When you have a travel in Hebei,baoding zhengding anicent city is a wothywhile visit place.
With its stunning temples, towers and gates, the ancient city of Zhengding in Hebei Province in North China is becoming increasing popular as a tourist attraction. Zhengding is called "the treasure-house" due to its wonderful Chinese ancient buildings and is quickly becoming one of the most famous ancient cities in the north. In the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC),the city was the capital of Yu State. Around 2,000 years ago Zhengding was one of the leading political and military centres in the north.
The long historythat Zhengding Ancient City holds has left plenty of splendid historic relics.There arecurrently five places of historical interest that are preserved by the state and seven sites that are preserved by the province.Longxing Temple, built in theSui Dynasty (581-618) and extended into the Song Dynasty (960-1279) , has the oldest and highest bronze statue of Guanyin ever discovered in China as wellas other ancient Buddhist statues.
Zhengding Ancient City is an ideal place to study the style of Buddhist temple architectures of the Song Dynasty. There are also several areas where film companies make and shoot their films in Zhengding,including Rongguofu, Ningrong Street, spots in the Pilgrimage to the West , and spotsin Story for titles Granting. Among them, Rongguofu, an architectural complex in the style of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),has the reputation ofbeing "East Hollywood." Nearly 80 films, including the Dreams of Red Mansion, a film based on a famous ancient novel of the same name, was shot here.
