Dafazhuang temple

Dafazhuang Temple is located in Wu Tong Bay, Jiangbei Cliff, Qiu Lai, two kilometers north of Suzhou, covering an area of 1 10 mu. The temple faces south, facing the cliff and facing the water, with a panoramic view of Qilian Xuefeng. Surrounded by lush trees, flowing water, beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery and colorful weather.

Populus euphratica forest in Jinta desert

The Populus euphratica forest in Jinta Desert is located in Chaohu Forest Farm, west of Jinta County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and is a part of the Three North Shelterbelt System. There are tens of thousands of acres of artificial Populus euphratica forest there.

This Populus euphratica forest is surrounded by a large area of northwest endemic tree species such as Elaeagnus angustifolia, Populus alba and Salix, which is densely distributed and grows well, ranking first in the province and has great tourism development value, and will be more famous here in the near future. In autumn and October, some green leaves of Populus euphratica have turned yellow, and so has Hu Yangshu. Under the blue sky, it is as bright as the sun in the desert.

Jinta Yuanyang Lake

Yuanyang Lake Scenic Area is located in Jiashan Gorge, southwest of Jinta County 12km. Yuanyang Lake in Jinta is surrounded by mountains and waters, with pleasant scenery, grand construction scale, magnificent momentum and unique natural conditions. It is known as "the treasure land of the desert" and "the pearl on the plug". Jinta Yuanyang Lake is the collective name of Yuanyangchi Reservoir and Jiefang Village Reservoir.

Mingsha

In desert or sand dunes, due to the influence of various climatic and geographical factors, fine sand particles are mainly timely. Due to the vibration of the wind, sand particles slide down or move with each other, and many sand particles rotate in the airflow, and the place where the surface cavity causes the "diabolo" effect to buzz is called the sand singing ground. In the west of China, Mingsha Mountain is mainly a desert, and these dunes pile up into mountains, so it is also called Mingsha Mountain.

Mo Kao Grotto at Dunhuang

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. Founded in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Countries, after the Sixteen Countries, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Xixia and Yuan Dynasties, it has formed a huge scale, with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 24 15 clay sculptures. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.

Yumen Wang Jinxi former residence memorial hall

Wang Jinxi's former residence memorial hall is located in Heping Village, Jinchi Town. Built in 1992 and 1994, it was named "patriotism education base" by Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Yumen Municipal Committee. The memorial hall of the former residence was inscribed by Gu, then secretary of Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and the mayor of Yumen presided over the opening ceremony.

Western Han Jiuquan Park

Jiuquan Scenic Area in the Western Han Dynasty is located at the east 1.9 km of Suzhou District, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, with an area of 270,000 square meters, including 50,000 square meters of natural lakes. It is a classical garden originated from the historical facts of the Western Han Dynasty, showing the heroic spirit of great men and integrating the exquisite beauty of Jiangnan. The main historical sites in the scenic area are Jiuquan, Zuogongliu, Hu Quan and a large number of ancient garden buildings.

Ya Dan Geopark

Dunhuang Ya Dan National Geopark, commonly known as Dunhuang Ya Dan Ghost Town. It is an important part of the tourist scenic spot on the west line of Dunhuang, which is 0/80km away from the downtown area of Dunhuang and located in the northwest of Yumenguan. The scenic spot is divided into two parts, east and west, which are about 25 kilometers long and about 13 kilometers wide from north to south.

The park covers an area of 346.34 square kilometers and is mainly a geological relic formed by wind erosion. 200 1 12 The Ministry of Land and Resources approved the establishment of "Ya Dan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu Province", which was officially opened in August 2003 and opened to tourists. In 2006, 1 1 was rated as an AAAA-level scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration, and was successively approved as a popular science base of land and resources, a popular science education base in Gansu Province, and a provincial geological relic nature reserve in Gansu Province.

Yangguan site

Yangguan site is located in the west of Nangong Village, Nanhu Township, Dunhuang City 1 km. Commonly known as "antique beach". The area is about 5.5 million square meters. Remains of houses, kiln sites and tombs rammed with bare loess. There are five baht coins and iron farm tools collected on the surface. The tomb is located 8 kilometers east of Gongbei Village, Nanhu Township. The area is about 200,000 square meters. The ground enclosure is a group of 3-6 blocks, and the arrangement order is not equal. It should be a family cemetery. Most of the exposed graves are in the east. Grey pottery pieces with rope patterns are scattered on the surface.

Crescent spring

Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area is located 5 kilometers south of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. It covers an area of 310.2 million square kilometers, including Mingsha Mountain, which is more than 40 kilometers long from east to west and about 20 kilometers wide from north to south. The elevation of the main peak is 1, 7 1.5 meters.

Crescent spring surrounds Mingsha Mountain. Throughout the ages, it is famous for its wonderful landscape of "mountain springs coexist, sand and water coexist" and is known as "one of the scenic spots beyond the Great Wall". Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Moon Spring and the artistic landscape of the Mogao Grottoes are integrated, which are the "two wonders" linked by one vein in the south of Dunhuang, and become the tourist attractions that people in China and even the world yearn for. Yueya Spring Scenic Spot in Mingsha Mountain, the main scenic spots are Yueya Spring and Mingsha Mountain. Crescent spring surrounds Mingsha Mountain, which looks like a crescent moon, hence its name. Mingsha Mountain is 5 kilometers away from the southern suburbs of Dunhuang City, and it is named after the sound of quicksand. Mingsha Mountain is formed by quicksand, with yellow, green, white and black dividends.

Ten scenic spots that Jiuquan must visit.

The top ten tourist attractions in Jiuquan are as follows:

Mogao grottoes 1

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located on the cliff at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City. It is one of the largest, longest-built, richest and best-preserved Buddhist caves and temples in the world. It is called "Art Museum in the Desert" and "Museum on the Wall" and is famous for its exquisite murals and statues.

2. Crescent Spring

Crescent Spring is located in the southeast corner of Wulongtan Park, east of Gu Quan. It got its name because it was shaped like the first moon. The crescent spring pool is 13m long, 8m wide and 1.5m deep. Natural stone is used for slope protection. Because the water level of Crescent Moon Spring is high, the spewing of Crescent Moon Spring indicates that all springs in Jinan are spewing.

3. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, also known as "Dongfeng Aerospace City", is one of the launch test bases of China scientific satellites, technical test satellites and launch vehicles.

4.yumenguan

Yumenguan, commonly known as Xiaofangcheng, is said to be named after the beautiful jade of Hetian jade was introduced into the Central Plains. Dunhuang city, located at the western end of Hexi Corridor, is one of the two passes in the western border of Han Dynasty. It is the only way for the ancient Silk Road to leave Dunhuang from the west and enter the north and middle roads in the western regions. Since ancient times, it has been the gateway for the Central Plains to enter the Western Regions.

5. Ya Dan National Geopark

Ya Dan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu Province is located about180km northwest of Dunhuang, a famous historical and cultural city in China, and about100km northwest of Yumenguan. The park covers an area of 398 square kilometers. It is a landscape of Ya Dan dominated by wind erosion. Ya Dan landform community is a rare natural sculpture museum with orderly layout and peculiar shape.

6. West Thousand Buddha Cave

The West Thousand Buddha Cave is an integral part of the Buddhist art system in Dunhuang. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, there were 16 caves. One to three caves belong to the Tang Dynasty, four to eight caves belong to the Wei Dynasty, and sixteen caves belong to the late Tang Dynasty. These nine caves are well preserved, and the others are difficult to identify due to weathering.

7.yangguan

When it comes to Yangguan, people will immediately think of a poem "Rain in Weicheng _ light dust, green willow color in the guest house." Advise you to drink more, there is no reason for people to go out of Xiyangguan. "This masterpiece by Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, can be described as a quatrain, which was widely circulated after being sung with music.

8. Jiuquan Scenic Area in the Western Han Dynasty

Jiuquan Park, also known as Hu Quan Park, is located 2 kilometers east of Jiuquan City. It is named after Jiuquan in the park and has a history of more than 2000 years. Jiuquan Park is a garden-style cultural park with a history of more than 2,000 years, covering an area of more than 400 mu.

9. Tibetan sutra cave

1900, Wang Yuan, a Taoist who lived in the Tibetan Sutra Cave (Cave 17), came across a small door on the north side of the cave wall. After it was opened, a square cave appeared, which contained documents, paper paintings and silk paintings from the 4th century to 1 1 century (that is, from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty).

10, Yulin Cave

During Jiajing period of Qing Dynasty, Lama Wu Gendong found an ivory Buddha statue in Yulin Cave, which was handed down from generation to generation. After liberation, it was presented to the government by the last generation of Yulin Cave. The ivory Buddha statue is an ivory statue carved with ivory teeth. It is said that there are two statues in the world, both carved from the same ivory, and the other one has been kept abroad.

What places of interest are there in Jiuquan?

1, yangguan site

Yangguan Site is located in the west of Nangong Village, Nanhu Township, Dunhuang City, Jiuquan 1 km, commonly known as "Gufengtan". Covering an area of about 5.5 million square meters, there are exposed loess rammed houses, kiln sites and tombs. There are five baht coins and iron farm tools collected on the surface. The tomb is located 8 kilometers east of Gongbei Village, Nanhu Township.

2. Jiuquan Scenic Area in the Western Han Dynasty

Jiuquan Park is located at Gulou East 1.9 km, covering an area of 270,000 square meters. It is the only well-preserved China garden in Hexi Corridor with a history of more than 2,000 years. There are springs, lakes, mountains and rocks in the park, and there are eight scenic spots, namely Jiuquan Scenic Area, Moon Cave Jinzhu Scenic Area, Western Han Scenic Area, Qilian Chengbo, Shenyun, Quyuan Catering Show, Flowers and Moon, and Luban Evening Boat.

3. Crescent Spring

Yueya Spring is located in Yueya Spring Scenic Area, which is called Shajing in ancient times and Yaoquan in common name. It is located at the northern foot of Mingsha Mountain, 5 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. The crescent spring is nearly 100 meters long from north to south and about 25 meters wide from east to west. The spring is deep in the east and shallow in the west, with the deepest point of about 5 meters. It was named "the first spring in the desert" and has been one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty. 1994 is listed as a national scenic spot.

4. Dafa Temple

Dafazhuang Temple is located in Wu Tong Bay, the northern cliff of Qiu Lai, two kilometers north of Jiuquan City, covering an area of 1 10 mu. The temple faces south, facing the cliff and facing the water, with a panoramic view of Qilian Xuefeng. Dafazhuang Temple existed in the Yuan Dynasty, and the schematic diagram of Jiuquan City in the Ming Dynasty was also marked.

5. Yulin Grottoes in Guazhou

Yulin Grottoes in Guazhou, also known as the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves, is one of the important Buddhist grottoes in China. It is located on the gravel cliffs on both sides of Yulin Valley, 76 kilometers south of Guazhou County, Jiuquan City.

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Introduction of tourist attractions in Jiuquan city

1. Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, an important node city and a provincial sub-central city in Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt approved by the Gansu Provincial People's Government. By the end of June 2020, it had jurisdiction over 1 1 district, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties, with a total area of192,000 square kilometers. In 20 19, the permanent population of cities and towns was 706,900, including more than 40 ethnic groups such as Han, Mongolian, Kazak and Hui. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Jiuquan City was 1055706.

2. Jiuquan is located in the northwest of China, in the northwest of Gansu Province, at the western end of Hexi Corridor, bordering Zhangye City and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the east, Qinghai Province in the south, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west and Mongolia in the north. Jiuquan has been a traffic fortress leading to Xinjiang and the western regions since ancient times, the cradle of modern space flight, the birthplace of new China's oil industry and nuclear industry, and an important new energy base in China.

3. Jiuquan, one of the four counties in Hexi in Han Dynasty, is an important town of the Silk Road, named after "there are springs under the city" and "its water is like wine". Jiuquan is the hometown of Dunhuang art, which has created brilliant history and culture. At the same time, due to the movement of nature and human activities, it has created strange and magnificent natural beauty and magnificent human landscape. It has successively won the honorary titles of China Cultural Tourism City and China's most internationally influential tourist destination. Jiuquan City has Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Anxi Suoyang City, Jiuquan Park, Dunhuang Ya Dan National Geopark and other tourist attractions.

4. During the Republic of China, in 19 12, Jiuquan abandoned Zhili Prefecture and Anxi Zhili Prefecture and set up An Su Road and Daoyin. 1927, the road was changed to an administrative district, covering six counties, namely Jiuquan, Jinta, Yumen, Anxi and Dunhuang, and Yin was changed to "Chief Executive". 1in July, 935, the administrative region was changed to the administrative supervision region, the townships and villages were abolished, and the insurance was increased. 1936 In May, Gansu Province was officially divided into seven administrative supervision districts, and Jiuquan was the seventh administrative supervision commissioner's office, leading Jiuquan, Gao Tai, Jinta, Ding Xin, Yumen, Anxi and Dunhuang counties. 1March, 938, Subei Administrative Office (county level) was established, which is under the seventh administrative inspector's office of Gansu Province. 1949 Jiuquan was liberated and Jiuquan area was established.

5. On June 8, 2002, with the approval of the State Council (Guo Han [2002] No.53), Jiuquan area and county-level Jiuquan City were abolished and prefecture-level Jiuquan City was established. Suzhou District was established in Jiuquan City, and the original county-level administrative area of Jiuquan City was Suzhou District. Jiuquan City governs Jinta County, Anxi County, Subei Mongolian Autonomous County, Aksai Kazak Autonomous County and Suzhou District newly established in the former Jiuquan area. Yumen City and Dunhuang City in the former Jiuquan area were directly administered by the province (managed by Jiuquan City).