Linxia section of National Highway 2 13 starts as a 5A-level scenic spot.

You can drive 70 kilometers from Lanzhou along 2 13 national highway to Yongjing county. The first scenic spot along the route is Bingling Temple World Cultural Heritage Tourist Area, a national 5A-level scenic spot. After enjoying the lakes and mountains, you can enter Dongxiang Autonomous County, where you can taste the most famous food in the northwest-Dongxiang hand-grabbed mutton, and then enter Linxia City, where you can fly in the colorful night of the 13 th Lane in Eight Directions.

Yongjing: Blending the Femininity of Jiangnan with the Magnificence of Northwest China

Bingling Temple World Cultural Heritage Tourist Area covers a total area of 65,438 0.50 square kilometers and consists of Lingbing Lake, Lingbing Stone Forest and Bingling Temple Grottoes. On February 25th, 2020, it was upgraded to a national 5A-level tourist attraction.

Lingbing Lake is the reservoir of Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, the first million kilowatt hydropower station in Asia, with a water area of 130 square kilometers and a storage capacity of 5.7 billion cubic meters. The water quality is clear and pollution-free, reaching the national second-class drinking water standard. Lingbing Lake Scenic Area has natural and historical landscapes such as Ling Bing Scenic Area, Dayu Water Control, the intersection of Yellow Peach and Tao Tao, and modern cultural landscapes such as Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, Yellow River Culture Museum and Liujiaxia International Gliding Camp.

On the ship, Lingbing Lake, as quiet as a virgin, is like a huge mirror, with vast smoke and waves, which is refreshing; After entering the canyon, the peaks on both sides of the strait face each other, and the wall stands for thousands of miles. The scenery is changeable and beautiful.

Lingbingshi forest is a Danxia landform formed by the accumulation of early Cenozoic Cretaceous purple fine sandstone. Lingbing Danxia National Geopark was approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources in 20 1 1. In the park, thousands of peaks stand on the wall, thousands of valleys crisscross and hundreds of ditches meander, which together with different stone peaks form a strange stone forest world, just like a natural sculpture hall.

Bingling Temple Grottoes belong to the national key cultural relics protection units and were listed in the World Heritage List in 20 14. Bingling Temple Grottoes were built in the Western Qin Dynasty in Sixteen Countries, more than 600 years ago/kloc-0. Grottoes are mainly composed of Si Xia District, Shangsi District and Donggou District. There are 265,438+06 caves, more than 800 statues, 65,438+0,000 square meters of Tibetan-Chinese murals, 56 pagodas and 438 collections. The Ink Map of the First Year of Jian Hong in the Western Qin Dynasty (420) is the earliest inscription with a clear statue age in China, which provides an important basis for the early grottoes staging.

Bingling Temple is a world cultural heritage tourist area, where mountains and rivers blend together in perfect harmony, and the softness of the south of the Yangtze River and the magnificence of the northwest are perfectly integrated here.

In addition to Bingling Temple World Cultural Heritage Tourist Area, there is also Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark in Gansu on the north bank of Yanguoxia Reservoir Area (now called Taiji Lake) in Yongjing County. The park covers an area of 15 square kilometers, of which the water surface is 1.8 square kilometers. Geoparks are full of dinosaur footprints. This dinosaur footprint fossil is rare in the world in terms of scale, species, well-preserved, high definition and strong three-dimensional sense, which will narrow the distance between people and ancient times and reproduce the Cretaceous dinosaur life scene.

Dongxiang: Hand-grabbed mutton is fragrant everywhere.

Dongxiang Autonomous County is the birthplace and main residential area of Dongxiang, one of the three ethnic minorities endemic to Gansu. Located in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau, it is called "the rib of the earth" and "the place where mountains meet".

Every April, 10,000 mu of apricot flowers in Tangwang Town, Dongxiang compete to open, and the apricot flowers in front of and behind the house compete for beauty, holiness and elegance. The apricot trees here are all century-old wild apricot trees. The tree is tall and its branches are thick and hard. When I was in bloom, I gave people a feeling of "a dead tree meets spring". Brown and black branches are covered with tender pink flowers, which is a magical art of nature. The "Gu Teng Old Tree" new village set each other off and became interesting, which not only witnessed the vicissitudes of time, but also was called "the first apricot blossom village in Longshang".

Besides apricots, Dongxiang hand-grabbed mutton is also a specialty of Dongxiang Autonomous County, which is not only nutritious, nourishing and warm, but also tender, non-greasy, mellow and delicious. As a famous dish in northwest China, why is Dongxiang hand-grabbed mutton so popular? Looking closely, it should be the special geographical environment with deep ravines and little rainfall in Dongxiang Mountain, which makes Dongxiang mutton fat and tender, with little and delicate fiber, rich in protein and various trace elements, and the cooked mutton has different qualities.

Dongxiang mutton is very famous in history. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was a tribute of emperors. There is a record of "87 court sheep" in the local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty, which is called "Lianhan red-skinned mutton" or "Jidi sheep".

Dongxiang Autonomous County has a long history and culture. The bronze knife unearthed from the Linjia site in China is the earliest bronze casting object discovered in China so far, and is known as the "first knife in China". The unearthed monkey skull fossil is the only existing skull fossil of "Gansu dragon-nosed monkey" in China, and it is an important material for studying geography, climate and paleontology in the early Quaternary.

Linxia city: drunken tourists in bafang shisan lane

Linxia is an important town south of the Silk Road in ancient history. Once known as Han and Han Dynasties and Hezhou, it is known as the "tea-horse exchange market", the "dry dock" in the west and the "hometown of Hehuang", and it is also known as the hometown of flowers, painted pottery and peony.

This is not an ancient town in Jiangnan, but it has its charm; This is not the Kuanzhai Lane of Chengdu, but it has its aura ... It is full of nostalgia, deep affection and vitality ... This is the eight lanes and thirteen lanes with unique national characteristics in Linxia City.

Located in Linxia City, Bafang Thirteen Lane is the "Grand View Garden" of national architectural art. The scenic spot is as soft and delicate as the Jiangnan water town in Wuzhen Xitang, and has the unique ethnic customs of Old Town of Lijiang. It combines Hui brick carving, Han woodcut, Tibetan painting and other arts, and integrates national characteristics, leisure tourism, green ecology and popular science education, presenting the life picture of local residents.

There are not only quaint zhaobi, antique porch courtyards, streets with blue bricks and gray tiles, but also amazing brick carvings, bronze carvings and egg carvings. Strolling along this street full of historical and cultural charm, looking at Hezhou brick carvings and antique wooden doors and windows that show local people's production and life, plus the exhibition halls of Bafang Folk Museum, Bafang Handicraft Museum and Bafang People's Story Museum, the cultural texture of the city is profound and clear.

If the eight lanes and thirteen alleys in the daytime show the exquisiteness and details of Linxia culture to the fullest, then the eight lanes and thirteen alleys in the night make beautiful Linxia look radiant with gorgeous night scenes, attracting tourists from all over the world with bright lights, and the quiet Gu Xiang presents modern prosperity. From day to night, Eight Alleys and Thirteen Alleys show their charm and complement each other, which makes tourists linger.