[2025 Anqing Attraction] Travel Guide for Anqing Museum (Updated Apr)

#chinatravelitinerary Anqing, in Anhui Province, is a perfect choice! The city offers a mix of history, natural beauty, and peaceful vibes, making it an ideal spot for a relaxed getaway. 🌿🛶 Here’s a friendly and easy-going 2-day itinerary for you to enjoy Anqing without rushing through your plans! 😊 🌟 Day 1: Beijing → Anqing (Historical Sites & River Views) 🏙️🌳 🌅 Morning: Travel to Anqing 🔹 7:00 AM – Start with a light breakfast at your hotel. ☕🥐 🔹 8:30 AM – Take a high-speed train from Beijing to Anqing (around 5-6 hours) or opt for a flight to Hefei and then a short train ride to Anqing (around 1 hour). 🚄 🔹 2:00 PM – Arrive in Anqing, check in at your hotel and unwind a bit. 🏨 🌆 Afternoon: Explore the City’s Cultural Sights 🏯📜 🔹 3:00 PM – Head to Taiping Lake (太平湖). It’s a beautiful lake surrounded by lush green mountains. You can take a boat ride or enjoy a leisurely walk by the water, soaking in the natural beauty. 🚤🌳 🔹 4:30 PM – Visit the Anqing Museum to learn about the city’s history and culture. It’s not too big, but it offers a great overview of Anqing’s legacy in art, culture, and historical significance. 🏺🎨 🔹 6:00 PM – Head to the Qinglong Mountain (青龙山) for a relaxing hike or simply enjoy the view from the top. You’ll get great views of the city and the Yangtze River below. 🏞️✨ 🌙 Evening: Riverside Dinner & Relaxing Night 🌆🍜 🔹 7:30 PM – Have dinner at a restaurant by the Yangtze River, where you can try local specialties, such as fish dishes, dumplings, or steamed rice. 🥟🍲 🔹 9:00 PM – After dinner, enjoy a gentle walk along the Yangtze River, the night views are peaceful and relaxing, perfect to end your first day in Anqing. 🌙🌊 🔹 10:00 PM – Head back to your hotel for a relaxing night’s sleep. 🛏️ 🌟 Day 2: Anqing (Temples & Nature Exploration) 🌿🌟 🌅 Morning: Visit Historical Temples & Scenic Spots 🏯🍃 🔹 8:00 AM – Start your day with a relaxed breakfast at your hotel. 🍳🥞 🔹 9:00 AM – Visit the Xianxia Temple (仙霞寺), a peaceful Buddhist temple located near the river. The temple is beautiful, and you can spend some time reflecting in its serene surroundings. 🕯️🙏 🔹 10:30 AM – Head to Wuhu Mountain (五湖山) for a light hike or a scenic stroll. This area is known for its natural beauty, and it’s a great place to spend the morning surrounded by lush forests and mountain views. 🌳🏞️ 🌆 Afternoon: Explore More of Anqing’s Natural Beauty 🌅🌼 🔹 12:00 PM – Enjoy a relaxed lunch at a local restaurant, sampling Anhui-style dishes, such as braised pork or steamed fish. 🍽️ 🔹 1:30 PM – Take a trip to Huangmei Opera Village (黄梅戏村), which celebrates the traditional Chinese opera. You can enjoy a performance or just explore the village, which has beautiful traditional architecture. 🎭🏘️ 🔹 3:00 PM – Visit Chizhou Park, a scenic area near the Yangtze River, perfect for a leisurely walk or simply relaxing by the water. 🌊🌸 ✈️ Evening: Return to Beijing #travelingchina #china #travel

Leaving Hefei, it takes two hours by high-speed rail to Anqing, also known as Yicheng. It was the location of the ancient Wan Kingdom during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the abbreviation for Anhui Province, "Wan", comes from this. Ancient Wan culture, Zen culture, drama culture, and Tongcheng School culture are all reflected here. Anqing City is the birthplace and development of Huangmei Opera, and is also the hometown of Chen Duxiu, a pioneer of the Chinese New Culture Movement, Deng Jiaxian, a "two-bomb meritorious service", and other figures. Anqing City has 8 national intangible cultural heritages such as Huangmei Opera, Tongcheng Song, and the legend of Peacock Flying Southeast. Therefore, Anqing Museum is also the Chinese Huangmei Opera Museum, which shows what status Huangmei Opera is in the hearts of Anqing people.

Anqing City Museum (Image 1-14) is located at No. 8 Qianjiang Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing City, and together with the Anhui China Huangmei Opera Museum (Image 15) and the Anqing City Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall cum Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall (Image 16-18), they form three brands under one institution. The total building area is 40,034 square meters, with an exhibition area of 11,680 square meters. The museum is a national key museum and a comprehensive national second-level museum, focusing on historical relics, revolutionary relics, and drama relics. Anqing City Museum has 6 permanent exhibitions and 2 temporary exhibition halls: The first floor houses the calligraphy and painting hall and temporary exhibition hall; The second floor features the coin exhibition, ancient Anqing civilization exhibition, and modern Anqing civilization exhibition; The third floor includes Anqing City Memory and Huangmei Opera Art Exhibition. A city, a story; a memory, a nostalgia. Anqing, this national historical and cultural city along the Yangtze River, has always been a strategic military location, a hub for merchants, and economically prosperous since ancient times. Stepping into Anqing is like entering a rich open-air museum: numerous cultural relics, historical buildings everywhere, streets full of signs, ranging from various professions and business associations to every street, every alley, every person, every item, all steeped in the ancient charm of the old city... This is also what we gained from our visit to the Anqing Museum. Opposite the west side of the Anqing Museum is the Anqing City Sports Center (Image 19-20). Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall (Image 16-18) is located in the Anqing City Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall, in the scenic Lianhu Park at the southeast corner of the Linghu Lake tourist area in Anqing city. Therefore, after visiting Lianhu Park, we also conveniently visited the exhibition hall. Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall, established in 1993, covers an area of 9,067 square meters, with a width of 28 meters and a depth of 100 meters, and a building area of 400 square meters. In the center of the main hall is a bust of General Huang Zhen, with over 1,300 pieces (sets) of revolutionary relics on display. The exhibition content is distributed across four halls, using a wealth of photographic materials and precious revolutionary relics to show the glorious journey of Huang Zhen from the son of a farmer to a general, diplomat, and artist. The exhibition hall is now a provincial-level base for patriotic education, provincial defense education, provincial Young Pioneers education, and a national AA-rated tourist attraction. We visited Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall before going to the Anqing City Museum.

Anqing Museum is located at No. 8 Qianjiang Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing City, Anhui Province, and it shares the same institution with Anhui Chinese Huangmei Opera Museum and Anqing Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall cum Huang Zhen's Life Deeds Exhibition Hall, with a total construction area of 40,034 square meters and an exhibition area of 11,680 square meters. The museum is a national key museum and a comprehensive national second-level museum, mainly featuring historical relics, revolutionary relics, and drama relics. During the Eastern Zhou period, Anqing was the site of the ancient Wan state, and the abbreviation 'Wan' for Anhui Province originates from this. In the seventeenth year of the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1147), Shuzhou Deqing Army was renamed Shuzhou Anqing Army, and the name 'Anqing' has been used ever since. Anqing City is a national historical and cultural city, the cradle of the Peking Opera progenitor Hui Troupe, and the hometown of famous personalities such as Chen Duxiu, Deng Jiaxian, and Zhang Henshui. From the twenty-fifth year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1760) to the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938), Anqing was the capital of Anhui Province, serving as the political, economic, and cultural center of the province, and one of the early Chinese cities to embrace modern civilization. Anqing Museum

📍 On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, I arrived at Anqing, a national historical and cultural city, and it started to rain, so I went to the museum first. 📍 Anqing Museum and China Huangmei Opera Museum are two museums in one location, located in Anqing Economic Development Zone, about ten kilometers from the city center. The giant reliefs in the hall are all representative of Anqing's local culture: ancient city walls, Tianzhu Mountain, peacocks flying southeast, the Yangtze River, Zhenfeng Tower, Qiao Tower, camphor tree (city tree). 🚩🚩 The museum has three floors and 6 permanent exhibitions: 📍 Anqing Ancient Civilization Display, second floor; 📍 Anqing Modern Civilization Display, second floor; 📍 Anqing City Memory, third floor; 📍 Huangmei Opera Art Series, third floor; 📍 Anqing Calligraphy and Painting Display, first floor; 📍 Anqing Coin Display, second floor. 📍 During the Spring Festival, there are Huangmei opera performances on the third floor. It takes 2-3 hours to see the six exhibitions, and the second and third floors are the core parts. The commemorative stamp is at the exit of the cultural and creative shop on the first floor. You can make an appointment online in advance to enter with your ID. 🚙🚙 There is a parking lot for self-driving, with many parking spaces. There are buses to the door.