The first bay of the Nine Bends of the Yellow River is wide and winding. The winding water divides countless U-shaped and Z-shaped river islands, which look like fairy ribbons. The island's water and sky are spectacularly blue.
The first bay of the Yellow River in the world is located in the section of the Yellow River between Majiapan, Xinguan Town, Shilou County, Shanxi Province, and Sheyuli Village, Yujiahe Town, Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province. The best viewing spot is Shijia River, Shanxi Province. Majiapan, Xinguan Town, Lou County, Majiapan Village is located halfway up the mountain. There are only three families in the village, all of whom are brothers. Outsiders rarely come on weekdays. A bumpy and narrow rural road passes from the top of the mountain above Majiapan, from It takes about half an hour to walk downhill from the top of the mountain to the best viewing point below Majiapan Village.
In April 2005, Comrade Zheng Huamin of the Shilou County Education Bureau discovered this scenic spot, took pictures and made them into large pictures, which attracted the attention of the Shilou County Government and the Luliang Municipal Government and included them in the 11th Five-Year Plan. Starting with tourism development, this landscape contains too many aesthetic elements: curves and straights, high and low, steep and gentle, full and missing, wide and narrow, sky and earth, mountains and water, earth and stone, yellow and green , majesty and beauty, simplicity and wonder, history and reality, humanity and nature have reached a high degree of harmony.
Basic appearance
It is about 40 kilometers away from Shilou and Qingjian County, and 6 kilometers away from the Yellow River Bridge under construction in the Shanxi section of Shiqing Secondary Highway connecting Shaanxi. The Yellow River is in Shanxi-Shaanxi The general flow direction of the valley section is from north to south. From 6 kilometers south of the Xinguan Yellow River Bridge, it turns eastward in a very peculiar large circle bend. If you look down from a high place, the bend will be narrow in the west and wide in the east, with a rounded tail. It's like a gourd, with two sides basically symmetrical.
The total distance of the water flow from the entrance to the bend is 8000 meters. The inland part of the bend is the narrowest at the entrance and exit, only 700 meters. The widest point is 1700 meters. The highest point is with the water surface. The vertical distance is 196 meters. Standing on the bank of Majia, you can see that the distance is narrow and the distance is wide, the distance is low and the distance is high. The water flow is like a 360° circle. The mountain is very much like a leisurely turtle. The jujube forest on the mountain is densely covered with yellow and green, which is extremely elegant. , delicate and graceful.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - The First Bend of the Yellow River in the World