Jinzhong Attractions
Places covered in the Jinzhong travel guide: Pingyao Ancient City, Qiao Family Compound, Rishengchang Exchange House, Shuanglin Temple.
These stops are the places named in theJinzhong travel guide— the three-day shape, food, and what to confirm before you go live on that page. Open a stop for the write-up that sits under it.
Pingyao Ancient City
Pingyao Ancient City guide: the 1370 Ming wall and its six gates, the Market Tower and South Street, the county yamen and Jin-dynasty Confucian Temple, the 125-yuan three-day through ticket, Bus 108 from the high-speed station, and two-day pacing.
Qiao Family Compound
Qiao Family Compound guide: the Qing merchant mansion of Qiao Zhiyong in Qi County, its 313 rooms and courtyards laid out like the double-happiness character, the Raise the Red Lantern connection, the 115-yuan ticket, 2026 hours, and how it compares with the Wang Family Compound.
Rishengchang Exchange House
Rishengchang guide: how a Pingyao dye shop became China's first piaohao draft bank around 1823, the code poem that protected its drafts, its fall after 1911, the China Piaohao Museum on West Street, and what the Pingyao through ticket covers.
Shuanglin Temple
Shuanglin Temple guide: the walled temple six kilometres southwest of Pingyao with about 2,052 painted clay figures, the Thousand Buddha Hall Weituo, the many-armed Guanyin of the Bodhisattva Hall, 1461 murals, the separate ticket, hours and transport.