The Yellow River Stone Forest scenic spot is located in the southeastern part of Jingtai County, Baiyin City, adjacent to Longwan Village, Zhongquan Township, and is grand in scale, covering an area of about 10 square kilometers. It was generated 2.1 million years ago in the Cenozoic Quaternary Early Pleistocene, due to crustal movement, weathering, rain erosion and other geological effects, the formation of a yellow gravel-based, modeling of the stone forest geomorphological wonders in a variety of forms. In the scenic area, thousands of peaks competing, winding canyon, steep cliffs over the sky, the scene of thousands of peaks and turns, step by step scenery change, most of the stone columns stalagmites as high as between 80-100 meters, up to more than 200 meters, and its modeling of the heavenly, ghostly, like a master sculptor of the dream masterpieces. Narrow valley winding, such as the snake, are named after the ditch, from southeast to northwest, **** there are eight ditch more. Being developed in the drinking horse ditch Grand Canyon, there are lions when the pass, falcons look back, elephants sucking water, thousands of sails into the hair, the western sky to get the scripture, the couple under the moon, Qu Yuan asked the sky and many other attractions, both God and shape, lifelike.
The Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic Spot combines the Yellow River, stone forest, desert, Gobi, oasis, farms and other resources skillfully together, with mountains and water, static and dynamic, and magnificent. The area is suitable for exploration, hunting, rafting, rock climbing, leisure and vacation, as well as geological investigation and its majestic, dangerous, strange, ancient, wild, secluded and other characteristics of the western film and television movies, science fiction film location shooting base. After the broadcast of the TV series "Grain Silos of the World", "Hot Land in the West", "BMW of Sweat and Blood", "Amazing Legend", "Dunhuang in the Desert" and so on, the Yellow River Stone Forest has become more famous all over the world. Yellow River Stone Forest and Shoulu Mountain Forest Park, five Buddha along the temple, Yongtai Turtle City constitutes the Jingtai tourism skeleton, west and Tianzhu small three gorges, north and Zhongwei Shapotou and other tourist attractions adjacent to the formation of the golden tourism line.
The main services in the scenic area are: First, experience the style of animal-drawn cart
Drinking horse ditch to the foot of the Observatory, round trip mileage *** count 9 kilometers, animal-drawn carts will be the best tool to travel on your behalf of the best tool for the tour of the stone forest, where you can feel the local villagers of the pure and simple folk, the mood to come and sing a Northwest ditty, so that you can really get into the western rough cultural atmosphere. Animal-drawn vehicles a car can take 3-4 people, by the management of a unified car, a unified price, a unified fee.
Two, the Yellow River rafting sheepskin raft
Yellow River culture in the history of sheepskin raft can be said to have a long history, people on the raft, the raft in the river, the two sides of the scenery like a giant scroll, stretched out in front of you, along the river style as far as the eye can see, the gushing Yellow River water carries a thousand years of heavy rolling away ....... We have set up a special dock at the ferry, unified management, unified ticketing, unified sending rafts, unified clothing, unified publicity, so that you have fun and enjoy the tour.
Three, Longwan ancient waterwheel
The Yellow River water from the west to the east, flowing endlessly, and the waterwheel as the Yellow River mother's beads Zan, for thousands of years along the banks of the Yellow River, with its unique style has been handed down to the present. Since the Ming Jiajing years paragraph continued to invent the waterwheel so far, hundreds of years, waterwheel in the original diversion of the main function of irrigation, while attached to a rich tourism connotation.
Four, the fairyland of Panlong Cave
The Yellow River Stone Forest, the peaks of the forest, the seat is connected, the peaks of the forest in the middle of a fairy hole called: "Panlong Cave". On the top of the cave, there is a naturally occurring Taiji diagram, with dragons and phoenixes in the diagram. Panlong Cave is 16 meters deep, 13 meters wide, 3-4 meters high, the highest place up to 8 meters, the cave is at a constant temperature of about 17O all year round. Inside the cave there is a temple "Xinglong Temple", this place has been for many generations for the nearby people's religious shrine, inside the statue of God and shrine, a hundred years of respect for the four sides of the incense, the aura revealed, every early spring, early fall there will be a mist from the mouth of the cave floated out, such as the dragon's mouth of the fairy gas, very magical. Because of the cave inside and outside the temperature difference is large, the outside world after the humidity becomes larger, the natural formation of fog.
Fifth, "Nongjiale" western countryside tour
Longwan by the Yellow River mother's nourishment, the guardianship of the mountain gods in Shilin, inherited hundreds of years of rich and strong cultural heritage of the Yellow River, the folk style is simple, colorful folklore, and "Nongnongle! "Nongnongle is the most direct window for you to experience the western culture. Stone Forest scenic area of the existing "Nongjiale" 26, can provide you with food and beverage, lodging and a variety of entertainment and comprehensive services.
Six, a variety of bonfire party
River wind blowing, the wine floats incense, roasted sheep in the male bonfire in the bright light, drops in the fire in the oil, "Puffing" a scurrying arrow flame, music in the wilderness echoes, enthusiastic ethnic girls and young people with you singing and dancing, this is the Yellow River! This is the bonfire party of the two sides of the Yellow River.
Seven, religious shrine Qingliang Temple
The north bank of the Yellow River has a Buddhist shrine Qingliang Temple, through several catastrophes, but in the believers devoutly under the protection of the still standing, where the sound of Brahma drifting, auspicious and Rui, is the hustle and bustle of the red dust outside of the side of the quiet land.
Eight, other services
Dam Beach sandboarding, pick up the Yellow River rocks, beach volleyball and stone forest scenic hunting adventure will be your fun entertainment projects.
Longwan Village--Village under the cliff, where the Yellow River makes an S-shaped bend
Longwan Village is located in Zhongquan Township, southeast of Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province, 60km away from Jingtai County, and 70km away from Baiyin City, Gansu Province.2013 Longwan Village, Jingtai County, Gansu Province, was honored as one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Villages in China". In 2013, Longwan Village in Jingtai County, Gansu Province won the title of "China's Ten Most Beautiful Villages". The Yellow River makes a big s-shaped bend here. The Yellow River has nine curves, and Longwan is very beautiful. The Yellow River Stone Forest, which is newly listed as "National Geopark", towers over both sides of the Yellow River. From the stone forest observation deck overlooking: around the canyon wall over the sky, the natural shape of the multi-colored God. Longwan village and the dam beach Gobi a river away, the houses are scattered, smoke curls, there are stretches of sand dunes and the river island looking away, constituting a remote, pale western style painting.
Before the formation of the tourism industry, the village are to apple and sorbet and jujube fruit pillar industry, supplemented by fisheries. As the Yellow River Stone Forest scenic area heats up day by day, it brings abundant tourism income to people living in Longwan Village. In the government's strong support, the villagers set up a farmhouse, through the government subsidies, farmers independent investment, invite experts to Longwan villagers residence inspection and planning, guide the farmhouse to standardization, standardization direction, quality and satisfactory service and the local flavor of the farm specialties attracted a large number of tourists. At present, the village has developed more than 80 households of Nongjiale, a one-time accommodation capacity of up to more than 3,000 people, Nongjiale annual income of more than 5 million yuan. Blessed with the advantages of soil, water and light, so that Longwan Village output of fruits with extraordinarily sweet taste. After guests eat and stay in the farmhouse, most of them will bring some special fruits home. Fruits open up sales, promoting the vigorous development of specialty fruit planting. Nowadays, the village area of fruits and forests has reached more than 2,000 acres, accounting for 87% of the village's water-consumed land, in April and May every year, the village fruit and flowers, red powder into a heap, the farmhouse into a sea of flowers. To the ancient Yellow River added a bright scenery.
Xifan kiln--named the third batch of Chinese traditional villages by the State Council
Jingtai County Zhongquan Township Sanhe Village was named the third batch of Chinese traditional villages by the State Council because of the intact preservation of a large number of stone kiln caves in which our ancestors lived. This discovery and naming, awakened the sleep of thousands of years of historical monuments, breaking the traditional mode of economic development in the village of Sanhe, gave birth to a "traditional card, build cultural village, create a tourist area" of the new development ideas.
These kilns are history and heritage experts called the twenty-first century Gansu archaeological work of a major discovery. Its magic lies not only in the function and construction of the absolutely no comparison, but also in its cultural connotation and historical precipitation, is the ancient Silk Road must pass through the place, in 1936, the Red Army of the four sides of the Yellow River after crossing the Yellow River in this kiln to live.
Xifan kiln has been known as a place of cultural splendor and the home of literature and ink.
Back in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the culture of this place was more developed, and in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there were two granary students, Zhang Lan and Zhang Hui. Zhang Lan, Zhang Hui teacher out of the private school Mr. Zhang Kejia, Mr. Zhang Kejia from Yucheng Qingcheng, Lanzhou Province, is a member of the broadening, should be Xifanyao Zeng, Zhang, two surnames to thirty-two acres of water and land to hire, and later also settled in Xifanyao. And long-term in Xibanyao or Hu Ma Shui set up private school lectures, his students in Xibanyao and tribute to Zeng Baoying, Zhang Ruzhi, in the brain of the spring has a car tribute, Wuchuan Digong, Hu Ma Shui has a reed tribute to the end of the spring has Shang Gong, and so on. Highly paid Mr. Zhang Kejia, according to the words now is the introduction of talent, Mr. Zhang is to lead the Xifan kiln around dozens of miles of Jing, Jing, Gao three counties of cultural development of the pioneers. After Zhang Lan, Zhang Hui and set up a school lectures, Qing Hanlin scholar (scholar) six-piece Ministry of Public Works, that is, Chi Weili Zhang Lan's disciples. To the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the place of the celebrities and scribes is more, such as tribute to Zeng Baoying, Zhang Ruzhi and so on. Qing dynasty qianlong fifty years, hongyan Zhang's seventh ancestor YuanDong that is special authorization for the history. There are also later Confucian students, Confucian students, eight Shouguan is more. To the Qing Guangxu thirty-one years, Xifanyao Fort opened a small school. To the first year of the Republic of China, the small school was renamed as a small school. To 1919, the May Fourth Movement broke out, the new cultural movement in the country, local celebrities and scribes advocated the new elementary school on the south bank of the Dasha River in Xifanyao.
By 1939, the elementary school was expanded into a new-style elementary school. The quality of its education soon became famous. Before and after the founding of New China, the neighboring miles of Jing, Jing, Gao three counties students all admire this school, and more than with excellent results into Jingyuan and the provincial capital of Lanzhou all kinds of schools for further study, to become a useful talent for national construction.
After the liberation of the country, there are also many talented people here. According to statistics, the establishment of the school over the past century, there are more than 2,000 students out of the school door, which rose to more than 400 people in colleges and universities; out of Xifanyao, to the four directions to participate in the construction of the motherland there are more than 700 people; among them, seven cadres at the level of the Office of the Bureau, the county corps level of more than 40 people, more than 100 people of township and section level, doctoral degree, doctoral degree, professor of 3 people, masters, more than 20 people, the senior title of the 4 people, the senior title, deputy 27 people, intermediate title nearly 70 people; intermediate titles; the school is also a useful talent. Intermediate title of nearly 70 people; there are dozens of people in the industrial and commercial enterprises, assets of millions, millions and billions of dollars. The reason why there are so many talented people here is that there is a deep cultural heritage here, and there is a good tradition of respecting teachers. Generations of people can enthusiastically donate to the school, can contribute money for the school, the people here are proud.