The ruins of Yuan Shangdu are in the Jinlianchuan Grassland of the Xilin Gol League, which is called the Jinlianchuan Grassland because the boundless golden lotus flowers bloom here in July and August every year. During the Liaojin Dynasty, this was the royal summer retreat, it was originally called The Eastern River of The Hu, in the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Jin Shizong (1168 AD), it was renamed "Golden Lotus River" because "the lotus is connected, taking the meaning of its golden branches and jade leaves." This means that the royal family and nobles of the Jin Dynasty are all golden branches and jade leaves, and everyone must be closely linked and sincerely united, and the Golden Lotus River was born in this way. In 1251, the fourth emperor of the Great Mongol Empire, Möngke Han, sent his younger brother Kublai Khan to "Prime Minister Mo Nan Junguo Shu", and Kublai Khan went south to Mo Nan to be stationed in the Jinlian River Grassland. For his future plans, he recruited a group of high-ranking people to help him, including more than sixty people with names and surnames, including the Han Liu Bingzhong and the Tibetan Basipa, which is the famous Jinlianchuan shogunate in history, and later, this group of people played a huge role in Kublai Khan's struggle for the Khan's throne and the governance of the world. It is said that one of the reasons why Kublai Khan built the Capital of Yuan was that Liu Bingzhong and other Han Chinese were not accustomed to living in Mongolian tents, which shows kublai Khan's importance to the Jinlianchuan shogunate. Today the weather is good, from UlanButong to the Golden Lotus River grassland is exactly ten noon, in the bright sun, the endless golden lotus is blooming, the golden yellow flowers swaying with the wind, the scene is shocking. According to locals, the flowering period of the golden lotus is very short, about twenty days, usually from mid-July to the end of July, this year is a bit dry, so the flowering period has been postponed for a few days, and from now on there will be another ten days and eight days, and now is the best time. This time in time is also one of the important reasons. The grassland is windy, and at the end of the flowering period, the petals fall as soon as the wind blows, and the beautiful flowers disappear. Looking at the golden lotus in front of me, I suddenly understood why Kublai Khan had settled down here, such a beautiful flower, who could not like it? Wandering among the flowers, it seems that you can still see the figure of Kublai Khan, and he must have stood somewhere in the flower room, like me.
