"If Mount Tai is safe, then all the world will be safe."
Tai'an, Shandong Province, is named after Mount Tai.
It means "the country is peaceful and the people are safe".
Here, Du Fu once stayed
"You will be at the top of the mountain, and you will have a panoramic view of the mountains and small mountains."
lofty ideals;
Here, Su Zhe once quietly stated
"It's time for the moon to shine, and the waves are clear. I lie down and listen to the sound of fishermen rowing their oars."
The leisure and tranquility;
Here, Li Bai saw off his friend Du Fu at Culai Mountain.
"The flying ponchos are far away from each other, and the cups in their hands are empty."
The sincerity of my love is vivid in my mind...
It is better to follow the literati, poets and immortals during the New Year.
Come to Tai'an to explore the past and visit the present.
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Feel the joy of mountains and rivers
In the past 2023, Taishan has frequently been on the hot search, "Taishan will subdue everyone who talks harshly" "Youth has no price, Mount Tai is at your feet"... Each topic has attracted tourists from all over the country to check in.
Mount Tai, a famous historical and cultural mountain that symbolizes the inheritance of five thousand years of Chinese civilization, is continuing to become popular on the Internet.
Mount Tai snow scene.
Photo by Li Jian
Tai'an people have a tradition of climbing high to pray for blessings to welcome the New Year since ancient times.
When hiking in the mountains in winter, visitors will be dazzled by the majestic jade plate of sea of clouds, colorful sunset, and wonderland-like rime.
While enjoying the scenery, don’t forget to pray for happiness, peace and joy in the new year, and good luck in the new year.
Mount Tai after snow.
Photo by Liu Guoqing
Compared with daytime tours, climbing Mount Tai at night is also a way for many people to visit Mount Tai.
Every night, lights illuminate Mount Tai. When tourists climb Mount Tai at night, they can not only view the cultural beauty of Mount Tai at night, but also watch the stars at night and feel the natural beauty of Mount Tai.
At the moment when the line of dawn and dusk appears, the sunrise wipes away the fatigue and coldness of tourists. This is the beauty of Du Fu's "The clock of creation is beautiful, the yin and yang cut off the dusk".
Tarzan at night.
Photo by Fan Zhixiang
As the saying goes, "The benevolent enjoy the mountains, the wise enjoy the water." The happiness of letting go of the forest and springs and wandering in the mountains and rivers has long been understood by the ancients.
Tai'an has Mount Tai, which is the only one of the five mountains, as well as Mount Cuilai and Mount Xinfu praised in the Book of Songs as "pines of Cuilai and cypresses of Xinfu". It also has the only remaining 800-mile water moor in "Water Margin" The water area is Dongping Lake, and there is the Dawen River, which triggered the eternal sigh of "The son said on the river: The deceased is like a man!"
View of Dongping Lake.
Photo by Sui Xiang
In addition to climbing Mount Tai, tourists can also choose to visit great mountains and rivers such as Culai Mountain, Xinfu Mountain, Dawen River, and Dongping Lake to experience the refreshing natural beauty and long historical and cultural heritage.
Numerous elements such as lanterns, intangible cultural heritage, and temple fairs allow visitors to immerse themselves in the strong flavor of the New Year and share a visual feast.
Dawen River Akashi Bridge.
Photo by Chen Yang
Aerial photography of Xinfu Mountain.
Photo courtesy of Xintai Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
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Interpretation of time travel between ancient and modern times
If you choose to visit Tai'an during the New Year, you must not miss this thousand-year-old temple - Dai Temple, known as the "No. 1 Temple in China's Famous Mountains".
Dai Temple is a huge ancient building complex. Every building and every landscape here has its own unique historical background and cultural connotation.
Walking into Dai Temple is like walking into an ancient world. The stele of Li Si, the "ancestor of stone carving", and the Han cypress planted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty have gone through thousands of years of wind and rain and remain unchanged.
Here, tourists can travel through the smoke and clouds of history and listen to this ancient building complex standing in Tai'an, telling the story of time.
Aerial photography of Dai Temple.
Photo by Chen Yang
The prosperous urban life of the Song Dynasty, when "the east wind blew thousands of trees and flowers bloomed at night, and the roads were full of BMWs and carved cars," are still fresh in my memory.
Now you can experience the cultural charm of the Song Dynasty in a "one-stop" way when you come to Tai'an Song Dynasty Night City.
During the Spring Festival this year, the Song Dynasty Evernight City will carry out exciting activities such as New Year’s Taste Collection, Millennium Intangible Cultural Heritage Blacksmithing, Fireworks Shows, and Drone Performances, bringing visitors a wonderful visual feast.
Visit the city that never sleeps in the Song Dynasty and go on a romantic date for a thousand years.
Tourists visit the Sleepless City of the Song Dynasty.
Photo by Chen Yang
Lanterns and colors are put up to welcome the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, scenic spots such as Tai'an Old Street, Junyi Hospitality City, and Jiunv Peak Immersive Scenic Area also launch unique New Year activities, including intangible cultural heritage performances and food exhibitions, attracting tourists to check in, take photos, and enjoy the happy Spring Festival holiday.
Night view of Tai'an Old Street.
Photo by Sui Xiang
Night view of Junyi Hospitality City.
Photo courtesy of Feicheng City Party Committee Propaganda Department
View of Jiu Nu Peak.
Photo by Chen Yang
In addition, during the Spring Festival, Tai'an carried out winter and spring cultural activities to benefit the people such as the "No. 1 Champion Challenge Competition", the Tai'an Spring Festival "Village Gala", performances by the literary and art team to benefit the people, and "Cultural Benefit the People and the Fragrance of Books to Moisten the Heart" at the grassroots level during the New Year. , inviting citizens and tourists to "immerse" Tai'an customs and culture.
The 2024 Spring Festival Shandong Rural Culture Tourism Festival (Taian) was officially launched.
Photo by Chen Yang
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Listen to the millennium echo
If cultural relics and ancient buildings are silent narratives about the famous historical and cultural city of Tai'an, then each intangible cultural heritage performance is an "imperial ambassador" for culture and civilization across the long river of time.
An ancient stand, a snow-white curtain, one person's performance, and ups and downs of lyrics, this is the national intangible cultural heritage - Taishan Shadow Puppet.
As a "living fossil" of Taishan culture, there has been a proverb in Tai'an since ancient times that "it is impossible to climb Mount Tai without watching Taishan shadow puppetry, and you don't know etiquette without watching shadow puppetry."
Taishan shadow puppet performance at the Dongyue Temple Fair.
Photo by Liu Ping
Taishan shadow puppets mainly tell stories about Mount Tai, and most of the stories are related to Mount Tai, allowing tourists to feel the unique splendor of Tai'an traditional culture during their travels.
During the Spring Festival, Taishan Shadow Puppetry (Dai Miao Branch) and Taishan Shadow Puppetry (Tai'an Old Street Store) perform 4 shadow puppet shows every day from 10:00 to 17:00.
Taishan shadow puppet show.
Photo by Sui Xiang
During the Spring Festival, Tai'an prepared a scroll of intangible cultural heritage study tour routes for tourists.
Here, you can listen to the stories and legends of Taishan Shigandang and the melodious recitation of Taoist music; you can watch the superb skills of artists with one-pole stilts and animal paintings; you can observe the production of Taishan clay sculptures and Taishan paper-cut intangible cultural heritage, Experience the intangible cultural heritage skills; you can immerse yourself in the intangible cultural heritage such as Duangu Opera, Shandong Bangzi, etc., taking you into the characteristic folk culture that is appreciated by both refined and popular people.
Performers of the Duangu Opera, a national intangible cultural heritage project, perform for tourists on Dongping Lake.
Photo by Liu Ping
Taishan paper cutting.
Photo by Chen Yang
Stilt walking performance at the 2024 Spring Festival Shandong Rural Culture and Tourism Festival.
Photo by Chen Yang
Inheritors of intangible cultural heritage are making palace lanterns in Xintai Palace.
Photo by Chen Yang
Each item of intangible cultural heritage witnesses history, inherits culture, and shines in the long river of time.
Tourists and friends are welcome to join Tai'an, a place with simple folk customs, and share the various romances in singing and dancing.
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Enjoy the delicious taste
In history, 72 generations of monarchs and 58 emperors have visited Mount Tai to offer sacrifices. Therefore, Tai'an's food culture is the culmination of the imperial cuisine culture of the past dynasties. It is unique and famous far and wide.
Tourists taste Taishan tofu feast.
Photo by Sui Xiang
The Taishan Tofu Banquet is the best testimony of the perfect integration of royal cuisine culture and local traditional food.
"Tai'an has three beauties: cabbage, tofu, and water." A round of grinding of high-flowing agar liquid, a hundred boiling soups with snowflakes rolling in them, a handful of high-quality soybeans and a ladle of Taishan spring water, using hand-made stone grinding techniques, create authentic Taishan tofu, which is white in color. Like jade, it is tender but not falling apart, and will not grow old after being cooked for a long time.
Taishan Tofu Banquet uses local specialties and tofu, mainly vegetarian, with both meat and vegetables. The production process can be steamed, fried, pan-fried, stir-fried, grilled, braised, and soup, achieving the goal of "eating without missing the fish" "Fish, eat chicken but not see the chicken", a state where you can only enjoy the taste but not see the substance.
Of course, if you want to experience Shandong people’s hospitality and table manners, the “Four-Eight Seats” that have been handed down for more than 2,000 years is the place to go.
The "Four-Eight Banquets" in Ningyang, Tai'an, Shandong Province, is named after its four plates, eight bowls, limited to eight people per table, and thirty-two pieces of tableware. The banquet is rich, the dishes are served in an orderly manner, and it is very Confucian. It was rated as "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Shandong Province".
Diners sit around the Eight Immortals Table, feeling the strong local drinking ceremony, tasting the joy of reunion, and enjoying the courtesy of hospitality.
Forty-eight seats are evocative.
Photo courtesy of Ningyang County Party Committee Propaganda Department
In addition, in Tai'an, intangible cultural heritage delicacies such as Deshanzhai cakes and Taishan Laotang Chicken are mouth-watering; Taishan pancakes, Taishan fried chicken, Dongping marinated fish, and donkey oil fire leave a fragrance between the lips and teeth; Taishan Fengchan Imperial Dinner, Taishan The Taoist banquet and the Water Margin banquet make people recall the classics; the fragrance of Mount Tai's Daughter's tea floats hundreds of miles away, leaving a fragrance between the teeth and moisturizing the heart.
Made for good fire.
Photo by Wang Changmin
Freshly picked tea leaves.
Photo by Chen Yang
This Spring Festival, everyone is welcome to join the Wuhua Tianbao Tai'an and share the refreshing warmth among the dazzling array of delicious food.
Great American Tai'an, only waiting for guests from far away to "have a meal".
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Enjoy a carefree life
“The world of ice and snow is also a mountain of gold and silver.” Ice and snow tourism has quickly become the hottest cultural and tourism topic this winter.
This Spring Festival, when you come to Tai'an to enjoy the mountains and rivers, enjoy music and banquets, don't miss the joyful moment of walking on the ice and snow at the foot of Mount Tai.
In order to adapt to the different needs of tourists, Culaishan Ski Resort takes advantage of the mountain's natural environment to create a series of winter travel products for different ski enthusiasts to choose from.
Tourists skiing at Culaishan Ski Resort.
Photo by Sui Xiang
At the Culai Mountain Forest Hot Spring Health Center on the east side of the Cu Lai Mountain Ski Resort, dense water vapor is steaming among the cypresses of the snow-covered Cang Mountain. After experiencing the passion and excitement of skiing on the slopes, come to the mountain hot springs to feel the warmth and comfort. , learn from the ancients to play a game of "Qu Shui Shui Shang", it is wonderful.
From the first day to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the scenic spot carries out special New Year cultural theme activities such as "Dragon Parade New Year Lantern Festival" and "New Year's Eve Fair". Tourists in Taishan Hot Spring City "soak in hot springs and go to the fair during the day, and enjoy the lantern festival and taste delicious food at night" ".
Aerial photography of Culai Mountain Forest Hot Spring Health Center.
Photo by Miao Zexin
In order to achieve the goal of "keeping the winter tourism in the off-season" in northern scenic spots, many scenic spots in Tai'an have opened snow parks and ice and snow slides, and "southern little potatoes" are welcome to visit Tai'an Ice and Snow World.
In addition to entertaining guests in the snow and ice, the Tai'an Fantawild Happy World New Year Lantern Festival has spent millions to build an immersive water lantern set of nearly 1,000 square meters to provide wonderful New Year performances and experience the traditional Chinese New Year; the Hushan Park New Year Party holds Hushan folk customs The cultural market has more than 100 multi-category stalls. Combined with Hushan Park’s existing boating, skiing and other projects, it creates a one-stop service for eating, drinking and entertainment to meet multiple travel needs such as travel, shopping and entertainment.
Tourists have fun at Tai'an Fantawild Adventure.
Photo by Li Gang
After having fun in the ice and snow, you might as well go for a stroll in an ancient village, go to a mountain B&B to cook tea, listen to the snow beating in the bamboo forest, and visit a market to slow down this Spring Festival...
Picturesque scenery, beautiful Tai'an.
During this Spring Festival, Tai'an attracts the world's attention with its profound historical and cultural heritage and beautiful landscapes. It embraces the world with a confident, open and inclusive attitude and welcomes visitors from all directions.