Puning Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Deanli Village Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
The Complete Collection of Chaozhou Residential Architecture - De'anli
Guangdong Trip No.20 - Puning De'anli
🏯Historic Site Name: De'anli
📌Address: Nancun, Hongyang Town, Gucheng, Puning City, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province
🏛Cultural Protection Level: 5th batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Protection in 2008
🎫Admission Fee: 🆓
🚗After getting a car from Shantou, our self-driving tour in Southern Guangdong finally began!
🏯Getting off the highway at Puning, we were completely attracted by the ancient buildings by the roadside and decided to get off the highway to explore. Unexpectedly, this whim led us into a century-old architectural complex known as the 'Chaozhou Residential Museum' - De'anli.
🏠This little-known ancient village was built by the family of Fang Yao, the late Qing Dynasty naval commander and famous general of Guangdong, and his brothers. It has a history of 150 years and is the largest and most well-preserved large-scale mansion-style residential building complex in the Chaozhou area.
🏡De'anli was built in the tenth year of the Tongzhi era (1871 AD), and since it was a family residence, the entire complex took 20 years to complete. Its grand scale, intricate construction, and exquisite design are considered masterpieces of Chaozhou residential architecture. Even after 150 years of weathering, the descendants of the Fang family still live here, thriving from generation to generation...
🏚De'anli encompasses the complete collection of Chaozhou residential architecture, including various architectural forms: large ancestral halls, three halls, five rooms, four-point gold, descending tiger, four-horse carriage, five-wall connection, one-legged lion, and even rare architectural forms in the Chaozhou area. As such, De'anli is regarded as the 'Complete Collection of Chaozhou Residential Architectural Forms' and is considered a museum of Lingnan architectural decorative art.
🏣The De'anli architectural complex covers a total area of nearly 60,000 square meters, divided into several areas including the old fort, middle fort, new De'anli, and Shaoyuan. Among them, the architectural layout of the old fort is 'hundreds of birds facing the phoenix', and the middle fort and new De'anli are 'four horses pulling a carriage'. The three forts are connected, with a total of 773 rooms.
🏘De'anli's drainage system is also remarkable - the traditional open channel method, after 'nine turns and eighteen bends', eventually flows into the stream in front of the fort, through Baili Bridge, and into the Rong River. It is amazing that in this drainage system, whether the water flows out from the patio or from the tributary into the middle ditch and then into the large ditch, the water always flows through the middle. Water flowing through the middle is the Chinese character - '衍', which means endless and thriving for thousands of generations.
Long streets, deep alleys, red doors, high walls... Time seems to flow backward;
Halls, pavilions, carved beams, painted rafters, wooden doors, flower windows... In a blink of an eye, it's already been a thousand years;
De'anli, I'm glad I didn't miss you!
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The century-old architectural complex of De'anli is a marvel of Chaozhou architectural art
📍To delve into the architecture of Puning residential buildings, one must mention De'anli. It is the family settlement of the Fang Yao family, the admiral of the Guangdong naval forces during the Qing Dynasty, with a history of over 150 years.
🔗Throughout the annals of history, despite the vicissitudes of time, De'anli has preserved its architecture quite intact. With its large scale and complete range of architectural styles, it is considered a marvel of Chaozhou architectural art and is also a rare example of a mansion-style ancient village in China.
🏠The entire architectural complex covers an area of 63,000 square meters, with a built area of 32,000 square meters. Inside the fortress, there are official halls, ancestral halls, Buddhist halls, studies, storerooms, attics, etc., totaling 773 rooms, with architectural patterns such as 'Hundreds of Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix', 'Four-Horse Carriage', 'Four Gold Points', and 'Descending Tiger'. Due to its rare architectural layout and unique design style, it has been included in the civil architecture textbooks of the School of Architecture at South China University of Technology.
📷De'anli has now been transformed into a museum, art gallery, and antique city among other cultural industry entities. De'anli is a national AAA tourist attraction, a traditional Chinese village, one of the first batch of 27 ancient villages in Guangdong Province, the fifth batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units, a Guangdong Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Popularization Demonstration Base, a Jieyang City Science and Education Base, and one of the eight scenic spots in Jieyang City.
🖇️Address: Located in Nancun, Hongyang Town, Gucheng, Puning, Jieyang, Guangdong
RIVER RAMSEY
De'anli in Puning, the former residence of Fang Yao, the Admiral of the Guangdong Navy
De'anli is located in the southern village of Hongyang Town, the old city of Puning, Guangdong. It is a family-style settlement built by Fang Yao, the general of Chaozhou in the late Qing Dynasty, and his brothers. It was built in the tenth year of Tongzhi (1871) and has a history of 150 years.
As the largest, best-preserved, and oldest mansion-style architectural complex in the Chaoshan area, De'anli is also a rare mansion-style ancient village in China. The entire architectural complex is divided into three parts: the old village, the middle village, and the new village, according to the construction time. The village has 773 rooms including official halls, ancestral halls, Buddhist halls, study rooms, dining rooms, warehouses, and lofts.
Despite the vicissitudes of life, De'anli is still relatively well preserved. Its grand scale and complete architectural style are a gem of Chaoshan residential architecture. With its rare layout and unique design, De'anli has also been included in the textbook of civil architecture of the School of Architecture of South China University of Technology.
The layout of the old village buildings is commonly known as 'a hundred birds facing the phoenix', which means that the houses surrounding the main building, the Fang family temple, are exactly one hundred. The hundred houses are like 'a hundred birds' facing the main ancestral hall, and the ancestral hall is like a 'phoenix'. The architectural layout of the new village and the middle village is commonly known as 'four horses pulling a cart'. The large ancestral hall in the middle symbolizes the 'cart', and the buildings on both sides symbolize the 'horses' pulling the cart. The ancestors sitting on the 'cart' are pulled by the descendants symbolizing the 'horses' on both sides, coming from ancient times, the rise and fall of the family, the glory of the ancestors, and the prosperity of the descendants, are all in sight. In addition, there are interesting architectural layouts such as 'three halls across', 'four points of gold', 'downhill tiger', 'one-legged lion', etc. Friends who like to study ancient Chinese architecture can come here to explore.
Walking in De'anli, in addition to admiring the ancient architecture, there are many antique shops in the old buildings. Various antiques and old objects are dazzling, which is very suitable for friends who like treasure hunting to taste and explore.
Foodies who like food can also taste various special snacks here and experience a different taste journey.
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Litai Fei'eling Agriculture Park Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Puning's high-tech agricultural park, a good place for parent-child travel
The southern country is full of spring, and it is the season of spring outing. Do you have a spring outing destination that you yearn for? On the eve of the Spring Festival, I embarked on a journey to Puning, Guangdong, and discovered a beautiful place surrounded by green mountains, where there is a bird's song and fragrance of flowers, and at the same time it exudes the breath of modern technology. This place is the Litai Fei'e Ling Agricultural Park in Puning, Guangdong.
Litai Fei'e Ling Agricultural Park stands on Fei'e Ling, Bigou Village, Dananshan Street, Puning City, Guangdong Province, adjacent to the Sankeng Reservoir. This scenic spot with agricultural leisure tourism as its main feature covers an area of 20 acres and 15 points, divided into leisure farm tourism sightseeing area, facility agriculture area and tourist distribution center. The park is evergreen and has a mild climate, which is very suitable for outdoor leisure and vacation.
As a leisure farm tourism sightseeing spot, Litai Fei'e Ling Agricultural Park is famous for its unique agricultural landscape and pastoral theme style, attracting many tourists to visit the park every day. The park has leisure farm tourism attractions such as Pastoral Song Parent-child Farm, Fantasy Maze Park, Modern Agriculture Education Base, Fei'e Lake Light and Shadow Art Theater; agricultural sightseeing gardens, science popularization corridors, ancestral halls and other facility agriculture sightseeing spots.
The Pastoral Song Parent-child Farm covers scenic spots such as Fei'e Wetland, Herb Island, RV Camp, Sunshine Vegetable Garden, Dinosaur Canyon, Volcanic Stone Walking Trail, Children's Park, Pastoral Stage, Four Seasons Fruit and Vegetable Greenhouse, Tomato Picking Garden, Vineyard, etc. The Modern Agriculture Education Base includes agricultural cultural squares, agricultural cultural wall scenes, fruit and vegetable corridors, overhead wooden walkways, net red rainbow bridges, science popularization research and study experience areas, twenty-four solar term squares, facility greenhouse agricultural comprehensive halls (divided into 3 shed areas: fruit and vegetable planting areas, agricultural landscape sketches and fish and vegetable symbiotic breeding areas, three-dimensional vegetable cultivation areas) and other landscape facilities. The Agricultural Sightseeing Garden is the core area of modern facility agriculture in the scenic area, and the gate is designed in the typical Chaoshan glazed tile flying eave architectural style. The park is built with the standards of "mechanization, technology, standardization, informatization, specialization" and has built four greenhouse areas. These greenhouses use soilless cultivation methods to grow cherry tomatoes, and use water-saving irrigation methods to grow small cucumbers, small pumpkins, melons, hamimelons and more than ten varieties of agricultural products.
In addition, the newly added Eastern Guangdong Aerospace Art Exhibition in the park opened on January 26, 2024, allowing tourists to immerse themselves in a wonderful journey of the sky, not only rich and interesting aerospace knowledge popularization, but also experience "on-site" rocket launches, VR and other projects. Here, we can take a spaceship and enter the sky in just 7 seconds, explore the secrets behind the moon, and fully feel the three-dimensional space environment and astronaut daily training. This high-tech, highly interactive experience is very suitable for parent-child families.
The scenic area integrates the beautiful natural landscape and beautiful mountains and rivers of the hinterland of Dananshan into ecological landscapes, leisure farm tourism, Chaoshan regional culture and health themes and other diversified elements, striving to build Litai Fei'e Ling Agricultural Park into a new type of agricultural complex that integrates modern agricultural greenhouses, leisure agricultural tourism, science popularization education research and study experience, parent-child interaction, and cultural heritage.
Address: Fei'e Ling, Bigou Village, Dananshan Street, Puning City, Guangdong Province
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Puning Travel | Fei E Ling Agricultural Park has the first aviation museum in eastern Guangdong
✈️ If you want to 'chase dreams across the universe and inquire into the sky', come to the Eastern Guangdong Aerospace Art Museum at Litaifei E Ling Agricultural Park to embark on a wonderful journey to the sky.
🌍 Here, not only is there a wealth of fun aerospace knowledge to learn, but there's also the thrilling live rocket launch. Join the countdown and record the shocking moment. There's also an immersive VR experience where you can board a spaceship and freely roam through space. If you want to feel what astronaut training is like, you must try the three-dimensional space ring, which rotates 360 degrees without any restrictions, super thrilling! Children's favorite is the naked-eye 3D extreme flight, sitting on a boat, following a small plane through mountains and rivers, enjoying an auditory and visual feast.
🌾 The Aerospace Art Museum is located in Litaifei E Ling Agricultural Park, which is a modern agricultural industry park for rice and vegetables in Puning, as well as an agricultural amusement park. The park features giant straw men, a pastoral stage, a fantasy jungle, a solar term square, a fruit and vegetable ecological corridor, a scenic wooden walkway, and a flower sea maze... It's springtime, and the rapeseed flowers are blooming so beautifully it's unreal~~ This place is also a children's paradise, with Dinosaur Valley, Hobbit huts, Rainbow Valley, and more. Come to Fei E Ling to return to nature and run wild.
⛱️ Tour Guide
🌾 Litaifei E Ling Agricultural Park
📍 Address: Litaifei E Ling Agricultural Park, Dananshan Subdistrict, Puning City, Guangdong
RIVER RAMSEY
Where to take kids for a walk in Puning during the Spring Festival? Come to Letai to see the Aerospace Art Exhibition
checks in Puning Culture and TourismOn January 26, at Letai Flying Goose Ridge Agricultural Park, a wonderful journey to the sky - the Eastern Guangdong Aerospace Immersive Art Exhibition, not only has rich and fun aerospace knowledge popularization, but also "on-the-spot" rocket launches, VR and other experiences.
⏰Exhibition time
10:00-12:00 in the morning
13:00-18:00 in the afternoon
19:00-22:00 in the evening
(Stop checking tickets and admission at 21:00)
📍Exhibition location
Gate 3, Letai Flying Goose Ridge Agricultural Park, Dananshan Street, Puning City
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Nanxi Shuixiang Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
This is the gentleness from Eastern Guangdong, the poetic and picturesque charm of Nanxi Water Town! Truly beautiful
⛵ Puning Nanxi | A summer retreat perfect for boating‼️|||🍵"Enjoy tea, boating, and the greenery. With the chirping of cicadas, the company of flowers and plants, and the guidance of a gentle breeze. Here, there are no crowded crowds, leisurely and slow, time is long enough." This small town hidden in the bustling world has the most peaceful and poetic water town appearance.
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🍃The greenery of summer is dense, and the water surface sparkles with waves. Under the scorching sun, sitting in the boat is a rare coolness, ding-ling——ding-ling——the breeze greets you, brushing past the red lanterns at the bow, the wind chimes hanging from the boat's top, and the laughter of tourists and boatmen. The pleasure boat draws a slender line on the water, stringing up a curtain of pearls, with attractions like the Sun and Moon Pavilion, Butterfly Flowers, pleasant conversations, tea drinking, friendly boatmen, and enthusiastic travelers, all contributing to the poetic water town.
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📍Location: Nanxi Town, Nanxi Water Town, Puning City
🚗Transportation: Self-drive or take a taxi directly from Puning Station
🕰️Boat tour opening hours: 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
(About one hour for a round trip)
💴Ticket price: Children 20/person; Adults 40/person
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There is a low-key water town in Puning, Guangdong, which fully demonstrates the beauty of ecological harmony
Nanxi Town, located in the northeast of Puning City, Guangdong Province. It enjoys the reputation of "Hometown of Chaozhou Banana Citrus", "Hometown of Puning Dragon Boat", "Chaozhou Water Town" and so on. Nanxi is famous for its beautiful landscape, profound Chaoshan culture, and numerous revolutionary sites and other natural resources and cultural landscapes, making it a unique tourist attraction.
Nanxi is located in the hinterland of Chaoshan Plain, with a unique geographical location. The south is mountainous, the north is river, the middle is crisscrossed with rivers, shaded with green trees, and the forest coverage rate is over 85%. The mountains are green, the sky is blue, the birds are singing, and the flowers are fragrant. It is a true "original ecological wetland park" and a real "natural oxygen bar".
Water is the soul of Nanxi Town. The rivers in its territory are crisscrossed, with more than 80 kilometers of inland rivers, waterways are accessible in all directions, and water transportation is convenient. Moreover, the reservoirs and lakes in Nanxi Reservoir are scattered all over, such as Hongshan Cave Reservoir, Wanshan Pit Reservoir, Sandie Pool Reservoir, Xiangshan Reservoir and Nanxi Dagang, etc., which are like pearls dotted on the land of Nanxi, fully demonstrating the beauty of ecology.
However, with the development of social economy, the inland rivers of Nanxi have become silted, sewage flows, and the water town has become a sewage town. In recent years, the local government has taken the comprehensive management of inland rivers as the top priority of ecological civilization construction, invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to rectify the inland rivers, and restored the connectivity and tidal flow of the inland river system.
After full rectification, the waterway of Nanxi Inland River is wide, the water quality is clear, the trees on both sides are shaded, and the beautiful natural scenery of Lingnan Water Town is reproduced, attracting more and more tourists to visit and sightsee.
In order to meet the needs of tourists for sightseeing, the local government has launched the "Boating in Nanxi Water Town" Wupeng boat water sightseeing tourism project. Tourists can start from Dagang Wharf, and in more than an hour, they can enjoy the water town villages on the south bank of Banyan River, the green mountains and rivers, and feel the different local customs.
Nanxi, this "hidden in the boudoir" Jiangnan water town, is gradually entering people's vision with its soft and gentle posture, showing its unique charm. Water town tourism has also become the first card to display the image of Nanxi, and a charming ecological tourism town is emerging.
Take a Wupeng boat, wander around Nanxi Water Town, see the greenery on both sides, the houses are lined up, the residents of the water town are washing by the river, everywhere shows the beauty of the harmonious life of the water town.
Tour route:
Go to Dagang Wharf by boat, get off at Shili Taohua, and then walk to Xinxixi Village
Nanxi Water Town Navigation: Nanxi Village, Nanxi Town, Puning City, Jieyang, Guangdong
Boat ticket: 6-8 people per boat, charter 280 yuan
Shili Taohua Navigation: Shili Taohua Agricultural Ecological Park
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
Admission ticket: 35 yuan
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Dragon Gulf Resort Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Soak in the golden soup springs at the Panlong Bay Hot Springs Resort in Puning
Upon entering the Panlong Bay Hot Springs Resort area in Puning City, one can see the steam rising from the hot spring pools. There are more than 30 different hot spring pools to choose from, each with different functions and characteristics, such as the milk spring, lemon spring, aloe spring, rose spring, lavender spring, mint spring, San Ya bitter spring, Ganoderma spring, jasmine flower spring, and more. Visitors can enjoy the original hot spring bath, listen to the babbling brook, smell the fragrance of birds and flowers, stretch their bodies in the hot spring pool, relax their spirits, and enjoy leisure, health, and the ultimate enjoyment that nature provides.
🕘【Opening Hours】: 15:00-23:00
💴【Ticket Price】: Adult ticket 78 RMB on weekdays, 88 RMB on weekends; Children's ticket 45 RMB
⛺【Attractions】: Panlong Bay Hot Springs Resort focuses on hot spring health baths as its main product. The park has over 40 special projects such as medicinal baths for strengthening the body, children's fun springs, skin-beautifying 'Kissing Fish', hot spring SPA, hot spring stone baths, hot spring egg boiling pools, waterfall pools, and landscape pools. There are also exciting water stage performances, allowing visitors to enjoy exquisite shows while soaking in the hot springs, adding a unique charm.
🚌【Transportation Tips】: Navigate to Panlong Bay Hot Springs Resort, Yuanluo, Puning City, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province
It is about 35 kilometers from Chaozhou city center, approximately a 50-minute drive;
It is about 55 kilometers from Shantou city center, approximately a 60-minute drive;
It is about 110 kilometers from Meizhou city center, approximately a 120-minute drive.
👉【Travel Itinerary】: Departure - Panlong Bay Hot Springs Resort
🧡【Food Recommendations】: Beef hotpot, Chaoshan snacks, fried tofu, salted vegetable pork pot, Puning fried noodles, Puning bean sauce braised chicken, etc;
Tasting Trails
Enjoy hot spring and delicious food in Panlong Bay
Panlong Bay Hot Spring Resort is located in the Panlong Natural Scenic Reserve in Meilin, Puning City, adjacent to the largest Buddhist holy land in eastern Guangdong - Panlongge Temple. It is surrounded by mountains and water, with fresh air, beautiful scenery, and pleasant views.
The hot spring water here is a silicic acid (H2SiO3) type hot spring, known as the 'beauty holy water', and is rich in various beneficial trace elements, which are both health-preserving and beautifying.
Panlong Bay Hot Spring has areas such as Chinese medicine area, beauty area, ecological steam bath, hot spring SPA, 'kissing fish', swimming center, etc. There are also hot spring resort hotels, apartments, and villas, where you can enjoy the hot springs more privately.
Don't rush to leave after soaking in the hot spring. Go to the Chinese restaurant with a few good friends to taste authentic green dishes, nourish the body with food, and relax healthily. Especially recommend Wagyu, fat and juicy, melt in your mouth. Tilapia is also special, even more crispy than crispy carp. The 'Diao Simao' black olives for 30 yuan/piece are also worth a try, they are a perfect match with white porridge. You can also buy a box of Xiaomei House's plums as a souvenir, with 4 flavors, appetizing and digesting.
Address: Panlong Bay Hot Spring Resort, Yunluo Town, Puning City, Guangdong Province
Hot spring opening hours: 15:00-23:30
Hot spring ticket: 78 yuan
Room price: Starting from 388 yuan
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Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Puning Travel | Did you know there is an intangible cultural heritage district in Puning?
📝 As is well known, Puning has a famous International Commodity City, covering more than 300 acres with a total investment of over 1.2 billion. It is a super-large comprehensive commercial project and also a gathering place for trendy people's nightlife. There are pedestrian streets, department stores, business hotels, dining, leisure and entertainment, e-commerce, and even specialized wholesale and factory direct sales stores for small commodities... A one-stop shop that encompasses everything the people of Puning need for clothing, food, housing, and transportation.
🖇️ There are many districts here, divided into Cyber Street, Guochao Street, Europe and America Street... Recently, the Guochao Street has added a Puning Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall. The opening ceremony was not only full of singing and dancing, but the organizers also invited the extremely famous Yingtan Yingge team from Puning to add to the festivities, dancing from the head of the street to the tail, as lively as the Chinese New Year. Interestingly, the youngest member of the Yingge team is only 5 years old, but his professionalism can already rival that of adults, and his vivid performance has also garnered a lot of praise.
📌 On Guochao Street, you can immerse yourself in the traditional culture of Puning, such as Yingge, Chao opera, wood carving, porcelain inlay, paper cutting, lacquerware, inside painting, and other intangible cultural heritage projects. Here, you can not only visit, learn, and purchase, but also have DIY experiences, allowing more and more young people to understand intangible cultural heritage and fall in love with it~~
⛱️ Travel Guide
🏨 Puning International Commodity City · Intangible Cultural Heritage District
📍 Address: Intersection of Liusha Avenue and Huancheng North Road, Puning City, Jieyang, Guangdong Province
RIVER RAMSEY
Puning 'New Street View of West Second Street in Commodity City'
A good place to visit during the National Day~
Hong Kong style check-in place, the photos are too good-looking
Puning Small Commodity City
The wholesale market is here
Most of the clothing wholesale
Various children's clothing, are picked up here
Very good shopping
There are also shopping malls
One-stop check-in
Puning's latest 0 yuan photo check-in place
Cool Hong Kong style street view
Passing by in the evening looks pretty good, mainly for good-looking photos, there are no corresponding shops, you can finish walking in five minutes, no need for tickets, it's not bad to walk around after eating nearby
Day and night are probably two feelings~
The overall photo is very good!!!
Chaoshan also has a giant Christmas tree
La~ Check in and take photos, the heart is super beautiful
Chaoshan region must go to the Christmas atmosphere check-in holy land, there is a 10-meter high giant Christmas tree Thai + Internet celebrity Ferris wheel, the photos are very good, the atmosphere is full, quickly pull your girlfriends and friends to take Christmas atmosphere photos
As night falls, the lights light up the golden Christmas tree, plus the Internet celebrity Ferris wheel.
Covered with star-like shine, it's simply breathtaking
Location: Puning Commodity City (Shangdong Square)
Transportation: Bus (Commodity City Station), there are parking spaces for cars C time: Open all day
No need for tickets, free visit