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How To Get There
Anyang has transport facilities and convenient. Beijing-Guangzhou railway, 107 national high way and Beijing-Shenzhen express highway, go directly from south to north; Anyang-Lizhen, Shi-Lin railway pass through the east; Anyang-Daqing highway runs straight through to Shandong Province, to the coastal cities. All of these form a traffic net, with the government in the center, connect passenger and cargo transport.
Anyang Tourism:
Meanwhile, Anyang also provides comfortable and fashionable service facilities. There are high grade hotels in downtown area. The New Ground Hotel of Anyang County, a double-star hotel, provides comfortable and satisfactory services for accommodation, business activities services for accommodation, business activities and entertainment.
Shopping:
Jiefang Lu and Honqi Lu are considered to be the liveliest districts of the modern city, with a night and weekend market on Honqi Lu. The most pleasant outing you can take in central Anyang is a wander around the old city, the area around the Bell Tower at the south end of Honqi Lu, with dusty, unpaved streets and alleyways mostly too narrow for cars or lorries, but full of people and carts.
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Anyang Travel Attraction:
Wenfeng Pagoda
Just within the old city, southwest of the Bell Tower, you'll find the Wenfeng Pagoda (daily 8am-5pm; £¤ 5), built in 925 AD and unusually shaped; it gets larger towards the top, ending with a dagoba-shaped peak atop a flat roof.
Gaoge Miao
Southeast of the Bell Tower, the Gaoge Miao (daily 8am-4.30pm; £¤10), built in 1451, is an attractive building with stone carvings of dragons and lions around its entrance, well suited to its present purpose as a gallery displaying the work of local artists.
Shang Dynasty Ruins (Yinxu)
These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty is also referred to after the fourteenth century B.C. Lying about two kilometers northwest of Anyang, the ruins spread to both banks of the Henghe River with the present village of Xiaotun at their center. This was the site of the capital of the Shang (or Yin) Dynasty around the fourteenth century B.C..
Large-scale excavation has been going on at this site since 1899. Archaeologists have discovered ruins of the imperial palaces of the Shang Dynasty as well as large tombs of the royal families of that period. More than 100,000 pieces of bone and tortoise shell inscribed with the earliest form of Chinese script have been unearthed on the site, providing scholars with valuable historic and linguistic information. Large numbers of bronze ware, tools and articles for production and daily use have also been found here. A rectangular pot 1.33 meters high and weighing 875 kilometers, with beautiful stylized dragon and legendary animal patterns inscribed on its four sides, is a rare bronze object in the world.
In the last thirty years, systematic excavation has been going on at the site of the Shang (Yin) Dynasty ruins and more objects of the Shang Dynasty have been unearthed. At Xiaotun Village, an exhibition hall has been built to house the cultural relics that have been unearthed here.
Yue Fei Memorial Temple
In the county town of Tangyin, not far from Anyang, stands the memorial temple of Yue Fei (1103-1142), a famous national hero of the Song Dynasty (960-1179). First built in the early Ming Dynasty and repaired many times since then, the temple now houses over a hundred pieces of stone carvings showing Yue Fei's writings in his own handwriting, records of repairs of the place and poems and inscriptions in his p prominent figures. The compact but magnificent building also contains a rich collection of colorful sculptures and is well worth a visit.
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