"The desert is lonely and straight, the long river is full of sunsets" Here was once the place where the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei sang; Marshal Nie Rongzhen, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, one of the ten marshals, and who had devoted a lot of effort to the construction of the space base, was also buried here. Yes, this place is the Ejin Banner.
Dongfeng Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery (Picture from the Internet, invasion and deletion)
Ejin Banner is a banner subordinate to the Alxa League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, located in northern Xinjiang, China, located in the westernmost part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Adjacent to Alxa Right Banner in the east, Bordering Jiuquan City in Gansu Province in the southwest, and Mongolia in the north, it covers an area of 114606 square kilometers and has a total population of 32,000 (2021), and the territory is mostly uninhabited desert areas. Relative to the central towns of Dalai Hubu Town and Dongfeng Town.
Ejina Banner has a dry inland climate. It has the characteristics of drought and less rainfall, large evaporation, sufficient sunshine, large temperature difference, and more wind and sand. The natural river channel of Ejina is mainly the Heihe River, which is the second largest inland river in China, originating in the middle of the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, involving qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia provinces (autonomous regions), and entering the Ejina Banner called the Ejina River.
Emphasis: Specialty cuisine
Camel's palm: One of the four famous dishes in China. The "Northern Eight Treasures" used by the ancient court for imperial meals, and the camel's paw is one of the treasures. Due to the preciousness of camel's paws, they are all ordered by star-rated hotels in the mainland.
Milk wine: mainly brewed and drunk by the nomadic people in northern China. From xiongnu, Eastern Hu, Wuhuan, Xianbei to Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan. Evenk and other ethnic groups are very good at brewing milk wine, and they also like to drink milk wine the most. The Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty made horse milk wine the most important drink. The Yuan court and the Mongol kings all had a group of people who specialized in making horse milk wine, which was used not only for self-drinking, but also for banquets, entertaining guests, rewarding subordinates, and sacrifices.
Hand steak: Hand steak is one of the red foods. The Mongol people call meat food red food, and the Mongolian language is called "Ulan-ed". As the name suggests, "hand-grilled meat" is hand-grabbed lamb, which has been a traditional food of the Mongolian ethnic group for thousands of years.
Licorice: Also known as Guolao, it is a perennial herb of the legume family. Widely used in medicine, cosmetics, food, tobacco and other industries. Licorice flavor ganping, can be into the Twelve Classics, through the distribution of hundreds of medicines, so it has the national elder and "the king of medicine" reputation. It has the effect of treating spleen and stomach deficiency, insufficient qi, lack of qi and blood, sputum cough and wheezing, palpitations, abdominal pain and spasms, and sores and swelling. It is mainly rich in river panland, lake basin lowland, swamp meadow grassland. The average coverage is 30 to 40%. The annual output of licorice is about 100,000 kilograms.
Bitter beans: Legumes. Shrubs, branches are mostly broom-shaped. The seeds contain 26 kinds of matrine, which have the effect of treating common gynecological diseases, anti-inflammatory, asthma and cough, cardiovascular disease, anti-allergy, anti-diarrhea and so on. It has a significant inhibitory effect on cancer cells. The existing area of bitter beans is 16,900 hectares, and more than 1,000 tons of bitter bean seeds are purchased annually.
Tonic Chinese herbal medicine: licorice
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Blackwater City: Known in Mongolian as Harihot. Located 25 kilometers southeast of DalaiHubu Town, on the east bank of the Weak Water River, it is an important agricultural base and border defense fortress in Western Xia, and also the main station road from the Hexi Corridor to Lingbei Province in the Yuan Dynasty. Blackwater City is rectangular in shape, and the surrounding walls are well preserved, with an average height of more than 10 meters. A large number of archival documents unearthed here form a new discipline - Black City Calligraphy. In 2001, Heishui City was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units and was classified as juyan ruins protection area.
Desert Poplar Scenic Spot: It is a national 4A-level scenic spot invested and built by Alxa Juyan Chenglong Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. in 2015 that integrates science education, ecological tourism, cultural experience, tourism distribution and characteristic business, and the scenic spot is located 1.2 kilometers south of the central urban area of Inner Mongolia Alxa League Ejina Banner Dalai Hubu Town Center.
Poplar Forest Landscape Area: 16 km east of Dalai Hubu Town. Poplar is also known as Hu Tong, and is called Tao Lai in Mongolian. There are 30,000 hectares of poplar forest in Ejin Naqi, which has been listed as a national nature reserve. It is regarded as a living plant fossil and is listed as a national second-class protected plant. The Ejina Poplar Forest Area is one of only three remaining places in the world.
JuyanHai: Named after the Xiongnu Juyan tribe, meaning Tianchi. In ancient times, juyanhai was one of the largest lakes in the northwest. Affected by the amount of weak water replenishment, the juyan sea surface is changeable, and it is a magical "wandering lake".
At present, the Poplar Forest Scenic Area has been successfully created as a 5A-level scenic spot, and the Juyan Seaview Area and the Ceke Port International Cultural Tourism Zone have been promoted to 3A-level scenic spots.
Juyan Sea View Area
Poplar forest landscape area
Blackwater City