Taiyuan
 Taiyuan, a historic city in the north, is the provincial capital of Shanxi. It is one of the new industrial bases of china, having various industries such as metallurgy, coal, engineering, chemicals, electronics and textiles, With a population of almost two million, the city is in the central Shanxi plain surrounded by mountains with the Feng river running through it so that the climate is temperate.It is rich in minerals and agricultural produce as well as beautiful in scenery: so tourists come all the year round. Taiyuan, formerly called Jinyang, was originally built at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period with a history of over 2,400 years, at the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties,it used to be the spare capital of Eastern Wei and Northern Qi. The once flourishing Tang dynasty originated from Jinyang. Which was called the northern capital when Changan was made the capital of the Tang regime. On account of its long history. There are cultural relics and places of interest all over the Taiyuan area. Jin Memorial Temple was built in commemoration of the first king Tang Shuyu of the kingdom of Jin. So the temple is famous for the magnificent architectures of the Song dynasty, the exquisite figures of maidservants and its beautiful garden. Chongshan Temple at the east end of the city is said to be originally the temporary dwelling place of Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty: but extensions were made on the old site in 1381 (Ming dynasty) by the son of Zhu Yuanzhang to commemorate his mother. The extant Hall of Great Mercy is the most typical Ming dynasty architecture that has been preserved in the best condition,and possesses high artistic value. The design of the figure of avalokitesvara with one thousand hands and one thousand eyes is indeed grotesque and spectacular. In The hall are also preserved Buddhist scriptures of the Song. Yuan and Ming dynasty editions as well as picture albums of Buddha's deels and about his fifty-three disciples. They are precious material or the study of Chinese art in the Song. Yuan and Ming dynasties. The two Mine dynasty brick towers, both over 50 m. in height. Stand loftily at the south-east end of the city and are looked upon as the symbol of Taiyuan. The district has been turned into a park open to the public. The Chunyang Palace. Which forms part of Shanxi museum.was originally the temple for offering sacrifices to the Taoist Priest Lu Dongbin. Now there are twenty one showrooms exhibiting respectively chinaware, bronze, jade articles bamboo, woodland ivory carvings stone sculptures, calligraphy, paintings, rubbings from stone inscriptions, enamelware. lacquerware etc.Altogether there are over two thousand articles on display from the ancient earthen ware of the Yangshao culture to the cultural relics of the successive dynasties. In fact all the cultural relics of Shanxi province as one of the cradles of the Chinese civilization in the middle reaches of the Huanghe River are gathered here for the benefit of tourists. From time immemorial shanxi has been a rich province. In Taiyuan the tourist may taste the local slightly sweet. snow-white rice. The good shanxi cooked wheaten food. The famous wines and the delicious Taiyuan vinegar. If he is interested. He may also bring home replicas of cultural objects articles of industrial art as well as celebrated Chinese medicines
Taiyuan traffic is developed, the airport that is extended is the alternate airport of Captical International Airport. Besides leading to the main city of our country, the international flight for Hong Kong has already been opened too. 6 pieces of trunk railway go to more than 10 cities in the whole country directly, 8 arterial highways are linked inside and outside the province. AfterTaiyuan expressway is opened, taking the car can reach Beijing and Tianjin in 5 , 6 hours. Highway radiation network, the traffic is extremely convenient, it is a hub of communications of the whole province, the bus, trolley circuit are criss-cross in the city, the traffic is extremely convenient.
External traffic
Aviation
Taiyuan military constellation airport is located in the south suburb, 18 km from the urban area. There is through transport with every national main large and medium cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin, Nanjing, Shenyang, Xi'an. Taiyuan city reach airport have regular regular bus of civil aviation, most easy method whether oneself take a taxi, it is nearly takes 30 minutes to calling a taxi at the airport on the city.
Railway
It is original in Beijing that starting point of two railway lines of Jing - Yuan, Shi - Tai and the beginning of Tai - Jiao lines, join several dozen large and medium cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu, Baotou, via having more than 20 with stopping in Taiyuan express every day. It is TongPu, Shitai intersection of railway to be domestic.
Taiyuan railway station lies in to easternmost of Yingze Street, take from urban area 1 - 5 - 21 a lot of bus may go to at the railway station directly too. The train ticket office is in the south of the railway station, in addition there are a lot of reservation offices in the city, can get the ticket (the service charge is generally 5 yuan ) by way of ordering by telephone .
Road
It is the first expressway of province of Shanxi to arrive to the old "too old expressway" that shuts inTaiyuan, the road until Taiyuan Wusu begin too, Yuci city, Shouyang county, Yangquan city, county of Pingding, until Shanxi and bounded place of Hebei - Close old, appear old after closing, with linking to each other from Shijiazhuang to expressway of Beijing. Walk the expressway, from need 5 can reach more than hour only to Beijing from Taiyuan (pick-up point lies in Yingze Street mayor way bus stop of east, fare is 120 yuan, the terminus is the beautiful pool bridge long-distance bus station of Beijing). The main arterial highway leads to the army to cross Taiyuan, getting to Dakou from Taiyuan, Taiyuan to Jiuuan, Taiyuan to Xiabaiquan, Taiyuan to Wenjiazhuang, Taiyuan to Jingyue and so on linesm Taiyuan and Yuanping have expressway link to each other, the high speed for from offer facilities to tourists in WuTaishan from Taiyuan. There is hire a car and lead directly to five Taishan (43 of fare ) and Junyuan hang in the sky temple and Ying county wood tower and so on travel spot in Taiyuan city Yingze street. There are VOLVO go to DaTong directly outside the gate of power old building, can reach about 5 hours, fare is 70 yuan (include a pastry). In addition, there are expressways to reach Gujiao, Wenshui and other places too originally. Until Taiyuan long-distance bus station have car go to ancient city directly Pingyao too, about 2 hour such as drive, fare is about 10 yuan.
Internal traffic
Bus
The road of Taiyuan city is wide, the urban traffic is unblocked. The traffic among every beauty spot is very convenient too, there is No. 308 of bus of the shrine or No. 804 to Jinsi from square before the railway station, respectively until 1 with 2 admission fee (308 walk old distance, 804 walk new distance), last bus is 7: 30 afternoon; Can also take 308 minibuses (private car ) , admission fee is 2 yuan.
Taxi
The already basically disappearing now of visible small one in Taiyuan street everywhere in the past, the starting fare of the taxi is 7 yuan / kilometer.
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