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2024 Guantao Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in September)
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Travel through the city of idioms and taste the delicacies of Taoshan
Travel through the city of idioms
Taste the delicacies of Guantao
Travel through the city of idioms and taste the delicacies of Guantao!
Handan is located in the southern part of Hebei Province and is known as the "City of Chinese Idioms and Allusions." Here, you can explore the origin of the idiom "no one picks up lost articles" in Guantao, experience the creation of grain paintings in the Grain Painting Town of Guantao, and taste dishes such as Wei Furen Shiba Kou named after the wife of the famous Tang Dynasty chancellor Wei Zheng, the fragrant Lao Huang Ribs, the uniquely flavored Huo Xian Da Bao, and the Yellow Pear Feast.
Location of the route: Guantao County, Handan City, Hebei Province. Travel route: Grain Painting Town of Guantao County (grain painting experience, hot spring homestay, farmhouse cuisine) — Yellow Pear Town (Yellow Pear Feast, red tourism) — Guantao Town Guantao Hotel (Wei Furen Shiba Kou, Golden Millet Pigeon, Huo Xian Da Bao) — Peng Ai Town (Peng Ai health tourism).
Grain Painting Town of Guantao County is 70 kilometers away from Handan City, with a driving time of 80 minutes.
From Handan High-Speed Railway Station, take the tourist line 813 to the entrance of the Grain Painting Town scenic area, which takes about 40 minutes.
Yellow Pear Feast: A full pear feast made from the late autumn yellow pears grown in Yellow Pear Town: Yellow Pear Braised Pork, Shrimp Ball Fried Yellow Pear, Yellow Pear Fresh Meat Roll, Deep-Fried Pear Meatballs, Yellow Pear Stir-Fried Shrimp, Cumin Yellow Pear Meat, Golden Pumpkin Yellow Pear, Supreme Pear Soup, Sea Yellow Pear Soup, Pear Paste Lamb White.
Wei Furen Shiba Kou: A historical famous dish restored by Guantao Hotel. It is a dish named after the wife of the famous Tang Dynasty chancellor Wei Zheng, consisting of "eight meat dishes, eight vegetarian dishes, one soup, and one rice" totaling eighteen bowls, named "Wei Furen Shiba Kou" by Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.
Golden Millet Pigeon: A signature braised dish made by Guantao Hotel. It is made from "American White Feather" pigeons fed with millet for 26 days and braised with 20 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs for 4 hours. Its unique flavor of "sweet and fragrant, tender and smooth meat, crispy bones" attracts many consumers.
Grain Painting Town: Grain Painting Town is one of China's top ten most beautiful villages and a national 4A-level tourist attraction that combines rural charm with urban quality. It overturns people's stereotypical impressions of traditional rural areas, with clean streets, orderly alleys, and elegant tranquility. The farmhouses with blue tiles and white walls are distinctive. The main road is lined with coffee houses, grain painting workshops, and rural revitalization halls, giving the village a fashionable taste. It has become a comprehensive tourist resort in southern Hebei that integrates ecological sightseeing, leisure vacation, health care, and dining and accommodation.
Yellow Pear Town: Yellow Pear Town has a long history and rich red culture. It was one of the ancient battlefields during the Song-Liao wars and the birthplace of the first Party branch in Guantao's history. It is named after the development of the late autumn yellow pear industry. Enjoy the pear blossoms, eat the pear feast, explore the red history, experience the fun of picking, and enjoy the interesting journey brought by "colorful pear town, red cradle."
Peng Ai Town: "Peng Zu lived for eight hundred years, Peng Ai health care is in Guantao." As a national "high-quality mugwort base," Guantao has built an Ai Town according to local conditions, developing more than 100 Ai products such as Ai sticks, Ai wool quilts, Ai pillars, Ai patches, Ai wool pillows, Ai sachets, Ai pillows, Ai cushions, Ai herbal bath lotions, Ai mooncakes, Ai cookies, Ai ointments, which are loved by tourists, recreating the health care scene of "small bridges, flowing water, and people."
Creative products: Grain painting cultural and creative products from Guantao County, Ai herbal health care products.
The Charm of Guantao, the Pearl of the Canal
Taoshan nurtures beauty, and Weishui fosters spirituality.
The Guantao section of the Grand Canal began in the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, declined in the Yuan Dynasty, and was revived in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a total length of 40.5 kilometers. The Weiyun River, closely related to Guantao, is an important part of the Guantao section of the Grand Canal. Guantao County "was born by the river and prospered because of the river," exuding an unending vitality.
In recent years, Guantao County has focused on the development of agricultural modernization, leveraging local endowments, deeply exploring grain resources, and fully developing the grain painting industry, planning and constructing a uniquely characteristic Grain Painting Town.
Grain Painting Town is located in the western part of Guantao County, 3 kilometers from the county seat, with a planned area of 3.7 square kilometers. The century-old houses and wells, ancient stone mills and grinders... In Grain Painting Town, old objects full of a sense of age and rich regional characteristics can be seen everywhere, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia. Under the skillful hands of the grain painting girls, various grains such as millet, sesame, grass seeds, and grains are transformed into various forms of paintings, becoming artworks and a prominent local symbol. Here, the original appearance of rural buildings and the original production and lifestyle of villagers are preserved, while modern elements compatible with rural characteristics are added, achieving a perfect combination of rusticity and fashion.
To date, Grain Painting Town has become a national AAAA-level tourist attraction integrating ecological sightseeing, vacation, and leisure, with 11 grain painting enterprises, 4 grain painting studios, 1 art workshop, the first grain painting school in the country, and the first grain painting research institute in the country. In addition, it has attracted painters from places like Songzhuang in Beijing to set up more than 20 art studios for oil painting, lacquer painting, landscape painting, and other types of art. Grain Painting Town, along with surrounding attractions such as the Education Town, Cucumber Town, Peng'ai Town, and Princess Lake Park, forms a connected rural tourism and study tour route, boosting consumption in Guantao County's catering, accommodation, and shopping sectors, receiving over a million tourists annually, and showing strong momentum in rural tourism.
Today, this small town flowing on the canal has achieved industrial prosperity, ecological beauty, thriving tourism, and wealth for its people. Guantao, emerging from its profound history, is now showcasing a vibrant new look.
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