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. 196 1 year, the Mogao grottoes were announced by the State Council as the first batch of "national key cultural relics protection units".
2. Crescent Spring
Located in the southeast corner of Wulongtan Park, east of Gu Quan, it is named after the shape of the first month. The crescent spring pool is 13m long, 8m wide and 1.5m deep. This is a revetment made of natural stones. Mushroom-shaped marble named after the successful explosion of China's first atomic bomb stands in the water. When the water is full, it can be sprayed from the top of the 3-meter-high stone, splashing and falling on the spring pool. The pool water flows along the meandering stream, through the stone bridge, through the bamboo forest and into the moat. 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 Space City", is one of the launch test bases of China's scientific satellites, technical test satellites and launch vehicles, the earliest and largest comprehensive missile and satellite launch center established in China, and the only manned space launch site in China at present. The satellite launch center is built on an oasis in the Gobi desert, with mountains in the west and rivers in the east. This is a treasure trove of geomantic omen personally selected by Marshal Nie Rongzhen. It is located at the northwest edge of the uninhabited Ejina Badain Jaran Desert, with a linear distance of more than 400 kilometers from Jiuquan City, the nearest place.
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. At a distance of 0/5km from Yumenguan/Kloc-0, there is an ancient city of Hecang, which was the granary of Yumenguan in Han Dynasty. Only the ruins are left, but you can still see the momentum of the year. The only way from Dunhuang to Yumenguan is to take the sidewalk rolled out by cars on the Gobi Desert. At that time, at Yumenguan, camel bells were fluttering, people shouted and hissed, caravans came in an endless stream, messengers came and went, and there was a scene of prosperity. Now, the remains of the Han Yumen Pass are a small square castle, which is located on the gravel mountain in the narrow strip of the Gobi desert running east and west. Climbing the ancient pass, looking from a distance, it is surrounded by swamps, criss-crossing gullies, winding Great Wall, towering beacon towers, tall and straight Populus euphratica and green springs.
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. It can be called another wonder of Dunhuang, and it is a wonderful masterpiece of nature. When you enter the Ya Dan landform group at different times, your feelings are completely different. Walking into the landform of Ya Dan in the morning, when the sun rises, you can climb high and overlook, with a little glow, golden light and colorful weather; At noon, I walked into the landscape of Ya Dan. The sun was shining overhead and there were many strange shadows around me. In the strange Ya Dan Group, it seems that there is smoke everywhere; Entering Ya Dan Group in the evening, the huge red sun sets in the west, the breeze slowly winds around, and the glow on the head is brilliant, giving people a beautiful enjoyment.
6. West Thousand Buddha Cave
The West Thousand Buddha Cave is an integral part of Dundun Buddhist art system. 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. Its cave shape and mural art style are the same as those of Mogao Grottoes, and its creation time is at least the same as that of Mogao Grottoes. Among the nine well-preserved grottoes, most of them have a central pedestal, and there are niches carved around the pedestal. There are statues of Buddha in the niches, and the walls are painted with pictures of sages robbing thousands of buddhas, sitting on buddhas and nirvana. In the middle of the seat and under the four-walled Buddha statue, there are pictures of King Kong and Lux. The painting of the western section of the southern wall of the Northern Wei Grottoes (centering on the story of amethyst, and painting the story of sacred change in the eastern section) is a Buddha story that the northern Wei Grottoes in Mogao Grottoes do not have, which can fill its blank and has unique value.
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. Yangguan is located on the "ancient beach" in Nanhu Township, 70 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City in Hexi Corridor. Because it is located in the south of Yumenguan, it is named Yangguan. Yangguan was founded in the period of Ding Yuan, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it is one of the "four counties and two customs" in Hexi. As the gateway to the western regions, Yangguan is also an important pass of the South Road of the Silk Road and a battleground for ancient military strategists. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the decline of the Silk Road, Yangguan was gradually abandoned.
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. There are stone tablets in Jiuquan Scenic Area in the Western Han Dynasty, stone tablets in Jiuquan Ancient County in the Qing Dynasty and the "Great Earth" tablet inscribed on the left, which have become the must-see places for tourists to visit Jiuquan. Jiuquan Park is not only famous for the Millennium Gu Quan, the scenic spots of the Western Han Dynasty and Li Bai's poems, but also has a number of scenic spots with modern charm-Shuixie ancient ship, Moon Cave Golden Pearl, Deep Cloud, Moon Lake rockery, Flower Moon, Cuizhu Garden and Ginkgo Garden. 9. Tibetan sutra cave
1900, Wang Yuan, a Taoist living in Cave 17, stumbled upon a small door on the north side of the tunnel wall. After opening, a square cave appeared, which contained 50,000 historical documents, paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery and other cultural relics, from the 4th century to the 1 1 century (that is, the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty). After decades of research, these documents have opened up a brand-new discipline-Dunhuang studies.
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. The whole statue is exquisitely carved with exquisite knife work, and its shape reflects the artistic style of Indian Luo Jian. It can be inferred that the reconstructed statue may have been brought back from India by monks in the Tang Dynasty.