1. Tourism in Wuzhong City1 Qingtongxia108 TowerQingtongxia Yellow River Grand Canyon Tourist Area is located in Qingtongxia Town, Wuzhong. It is a Yellow River Canyon-type scenic area composed of limestone and sand shale. The tourist attractions mainly include Jiuqu Square, 108 Tower, Qingtongxia Water Conservancy Project, Dayu Cultural Park, Chinese Yellow River Altar, taking a yacht to visit the Shili Chang Gorge, Jinsha Bay, etc.
The Qingtongxia108 pagoda is a group of Lama-style solid pagodas. It is located under the cliff on the west bank of the Qingtongxia Reservoir. The pagodas sit west to east, close to the mountains and rivers. Silk scripts and Buddhas with Xixia inscriptions were unearthed under the base of the pagodas. Zhen, it is speculated that this tower group may have been built in the Xixia period.
The pagodas are arranged in twelve rows from top to bottom according to the odd numbers of one, three, five, seven, etc. 108 In Buddhism, the troubles of life are classified as 108 In order to eliminate troubles, the beads are prescribed. 108 , chanting Buddhist scriptures 108 All over, Xiao Zhong 108 It is said that as long as visitors worship the pagoda, their worries will be eliminated and good luck will be brought.
2 China Yellow River TowerLocated on the west bank of the Yellow River, the Chinese Yellow River Building is one of the landmark buildings that showcase the Yellow River culture of Ningxia. 12 It consists of zodiac totem poles, river-suppressing iron oxen and other ancillary buildings and sculptures.
The main building of the Yellow River Tower is composed of three parts: underground, city platform and pavilion. The building elevation is 108 meters. The architectural style is Ming and Qing antique architecture. The main colors are Chinese red and rich yellow. The top design is heavy in local style. The eaves are cross-ridged, and the roof is paved with golden glazed tiles. The overall style is grand and majestic.
Visitors first take the elevator directly to the top of the building, climb up to watch the rolling water of the Yellow River, feel the majestic scenery of the rushing river, and think about the past and present, and then go down to visit the interior of each floor. The entire Yellow River Tower is like a museum, with each floor having an exhibition theme. The Yellow River culture, Xixia culture and desert culture are vividly demonstrated here.
The auxiliary building of the Yellow River Tower has four corner towers, which represent spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively, meaning spring orchid, summer lotus, autumn chrysanthemum and winter plum. The Yellow River Tower has four gate towers, namely Qinglong Gate, White Tiger Gate, Xuanwu Gate and Zhuque Gate. .
yellow The large archway at Helou is the main entrance to the scenic area. On the front of the archway is written "Great Yellow River", and on the back of the archway is written "Great Yellow River". It is written with "Beautiful Yellow River".
In the arc-shaped square in front of the entrance to the steps of the Yellow River Tower stands 12 bronze totem poles. The contents of the totem poles are selected from the 12 zodiac animals. On the large steps at the main entrance of the Yellow River Building, there is an enlarged reproduction of the image of the iron ox from Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty. The iron ox has its head in the north and its tail in the south, with wide eyes and a weight-bearing shape. The image is lifelike and lifelike.
2. Helan Mountain Tourist AreaDriving a long car, crossing the gap in Helan Mountain... Helan Mountain is famous all over the world for Yue Fei's "The River is Red". Helan Mountain is the boundary mountain between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The east side of the mountain is Ningxia and the west side is the Alxa League of Inner Mongolia. In Mongolian, the horse is called "Helan", hence its name. The majestic mountains not only weaken the invasion of the northwest cold wind, but also block the eastward movement of quicksand in the Tengger Desert, becoming a natural barrier for the Yinchuan Plain.
Helan Mountain is about 200 kilometers long from north to south. The east of Helan Mountain is a bare mountain range, and the west is virgin forest. A mountain is divided into two different worlds - the east is a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral area, and the west is pure Pastoral area. Helan Mountain is most beautiful in the evening. The sunset outlines the layers of mountains in Helan Mountain, which is particularly charming.
Helan Mountain Scenic Area is located in Ningxia at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain. It is more than 30 kilometers long from north to south and 4 kilometers wide from east to west. There are rock paintings left by nomadic people thousands of years ago (Helan Mountain Rock Paintings), a rare forest park in the northwest arid area (Suyukou National Forest Park), as well as the ancient Xixia Pagodas (Baisikou Twin Pagodas), the founding emperor of Xixia Li Yuanhao The palace (Gunzhongkou) and the remains of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall (Sanguankou).
Helan Mountain is famous for Yue Fei's "The River is Red". Because of its great fame, it can’t help but make many people yearn for it. However, the bare stones and bare shale present a wild and primitive look. Although we can use roughness and boldness to cover up its desolation, tourists from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who are used to seeing green mountains and green waters are still a little disappointed.
1 Suyukou National Forest ParkSuyukou National Forest Park has hundreds of thousands of acres of forest area and hundreds of species of wild animals and plants, with unique geology and landforms. Visitors here can not only see towering pitch pine, juniper, spruce and other natural forests, but also have the opportunity to see running red deer, jumping blue sheep, playful orchid pheasant and other wild animals.
Kiss the sky, climb the cliffs and plank roads, walk on the sea of clouds, and embrace the mountains. Suyukou National Forest Park is divided into new and old scenic spots. After entering the scenic area, there is a welcome area, where there is a visitor center, museum and ski resort. The visitor center is divided into two different ride points for the new and old scenic spots.
The itinerary of the old scenic spot is: take the scenic sightseeing bus from the visitor center to Songtao Villa, start climbing from Songtao Villa (you can also take the cable car up) and walk to Qingsongling. From Qingsong Ridge, you can reach Cherry Valley through the canyon suspension bridge. Cherry Valley is a canyon landscape, so named because it is full of wild cherry trees. After walking about two kilometers in the canyon, you can reach the Jingjiao bus point on the highway, and then take the Jingjiao bus back to the gate of the scenic spot.
The itinerary of the new scenic spot is: take the scenic bus from the visitor center to the new scenic spot, take the cable car (you can also hike) to the Helan Mountain Que in the middle of the mountain, cross the Helan Mountain Que and start hiking to the Golden Summit, which is actually an observation deck. Then follow the folding wall-hanging plank road on the cliff down the mountain and walk to Songtao Villa. The end point is the bus point from the old scenic spot to Songtao Villa.
2 Helan Mountain Rock PaintingsHelan Mountain Rock Paintings are about 60 kilometers away from Yinchuan City. There are more than a thousand rock paintings in the mountain pass distributed on the cliffs and stone walls that stretch 600 more than 600 meters on both sides of the valley. They are the ancient ancestors' paintings in the long history. The pictures drawn and carved on rocks using realistic or abstract artistic techniques over the years record all aspects of ancient human social life in Yinchuan.
The Helan Mountain rock paintings are an art gallery of Chinese nomadic people. They are a stone book that records the reproduction and development of ethnic minorities in ancient western China. They have rich historical and cultural connotations. In ancient times, Helan Mountain was a place where northern ethnic minorities such as the Xiongnu, Turks, Uighurs, Tubos, and Dangxiang lived, hunted, and lived and multiplied. They carved scenes of production and life on the rocks of Helan Mountain to express their yearning and pursuit of a better life, and to reproduce their aesthetics, social customs and life interests at that time.
Among the many rock paintings in Helan Mountain, one that deserves special attention is a rock painting of the "Sun God". The picture reflects ancient humans' worship of the sun. The sun god in the picture has wide eyes and radioactive grooves on his head. There is also a rock art museum that you can visit in the scenic area. The museum mainly contains replicas and photos of rock paintings, and there are not many authentic ones.
Helan Mountain rock paintings have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List. From the aesthetic point of view, the Helan Mountain rock paintings are almost similar to children's graffiti; but from the perspective of historical value, looking at the Helan Mountain rock paintings is actually a process of exploring history, exploring culture, and traveling through time and space, not to mention there are some The rock paintings are still an unsolved mystery.
Travel tips: The scenic spot is divided into two parts: the exhibition hall and the actual scene. First, visit the exhibition hall. Listening to the tour guide's explanation carefully can still enrich a lot of knowledge. Then take a battery car into the canyon to view the rock paintings on the spot. The various rock paintings are not obvious due to severe weathering, so you need to look at them carefully. There is no need to climb mountains during the entire tour, which is relatively easy.
3. Yinchuan historical buildingsYinchuan was called "Xingqing Prefecture" in ancient times. It is an ancient city on the frontier with a long history, the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty in history, and a national historical and cultural city. Yinchuan is also known as the "Phoenix City" in folk legends, and is known as the "Jiangnan on the Frontier, the Land of Fish and Rice" and the "Pearl on the Frontier".
1 Drum TowerThe Drum Tower is located in the center of the old city, also known as the Cross Drum Tower and the Four Drum Towers. It was first built in the first year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty and completed in the sixth year of the Republic of China. The Drum Tower is an ancient building with revolutionary commemorative significance. During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Ningxia Special Branch of the Communist Party of China, the first Chinese Communist Party organization in Ningxia, was located in the Bell and Drum Tower. When Ningxia was liberated, Commander Yang Dezhi of the 19th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Political Commissar Li Zhimin reviewed the entry ceremony of the Chinese People's Liberation Army into the city at the Bell and Drum Tower.
Gulou South Street starts from the Drum Tower in the north and ends at Yinchuan Mall in the south. It is a famous commercial pedestrian street in the old city. It houses a number of large supermarkets and shopping malls, offering both specialty products from all over Ningxia and fashionable products only found in big cities. However, there are no local specialties near the pedestrian street, which is mainly for commercial shopping.
2 Jade Emperor PavilionYuhuang Pavilion is located in the center of the old city, complementing the adjacent Drum Tower and giving it a unique charm. The Jade Emperor Pavilion was first built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It was destroyed by an earthquake during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and was rebuilt after it was dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu. It was then named "Jade Emperor Pavilion". The Yuhuang Pavilion is the only remaining ancient wooden structure high-rise pavilion in Yinchuan. The two bell towers and drum towers on the west and east floors are symmetrical and coordinated, with a quite ethnic style.
3 South Gate TowerThe South Gate Tower located in the old town of Yinchuan is the only and most complete city gate tower preserved among the six ancient towers in the ancient city of Yinchuan. It has now become a landmark building in the old town of Yinchuan. There is a square in front of the door and a park behind the door. The south gate you see now was rebuilt in 1917, and has been renovated many times since the 50s.
From a distance, the south gate looks a bit like a replica of Tiananmen. There is a north-south arched doorway on the middle wall of the platform. There are symmetrical steps on both sides of the doorway on the north side of the platform. Visitors can climb up the tower along the steps. In the center of the tall pedestal, there is a two-story pavilion with double eaves on the top of the mountain, white walls, red columns and green tiles, which is quite similar to the Tiananmen Gate Tower.
4 Chengtian Temple PagodaChengtian Temple Pagoda is located in Chengtian Temple in the southwest of the old town of Yinchuan. It is commonly known as the West Pagoda by local people. It is the tallest brick tower among more than 100 ancient pagodas in Ningxia. After the death of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, his son ascended the throne at a young age. In order to ensure the longevity of his son and the immortality of Xixia, the Empress Dowager built Chengtian Temple and Chengtian Temple Tower. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a major earthquake destroyed all the pagodas and temples. It was later rebuilt in the 25th year of Jiaqing, retaining the basic shape of the original Xixia pagoda.
5 Haibao TowerHaibao Pagoda is located in the northern suburbs of Yinchuan City. Because it is far opposite the Chengtian Temple Pagoda in the west of Yinchuan City, it is also commonly known as the North Pagoda. The specific year of its construction is unknown. According to historical records, the pagoda was built by Helian Bobo (King of Daxia, AD It was rebuilt during the period of 407-427, so it is also called Hebao Pagoda. The appearance of the tower is similar to the shape of "Ya", which is rare among many ancient towers in my country.
4. Introduction to the Hui NationalityThe Hui people are the most widely distributed ethnic minority in China, and they have mosques built in places where they live more concentratedly. Since the mid-seventh century AD, a large number of Persian and Arab merchants have settled in China's coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou, as well as inland places such as Chang'an and Kaifeng via sea and land routes, and began to spread Islam.
In the 13th century AD, the Mongolian army marched westward, and a large number of people from the Western Regions moved into China. After absorbing elements of Han, Mongolian, Uyghur and other ethnic groups, they gradually formed a unified nation - the Hui. Academic circles generally believe that the Hui people were roughly formed in the Ming Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was the preparatory period for the formation of the Hui people.
The common language of the Hui ethnic group is Chinese, and their second language, Arabic, plays an important role within the Hui ethnic group. Because of their belief in Islam, the Hui people mainly celebrate three major festivals every year, namely Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and Al-Adha. The festivals are all calculated according to the Islamic calendar.
The Hui nationality is a minority group that is good at singing and dancing. In Ningxia, you can enjoy the Hui nationality flowers and mouth strings with strong northwest style. Kouxian is a small plucked instrument favored by Ningxia Hui women. It plays pleasant tunes and its tunes are relatively fixed.
Hui Hua'er is a unique high-pitched folk song spread in northwest my country. The tune is high-pitched and melodious, the lyrics are simple and fresh, and it has distinctive local characteristics and strong national style.
There is an old saying among the Hui people in Ningxia: the three treasures you bring home are bowls, soup bottles, and white hats. The soup bottle is not only a utensil for daily washing and bathing of the Hui people, but also a symbol of the religious culture of the Hui people. It is a living utensil that is used throughout the life of the Hui people.
Gaiwan refers to the utensil used by Ningxia Hui people to brew Babao tea. It is a tea set with a lid on top, a holder on the bottom, and a bowl in the middle. Its meaning is: the lid is the sky, the holder is the earth, and the bowl is the person, so it is also called the "Three Talents". bowl".
The locals call Gaiwan tea "Duanzi" and "Babao tea". Most people in the northwest like to drink Gaiwan tea. The main ingredients are tea and rock sugar. Other ingredients include wolfberry, red dates, walnuts, raisins, longan and other nourishing ingredients. Among them, the dumpling tea produced in Linxia, Gansu and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is the most authentic. Really good tea will taste better after two or three servings.
The most important symbol of Hui clothing is on the head: men like to wear white round hats. There are two types of round hats, one is flat-topped and the other is hexagonal.
Hui women usually wear hijab. The color of the hijab is particular. Old women wear white to look pure and elegant; middle-aged women wear black to look solemn and elegant; unmarried women wear green to look fresh and beautiful. Many married women also wear white or black round hats with rims.
The Hui people do not eat pork, dog and donkey meat, nor do they eat dead animals, so when traveling here, don’t mention pork. If you really want to talk about it, you can say “big meat”. The Hui people are not traditional smokers and drinkers, and alcoholic beverages are generally not served in more traditional halal restaurants.
5. Travel Tips◇ Ningxia has a large temperature difference between day and night. Even if you travel to Ningxia in summer, you should prepare one or two thicker clothes. Ningxia's ultraviolet rays are relatively strong and the sunshine is relatively long, so you still need to prepare sunscreen, sun hats, goggles and other sun protection products.◇The weather in Ningxia is relatively dry, so you need to drink more water. Most drinking water for Yinchuan residents is groundwater. The water hardness is relatively high, which may cause gastrointestinal and skin discomfort. Therefore, people with weak gastrointestinal resistance and allergic constitution need to bring some backup medicines.◇The northwest region is greatly influenced by religion, and its customs are different from those in the mainland. When traveling, please remember to follow the local customs.◇Ningxia’s most famous specialties include wolfberry, licorice, tan sheep second fur, Helan stone and Nostoc.
