If you don't go to the northwest, you don't know the vastness of the motherland!
Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, the five northwestern provinces, do not know how many extreme scenery they hide.
It's almost summer, and the heart that wants to go to the northwest is ready to move again!
Today, I would like to recommend to you 8 treasure destinations in the five northwestern provinces that are worth going to again and again.
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Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan began. Baoji doesn't know how many historical vicissitudes are buried.
It is even older than Xi'an, and the earliest "Chinese" written record comes from the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze He Zun unearthed in Baoji Jiacun Town.
Photo/Famen Temple Relic Stupa
This is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, there are more than 740 Neolithic cultural sites in the territory, and the history of Baoji for more than 7,000 years starts from one of the important ones - the Beishouling site on the platform on the west bank of the Jinling River in Jintai District.
This is the "hometown of Emperor Yan", according to the historical materials of the pre-Qin Dynasty, Emperor Yan was "born in ginger water and grew up in ginger water", and this "ginger water" is considered to be located in the Qingjiang River in Baoji by scholars of all dynasties.
Photo/Jingguang Temple Tower
This is the birthplace of Zhou and Qin culture, before the Zhou people opened the agricultural society, and before the Qin people established the feudal dynasty, they all chose to cultivate obscurity and accumulate in Baoji Taoguang. The Zhou people left the ruins of Zhou Yuan at the foot of Qishan, and the Qin people had 24 generations of monarchs who had built the capital in Baoji Longxian, Qianyang, Chencang, and Fengxiang.
Photo/Longxian Longmen Cave Quanzhen Rock
It has the only bronze museum in China, and it is the hometown of the famous bronzes, and there is no museum that does not want to get a bronze from Baoji as the "treasure of the town hall".
Photo/Museum of Bronze
This is the horse ranch of the Han Dynasty, when Huo Qubing led more than 10,000 elite horsemen out of Longxi (Guanshan grassland), thousands of miles of attack, a war of marquis.
This is the treasure house of the Tang Dynasty, and the underground of the Famen Temple in Fufeng County, Baoji does not know how many treasures enshrined by the royal family of the Tang Dynasty.
Photo/Famen Temple
The history of Baoji is colossal and quiet, and the mountains and rivers of Baoji are warm and inclusive. Taibai Mountain, Guanshan Grassland, Huangbaiyuan...... It's worth going back and forth.
Photo/Taibai Mountain Scenic Area
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Ankang, located in the southeasternmost part of Shaanxi Province, is surrounded by the Qinling Mountains in the north and Daba Mountain in the south, known as "the north of the south, the south of the north", and also has the reputation of "the heart of the Qinling Mountains".
Photo/Houliushui Township
It is bordered by Hubei to the east, Chongqing to the south, and Sichuan to the west. The boundary between Ankang and Shiyan, Hubei Province, as early as 2,000 years ago, was the natural border between Qin and Chu.
Photo/Shiquan Ancient City
More than 98% of the city's mountainous and hilly area is here, but fortunately, the Han River has become a famous "water town and Zeguo" in Shaanxi Province, and water resources account for 61% of the whole province.
Under the mountains and rivers, there is endless poetry and fireworks in Ankang.
Photo/Fengyan Ancient Terraces
When you arrive in Ankang, be sure to check out:
Yinghu Lake, the largest artificial lake in Shaanxi, Xiangxi Cave with the reputation of "Ancient Cave Immortal Trace", Zhongba Grand Canyon with one step and one scene, Fengyan Ancient Terraced Rice Fields with a history of more than 250 years, Shiquan Ancient City, a thousand-year-old county town, and Houliu Water Town, which has the image of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River......
Photo/Yinghu
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It is hidden in a pure land in the hinterland of the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, beautiful but not self-aware, here the four seasons are full of clouds and mist, such as smoke and dust, both poetic and soft.
Photo/Liuba early morning, Xiaohongshu - Qinling and Mountain B&B
In early summer, the small mountain town that had been silent for a whole winter ushered in the most "fairy" moment.
Photo/Lion Gully Ranch
The continuous mountains, rivers, green trees, mottled old houses, walking passers-by, and leisurely cattle and sheep all outline a beautiful mountain scene.
Picture / Liuba Street View Mountain View, Little Red Book - Mother
Taiziling, Shizigou Ranch, Gaojiang Road, Zibai Mountain, Zhangliang Temple, Liuba Old Street...... These are all must-see attractions when you go to Liuba.
Photo/Liuba Old Street
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Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, most people's biggest impression of her is that they have no impression.
As a result, few people know that there is a desolation of yellow sand and a sassy horse in the west wind, but there is also a beautiful dream of seventy-two lakes and trees.
Photo/Tomb of the Western Xia Dynasty
Its Tengger Desert to the west, Badain Jaran Desert to the north, and Mu Us Desert to the east can meet all people's imagination of the magnificent scenery of the northwest where "the desert is lonely and the sun sets over the long river".
Photo/Zhenbeibao Film and Television City
But a Yellow River and a Helan Mountain have teamed up to give Yinchuan the nickname of "plugging up the south of the Yangtze River".
Photo/1985 Creative Zone
People living in Yinchuan enjoy the "sunset of the moon lake and the fishing song of the lake" of Mingcui Lake and Yuehai Lake.
"All year round, you can see the "traffic and water draining the clouds", "the blue water floating lotus" plays with the red trout; the "thousand-step covered bridge" is willow-colored, and the "hundred birds are singing and greening" chirps; "the reed flowers chase the sun" fly white flocculents, and the "green yarn leaks the moon" is broken gold; "the maze is looking for herons" thousands of degrees, and "the white sand and geese" are three or five traces; the "green tent asks for tea" is clear, and the "sunset on the east embankment" is new.....
Photo/Yuehai Lake
The people who live in Yinchuan have listened to the flow of the Yellow River and grown up with the wind and sand, they have all discussed the meaning of the Tangut script, visited the ruins of the tombs of the Tangut kings, they have speculated about the petroglyphs of Helan Mountain, and witnessed the exquisite fossils of dinosaurs.......
Photo/Helan Mountain Rock Art Scenic Area
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Zhongwei, a treasure city that sings with the desert and dances with the Yellow River, the "desert" and "water" join forces to give it infinite scenery.
Photo/Tengger Desert
Rivers, oases, wilderness, Gobi, desert, Zhongwei has a variety of geographical features. The magnificence of the desert Gobi and the beauty of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River can be seen here.
The Tengger Desert, one of the four major deserts in China, is located at Shapotou where "the desert is lonely and the sun sets over the long river", Highway 66 of the same style in the United States, the Yellow River Suji with a strong Moroccan style, and the ancient villages of the Long Beach in the north and south......
Photo/Yellow River Suji
The present scenery of the central defender is infinite, and the past of the central defender is thick and splendid.
As a place where human beings thrived 30,000 years ago, as a gathering place for Han Confucian, nomadic, military reclamation and other diverse cultures, and as an important post station on the northern route of the ancient Silk Road, Zhongwei has a thick past.
Photo/Zhongwei Route 66
The petroglyphs of Damaidi, the hidden graphic symbols on the mountain beams, are the little-known past, but also the traces left by civilization;
Shuanglongshan Grottoes (Shikong Big Buddha Temple), excavated in the Tang Dynasty, chiseled with the shape of the mountain, 13 grottoes, 9 beamless caves, 88 Buddha statues, wandering outside time, leaving the Tang Dynasty in the mountains;
Photo/Weibo-Shen Keni
The ruins of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty have been roaring past for more than 600 years, but the piles of loess that are still standing proudly are still telling the story of the golden iron horse and the bloody battle...
Photo/Ruins of the Ancient Great Wall
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If there is a hierarchy of loneliness in the city, the cliff must be at the top.
There is probably no other city in China like this, with Hoh Xil to the south, Lop Nur to the north, Altun Mountain to the west, and Qaidam to the east.
Photo/Heidushan
Surrounded by the famous four uninhabited areas, the nearest city is Dunhuang, Gansu Province, 390 kilometers away.
But just like the city that brushes its presence with the most non-existent feeling, the Vast Cliff has also successfully come out of the circle with the most inaccessible but everybody wants to go.
Photo/Cold Lake Martian Town
There is the world's largest and most fantastical Yadan Oboliang, the rare eye Aiken Spring in the world, the beautiful imaginary lake Emerald Lake, the highway 315 that seems to be able to go to the end of the sky, the Buddha and Bodhisattva shaped Thousand Buddha Cliffs shaped by nature, and the Martian town of Mars Cold Lake that makes people feel like they are 55 million kilometers away.
Photo/Aiken Springs
Although it was officially listed on December 27, 2018, in fact, as early as the distant Han Dynasty, there were Qiang people living here, it was a necessary place on the ancient Silk Road, and Zhang Qian also left footprints here.
Photo/G315
The cold lake oil town deep in the hinterland of the desert has witnessed the efforts of 20 oil people, and also tells the joys and sorrows of a generation.
The Cliff, the Cliff, the Cliff, is a lonely place just by hearing the name, but as mentioned earlier, it has a deep history and infinite scenery.
Photo/Oil Town
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Delingha, a small northwestern city with no known name.
Because of Haizi, she was covered with a poetic background, and because of Haizi and poetry, she was regarded as a pilgrimage place for Wenqing.
Photo/Little Red Book - Visitors from Poland
Delingha also thanked Haizi for building a Haizi poetry exhibition hall in the city, which contains his life, as well as his poetry manuscripts and publications.
Many people traveled thousands of miles to Delingha because of Haizi and poetry. But what Delingha has is more than poetic.
Picture / Little Red Book - Little Pig
Delingha City is in the forest, the water is in the forest, and it is a rare oasis on the Gobi Desert in the northwest.
Snow leopards, lynxes, brown bears, red deer, and all kinds of wild animals regard it as a "refuge", and more than 20 ethnic minorities from Tibetan, Hui, Turkish, Mongolian, and Salar ethnic groups live in this paradise.
Photo/Bayin River
The Bayin River, which runs through the city, is known as the "mother river" of Delingha, and it breathes life into the Gobi city.
Where the fountain of life flows, a mountain of cypress trees grows. Standing on the top of the hill and looking down, you can see the whole city of Delingha.
Photo/Cypress Hill
The flow of the Bayin River also connects a pair of magical lakes, Keluk Lake and Tuosu Lake, one large and one small, one full of vitality and one without grass.
Photo/Crook Lake
Photo/Tosu Lake
In Delingha, you can also see the universe that the world has been striving for, and there is an "alien ruin" here.
The mysterious ruins attract the eye, and the ancient art also fascinates. Petroglyphs of Titara. It makes up for the lack of cultural relics and historical materials caused by the nomadic people's lack of fixed residence.
Photo/Delingha Cultural Tourism
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It is the largest county in China, with a total area of 203,300 square kilometers. One Ruoqiang is equivalent to 5.5 Hainan/Taiwan, 2 Jiangsu/Zhejiang, 12 Beijing, and 32 Shanghai.
When it comes to Ruoqiang, the first thing that comes to most people's minds is Ruoqiang gray jujube, and only a small number of people know that the ancient city of Loulan is in its territory that "the yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned if it is not broken".
Photo/Lop Nur
Loulan, this is a name familiar to Chinese. In ancient China, it was the gateway to Dunhuang, the key point of the Silk Road, and its status was similar to that of Hong Kong to China in the 20th century.
However, the wealth and prosperity of that time are gone, leaving only the old cities, stories, and people, attracting the attention of Chinese and foreign historians and explorers.
Photo/Loulan site
Ruoqiang has a long history and rich tourism resources.
Snow mountains, deserts, oases, poplars and other natural scenery are perfectly gathered in the vast land of Ruoqiang.
Photo/Ruoqiang River Reservoir
There are the Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China, the world's largest primitive poplar forest, the Tarim Poplar Forest, the Muzitag Peak, which is covered by ice and snow all year round, the world's "Ear of the Earth" Lop Nur, the world's longest brick paved road, the red brick road of National Highway 218 (Ruoqiang Section), and the Altun Mountain, the world's largest inland nature reserve......
Ruoqiang is the largest county in China in terms of area and the largest county in China's exploration.
Photo/Altun Mountain Nature Reserve
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Next stop, summer,
Next stop, Great Northwest.
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