Luoyang is one of the top tourist cities in China with its numerous cultural relics dotted everywhere, picturesque landscape and national flower-Tree Peony. Longmen Grottoes is one of the three great banks of Chinese stone sculptures that is a World Cultural Heritage. The White Horse Temple is the first officially built monastery in China after the introduction of Buddhism. In the Mangshan Mountain there remains the largest group of ancient tombs in China featured by royal tombs, which took form since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. To the north of Luoyang is the Mother River of the Chinese nation---the Yellow River that together with a tourist resorts around the Xiaolangdi Reservoir and Wanshanhu tourist area in Xin'an. To the south are spots of interests such as the Songshan Mountain which is the central one of the Five High Mountains of China, a national forest park at the Baiyun Mountain, Longyu Bay and Huaguo Mountain, a magically shaped Cockscomb Karst Cave, and tourist area around Luhun Reservoir. Known as national beauty and heavenly fragrance, peony has been planted for nearly 1,500 years in Luoyang. Around April every year, the peony comes into full bloom, decorating the urban areas with flooding colors. Especially the Luoyang Peony Festival to be held every year, which has become an occasion that attracts millions of tourists both at home and abroad. A long history, a brilliant accumulation of culture and a variety of beautiful natural scenery all combine to provide Luoyang with exceptional advantages in tourist business.
