阜阳市

Understand

Fuyang is a classical example of a traditional southern Chinese city. It is next to the Fuchun River and surrounded by mountains from three sides. There is an ancient Chinese poem to describe Fuyang: from ancient times, Fuyang was considered by Chinese people to be the most beautiful landscape in this world (天下佳山水，古今推富春. The famous Yuan Dynasty Chinese painter, Huang Gongwang, painted a landscape of Fuyang which is one of the most famous traditional Chinese paintings.

The whole city covers 1830 km², including 16 towns and 9 townships, with a total population over 600,000.

Fuyang, which in ancient times was known as Fuchun, has a long history dating to the beginning of the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). Highlights include Stork Mountain, the Eight Scenic Spots of Fuchun, and the Angling Terrace of Yan Zilling, o­nce residence of the famous artist Huang Gongwang, of the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368), painter of the famous landscape "Life in the Hills of Fuchun". Fuyang has been the home of many historical people, including Sun Quan, King of Wu during the period of Three States (220-280), and Yu Dafur (1896–1945), famous writer and novelist.

Get in

If you come from another province, you can go to Hangzhou by train or plane first. Then you can take the bus to get into Fuyang. The bus station is near the Train Station of Hangzhou (城站火车站). The bus runs every 5 minutes and it starts on early morning. Do not try to take the bus from Hangzhou to Fuyang during late afternoon because there would be so many people waiting and therefore you have to queue for at least 30 minutes. There are two bus routes: one to Fuyang New South Bus Station (新南站), another to New Bus Station (新车站). Price to go to the New Bus Station is ¥7.

See

The base of volplane in Yongan mountain: you can rental a glider here. There is a best place to glide because they have the best weather, landing area, slope of hill, terrain, wind direction, and condition of traffic and vegetation.

Do

Fuyang has two cinemas, named Time and Hengdian. One is in Intime and another is in Wu Mei. The price of movie is not very expensive, only ¥60 per a ticket. Near the cinema, there are a Video Game City and KTV. You can watch movie, sing songs or play video games at there. Across the street, there is a skating rink. At Da Runfa, there has many stores, you can enjoy yourself going shopping there. At there, you can drink coffee in Mei Yide which near by Da Runfa.