The best route for a four-day trip to Kaifeng: Introduction to a four-day trip to Kaifeng

Kaifeng is a famous ancient capital in Chinese history and one of the important core cities in the Central Plains. A large number of ancient buildings and relics have been preserved, with a clear historical and cultural context and continuous cultural inheritance. Many cultural landscapes are worth visiting. The following is the detailed route and strategy for the four-day tour.

The first day: Daliangmen-Xiao Songcheng-Baogong Temple-Bookstore Street-Drum Tower Night Market

At 6:52 in the morning, the high-speed train departed from Wuxi East Station-South Square on time , arrived at Kaifeng North Station at early 11 noon. As soon as you leave the station, you can see the waiting area, which is full of antique buildings. When you walked out of the station, it was still a little rainy, so you didn't need to bring an umbrella. The temperature really shouldn't be too cool.

The buses are so cheap, starting from 1 yuan. While we were waiting for the bus, a middle-aged man asked us for one dollar. He said we had no money to take the bus, so I gave it to him. As a result, he turned around and left without taking the bus at all. My friends and other people waiting for the bus said that I was cheated. This is a professional beggar. Alas, go out and do good deeds that day.

If you are hungry, go to eat first. Take the No. 8 bus to Gongjiao. Walk a little and cross the traffic light and you will arrive - Ice and Snow Bridge Duck Head. This store was recommended by a colleague. She was born and raised in Kaifeng and says she wants to eat it every time she goes back. We ordered a small roast duck head with sweet potatoes and corn.

It’s delicious. The duck head was tender and delicious. The sweet potatoes and corn under the duck head are enough. Soft and sweet. I think it is a must for dry pot. (A small portion of duck head is only 68 yuan, and corn and sweet potatoes are less than 100 yuan.) This pot is enough to feed the two of us. I don’t have experience when ordering food, and I’m afraid I won’t be full. I also ordered a hot boiled vegetable platter with spinach, coriander, greens, chrysanthemums, enoki mushrooms, black fungus and two other mushrooms. Boss offers a bunch of sour plum soup for only 39 yuan. I had heard that prices here were cheap, but I didn’t expect it to be so cheap.

After dinner, go to the hotel to put your luggage. Take bus No. 24 to the east exit of Hanxing Road at the platform opposite where you just got off. The hotel is opposite the platform.

Take a rest and get ready to go. The first stop is to see Daliangmen. Bike enjoyment was once so close. Later I discovered that this Daliangmen was the place we would pass every day for the next few days.

We walked along this road and passed the Christian Church and Fusang Temple.

After Fu Saiji left, we discussed visiting Xiaosong City first. It’s the days of bicycle enjoyment again. The bicycle discounts here are really available, so convenient. Xiao Songcheng looks quite impressive from the outside. When I walked in, I saw that it was a large snack city.

First, you must get a prepaid card at the service desk. Payment is by credit card at each booth. Finally, you can return the card at the service desk. Also convenient. After walking around, I personally feel that there is no need to go to this place. The scenery is artificial, even the blue sky and white clouds are artificial. This snack looks unappetizing. I tried the almond tea and fried sweet potato mash.

Almond tea feels like almond-flavored lotus root powder. As a Wuxi person, I can eat sweet sweet potatoes and it feels so sweet.

Fried sweet potato puree

Almond tea

After a quick walk, I rode a bicycle to see Bao Gong Temple (ticket 30 yuan).

The next stop is Bookstore Street. By the time we arrived, it was already dusk and all the stalls were set up. The bookstore street is long and many stalls are filled with fried yogurt. Do people in Kaifeng love fried yogurt so much? By the end, it was already dark, and it was even more of a fiery scene. It turned out to be the night market in Gulou. The rows of stalls are well organized and have a full range of varieties. For foodies, it’s like a mouse falling into a rice vat.

First, we tried Daqiang fried jelly, 5 yuan each. The queue was quite long, and there was no time to sell even if two pots were operated at the same time. It's finally our turn. Just looking at the appearance is quite ugly. It tastes really good. It's delicious, and the bottom layer of the rice cracker is even crispier.

Fried jelly

The first day ended happily!

The next day, Boben - Longting Park - Hanyuan, China - Qingming Shanghe Garden.

I woke up naturally in the morning (around seven o'clock) and drank hot soup for breakfast today.

I chose Das

The spicy spicy soup comes in two varieties: beef and mutton, priced at 7 yuan/bowl.

The five-spice beef patties are full of fillings. 8 yuan or 10 yuan. I forgot.

The chili pepper in the hot soup is very strong, I can't eat anything too spicy. After taking a few more sips, my throat was irritated, so I took out all the ingredients in the soup. The ingredients are really enough. The beef I had had several chunks of beef in it.

Take bus No. 39 directly to Tianbo Gate (fare 40 yuan), and then visit Hemu. The time and place of the performance will be known as soon as you enter. The boys worked very hard.

Comic books bring back childhood memories.

Coming to the city where Yang Jiajiang has been loyal to generations of martyrs, opposite is the entrance to Longting Park. Many people thought it was the same attraction, but were stopped by the staff. My friends in Longting Park don’t want to go. She said it looked boring, so we didn't go in. We just took a photo at the door to visit.

Out of Tianbo Gate, next door is China Hanyuan. I feel a bit out of place here and uneducated.

You will see this big inkstone when you check in.

Everyone is looking for their last name.

Look how beautifully I photographed my little friend.

This Emperor Xuanyuan is facing another gate of the Chinese Han Garden Party, diagonally opposite the Qingming Shanghe Garden. First, go buy your tickets. There will be a large-scale performance from 0755 to 79000 in the evening. You can enter the park with your ticket, no additional tickets are required. Tickets are sold in several levels according to seats, such as 999 yuan/person for throne, 499 yuan/person for VIP, 299 yuan/person for area A, and 249 yuan/person for area b. If there is a seat distribution map at the ticket office, you can purchase it according to your own needs. We bought tickets for area B.

After buying the tickets, we took the bus to have dinner. For lunch, we chose soup dumplings from Huang’s old restaurant. All the employees in the store started to take their lunch break, but they still treated us warmly. The store offers soup dumplings, fighting chicken, and vegetarian dishes.

The skin of glutinous rice balls is thin, similar to our Xiao Long Bao in Wuxi, but it is a little more collapsed than Xiao Long Bao and has a lot of juice inside. Maybe it’s because I’m used to Xiaolongbao in Wuxi, but I always feel a little meaty when I eat this kind of glutinous rice balls without soy sauce or other white soup in the meat filling.

Fighting cocks are similar in appearance to white-cut chickens and salt-water chickens. The difference in your mouth is that the white-cut chicken is tender and smooth, while the fighting chicken is older, especially the chicken skin is chewy. When I checked out, I sighed again, the prices here are so cheap!

Ten soup dumplings starting at 18 yuan are too cheap. Wuxi cages cost at least 2.5 yuan each.

There is so much soup in the soup bag.

This price is simply not too cheap.

Have a good meal, stroll around the city, and enjoy the air conditioning. The weather is sunny today. At around four o'clock, we took a bus to Qingming Shanghe Garden. Not long after entering the park, we encountered a welcome performance. Finally, there's a wizard explaining it. We cheekily nudged the tour guide behind us.

It turns out that this place was built according to the 1:1 ratio of "Song Dynasty. Tokyo Menghua". With the tour guide's explanation, this trip was different. Then, I went to see the performance of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", which was more exciting than "Yue Fei Gun Challenges Little Liang Wang" in the Three Kingdoms City. Then I went to see the water puppet "Three Heroes Fight Lu Bu" and applauded.

There is also a performance called "Nezha Makes the Sea", which is pure nonsense. Su Su (Su Shi) and Qing Qing (Li Qingzhao) both came out to sing. After walking around the garden, I discovered that there is a snack street, a commodity street, and a small play area.

A small museum with various lamps.

The sun goes down.

It’s dark.

It’s getting dark, waiting for the show.

You can enter after 9:25, and the performance officially starts at 20:10. It is said that more than 700 actors are performing. The whole performance uses a lot of lights, light and shadow, giving people a magnificent and magnificent shock, making people feel like going back thousands of years and recreating the prosperous age. Worth a look.

On the way back to the hotel, I saw watermelon for 50 cents a pound, so I quickly bought one for only 4.8 yuan. I went to Smile Supermarket to buy a spoon, which cost 1 yuan per spoon. I can't believe it. The quality is good.

On the third day, Kaifeng Mansion - Yanqing Temple - Suoguo Temple - Shanshan Guild Hall - Liu Qingxia Memorial Hall - Fanta - Xisi Night Market

Wake up naturally and eat meat. Today, we visited Huasan Donkey Meat Soup (Jinming East Street Store) and ordered donkey meat soup and donkey meat roast. Donkey meat soup ranges start at 5 yuan, with the most expensive at 50 yuan. You can choose a whole piece of donkey meat, or most of the donkey meat with a small amount of donkey skin and donkey intestines. He will ask you what you want. We chose a bowl of donkey skin, donkey intestines and donkey meat for 20 yuan.

The donkey meat inside is all minced. Never let the leftover bits and pieces fool you. Donkey meat is roasted for 10 yuan/piece. The outside is crispy and the filling inside is minced donkey meat. Bite it in, so satisfied. You can't stop biting it.

How much meat is stuffed into donkey meat? Seeing is believing, meat won’t clog your teeth.

Pat your belly and enjoy riding a bicycle to Kaifeng Mansion. There will be the first performance at the gate at 9 o'clock. I'm really lucky today. I got there in time to prepare for the show. After one performance, I bought a ticket and walked around the rostrum of Kaifeng Mansion, just as the second performance began in the lobby, including the trial of Chen Shimei.

Everyone views Bao Gong’s trial from various angles.

After closing, we walked to Yanqing Temple. Yes, we walked there because it was almost next door, only five or six hundred meters away. Yanqing Temple is not big, only the Yuhuang Pavilion and its underground palace, and the Sanqing Temple behind it.

After purchasing the ticket, there will be a free explanation to guide you. Yan was built in commemoration. The main purpose of coming to Yanguanqing is to see the Yuhuang Pavilion. What we see now is the Jade Emperor Pavilion that was lifted nearly 3 meters. There is a live TV video of this kind of difficult cultural relics protection project, which is really amazing. The Sanqing Hall at the back is no different from other places.

Huang Yu Pavilion

Get on the tram and continue moving forward. The next stop is Suoguo Temple. At the entrance of the Sutra Library of Suoguo Temple, I unexpectedly met two fellow Wuxi residents. They were very kind to hear the familiar accent of another country, and the two old aunts were also quite excited.

Sokokuji Tripitaka Building

After Sokokuji came out, he was ready to ride a bicycle. When he heard the rickshaw calling for two yuan a person, he immediately changed his mind and asked the old man to go to the Shanshan Shaanxi-Gan Guild Hall. I chatted with the old man on the way and asked what the local specialties were and what I could take back.

The old man talked about peanut cakes and chrysanthemum wine. We asked which peanut cake was the best. He said the old White House was the best. If you want to buy it, I will take you there now. Then he took us to an old alley where few people came in or out. He said: "Go in, I'll wait for you here."

The store was also very simple, with a flag hanging at the door. When we went in, the store clerk recommended that we buy a bag of six boxes, with various flavors. When we paid to go out, the old man came in. When I saw what I had in my hand, I said no, it doesn’t taste good. We put it back and took the oldest package and told us to buy it. Just now, in the eyes of outsiders, this was a trick.

To be honest, we were a bit cheated. He chose an expensive one for us, and after collecting enough money, we went to the Shanshan Gansu Guild Hall. There are also free tutorials. Fortunately, I saw Master Ran Fengling painting a painting called "The Song Dynasty is also Crazy" on the spot, which was a feast for the eyes. Unfortunately, photography is not allowed on site.

Shaanxi-Gan Association Chicken Feet Archway

Liu’s next stop, the Memorial Hall, is also very close. The doors opened at 2:30 pm and we waited for a while. It's free and open, I came here just to see something. I like "Book and Sword Hidden".

The next place to go is the farthest place today. First go to the supermarket on the first floor of Wanbo Plaza to store peanut cakes in the bag storage cabinet. It is heavy and inconvenient to carry. Then, we took the No. 15 bus at Xingshengde Peanut Old Store Station in Xinjiekou and got off at the Steel Market. Behind is the navigation guide, which is about one kilometer long. The roads are rough and the place is remote.

The entire scenic spot is very small. There was only one tower and I was the only tourist (my friend said she was waiting for me outside the door to save money). Fanta was founded in the 7th year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty. The pagoda is still very beautiful, one brick and one Buddha, and has a long history. The 15 yuan ticket is worth a visit.

I took Route 15 back and bought original peanut cakes in the same packaging as before at Xingshengde Peanut Store, planning to go back and try them out for comparison. After buying it, you can go to Haishan Mao Junxiang Hui Rice Noodles (Xufu Street Store) to eat Hui rice noodles, two bowls are 25 yuan. How could there really be such a big bowl of noodles? You can't finish it. If you'd known you were supposed to have one bowl for two people, it would be more than enough.

My beef braised noodles.

Went to Wanbo Plaza to pick up the stored peanut cakes and returned to the hotel. After going back, I couldn’t wait to compare the peanut cakes from the two companies. We labeled the one we bought in the afternoon as A, and the one we bought in Xingshengde as B. They have almost the same packaging; we can smell the strong peanut fragrance of A, but B has no fragrance; the taste of A is very crisp, loose but not sticky, and sweeter. Light, while B is a bit hard, not loose but slightly sticky. Sweeter than A, but within the acceptable sweetness range, it doesn't feel bland. After some comparison, A completely won, and then we began to regret not remembering the address.

This is a delicious peanut cake, kept as a souvenir.

It was completely dark the day after the exam. We are going to visit Xishi Night Market. Just on Dingjiao Street. The bike ride takes three to five minutes. The scale and liveliness are not as good as the Gulou Night Market. But there are so many people and the fumes are a bit smoky. We were both so full again that we were so sick that we completely lost our appetite. We took a quick stroll and then went home. I'll rest for a while after I get back, so I'd better have my own dinner (I just got back from a nice trip).

Shengxing’s spicy peanuts are delicious.

Have a good sleep after dinner!

On the fourth day, the Iron Tower-Yellow River went home.

That’s only 10 yuan.

Egg Bag

Take bus No. 39 to Heda High School, and then walk for a while to Tower Park. The Glazed Iron Tower is quite exquisite. There is a performance in the garden, which tells the story of Feng Yuxiang "selling his daughter" to a profiteer to pay for the repair of the Tower.

The original plan was to go to Henan University next door after seeing the tower, but it was temporarily canceled due to personal reasons. Take the No. 6 bus to see the Yellow River. When the bus reaches the terminal, you don’t have to worry about overdoing it. After getting off the bus, I personally recommend taking an electric tricycle specially designed for carrying passengers on the roadside, because if you follow the navigation, it cannot guide you to the Yellow River and tell you that you have arrived at your destination early.

When we were walking on the road, an uncle came to persuade us to take his car. We joked that the car was too expensive and we should save money. The uncle said it was not expensive, only 5 yuan. It is said that our rickshaws in the city center only cost two yuan per person, or you can have five wallets and we ride back and forth.

The uncle said he couldn’t come, so the price was still 8 yuan. We insisted on only 5 yuan, because my navigation showed that it was only 1 km away. I said, forget it, uncle. Only 1 km away. We'll get there in two steps. I'm in a hurry. I can't get there within 1 kilometer. If I could give you a free ride within 1 kilometer, we wouldn't know what to say, so we wouldn't ring.

After we walked for a short distance, he said, "It's 5 yuan for a round trip." After waiting for more than an hour, there was no business. We happily got on the bus. There was a small tricycle with a parasol, which was nice. All the way, my navigation continued to be on. When the navigation prompted me to reach my destination, I only saw a farmhouse-like shed, not to mention the Yellow River, and no pond. Fortunately, my uncle took us there. After we put it down, he said: "Go and play. I will wait under the shade of the trees in front."

There was a hovercraft available, and we once suspected that we had crossed the desert.

Some of the kids on the road trip went to play in the water, so we were unprepared and had to watch from a distance.

The Broken Riverbed

After watching the Yellow River, grandpa took us to the bus stop. (Without grandpa, we could not find the bus stop because there were no signs such as bus stop signs. ) told us to go inside to wait for the bus and drink some water because it was hot. My heart feels warm.

After the No. 6 bus got off at the Iron Tower, we changed our bicycles and rode to the Drum Tower. We strolled around the Drum Tower, then went to Xingshengde Peanut Old Store to buy rabbit legs and ate them on the high-speed rail in the evening.

Drum Tower during the day

The last trip is for dinner, which is the last meal in Kaifeng. I chose Xingjia Potstickers next to Daliangmen.

Business is booming, it's already past 1:30, and there are still many diners waiting to be called at the door.

The bottom layer is thin and crispy, especially delicious, big, filling, and juicy. I

Three bowls of mushroom pot

The price is so cheap . The two of them were completely overeating. Return to the hotel, pick up your luggage, and take bus No. 35 to Kaifeng North Station to wait for the bus home.

Notes:

1. Kaifeng people like to communicate with you in their local dialect. Knowing that you are a foreigner, he still speaks Henan dialect. Fortunately, I can listen very well.

2. The people here are very warm and simple.

3. The price is really cheap.

4. I want to complain about traffic. At many intersections, there is only one green light for turning left and going straight. That is, when the light is green, turn left and go straight at the same time. It took me four days to get used to this.

5. There are not many signs on the road, and many small roads are not marked with road names. You can only tell which road it is from the Amap map, and the same goes for the bus station. For example, we took bus No. 35 from the hotel to Kaifeng North Station. The map of Amap showed us that there were no words related to the No. 35 bus on that platform, and there was not even the number of the No. 35 bus. We asked the aunt in the store next to it and confirmed that it was here.