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Main Attractions Xixia City Xixia City, formerly known as "Heng Castle", is located on the east bank of the Yellow River, Lingwu City, Yinchuan Yellow River Bridge near the Yellow River Bridge, only 8 kilometers away from Yinchuan, was originally a military camp in the Ming Dynasty, one of the eight scenic spots of Ming and Qing dynasties east of the river, "Hengcheng Gudu," the former site, is more than 500 years old. According to historical records, Kang Xi's expedition to Geerdan crossed the river here.　Tour the Xixia Imperial City, enjoy the Xixia music and dance, taste the Xixia feast, watch the Yellow River sunset ...... outside the city wall is still a modern civilization scene, through the city gate will enter the 800 years ago, "Xixia Imperial City," the thick walls completely isolated from the hustle and bustle of the world, the high corner tower The thick walls of the city completely cut off the hustle and bustle of the world, and the high corner towers create an inexplicable awe in one's heart. Especially when the setting sun spreads on the city wall constructed by thick brick and soil, as long as you close your eyes a little bit, it seems as if the time and space is reversed, Li Yuanhao, Tangka, Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist paintings, these mysterious symbols, will quickly flash through the mind.　The mausoleum of Xixia kings The mausoleum of Xixia emperors is located at the east foot of Helan Mountain in Xixia District, with the terrain of the Xixia Kingdom of 9 emperors' mausoleums, more than 200 royal marquises and ministers - the accompanying tombs of the noble relatives, with the ruins of a Buddhist temple and the Xixia brick kilns in more than 10 places, constituting a complete architectural group. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved imperial mausoleums in China. Xixia royal mausoleum unique architectural style, large area and mausoleum concentration. Scenic area **** more than 50 square kilometers, of which the mausoleum of the king is tall and majestic, known as "China's pyramid".　Xixia Museum is China's first Xixia Royal Mausoleum as the background, real image to show the history of the rise and fall of the Xixia Kingdom Museum. The museum covers an area of 5,300 square meters, the Western Xia pagoda dense eaves type architectural modeling, chic style, both the momentum of modern architecture, but also with the mausoleum site echoes the formation of a strong national architectural style.　Zhenbei Castle Western Studios Located in Zhenbei Castle Town, Xixia District, the original site for the Ming and Qing dynasties of the border castle. Famous writer Zhang Xianliang discovered it and introduced it to the movie industry in the early 1980s. So far, more than sixty movies and TV dramas have been filmed here, including "The Horse Herder", "Red Sorghum", "Ballad of the Yellow River", "Yellow River's Greatest Love", "Westward Journey of the Greatest Lies", "New Dragon Inn", etc., which have won international and domestic awards. Zhenbei Castle Western Film City is characterized by simplicity, primitive, roughness and desolation among many film cities in China. The number of films produced here, the number of rising stars, and the number of international and domestic film and television awards won are all the highest among all the film and television cities in China, and it is regarded as "one of the best in China". Because of its special contribution to China's movie industry, it enjoys the reputation of "China's movie going to the world from here".　Helan Mountain Petroglyphs It is located in the Helan Pass at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Xixia District, 60 kilometers away from Yinchuan City. There are more than 1,000 rock paintings distributed on the rocky cliffs stretching over 600 meters on both sides of the valley. The petroglyphs mainly depicting human beings account for more than half of the total number of petroglyphs, followed by animal figures such as cows, horses, sheep, donkeys, deer, birds and wolves. In addition, there are patterns of hunting, sacrificial scenes, sun, moon, stars, stars, human hands, human feet and Xixia characters. For us to understand and study the history, culture, economic conditions, religious beliefs of the ancient nomadic people provide extremely valuable physical information, can be called a precious national art gallery.　Suyuqou National Forest Park Located in the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in Xixia District, Suyuqou National Forest Park is rich in natural landscapes and unique humanistic landscapes. In the area of nearly 10,000 hectares, natural forests such as greasy pine, juniper and spruce tower over the horizon. Rare shrubs such as red cherry, purple lilac and Mongolian peach are scattered all over the valley and gullies. Layers of forests, colorful, ever-changing, amazing.　Three passes Ming Great Wall is located in Xixia District, the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, the Department of Ningxia to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Alashan Left Banner of the main traffic. The Ming government for border security, in the three passes to build the Great Wall (known as the border wall), set up passes, became the town of Ningxia at the time of the defense of the "four dangers" one. After several repairs, additional construction, the wall stretches to the top of the mountain peaks, the mountain steep wall, the terrain is dangerous, quite a "one man when the pass, ten thousand men can not open" trend. The Great Wall stretches across the three passes and the piers and beacon towers are connected to the left and right, which has the danger of controlling the desert in the west and choking the main road.　Haibao Tower commonly known as the North Tower, located in Xingqing District, northern Haibao Tower Temple. Haibao Tower was built in an unknown date, according to the Ming Dynasty "Wanli Shuo Fang Xin Zhi" records, China's North and South Dynasties period of the King of the Xia Hep Lien Huo Huo, is a square 9-story 11-storey pavilion-style brick tower, a total height of 53.9 meters. Climbing the tower, Yinchuan, south of the river at a glance, the Ming and Qing dynasties as one of the eight scenic spots in Ningxia, known as the "Tower of the ancient Lingxiao". The temple is surrounded by trees, pavilions, and beautiful scenery. Every year on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the temple held a "Yu Lan" temple fair, which has been followed to this day.　Drum Tower is located in Xingqing District, Jiefang East Street and Drum Tower South and North Street intersection. Drum Tower was built in the first year of the Qing Daoguang (1821 AD), a height of 36 meters, to the foundation, the pavilion, the corner of the composition. The whole Drum Troi carved beams and paintings, majestic.　Nanguan mosque is located in xingqing district yuhuangge south street, is the largest mosque in yinchuan city, yinchuan muslims in 1981 to raise funds to rebuild a building group with arabic style and national characteristics. The upper hall can accommodate more than 1,300 people to worship; the lower set of ablution rooms, chapel, women's chapel, Arabic school, imam's bedroom, parlor and so on. The top of the building in the center of a large four small green dome, the top of the crescent moon hanging high. In front of the temple on both sides of the 30-meter-high "Mission Tower", the center of a 15-meter diameter fountain. The entire building layout rigorous, ornate, delicate and elegant, magnificent. Whenever the "Lord's Day" or the annual Hui traditional festivals, thousands of Muslims gather here to engage in national religious activities.　Yinchuan National Wetland Park consists of 2 parts: Yuhai and Mingcui Lakes.　Read Sea is located in the northwest of Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City, 3 kilometers from the city center, with a total area of 2,100 hectares. Since 2002, under the support of the state, autonomous region and Yinchuan city, the ecological environment of Yichuan Wetland has been significantly improved and the wetland resources have been effectively protected through the planning and implementation of the projects such as returning fields to the lake, dredging of watercourses, restoration of vegetation, restoration of bird habitats and construction of infrastructures, and the ecological environment of Yichuan Wetland has been significantly improved. In June 2006, it was approved as a national wetland park by the State Forestry Administration. At present, a wetland protection management station, a wetland ecological monitoring station, the first bird ringing station in Ningxia and Yinchuan, and a watchtower have been built. The Sea of Reading is connected and replenished by the Ai Yi River, and the Sea of Reading can be reached by boat from Beijing Road Pier in downtown (Taoran Waterfront on the west side of the water-friendly street).　Mingcui Lake is located in the eastern part of Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, 9 kilometers away from the city in the west and 3 kilometers away from the Yellow River in the east, with a total area of 667 hectares. Mingcui Lake has deep cultural heritage, beautiful natural landscape, with important ecological, historical, cultural, scientific research and popularization of science and education value. 2000 years, the state, autonomous regions and Yinchuan City attaches great importance to the ecological protection of Mingcui Lake, scientific planning and implementation of the wetland protection and restoration of the construction of wetland through the return of land to the lake, the lake desilting, water level control, restoration of vegetation and other measures, so that the Mingcui Lake wetland ecological environment has been significantly improved, and has become the eastern part of the city of Yinchuan, the eastern part of the Lake is a big and beautiful lake. In June 2006, it was approved as a national wetland park by the State Forestry Administration. At present, it has built wetland protection and management station, wetland ecological monitoring station, watchtower and other management and protection facilities, bird pictures are displayed in the watchtower. Mingcui Lake is divided into the South Lake and North Lake, the South Lake is a bird protection area, and the North Lake has carried out wetland ecotourism and opened up ten major attractions, and the waterwheel by the lake is a landmark building.　Yinchuan Baohu National Urban Wetland Park Baohu is located in Liangtian Township, Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City, east of Tanglai Canal, south of Baohu Road, north of the railroad line, and west of Zhengyuan Street. The total area is 82.6 hectares, including 39.2 hectares of lakes and 36.5 hectares of green areas. Baohu Lake is a large-scale and typical urban lake in Yinchuan City, with the deepest part of the lake at about 2.2 meters and the average depth of water at about 1.4 meters. The construction of Baohu Wetland Park started on September 1, 2003, and in October 2004, the first phase of the project was completed and officially opened to the public. The main functional areas of Baohu Park include four parts, namely, Wetland Ecological Area: protecting the lake wetland, vegetation restoration and artificial afforestation, protecting and enriching the biodiversity; Cultural Park Area: relying on the Tanglai Ancient Drainage Canal and other historical and cultural relics, combined with the wetland culture, wetland ecological publicity and education, and carry out scientific and cultural activities; Recreation and Fitness Area: providing the masses with rock climbing, fishing, chess, leisure and other leisure and fitness activities; Management service area: management office, commercial service points, environmental protection restrooms and small parking lots and other public facilities. 2007 January, the Ministry of Construction approved the establishment of "Yinchuan Baohu National Urban Wetland Park", which has become the only national urban wetland park in Northwest China. At present, a wetland protection management station has been established.　Jinshui Park Jinshui Park is located in Lingwu City, facing the Yellow River and backed by the Maowusu Sandland. In the park, there are Yellow River cruise, motorboat, boating in the inner lake, beach sports field, sand bath horse racing, automobile and motorcycle cross-country and other recreational programs, and the world beach volleyball tournament was successfully held here.　Shuidonggou site Located in Lingwu City, north of the silver and green highway, is currently China's most abundant archaeological data found in the Late Paleolithic site. Discovered in 1919 by the Belgian Kent, the site has a history of 30,000 years. More than 11,000 fossils of wild asses, rhinoceroses, antelopes, cows, pigs and other animals, as well as a variety of stone tools, have been found here. The excavation of "Shuidonggou Ruins" shows that there were human beings living here as early as 30,000 years ago during the Paleolithic Age.　Chengtian Temple Pagoda, commonly known as the West Pagoda, is located in Jinning South Street, Xingqing District. It was built in 1050 A.D. during the Western Xia period, according to records, after the death of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty, his son was just a week old, and ascended to the throne of the emperor. The Empress Dowager Muzang's to protect her son, Emperor Yi Zong, "holy life without boundaries", to protect the Western Xia rivers and mountains, "Yan Yong solid", built this temple and stupa "to carry the sky and life". It and Liangzhou (now Gansu Wuwei) of the Protectorate Temple, Ganzhou (now Gansu Zhangye Ganzhou District) of the Wolverine Temple with the Western Xia famous Buddhist shrine. The appearance of the 13-storey, 11-storey brick tower, octagonal, 64.5 meters high. Climbing the tower to look out, the whole of the ancient city in full view, the scenery is mesmerizing, the breeze blowing, the tower bells clanging, more and more show the quiet of the Zen garden.　Ningxia Museum was originally located in the Chengtian Temple, with the Ningxia Revolutionary History Exhibition, Xi Xia History Exhibition, Helan Mountain Rock Painting Exhibition, Hui Folklore Exhibition and so on. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit, the development and reconstruction is strictly limited, its covers an area of only 7,400 square meters. For a long time, the old Ningxia Museum because of its small space, not only let a lot of "no place" of cultural relics lost the opportunity to display, but also let the old museum of the audience reception capacity has been limited. At the same time, due to the strict restrictions on the reconstruction of the old museum, many modern equipment is inconvenient to install, the maintenance and preservation of cultural relics have a great impact.　The newly built Ningxia Museum covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters and has a daily capacity of about 2,000 visitors. The new museum is constructed in strict accordance with the standards of modern museums, and the hardware reaches the first-class standard in China. And another striking thing is that, after the opening of the new Ningxia Museum, more focused on the community's public **** service functions, will be permanently open to the whole community free of charge. Numerous exhibits, national treasures on display. In order to meet the autonomous region's 50th anniversary, a comprehensive display of Ningxia's history, Ningxia Museum not only took out the "bottom of the box" of the many cultural relics, but also from the field, "please" to a number of cultural relics closely related to the history of Ningxia. The most noteworthy, Ningxia Museum will exhibit "gilt bronze ox" as the representative of the six national treasures, and before for various reasons and visitors are difficult to see a side of the many cultural relics and recently unearthed part of the cultural relics, will be in the Ningxia Museum of the new museum at the same time as the opening of "shiny debut! ". It is reported, this is expected to display more than 4000 pieces of cultural relics, including 6 national treasures, more than 100 pieces of cultural relics at the national level. Can be described as "quantity" more "quality" enough.　In addition to the above attractions, Yinchuan also Helan Mountain rolling bell mouth, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Najiado Mosque, Huaxia rare art city, Yinchuan South Xunmen (South Gate) and other tourist attractions (points) can be visited by tourists. [edit paragraph] Yinchuan specialties 1. Ningxia wolfberry Ningxia five treasures of red treasure.　Lycium belongs to the Solanaceae, deciduous small shrubs. Stem tufted, with short spines. Leaves ovate lanceolate. Summer and fall flowering, lavender. Berry ovoid, red, is a valuable tonic herbs.　Berry Ningxia cultivation of wolfberry has four or five hundred years of history, where the natural conditions suitable for the growth of wolfberry, produced by the wolfberry grain large, thick meat, less seeds, taste, quality, rich in the human body necessary for a variety of nutrients, with moistening the lungs, clearing the liver, nourishing the kidneys, beneficial to the qi, spermatogenesis, to help the Yang, make up for the deficiency of the labor, to dispel the wind, and the effectiveness of the eyes. Especially, the content of polysaccharide and organic germanium, which is beneficial to the development of human intellect, are higher than those in other Chinese provinces and regions. Local for the development of Chinese wolfberry resources developed a lot of food, mainly: Chinese wolfberry crystal candy, Chinese wolfberry tea, Chinese wolfberry crystal, Chinese wolfberry medicinal wine.　2. Ningxia hair vegetable Ningxia five treasures of black treasure.　Formerly known as the hair of the vegetable, is a kind of terrestrial precious edible algae unique to Ningxia, it is black like hair, "hair of the vegetable" is also named. Hair vegetable grows in the wild mountain peaks above, by rain and snow baptism, through the fog and frost moisturizing, has a very high food value and medical value, in Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong, Taiwan has long enjoyed the fame, very rich reputation.　3. Ningxia licorice Ningxia five treasures of yellow treasure.　Licorice, belongs to the legume family, perennial herbaceous plants, its main root can be up to five, six feet long, due to the rich sugar, taste very sweet, so named "licorice". Licorice is a wide range of uses of Chinese herbs, both to reconcile the medicines, but also to replenish the gas and the middle, diarrhea, detoxification, strengthening the muscles and bones; the main treatment for the spleen and stomach weakness, coughing, sore throat, carbuncle pain, pediatric fetus venom, etc., but also to play an anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, central inhibitory and even anti-tumor effects, known as traditional Chinese medicine in the "national old! It is known as "national old man" in traditional Chinese medicine and praised as "king of medicine". Ningxia uses the best licorice as raw material to refine into licorice cream, which is widely used in medicine, industry, food and other fields.　4. Mudflat two fur Ningxia five treasures of white treasure.　Mudflat is the descendants of Mongolian sheep, and then by nomadic migration to the grassy beaches on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia breeding, become the world's unique fine fur sheep. It has been examined that the grassland of Ningxia is arid with little rain and abundant pasture, and the water quality is slightly alkaline and highly mineralized. It is the natural conditions for the breeding of beach sheep. Ningxia beach sheep meat is rich in nutrients, tender meat. Not stinky and not fishy, flavorful and delicious, is a delicacy, popular with gourmets. Mudflat meat, today, in addition to the supply of people of all ethnic groups in the region to eat, but also transported to foreign provinces and cities and exported to Arab countries.　Of course, the Ningxia beach goat's reputation, mainly due to the precious lamb skin. Mudflat lamb born 35 to 40 days, slaughtered to obtain the skin, the use of chemical agents and advanced technology refined fur, known as "two fur". Erhair skin board thin as thick paper, not only tough and soft, and very lightweight, to have "light fur" reputation.　Two fur fur hair quality is fine and moist, white as snow, glossy as jade, hair spike natural locks, grain like waves, bending has more than nine, so it is called "nine bends". If the leather board gently shake, the hair fringe downward tilt, as if the lake waves, snow fall, light and moving, people love. With the beach sheepskin fine processing of men and women's winter clothing, hunting clothes, wearing lightweight, warm and comfortable, beautiful, elegant, light and durable, enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad, has been the country's traditional export commodities. The blankets produced by beach wool are famous in China and abroad for their long and even fibers, fluffy and loose, rich in luster and elasticity.　5. Ningxia carpet is made of wool produced in Ningxia, with bright color, soft texture and elasticity. The most famous antique carpet and art carpet. Ningxia's traditional weft-dense 107-channel antique carpet adopts high-quality wool as raw material, special color dyeing, handmade and chemically washed. Patterns and formulas are modeled after the ancient carpets of our country, with ancient appearance, elegant and generous, with high artistic appreciation and practical value. Fine art carpet, fine workmanship, strict structure. The pattern is symmetrical on all four sides, the central figure is full, rich in three-dimensional sense, with cranes, flowers and mythological dragons and phoenixes, membrane phosphorus and so on as ornaments, symbolizing auspiciousness and good fortune, with strong characteristics of oriental national art. Ningxia carpet has been gradually developed from Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a long history, and enjoys a high reputation in the international market.　6.Helan stone The blue treasure of Ningxia five treasures.　Helan stone produced in Helan Mountain, the stone quality is fine, firm but not brittle, natural deep purple and soybean green color, some also coincidentally clamped with the jade belt, cloud pattern, eyebrows, silver line, stone eyes and other structures, such as clouds, such as the moon, such as the water, such as the pattern of the mountain, the elegant and interesting day, by the skillful craftsmen carving and decorating, to become a good stone ink stone handicrafts. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there is a rumor that "one end of the two She three Helan" said. Helan inkstone is simple and elegant, beautiful shape, unique, and has no water absorption, easy to send ink, no loss of millimeters, cover the inkstone after the remaining ink for several days does not dry and does not stink and other wonders, loved by calligraphers through the ages, recognized as a good inkstone.　In recent years, the Helan stone inkstone has made new innovations, carving content and form a new leap, whether it is "Taibai drunkenness", "Li Shizhen picking medicine", "Chibi Huai Gu", "Squirrel grapes", "Pine and Crane", or "Big Dipper", "Flying Geisha", "Danfeng Chaoyang"...... are lifelike, skillful, showing a fairly high level of artistic attainments. The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Ningxia Hall exhibition of Ningxia stone carving artists to Helan stone carving of large vertical screen.　7. Xixia Tribute Rice has a long history, its texture is pure, white and crystalline, oily and soft, sweet and refreshing. Steamed rice with Xixia Tribute Rice is fragrant and refreshing. At the same time, the product is rich in nutrients, high protein content, but also contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements, Yingmei value is significantly higher than the general rice. The diet of Yinchuan is dominated by the dietary habits of the Han and Hui ethnic groups. The Han diet is dominated by Northwest cuisine. Qinlong flavor, mainly by the Yamen dishes, merchants and businessmen dishes, marketplace dishes, folk dishes and halal dishes mainly composed of minority dishes. Nga Men Cuisine, also known as government cuisine, has a long history and is characterized by elegance, such as "elbows with handles" and "art head spring". Merchant's cuisine is famous and expensive, such as "money and vegetables" and "shark's fin with Buddha's hand". Market food to Xi'an, Lanzhou and other major towns in the center of the famous building, famous store dishes, in order to attract customers, competition is fierce, each with its own style, representative of the famous dishes, such as: "Ming Sihi", "milk soup pot fish", "simmering shredded squid ", "braised meat three fresh" and so on. Folk dishes are economical and rich in local flavor, such as "bald meat", "roasted eggplant with shredded meat", "gourd head" and so on. Halal dishes, through the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the initial scale, such as "whole sheep seat", known far and wide. Qinlong flavor of the five components have their own characteristics, but due to the variety of market food, famous chefs such as clouds, occupying a geographical advantage, wide exposure, in keeping with the traditional characteristics of the basis, continuous innovation and development, enrichment and improvement, always in the Qinlong flavor of the dominant position of the Nga dish, merchant cuisine, folk dishes and the development of minority dishes, have a certain impact.　Hui diet is to maintain the traditional halal diet on the basis of more, selective and Chinese dietary civilization and fusion, the formation of their own characteristics, Hui dietary culture is colorful, pay attention to the use of spices, in the absorption of Chinese dietary civilization at the same time, more to retain its national characteristics, has formed a large dietary system.　Yinchuan Hui diet, both traditional and Muslim dual flavor of the Central Plains, is the Hui and Chinese civilization fusion of results, there are authentic halal food and halal dishes, but also many unique Hui snacks, its variety of exquisite taste, are fully demonstrated the ingenuity of the Hui people.　In Yinchuan you can taste the halal dishes such as steamed lamb, beef and mutton pastry, hand-held mutton, etc., there are also very authentic Hui snacks, such as haggis, mutton steamed buns, halal cream pastry, Ma San white water chicken and so on.　Yinchuan is very rich in food and drink, in addition to the "five treasures of Ningxia" one of the hairy vegetables, there are also a variety of fish produced in the sand lake near Yinchuan, carp, silver carp, bighead carp, carp, crucian carp, etc., and very rare in the north of the Wuchang fish, baby fish (salamanders), giant soft-shelled turtle, etc., based on the sweet and sour Yellow River carp, pigeon fish, money hairy vegetables and other dishes. Fish, money and hairy vegetables and so on.