Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Baoding, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, is located in the northern part of the North China Plain, constituting a golden triangle with Beijing and Tianjin, and is known as the "Gateway to the Gorge" and the "Southern Gate of the Capital". The city has a long history, since the Neolithic era, there will be the first people to flourish, the Warring States period for the junction of Yan and Zhao, the Yuan Dynasty, set up Baoding Road, to "defend the metropolis, stabilize the world," the Ming and Qing Dynasty for the capital of the Zhili province, is one of the political and cultural centers of northern China's modern times. There are many scenic spots and monuments in Baoding, including the Governor's Office of Zhili, one of China's top ten museums, the national 5A scenic spot Baiyangdian, and the thousand-year-old temple Mancheng Han Tomb, etc. Baoding has a rich cultural heritage. Cultural heritage, Baoding Military Academy is known as "China's modern military cradle", training a large number of military personnel; food culture is unique, Baoding dishes, locust Mao pickles, white Yunzhang buns and other famous. Nowadays, Baoding, as a regional center city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei world-class urban agglomeration, is relying on the advantages of its location to vigorously develop new energy, automobile manufacturing and other industries, and is a livable city with both historical heritage and modern vitality.
The Old Town of Henan refers to the ancient cities in Henan Province, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. As one of the eight ancient capitals of China, Henan Province accounts for four of them (Luoyang, Kaifeng, Anyang and Zhengzhou), and there are still historical imprints such as the ruins of the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, the walls of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the residences of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the streets of the Old Town. Luoyang's Tianjie (Heavenly Street) witnessed the coming of ten thousand nations during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Kaifeng's Zhouqiao (Bridge) carries memories of the prosperity of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Anyang's Yinxu (Yin Ruins) gave birth to China's earliest matured written language - oracle bone inscriptions. -The Yin Ruins in Anyang nurtured the earliest mature writing in China, the oracle bone script. These old cities not only preserve tangible cultural heritages such as ancient city walls, bell and drum towers, and Wenfeng Pagoda, but also carry on intangible cultural heritages such as Yu Opera, woodblock prints of Zhuxianzhen, and Shaolin Kungfu, making them living museums for touching the history of the Central Plains, and perceiving the lineage of the Chinese culture, and attracting the attention of people from all over the world who are searching for the roots of civilization.