What are the must-visit attractions when traveling to Ningxia?

1. Shahu tourist attraction in Shizuishan City, Ningxia. The Shahu tourist attraction takes natural landscape as the main body and is composed of five major scenic spots: sand, water, reeds, birds, and mountains. It is a "Silk Road Station" that combines the beauty of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and the majesty of the Saibei Desert. The tourist pearl in the world. The main attractions include Shahu International Sand Sculpture Garden, Bird Island, Hudong Wetland, Xinmen District Square, Shahu Inscription Stone and other redundant landscapes.

2. Lingwu Shuidonggou Tourist Area, Yinchuan City, Ningxia. This scenic spot was rated as one of the "50 Scenic Spots of the Yellow River in China". It is the earliest Paleolithic cultural site excavated in China. It is known as "the birthplace of Chinese prehistoric archeology" and "historical witness of cultural exchanges between China and the West." "One of the 100 archaeological discoveries with significance to Chinese civilization". Shuidonggou's unique Yadan landform and uncanny construction sites have created more than 20 unique landscapes such as Devil's City, Cyclone Cave, Skyrocket Cliff, Broken Cloud Valley, and Strange Willow Valley, which record the endless activities of human beings 30,000 years ago. .

3. Beipu Western Film and Television City, Yinchuan Town, Ningxia. This is a film and television city built on the basis of an original castle. Here we maintain and utilize the original peculiar, majestic, desolate, tragic, dilapidated, decaying and undefeated scene of the castle, highlighting its sense of desolation, loess flavor and primitive and folk aesthetic connotation. This is where the movie "Red Sorghum" went to the world. There are so many film and television films shot here, so many stars have risen, and so many international and domestic awards have been won here, making it the highest among all film and television cities in China, and it is known as "one of the best in China".

4. Shapotou tourist attraction in Zhongwei City, Ningxia. Shapotou combines the desert, Yellow River, mountains and oasis into one place. It has the majestic scenery of the northwest and the beauty of the scenery south of the Yangtze River. There is the largest natural sand-skiing ground in China, the "No. 1 Yellow River rope in the world" across the Yellow River, the ancient waterwheel that represents the Yellow River culture, the sheepskin raft, the oldest means of transportation on the Yellow River, and the rare mirage in the desert. . You can ride a camel through the Tengger Desert, ride an off-road vehicle to surf the sand sea, and enjoy the wonders of the lonely smoke in the desert and the sunset over the long river within a short distance.

5. Helan Mountain rock paintings. The rock paintings record the life scenes of ancient humans from 3,000 to 10,000 years ago, such as herding, hunting, offering sacrifices, fighting, dancing, and having sex, as well as various animal patterns and abstract symbols such as sheep, cattle, horses, camels, tigers, and leopards. It reveals the cultural connotations of nature worship, fertility worship, totem worship, and ancestor worship of primitive clan tribes. It is a cultural treasure house for studying the history of Chinese human culture, religion, and primitive art. Rock paintings have different contents in different places: the Shizuishan area mainly features forest and grassland animals, such as ibex, rock sheep, wolves, etc.;

The Helan Mountain area mostly features various human-like heads; bronze The petroglyphs in the Xia, Zhongwei and Zhongning areas are mainly about grazing and grassland animals: ibex. In places such as Baijigou in Helan Mountain, the content mainly features images of people riding on battle and images of animals such as ibex and horses. The rock paintings showing women, some wearing headdresses and some with their hair in buns, are graceful and graceful, recreating the pursuit of beauty by ancient women thousands of years ago.