Which city in China is known as the Pearl of the Grassland?

Xilinhot is an emerging city on the Xilingol prairie in Inner Mongolia, which was reorganized as a city in 1983, and is the political, economic, and cultural center of Xilin Gol League, and an open city of the whole country. She with its long history, splendid culture, unique grassland flavor, known as the bright "grassland pearl". The city covers an area of 18,750 square kilometers. Population of about 130,000 people, there are 17 ethnic groups such as Mongolian, Han, Hui, Manchu, is a Mongolian-based, Han majority of the multi-ethnic settlement of the grassland city.

The original name of Xilinhot was Beizimiao, which was named after Beizimiao, a temple of lamas built in the eighth year of the Qianlong reign (1743). This Beizi Temple is one of the largest temples on the grassland of Xilingol League, covering an area of 1.2 square kilometers. It has been built by seven generations of living Buddha and has a history of more than 250 years. This temple, incense, Buddha's light shines through its architecture, heavy buildings and pavilions, flying eaves and arches, thousands of statues shaped, magnificent paintings and carvings, brilliant mural decorations, with distinctive national characteristics, reflecting the national architectural beauty and artistic beauty.

Located in Xilingol League Zhenglan Banner Dundahot about 20 kilometers east of the north bank of the river on the Yuan dynasty capital of the ancient city ruins, is an ancient city ruins of the Yuan dynasty. Was built in 1256, then named Kaipingfu, Yuan Zhongtong Shizu five years (1264), formally known as Shangdu, also known as Shangjing or Luanjing. Because of the grand scale of this ancient city of the Yuan Dynasty, the local people see the city building pedestals abound, they call it "Zhaonaiman Sumer", the Mongolian language is "108 temples mean. Shangdu was the first planned city built by the Mongol rulers. From the existing ruins, it inherited the traditional layout and architectural style of Tang, Liao, Song and Jin. Some of the halls and pavilions were modeled after the pre-Yuan Dynasty style. Like Daan Pavilion, which is the main building in the palace, is relocated from Xichun Pavilion in Bianjing of Song Dynasty. Shangdu also has unique national architectural characteristics, such as the palaces and government offices in the ancient city of Shangdu are not strictly differentiated, and there is no certain pattern in the arrangement of various types of buildings, and it is also an innovation from the Yuan Dynasty to enclose a large area of the park with a wall and make it an integral part of the capital city. In the palace city before the layout of the square, is rare in the history of China's urban architecture.

Shangdu ancient city consists of the outer city, the inner city, the palace city and the suburbs. The circumference of the outer city is about 8.5 kilometers. It is made up of earthen walls, surrounded by a ditch, and has two gates on each side with urns and towers. The palace was the residence of the emperor, and there were the halls of Daemyeong, Yitian, and Bowun, the pavilions of Daan and Yeonchun, the pavilions of Luju and Yingzhou, and the hall of Zhenchen, etc., but only the foundation stone remains now. The wall of the palace is an earthen wall built of boards, covered with green bricks and stones, with a circumference of about 2 kilometers. There is a gate in the east, south and west, with towers at the top and corner towers at the corners. The inner city is a temporary bureaucracy with the emperor's summer vacation, the layout of the city is neat. In the northeast and northwest corner each has a large courtyard, is the famous Huayan Temple and Qianyuan Temple ruins in the city of Shangdu, now only the foundation of the temple and the stele pavilion. Outside the city, east, south and north of the suburb of Guan, is the city, residents and the granary, there are many relics.