Visitor Center
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Baiyang Valley Great Wall Tourist Area, known as the “South in the North”, is a typical representative of Great Wall in northern China. The Tourist Area is a destination of Great Wall tourism for its original village style and profound culture connotation.
[Geographical Location] The Visitor Center is located on the opposite bank of the entrance of the Tourist Area, and is the only way for tourists to enter the area. There is a large plot of vacant space outside the entrance to facilitate tourist gathering. As the first place that tourists will be, the Visitor Center enjoys natural transportation advantages by being set at the entrance. It can serve as the bridge for tourists to go into and out of the Tourist Area while delivering ticketing service.
[Architectural Style] The architectural style remains aligned with residential buildings in east Hebei and blends into the entire Tourist Area. The traditional internal trims and artistic decorations deeply impress tourists and improve the artistic merit.
[Functional Design] The Visitor Center is divided into the public service area and the back-office area. The public service area houses a wash room, a medical room, a ticket hall, a baby care room, a circuit court, a complaint room, and a police room. The back-office area houses a monitoring room.
Wash room: By adhering to the concept that “delivering views and joy for tourists in the toilet”, the Visitor Center has provided the third toilet room for special groups in addition to one for male and one for female.
Medical room: The medical room is fully equipped with multi-functional treatment beds, stretchers, stethoscopes, blood pressure gauges, etc., to provide emergency rescue services for tourists suffering sudden diseases.
Ticket hall: It is divided into two parts: the ticketing area and the rest area. Tourists can have information from the staff in the ticketing area, or learn more about the Tourist Area from the self-help devices. Tourists are always reminded by a large screen, highlighted display and roll-up banners that they can have the access to wheelchairs, strollers and other personalized services and experiences in the Tourist Area. Services provided in the rest area include article rental and luggage storage, mobile phone charging, and tourist souvenir purchase, making tourists truly fall in love with Baiyang Valley.
Baby care room: A baby care room is provided in the Visitor Center to deliver a private, clean, comfortable and safe breastfeeding space for lactating mothers. A fully-functional, warm and complete set of humanized facilities are offered in the baby care room, including a breastfeeding sofa, a baby care platform, a wash basin, a baby bed, and a storage table.
Circuit court: In order to maintain the order of the tourist market, establishing a circuit court in the Tourist Area helps to hear cases, mediate disputes, interpret the law, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of visitors immediately after a case occurs in the Tourist Area.
Complaint room: A complaint room is set in the Tourist Area to receive complaints for the purpose of improving the service quality in the Tourist Area and establishing a benign communicative relationship between tourists and the Tourist Area.
Police room: The police room is mainly responsible for the security management, emergency handling and dispute mediation in the Tourist Area and surrounding areas. It also provides consultation services for tourists, answers their calls, and also supervises the construction of technical defense facilities, therefore addressing the needs and solving the disputes of the public right where they occur.
Monitoring room: The huge tourist flow and traffic flow brings safety concerns. A joyful environment cannot be guaranteed for each tourist within a short period of time only by human force. But a stable and reliable video surveillance system can safely, effectively, and well manage every attraction in the Tourist Area, monitor the site and record the tourist flow at full angles 24 hours a day, so as to fulfill the purpose of strengthening site monitoring and demand management, and improving the service quality. By doing so, the management work will be made more regulatory, technology-based, accurate, intelligent, and information-based, thus delivering a strong guarantee for the safety of the Tourist Area.
The Great Wall section in Baiyang Valley, which is known for its magnificent mountains and sheer passes with a length of about 4452 meters, starts at the Da Ao Tower at the conjunction with Dazhuang in the east, and ends at the Laojun Terrace in Sidaogou in the west. The Baiyang Valley section of the Great Wall still remains the original look of Ming Dynasty with zero human touch. There are totally twenty one gate towers on the wall, including six intact ones. They are Da Ao Tower, Kengzi Tower, Head Tower, Tip Tower, Square Tower, and Deity Tower from east to west. The Deity Tower stands out preeminently among all the other towers for its unique architectural style. There are many Great Wall sections in China, but Baiyang Valley section still amazes tourists. This marble section of Great Wall is 1.5KM long and was built by Qi Jiguang. It is still kept in good shape. The foundation is completely built with red marble stones with every stone weighing around 500KG. The Great Wall extends along the ridge marvelously. Therefore it is crowned as a wonder of the Great Wall built in Ming Dynasty.
The Deity Tower was built in 1596 in Ming Dynasty. It is not only a particular watch tower, but a well-designed ancient architecture. Instead of being built on the city wall, it is hung on the outer side of the wall, making it the only one of its kind along the Great Wall. The Deity Tower is more than 33 meters tall, designed in masonry structure with a flush gable roof. Since it’s built on scarcements, the direction of the whole building aligns with the Great Wall. An arch-shaped door is gouged facing the city wall, which is 2.1 meters long, 1.7 meters wide. The door has frames around it and bolts on both sides. A stone plaque, which is 1.04 meters long and 0.35 meters high, is embedded atop the door, with the characters “Shen Wei Lou” (Chinese characters of Deity Tower) inscribed on it. At the upper left corner it writes “by Zhang Shizhong, General of Guerrillas”, and at the lower right corner it writes “at the propitious moment in the summer of 1596, Wanli Reign”.
Situated on the 320-meter-high Tuolong Ridge of Baiyang Valley, the Guanyin Tower was built during the time of the North March by the Emperor Yan in Early Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that the guarding soldiers decided to build a Guanyin Pavilion on the mountain opposite to the Baiyang River in order to seek safety. All the bricks and woods were transported to the site and ready for work. In the next morning, workers found all the materials had been transported to Tuolong Ridge. Therefore, solders knelt down and worshiped to the deities, and the Guanyin Pavilion was built here.
The legend says Baiyang Valley used to be a treasure mountain owned by one goat and two sheep which were gentle and kind-hearted. A nine-eared macaque living in the mountain was their best friend, helping them guard the treasure in the mountain. But a warlock tried to seize the treasure, so the macaque drove him away. Later, the warlock killed the macaque and the goat with hidden weapons. The two sheep sorrowed for their death, hiding in the Hongyang Cave and crying every day. Their tears continuously poured out from rock cracks, hence the name “Sheep Spring”. Since the spring water flows out from rock cracks, it contains a rich content of trace elements, and tastes sweet and delicious as the top-ranking natural mineral water. Visitors to Baiyang Valley must take a sip of the water of Sheep Spring.
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Address: Baiyang Valley Village, Dacuizhuang Town, Qian’an City, Hebei Province
