Kaifeng is a famous hometown of folk art in China, enjoying the reputation of "hometown of China opera", "hometown of China woodcut New Year pictures", "hometown of China border embroidery" and "hometown of China chrysanthemum". There are exquisite handicrafts such as border embroidery, official porcelain, Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures, temple fairs, lantern festivals, bird markets, flower markets and night markets.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the embroidery technology in Kaifeng, the capital of Tokyo, had developed to a high level. Kaifeng has gathered skilled craftsmen and embroiderers from all over the world. There are official Wenxiu Academy and folk Xiang Xiu, and embroidery is developed on this basis. In recent years, Kaifeng's border embroidery is unique, with landscape figures, balcony flowers and birds, fine needle and thread, dazzling velvet, rich colors, distinct layers and strong three-dimensional sense, which has become a must-buy art for domestic and foreign tourists.

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The development of history

Kaifeng has four characteristics: rich cultural relics, long urban pattern, rich ancient city style and unique northern water city. Up to now, it has a history of 465,438+000 years, including Wei in Xia Dynasty and Warring States Period, and Liang, Jin, Han, Zhou, Song and Jin in the late Five Dynasties, which is called the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties.

Kaifeng is the only capital in the world where the central axis of the city has never changed, and the ruins of Chengdui City are rare in the world archaeological history and capital history. The capital of the Song Dynasty was the largest city in the world at that time. Kaifeng is the creative place of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, and it has the reputation of "Five Phoenix Taqi Tree Ming Xia, Yimen Ancient Imperial Country", "Fairy Boy Land of All Nations", "Bianjing Rich in the World" and "Tokyo Dream of China". ?

Famous scenic spot

The key cultural relics in Kaifeng, such as the Iron Tower, Suoguo Temple, Baogong Temple, Yanqing Temple, Yuwangtai and Fanta, have high research value, historical and cultural value and tourism value. Kaifeng, as one of the three stone carving centers in Henan Province, has more than 0/000 pieces of stone carving treasures from the Han Dynasty to the Republic of China, and is a precious cultural relic for studying social economy, history and culture, science and technology and calligraphy art.

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