[2025 Gaoyou Attraction] Travel Guide for Zhenguo Temple (Updated Feb)

Gaoyou, a small city that appeared in Chinese textbooks. An unremarkable stop on the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. When I was in school, I copied Wang Zengqi's "A Story of Da Nao", which was beautifully written. When I arrived in Gaoyou, I sat in the pavilion and felt that the mountains were all around me. ⛱️ Must-see attractions: 1. The sunset over Gaoyou Lake, the most beautiful orange sea. 2. Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, a pilgrimage site for literature and art lovers. 3. Yucheng Post, Gaoyou, which originated from the post and grew up with the post. 4. Zhenguo Temple, a national temple tower on the Grand Canal 🌄 Travel tips: 1. Check the weather and sunset time in advance. By Gaoyou Lake, you will see the real orange sea. 2. Zhenguo Temple is located on the Grand Canal. No ticket is required, and the area is not large. 3. Yucheng Post is located in the old city. The city is not large, and you can walk to many nearby attractions. 4. Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall is free, but you need to scan the code to get a ticket. There are more people during the holidays. 🏨 Accommodation tips: Although Gaoyou is a small city, it has a strong accommodation capacity. There are various grades of hotels everywhere, so you can find them according to your target price. 💗 Other tips: 1. Gaoyou cuisine is very delicious. Find a small restaurant in the old city and you can enjoy it. 2. The local morning tea culture is very popular, but the style of the tea is a bit rough, and the buns are big. It is recommended to look at the amount of food ordered by other diners in the store before ordering.

"The four corners of the world, just a bowl of earthly delights." The charm of Gaoyou is the view of Nanmen Street from the Drum Tower, the salty aroma of shrimp roe soy sauce, the rich aroma of "Shuishangpiao," "Wang Tofu," and "Pupao Pork" in the old city, the sugar painting of the word "Gaoyou" by the old man on Nanmen Street, and the thousand-year-old temple in the middle of the Grand Canal, where you can listen to the Buddhist chants and smell the incense, slowly letting go of the troubles of everyday life. Gaoyou is a city worth taking the time to savor. ➡️Travel: 1️⃣ Gaoyou Station is the first choice. After leaving the station, you can take a bus, taxi, or shared electric bike. 2️⃣ Gaoyou North Station is located in Jieshou Town, far from Gaoyou City, and taxis are expensive. 1️⃣ Zhen Guo Temple Known as the Southern Dayan Pagoda, it is located on a small island in the Grand Canal. Free entry. Red walls and black tiles make for great photos. On the way from Yucheng Post, you can visit the Ming and Qing Dynasties Gaoyou Lake section of the Grand Canal and the flower sea on the lake. 2️⃣ Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall Reservations are required. The venue is small, but you can learn about Wang Zengqi's life. For photos, we recommend the stairs outside the venue and the spiral staircase inside. 3️⃣ Mengcheng Post The best-preserved post station to date. Climb the Drum Tower to enjoy the view and beat the drum. For photos, we recommend using the ancient buildings as a background. Next door is the Gaoyou Internet-famous wall, which is also great for photos. 🎫 Ticket: CNY 25, half price for students, free with the Yangzhou 298 Year Card. 4️⃣ Wenyoutai The park is quiet and shaded by trees, with many garden-style buildings surrounded by water. It's a great place to relax and learn about Gaoyou's history and culture. 🎫 Ticket: CNY 30 5️⃣ Zhuhu Town A great place for family activities, with an amusement park, fishing center, and Internet-famous photo spots. The reeds make for great photos. 6️⃣ Gaoyou Lake Locals recommend going to the pier lighthouse for photos. There are many sailboats, and the sunset is beautiful. Food Recommendations 1️⃣ Xiaoding Wonton Next to the North Gate, CNY 5 for a big bowl. Delicious. 2️⃣ Chunlai Teahouse Great for morning tea. No service after 12:00. 3️⃣ Red Maple Leaf Breakfast Recommended by locals. Delicious. 4️⃣ Erzi Pupao Pork Delicious. CNY 5 each. Vacuum-packed available. Featured on CCTV. 5️⃣ Jiao Jia Xiang Noodle House Eel noodles and shredded pork noodles. The shrimp roe wontons are also good. 6️⃣ Red Sun Salted Duck Eggs Visit the factory to buy duck eggs as gifts. 7️⃣ Chuanhe Oil-braised Goose Delicious. CNY 45 per jin. Quarter goose. 8️⃣ Yangda Yogurt Jasmine flavor is delicious.

Address: Hubin Road, Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City, at the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. A temple located on an island in the heart of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the Gaoyou Zhen Guo Temple. After enduring many vicissitudes, the original temple no longer exists, leaving only a white pagoda, which is indeed a very important ancient treasure, a true gem. The ancient temple by the canal is extremely beautiful, and the ancient pagoda in the temple is known as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda of the south. The historical sites here are absolutely striking, the surrounding canal environment is excellent, and visiting here will definitely make you feel relaxed and comfortable.

Gaoyou City is a World Heritage City, a National Historical and Cultural City, and a National All-region Tourism Demonstration Area. There are currently six national key cultural relic protection units: Yucheng Post, Longqiu Village Site, Gaoyou Pawnshop, Gaoyou Ming and Qing Dynasties Canal Ancient Route, Zhen Guo Temple Pagoda, and Pingjin Sluice. Gaoyou folk songs are listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and the Gaoyou section of the Grand Canal of China is included in the World Heritage List; Lingtang Mosque is listed as one of the heritage sites applying for the Maritime Silk Road in China.

Gao You Town's Guo Si, can be considered one of the most incense-filled large temples in the Northern Jiangsu region, now a national key cultural relics protection unit, and also an important part of China's 46th World Heritage Site, the Grand Canal. Inside the temple, there is an ancient pagoda, known as the 'Southern Big Wild Goose Pagoda'. Guo Si was founded in 874, and the Guo Si Pagoda is a relic from that time, still standing tall above the canal. Back then, the brother of Emperor Yizong of Tang renounced the secular world to become a monk in Gao You, where he practiced Zen meditation in a thatched hut. Emperor Xizong allocated funds to build the temple, bestowing it with the name 'Guo Chan Yuan' and the title 'Ju Zhi Chan Shi' to the monk. The Guo Si Pagoda is a square, seven-story pavilion-style brick pagoda, with a bronze cast gourd on the top, which is engraved with the eight characters 'Feng Diao Yu Shun, Guo Tai Min An'. In 1956, when the Grand Canal was being widened, the Guo Si Pagoda was right in the middle of the river channel and was planned to be demolished according to the original plan. To protect this precious cultural relic, Premier Zhou Enlai specially approved the plan with a directive: 'Make way to protect the pagoda.' Thus, the canal made way for the ancient pagoda, the water split into two, flowing on both sides of the pagoda, leaving behind the ancient pagoda on the river island and the eternal beauty of its reflection on the water. Gao You also has other attractions such as Yu Cheng Yi, Wen You Tai, Jie Shou Lu Wei Dang, Gao You Lake Flower Sea, and Tong Xing Pawnshop, which can be visited together.

Walking in the ancient lanes of Gaoyou, it seems to be wandering in the scavenging of time. This city hides many intoxicating corners. Among them, the Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall is like a vivid chapter of history, and the exquisite design attracts newcomers to leave beautiful moments here. Nanmen Street is an antique scroll, flowing with the smell of the market, as if you can hear the voice of the years. Visiting Zhen Guo Temple is like walking in an oasis on the canal, which is known as the "Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the South" and inherits the long history of the Tang Dynasty. Meng Chengyi, as the "living fossil" of the Ming Dynasty, quietly tells the story of the years along Nanmen Street. Zhuhu Xiaozhen, a little far from the city, is a green park full of parent-child fun, especially in this season of reed dancing, it is intoxicating. Between the lake and the grassland, Gaoyou Lake is suitable for all seasons, adding a tranquility and beauty to the city. In every corner of this small city, it seems that you can smell the fragrance of history, and every step is a time journey of dialogue with the past🗺 "About Scenic Spots" 1. Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall The memorial hall is not big, the design is very exquisite, and it also attracts many newcomers to take wedding photos. There is a reading area, a display area, you can understand Wang Zengqi's life and interesting writing. When you go out, you can go to Dongda Street-Youxing Road to stroll around. It has retained the appearance of decades ago, as if returning to the old time, it is very suitable for street shooting. 2. Nanmen Street An antique street full of market atmosphere. 3. Zhen Guo Temple On the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it seems like an oasis in the water, known as the "Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the South". Inside is the Zhen Guo Temple Pagoda that has been preserved since the Tang Dynasty, similar to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. 4. Meng Chengyi Founded in the Ming Dynasty, the "living fossil" of China's post station is on Nanmen Street, you can go in and take a look. 5. Zhuhu Xiaozhen A bit far from the city, a large parent-child green park, there are quite a lot of play projects. But what attracts me is the reeds here. Now it is the season of reed flowers, and it is beautiful to walk through it. 6. Gaoyou Lake The lake is wide, and now it is the season for hairy crabs to go on the market. You can watch the sunset and sailing on the west bank, take pictures very out of the picture, and there are large grasslands, and local people will come to camp and play. 7. China Philatelic Museum The content is very detailed and clear, and I have seen a lot of philatelic tools, and many privately donated stamps not only have a sense of history, but also have a sense of beauty "About the route" After visiting the Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, you can go to the Last Battle Memorial Hall and Zhou Shu (these two are very close), then go to Nanmen Street (walk along the street to Yuchengyi) and then go back to Beimen Street to eat a bowl of wonton, go to Zhen Guo Temple, and then go to Gaoyou Lake to watch the sunset "About food" The old city area Renmin Bridge wonton, Chunlai teahouse morning tea, Zhongshan Road Jiaojia Lane noodle shop, and Wangyue Restaurant near the memorial hall are all worth a try, and the consumption is not high. There are also Yangchun noodles shrimp wonton✔️Songzhuang Road sesame seed cake✔️oil boiled goose✔️reed wrapped meat✔️There are surprisingly many delicious foods here. Remember to take some salted duck eggs when you leave, after all, it is a local specialty. "About transportation" 🩵Ticket discount Free opening: 【Canal Sanwan Scenic Area, Grand Canal Museum (reservation required), Phoenix Island Ecotourism Area, Longjiu Village Site, Wu Daotai Mansion, Ruan Family Ancestral Hall, Zhang Yuliang Memorial Hall Scenic Area, Gaoyou Yuchengyi, Gaoyou Wenyoutai, Gaoyou Pawnshop】; 40% discount on joint tickets: 【Shouxihu＋Daming Temple＋Ge Garden＋He Garden】; 60% discount on tickets: 【Yizheng World Expo Garden】. 🩵Transportation discount Bus.: During the Spring Festival, a policy of free bus rides in the city area with ID cards for tourists outside Yangzhou is implemented. 🩵Free parking The east courtyard of the municipal government, the organs of the CPPCC, Yangzhou Customs, the Tax Cadre Academy and other 42 parking lots, with a total of 2481 parking spaces, provide free parking for foreign tourists. One, opening hours 8:00 on February 10, 2024-15:00 on February 17. Two, open to Open to foreign tourists. Foreign tourists refer to people whose ID card residence is outside the urban area of Yangzhou, including Baoying County, Gaoyou City, Yizheng City and Jiangdu District. Three, open car type 7 seats or less (including 7 seats) small passenger cars. Four, parking instructions Tourists entering the parking area of government and public institutions should park in an orderly manner in the designated parking area of each unit and cooperate in registration. "Precautions" 🔆Don't go to Gaoyou North Station by high-speed rail, it's too biased and you can't get a taxi, sit down at Gaoyou Station👇 🔆The attractions are relatively concentrated, it is recommended to rent an electric car for convenience🛵 🔆It is more comfortable to choose accommodation within three kilometers of the city center 🔆Gaoyou is very slow, suitable for playing 2/3 days 🔆The weather is a bit cold, Gaoyou is more beautiful in spring and summer~ Slow down and appreciate, the long alleys of the market, gathered together is fireworks, spread out is the world🧩

Flower Season Reverse Tour of Gaoyou  Yangzhou This city is suitable for weekend trips from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai Perfect for a stroll alone or with family and friends🚶‍♀️ Very cozy and comfortable, with a leisurely pace... 🌸Sharing a one-day tour strategy: Gaoyou  Lake Flower Sea ➟ Qingshuitan Tourist Resort ➟ Gaoyou Lakeside  Canal West Dike ➊Gaoyou  Lake Flower Sea Everyone says that in the fireworks of March, one must visit Yangzhou But I must say, spring in Gaoyou is really too beautiful! Boating🛶 on the lake to feel the sea of flowers You can also take a little train🚂 The rapeseed flower sea is really vast Now it's the best viewing period! ➋Qingshuitan Tourist Resort A real-life version of the Emerald City! Walking on the forest boardwalk above water🌳 is so photogenic There's also a sea of flowers on the lake🌸 Dinosaur Park🦕 Children's playground🎠 Camping and barbecue area🏕 Perfect for a family outing with kids~ ➌Gaoyou Lakeside  Canal West Dike On the West Dike, you can watch the 'salted egg yolk' sunset and sailboats⛵ Great for taking photos There's also a large grassy area for camping and picnics🏕 . ✅Other recommended attractions in Gaoyou: Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, Zhu Lake Xiao Zhun, Nanmen Street, Mengcheng Post, Zhenguo Temple... .

🍃 Went out with friends for a spring outing on the weekend Discovered a treasure of a small city--Gaoyou in Yangzhou Just about 1h away by high-speed train 🚄 from Nanjing April is the season when the rapeseed flowers are in full bloom Plan a day of slow living here with friends during the rest time 🍃 It's quite pleasant~ . 👉🏻 Route reference: Departure--Gaoyou High-speed Train Station--Zhenguo Temple--Canal West Dike Lakeside . 🎋 Blessings: 📍 Zhenguo Temple 🎫 Ticket: Free The architecture of Zhenguo Temple, with the Wanfo Hall as the earliest Has been repaired many times over the generations, still retains the style of the Five Dynasties It is one of the three existing Five Dynasties buildings in Chinese Buddhist temples Visiting here, you can not only pray for your family but also appreciate the beauty of the architecture and the surrounding scenery! . 🌅 Sunset viewing: 📍 Canal West Dike Lakeside 🎫 Ticket: Free Strolling by the riverside, with the spring breeze, waiting for a romantic sunset~ Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you feel the beauty of the sunset and the sailboats 🏕️ You can also invite friends to the Canal West Dike campsite to sit around (charges apply) Barbecue, afternoon tea, and sunset 🌅 also go well together~ . 🍜 Food: Find a noodle shop, have a bowl of 4 yuan Yangchun noodles 🍜 The prices are touching! Also try Gaoyou salted duck eggs, Pubao meat... all full of happiness~ . 🚄 Transportation: 🚘 Recommended to drive 🚄 Take the high-speed train to Gaoyou Station, then take a taxi or bus . 👏🏻 Other fun activities: 📍 Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, for a visit and learning 📍 Nanmen Street, to stroll and eat on the old street 📍 Lake Flower Sea, to enjoy the rapeseed flowers

Gao You Zhen Guo Temple: A thousand years of beauty in an ancient building👀 Family! Who understands! I recently went to Gao You and was really amazed by the beauty of the ancient buildings here! 😍 Gao You Zhen Guo Temple is a thousand-year-old ancient temple located in Gao You City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. This group of ancient buildings is very well preserved, and every detail is full of historical charm. 😍 The architectural style of Zhen Guo Temple is very unique, blending the architectural features of the north and south, especially the main hall in the temple, which is magnificent and makes people marvel at the wisdom and creativity of the ancients. 😍 The murals in the temple are also a highlight. These murals not only have high artistic value, but also record many historical events and cultural traditions. 😍 In addition, Zhen Guo Temple is also a Buddhist cultural center. The incense in the temple is very strong, and many people come to pray for blessings every year. 😍 I also discovered a little secret here, that is, there are many ancient trees in the temple. These ancient trees have witnessed the history and changes of Zhen Guo Temple, and they have added a sense of mystery and spirituality to this ancient building. 😍 In general, Gao You Zhen Guo Temple is a group of ancient buildings that is very worth visiting. Whether you are a history and culture lover or a friend who likes to appreciate ancient buildings, you can find your own fun here. 😍 Family, come to Gao You, let's feel the thousand years of beauty in this ancient building together! 😍 Zhen Guo Temple

When you go to Gaoyou, you must visit Zhen Guo Temple. It is located in the middle of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, east of Gaoyou City and west of Gaoyou Lake. It is truly a dragon land, now known as the 'Buddha City of the Canal'. Zhen Guo Temple was built in 874. The brother of Tang Yi Zong saw through the red dust and became a monk. He visited famous mountains and ancient temples. One day he came to Gaoyou and came to the canal. He saw the canal flowing and the snow waves of Pearl Lake. The worldly thoughts suddenly disappeared. So he settled here for Zen practice. The Zen master is proficient in Buddhist principles and is dedicated to promoting Buddhism. The prosperity of the Dharma was reported to the court, and Emperor Xi allocated funds to build the temple, named the temple 'Zhen Guo Zen Temple', and bestowed the title of 'Ju Zhi Zen Master'. The pagoda of Gaoyou Zhen Guo Temple is also known as the West Pagoda, and is praised by people as the 'Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the South'. As a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Zhen Guo Temple Pagoda was built during the Tang Xi Zong period. It was originally a cultural relics protection unit in Jiangsu Province. It is a square seven-story pagoda-style brick tower. The tower is 35.36 meters high. The top of the tower is a bronze cast gourd, and the surface of the gourd is engraved with the eight characters 'wind adjustment, rain smoothness, national peace, and people's safety'. The environment here is beautiful, the facilities are complete, and it is open for free.