The Study On Landscape Resources And Tourism In Taiyuan District During Tang And Song Dynasties

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the beautiful naturalenvironment and long history culture in Taiyuan had provided good conditionsfor the development of landscape resources. Although the landscape resources ofTaiyuan area during Tang and song dynasties were not as rich as other place, itwas appreciated by its unique characteristics. The natural landscape resources ofTaiyuan region during Tang and song dynasties consist of mountain landscaperesources, water landscape resources and climate landscape resources.The areais surrounded by mountains and rivers, such as Xuanweng mountain and Mengmountain, Fen river and Jin river The mountain and waters resources were veryrich. Sometimes, rivers were truncated by mountains which split the big riversinto several branches. These unique and distinctive water landscape greatlyenhanced people’s appreciation. The northern climate of the Taiyuan regionduring this period also added different enjoyment of the view. The culturallandscape resources of the Taiyuan region during the Tang and Song Dynastiesmainly included ancient city sites,sacred landscape,Buddhist templelandscape.These cultural landscape are generally built around the beautifulnatural environment. They were integrated as a whole as well as enhanced eachother’s beauty. It is the salient feature of the human landscape resources.Together with these, the Jinci landscape, which contained both natural landscapeand cultural landscape resources, completed the system of garden landscape. The main characteristics of the landscape resources during the Tang andSong dynasties in Taiyuan area is that it had the diversification in the form.However, the natural landscape resources gradually got rid of the influence ofcultural landscape resources and became independent landscape subjects. Butthe number of human landscape resources in the region are still relatively small.The unique landscape resources in Taiyuan region during the Tang andsong dynasties provide a good condition for the development of the tourismactivities. High enthusiasm of taking part in the tourism activities was keptamong all classes among which the emperor,officials,scholars,and Buddhistmonk became the main part. Although the tour-activity of the emperorembodied political purposes, it objectively promoted the development of tourismactivities in this region. For the officials and scholars of the Taiyuan regionduring the Tang and Song dynasties, the specialization degree of tourismactivities is more higher, and the range of tourism activities are more widely.This is because they had more leisure time and economic foundation, at thesame time also have strong willingness to travel. As for the monks, the main aimof the activity in Taiyuan area is mainly to pilgrimage Buddha. So the tourismactivities of monks consisted of pilgrimaging Buddha and Buddhism sacredtraces,eminent monks speaking feast activities and the learning activities.To sum up, owing to the economic development and the changesof political status in Taiyuan region during the Tang and Song dynasties,thetourism activity presented the stage of development and certain limitations.The development of tourism activities in the region not only promoted the region’spolitical status, but also promoted the popularity of the landscape resources.