[2025 Linzhou Stay] Travel Guide for Taihang Grand Canyon Gaojiatai sketch base Tianyu Station (Updated Jan)

Dahang Grand Canyon Gaojiatai Painting and Calligraphy and Sketching Base is located in the Grand Canyon of Taihang Mountain in Linzhou City, Henan Province. It is a place with beautiful scenery and simple folk customs. It is praised by artists as "moving with the scenery, Baili Gallery". The four seasons here have distinct scenery, and the scenery is majestic, majestic, strange and beautiful, which is very suitable for calligraphy, painting and sketching. Gaojiatai Sketching Base consists of 20 clean and unique farmhouses, scattered in Gaojiatai Village deep in Linlie Mountain. This base was deeply influenced and moved by the painter, and developed into a more primitive and natural village. "Yangpo" at the bottom of a well in Shanxi became the second base of Gaojiatai sketching base. The architecture of Gaojiatai Sketching Base has distinct layers and winding paths, and it retains very complete red stone walls, slate houses, stone mills and mills, etc. Being in the village allows us to appreciate Taihang folk customs from a distance, return to simplicity and rebuild our spiritual home. In addition, the Gaojiatai sketching base has also attracted many teachers and students from art academies to sketch. The China Federation of Literary and Art Circles has successfully held three Chinese landscape painting training courses here. The prosperity of Gaojiatai Village has led to the development of the sketching industry in Shibanyan Town. It has become a listed sketching and painting base for more than 200 institutions such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, and Peking University, and receives more than 2 million sketching people every year. The natural scenery and residential buildings of Gaojiatai Sketching Base are unique and popular among painting enthusiasts. It is known as the "Painters' Village". In recent years, Gaojiatai Village has tapped its resource potential and village cultural connotation, actively developed sketching and cultural tourism industries, attracted calligraphy, painting and art schools and institutions to set up sketching bases here, and has become a well-known sketching resort and a unique rural tourism destination.

Gaojiatai Village is located in Shibanyan Town, Linzhou City, Henan Province. It is located in the core area of Taihang Grand Canyon and is a 'Chinese traditional protected village'. The residential buildings in the village are made of local materials, and the stone streets, stone courtyards, stone slabs, stone windows, stone pillars, stone walls, etc. are integrated with nature. Therefore, Gaojiatai is also known as the 'Chinese Painter's Village'.