City in Zhejiang, China
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Taizhou (台州 Tāizhōu) is a city in Zhejiang.
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台州博物馆
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台州府城文化旅游区
An historic town best known for its defensive wall, popularly referred to as the Southern Great Wall (江南长城), which is considered a prototype for that in Badaling, Beijing. There is also a small museum about the history of the wall. Note: The coordinates displayed here are for the visitor centre. A bilingual map of the area, can be found on the official website. In Ziyang Old Street (紫阳古街), there are old stores serving local food and selling traditional handcrafts.
Buddhist temple located on Mount Tiantai. Shiqiao Temple, originally named Shiqiao Temple, was built in the first year of the Song Dynasty Jianzhong Yasukuni (1101), located in Shiqiao Hill, Shiliang Town, Tiantai County, 25 kilometers away from Tiantai County. Fangguang Temple is a national key temple announced by The State Council.
Located in Chengguan Town, Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, it was founded in the eighteenth year of Sui Kai Emperor (598), initially named Tiantai Temple, and later took "If the temple becomes, the country is Qing" and changed its name to Guoqing Temple. The temple covers an area of 73,000 square meters.
The eminent monk "Wise Master" (Zhið «®) of the Sui Dynasty founded the Tiantai School in Guoqing Temple. It is the birthplace of the Tiantai School of Chinese Buddhism and its influence is far and wide Jianzhen made a pilgrimage to Guoqing Temple when he crossed east. Japanese monk Yucheng went to Tiantai Mountain to learn from the Dharma, from the Tao Sui, after returning to Japan, he built Yanli Temple in Birui Mountain, Japan, founded the Japanese Tiantai School, and later respected the Guoqing Temple in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province, as the ancestral court.
天台山
Mount Tiantai used to be known as Dongmeng Mountain. It is a rare box-shaped syncline mountain in China. The whole mountain is roughly in the shape of the English letter U, like a "chair" facing west and east. The mountain is divided into three levels of terraces from low to high: the First Terrace, the Second Terrace, and the Main Terrace, forming three distinctive scenic spots of "one layer of terraces, one layer of heaven, and nine heavens on layers of terraces".
国清寺
The existing buildings of Guoqing Temple were rebuilt in the 12th year of Emperor Yongzheng's reign (1734). Tiantai Guoqing Temple in Zhejiang Province is known as one of the four best temples in China, along with Lingyan Temple in Jinan, Qixia Temple in Nanjing, and Yuquan Temple in Dangyang. Many famous monks have resided in the temple, including Master Yixing of Tang, Hanshan, Shi De, Monk Jigong, Master Kukai, the founder of the Japanese Eastern Esoteric Buddhism, and Master Saicho, the founder of the Japanese Taimitsu Buddhism.
台州海洋世界
Taizhou Ocean World is divided into six floors. It is an aquarium that can be visited from top to bottom. It has more than 10,000 marine creatures and has marine life displays and amusement facilities such as the Tropical Rainforest Hall, Coral Reef Hall, Undersea Tunnel Hall, Ocean Carnival, and Ocean Style Hall. It also offers performances such as mermaids, human-shark dances, and seals. There are also supporting service projects such as the Ocean Gift Mall, Ocean Happy Restaurant, and Ornamental Fish Sales and Exhibition Center. It is a large-scale comprehensive tourist destination with the theme of marine culture, integrating popular science education, appreciation and entertainment, tourism and leisure, and shopping.
台州市神仙居景区
Formerly known as Xipoultice Temple Scenic Area, it is located in Xianju National Park, Danzhu Township, Baita Town, Xianju County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Taizhou Shenxianju Scenic Spot was built in 1998, with a total area of 22.32 square kilometers.
大陈岛
Dachen Island consists of "Upper Dachen Island" (an area of 7 square kilometers) and "Lower Dachen Island" (an area of 4.89 square kilometers), both belonging to the Taizhou Islands. Lower Dachen Island is the garrison of Dachen Town.
The forest coverage rate of the island reaches 50%-60%, and it is a provincial Marine forest park. Dachen Island is a legendary and famous island, southeast of Taizhou Bay, central and south of Taizhou Islands. The island hilly undulating, natural landscape and cultural landscape is unique, suitable for vacation, leisure sightseeing and seeking historical sites tourism. Dachen Island is a national first-class fishing port, provincial forest park and provincial sea fishing base, and the waters around the island are the third largest fishing ground in Zhejiang Province, known as the "pearl of the East China Sea".
台州方特·狂野大陆
Taizhou Fonte • Wild Mainland is a large-scale theme park created by Huaqiang Fonte with the theme of animation and science fiction, integrating interactive experience, science education, leisure and holiday, dining and shopping. The park uses AR, VR, ball screen, giant screen and other cutting-edge technologies, with the core of Fangte's classic "Boonie Bears" series, the newly launched national Marvel masterpiece "City of Terracotta Warriors" and the overseas introduction of "Miracle Girl" and other outstanding animation IP, to restore many animation classic scenes in real life, bringing a new immersive entertainment experience July 9, 2022, Taizhou major cultural tourism project, Huaqiang Fangte's first animation theme park - Taizhou Fangte Wild Mainland officially opened to welcome guests.
温岭长屿硐天国家级风景名胜区
Covering an area of 16.18 square kilometers, Changyu Dongtian Scenic Spot is a stone cultural landscape formed by the quarrying sites of successive dynasties since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Thousands of years of excavation left 28 groups, 1314 caves, formed a variety of stone wall corridor. It has the only rock cave concert hall in Asia, won the Guinness Book of the world's largest giant stone bowl and China's first cave-style stone culture museum. Known as "the first cave in the world"
By plane
Other nearby airports include: Wenzhou (WNZ), Ningbo (NGB), and Hangzhou International (HGH).
By bus
From Shanghai to Taizhou takes 4½ hours by bus or car via the Hangzhou Bay bridge. Ningbo takes 2 hours, Hangzhou takes 3 hours, and Wenzhou airport takes 1 hour.
By boat
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