The Tianshui Mountains and Rivers begin a cool summer escape journey
In Gansu, there is such a city, located in the western section of the Qinling Mountains, the largest tributary of the Yellow River Wei River through the city, here both the rough and thick of the north, but also the south of the Zhong Ling Yu xiu, it is known as "Longshang Xiaojiangnan" Tianshui.
This northwest city gave birth to Fuxi, the ancestor of Chinese humanities, the ruins of Dadiwan witnessed the reproduction of human beings 8,000 years ago, and the Maijishan Grottoes, which perfectly combine nature and humanities, are the reasons why you choose to travel to Tianshui. There is no severe cold in winter, no heat in summer, and summer is the best tourist season in Tianshui.
Escape the fiery sun, let's walk into Tianshui and start a cool summer escape.
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Maijishan Grottoes: The grottoes add color to the scenery, and the grottoes add color to the scenery
Maijishan Grottoes Photo courtesy of Tianshui Cultural and Tourism Bureau
As the first stop in the west exit, Tianshui is known as the pearl of the Silk Road and the grotto corridor, and has always been a necessary place and important commercial and trade town on the Silk Road. With the spread of Buddhist culture to the east, since the Sixteen Kingdoms period, between the hundred miles of landscapes and rivers in the WeiHe River Basin in Tianshui, successive regimes have built caves and niches here, built temples and statues, and gradually formed a spectacular Corridor of Hundred Mile Grottoes. Among them, the most famous is the Maijishan Grottoes, which has been listed on the World Cultural Heritage List and one of the four major grottoes in China, and is famous for its exquisite sculpture art, which has a history of more than 1,600 years. Maijishan Grottoes was founded in the Sixteen Kingdoms of Later Qin, through the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and other more than ten dynasties continuous excavation and repair, now preserved 221 niches, clay sculptures, stone carvings more than 7800 pieces, murals more than 1000 square meters, 8 North Dynasty Cliff Pavilion, vividly showing the sculpture, painting, architectural level and artistic and cultural achievements at that time, known as the "Oriental Sculpture Exhibition Hall".
Known as the "Crown of Longshang Forest Springs", Maijishan Scenic Area is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, which is composed of more than 100 scenic spots in five scenic spots: Maiji Mountain, Xianren Cliff, Shimen, Quxi and Hot Spring. Maiji Mountain, also known as Maiji Cliff, is 1742 meters above sea level, the mountain is 142 meters high, the lone peak rises, shaped like a wheat stack, the staggered boardwalk, the huge Buddha statue carving, let you can't help but marvel at its exquisite, the southwest of the mountain is a cliff, and the Maijishan Grottoes are carved on the cliffs.
There is a Ruiying Temple at the foot of Maijishan Grotto Mountain, which is often overlooked by tourists who do not know it. Ruiying Temple and Maijishan Grottoes were built in the same age, the existing Reconstruction of the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, there are Mountain Gate, Heavenly King Hall, Daxiong Treasure Hall, Left and Right Side Hall, Bell and Drum Tower, MaiJishan Hall and other buildings, worth a visit.
In addition to these must-punch attractions, the biggest feature of MaijiShan is the beautiful scenery around Maijishan, the mountains are densely covered with cypress pines, wildflowers and grasses, clouds and mist, and the distant scenery and close objects are intertwined, forming a beautiful picture "Maiji Smoke and Rain". The perfect combination of natural scenery and humanistic connotation, grottoes add color to the scenery, scenery adds color because of grottoes, between the boardwalk and the caves, smoke is swirling, time and space, picturesque, like a sacred land of Buddha.
Immortal Cliff: Temple view, lake tour, peak watching
Immortal Cliff
Fan Changjiang's book "China's Northwest Corner" describes Tianshui as follows: "When people in Gansu talk about Tianshui, they are as proud as jiangsu and Zhejiang people are when they talk about Suzhou and Hangzhou, and they think that they are places with beautiful scenery, rich products, and beautiful characters. Xian Ren Cliff is another scenic spot that Tianshui people are proud of, "born with a fairy cave, infinite scenery in the dangerous peak", the poet's romantic brushstrokes convey the magic of nature.
Xianren Cliff is about 15 kilometers north of Maiji Mountain and about 40 kilometers away from Tianshui City. In ancient times, at the foot of the South Cliff, a Lantern Pavilion was built on the cliff, which was one of the main buildings of the Immortal Cliff. Whenever late at night in summer and autumn, natural phosphorescence and oil lamps and candlelight in the pavilion float and shine, it is rumored that the immortals carry the lamps, which is the "immortals sending lights" in the eight scenes of Qinzhou. The temples here have been built and repaired by many dynasties of the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, and between the rocks under the southeast side of the Jade Emperor Pavilion, there are grotto shrines and well-preserved Tang Dynasty murals, although after thousands of years of wind and rain baptism, the colors are still bright.
Xian ren cliff is located in the xian ren cliff scenic spot, xian ren cliff grotto as the central landscape, with xian ren lake, Luohan ditch, elephant trunk mountain, sister peak, pure land temple, shilian valley, water stone cliff waterfall and other green mountains and clear water as the background, forming a viewing temple, swimming lake to see the peak as the theme, integrating natural landscape and religious culture as one of the tourist area. In 2003, it was approved by the provincial government as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Maijishan Hot Spring: Soak in soup to reduce stress
Maijishan Hot Spring
Maijishan Hot Spring integrates hot spring bathing, catering and accommodation, leisure and health, and eco-tourism, surrounded by mountains and mountains, cypress and pines, birds and flowers, flowing water, and the environment is fresh and elegant. Hot spring water is collected from a depth of 500 meters underground, the water temperature is 45 degrees Celsius, belongs to the sodium bicarbonate calcium type hot spring, rich in radon, sodium, calcium, fluorine, silicon, strontium and other more than 20 kinds of mineral elements beneficial to the human body, is a rare medical mineral spring in China. The whole park is divided into dynamic hot spring water world, Fuxi Bagua soup, nourishing health soup, beauty soup, theme culture soup and private soup house.
Leisure accommodation Xiaolongshan Botanical Garden Villa
Xiaolongshan Botanical Garden
Walking into the Xiaolongshan Botanical Garden Villa, the peaks of the green peaks, the flowers and trees competing, the babbling of the stream, the birds and the song, suddenly feel refreshed. Xiaolongshan Botanical Garden Villa is only separated by a beam from the Maijishan Grottoes, the botanical garden is livable and touristy, cool in summer, and Kui Huan, which was known as the right side of the Western Han Dynasty, built a summer palace here, which is a summer resort with a long history.
Xiaolongshan Botanical Garden Mountain Villa covers an area of 5581 acres, with an altitude of 1500 meters - 2200 meters, composed of 27 ditch systems with different directions, forming a diverse ecological microclimate, colonization and introduction of domesticated various types of plants more than 2200 kinds, forest coverage rate of 92.7%, annual average temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, is a comprehensive experimental demonstration base integrating forest ecological tourism, modern leisure vacation, scientific research and science education.
Tourism Performing Arts 《Tianshui Ancient Show》
Stills from "Tianshui Ancient Show"
"Tianshui Ancient Show" is a large-scale indoor situation experience drama with the themes of Fuxi culture, Maijishan culture and Dadiwan culture. From the perspective of modern people, the play portrays Fuxi as a figure with flesh and blood, wisdom and feelings, and depicts the spiritual sketches of an ethnic group that has been inherited for thousands of years through the stories of people and what has happened in this land.
In the exclusive grand theater of "Tianshui Ancient Show", a rare super-large linkage stage mechanical device, 3D image device, and mobile giant screen device are set up, and many stunt effects are the first, the audience can interact with historical figures in a multi-dimensional performance space while walking, and taste the 8,000-year civilization of Tianshui in "situational experience, immersive tasting, mobile viewing".
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If there are many reasons to go to Tianshui, then food must be indispensable. Known as the "first delicacy of Qinzhou", Tianshui is said to have originated in the Han Dynasty and is made of local buckwheat starch, which is known for its fragrant, spicy, cotton and soft.
Tianshui flat food, in the eyes of outsiders, is the same as the "appearance" of wontons. Tianshui vegetarian flat food pays attention to light and fresh taste, smooth entrance, is a unique flavor of The Old Tianshui, people's favorite noodle snacks. Flat meat and vegetarian food, especially vegetarian stuffing, which has spinach, kelp shreds, egg shreds, fungus, coriander, etc., all color and flavor.
Jing Wen, chief reporter of Lanzhou Lanzhou Morning Post