Dunhuang tourist attractions introduction desk Dunhuang mural attractions

Lead: Dunhuang scenic area is mainly divided into two lines: east and west. The main scenic spots on the east line are Mogao Grottoes and Mingsha Mountain, both close to Dunhuang city, and the journey is between 1-2 hours. The west line is about 300 kilometers long, and the round trip takes about 7-8 hours. Desolation is the characteristic of Dunhuang's western tourism. The main attractions are: Dunhuang Ancient City, West Thousand Buddha Cave, Hezang City, Yumenguan, Han Great Wall Ruins, Ghost Town and Yangguan.

Dunhuang must-see attractions

Mogao Grottoes

_ "This is the only meeting point of China, Greek, Islamic and Indian cultures"-Mr. Ji Xianlin.

_ Continues the oldest and largest treasure house of Buddhist art, and is famous for its exquisite murals and statues.

_ Pay homage to Maitreya, a nine-story mud-embryo bodhisattva, and appreciate the graceful dance of Feitian Bodhisattva "playing pipa" in the mural.

Tip: In order to protect cultural relics, please don't take photos secretly! The camera flash will do great damage to the murals.

Mingshashan Yueya Spring

_ The place where the sand mountain and spring water are located has always been known as the "desert wonder" of the world and is one of the business cards of Dunhuang.

_ Climb Mingsha Mountain, ride a camel, watch the sand sea and sunset at the top of the mountain, and feel the desolation and vastness of the northwest desert.

_ Play sand skiing and feel the thrill of flying down from the height of the sand mountain. The yellow sand is flying all over the sky and there is a rumbling roar in your ear.

Tip: Don't go near the camel's hind feet or head to prevent it from kicking you and spraying you with its mouth.

Lei Yin Temple

_ Leiyin Temple is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, 4 kilometers south of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, an important town of the ancient Silk Road, next to Crescent Moon Spring.

_ Since ancient times, it has been the hub of transportation between the East and the West, as well as the intersection and transit point of Chinese and Western cultures.

Tip: It is windy and dusty here, so you need to prepare enough drinking water and sand-proof and sun-proof equipment before sightseeing.

Yumen Pass

_ Watch the famous Millennium site in ancient poems and lament the vicissitudes of time.

_ The wetland next to Guancheng is located between Gobi and reed, and the scenery is rare.

Tip: You need to prepare enough drinking water and sand and sun protection equipment before traveling.

Ya Dan Geopark

_ Watch the Ya Dan landforms with different forms, and the scenery is fantastic and spectacular.

_ The sunset sets behind the desert and landform in the evening, which is an excellent opportunity to take big photos.

Tip: prepare clothes that are easy to change so that you can adjust them at any time.

Xiqian Buddha Caves

_ West Thousand Buddha Cave is an integral part of Dundun Buddhist art system.

_ The excavation time of the West Thousand Buddha Cave met with the Mogao Grottoes, and it was built on the cliff on the north bank of Danghe River, separated from the Mogao Grottoes by a Mingsha Mountain, with similar artistic style.

Tip: It is windy and dusty here, so you need to prepare enough drinking water and sand-proof and sun-proof equipment before sightseeing.

Ya Dan Geopark-Han Great Wall-Yumenguan-Yangguan-West Thousand-Buddha Cave is the routine route of the western route of Dunhuang, which takes about one day. You can visit all the remaining scenic spots on the East Line.

Dunhuang movie and television ancient city

_ Stroll through the characteristic ancient city in the northwest and take antique photos.

_ Experience different styles of buildings in several streets and feel the fun of regional shuttle.

_ Walking in the shooting places of many film and television works, looking for familiar scenes.

Tip: The ancient city is located on the Gobi Desert, with dry air, strong sunshine and heavy sandstorm. Before the visit, you need to prepare enough drinking water and sand prevention and sun protection equipment.

Dunhuang Museum

_ Visit the Mogao Grottoes. There are no open grottoes, but there is an important cultural relic, Dunhuang suicide note, to learn about Dunhuang history.

_ You can visit the historical sites of the Silk Road, such as Kirin bricks, which are very rare.

Yulin Grottoes

_ Yulin Grottoes are part of Dunhuang Grottoes, which were dug before Sui and Tang Dynasties.

_ Dongya 3 1, Xiya 1 1, with 4,200 square meters of murals and 259 colored sculptures.

Tip: It is windy and dusty here, so you need to prepare enough drinking water and sand-proof and sun-proof equipment before sightseeing.

Hecang city

_ Hecang City, commonly known as Dafang Pancheng, was built in the Western Han Dynasty. It is located on the Gobi Desert, 60 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang. There is a big Gobi in the north and south that is several feet higher than the castle, which makes Hezang City extremely hidden.

_ Hecang City has been an important munitions warehouse for frontier grain reserves of the Great Wall from Han Dynasty to Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Tip: It is windy and dusty here, so you need to prepare enough drinking water and sand-proof and sun-proof equipment before sightseeing.

What are the tourist attractions in Dunhuang?

Hello, I'm Master Jiang, a chartered tourist from Northwest China. The scenic spots in Dunhuang are divided into: East Line and West Line. The scenic spots on the eastern route of Dunhuang are: Mogao Grottoes, Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring. The scenic spots on the west line of Dunhuang include: Dunhuang Ancient City, West Thousand Buddha Cave, Yangguan-Yumenguan, Han Great Wall and Ya Dan landform. Guazhou County near Dunhuang also has Yulin Cave, Dong Qianfo Cave and transparent Monk Glacier. Generally, two days in Dunhuang is enough. I'll give you a tour route:

Dunhuang classic two-day tour route

Route:

D 1 Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain: Dunhuang

After picking up the station, have breakfast and visit the magical desert wonders Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring, which have become the wonders of sand springs for thousands of years because "the ancient sand does not fill the spring, and the spring does not dry up". Visitors can climb mountains, ski and ride camels barefoot here. The playing time is about 3 hours.

After lunch, visit Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, which is known as the treasure house of Buddhist art in the world. It is a treasure house of culture and art integrating architecture, painted sculptures and murals. It has precious historical, artistic and scientific values, is a historical treasure of the Chinese nation and an excellent cultural heritage of mankind. 1987 is listed in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO. -Digital movies "Dream Buddha Palace" and "Millennium Dunhuang" are 20 minutes each. It takes 1 hour and 30 minutes to visit the Mogao Grottoes. (After entering May, in order to ensure that you can visit the Mogao Grottoes normally, you need to buy tickets online at the Mogao Grottoes 30 days in advance. )

D2 Dunhuang-Yumenguan-Ya Dan landform ended a pleasant journey.

After breakfast, take a bus to Dunhuang ancient city, and the visit time is about 40 minutes. Then go to Yumen Pass and visit Yumen Pass, which is known as the "Millennium Ancient Pass" and lasts for 30 minutes. The important military pass in the Han Dynasty, the traffic artery of the Silk Road and the important pass on the defense line of the Great Wall in Hexi were listed as Yumen Pass and the Great Wall of Han Dynasty in 1998. -Dunhuang is 2.30-3 hours away from Yumen Pass 1 10, and the tour lasts for 40 minutes (the road conditions are average). An ancient poet once chanted, "Why does Qiangdi complain about the willow? The spring breeze is just like Yumenguan"? Then he visited the most intact ancient Great Wall of Han Dynasty for 30 minutes, and visited the landform of Ya Dan, which was called a ghost town by local people. Many famous buildings in the world can find its miniature here, such as Tiantan in Beijing, Potala Palace in Tibet, Golden Pagoda in Egypt, the Sphinx, Mongolian yurts on the grassland, desert lions, peacocks dozing, and camels on the Silk Road!

Tip: You will stay outdoors for a long time on this day. Please prepare sun hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, sunscreen clothes and drinking water. Colorful skirts and trousers are very suitable for taking pictures in deserts and Gobi.

Tips: Because Dunhuang is located in the desert Gobi and the climate is dry, most tourists who come to Dunhuang for the first time will feel thirsty. Drinking more water and eating more fruits are the best ways to adapt.

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What are the scenic spots in Dunhuang?

Mogao Grottoes, also known as "Thousand Buddha Cave", is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang County, and is named after Mogao Grottoes Town. It is the largest and most famous Buddhist art grottoes in China. It is distributed in three or four layers on the cliff of Mingsha Mountain, with a total length of 1600 meters. There are 492 existing grottoes, with a total area of 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2 100 painted Buddha statues. Grottoes vary in size, statues vary in height, the big ones are magnificent, the small ones are exquisite, the accomplishments are deep and the imagination is amazing.

Mingsha Mountain is located seven kilometers south of Dunhuang City. It was called Shensha Mountain and Shajiao Mountain in ancient times. The whole mountain system is composed of sand, which is about 40 kilometers long from east to west, 20 kilometers wide from north to south and tens of meters high. The mountain peak is steep, like a sharp sword. There is a layer of wet sand under the sand dune. The wind blows sand, and the sound can make the sand layer sing, hence the name. According to historical records, when the weather is clear, even if the wind stops and the sand is quiet, it will sound like playing music, so the "clear sound on the sand ridge" is a scene in Dunhuang. This is a kind of wonder in natural phenomena, which has been called "desert wonder" since ancient times and is known as "one of the scenic spots beyond the Great Wall".

Crescent Spring Crescent Spring is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, which is called manhole in ancient times and medicinal spring in common name. There are many kinds of medicinal materials such as Apocynum venetum and Lycium barbarum in the scenic spot, which has been one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty, and is called "Che Xiao in Yue Quan". 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. Bending like a crescent moon, hence the name, it is called "the first spring in the desert".

There are four unique features of the crescent spring: the crescent shape remains the same, the evil land flows into a spring, the sand mountain does not soak in sand, and the old fish in the ancient pond is not old. Evening and dusk are the best places to visit Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain. There are three treasures in Crescent Spring: iron-backed fish, five-color sand and seven-star grass. It is said that eating iron-backed fish and seven-star grass together can live forever! Robe kenaf, a small flower on the south bank of Crescent Spring, is a unique health-care Chinese herbal medicine beside the spring and also has the effect of delaying aging. Every June, July and August, these little flowers will bloom like stars at night. According to the older generation, the unique barracuda in Dunhuang may be the iron-backed fish, and Apocynum venetum on the south bank of Crescent Spring is the legendary seven-star grass!

Ya Dan landform Dunhuang Ya Dan landform is located 200 kilometers west of Dunhuang, with a distribution area of 10 km. The mounds are tall, mostly10 ~ 20m, 200 ~ 300m. Place names, also known as Sanlongsha, first appeared in the Han Dynasty, located outside the ancient Yumenguan Gate, where the northern line of the Silk Road passed. Sandong Shayadan landform is perpendicular to the prevailing northwest wind direction, but consistent with the flow direction of mountain torrents, forming the second largest scenic spot in Dunhuang with Yumenguan. Because of its peculiar characteristics, there is a ghost town.

Huang Du ancient city ruins

Located in the desert Gobi on the south side of Dunhuang-Yangguan Highway, 25 kilometers away from the city center. 1987 Dunhuang, a large-scale historical feature film co-produced by China and Japan, is based on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty, and is designed and built in imitation of the ancient city of Shazhou, with a construction area of 65,438+10,000 square meters. The architectural style of Dunhuang ancient city has a strong western customs, with three gates in the east, west and south, and towering towers; The city consists of five main streets: Gaochang, Dunhuang, Ganzhou, Xingqing and Bianliang, with Buddhist temples, pawn shops, warehouses, restaurants and houses on both sides. The ancient city of Dunhuang reproduces the majestic posture of Dunhuang, an important town in the northwest during the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is known as the architectural art museum in the west of China, and has the unique advantage of shooting military films in the ancient western frontier. Now it has become the largest film and television shooting base in western China, where it has been filmed successively.

Yangguan is located in Nanhu Township, 70 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City, which opened up Hexi for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is one of the two customs of "four counties and two customs". Since ancient times, the Silk Road has been the only way out of Dunhuang from the west and the gateway to the western border.

Sanweishan Dunhuang Sanweishan Tourist Area is located 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City. It is close to the Mogao Grottoes and Buddhism and reflects each other, forming a tourist landscape featuring Buddhist culture on the Silk Road.

In addition, there are Dacheng Hall, Longwang Temple and Mountain Temple dedicated to China's cultural sage Confucius. These buildings correspond to the Sanwei Mountain Pairs, providing places for tourists to cultivate their minds and cultivate their health. Cisi Pagoda near Laojuntang was built in the early Northern Song Dynasty and is the oldest existing wooden pagoda in China. Because of its special value in the architectural history of China, it is 198 1.

Sanwei Mountain is the first holy place in Dunhuang, and it is listed as the first of the eight scenic spots in Dunhuang in local chronicles, and it is called "the dangerous peak moves eastward". The development and construction of the Sanxian Holy Land, especially the opening of the Sanxian Great Copper Buddha, makes tourists come to the Guanyin Hall of the Great Copper Buddha to burn incense and worship Buddha after visiting the Mogao Grottoes, which can greatly satisfy the wishes of monks and nuns.

Scenic spots in Dunhuang city

The scenic spots in Dunhuang include Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Moon Spring Scenic Spot in Mingsha Mountain, Ya Dan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, Dunhuang Yangguan Tourist Scenic Spot and Dunhuang Photoelectric Expo Park.

1, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: It is the general name of Mogao Grottoes and West Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. It is one of the four largest grottoes in China and the largest and best-preserved Buddhist art treasure house in the world.

2. Mingsha Mountain-Crescent Spring Scenic Area: It was called Shensha Mountain and Shajiao Mountain in ancient times. It is about 40 kilometers long from east to west, 20 kilometers wide from north to south and tens of meters high. It starts from the cliff top of Mogao Grottoes in the east and meets Danghe Reservoir in the west. The mountain peak is steep, like a blade. The whole mountain is made up of oily fine-grained yellow sand.

3. Ya Dan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu Province: It 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.

4. Dunhuang Yangguan Tourist Attraction: Located on the "antique beach" 70km southwest of Dunhuang City, it is named after being south of Yumenguan. As early as BC 12 1 year, the Western Han Dynasty set up four counties in Hexi Corridor, namely Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang, and established Yangguan and Yumenguan at the same time.

5. Dunhuang Optoelectronic Expo Park: Located in the Gobi Desert, north of Qizhen and National Highway 2 15, with a planned area of 254 square kilometers, it is a must for western tourism. The unique natural conditions here make Dunhuang a hot spot for the development of China photoelectric industry.

What are the tourist attractions in Dunhuang?

Hello! Welcome to Dunhuang!

The main tourist attractions in Dunhuang are: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Mingsha Mountain.

Crescent Spring, Yumenguan, Ya Dan, Yangguan, etc. Surrounded by: Jiayuguan Tower, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base and other attractions.

Mogao Grottoes: The current ticket price is 160 yuan/person, which is 25 kilometers away from Dunhuang city.

Mingsha

Crescent Spring, the current fare is 120 yuan/person, 5 kilometers away from Dunhuang city.

Yumenguan Pass, ticket 40 yuan/person, 80km away from Dunhuang.

Ya Dan landform, ticket 80 yuan/person (including shuttle bus)

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What are the tourist attractions in Dunhuang?

Mogao grottoes 1

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the general name of Mogao Grottoes and West Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. It is one of the four largest grottoes in China and the largest and best-preserved Buddhist art treasure house in the world. The Mogao Grottoes are located 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City, and are dug on the cliff at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain. In the second year of Fujian Jianyuan before Qin Dynasty (AD 366), a shaman believer came here, and when he saw the golden light on Mingsha Mountain and the Thousand Buddha Cave, he sprouted the heart of digging, and later became a Buddhist holy place, named Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave. China Grottoes originated from India. The traditional grottoes in India are mainly stone carvings, while the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are mainly clay murals because rocks are not suitable for carving. Generally, the whole cave used to be round, and then it gradually faded into high plastic, shadow plastic and wall plastic. Finally, with the mural as the background, the two arts of plastic and painting were combined. There were more than 1,000 caves in the Tang Dynasty, and there are 492 existing caves, including 32 in Wei, 247 in Sui, 36 in the Five Dynasties, 45 in Song and 8 in Yuan. During the Northern Dynasties, the main statue in the cave was generally Sakyamuni or Maitreya Buddha, and there were mostly two dangerous bodhisattvas or one Buddha and two disciples on both sides of the main statue. The back of the statue is mostly connected with murals. The top and walls of the cave are covered with murals.

2. Mingsha Mountain-Crescent Spring Scenic Area

Mingsha Mountain was called Shensha Mountain and Shajiao Mountain in ancient times. It is about 40 kilometers long from east to west, 20 kilometers wide from north to south and tens of meters high. It starts from the cliff top of Mogao Grottoes in the east and meets Danghe Reservoir in the west. The mountain peak is steep, like a blade. The whole mountain is made up of oily fine-grained yellow sand. When climbing a mountain, I only feel that the sand under my feet will chirp. Although I am one foot deep and one foot shallow, I will still take a half step back. Climbing the mountain is extremely difficult, but I still feel endless fun. I climbed to the top of the mountain with all my strength. At this time, I felt the strong wind coming at me with fine sand, and the sound came, leaving footprints that quickly disappeared. It is said that when the wind blows wildly, the gravel falling from the top of the mountain falls with the human body, and the sand mountain will make a loud noise. On weekdays, the breeze blows, and it looks like a stringed bamboo, hence the name Mingsha Mountain. The sunset landscape of Mingsha Mountain is even more intoxicating. You must see it and be amazed. Crescent Spring is about 300 meters long and 50 meters wide. It is surrounded by Mingsha Mountain. There are slender poplars beside the spring, and there are fish swimming leisurely in the spring. Spring is light blue, clear and soft, and delicious. It is named because the water is like a crescent moon. Crescent Moon Spring, a dreamlike mystery. For thousands of years, it has not been submerged by the surrounding quicksand, nor has it been dried up by drought. It is the first spring in desert in the world, which is breathtaking.

3. Dunhuang

Dunhuang is a pearl in the world art treasure house. Located at the western end of Hexi Corridor in northwest China, it is 40 degrees north latitude 10 minute and 92 degrees 48 minutes east longitude. Anxi County in the east, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the northwest, and Aksai Kazak Autonomous County in Qinghai across the river in the south. It is a small oasis surrounded by mountains, deserts and Gobi. The whole territory covers an area of 31.2000 square kilometers, with an average elevation of 1 100 meters and an annual average temperature of 9.3 degrees. Dunhuang has a glorious chapter in the long history of China. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, it has been the main throat on the Silk Road and the traffic fortress between China and the West, making it a metropolis of Huarong Road. Dunhuang has a long history and splendid culture. There are many places of interest in the territory, and the natural scenery is strange and charming. Grottoes and temples, ancient tombs, the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, passes, ancient cities, Fengsui, ancient post stations and other cultural relics 24 1 The world-famous Mogao Grottoes, the world-famous human cultural heritage, the famous Yangguan and Yumenguan, the extraordinary and magical Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring, the legendary Wowachi, Sanwei Mountain and Ya Dan Ghost Town, especially the cultural and artistic relics such as Mogao Grottoes, the West Thousand Buddha Cave and Yulin Grottoes, the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, the hanging spring and other places of interest are all fascinating and unforgettable.

4.crescent spring

Yaquan, known as Shajing in ancient times and Yaoquan in common name, has been one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty and was named "Che Xiao in Yue Quan". 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. Bending like a crescent moon, hence the name, it is called "the first spring in the desert". Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area is located in Dunhuang City at the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. Crescent Spring is located in Dunhuang City, the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. Dunhuang is a famous town on the ancient Silk Road. In the long history of cultural exchanges between China and the West, it was once a gathering place for celebrities of Chinese and Western cultures. Because of their combination of essence and macro, they created the world-famous Dunhuang culture and left many cultural treasures for mankind. Crescent Spring, known as Shajing in ancient times and Yaoquan in common name, has been one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty, and is called "Yue Quan Che Xiao". 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. Bending like a crescent moon, hence the name, it is called "the first spring in the desert". A clear spring bends, ripples linger, and it is as blue as jade. Spring is in quicksand, the drought is not over, and the wind blows sand, which is a spectacle. Scholars of all ages praised this unique mountain spring landform and desert wonders.

5. Mingsha Mountain

In China, there are many tourist attractions called "Mingsha Mountain", and Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang is the most representative and well-known because of its long history and cultural characteristics, so it is introduced separately. "Vivid and sand, cold also since the noise, potential doubt, Yin, such as mine. The wind is still sharp and the human umbilical blade is uneven. " This vivid poem is a description of the wonders of Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang by poets in the Tang Dynasty. Mingsha Mountain has attracted people with its vivid natural wonders since ancient times. It was recorded in the Western Han Dynasty that Mingsha Mountain seemed to play orchestral music of bells and drums. The History of the Later Han Dynasty quoted Ji Jiu Ji of the Southern Dynasties as saying that Dunhuang's "singing sand in the mountains is different from hanging springs in the water". Geographical Records of Old Tang Dynasty records that Mingsha Mountain "When the weather is fine, Shaming hears Gancheng". Dunhuang suicide note contains Mingsha Mountain: "In midsummer, horses practice it, and the sound vibrates for dozens of miles. Children in the city are all at the peak of the Dragon Boat Festival, frowning together and roaring like thunder." Dunhuang County Records in Qing Dynasty listed "Sunny Shaling" as one of the eight scenic spots in Dunhuang. Mingsha Mountain is a national key scenic spot.

6. Yangguan Site

Yangguan, located on the "Antique Beach" 70km southwest of Dunhuang City, is named after the south of Yumenguan Gate. As early as BC 12 1 year, the Western Han Dynasty set up four counties in Hexi Corridor, namely Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang, and established Yangguan and Yumenguan at the same time. From then on, as the gateway to the western regions, Yangguan is the only way to the south of the Silk Road, and its strategic position is extremely important. Since the Western Han Dynasty, many dynasties have sent troops to guard this place as a military stronghold. When Xuanzang returned from India, he took the South Silk Road and went east to Yangguan to return to Chang 'an. Cen Can, a frontier poet, once wrote the poem "Two years in business and two years in the sun". After the Song Dynasty, quicksand from Bailongdui wolfed down, forcing people to retreat eastward, and Yangguan was buried in the ruthless desert. Today, the former Yangguan city wall is long gone, and the only eye and ear-a beacon tower on Dundun Mountain still stands proudly.

7. Ya Dan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu.

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. There are all kinds of wind erosion landforms with strange shapes in the geological park, such as "Mongolian yurt", "camel", "stone bird", "stone man", "stone Buddha" and "stone horse", which are different in shape and lifelike. It is like an ancient medieval city, and many famous buildings in the world can find its miniature here, which makes the world stare. At night, the sharp strong wind howled in horror, just like thousands of wild animals growling, which was creepy, hence the name "Ghost Town". Dunhuang ghost town is a part of ancient lop Nur. It belongs to desert plain area, with abundant sunshine, less rainfall and large evaporation. There is wind all year round, and the maximum wind force can reach more than 12. Geologically, it is located in the center of Dunhuang-Shulehe fault basin in Cenozoic (about 65 million years ago). The rocks of Ya Dan landform were formed in the Middle Pleistocene about 700,000 years ago, which are a set of sand and muddy sediments of rivers and lakes. Colors are gray, grayish green and khaki.

8. Hanging Spring Site

Xuanquanjia site is a small square castle with the east gate, surrounded by tall courtyard walls, with a side length of 50 meters, and a turret protruding from the pier in the southwest corner. The dock wall is made of adobe, and its length, width and thickness are about 40, 20, 1 1 cm. There are three groups (including one suite) of adobe wall bungalows 12 for the west wall and north wall of the wharf, which are accommodation areas; The east and north sides are office buildings; There are three stables in the southwest corner and north; There is a group of three stables with a length of about 50 meters and a north-south direction in the southwest outside the dock. To the west outside the dock is a waste accumulation area. Xuanquanjia is known as a major new discovery in the 1990s-Paleozoic. Home is equivalent to the later period. Archaeological excavations prove that in the same year that Li Guangli captured the bloody horse in Dawan (BC 10 1), the Western Han Dynasty set up an important institution in Hangzhou Circle, which was responsible for delivering official documents and mails and receiving past officials, envoys and troops.

9. Imitate the ancient city of Song Dynasty

It is located at 10 km west of Dunhuang City, with Gobi Oasis in the east, beacon towers in the Han Dynasty in the west, Mingsha Mountain in the south and desert wilderness in the north. The city was a film and television city in July, 1987, which was funded by the Japanese side and designed and built by the Chinese side when co-producing the film Dunhuang. Because the story of Dunhuang took place in the Song Dynasty, all the scenery in the city was built according to the style of the Song Dynasty, so it was called Dunhuang Ancient City or Shazhou City, and the locals referred to it as Dunhuang Film City or Dunhuang Ancient City for short. After the film was finished, the ancient city was handed over to the local area for protection and utilization, and became a film and television shooting base in western China, adding a new tourist attraction to Dunhuang. The ancient city has a huge scale, with a total area of 65438+ 10,000 square meters and a building area of1.110,000 square meters. The surrounding city walls are made of adobe, with three gates: east, west and south. The East Gate is modeled after the original East Gate in Dunhuang, which is simple and elegant. The west gate tower is towering, reaching as high as 18 meters. It's called wangjinglou, and the Western Region plaque is hung on the top. Two towers are flying in the air, with four corners high and opposite. There are five blocks in the city, representing Bianliang, Gaochang, Ganzhou and Xingqing respectively.

10, Wowachi

The swan stops here, the yellow duck lives here, and the fish and birds are reflected in the lake. Standing on the lake embankment and looking around, the blue crystal lake, colorful grasslands, resplendent sand mountains and silver snow peaks make you relaxed and happy. According to historical records, in the third year of Liang Wudi's Yuan Shou (BC120th year), there was a small official named profiteer Chang in Xinye, Nanyang, Henan. He was sentenced for a crime and exiled here to farm and release his horse. While releasing his horse, he saw a group of wild horses coming to Wowachi to drink water every evening. One day, he found a unique horse among the wild horses. This horse is very tall, with extraordinary bones and bordeaux color. It runs like a fire. The profiteer knew that Liang Wudi loved BMW, so he designed and captured BMW and presented it to Liang Wudi. In order to make the horse mysterious, he lied that it flew out of the water in the pool.