The Kuixing Pavilion base covers an area of 196 square meters and is 14 meters wide. It consists of three parts: Sumizuo, Pavilion Body and Baoding. 29 meters high, it is a wooden structure building with four eaves and octahedron points. It has a green gray and simple tile roof. It is replaced with glazed tiles after maintenance. The eaves and forehead, melon heads, and supporting bows are all carefully carved. The entire pavilion uses eighty pillars and is equipped with ladders layer upon layer, allowing you to climb to the top and view the whole city.

The bottom floor of Kuixing Pavilion is made up of eight eaves columns, eight corridor columns, and eight gold columns. Among them, the eight gold columns run through the body of the pavilion. The framework of each floor is retracted inward repeatedly to frame it to the fourth floor. The gold columns connecting the bottom become eaves columns. Therefore, eight other gold columns are set up. The gold columns act as leverage under the gravity of the mountain eaves, lifting them up slightly above the ground, making them a "suspended column" building of the "Zhenwu Pavilion" style. This is one of the architectural features of Kuixing Pavilion, and the eight sides of Kuixing Pavilion are unequal in width. It is another architectural feature of the pavilion.

Kuixing Pavilion was originally a building that established a style of writing in feudal society to mark civilization. Now it has become a major historical landscape of Renshou County and a rare ancient building. Climbing the building and looking around, the new and old cities of Renshou are in the eyes of the people. It is refreshing and refreshing. They echo the "Leisure Corridor" and face each other, forming a unique scenic spot in the county.

After visiting Kuixing Pavilion, we found Renshou's local intangible cultural heritage-Zhang San Sesame Cake in the urban area, and came to Renshou's must-eat local snacks.

Zhang's sesame cake making skills are listed as traditional skills in the intangible cultural heritage of Meishan City.

Zhang's sesame cake began in the Qing Dynasty and has a long history. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Renshou Sesame Cake was once named "Zilin Trading Company" and the "Zhang's Candy Factory" was created. During the Qing Dynasty, he paid tribute to the emperor and was called the "King of Sesame Cake" by the people.

It is said that during the Republic of China period, Renshou Zhang's sesame cake went to Nanjing to be exhibited and won the gold medal at the World Expo. Zhang's sesame cake is made from sesame, glutinous rice, walnut, lard and other raw materials. It is fine, melted into dregs, sweet but not greasy.

At present, there are 80 varieties such as black sesame cake, peach kernel sesame cake, and fig sesame cake, which have been well received by consumers and rated as "National Geographical Indication Protected Product". It can be called a "Tianfu One" among local specialty foods.

According to records in the "Annals of Renshou County", in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, a traveling monk came to the "Crossing Cliff Temple" in the ancient town of Renshou Lingzhou, lectured and recited Buddhist scriptures, and used local products to make various Buddhist snacks with unique flavors and exquisite craftsmanship. The snacks are served in front of the Buddha statues, and "Sesame Cake" is one of them. The common people who came to the "Crossing Cliff Temple" to worship Buddha spoke highly of sesame cakes and learned how to make them from the wandering monks. Some people in Wenlin Town, Dahua Town and Wangyang Town not only tasted the sesame cake themselves after making it, but also used it for sale."Renshou Sesame Cake" came into being and gradually became the most popular local pastry in Renshou. One.

Xiangshuiliufang

I visited Kuixing Pavilion in the morning and tasted Zhang San Sesame Cake. It was time for lunch. Lunch is arranged at the graphite fang farmhouse in Xiangshui Liufang, a well-known place in Renshou. The environment here is quiet and peaceful. The most important thing is the authentic taste, typical Sichuan cuisine.

Xiangshui Liufang is a national 3A-level tourist attraction. The scenic area is located in Mumen Community, Puning Street, Renshou County, 1 kilometer away from the Renshou exit of Chengdu-Chi Expressway. It is characterized by original ecological landscape environment and rural pastoral scenery. It is an urban suburban leisure tourism resort that integrates farming cultural experience areas, agricultural theme parks, ecological sports camps, in-depth leisure resorts, high-end ecological living areas, etc. It has more than 20 shallow hills connected, and more than 100,000 precious trees are lush. The 25-kilometer bicycle loop line runs around the mountains, and more than 4 kilometers of water bank lines run through it.

Xiangshui Liufang Scenic Area covers an area of more than 3000 acres. It is a leisure resort resort in the suburbs of the city. Large-scale ecological farming planting and a concentrated display of the long-standing farming culture allow people who have lived in the city for a long time to pick seasonal ecological vegetables, melons and fruits., evoke that strong nostalgia, and also allow children who do not know what "crops are" to experience farming here. You can go sightseeing, experience, exercise and vacation here. It belongs to a suburban leisure and tourism scenic spot.

Here returns to nature, blends into mountains and rivers, and returns to its original nature. Xiangshui Liufang Scenic Area includes a large-scale amusement park, Farming Culture Expo Park, Farming Culture Performing Arts Area, Ancient Tree Expo Park, suspension bridge, hiking plank road, 24 solar terms Street, and the Liufang are Stone Mill, Water Car Workshop, Oil Workshop, Sauce Workshop, Wine Workshop, Cake (Noodle) Workshop.

Finally, the food is served, the fragrant firewood chicken ~!

The dishes are served. Traditional Sichuan cuisine is full of color, aroma, and the taste is really authentic ~!

After lunch, we took a nap at the bib outdoor camping site next to the Graphite Workshop and enjoyed afternoon tea, which was extremely comfortable.

The campsite is very large. If you are a friend from Chengdu, you can also bring your own tent and camp here. There are water, electricity, food, barbecue and everything.

The motorcycle of the campsite owner is cool and handsome, haha

Enjoy desserts and afternoon tea

In the evening, we arrived at Renshou Qixili Street, the largest fashionable commercial district in Renshou, and happened to catch the locally held Renshou National Trend Night Tour Lantern Festival. We didn't expect such a large-scale fashion market in a county. It was so lively.

There are just too many tourists on Qixili Pedestrian Street. There are an endless stream of snacks and large-scale cultural performances. It is so lively that I am ready to enjoy it here at night ~

Qixili Commercial District is adjacent to Tianfu Avenue and Longtan Avenue. It is oriented to food, entertainment, trendy entertainment, and Internet celebrity gathering places to create a situational experiential single-family commercial district with the same origin as Chengdu's top businesses such as Taiguli, Xiangnanli, and UPARK., and now it has become a destination for Renshou's tourism and leisure consumption and a window to showcase Renshou's humanistic temperament to the outside world.

Traditional snack-sugar painting.

Sun Wukong is selling "Indian Flying Cake"

Traditional snack-Sichuan Bobo Chicken

Ten miles of fragrant roasted raw oysters

There are also wonderful performances on the Qixili Grand Stage ~

After eating all kinds of Renshou delicacies and specialty snacks in Qixili, we drove to the two mountains and one river on the outskirts of Renshou to watch the night light show.

The "Two Mountains and One River" consists of Yisi Mountain, Feiquan Mountain and Jinma River as the main construction body. The two mountains and one river are closely connected through Renli Road and Shouxiang Road. In the evening, you can see the ultimate light show experience here, including Feiquan Mountain National Flag Mountain Screen, 270-degree panoramic viewing platform, Yisi Mountain Star Observation Platform Glass Plank Road, mountain lighting and other attractions, and complete roads, parking lots, Sports facilities, tourism service facilities and public toilets and other infrastructure have created a new "Internet celebrity" check-in place that combines Lingzhou culture, local characteristics, and modern technology.

Climb the glass plank road of the Xingtai Observatory and look across from the observation deck. Colorful lights cover the mountain, giving us a strong visual and sensory experience.

While watching the light show, you can also walk the glass plank road, but personally feel that walking during the day is more exciting and interesting.

Glass plank road opening hours:

Opening hours from Sunday to Thursday: 08:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00;

Friday and Saturday: 08:30-11:30, 14:00-17:00, 19:30-21:30

Light show opening hours: Friday, Saturday: 19:30-21:30

Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel

On the first night of this trip to Renshou, Sichuan, we chose Sichuan's first Indigo hotel located in Heilongtan Scenic Area-Renshou Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel.

Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel is a star-rated hotel in the Republic of China. It is close to the 4A-level tourist attraction Heilongtan. It is only 30 kilometers away from Meishan City and only an hour and a half drive from Chengdu City. It is very suitable for young people from Chengdu to travel and is a good place for weekend outing.

When I first saw the lobby of the Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel, my eyes lit up. Everywhere I could see, I could not help but see the brilliance of the last century. The hotel's decoration and design style originates from the architectural style of traditional courtyards in Sichuan and Chongqing. It is also influenced by Western architectural culture. It is solemn and elegant without losing its artistic style. It not only has the architectural beauty of combining China and the West, but also has the precipitation of ancient and modern history, highlighting the hotel's distinctive artistic taste.

Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel is composed of eight independent Western Sichuan Mansion style buildings, which can also be understood as independent villas. The hotel has a total of 91 rooms, and the rooms are mainly based on retro green. It feels like returning to old Shanghai.

The rooms are equipped with oversized panoramic glass windows. When you open the windows, you can see the beautiful scenery in the campus of Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel. Vintage classic cars, rickshaws, colorful cheongsam, retro gramophones, almost every corner of the hotel exudes a distinctive artistic atmosphere.

corner of the room

Almost every corner of the room is filled with a strong artistic atmosphere.

Even the style of the bathroom is unique.

When staying at the Indigo Hotel, you can also put on a gorgeous and elegant cheongsam and take photos at the hotel, as if you were in old Shanghai from the last century.

The hotel's rickshaws are very suitable for taking photos ~

Binli Restaurant is located on the first floor of Area 2 of Heilongtan Global Sunac Indigo Hotel. The restaurant uses green leather train carriages as design elements, and the restaurant space is set as train carriages. Through the bright panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the station. The promenade, being in it, is as if you are embarking on a train bound for spring, peaceful and full of travel.

The old-fashioned phone booth in front of the restaurant is also great for taking photos

Bilin Restaurant has a total of 108 seats, mainly Cantonese cuisine. It provides Chinese and Western buffet breakfast and gourmet desserts open all day long. It is a paradise for food lovers.

The style of the restaurant is very consistent with the decoration style of the hotel. You can also take photos while tasting the food.

Cantonese pot rice

Cantonese refreshments

Intercontinental Heilongtan Global Sunac Paradise Hotel

If you don't like the style of the Indigo hotel very much, you can choose to stay in Paradise Intercontinental next to Indigo. The two hotels are very close to each other, but the styles are completely different.

Intercontinental Heilongtan Global Sunac Paradise Hotel is located in the Heilongtan Scenic Area. It is modern and quiet with lakes and mountains. The hotel is surrounded by greenery and surrounded by mountains and rivers. Walking into the hotel park, you feel like you are in a paradise.

When you step into the hotel lobby, the first thing you see is the majestic and domineering crystal lights. The Chinese-style indoor garden and leisure area are magnificent yet elegant, coinciding with the tone of the Heilongtan Scenic Area.

The hotel has a total of 401 luxurious rooms and characteristic suites overlooking the panoramic view of Heilong Beach. The interior design style has a unique leisure and vacation concept, and the style is more Chinese, which cleverly integrates vacation and nature.

The hotel is also equipped with a wide outdoor tent camp ˇ, which is convenient for self-driving tourists and outdoor enthusiasts to camp here. The Intercontinental Hotel in Heilongtan Global Sunac Paradise at night is even more charming.

When you wake up from your sleep in the morning, you can try the hotel's buffet breakfast after getting up. There are a wide variety of Chinese and Western varieties, including bread, salad, desserts, fruits, fried rice porridge, noodles, etc., which are available in unlimited quantities.🍜🍞Longxuan Chinese Restaurant serves Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine. Shunxing Fresh Fish Restaurant specializes in fish hot pot, especially the fresh fish from Heilongtan Reservoir is worth tasting.

Tianye Happy Farm is located on the lake in the hotel park, which is very suitable for parent-child play. In Happy Farm, you can experience the joy of sowing seeds and harvesting fruits. You can take children to get to know new plants and small animals. It is more suitable for taking photos and checking in.🐾If you are tired, you can also take the shared electric car provided by the hotel for a ride around the lake and ask your friends to have an outdoor party in the camping area.

The first day of the trip was very casual, but very fulfilling. At night, I would have a good rest in this beautiful Heilongtan Scenic Area.

[Day 2] Heilongtan Reservoir Monument

After having breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we were ready to drive to the first attraction on today's itinerary-Heilongtan Reservoir.

Heilongtan Scenic Area is located in Heilongtan Town, Renshou County, Sichuan Province. It is located in the south-central Sichuan Basin and belongs to the western foot of Ere Mountain in the Longquan Mountains. The scenic area is 50 kilometers north of Chengdu and 16 kilometers northwest of Renshou County. The total area of the scenic area is 115.3 square kilometers, and the core scenic area is 30.9 square kilometers. Heilongtan Reservoir is the first large-scale water storage and irrigation project built in our province since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It mainly relies on water diversion and irrigation from Dujiangyan, Sichuan. The reservoir was built in 1970 and completed in 1972. In 1986, Heilongtan Scenic Area was established and later renamed Heilongtan Scenic Area.

In 1986, Heilongtan Scenic Area was approved by the provincial government as the first batch of provincial scenic spots in Sichuan. In 2013, it was rated as a National Water Conservancy Scenic Area. In 2014, it was rated as a National AAAA Tourist Scenic Area. In 2014, it was rated as a Sichuan Provincial Forest Park. In 2016, it was rated as a Sichuan Province Tourist Resort and Sichuan Province Ecological Tourism Demonstration Zone, and in 2019 it was rated as a National Wetland Park. It can be said that when traveling to Renshou, you must come to Heilong Beach.

The old archway by the lake.

Heilongtan Scenic Area is the largest and most beautiful artificial lake in western Sichuan. It is extremely rich in natural resources, with a water storage capacity of 360 million cubic meters. The scenic area has 5062 hectares of forest greening, with a forest coverage rate of 38.4%, and a vegetation coverage rate of 98.4%. There are hundreds of species of birds such as wild ducks, egrets, gray cranes, and swans.

It really looks like Qiandao Lake

Heilongtan Scenic Area integrates beauty, wonder, tranquility, wilderness and green. There are more than 40 scenic spots such as the majestic appearance of the dam, Longyan monuments, Panlong Green Island, Baxian Islands, Sanwan Jicui, and Shuangyan Lake Light.

There are 7 gorges, 7 dams and 85 archipelago dotted in the lake. The water is covered with bonsai. The blue waves are endless, and the water and the sky are in one color. They are hidden in circles and are like a dream. The lake shoreline is 310 kilometers long and the lake area is 23.6 square kilometers.

The scenery of Heilongtan Scenic Area is indeed worthy of its reputation. There are endless blue waves, the water and the sky are in one color, and countless small islands are dotted on the lake, giving excellent scenery.

Renshou City Wetland Park

Renshou Urban Wetland Park, a national AAAA tourist attraction. Located in Puning Street, Renshou County, Sichuan Province, it is located in the central area of the new city in the north of Renshou County. It officially opened in May 2016 and is a good place for leisure and play in the city.

The design theme of Renshou Urban Wetland Park Scenic Area is "Leshan for Benevolence, Leshan for Longevity for Water". It is the main urban wetland ecological landscape with flowers, wetlands, mountains and rivers as elements. The scenic area has ten scenic spots including high beaches, flower valleys, water side, and green sand Cuian, Puning Lake, Linfeng Shuiwan, Puning Yingyue, Water Dance City, Fantasy Wetland, Green Enying Dam, Yunting Scenic View, Mountain Forest Park, and Music Fountain. It is the "city business card" for the external image of Renshou County. It is also a city garden where Renshou people return to their original nature and blend in with mountains and rivers.

Flying the drone and overlooking the entire park, the scenery is very quiet.

Hualing Villa·Hidden Lake Qi

After visiting Renshou Urban Wetland Park, we drove to Hualing Villa Hidden Lake near Heilongtan Reservoir. Today's lunch was settled here and booked a whole fish banquet. I'm looking forward to it.

After arriving, I didn't have time to stroll around, so I went straight to the restaurant because everyone was hungry ~

When you come to Heilongtan Scenic Area, you must taste the local fish in Heilongtan. There are many ways to eat fish here, but the whole fish banquet at Hualing Villa and Yinhuqi brings various cooking methods of fish to the extreme. The same ingredients have different colors and flavors after cooking and processing, which is a reflection of the local food culture.

Colorful fish lips, golden melon fish nao, paper-wrapped fish, colorful flavors, golden fish head, unicorn fish fruit, Longtan drunk fish, fresh pepper fish maw, each dish reflects the taste of Black Longtan fish indeed deserves its reputation. Every dish is full of color, aroma, and after a windy and cloudy meal, we are going to taste afternoon tea at Hualing Villa and take a rest.

Hualing Villa·Hidden Lake is located in the hilly valley of the remnant of Longquan Mountain, backed by Linghu Mountain Island, facing the 7th Gorge and 785 Islands in Heilong Beach across the lake. The hotel is built next to the lake, taking tranquility in the bustle, perfectly integrating into nature, creating a quiet and tranquil aesthetics of life.

After tasting the whole fish banquet at Heilongtan, we continued to taste afternoon tea here and experience the fun of roasting tea.

If you don't want to leave at night, you can directly check into the B & B suite located in Hualing Villa hidden in the lake.

Looking at the lake's light at the door and the scenery of mountains and wild scenery at the window, Hualing Villa·Yinhuqi Hotel is based on simplicity and natural style, which integrates the holiday style just right to create a warm and charming living space.

We didn't stay here because we were returning to Chengdu.

Wen Gong Zhen

Feng Jian Wu Shilu Art Museum is located in Wengong Town, Renshou County. It is the last stop on our self-driving trip back to Chengdu. The location of the art museum is on our way back to Chengdu. The entire building of the Art Museum is like a folk house in western Sichuan. According to the relevant person in charge of the art museum, the art museum is a perfect reproduction of the original site of the Feng Family Courtyard, a county-level cultural relics protection unit. In terms of architectural layout, it combines the architectural style of the Feng family's ancestral home, Gan School and Hui School in Jiangxi Province.

There are four functional areas in the art museum: basic exhibition hall, Shilu art special exhibition hall, cultural and creative store and temporary exhibition hall, which comprehensively present the historical changes of the Feng family, as well as Feng Jianwu, a master of modern Chinese calligraphy and painting, and the founder of Chang 'an Painting School. Shi Lu's arduous artistic career and great and outstanding artistic achievements.

Shi Lu's original name was Feng Yaheng and was born in Songlin Bay, Wengong Town, Renshou County in 1919. Shi Lu has loved art since he was a child. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the Picture Department of Chengdu Oriental Art College and systematically studied traditional painting, laying the foundation for his later creation of traditional Chinese painting. In 1938, 19-year-old Shi Lu joined the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement and then rushed to Yan 'an. After Shi Lu joined the revolution, he still persisted in painting and used a paintbrush to publicize revolutionary ideas. Because he admired Shi Tao, a great painter of the Qing Dynasty, and Lu Xun, a modern revolutionary and litterateur, he changed his name to Shi Lu. "Fight to Northern Shaanxi","Dawn in the East","Crossing to the East"...

Shi Lu expressed the cultural feelings of a revolutionary in the "grand historical narrative" with his unique artistic language, which had considerable influence in the painting world in the 1950s and 1960s, and it also made him one of the most outstanding representatives of revolutionary artists during the Yan 'an period. Throughout Shi Lu's life, he was not only a talented master, but also a revolutionary artist full of patriotic feelings. He was known as the red giant and Oriental Van Gogh. This is also an important reason why the art museum has become a patriotic education base and a party history education base.

At this point, our two-day self-driving trip to Renshou from Chengdu has ended. We are very happy to discover many small treasure destinations in the Renshou area. As Renshou, which is only more than an hour away from Chengdu, it is really a treasure destination for self-driving around Chengdu. The ceiling is over. This trip to Renshou is still unfinished. I look forward to the next trip to Renshou ~!

[Travel Tips]

[Transportation]

It is recommended to start from Chengdu, where it will be more convenient to drive by car, or take public transportation to Renshou and rent a car locally for sightseeing. The distance between various attractions in Renshou is not far. It takes an hour and a half by car from Chengdu to Renshou.

Check the weather forecast before traveling. If it rains on cloudy days in scenic spots like Heilongtan, the scenery will be greatly reduced.

Recommend Renshou's local specialty snack-Zhang San Sesame Cake. Be sure to taste it. It is also suitable to buy more boxes for friends.