The only 5A scenic spot in China that "discovers 30,000 years and experiences 500 years"

The last half-day of the trip to Yinchuan was arranged for the Shuidonggou Scenic Area. Because it is very close to Yinchuan Hedong Airport, only 11 kilometers away, it is easy to grasp the time. What's more, behind the rustic-sounding name of Shuidonggou, there is a lot of background and many names: national key cultural relics protection unit, national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, national geological park, "China's most worthy of foreigners" 50 Places to Visit" Silver Award, "Beautiful China" Top Ten Tourist Attractions, "Birthplace of Chinese Prehistoric Archeology", "Historical Witness of Sino-Western Cultural Exchange", and one of "100 Archaeological Discoveries with the Most Significance of Chinese Civilization" . The self-promotion of the scenic spot is even more unique: here is the only 5A-level scenic spot in China that "discovered 30,000 years and experienced 500 years". It fully whetted the appetite of tourists.

Shuidonggou tourist area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City, Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is 19 kilometers away from Yinchuan City in the west and 30 kilometers away from Lingwu City in the south. It takes 15 minutes to drive to the airport. We drove here early in the morning, and there was still 10 minutes before the scenic spot opened. The staff of the scenic spot were receiving their day's work after queuing up for morning exercises.

The world-famous Shuidonggou originated from two French archaeologists. In 1923, French paleontologists Derichin and Sang Zhihua discovered prehistoric cultural sites here. Through excavation, a large number of stone tools and animal fossils were unearthed. Therefore, Shuidonggou became the earliest ancient human cultural site discovered in the Paleolithic Age in my country. . Their discovery proved that Shuidonggou was a sacred place for human beings to multiply and live 30,000 years ago.

Later, after five large-scale archaeological excavations by Chinese and foreign archaeologists, the historical status of the Shuidonggou site in Chinese archaeology was further established.

Back then, when De Rijin and Sang Zhihua came to Shuidonggou, they lived in Zhangsanxiaodian, a big car shop outside the village. , discovered, researched and drew archaeological conclusions of extraordinary significance.

These are the fun and ironclad history that the scenic spot brings you to "discover 30,000 years". What brings you the fun of "experience five hundred years" and the iron evidence of history is the winding Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and the invisible Tibetan soldier cave that accompany the Shuidonggou site. Compared with the ancient human sites 30,000 years ago, Ming Dynasty The fortifications built by the DPRK seem to be more vivid, more vivid and easier for people to recognize and understand.

Just stand at the ruins of Shuidonggou and look north at will, and the beacon tower of the Great Wall has already come into view.

Climb to the Beacon Tower and see each other. On one side is the Yinchuan Plain, which leads directly to the Central Plains, and on the other side is the vast Mobei Mongolian Plateau. The flames and smoke of the once golden iron horse seem to be right in front of you. The symbol of the Great Wall is too great and too heavy for Chinese people. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, how many times has this wall, translated by Westerners as the great wall, blocked the horses and warriors roaring from the north?

There is also a huge fortification connected to this great wall - the cave of Tibetan soldiers. After a section of water and dry road called Luhua Valley by the scenic spot today, and a journey by boat and car, we were sent to the Tibetan soldier cave hidden in the loess canyon.

The place where the Tibetan soldier cave is located is called Hongshan Fort. The so-called Cangbing Cave is the tunnel where the defenders of Hongshan Fort 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. This is the only ancient three-dimensional military defense system with the most complete preservation in the country. It is also the defense system that closely connects the Great Wall, castles and underground caves in the Great Wall defense system of our country. Such a defense system is unique in the country. The Cangbing Cave shown to you is the earliest tunnel warfare site and prototype in my country.

Tourists are free to visit only a section of 200-meter experience cave, relatively speaking, the experience cave has been remodeled, it is relatively spacious and bright, with a single path, so you will not lose your way. In the experience cave, tourists can also watch the secret passages of organs and other hidden murderous facilities that have only been taught in film and television dramas in the past.

Walking out of the experience hole, you will suddenly see a bazaar five hundred years ago. During the truce between the North and the South, the open space outside the cave was a trading place where the people inside and outside the Great Wall exchanged what they needed, and people could still enjoy peace and happiness here.

After visiting the border trade bazaar known as the mutual market, you have to turn around and be led by the tour guide of the scenic spot into the more real Tibetan soldier cave. The peculiar Tibetan soldier cave is more than 10 meters above the bottom of the ditch, winding on the hanging wall, connecting up and down, connecting left and right. There are many forks and intersections in the cave, circling left and right, like a maze without end for a long time. There are living rooms, combat command rooms, meeting rooms, grain storage rooms, wells, stoves, armories, gunpowder stores, forts, traps, hidden weapon channels and other facilities in the cave. Standing in it, you can immediately appreciate the unexpected design of ancient tunnel warfare, the clever and concealed function, the suspense and complexity of structure, and the ingenuity of the ancients is fully reflected here, which is amazing.

There are multiple exits, either open or dark, in the Zangbing Cave, and the inside is even more winding, with forks connecting forks, organs connecting organs, and the darkness is deep and secluded. Without the guidance of a tour guide in the scenic spot, it is difficult for tourists to find out the hole after wandering around for a few hours. In the dark environment, the camera has lost its shooting function, leaving too many regrets, and none of the delicate and creepy mechanisms can be brought out of the lens.

The "Cangbing Cave" cleaned up by the local cultural relics department is about 3,000 meters long, accounting for one-seventh of the total length of the Tibetan Cave. Still in progress. Finally, the entrance of the cave where the scenic spot takes tourists out is actually a courtyard, which is the ground command center of the defenders of the Tibetan Bingdong Cave. Walking out of the gate of the courtyard is a huge field. This field is a training ground for soldiers to train various combat capabilities. From the size of the field, one can imagine the size of the garrison at that time.

Reminder: Shuidonggou Scenic Area has a large scale, and it takes three to four hours to visit the whole tour. In addition to walking in the scenic area, you also need to take battery cars, wooden boats, bamboo rafts, horse-drawn carriages, camel carts, tractors and other transportation in sections. On the one hand, this shows that the scenic spot is to add fun to your visit, and on the other hand, it also shows that the scenic spot is to earn your money.