Pengzhou

"In the 'Yuanhe County Annals,' it is recorded: 'From Pengzhou to Minshan, the river is falling down from the mountains. With two mountains facing each other, it was formerly known as Tianpeng Gate, hence it acquired its name.'"

Pengzhou was founded in 285 BC and has a history of more than 2,300 years. There are many historical buildings, such as Longxing Temple, Yangping Taoist Temple, Catholic Church, and so on.

Pengzhou is located in the transition zone between Chengdu Plain and Longmen Mountain, with mountains, hills and dams, and the terrain is relatively complicated.

Pengzhou has a mild climate, abundant rainfall, a long frost-free period and little sunshine. The high temperature period and rainy period are in the same season and there are four distinct seasons, with longer summer and winter, and shorter spring and autumn.

• 🌍 Pengzhou Railway Station (彭州站), Tianren West Road, ☏ +86 028 12306. 06:15-23:00. (updated Sep 2023)
• 🌍 Pengzhounan Railway Station (彭州南站), Pengpi Road, ☏ +86 028 12306. 06:15-23:00. (updated Oct 2023)
• 🌍 Buxingjie Railway Station (步行街站), New Pi peng Road, ☏ +86 028 12306. 06:15-23:00. (updated Oct 2023)

• 🌍 Pengzhou Passenger Transportation Centre (彭州客运中心), 502 Chaoyang South Road, ☏ +86 28 83750240. It is the bus passenger transport centre of Pengzhou with several cross-city bus routes and intra-Pengzhou bus routes. (updated Sep 2023)

The centre of Pengzhou is not particularly large, and there is the option of cycling when exploring the centre of the city. There are plenty of shared bikes available on the streets.

You can choose a taxi or ‘didi’ if you are travelling to some of the more distant attractions. Cabs start at ¥5 and ¥6 at night.

• Fare: ¥2 per person
• Payment Methods: Can pay with cash, WeChat, or Alipay. And also can buy a "Tianfu Tong" transportation card, which can be recharged at "Hongqiliansuo" convenience stores. Alternatively, can download the "Tianfu Tong" app on your cell phone and pay by scanning the QR code. (The price for using the "Tianfu Tong" transportation card or app is ¥1.8 per person.)
• Special travelers: Free rides are available for holders of disability certificates, active-duty military officer's certificates, and children under 1.2 m. Those over 65 and those under 18 need to go to the bus company with an ID card or other valid identification to get a discount card.
• Tourism Line: In order to make it more convenient for tourists to enter the Longmen Mountain Reserve and Bailu Music Town Tour, Pengzhou City Bus Company has opened two special tourist buses, which can be boarded and disembarked at the passenger transportation center or at stations along the way. ¥10 per person.

• 🌍 China Film Golden Elephant Cinema (Pengzhou Wangshuli) (中影金象影城 (彭州望蜀里店)), 4F, Building 11, Wangshuli Commercial Zone, 69 Anren East Street, ☏ +86 028 83733317. (updated Sep 2023)
• 🌍 Taipingyang Cinema (太平洋电影院), 3F, 122 Jinpeng East Road, ☏ +86 028 83872869. (updated Oct 2023)

• 🌍 Zhixin Yidu Shopping Center (置信逸都购物中心), 122 Jinpeng East Road. 09:00-10:00. It is a large shopping building with food, shopping, supermarket and movie theater on three floors. (updated Oct 2023)
• 🌍 Wangshuli commercial district (望蜀里), 23 Anrendong Street. The business district is open, the building combines ancient and modern culture, and is also the theme block of the red spirit of Pengzhou City, with clothing stores, beauty stores, daily chemical stores, and all kinds of food. There are many benches for resting feet, which is a good place for residents to relax and have fun. (updated Oct 2023)

• 🌍 Tianpeng Peony Festival (天彭牡丹花会), Danjing Mountain，Pengbai Road, Danjingshan Township. April each year. Danjing Mountain in Pengzhou has been a holy place for Taoism and Buddhism since the Han Dynasty, and the religious event "Three Festivals" is held every year. In the Tang Dynasty, peony planting was popular in Tianpeng, and peonies became an important part of the religious festivals. Danjing Mountain is known as "Flower Mountain", and the peony is also the city flower of Pengzhou. Every spring when peonies blossom, Pengzhou citizens go to Danjing Mountain to "catch the meeting", which makes the whole Tianpeng Peony Flower Meeting present a scene of traffic, music, song, and dance. ¥100. (updated Oct 2023)
• 🌍 Bailu China-France Classical Music Festival (白鹿中法音乐节), Shuyuan Village, Bailu Township. The festival will invite many outstanding music artists, a well-known symphony orchestra, and a number of repertory groups into the Bailu Township, to bring a high-quality music and art event, but also will be held into the piano art school, the sound of music - Master Lecture Hall, the closing ceremony and closing concert, elegant art into the community, classical music and art street exhibition and a series of rich and colorful music and art activities for the majority of tourists and the public to bring the rich and colorful music and art experience. (updated Nov 2023)

• 🌍 Guihua Township Long Kiln Ceramics Experience Center (桂花镇龙窑陶瓷体验中心), No. 1, Group 14, Shuanghong Village, Guihua Township, ☏ +86 18080876120. The kiln base was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, today's Guihua Long Kiln, is rebuilt on the ancient kiln base, according to the mountain incline with earth bricks masonry into a slanting straight-flame cylindrical dome-shaped tunnel, divided into the kiln head, kiln bed, the kiln end of the three parts of the incline of the mountain masonry, the shape resembles a dragon (龙 long) and was named. The original charm of the kiln and the creative atmosphere of the base continue to attract potters and ceramic researchers to come here to exchange and create. (updated Nov 2023)
• 🌍 White Porcelain Art Center (白瓷艺术中心), No. 63, Juntun West Street Longfeng District, ☏ +86 13880608302. Relying on the cultural background of Pengzhou Song Dynasty white porcelain, the White Porcelain Art Center creates the regional brand of "Tianfu Culture, Pengzhou White Porcelain", and combines the traditional handicrafts with parent-child experience, famous potter in residence, ceramic experience hall, ceramic display area and other immersive experience methods to integrate the original ecology of the non-heritage into the whole tourism scene, and to create a one-stop experience of the cultural and tourism life of Pengzhou products. (updated Nov 2023)

• 🌍 Pengzhou People's Hospital Sanhuan Road Zone (彭州市人民医院三环路院区), 255 South Sanhuan Road, ☏ +86 028-86239787. When it's an emergency, call 120. (updated Sep 2023)
• 🌍 Pengzhou People's Hospital Jinpeng West Road Zone (彭州市人民医院金彭西路院区), 178 Jinpeng West Road, ☏ +86 028 83871821. When it's an emergency, call 120. (updated Nov 2023)
• 🌍 Pengzhou Maternal and Child Health Center (彭州市妇幼保健院), Yingbin Avenue, ☏ +86 028 83883060. When it's an emergency, you can just call 120. (updated Nov 2023)

• There are many pharmacies on the streets, so if you want to buy some common medicines you can see a pharmacy on any street.