[2025 Songyang Attraction] Travel Guide for Ruoliao Yuanshilin (Updated Jun)

If you're tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, why not come to Songyang to experience a slower pace of life? 🥰 1. Best Time to Visit 🔸Spring & Autumn (March-May, September-November): Pleasant climate and beautiful scenery make it the ideal season for travel. Enjoy rapeseed flowers and peach blossoms in spring, and admire autumn foliage in fall. 🔸Summer (June-August): Hot weather, but perfect for escaping the heat in the mountains. 🔸Winter (December-February): Chilly temperatures, but a great time to experience unique New Year traditions. 2. Transportation ✈️ By Air: The nearest airport is Lishui Airport, about a 1-hour drive from Songyang. 🚄 By High-Speed Rail: Take the train to Lishui Station, then transfer to a bus or taxi to Songyang. 🚗 By Car: Songyang is easily accessible, making self-driving a great option. 3. Must-Visit Attractions 🔻 Yangjiatang Village: Known as the "Golden Potala Palace," its staggered yellow-walled and black-tiled houses glisten in the sunlight like an oil painting. 🔻 Songyang Ancient Street: A Ming-Qing dynasty street with bluestone paths and wooden shops, brimming with historical charm. 🔻 Damushan Tea Plantation: China's largest cycling-friendly tea plantation—ride, sip tea, and take photos while immersing yourself in tea culture. 🔻 Chenjiapeng Village: An ancient cliffside village now infused with artistic vibes thanks to the Pioneer Bookstore. 🔻 Ruoliao Primeval Forest: A natural oxygen bar with waterfalls, streams, and ancient trees, making you feel like you’re in a fairyland. 4. Local Delicacies 🔸 Songyang Thin Pancake: A local snack with thin wrappers and generous fillings, deliciously savory. 🔸 Salt-Baked Chicken: Tender, fragrant chicken cooked with salt. 🔸 Shalei: A traditional Songyang drink—refreshing, sweet, and not cloying. 🔸 Huangmi Guo: A soft, sweet glutinous rice cake beloved by locals. 5. Accommodation Recommendations 🔻 Songyang Cloudscape Homestay: Perched on a mountaintop with sweeping views of Songyang. 🔻 Songyang Fei Niao Ji Homestay: A renovated ancient residence retaining traditional architecture and artistic flair. 🔻 Songyang Mingquan Village Stay: Near Damushan Tea Plantation, offering a serene environment to unwind. 6. Travel Tips ⚠️ Attractions in Songyang are spread out—consider renting a car or hiring a driver. ⚠️ Book accommodations in advance, especially during holidays. ⚠️ Protect against sun and insects. ⚠️ Respect local customs. 7. Itinerary Suggestions 1️⃣ One-Day Trip: Songyang Ancient Street - Yangjiatang Village - Damushan Tea Plantation 2️⃣ Two-Day Trip: Day 1: Songyang Ancient Street - Yangjiatang Village - Chenjiapeng Village Day 2: Damushan Tea Plantation - Ruoliao Primeval Forest Songyang is a place meant for slow travel—take your time to truly appreciate its beauty. 🥰

🐾Stepping on the land of the secret land of Jiangnan, backed by the mountains surrounding the ancient village⛰️ The disturbance in the village can surprise every villager👩🏻‍🌾 Pull out the karaoke machine in the sunny square, and the singing voices of old and new villagers compete to appear🎤🎶🎵 Drag the grandpa who is watching the excitement to attend the "Just a Spoonful" Christmas party🥄🍰 👵🏻👴🏻👨🏻👩🏻Grinding beans and making tofu with the braided grandma next door, Uncle Li from Qiaotou, Aunt Song...🫘 The 77-year-old grandma with pigtails participated in the "Modern Market in the Countryside" for the first time as a "stall owner"🌄 🖋️Writing Spring Festival couplets and pasting blessing characters with Uncle Li, the calligrapher in the village🧧 ... 🌅2024 for "Momoye" and the village is coming to an end, but the lives of the villagers will continue 🪄Looking forward to "Momono" 2025 and "Songzhuang Village" connecting with "Villagers"🔗 to produce more interesting and warmer stories

Enjoy a dinner made with local ingredients from Songyang A fusion of Chinese and Western cuisine in a 600-year-old village in Jiangnan Bamboo woven into a frame, stones fished out of the stream, flowers and plants picked from the mountains and forests ⛰️Let the dining table return to nature Songyang's local flavors are incorporated into "Madame Ching's" creative cuisine - Songyang white wine, Dragon Boat tea, Songzhuang peach gum, villagers' dried plums... Let the lips and tongue retain the freshness and sweetness of the local flavors Paired with the champion wine from "Mulan Wine Estate" in the Helan Mountains of the Northwest 🍷 🍂Let every pore of the diners be filled with joy... The cool breeze of the mountain path 🌬️ blows away the intoxication and lingering of the dinner 🛌 Rest for a night in a rammed earth house and enjoy a rare moment of leisure 💐Table flowers: installation artist and floral designer Eileen Tao 👨‍🍳Food: That's Shanghai 2023 Chef of the Year Dali 🍷 Wine pairing: Ningxia Helan Mountain East Mulan Wine Estate Gold Award Champion Wine

The original forest of Zhenan is located in Anmin Township and Fengjing Township, Songyang County, Zhejiang Province. It is dominated by the original ecological landscape. The total area of the scenic spot is more than 40,000 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 95%. It is affected by the subtropical monsoon climate. The unique alpine microclimate environment has always been a summer paradise for people in Lishui and the Yangtze River Delta. The scenic area acts as a natural oxygen bar, with a negative oxygen ion content of up to 100,000/cm3, which is about 100 times higher than the fresh air standard stipulated by the World Health Organization. It is especially suitable for health and leisure. At the same time, the scenic spot has been guided by the principles of earth, fresh, ecological and organic, using local ecological foodstuffs, and launching local local dishes and farmhouse dishes such as bitter tofu, jail tea stewed pig's feet, and For medicinal medicinal liquors such as yew wine and wild mountain kiwi wine, visitors at home and abroad can fully enjoy the food and health culture of color and flavor. Choose here, one is to avoid the crowds of May Day. Second, the most important purpose is to swear by the cuckoo. There are thousands of acres of earthworms, and the ancient times of the "Shilihuahai" monkey head rhododendrons. For this reason, the azaleas are also held every year. However, what I never expected was when the cuckoo in the mountains was already in full bloom. The monkey head cuckoo here has not yet blossomed, and it is inevitable that it will bloom at least until mid-May this year. Of course, you can't be disappointed. Even if there is no cuckoo, it is also a natural oxygen bar. There are clear spring waterfalls everywhere. There are not many key tourists. You can breathe fresh air freely. This is smoggy for us all day. It is also a pleasure for the troubled city people. The scenic area is actually very large and is roughly divided into two sections. There were relatively many tourists in the previous section, about two kilometers. In the latter half of the forest, the forest is more primitive and dense, about one way in about 5 kilometers. The monkey head cuckoo is also deep in the forest. So even if you catch up with the flower season, if you don't have a certain amount of physical strength, you still have no chance.