[2024 Jinan Attraction] Travel Guide for Ink Spring (Updated Nov)
Springs
Address:
Inside Baimaiquan Park, No.31 Huiquan Road, Zhangqiu City, Jinan City
Opening times:
Open year round, 24/7Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
10-15 minutes
It's worth the 3-hour round trip! I visited Moquan Spring three times.
It's worth the 3-hour round trip! I visited Moquan Spring three times. 👍
I suddenly wanted to visit Moquan Spring at 3 pm, so I took a taxi and arrived in 1 hour.
Baima Spring Scenic Area is great. 👌
There weren't many people in the park at 4 pm, so it was very comfortable to walk around. I followed the signs and arrived at Moquan Spring in about 8 minutes. 🌹
I took a video and sent it to my friends.
It was my first time seeing a natural spring, and it was amazing to see the water bubbling up. I walked around the park three times, and I wanted to see it again. 🥰
✅Transportation: The scenic area is a 15-minute taxi ride from Zhangqiu Railway Station. You can take a high-speed train back to Jinan Railway Station, which takes 26 minutes. It's very convenient, and you can definitely find time to visit! It's worth it!
Grace64 Cook - Gracie
An upgraded version of Wuzhen
Mingshui Ancient City is located in Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province.
❤️ The ancient city is dominated by Ming and Qing architecture, designed by the team of Chen Xianghong from the Wuzhen scenic area in Zhejiang, with an investment of 1.1 billion yuan already completed.
🧡 It was established during the Tang Dynasty, and Xiquan Town was set up during the Zhenguan period. By the Song and Yuan dynasties, it became one of the four famous towns in Zhangqiu. The administrative center of the town was located where the ancient city stands today.
💛 This ancient city has a history of over a thousand years. On October 1, 2023, the new landmark of the world's spring city—Mingshui Ancient City will open to welcome visitors, featuring a hundred springs, green bricks and black tiles, mountain springs, rivers, lakes, and flat boats.
💚 Zhangqiu is known as the 'Little Spring City', and the ancient city scenic area includes the Baimei Springs system. The Plum Blossom Spring gushes like a river, the Ink Spring surges like a wheel, with small bridges over flowing water, a sight too beautiful to absorb all at once!
🩵 Zhangqiu is also the hometown of 'the world's number one talented woman' and 'the master of lyrics'—Li Qingzhao, where cultural and natural resources blend harmoniously.
💜 Scenic area performances:
Fox Fairy Performance: 14:00-15:00, 16:30-17:30 at Fox Fairy Residence Square
Spring Show & Drone Performance: 19:00-19:30 at the Spring Show Area👍👍👍
💙 Accommodation in the scenic area:
There are two hotels and six or seven guesthouses in the scenic area.
The environment is very nice, each with its own characteristics, all located within the ancient city. Waking up and opening the window feels like you're in an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River.⚠️ I stayed at the Shuangquan Hotel in the ancient city scenic area, 600+ including tickets for two to the scenic area + hotel breakfast. The hotel is very characteristic, built by the moat, and the rooms are clean, tidy, and spacious! A very good experience⭐⭐⭐⭐
🚘 Transportation:
1.5h drive from Jinan 🅿️ There are two parking lots in the scenic area.
The first parking lot is large, but it takes about 10 minutes to walk to the scenic area. It is recommended to park at the Visitor Center parking lot, which is more convenient for entering and exiting.
🧆 Food:
Fufront Street is a food street with various snacks such as lamb soup, hanging oven baked buns, tofu brain, fried tofu corners, pizza, burgers, noodle shops, wontons... There is also Mingshui Restaurant, medicinal meal restaurants, etc...
🎫 Ticket: 68 RMB per person 🌳 Zhangqiu locals free
⚠️ The prices of hotels and tickets are expected to rise, so hurry up!! I visited Wuzhen ten years ago, Wuzhen is very beautiful, I have been to Mingshui Ancient City, the ancient city is already very beautiful on a cloudy day, if it is a sunny day to visit, it will be even more beautiful!!
ElijahWilson$73
Take a new kind of spring water ancient city walk in Jinan with attached route
During the Spring Festival, take a new kind of spring water ancient city walk in Jinan.
The ancient city of Ming Shui, as a city built on spring water, is full of green spring water everywhere, which is very beautiful! And it is precisely because of the spring water and these ancient buildings that make the ancient city more charming! Now with the decoration of the New Year's flavor and various New Year's customs activities, the ancient city has become bustling and prosperous, who doesn't love this traditional romance🏮
🔴The scenic area can be divided into two parts for sightseeing: the ancient city and the spring water～
‼️Below is the play route⭐Suggest to collect it⬇️
‼️For the New Year's customs activities guide, see the previous note on the homepage‼️
1️⃣Ancient city route
Xiaoximen Mingshui Tower (the spectacular city wall is very photogenic, both sides of the city wall are good for taking pictures!)
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Fox Fairy Street (various New Year's customs performances and markets, as well as immersive script killing)
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Meng Family Courtyard (the old appearance of Meng Luochuan's mansion, a generation of Confucian businessmen, covers a very large area, and there are Bangzi opera performances)
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Bu Fang (the process from silk thread to finished clothes, Rui Fuxiang)
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Luochuan Lantern Shop (various beautiful lanterns full of New Year's flavor, you can also experience Diy lantern～)
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Ye Fang (everyone knows Zhangqiu iron pot, which shows the whole process of smelting and forging, it's quite interesting)
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Ancient city yamen
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Soy Sauce Garden (you can smell a very fragrant smell as soon as you enter the door, the big and small sauce jars are very interesting)
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Tofu Shop (you can taste tofu)
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Post Office (you can stamp)
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Mingshui Street (it is the main street of the ancient city, there are many shops on the street, there are all kinds of food, drink and fun)
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Like a Dream Order Umbrella Fan (experience umbrella fan diy)
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Underwater Knot Grass (experience bamboo weaving diy)
2️⃣Spring water route
Li Qingzhao's former residence (here you can feel the clear spring flowing on the stone, you can play with the water to truly feel the charm of the spring water! It includes Shuyu Spring and Plum Blossom Spring, Plum Blossom Spring is divided into five petals, it's very interesting)
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Longquan Temple (a thousand-year-old ancient temple, Bai Mai Spring is here)
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Mo Quan (the most vigorous spring water, you can also experience tea boiling around the stove by Mo Quan, it's very atmospheric)
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Jinjing Quan
3️⃣Boat route:
It's the kind of quaint rowing boat🛶Rowing leisurely to quietly feel the ancient city on the water, it's very worthwhile～And in winter, there are warm cushions and warm water on the boat! So considerate! Not cold at all～
💰One way 60/person, round trip 100/person
🔴About accommodation in the scenic area
There are two hotels and more than a dozen guesthouses in the scenic area
The environment is very good and each has its own characteristics, they are all distributed in the ancient city, when you wake up and open the window, you feel like you are in an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River～
🔴 Small tips：
🔸Ticket: 68/person, free for locals in Zhangqiu🆓
🔸Transportation: 🚘Depart from Jinan Self-driving 1.5h
🅿️There are two parking lots in the scenic area
The first parking lot is very large, but it takes about 10 minutes to walk to the scenic area
It is recommended to park in the tourist center parking lot, which is more convenient to enter and exit
🔸It's still necessary to keep warm when going in this season, the temperature is lower than that in the city
🔸Remember to get a play guide when you enter the door, there is a map on it, it's convenient to find the place you want to go～