Xinxiang (新乡; Xīnxiāng) is a city in Henan. It dates from the Sui Dynasty, about 600 CE.

    Understand

    Located in the north of Henan Province, south of the Yellow River, with Zhengzhou and Kaifeng across the river.

    regional

    Xinxiang City has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 5 counties and 3 county-level cities：

    districts：jingkai district、muye district、fengquan district、hongqi district、weibin district

    counties：Xinxiang county、Huojia county、Yuanyang county、Yanjin county、Fengqiu county

    county-level cities：Weihui、Huixian、Changyuan

    Climate

    Xinxiang has a temperate continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons.

    History&culture

    • Xinxiang has the ruins and relics of Chinese civilization in the pre-Qin period.Site route：Mengzhuang（孟庄） Site - Li Dazhao（李大召） Site - Lubao（鲁堡） Site - Tongmengshan（同盟山） Site - luositan（洛丝谭） Site - Gongcheng（共城） Site - Fancheng（凡城） Site - Liulige（琉璃阁） Site -The Great Tomb of Guwei Village（固围村大墓） - Shanbiao Cemetery（山彪大墓)
    • Xinxiang has Muye culture(牧野文化）.You can learn about the culture of Muye at Jiang Tai Gong's hometown(姜太公故里）, Bigan Temple（比干庙）, Muye Park（牧野公园）, Plain Museum（平原博物馆）, and the Temple of King Wu of the Tongmeng Mountain（同盟山武王庙).
    • Xinxiang has Grand Canal culture(大运河文化）.You can see the Grand Canal period water conservancy facilities at Baiquan River. You can see Jinlong Four Kings Temple building(金龙四王庙建筑) at Beiguan Street and Chenqiaoyi（陈桥驿) which is related to the Grand Canal-related.
    • Xinxiang has Yellow River culture(黄河文化）.Under the influence of the Zhou ritual system, the Yellow River culture is mainly embodied in the humanistic spirit, values and moral norms in the history of Xinxiang. Here, Confucius set up an altar for lecturing, and so on.Sages of all times created the Yellow River culture and Yellow River spirit with unique regional characteristics.

    Get in

    Xinxiang
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    By plane

    The nearest major airport is Zhengzhou's Xinzheng Airport. Frequent high-speed C trains connect this airport to Zhengzhou East Railway Station, where you can transfer to a train to Xinxiang.

    By train

    • 🌍 Xinxiang East Railway Station (新乡东站). is a station on the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, one stop north of Zhengzhou East. It has frequent service to Zhengzhou East, and regular service to many other destinations in China. (updated Jun 2018)
    • 🌍 Xinxiang Railway Station (新乡站). is north of Zhengzhou on the Beijing-Guangzhou railway, and has regular sleeper service to many parts of China. (updated Jun 2018)

    By bus

    • 🌍 Xinxiang Bus Terminal (新乡客运总站). The main bus station is just southeast of Xinxiang station. (updated Jun 2018)

    There are also north and east bus stations.

    Get around

    Like most cities in China, there is a reasonable taxi system, and buses. The two railway stations are linked by bus 66 several times per hour (¥1, ~45 minutes).

    See

    Downtown

    Lu Wang’s Tomb
    • 🌍 Xinxiang Museum (新乡市博物馆, 平原博物院 Pingyuan Museum), 697 Renmin East Road, Hongqi District (红旗区人民东路697号) (bus nos. 45, 62 and 191), ☏ +86 373 5065111. 09:00-17:00, no entry after 16:30, closed on Mondays. Free. (updated Jan 2021)
    • Dongning Temple
      🌍 Lu Wang's Tomb (潞王陵). Tomb of emperor Wan Li's Brother Lu Wang. This is nearly an exact duplicate of one of the Ming dynasty tombs located outside of Beijing. Close examination reveals a change in the dragon designs so that there are two instead of one in the stone working. Lu Wang desired to be the emperor so much tried copying much of the architecture found in Beijing at the time. Thirteen sets of animals line the entrance to the tomb, some mystical, and some real. There was some damage during the cultural revolution, and not all of the structure has been restored to its original state. (updated Sep 2023)
    • Dongning Temple(东宁寺）,covers an area of eighteen acres, with majestic buildings, including the Mountain Gate Buddha Hall, Thousand-handed Guanyin Hall, Zunti Bodhisattva Hall, Twelve Old Mothers Hall, Ancestor's Hall, Jade Emperor Hall, and Buddha Zun Pagoda. Buddha Pagoda is the main building of the temple, which is seven stories and twenty-six meters high.

    Huixian County

    • Baiyun Temple
      🌍 Wanxianshan Scenic Area (万仙山景区, Guoliang Tunnel) (There are several buses per day from 🌍 Huixian Bus Terminal (辉县汽车站), most of them originating in Xinxiang). This area in the Taihang mountains on the border with Shanxi features a valley encircled by more than 100m high sandstone cliffs and is protected as a national geological park and national forest park. Atop the cliffs sit small villages, and above those villages are even higher limestone cliffs. The villages in the area, including Guoliang itself, are made from slabs of this stone held together with white mortar, making the buildings visually striking. To enable access to their village, in the 1970s, residents of Guoliang village hacked a tunnel through the lower cliff, which is now a tourist attraction. The village of Kunshan, just across the border in Shanxi and accessible by the park shuttle bus, later carved an even longer and more hair-raising tunnel through the upper limestone cliff to access the rest of their province. This tunnel, which starts about 3.5km outside Kunshan village and 200m above it, is not accessible by anything larger than a minivan and is closed to the general driving public. Hiring a local vehicle can get you there, at a price that the drivers will agree on amongst themselves once they see you. (updated Jun 2018)
    • Guanshan Geopark
      Baiyun Temple (白云寺), Located at the bottom of Bailu Mountain, 35 kilometers west of Huixian Couny, Henan Province. 07:00-19:00. Baiyunsi National Forest Park is located in Huixian City at the southeast foot of the Taihang Mountains, which was approved by the Ministry of Forestry and opened to the public in 1992, and was approved by the State Council as a national-level Taihang Mountain macaque nature reserve in 1999. The park covers an area of 2,591 hectares, with 95% forest coverage. ¥16.8. (updated Sep 2023)
      Qiu Gully
    • Guanshan Geopark(关山地质公园） is located at the curved turn end of the South Taihang Mountains. Represented by Red Stone Gorge and Stone Pillar Forest, it is called " The First Landslide Wonders", which combines the water landscape of South Taihang and the unique geological landform of landslide peak forests, with waterfalls and springs, clear pools, stone wonders, groups of pillars, peak forests, and the sea of clouds, which constitutes a complete scenic system, and is a model of the magnificence and softness of South Taihang.
    • Qiu Gully Scenic Spot（秋沟风景区） is located in Nanzhai Town, Huixian County, Xinxiang City. It covers an area of 24 square kilometers. It is called "natural zoo" because of dozens of wild animals and birds such as rhesus monkeys, money leopards and wild badgers. There are a large number of ancient marine plant and animal fossils, natural stone tanks, ice caves and other landscapes in the Qiu Gully. It is a good place for leisure, vacation, sightseeing, summer vacation, sketching and painting.
    • Tianzhugou Grand Canyon（天柱沟大峡谷）is located in Huixian County, Xinxiang. The scenery is beautiful, and you can experience the nature's ingenious work. You can see the broken rock layers formed by crustal fracture and plate rise in the ancient times, the mountains are majestic and magnificent, the vegetation coverage is high, and the streams are crystal clear. Rafting is also available.
      Guo Liang Village
    • Guo Liang Village（郭亮村） is located in the midst of the Taihang Mountains' walled canyons. There is the famous Hanging Wall Highway, which is also the only road leading to Guo Liang Village. Walking in Guo Liang Village, it is as if you have entered the world of stone, everywhere you can see stone mills, stone mills, stone alleys, stone tables, and even stone bowls, stone chopsticks, stone axes, stone hoes, it seems that the whole village is made of stone.
    • Baligou Scenic Area（八里沟）is located in Bali Town, Hui County, Xinxiang City. There are five main scenic spots: Peach Blossom Bay, Red Rock River, Rhesus Monkey Area, Jade Palace, and Sheep Chau Land. Among them, Baligou waterfall is magnificent, known as "Taihang Heavenly Waterfall". The Red Stone River, with its blue water, red and green colors, is known as "Taihang Heavenly River" because of its altitude of 1700 meters. Baligou is a good place for summer vacation.

    Weihui County

    • Bigan Temple (比干庙), North end of Bigan Avenue, Bigan Village, Weihui City, Xinxiang City. Summer 8:00-19:00; Winter 8:30-17:30. The temple of Bigan Temple is located in the north and faces south, covering an area of more than 400 acres. The main buildings are Bigan Temple Square, Bigan Wealth and Culture Square, Danxin Square, God's Way, Changfu Square, the wall, the gate, the door, the wooden square, the monument corridor, the Hall of Worship, the hall, the stone workshop, the tombstone kiosk and so on, after the main hall to the yin and yang wall separated by the huge "heavenly burial tomb" remains. ¥40 (Free for Lin's guests with ID). (updated Sep 2023)

    Huojia County

    • Tongmeng Ancient Town Yuanjia Village（同盟古镇袁家村） is located in Huojia County,Xinxiang City. It is a good place in the downtown around Xinxiang. The scenery is good with few people. It is a combination of Suzhou Garden and the water town of Jiangnan. You can sip tea and tease your dog, and enjoy your leisure. The ancient town has delicious specialty snacks, fun entertainment facilities. Although the ancient town only three streets are enough to stroll for two hours. It is a good place for a short trip.

    Do

    • DL
      DL(胖东来） As a famous landmark in Xinxiang. In this building facility, there are many Xinxiang special snacks. Locals like to meet and eat here.And because of its humanized service facilities, it is liked by many people in many places.The doll machine inside the DL is particularly easy to operate. You can catch a lot of dolls for a small amount of money.
    • Xidajie（西大街）is a famous snack night stall street in Xinxiang. At about 12 o'clock at night, it is the time when the flow of people is the highest. This place is very popular with young people. It consists of different small food carts inside. There is a rich variety of food and the repetition rate of the food sold is low. There are a lot of Xinxiang specialty snacks and some Southeast Asian food. Of course, there are also places selling alcohol. If you want to feel the lively night stall atmosphere and taste the specialties, welcome to come here.
    • Oriental Walking Street
      Oriental Walking Street（东方步行街）.If you like to shop in specialty style clothing stores, or make crafts, you are welcome to come here. There are many antique clothing stores in the Oriental Walking Street. Here you can feel Gothic style, rock style, American retro, new Chinese style and many other style elements of clothing stores. There are also handmade shops that make mobile phone cases and wallets by yourself.
    • Yiyuan (怡园）is not a building, it's an area. In this area, there are many coffee shops with special decoration and unique coffee taste. There are also old bookstores. Due to the retro style of the Yiyuan, here, you can feel the feeling of the 1980s in Xinxiang, a comfortable sense of time and space slowing down. Perfect for visitors to enjoy a nice afternoon tea time here.
    • Municipal Plaza（市政广场）is a square for residential sports activities. If you like throwing frisbee sport, this is the best place for you. This square was built by the government organization, which provides people with oversized activity sites. Here , you can dance with your aunties. You can also fly kites. You can also play tai chi with the uncles. Of course, any sports activities that won't hurt others can be done here.
    • Dingguo Lake Park（定国湖公园） is a man-made lake park in Xinxiang. Its total area is 41.75 hectares. Free entry and exit. Here is not only a good place to enjoy the beach lake view, but also a best place to enjoy the sunset. Take a stroll in the evening breeze, sit on the Fisherman's Wharf in Dingguo Lake Park, drink coffee and watch the sunset. It's a good place to relax.
    • Xinxiang Flower Market（花卉市场） is a base for selling flowers, birds and fish. It is composed of various small shops, because it is a professional flower seller, so here, you can also see a lot of flowers that cannot be grown in the local climate. If you like to look at flowers, you can come here and stroll around. And the price of flowers here is very low, and can be matched arbitrarily, very suitable for tourists who like flowers.


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    Hui mian noodles are served in many restaurants. This is a noodle soup with lamb meat, or other kinds of meat.

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    Routes through Xinxiang
    Beijing ← Handan ←  N  S  → Zhengzhou → Wuhan



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