I have been to 30 of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in mainland China, and the only one I have never been to is Ningxia, so I have been wanting to set foot on this land for many years. This summer finally had time, so I arranged a itinerary for Yinchuan, Ningxia, and I still looked for Ctrip. In mid-May, I booked a group tour (4 diamonds) for Yinchuan on the 5th and 4 nights in early June on Ctrip. The project of camping, joining a group in Yinchuan, although the price is higher, but I believe it is worth the money, and Ctrip will not let me down.
Monday, June 3, cloudy. Take the bus at 9:30 in the morning to Pudong Airport, take China Southern Airlines flight CZ8651 to Yinchuan, take off at 2:05 pm, and arrive at Yinchuan Hedong Airport at 5 pm. Ctrip arranges a driver to pick you up and check into Yinchuan Haitian Hotel.
After checking in, I walked to the Nanguan Grand Mosque 2 kilometers away. When I walked 500 meters through Hongyou Lane to Xinhua East Street, the sun shining from the west made people feel hot. It was almost 7 o'clock at this time. Yinchuan's The sun was still strong, so I took a taxi. Because the mosque is on a one-way street from south to north, taxis can only get there by detouring from the east side of South Gate Square. The mosque was off work, and I was kicked out as soon as I entered the yard. I took a few photos outside, but the effect was not good because of the backlight. Nanguan Grand Mosque was first built in the late Ming Dynasty. The current building was rebuilt in 1980, covering an area of 2074 square meters. It has an obvious Islamic architectural style. The green dome of the temple is thick and full. There are corresponding small domes that echo each other. A moon lantern hangs high on the top of the dome, like a rising crescent moon.
Then walk to Nanmen Square. There is a tower-shaped building at the north end of the square. It is called Nanmen Tower, also known as "Nanxun Tower". According to legend, the South Gate Tower was built when Li Deming, the leader of the Xixia Party clan, moved the capital westward from Lingzhou (now Lingwu) to Huaiyuan (now Yinchuan) in 1020. "Building Nanxun City" records. Since the 1950s, it has been renovated many times and opened up as South Gate Square. The South Gate Tower is 27.5 meters high. On the 7-meter-high brick-covered platform, there is a 20.5-meter-high two-story pavilion with double eaves on the top of the mountain. The structure of the whole building is rigorous, with painted eaves, red walls and green tiles. It is magnificent and has the reputation of "Little Tiananmen".
On the way back to the hotel, buy fruit, biscuits, cold dishes, etc. for dinner at the nearby farmers market. The temperature in Yinchuan is as high as 31 degrees today. It is strange that the air conditioner is not turned on in the hotel, but it is indeed necessary to cover the quilt in the second half of the night. The typical continental climate has a large temperature difference, with a difference of more than ten degrees between high and low temperature.
Tuesday, June 4, cloudy. When I went out for a walk in the morning, there were very few pedestrians on the streets of Yinchuan at 6 o'clock. I walked quickly from the hotel to Nanguan Grand Mosque for about 20 minutes. Yesterday evening was much better.
After breakfast at the hotel, depart at 8 o'clock. The tour guide Ma Fang is already waiting in the lobby. Today's itinerary is Shuidonggou, Xixia Royal Tomb and Chinese Wolfberry Museum. There are 9 tourists today, and the travel agency sent an 18-seater Toyota Coaster bus, which is very spacious.
Shuidonggou Ruins Tourist Area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, more than 30 kilometers away from Yinchuan City, and connects with Ordos City, Inner Mongolia in the north, covering an area of 14.4 square kilometers. Shuidonggou is a sacred place for human beings to multiply and live 30,000 years ago. In 1923, French paleontologists Derich and Sang Zhihua discovered prehistoric cultural sites here, unearthed a large number of stone tools and animal fossils, and became the earliest Paleolithic found in my country. Ancient human cultural sites of the era. Shuidonggou is also the ruins of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The three-dimensional military defense system of the ancient Great Wall composed of the large side of the Hengcheng, the beacon towers, the castle fortresses, and the caves of Tibetan soldiers has become a relatively complete military defense building Grand View Garden in China.
It takes about 1 hour to drive from Yinchuan to Shuidonggou. After arriving, we first visited the Shuidonggou Site Museum. Its shape is like a stone tool called a stone core unearthed in Shuidonggou. The building area is 4308 square meters. , exhibition boards, projections, exhibits of cultural relics, etc., let people understand the origin of human evolution, the rise of Shuidonggou culture, and the process and results of the five archaeological excavations at the Shuidonggou site. There is also a 12-minute dynamic performance, allowing people to live Experience the production and life of primitive people 30,000 years ago, and the scene of forced migration in the face of disasters such as flash floods and landslides.
The effect of the dynamic performance is better, the sound and light scene is very realistic and beautiful, and finally the vibration feeling when the earthquake erupted is very strong, making people unsteady, lightning and thunder, the ground cracks, magma flows, heavy rain, water droplets When it floats on your face, it is shocking.
There are guides here to accompany tourists all the way, not only in the museum, but also to the attractions outside.
Walking from the museum to the "Zhangsan Xiaodian" for a visit, there is a stump-like tree on the way. The guide said that it is a willow with a broken head. Only by cutting off the branches can it grow better.
Zhangsan's shop is a legendary chariot and horse shop. As early as 1919, when the Belgian missionary Kent was passing through Shuidonggou, he settled in Zhangsan’s small shop. At night, he found a phosphorescent fire on the cliff, so he found a rhinoceros skull fossil and a man-made stone. Made quartz flakes. When Kent came to Tianjin to meet French geology and paleontologist Sang Zhihua, he told him about the discovery in Ningxia. In June 1923, Sang Zhihua and De Ri came to Shuidonggou and still lived in Zhangsanxiaodian. On the cliff, they found mammal fossils exposed on the surface, so they conducted a 12-day investigation and excavation. A total of more than 300 kilograms of stone products and animal fossils were unearthed, mainly including old stone cores, scrapers, and pointed objects. The stone tools established the historical position of Shuidonggou prehistoric human Paleolithic cultural site. Teilhard marked the carriage and horse shop on the map in his book, and it became the geographical indication of the Shuidonggou site at that time.
There are four statues in the courtyard of the shop, namely De Rijin Sang Zhihua and Pei Wenzhong Jia Lanpo, who have participated in several archaeological excavations in Shuidonggou.
The current small shop was rebuilt in 2006, and some of the furnishings in the house are old objects from that year.
Next to Zhangsan's shop is the ancient Shuidonggou Village, where the semi-crypt architectural form created by the people of Shuidonggou was restored. They dug a certain depth of crypt on the loess slope, and then surrounded the crypt. The wall is built with adobe, and after reaching a certain height, the roof is built with stringers and wooden rafters, and firewood is added, and soil is pasted on the firewood to prevent water leakage. Shuidonggou Village is such an ancient semi-crypt-style gathering village site. 29 crypt-style architectural relics have been discovered. The scenic spot has selected some of them for restoration, so that we can intuitively understand the residence of the ancestors. form.
From the perspective of ground architectural form, there are triangular, conical, and large roof-shaped.
The guide also pointed to a deeper crypt and said: This is the house of the village head. I went down the steps and saw that it was very small, and some platforms were made of earth. The lower ones may be sleeping places, and the higher ones may be used as tables.
Going forward, we will arrive at the tourist sign of Shuidonggou. Its shape is still in the shape of a stone core, and everyone took pictures here to commemorate it.
After passing the tourist sign, you will arrive at the archaeological excavation site of that year, and now there is still a restored excavation site for tourists to experience.
Going forward is a reed area called Luhua Valley.
Passing through the reeds, you will arrive at the Lingwu section of the Ming Great Wall. This section of the Great Wall is an earth-rammed section of the Great Wall. It is the relatively best-preserved section of the Great Wall site in Ningxia. It reaches Xiaolongtou near the Yellow River in the west and Yanchi in the east. The Great Wall is called "side wall".
There is a stone tablet beside the road, engraved with Mao Zedong's poem "If you don't reach the Great Wall, you are not a hero", which was written by Mao Zedong when he crossed Liupan Mountain in Ningxia in 1935, so it is appropriate here.
We boarded the observation deck of the Great Wall, which spans two provinces. There are stone pillars on the wall, and the words "Ningxia Town" and "Tatar Tribe" are written respectively. This is the name of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems funny now.
Standing on the viewing platform and looking around, there are white yurts on the edge of the Mu Us Desert in the north, which is a strong desert style in the northwest; while the Shuidonggou in the south, the lakes and wetlands, the reeds, all show the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River, giving people a different experience .
Coming down from the viewing platform of the Great Wall, the red willows beside the road are in full bloom with pink flowers,
Continue along the Luhua Valley. From Shuidonggou to Hongshanbao is a canyon about 4 kilometers long.
Under the perennial wind and rain erosion, the deep loess on both sides of the Strait has vertical and horizontal gullies, abrupt walls and strange shapes, forming a peculiar "soil forest" landscape.
Walk about 600 meters to Hongshan Lake. Climbing to the top of the dam, what people see is the landscape of "Gaoxia out of Pinghu Lake". This lake is named "Hongshan Lake" because it is located in the Hongshan area.
Hongshan Lake is formed by accumulating water from side ditches. During the wet season, the lake surface extends eastward for more than 2 kilometers in the canyon. There are often hawks and cranes flying over the lake, and mandarin ducks and wild ducks swim on the water. The reeds on the lakeside are green. The scenery is very beautiful beautiful. Riding in the Hongshan Lake by cruise ship, the khaki Great Wall cliffs and turquoise reeds on both sides of the river are reflected in the water, and the blue sky and white clouds in the sky are reflected in the water, which makes people feel the integration of desert wasteland and Jiangnan water town.
After the cruise ship arrived at the destination, it changed to a mule cart and moved forward. There were ten people in a cart. Amidst the ticking of hooves, the coachman sang Xintianyou loudly, and his high-pitched singing echoed in the canyon.
The end of the mule cart is the place where you can transfer to a camel cart. Here you can sit and rest, and there are also food and drink sales. There are also ostrich and red deer for tourists to watch.
Here we transfer to a camel cart to arrive at Red Mountain Fort.
This is the venue for the performance of "Northern Xinjiang Tiange". The show didn't start until 12 noon, so we had lunch here, which was just a bowl of Liangpi.
"Northern Xinjiang Tiange" is the first large-scale real-scene horse battle epic drama showing the prosperity of the Western Xia Dynasty. It takes Hongshanbao Great Wall as the background of the real-scene performance, with professional riders from Mongolia acting as actors, and more than 100 horses, camels, and yaks. And props such as several simulated chariots. At the scene, you can not only see the battle scenes of the bloody battle of the canyon soldiers, but also see the stunt performances such as soldiers swooping and rolling from the top of the canyon and immediately stacking arhats. It is a soul-stirring heroic epic created by the famous directors of my country and Mongolia which took 2 years. The ticket price for the performance is 198 yuan, and we only bought tickets for 120 yuan through a travel agency.
After checking the tickets, walk into the performance venue, which is surrounded by earth walls, one side is a stepped grandstand, and the performance venue is surrounded by tree trunks. The venue is soft loess, and some actors dragged their pimps to spray water to prevent dust. Some Mongolian riders are warming up and galloping on horseback, while others are sitting by the fence waiting for tourists to feed the horses. A carrot is cut in half and put on a bamboo stick for 5 yuan.
There are not many tourists watching the performance today, and no one cares about it. The performance started at 12 o'clock sharp, and the narration and interpretation of a story happened in the Shuidonggou area, where the water and grass are luxuriant, and the party members of the nomadic people are often plundered by robbers. The father who was away from the war returned home, his two daughters had grown up, and the call-up order was issued again. The father was old, and the daughter joined the army in his father's place. The cavalry practiced martial arts to show their superb riding skills.
A caravan of trade camels from the Western Regions was robbed by robbers during transportation and was rescued by cavalry. The king of Xixia married the princess of Liao, and everyone celebrated happily with singing and dancing.
All of a sudden, the war broke out and the foreigners launched a war. The Xixia people resisted bravely, and the cavalry fought against each other, and finally repelled the foreign invasion.
During the 50-minute performance, the skilled equestrian performers flipped and moved in the wind, sometimes flew up and down on a good horse, and sometimes ran away on the horse's back, presenting a real horse battle performance just like the movie. The tough, bloody and soft characters of the Dangxiang clan are fully displayed here. There are also the customs of the Western Regions and the charming and sentimental dances on the Silk Road, which are fascinating and fascinating.
After the performance, tourists flocked forward to take photos with the actors and horses. I took the initiative to feed the horses and eat carrots. Although the actors could not speak Chinese, they held WeChat QR codes in their hands and shouted "5 yuan 5 yuan".
After watching the performance, go to Zangbing Cave to visit. There are black holes on the cliffs on both sides of the Hongshanbao Canyon, which are the famous "Tibetan Caves". The so-called Cangbing Cave is the tunnel where the defenders of Hongshan Fort in the Ming Dynasty moved from the ground to the ground, concealing the army, protecting themselves, waiting for an opportunity to attack, or setting up an ambush in an open place. It is a relatively complete ancient three-dimensional military defense system in my country, and it is also the only one. A defense system linking the Great Wall, castles and underground caves for soldiers.
We will be led into the cave by a guide in military uniform of the Ming Dynasty. The cave is dark and there is only a faint light under our feet. We followed the guide closely. The peculiar Tibetan soldier cave is more than 10 meters above the bottom of the ditch, twists and turns in the hanging wall, connects up and down, and connects left and right. There are living rooms, grain storage rooms, wells, stoves, armories, gunpowder stores, forts, traps, tunnels for hidden weapons and other facilities in the cave.
Coming out of the Zangbing Cave, we took a tractor back to the gate of the scenic spot, and boarded the car to the Xixia Royal Tomb.
Xixia Royal Mausoleum, also known as Xixia Mausoleum and Xixia Emperor Mausoleum, is known as the "Oriental Pyramid". It is located at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in the western suburbs of Yinchuan City, about 35 kilometers away from the urban area. The mausoleum area is 10 kilometers long from north to south and 4 kilometers wide from east to west. There are nine imperial mausoleums and more than 140 burial tombs of princes and ministers, covering an area of nearly 50 square kilometers. Influenced by Buddhist architecture, the Western Xia Royal Mausoleum organically combines Han culture, Buddhist culture, and Dangxiang national culture, forming a unique form of Chinese cemetery architecture. Xixia Mausoleum is magnificent in scale and neat in layout. Each imperial mausoleum is an independent and complete building group, facing south and forming a vertical rectangle. There are currently two scenic spots available for visits: "Tomb of King Hao" and "Shuangling". The Xixia Dynasty was established by the Dangxiang clan from the 11th to the 13th century to govern the western part of my country. From the founding of Yuan Hao, a total of 10 emperors were handed down, which lasted 190 years until it was destroyed by Mongolia in 1227.
Entering the scenic area, the first thing that catches your eyes is the four big characters on both sides of the gate. Although there are Chinese characters in strokes, they are not Chinese characters. The tour guide told us that these four characters are Xixia characters, which means "Dabai Gaoguo" and are from Xixia. country name.
To visit the scenic spot, you must take a sightseeing bus, that is, a minibus, first to the North District and then to the Central District of the South District. Stop at the Xixia History Introduction Office. After listening to the explanation, walk to Yuanhao’s Tailing Tomb to visit, and finally take Watch the car and return to the gate of the scenic spot.
The mausoleums are distributed on the vast land, which look like mounds, and the tall mausoleums are like earth towers with domes. The tomb of Yuan Hao, the founding emperor of Xixia, is the tallest. It used to be 36 meters high, but now it is only 24 meters high.
According to reports, the earthen pagoda at that time was seven-story octagonal, and each floor was wrapped with eaves and wooden structures, with tiles, dripping water and roof beasts hanging on it, forming a pagoda-like shape. In front of the tomb were the stele pavilions, the moon city, the palace city and other sacrificial halls, all of which were burned down by the Mongols, leaving only a handful of loess to this day. The loess mound is rammed with mud mixed with lime, so far no grass has grown. There are yellow mounds standing on the wasteland, so there is a saying of "Oriental Pyramid".
After finishing the tour of the Xixia King's Tomb, we boarded the bus and went to the next attraction, the Chinese Goji Berry Museum.
China Wolfberry Museum is located in Yinchuan Desheng Industrial Park, which is a national 3A-level tourist attraction. It was founded by Bairuiyuan Company, which produces wolfberry products. It mainly introduces the history, culture, industry status and scientific research achievements of Ningxia and China wolfberry.
The museum is divided into three parts: Qifu Hall, Cultural Center and Health Care Hall. Finally, there is the product display and sales area of Bairuiyuan. There are many wolfberry and derivative products with exquisite packaging, but the price is more than ten times the market price. We just Just look at it. There is a group of sculptures of dancing girls outside the door, which is very interesting.
Dinner is arranged in Yangkaitai, the standard is a group meal of 40 yuan. Return to Haitian Hotel after dinner. (To be continued, thank you for watching!)
