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

📍Location: Shangshu Road, Wenshang County, Jining City, Shandong Province ⏰Time: About an hour 🚗Transportation: Accessible by both bus and self-driving, less than an hour from the city center by bus. 📸Travel Photography Tips: ✔The exterior of Baoxiang Palace is grand and has a foreign flair, and from a high vantage point, you can overlook the entire Baoxiang Temple and Wenshang city. ✔Baoxiang Temple is bustling, but this place is quiet, so be mindful of heights, especially the elderly and children when climbing high. ✔Half a day is enough for a visit to Wenshang, with the itinerary: Baoxiang Palace👉Baoxiang Temple👉Zhongdu Museum (take a break at noon, closed on Mondays). ✔Viewed from the opposite bridge, it feels like a golden pagoda on the water, and the scenery is even better in summer~ ✔The red wall outside Baoxiang Palace frames the tower, giving off a Xi'an vibe!

👉 Wenshang County, formerly known as Zhongdu, is located in the northernmost part of Jining, bordering Liangshan County, Yanzhou District, Rencheng District, and Dongping County and Ningyang County of Tai'an City. 👉 This place is really a severely underrated treasure of a tourist city! 📝 If you come to Wenshang for tourism, it is recommended to check in at the following five places! ▪️ Zhongdu Museum Located south of Baoxiang Temple scenic area and west of Lotus Square, the exhibition hall is divided into two floors, with the first floor for historical relics exhibition and the second floor for Buddhist relics exhibition, covering an exhibition area of 800 square meters. The exhibition hall uses comprehensive exhibition means to show the cultural development of Wenshang in all aspects and from multiple angles. Currently, the museum has a collection of over 50,000 cultural relics, making it one of the museums with the largest number of cultural relics in Shandong Province at the county level, which is well worth a visit. ▪️ Baoxiang Temple A Buddhist cultural theme scenic area and experience site that integrates the display and worship of holy objects, religious study and practice, and tourism and leisure. ⚠️ The main attractions include: Baoxiang Temple Pagoda Yard, Baoxiang Temple Building Complex, Zhongdu Museum, Buddha Worship Square, and Buddha Worship Avenue. ▪️ Wenshang Confucian Temple Wenshang Confucian Temple is a national 3A level scenic spot, dedicated to the worship of the great thinker and educator Confucius. The existing main buildings include the Ji Gate, Dacheng Hall, and Minglun Hall, with newly built Confucius Zhaizhongdu Cultural Exhibition Area and Imperial Examination Cultural Exhibition Area on the east and west sides. ▪️ Zhongdu Folk Museum Located at the northeast corner of the Lotus Lake Wetland Scenic Area in Wenshang County, the main building is a Ming and Qing folk-style antique building with an elegant and unique architectural style. It is the largest folk culture theme museum in southwestern Shandong with the most exhibits and the most distinctive features. It displays the folk culture of southwestern Shandong, especially the local marriage customs, childbirth customs, birthday customs, folk crafts, theatrical arts, quyi (traditional Chinese performing arts), and folk production and living customs of Jining and Wenshang. ▪️ Lotus Lake 👣 Tour route: Lotus Square—Lotus Bridge—Welcome Avenue—Viewing Platform—Yongji Bridge—Li Bai Square—Wetland Exhibition Area—Zhongdu Folk Museum 📍 Address: 2 kilometers north of the Binhu Boulevard in Wenshang Street, Wenshang County 💰 Ticket price: Free admission for the first entry ticket

As a travel expert who likes to explore small but beautiful destinations, I have grown to love Jining more and more. Spring brings a profusion of flowers, summer is filled with the chirping of cicadas, and autumn and winter also offer their own beautiful scenery. With the changing of the seasons, I have spent many wonderful times in Jining, watching the mountains and waters. Recently, my trips to Jining have included not only enjoying the beautiful scenery but also deliberately adding a cultural aspect to my tours. On one hand, it increases the interest in knowledge, and on the other hand, it makes the travel experience more substantial, which is the direction I like. 【About the Museum Journey】 Like many people, I now make a special trip to the museums of the city I visit. I think to understand a city, one should not only appreciate its current beauty and prosperity but perhaps also its cultural heritage and history... Museums, as a concentrated expression of national culture and world civilization and as carriers of spiritual and material civilization, bear the heavy responsibility of promoting national culture and revitalizing the national spirit. This museum journey in Jining Wenshang was very enlightening, with a broad and inquisitive approach. Here are three recommended places to check in! 【Recommended Check-in Spots】 First stop: Zhongdu Museum The Zhongdu Museum exhibition hall is divided into two floors, with the first floor dedicated to historical relics and the second to Buddhist artifacts, covering an exhibition area of 800 square meters. The exhibition hall uses comprehensive exhibition methods to show the cultural development of Wenshang from all angles and perspectives. Special recommendations: The Beixin culture of Jia Bo, Chiyou culture, Confucius as the governor of Zhongdu, the Nanwang Canal water diversion, the Four Ministers of the Same Dynasty, and other cultural themes of famous people from Zhongdu. Second stop: Baoxiang Temple If you are interested in traditional culture, you can visit Wenshang Baoxiang Temple. It is a Buddhist cultural theme scenic area that integrates the display and worship of sacred objects, religious study experiences, and leisurely tourism. Third stop: Wenshang Confucian Temple Historically, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Wenshang Confucian Temple was continuously renovated and expanded in the style of the Qufu Confucian Temple, forming a large architectural complex centered around the Dacheng Hall. The existing structures of the Wenshang Confucian Temple include the Ji Gate, Dacheng Hall, Minglun Hall, the Shrine of Chaste Women, and the Shrine of Filial Piety, making it a provincial-level cultural heritage site.