Ningxia covers an area of more than 60,000 square kilometers, which is really very small compared to those huge northwestern neighbors.
Located in the transition zone between the Loess Plateau and the desert in China, the northwest and east sides are surrounded by three major deserts (land) of Tengger, Ulanbu and Maowusu respectively.
Helan Mountain is located at the junction of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, with a peak of 3556 meters, which just blocks the desert's continued progress and becomes the dividing line between China's grassland area and desert area.
Although the whole of Ningxia is surrounded by desert, the proportion of desert area is only 1.4%, and most of them are near Zhongwei Shapotou.
The Yellow River enters Ningxia from here, and the vast desert and the rushing Yellow River meet here.
To watch this encounter, my wallet was bleeding profusely.
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The Yellow River flows for more than 400 kilometers in Ningxia, with a sediment content of only about 10% of the downstream, and rarely encounters floods.
The fertile Ningxia Plain has also been alluvialized in the fault basin in the north-central region.
With the generous irrigation of the Yellow River water, as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, people excavated large-scale water conservancy projects, and ditches were longitudinal and gave birth to rich agriculture.
This arid area with only 250 mm of annual precipitation, which has been cultivated rice for more than a thousand years, is full of water ripples in the water of Jiangnan.
Ningxia rice has been court rice since ancient times.
Rich in melons and fruits, the output of goji berries in the Ningxia Plain accounts for half of the country.
Selenium squash is directly supplied to the Beijing Olympic Games.
Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that the Yellow River Funingxia under the heavens.
Alas, the downstream people who are injured by the diversion of the Yellow River every year are sent by the Mother River with telephone bills
South-central Ningxia is part of the Loess Plateau, and Liupan Mountain is the northwestern barrier of the Guanzhong region.
Xiaoguan, located at the pass of Liupan Mountain, guards the military passage from the north into Guanzhong and is one of the most important passes in ancient China.
It is also the place where the Central Plains Dynasty and the minority regimes clashed.
During the Warring States period, King Qin Zhao built the Great Wall of Qin north of Guyuan City.
North of the Great Wall, there was once a Western Xia Dynasty.
The Western Xia people were born as nomads, and later continued to absorb the Central Plains civilization and created their own script.
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The military power was very strong, and the Song Dynasty was a little weak, but in the end, the Western Xia, along with the Song Dynasty, was destroyed under the iron hooves of the Mongols.
Now, the language has disappeared, and only the tombs of the Western Xia kings tell the story of the 200 years of Chinese history under the Helan Mountain.
When there was no war, the Xiaoguan Ancient Road became the trunk road of the ancient Silk Road.
A large number of Arab and Persian merchants came and went, blending with the locals and becoming the earliest Hui in Ningxia.
At present, the Hui population in Ningxia accounts for more than 30%, and the southern mountainous areas are still Hui populated areas.
Although it believes in Islam, it has been integrated with han culture for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is difficult to distinguish from the appearance, and even the mosques take the Chinese retro route.
Hui compatriots play their strengths and seriously study food, and Ningxia Tan sheep is a recognized Rolls-Royce in the Chinese mutton industry.
I heard that it was difficult for locals to eat, so they had to eat Inner Mongolian sheep.
Well, for eastern China, the Inner Mongolian sheep are already the best in the world.
The majesty of northern Saibei, the beauty of the water towns, and the fertile land of Ningxia embody the essence of China's arid zone.
It is said that Sand Slope Head is a singing desert.
The song must be filled with the scent of rice flowers in the sunset and the camel bell of the silk ancient road, and this blessed land of the Yellow River and the Allah.