[2025 Jinan Stay] Travel Guide for Mingshui Ancient City Yi'an Inn (Updated Feb)

2025 New Year's must-go｜Go to Qingzhao Spring City to celebrate the New Year 🧨Everyone is intoxicated by the feast. May the new year be better than the old one. - At the beginning of the new year of 2025, 🙋🏻‍♀️I was in the Mingshui Ancient City, the Qingzhao Spring City in Zhangqiu, Jinan, and experienced the winter of the Spring City firsthand❄️, embarking on an immersive Spring Festival journey of Chinese traditional culture🐲. - 🧨Chinese New Year Events 📍Cooking tea around the stove In the Meng Family Theater, you can sit around the stove with your family and friends, sipping hot tea, listening to the melodious tunes of traditional Zhangqiu Bangzi; or beside the Moquan, with the gurgling spring water and the lingering tea fragrance. 📍Early Wine Collection The Shandong Market combines with the early wine culture to bring together authentic Shandong delicacies, including braised pork, four-happiness meatballs, Longshan tofu brain, mutton soup, donkey meat stew, etc., all of which are handmade by uncles and aunts. If you stay in the scenic area, you will be given a 30r breakfast voucher. 📍Special Performances There are not only local characteristic performances such as Zhangqiu Bangzi, Quanxiu & Drone Square, but also special New Year activities ~ 🪷 Lantern Festival (with giant Li Qingzhao lanterns), intangible cultural heritage temple fairs, fire pot flying men, floating singing queens, Chaoshan Yingge dance, iron flower Kongming lanterns, 🎆 fireworks display... Various New Year activities are lively and immersive, and you can experience the charm of traditional culture. 📍Intangible cultural heritage experience In Mingshui Ancient City, Qingzhao Spring City, I experienced the lacquer fan making that was very popular some time ago, as well as boating, rubbings, black pottery, and bamboo weaving. I deeply felt the wisdom and creativity of our ancestors. In today's era, there are still many interesting entertainment activities to do when you put down your mobile phone. - 🗺️About attractions 📍Bai Mai Spring Group The ancient city is home to the Baimai Spring Group, one of the five major spring groups in Jinan, including the Plum Blossom Spring, Ink Spring, and Golden Mirror Spring. Each one has its own characteristics and pleasant scenery. 📍Li Qingzhao's Former Residence Surrounded by springs and lush flowers and trees, it complements the graceful style of Yi An Jushi's poems and integrates the cultural and natural landscapes. 📍City Wall When night falls, go up to the tower and look out into the distance. When the lights of the ancient city come on, you will enter the poetic world of "Qingzhao Dream of the Spring City". 📍Traditional workshop There are many special attractions in the ancient city, such as cloth workshop, sauce factory, oil mill, etc., all of which display special traditional crafts. - At this moment, standing on the wall of Mingshui Ancient City, looking at the bright lights and bustling crowds, I can't help but feel a lot of emotions and indulge in this feast...

Ming Shui has always been known as the "Little Spring City". When you step into the gate of Ming Shui Ancient City, there is an illusion of being in a painting, as if traveling back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. 🌿The entire ancient city is surrounded by water systems, quaint and charming, not only with water wheels, pavilions, and towers, but also with black-awning boats shuttling through the ancient city. 🛶Small bridges over flowing water, willow banks, black tiles, green bricks, oil-paper umbrellas, a black-awning boat rippling on the emerald waves, the boatman dressed in Hanfu calmly rows the oars, the boat leisurely passes under the stone arch bridge... 🍃Walking on the stone-paved road, you can visit Meng Family Mansion, Meng Hongsheng Cloth Workshop, Wansheng Furnace Foundry, Yamen, Wei Chuan Pharmacy, Chang Yuan Soy Sauce Garden, Yi Xiang Zhai Oil Workshop, Mo Dou Tofu Workshop, Rui Fu Xiang... Behind each shop, there is a historical story. You can also experience intangible cultural heritage skills up close. 🥢For snacks, you can try hanging oven baked buns, spring water mutton soup, Quan Cheng scallion roast, good luck cake, candied hawthorn, Ou Yu, iron pot roast, and so on. 🏠Accommodation recommendations: Ancient City Hotel, Shuang Quan Hotel, Bian Gu/Ming Shui Inn, Yi An Inn (Qing Zhao Culture), Xing Mu Inn, Meng Family Inn, etc. Staying here also offers: free rides on the scenic area's electric cars, multiple entries and exits from the scenic area during your stay, complimentary luggage consignment service, reduced parking fees at the scenic area, enjoy the quiet morning of the ancient city, and enjoy an exclusive viewing area for the Quan Show performance. ⭐️At night, be sure to watch the Quan Show performance. With the city as the scene, the spring as the soul, and the characters' stories as the context. You can enjoy the spring scenery, classical music and dance, poetry voice-over, drone performance, high-tech lighting and sound, breaking the shackles of time and space, it is a moving chapter from ancient to modern times, a breathtaking audio-visual feast! For the May Day holiday, take your family to Ming Shui Ancient City for a stroll.