What are the interesting places in Lai’an? Lai’an travel guide

Lai'an is rich in tourism resources and has beautiful scenery. It is characterized by "mountains, waters, springs, caves, temples and islands" and has gradually formed Egret Island, Peacock Temple and Linqiao Ecological Park with different scenery. , Jinghua Ecological Park, Longyuan Wind Farm, Wandong Martyrs Cemetery and other attractions are open to the public. Zunsheng Chanyuan still preserves the inscription written by Cao Yin, the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Egret Island Tourist Area

It is located 13 kilometers northwest of Lai'an County and 50 kilometers away from the ancient capital Nanjing. The total area of ??the scenic spot is 42,000 acres, with a forest coverage rate of 90%. It is a national 4A level Tourist Attraction

Wandong Martyrs Cemetery

Located on the hillside of Guangshan Mountain in the northwest of Banta Town, it is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a provincial patriotism education base. In March 1944, Luo Binghui personally took charge of building a revolutionary martyrs memorial tower on Tudaoguang Mountain, one Huali northwest of Bantaji. And with the memorial tower as the center, it is built against the mountain. The memorial tower stands on the peak of Tashan Mountain. It is ten meters high and is a four-sided platform. At the top of the tower stands a statue of a mighty New Fourth Army soldier wearing a bamboo hat, a broadsword, a gun, and far-sightedness. The front of the tower is engraved with the eight characters "Revolutionary Martyrs Are Immortal" inscribed by Chen Yi, and the back is inscribed by Zhang Kaifan. Right in front of the tower is "The Monument of the Half-Tower Martyrs" written by Zhang Yunyi on May 1, 1964. Wandong Martyrs Cemetery is one of the outstanding red tourist attractions in Anhui Province and a famous patriotism education base in East China. It receives 100,000 visitors from all over the country every year. In 2006, the site of the Battle of Half Pagoda was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and the Wandong Martyrs Cemetery is actively applying for a national key martyrs building protection unit.

Peacock Temple

It is located at the southwest foot of Lianzi Mountain, about 10 kilometers northwest of Lai'an County. It was first built in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty and has been abandoned and prospered in the past dynasties. Qianlong once gave 100,000 taels of silver to expand the Peacock Temple. At that time, the size of the temple extended from Guanmen Lake in the south to the mountainside in the north. It was about four miles north and south. There was a horse racing hall, a triple temple, and hundreds of monks. It was later destroyed, and by the beginning of the Republic of China, only five main halls remained. There are twelve side rooms and three at the main entrance, and there are several old and weak monks. At the beginning of the liberation, the temple was destroyed, and only in the seventh year of the Republic of China, a "forest protection monument" was erected by Wan Lang, the governor of Lai'an. It was erected at the original site by the county cultural relics department in 1999; with the approval of the religious management department, it was built by Hui Qing, an eminent monk of Qixia Temple in Nanjing. The elder presided over the reconstruction and moved the Peacock Temple to a new location.

Shigushan Site

Located in Shigu Village, Shunshan Township, 15 kilometers north of Xin'an Town, Lai'an County, Anhui Province, with an altitude of 166.7 meters, it forms the northern gateway to the county with the opposite Jianshan Mountain . The mountain is in the shape of a truncated cone, with a top area of ??about 80,000 square meters. There is a horse racing track surrounding the mountainside. The mountain is steep and dangerous, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. During the Southern Song Dynasty in Shaoxing, residents built walls on the mountains to protect themselves from the golden soldiers. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, thousands of volunteers led by Anqing shantytown residents Ge Biquan, Ge Gaopei and Liu Wanyuan once guarded the mountain. All the buildings on the mountain were later destroyed by the war.