The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base is located on the mountain of Futoushan in the northern suburbs of the city, 18km away from the town center. The Giant Panda Museum is a unique museum set up for Giant Panda's in the world, it collects and shows fruits of human knowledge, review and research on the Giant Panda. The Museum shows almost 300 rare, fine pictures and scientific, full & accurate charts about Giant Panda, exhibits literatures and monograph on Giant Panda's at all times and in different places of the world.

It shows practical specimens of Giant Panda's from fossils to every part of dissection, dejection and main types of food bamboo etc. The Museum also built many large zoology scope-boxes with an area of 300m2, such as remote antiquity as Giant Panda zoology environment, Giant Panda danger situation, and Giant Panda zoology environment in Qinling, Liangshan, Xiangling, Minshan, and Qionglai Mountain.

The Museum systematically and completely introduces Giant Panda's evolvement history, ancient and nowadays distribution, general situation, condition and research of human to Giant Panda's. This lets people roundly know Giant Panda's, understand efforts made by our government to protect and save the animal which is loved by people all of the world and consciously arose the feeling to love and protect Giant Panda's and their natural habitat. We recommend that the best time to visit is in the morning, between 8:30 and 10am, during feeding time. Outside these hours it's likely the bears will indulging in their favorite pastime, sleeping!

The Thatched Cottage of Dufu, located by the side of the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu's western suburb. It was the residence of Dufu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty when he took refuge in Chengdu.

Du Fu, one of China's most famous poets, left home at the tender age of 20, becoming a court official at the former capitall in Changan (near Xian). Du Fu's civil service duties did not last long however, and he was captured by rebels and forced to flee the city for Chengdu after only a few years. It was in Chengdu, at this small and simple house, that Du Fu was inspired to write more than 200 poems which are regarded today as masterpieces of realist poetry.

Dufu's Thatched Cottage covers an area of 16 hectares. The Gate, the Screen Wall, the Lobby, the Hall of Verse History, and the Gong Bu Temple are lined one by one along the middle axis, flanked by corridors and other auxiliary buildings. The bronze statue of Dufu in the Hall of Verse History is broad-minded. The clay sculpture of Dufu was enshrined in the Gong Bu Temple is very lifelike. Among and between them are trees and bamboo groves, winding brooks and linking small bridges.

All these give the place an atmosphere of solemnity, meanwhile a sense of beauty and grace. Around the hones are bamboo fences and inside the fences are vegetable and herb plots, easily remind people of the scenes described in Dufu's poems. While taking a quiet walk in such a historical and cultural environmnet, visitors are apt to be brought back to the ancient times.

The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project was completed around 250 BC during the Warring States Period. Prior to its construction, the Chengdu plain was prone to flooding in the winter and drought in the summer. Libing, a governor of Shu in the Qin state, created the system. Libing employed a method of channeling and dividing the water to harness the Minjiang Rivers. This was accomplished by separating the project into two main parts; the headwork and the irrigation system. The project effectively controls flooding and provides a method of irrigation.

Magical Face Change in Sichuan Opera

Sichuan Opera

As one of the major opera schools in China, the Sichuan Opera has a long history. It originated at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. At that time there were several different forms of popular theatre in the Sichuan area which gradually developed and blended with the local culture to finally merge into the present Sichuan Opera. Sichuan Opera is well-known in China, and is characterized by solo singing, skillful acting, rich percussion and incredibly funny comedies. Special characters use stunts such as quick face changes without makeup, jumping through burning hoops and hiding of swords. The magical face changes are particularly famous.

Face Changes

Face changing is the essence of Sichuan Opera. It is a kind of stunt which involves the on-stage change of mask or facial makeup, via masks or facial painting, without the audience noticing. It is amazing that, with a magical sweep of a hand, the actors can change their masks successively in an incredibly short time. Face changes first appeared 300 years ago.

Initially the opera masters changed their face during a performance by blowing into a bowl of red, black or gold powder, which immediately stuck to their oiled skinny. By the 1920s, actors began to use layers of masks made of oiled paper. During the performance, actors would peel off one after another in a very short time. Now, the masters use painted silk masks, which can be worn in layers. No matter how closely you watch, you don't see the mask being changed.

Qingcheng Mountain

Qingcheng Mountain is the most beautiful and quietest mountain. Its peaks over peaks as if to rival who is the best beauty. Boundless luxuriant forest and green trees in every season look like the outline of a city,so it is called Qingcheng; The pure white snow peaks overlook Chengdu Plain of thousands of li, and see sunrise in the morning and " Supernatural Lights" at night. Qingcheng Mountain is the headstream of Chinese Taoism. The initiator of Taoism,Zhang Taolin in the end of East Han Dynasty, came to Qingcheng Mountain to instruct Taoism from Shanxi. There still go round supernatural stories describing how he fighted hard with devils,how the "Brush Pen Groove" and the " Three Island Stone" formed. Since Jin Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, There are many Taoist Temples with flourishing burning incense, so Qingcheng Mountain was also called "Supernatural Beings's Capital", "Original Courty Yard of Taoist Master". Many statemen, writers left handwriting.

Wuhou Memorial Temple (Wuhou Ci)

Wuhou (Martial Marquis) Memorial Temple is dedicated to Zhuge Liang, the Martial Marquis of Shu in the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang was the personification of noble character and intelligence. Memorial temples erected in many places after his death include a famous one in Chendu. Located in the south suburb of Chengdu, the temple covers 37,000 square meters (398,277 square feet). The date of its establishment is unclear, only that it was built next to the temple of Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu. It was combined with the Temple of Liu Bei at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty; consequently, the entrance plaque reads 'Zhaolie Temple of Han Dynasty' (Zhaolie is the posthumous title of Liu Bei). The current temple was rebuilt in 1672. Surrounded by old cypresses and classical red walls, the temple evokes nostalgia. The main body of the temple is divided into five sections, the Gate, the second Gate, the Hall of Liu Bei, the corridor, and the Hall of Zhuge Liang, all of which run south to north. Inside, clay sculptures of Shu Emperor and ministers stand together, making them a special feature. The most valuable cultural relic within the temple is the stele set up in 809. This huge stele 367-centimeter (144-inch) high and 95-centimeter (37-inch) wide is called the Triple-Success Stele. The three successes are: an article written by Pei Du, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty who served four emperors in succession, calligraphy by Liu Gongquan, one of the most brilliant calligraphers in Chinese history, and a statement about the morality and achievements of Zhuge Liang. His great personality, his dedicated service to others, and his outstanding intelligence place Zhuge Liang above all emperors, generals, and ministers in history. A visit to the temple illuminates his status with the Chinese people.

Dan Xianghu

Dan Xianghu eco-industrial demonstration zone in Chengdu in Pujiang County, the area of 20 square kilometers, across the highway into Accor demonstration area south entrance demonstration area 86 km away from Chengdu, 42 km away from Ya'an from the Chengdu Shuangliu Airport 77 kilometers. Model forest coverage rate of more than 60 percent, more than 1,600 acres of the lake, air quality is better than Class I, the Chengdu Plain is "Tianranyangba" and its excellent natural environment is like a jade inlaid on the Chengdu Plain. Dan Xianghu eco-industrial demonstration zone is located in Chengdu Plain and the Department of combining the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, southwest of gold is the first leg of Tourism Corridor, the area of eco-park as animals, plants symbiotic co-existence of heaven and more people are looking for the modern city A piece of pure land.

Liu manor Dayi

Dayi Liu Manor is located west of Chengdu Plain, from China's historical and cultural city of Chengdu 48 kilometers. From the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, the modern bureaucratic Sichuan Liu Wencai landlord and his family have built and the expansion of this magnificent, Chinese and Western manor buildings, covers an area of 7 million square meters, construction area of 2.1 More than 10,000 square meters. Dayi Liu manor exhibition is divided into four parts: her husband Liu Wencai Museum display of resilience and their families living at the scene and renowned Chinese and foreign exhibition of large-scale clay sculpture "rental homes." Heritage treasures Museum and Sculpture Museum houses a fine collection on display Manor Dedication to the audience; western Sichuan Folk Museum vividly portrayed the people of western Sichuan production and daily life, such as customs; Fajia Liu as its ancestral home of origin, is a rare kind of social change information.

Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base

Wuhou Memorial Temple (Wuhou Ci)

Dan Xianghu

Liu manor Dayi