The scorching summer season has arrived, and the temperature is gradually rising all over the country, and everyone is starting to think about where to escape the heat, which city is the coolest and which place is the best place to escape the heat?
Today, I will take you into an unpopular and amazing treasure summer city, the average temperature in summer is between 17 degrees and 19 degrees, which can be regarded as the coolest tourist city in China in summer!
The city is Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, due to the unique continental climate of the plateau, the summer temperature difference between day and night is large, the climate is cool and pleasant, the hottest month of July, the average temperature is only 19°C! In summer, you must cover yourself with a quilt when you sleep in Xining, and you must wear a coat in the morning and evening, otherwise you will be prone to colds, and the air conditioner will become a decoration, and even mosquitoes are rare...... Only those who have been to Xining know how comfortable the summer is here.
What's even more interesting is that although Xining is known as the "summer capital of China", it is a city without summer? According to meteorological standards, if the average temperature of a city exceeds 22°C for five consecutive days, it is officially considered to be summer. Looking at the average value of Xining over the years, it has not reached the summer standard in recent years, and it is a real "summerless capital"!
Xining is also an ancient plateau city with a history of more than 2,100 years, and is a must for the ancient Silk Road and the Tangbo Ancient Road, where the Han, Tibetan, Hui and other ethnic groups live together, and is a multicultural intersection in Northwest China. There are also abundant tourism resources around the city, such as Qinghai Lake, which is full of rape flowers in midsummer, Chaka Salt Lake, which is known as the "mirror of China's sky", and Ta'er Temple, which has a large number of Buddhist art works, etc., all of which are full of charming natural and cultural landscapes!
In addition to the good climate and good scenery, Xining is also a gathering place for the cuisine of the great northwest, and the locals are not happy without meat, such as kang pot lamb chops, hand-grabbed mutton, yak hot pot...... They are all must-try specialties when you arrive in the local area. This summer, come to Xining to start a summer vacation and live a fairy summer without scorching heat and mosquito bites!
Where is Xining?
Xining is located in the eastern part of Qinghai Province, upstream of the Huangshui, a tributary of the Yellow River, and is the gateway of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the inland Central Plains, the starting point of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. Here surrounded by mountains, three rivers converge, the highest altitude in the territory is 4394 meters, the urban center is 2275 meters above sea level, the tourism resources around the city are very rich, within the radius of 2 hours by car, there are countless and extremely unique ecological, human, geographical resources, it can be said that there are landscapes everywhere in the southeast and northwest!
From major cities in China, there are direct flights to Xining Caojiapu Airport, which is also the only civil airport in Qinghai Province. You can also take the train directly to Xining Station, which is the starting point of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the largest railway station in Qinghai Province. The locations of Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, Menyuan Rape Flower, Longyangxia Reservoir and other scenic spots around Xining are relatively scattered, so renting a car for self-driving or chartering a car can arrange the itinerary more freely and flexibly, and it is more convenient to play.
What does Xining Humanities see?
/ Dongguan Mosque /
The Dongguan Mosque, which was built in the 12th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1379), is the largest and oldest mosque in Qinghai Province and one of the four major mosques in the country. In addition to its religious status, the mosque itself is a splendid complex that blends traditional Chinese style with Islamic classics, and the main hall can accommodate 3,000 people to worship at a time, and it is also the center of Islamic education and the highest institution of learning in the northwest region.
/ Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum /
Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum is the only comprehensive museum in the world that comprehensively collects, protects, displays and studies Tibetan culture, with a collection of more than 40,000 cultural relics. Nearly 1,000 meters of "Chinese Tibetan Culture and Art Painting Grand View" Thangka picture scroll was recorded in the "Guinness World Records", which can be called a rare treasure of national culture, it is said that it is made by more than 400 Tibetan, Mongolian, Han scholars, experts and top arts and crafts masters, using pure natural painting pigments, using Tibetan traditional painting techniques, it took 27 years to paint.
/ Taal Monastery /
Taal Monastery is the birthplace of Lama Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism (Yellow Sect), and is also one of the top six monasteries in the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism in China. The butter flowers, murals and pile embroidery in the temple are known as the "three unique art of Ta'er Temple", and you can also enjoy the precious Buddhist cultural relics, such as scriptures, Buddha statues, thangkas, etc., which have witnessed the glorious history and profound culture of Ta'er Temple.
What to do around Xining?
/ Qinghai Lake /
Qinghai Lake, known as the "West Sea" in ancient times, is the largest inland lake in China, the largest saltwater lake, surrounded by four towering mountains, from the bottom of the mountain to the lakeside, it is a vast flat, boundless grassland, the elevation of the lake is about 3,200 meters, there is a very shocking natural beauty. With an average temperature of only 15°C in the middle of summer, it is a natural summer resort, and every June, the blue water of the lake and the rape flowers blooming on the lakeside reflect each other, forming a magnificent picture of mountains, lakes, grasslands and flowers.
/ Chaka Salt Lake /
Chaka Salt Lake is a salt farm with a history of more than 3,000 years, known as China's "Sky Realm", here is the world of salt, the crystal clear salt lake reflects the blue of the sky, as if heaven and earth are connected, and the sunrise and sunset are even more beautiful. There is a railway in the middle of the lake that extends into the lake, and you can take a small train to go deep into the lake for sightseeing, watch the magnificent scene of modern large salt mining ships spraying water and swallowing pearls when mining salt, and you can also see the lifelike salt flowers of different shapes growing through the clear water.
/ Menyuan rape flower /
Menyuan's rape flower is known as "one of the world's top ten flowers", it is the latest wave of rape flowers in the country, it is not until the middle of July every year to enter the full flowering period, the golden flower field is like a huge golden carpet, extending from near to the distance under the snow-capped mountains, the scenery is very spectacular. If the rape flower landscape in the south has the gentleness of a small jasper, then the rape flowers here have a gorgeous magnificence under the backdrop of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which complements each other with the blue sky and white clouds, and has a kind of beauty in the northwest!
/ Longyangxia Reservoir /
The Yellow River flows through Guide County from the source of Bayan Kala Mountain, and the Longyangxia Hydropower Station will "cut off" the surging Yellow River, forming an artificial reservoir with a total storage capacity of 24.7 billion cubic meters, which is equivalent to 1,700 West Lakes in Hangzhou.
Also known as the "First Dam of the Yellow River", the 40-kilometer-long river valley on both sides, the beautiful and clear lake and mountain shadows and the magnificent Chisha Mountain landform form form a rich and peculiar landscape, known as China's "Grand Canyon".
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