organically linked, with beautiful scenery and profound cultural heritage, and play an important role in Kaifeng water system.

Historical evolution

In order to protect the style and features of the ancient city and highlight the characteristics of the northern water city, Kaifeng Municipal Party committee and government implemented the Songdu water system project planning of "six rivers connecting five lakes". Six rivers are planned to connect five lakes to form a continuous and complete urban water system, with a total length of 8.4 km, which is divided into four phases. The second phase of the water system connects Baogong lake and Longting lake, named Yuhe. It has been invested in construction since 2006 and put into operation since May 2013, with an investment of about 600 million yuan, with a total length of about 2.5 km.

The water cruise project of Kaifeng grand Songyu River scenic area integrates Kaifeng's unique ancient capital song rhyme to create a tourism project with natural landscape, historical culture, commercial landscape and performing activities, bringing tourists a charming tour with water, scenery, dance, street and cultural connotation.

geographical environment

Located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the eastern Henan plain and the south wing of the alluvial fan in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the great song Yuhe scenic spot has a warm temperate continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, sufficient light, mild climate and moderate rainfall. The annual average temperature is between 14.24 ° C and 14.50 ° C, the frost free period is 213-215 days, the average annual rainfall is 670 mm, and the forest coverage rate is higher than the national average level.

Main attractions

Fangsong Bridge Museum

There are 11 bridges in the scenic area, including 5 municipal bridges and 6 landscape bridges. All of them are imitated from the prototypes of famous bridges in the Song Dynasty. They are a beautiful scenic line of the Yuhe river system. It also makes the grand song Yuhe scenic spot the only Song Dynasty bridge "Museum" in China. Visitors can take a cruise through the water system to enjoy the whole "Tokyo city" and experience the feeling of "dreaming back to the Song Dynasty".

Imitation song garden landscape group

From the north to the south, there are five landscape gardens with different sceneries, which are Jijin Garden (guild culture area), Spring Garden (restaurant), Xiayin Garden (Theater), Qiuyun Garden (teahouse) and Dongning Garden (boat). Among them, spring, summer, autumn and Winter Gardens are the folk culture areas of Northern Song Dynasty. The five gardens were built in the Song Dynasty. Collection Garden: "four seasons flowers bloom, ten thousand fragrance stay, Yudai fragrant Pavilion Race Dragon Boat". In Juxian Pavilion, facing the cool breeze, you can enjoy the special plants. Spring Garden: "peach blossom and willow green, spring breeze is cool, Hualou Yuye brews Qiongjiang". Sitting in a prosperous restaurant, the beautiful Cello and violin echo each other. Xia Yinyuan: "the weeping willows cover the lotus, the water level is even, and the pear garden plays in the heaven and earth.". Xia Yinyuan's Song Ci music and dance is the theme of Song Ci music and dance performed by a professional team in Xinyue building every night.

Qiuyun Garden: "Luhua flying snow, cloud autumn moon, wooden stack curved bridge reflect reunion.". Muzhanqu bridge is a typical antique building in Qiuyun garden, which creates the life scene of the common people in Song Dynasty. On the wooden platform in front of the courtyard, there are simple and elegant folk music performances, echoing the rockery on the other side of the river. Dongning Garden: "looking at the boat in the corridor, red plum and green bamboo are proud of the frost.". The stone and wood boat and the painted boat house are the landmark buildings of the garden. The opera Gallery opposite the boat boat presents wonderful opera performances every day.

Paddle sound, light shadow, night tour of Yuhe River

Master Mei shuaiyuan designed the package and lighting of the Yuhe river cruise ship. The water system company invested 10 million yuan to improve the lighting along the Yuhe river. "Oar sound, light and shadow" has become a new representative landscape of Kaifeng.

GouLan tile house

According to the principle of "song style, song rhyme and appreciation of both refined and popular tastes", water system has created five cultural performance programs with different styles. Among them, "Song Ci music and dance" has restored the art of Song Ci thousands of years ago, and performed Song Ci with ancient musical instruments and ancient music scores.

On both sides of the Strait

The whole course of the Yuhe river system is winding and meandering. It is also decorated with a variety of plants. The natural stacked stones, interesting sketches and market culture are the integration of natural landscape and cultural landscape, which complement each other.

Scenic spot traffic

City Direct: take No.1, No.15, No.20, No.30 bus to the museum, Longting Park, Qingming Shanghe Park in Kaifeng City. You can also take Kaifeng sightseeing bus (line 1, line 2). Because most of the tourist attractions in Kaifeng are concentrated in the urban area, the distance between the scenic spots is relatively close, taking the rickshaw is also a very convenient and interesting means of tourism transportation.

Expressway: Kaifeng is connected with Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Sanmenxia and Shangqiu by expressways, which leads to Xinxiang, Anyang and Beijing in the north and Xuchang, Luohe, Zhumadian and Shenzhen in the south. The distance between the entrance and exit of Kaifeng Expressway and the urban area is 10 minutes.

Railway: Longhai railway, the main railway across western China, passes through Kaifeng station. Through Kaifeng railway station, you can get to Shanghai, Beijing, Lianyungang, Qingdao, Xi'an, Xining, Urumqi, etc. Kaifeng is 70 kilometers away from Zhengzhou and 150 kilometers away from Shangqiu. From here, it can reach all parts of the country via Beijing Guangzhou and Beijing Kowloon railways.

Civil aviation: the short distance from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou Xinzheng Xuedian International Airport is 70km, and the highway from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou Xuedian is 85km, about 55-75min. Zhengzhou Xinzheng airport has opened routes to major cities in China, and has regular charter flights with Hong Kong and Bangkok.

Wharf address

Baogong Temple wharf: 20 meters south of Baogong Temple main gate, Xisi wharf: 50 meters southeast of Xisi bridge, qishengjiao wharf: Qingyuan Wharf in qishengjiao main gate square: North of Qingming shangheyuan Main Gate Road

Cultural living room wharf: opposite to Kaifeng City cultural living room

Address: Baogong Temple wharf, Hubei Road, Baogong, Kaifeng, Henan

Longitude: 114.343068

Latitude: 34.791826

Tel: 0371-23322688

Traffic information: location distribution of wharves in the great song Yuhe River:

Yuhe Baogong Temple wharf:

Baogong Lake West Road, 20 meters south of the gate of Baogong temple.

Yuhe Xisi wharf:

Baogong Hubei Road, west of the South Gate of Huaihe hospital.

Yuhe Bianjing wharf:

It's across the road from the main gate of shangheyuan during the Qingming Festival.

Qishengjiao wharf of Yuhe River:

It's opposite the main gate of qishengjiao.

Ticket information: Song Yu River Cruise price:

Daytime: 35 yuan / person for one way, 50 yuan / person for round trip.

Night tour: 60 yuan per person one way, 80 yuan per person round trip.

Opening hours: 9:00-22:00

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