In Liaoning, there lies a hidden treasure city—Chaoyang

👀 In Liaoning, there is an underrated treasure city that you must not miss. ⏰ Give me ten minutes, and let me take you into this seriously underrated fifth-tier city—Chaoyang, Liaoning. 🌏 To the east is Chaoyang, to the west is Dunhuang, and the story of Chaoyang begins billions of years ago. 🦕 During the Cretaceous period, the world's first bird, Confuciusornis, took flight here, and the world's first flower, the Liaoning ancient fruit, bloomed here. 🎇 During the Hongshan culture period, the Niuheliang site in Chaoyang was the center of the Hongshan culture. The discovery of altars, temples, tombs, and jade artifacts at the Niuheliang site has pushed back the history of Chinese civilization to more than 5,800 years ago. In 1983, the Hongshan Goddess statue unearthed at the Goddess Temple shocked the world. She is the common ancestor of our Chinese nation, the first dawn of Chinese civilization. 🎊 But Chaoyang is not just that, it was also the capital of the Yan state during the Three Yans period, the Dragon City, the Yan state that Murong Fu spent his life trying to restore, and the Liao River witnessed the change of dynasties. 🏯 The North Tower of Chaoyang has been built through the Three Yans, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, and Liao dynasties, and the five-generation treasure tower has been standing for a thousand years. In 1988, two genuine relics of Sakyamuni were discovered in the upper Heavenly Palace of the North Tower. In 2004, the Sheli of the Buddha of Light was unearthed near the South Tower, which faces the North Tower, bringing together the relics of Sakyamuni and the Buddha of Light in one city. 🎉 Today, people walk around the tower on the square with infinite devotion. The Youshun Temple, located between the South and North Towers, was bestowed by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty and has been standing for more than three hundred years. 👣 This city has too many stories, the Guanyin statue on Phoenix Mountain guards this small fifth-tier city, carrying the deepest Chinese culture, modest and low-key yet unable to hide its brilliance. 🏙 Chaoyang, the place where the world's first flower bloomed, the place where the first bird took flight 📍 Location: Chaoyang City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province, formerly known as Longcheng and Xingzhong, is located in the northwestern part of Liaoning Province. Chaoyang is a hub for political, economic, and cultural exchanges between Northeast China and the Central Plains region, a famous historical city in the Northeast with multiple ethnicities, and a strategic location outside the Great Wall throughout the ages. Within its territory are attractions such as the Bird Fossil National Geopark, Phoenix Mountain, Dahei Mountain, Yulong Valley, etc. 🎫 Attractions: ⭐【Chaoyang Twin Towers】: The Chaoyang Twin Towers, also known as the South and North Towers, are located at the southern and northern ends of Murong Street in the Shuangta District of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province ⭐【Phoenix Mountain】: Phoenix Mountain, formerly known as Longshan and Helongshan, is located in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, and is a national-level forest park and a national AAAA-rated scenic area ⭐【Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark】: The fossil geological park consists of the Sihetun Fossil Park Area, Phoenix Mountain Geological and Geomorphological Park Area, Lingyuan Dawangzhangzi Paleontological Fossil Park Area, Shangheshou Paleontological Park Area, and Huai Shudong Scenic Area, and is known as the 'World's Paleontological Fossil Treasury'. 📚Culture: ⭐【Fossil Culture】: In the 1990s, in Chaoyang, Liaoning, the world was shocked when the fossils of the first bird and the first flower on Earth were discovered here. ⭐【Hongshan Culture】: Archaeologist Yin Da, in his book 'The Neolithic Age in China' and the chapter 'The Neolithic Age Site after Hongshan in Chifeng', proposed that 'The Neolithic Age site after Hongshan can be named as the Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic Age in China', and from then on, Hongshan Culture was officially named. ⭐【Three Yans Culture】: The Three Yans refer to the three regional regimes established by the Xianbei Murong family in the north during the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms period (317 AD—420 AD), which lasted for nearly a hundred years. At its largest territorial extent, the Three Yans dynasty stretched from Liaodong in the east to the Yellow River in the west, nearly reaching the desert in the north and Huai River in the south, occupying 12 states, 157 prefectures, 1579 counties, with a population of nearly ten million, becoming the absolute powerhouse of the world at that time. ⭐【Red Culture】: The glorious years have endowed this land with supreme glory, and the Fengshan Ling water has nurtured generations of heroes—Zhao Shangzhi, the lion of the north, Chen Jinghu, the first person to join the Communist Party in Liaoning, Guo Junqing, the Hua Mulan of the military, and the legendary hero Ulan... Their stories have long been solidified into the unique city memory. More than 100 revolutionary sites and relics, and 48 patriotic education bases, are like red landmarks, recording the inspiring revolutionary stories and also showcasing the generational inheritance of red culture. 🍲Food: ⭐【Stewed intestines, mashed potato pancake rolls, Master Xu's Prince Pot, Chaoyang spicy skewers, etc.】 👐I want to apologize to Chaoyang. As a person from Liaoning and a travel blogger dedicated to promoting my hometown, I'm sorry it took me so long to truly enter and understand you. You deserve our pride and to be seen by the whole world.