Tourist Scenery
Western Han Dynasty Jiuquan Shengshu
Jiuquan Park is located 1.9 kilometers east of Gulou, covering an area of 270,000 square meters, is the only well-preserved Han-style garden in the Hexi Corridor, with a history of more than 2,000 years so far. There are springs and lakes in the park, there are mountains and rocks, there are Jiuquan Shengshu, the moon hole Jinzhu, the Western Han victory, Qilian Chenbo, the depths of the smoke and clouds, the Qu Yuan meal show, flowers and moon double clear, reed with the evening boat eight scenic spots. Ancient and famous trees, the sky; pavilions, carved beams and paintings, known as "Jiangnan outside the Seas", "Pearl of the Vast Sea" reputation. The famous Chinese poet Chen Yunhe had to write a poem "Jiuquan" to praise the place. Now, this place has been named AAAA level tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.
Dafabang Temple
Dafabang Temple is located in the northern suburb of Suzhou City, two kilometers away from the river on the north cliff Wutong Bay, rebuilt in 1984, for the city of Suzhou, the big Dafabang Temple (also known as the Bell Tower Temple, the life-saving temple, one of the important temples since the Ming and Qing dynasties in the western part of the Hexi area, and the city of Suzhou was the largest center of Buddhist activities, the original for the Suzhou, one of the eight major scenic spots, unfortunately, because of the history in the cause of the destruction of the one day) of the re-establishment. The temple is named after the Zong. Temple according to the name of the Zong, the Zong name Fa-bang, the temple is also known as Fa-bang. [1]
Guazhou Yulin Grottoes
Guazhou Yulin Grottoes, also known as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, is one of the important treasures of China's Buddhist cave art, located in 76 kilometers south of Guazhou County, Yulin Valley on both sides of the gravel cliffs. Currently there are 42 grottoes, of which 31 are in the east cliff, 11 in the west cliff, a clear stream flowing through the cliffs. Because of its river valley is full of elm trees and named. Through the Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, Yuan, Qing dynasty construction and renovation. Cave **** existed in the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty more than 800 years of color sculpture more than a thousand bodies, murals more than 1,000 square meters. Yulin Grottoes was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the cave form, mural content, artistic style and feeder title, etc. have shown a close connection with the Mogao Grottoes stone room art, for the important and inseparable part of the art of Dunhuang, showing a high historical value and artistic value. [2]
Anxi Locked City
Located in the south-central part of Anxi County at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. It is located at the western edge of the Changma flood fan, and the Shule River flowed through the area in ancient times. Loyang City was built in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and has been rebuilt and utilized to varying degrees in all other generations. Its form preserves the typical style of the ancient city of the Tang Dynasty. There is a large temple in the northeast of the city, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty, with a large pagoda 14.5 meters high and a thousand small pagodas neatly arranged in a line. Lockyang City in the Han Dynasty is Dunhuang County, Median County seat, the Western Jin Dynasty for Jinchang County, Sui Changle County, the Tang Dynasty for the Guazhou County. It was later abandoned after the war and the closure of the Ming Dynasty. The name of the city of lockyang originated in the Qing dynasty folk, because there are many around the city of the sweet taste of lockyang, later named lockyang city because of things. [3]
Dunhuang Museum
Dunhuang City Museum is located in Dunhuang City, Yangguan East Road, is based on historical relics of the comprehensive geographic museum. The site of the current museum was built in 1984, the main building of three floors, with a floor area of 2400 square meters. Building in front of the compound symbolizes the ancient silk road on the camel trekking large sculpture a group. The collection of cultural relics are stone, pottery, porcelain, wood, writing scriptures, Han Jane, silk, jade, brick, painting, calligraphy, topography, ancient coins, iron and bronze and other 14 categories, more than 4,800 pieces. Among them, the remains of books unearthed in Dunhuang's Cave of Scripture, Han Jane unearthed from the beacon flints of the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, and burial artifacts unearthed from more than 200 ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties are the most distinctive. [4]
Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes
Mogao Grottoes is located in Gansu Dunhuang City, 25 kilometers southeast of the foothills of the Mingsha Mountains on the banks of the Dazhuan River, north and south length of more than 1,610 meters, is the world's largest, longest continuation of the longest time, most well-preserved, the most rich in artistic content and exquisite grottoes group. in December 1994, the provincial party committee was identified as a base of patriotism education in Gansu Province. According to records, a monk named Lezun excavated the first cave here in 366 AD. Since then, people have successively opened caves here. The earliest existing caves were built in the 16th Dynasty (Beijing), and then experienced the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, Yuan **** ten dynasties for more than 1,000 years of continuous excavation, preserved to this day, there are 492 caves, there are 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2,000 bodies of colorful sculptures. Mogao Grottoes is the building, colorful sculptures and murals of the three body of the grotto art. The grottoes have three main forms: Zen Grottoes, Center Pillar Grottoes, and Halls. Statue is the main body of the grottoes, are painted clay. Art by the Indian "Gandhara", "Matura" and other statue-making style, combined with national traditions, and gradually formed the Chinese style of colorful sculpture. The mural paintings mainly include seven categories, including Buddha's portraits, traditional national themes, sutra stories, Buddhist history paintings, sutra changes, images of supporters, and decorative motifs, etc. The Cave of the Sutras (Cave 16), discovered in 1900, is the highlight of the Mogao Grottoes. There are about 50,000 volumes of ancient precious documents and a large number of silk paintings and other works of art, the earliest of which are the scriptures written during the Three Kingdoms and the two Jin dynasties, and the latest is the one written in 1002 A.D. The most important artifacts unearthed in the cave include the scriptures of the Three Kingdoms and the two Jin dynasties. More than 90% of the artifacts unearthed in the Cave of Sutras are Buddhist scriptures, many of which are precious classics that have been lost. In addition, there are Confucian classics such as "Poetry", "Book", "Analects", etc.; historical documents related to ancient rules and regulations, etc.; ancient literary works such as variations, songs and lyrics, as well as linguistic and textual materials such as common characters and rhythms, etc.; ancient scientific and technological materials, including medicines, astronomical calendars and geographies; and ancient music scores, dance scores as well as the "Chess Scriptures" and other documents on sports. In 1961, Mogao Grottoes were listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council, after which funds were allocated to carry out large-scale reinforcement and maintenance. In 1984, the State approved the expansion of the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Heritage into the Dunhuang Academy, which modernized the protection of Mogao Grottoes and the nearby caves and conducted systematic research. The Dunhuang Research Institute has become an international research center for Dunhuang studies, and the Mogao Caves are taking on a new attitude to welcome more and more sightseers and investigators from home and abroad.
Dunhuang Yadan National Geopark
185 kilometers from Dunhuang, 85 kilometers west of Yumen Pass, there is a wind erosion geomorphic communities, commonly known as the Devil's City, has been built into China's Geopark. In an east-west length of 25 kilometers, north-south width of about 1-2 kilometers on the dry riverbed area, Yadan densely covered, hill peaks, different forms, whether it is an individual, or as a whole, the scale of the grand, the momentum of the majestic, are rare in the world.
Mingsha Mountain
Located in the southern suburbs of Dunhuang City, seven kilometers. Anciently known as the sacred sand mountain, sand angle mountain. The entire mountain system of sand accumulation and become, east-west length of about 40 kilometers, north-south width of 20 kilometers, dozens of meters high, the peaks of the steep, like a knife blade. Sand dunes below a moist layer of sandy soil, the wind blowing sand vibration, sound can be caused by the sand layer **** sound, so the name. According to historical records, when the weather is clear, even if the wind stops sand still, will also send out the sound of silk and bamboo strings, as if playing music, so the "sand ridge clear sound" for a scene in Dunhuang. This is a natural phenomenon of a spectacle, ancient and modern to the "desert spectacle" known in the world, known as "one of the best of the scenery outside the Seychelles".
Crescent Springs
Crescent Springs in the Mingsha Mountain, the ancient name of the manhole, commonly known as the medicine spring, the scenic area of the rooibos, goji berries and other medicinal herbs a lot of since the Han Dynasty that is one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang", the name "moon spring Xiaocher". Crescent Moon Spring north-south length of nearly 100 meters, east-west width of about 25 meters, the spring is deep in the east and shallow in the west, the deepest depth of about 5 meters, curved like a crescent moon, hence the name, "the first spring in the desert," the name. The crescent moon spring has four wonders: the shape of the crescent moon is as old as the old, the evil realm of the land into a spring of clear water, sandy mountains in the sand is not drowned, the ancient pool of the old fish food is not old. Going to mingsha mountain crescent moon spring play in the evening, dusk time is the best. The crescent moon spring has three treasures: iron back fish, five-color sand, seven star grass, the legend of the iron back fish and seven star grass together can live forever! The south bank of the crescent moon spring small flowers Robur red hemp is the spring unique and only health care herbs, also has the effect of slow aging, every year in June, July and August small flowers bloom, as if the stars in the night, according to the old generation of people: Dunhuang endemic dogfish may be the iron back fish, the south bank of the crescent moon spring Robur is the legend of the seven-star grass!
Dunhuang Ancient City
Located in Dunhuang City to Yangguan highway on the south side of the desert Gobi, 25 kilometers from the city center. Is 1987 for the Sino-Japanese co-production of large-scale historical feature film "Dunhuang", and the Song Dynasty "Qingming Shanghe Tu" as the blueprint, imitation of the ancient city of Shazhou design and construction, the building area of 10,000 square meters. Dunhuang ancient city's architectural style has a rich Western style, the city opened the east, west and south gates, the city towers; the city by the Gaochang, Dunhuang, Ganzhou, Xingqing and Bianliang five main streets composed of streets on both sides with Buddhist temples, pawnshops, inns, restaurants, homes, etc., Dunhuang reproduced the Tang and Song dynasties the majesty of the town of Dunhuang in the Northwest, is known as the museum of Western China's architectural art, with the unique advantages of filming the ancient western country border The unique advantages of military films, has become the largest film and television shooting base in western China, where has been filmed more than 20 film and television dramas, such as "Fengshen Yanyi", "New Dragon Inn" and so on.
Dunhuang Three Dangerous Hills
Dunhuang Three Dangerous Hills tourist area is located 25 kilometers southeast of the city of Dunhuang, and Mogao Caves and the Buddha for the sake of the edge of each other, reflecting each other, in the Silk Road formed a Buddhist culture as the characteristics of the tourist landscape. Three dangerous mountain east and west stretches dozens of miles, the main peak across the Daquan River and Mingsha Mountain, its "three peaks towering, such as the danger of falling, so the cloud three dangerous". Three dangerous mountain is a famous mountain of Dunhuang history, is the birthplace of Dunhuang civilization history.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is located in Jiuquan City, 250 kilometers northeast of the Badanjilin Desert in Inner Mongolia, deep in the Alxa League, the territory of the Ejinagi Banner, is China's earliest construction, the largest satellite launch centers, but also a variety of types of carrier rockets and airborne meteorological rockets of the integrated launch site, with a complete, reliable launch facilities, capable of launching a large inclination angle of the medium and low orbit It is also the main base for launching medium and low orbit satellites, manned spacecraft and rockets and missiles with large inclination angle. The base is also responsible for the recovery of wreckage and the emergency life-saving of astronauts. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center base was built in 1958, 1000 meters above sea level, covers an area of about 2800 square kilometers, is located in Inner Mongolia Alxa League, Ejinagi Banner, the current assembly, the launch site is located in the north latitude of 40.965371N, the east longitude of 100.283658E. Due to the location of the deserted, the closest city is the southwest of the Jiuquan City in Gansu Province, and thus the name. Historically, Alxa League was separated from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1969, with Ejinagi Banner assigned to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and then restored to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1979, including Ejinagi Banner. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, also known as "Dongfeng Space City", is one of the launching bases for China's scientific satellites, technical test satellites and carrier rockets, and is the earliest and largest comprehensive missile and satellite launching center, as well as China's only manned space launching site. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a modern comprehensive space launch center developed from a missile launch test site. Founded in 1958, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is the earliest satellite launch center in China with advanced satellite launch facilities. Since the successful launch of China's first satellite Dongfanghong-1 by Long March 1 carrier rocket in 1970, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has successfully launched 37 scientific experimental satellites by Long March 1, Long March 2C and Long March 2D rockets, and the test spacecraft Shenzhou was launched on November 20, 1999, starting China's manned spaceflight. On November 20, 1999, the "Shenzhou" test spacecraft was launched from here, opening the curtain of China's manned space program. Since then, "Shenzhou II", "Shenzhou III", "Shenzhou IV", "Shenzhou V", "Shenzhou V", "Shenzhou V" and "Shenzhou V" have been launched. "Shenzhou No. 5", "Shenzhou No. 6" and "Shenzhou No. 7" were successfully launched from here one after another. It can be said that it is a microcosm of China's scientific and technological development!