Shahukou Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Shahukou is a military pass on the Great Wall in ancient times. This place is located in the west of Yunzhong. It strangles three passes and controls five plains. It has been a dangerous place since ancient times. In the old days, northern nomads invaded the Central Plains and often used Shahukou as their breakthrough point. Shahukou is located 35 kilometers north of today's Youyu County. It is the junction of Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its east and west sides are Tangzi Mountain and Dabao Mountain respectively. The Great Wall stretches on the ridge. The wall is about 2,500 meters long and wide. It is about 270 meters long, with high mountains facing each other on both sides, and the steep slope is between 30 and 40 degrees. The Cangtou River cuts off the ancient Great Wall from south to north, and the place it flows through is in the shape of a long and narrow corridor, forming a natural terrain with steep terrain and difficulty in climbing. Pass, the historical story of "walking to the west exit" happened at the Killing Pass.

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The Tiger Killing Pass has many names in history. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called "Shen He Jing" or "Shen He Kou"; in the Tang Dynasty, it was called "White Lang Pass"; in the Song Dynasty, it was called "Langya Pass"; in the Ming Dynasty, it was used to resist the southern invasion of ethnic minorities and was renamed "Kill the Hukou"; in order to ease the conflicts between the Mongols, the Qing Dynasty changed "Hu" to "Tiger". After that, the name "Killing the Hukou" is still used today.
Old local chronicles contain: "Beyond the Great Wall, the tribes of the Mongolian tribes were divided into hundreds and forty-nine. During the reign of Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty (836-840), the Uighur army invaded Yunshuo and was surrounded and annihilated in the Shahukou area. They surrendered their troops As many as tens of thousands, and many heavy weapons were lost. In the sixth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522), the Mongolian cavalry invaded the Central Plains from Shahukou many times, and went deep into Taiyuan, Pingyao, Jiexiu and other places, harassing the 38 counties of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. In the thirteenth year (1544), a castle was built at Shahukou, with a circumference of 1 km and a height of 3 feet and 5 feet. In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), another castle was built near the Shahukou Castle, named "Pingji Fort" The height of the two forts is the same as that of the old fort. There is a continuous wall between the two forts, forming a mutual support situation. Due to the dangerous terrain of Shahukou, all dynasties have stationed troops here to guard the area, and set up a garrison camp and a fort commander. , deployed more than a thousand troops; the Qing Dynasty changed the Central Army garrison to the Central Army Dusi, added thousands of generals and generals, and the garrison also increased to 1,600. "
There are not only majestic and simple ancient buildings inside and outside Youyu Ancient City, but also quite interesting. Spectacular natural landscapes, known as the Ten Scenes of Youyu, include the windy terraces, the soft green fields, the flowing blue of the Hunyuan River, the rabbit's clear pattern, the cow's heart pregnant with raw material, the thunder peak accounting for the rain, the holy lake steaming clouds, and the Helan plant. In the Han Dynasty, countless tourists were amazed by the sound of springs in Qujian and the inscriptions on brocade stones.

Scenic spot qualifications:

Provincial scenic spots

Scenic spot features:

Photography, sightseeing, leisure, vacation, patriotic travel, historical travel, historic sites