Qingming Festival Tangshan Travel Guide Summary - Day One

Before departure, charge the car, pack clothes and bedding in advance. 😊🚗💨 Day One: After breakfast, we set off with fruits, snacks, toys, books, etc., to pass the time on the road. To prevent boredom during the long car ride, I created a fun game with my child to look for bird nests in the trees along the way, seeing who could find them quickly and in large numbers. 🍎📚🚗😄 The first stop of the day was straight to Tangshan Banquet, a 'edible' museum and a key cultural tourism project in Tangshan City. It is a cultural and tourism commercial complex that integrates specialty dining, folk heritage, cultural display, scene experience, leisure sightseeing, and research practice. It is a large-scale original immersive indoor specialty dining and micro-vacation destination, an experience place. 🍽️🎉🏰🚀 I took my child inside while my husband parked the car. The place was quite crowded. The first floor features a folk culture experience street, designed around 'four streets, two alleys, one river', encompassing the variety of market life and folk customs. The snacks on the first floor are sold at stalls; after purchasing, you can sit anywhere you like. For popular food items, you might need to queue for a while. 🛍️🍢🚶‍♀️ Recommended foods: yogurt, Xiaoshan fried cake, Gezhi box, and others depending on personal preference. There is a courtyard with a pond that houses plump koi, and there are performances upstairs. You can enjoy the snacks by the pond while watching the show. 🍧🐠🎪👀 On the second floor, there are the Baixing Mansion folk courtyard Chinese restaurant, the Eight Banners Beileye Palace Court Hot Pot Restaurant, and the Yanshan Academy, which inherits the allusion of 'Dou Yanshan, who has a righteous way, teaches five sons, whose names are all celebrated'. There are also the Sahan'er Paradise, an internet-famous library, and more. Later, as it got more crowded, we didn't explore much of the second floor, but those interested can take a look. 🍽️📚🎭🎡 The third floor has some restaurants and scenic spots, while the fourth to eighth floors are the guest rooms of the Tangshan Banquet Cultural and Tourism Hotel, which allows direct access to the Tangshan Banquet dining area without queuing at the entrance. If you want to focus on exploring Tangshan Banquet and are worried about being limited by the crowd during peak times, consider staying at the Tangshan Banquet Cultural and Tourism Hotel. 🏨🚪🍽️🚶‍♂️ After dining, we checked into the hotel and then went to Hetou Old Street. Upon arrival, we found that parking required a long queue. In hindsight, it would have been better to park at the hotel and take a taxi, saving time and hassle. Before getting out of the car, I dressed my daughter in the Hanfu I had bought in advance. Then we just strolled around. It's built along the river with Tang Dynasty architecture and decorations, modeled after the Tang Dynasty's Everbright City, but also very thoughtful and unique. Worth visiting, especially when the lights come on at night, giving the impression of a dreamlike journey back to the Tang Dynasty. 🌆✨🏛️🎭 From Monday to Thursday, you can visit for free by appointment. On Fridays to Sundays, public holidays, summer vacation, Spring Festival, and other event periods, you need to buy a ticket for 39 yuan per person. The parking lot charges 2 yuan per hour, with a maximum of 10 yuan. 🎟️🚗💰 There are boat parades with different themes in the river, as well as a tourist boat that visitors can ride. 🚢🎪🌊 Including Hetou Old Street, Tair Merchant Banquet, Water Market, Old Car Persimmon Collection, Hetou Cultural Square, Eastern Expedition Cultural Square, Huaiyuan Bridge, Happiness Tree, Wangzhen Square, Tangshan Speech Square, Linglu Inquiry, Prayer Square, and other areas. 🏯🎪🌳🛍️ On different stages, there are acrobatic performances, match-making by the God of Marriage, Tang Music Square playing folk music, and various dance performances. 💃🎶🎭 Every so often, there are stalls selling various snacks. 🍡🍢🍧🍿 In short, I personally think it's worth a visit. 🌊🚶‍♀️😄