Guyuan, the hometown of my dreams, is it as beautiful as before? Is it as hospitable as before? Is the lamb there as delicious as before? Are the potatoes there as sweet as ever?
Guyuan has a rich history and culture. In the Paleolithic Age, paleoanthropological sites were found in Pengyang County; during the Warring States period, it belonged to the territory of the Qin State. In the Qin Dynasty, the earliest administrative establishment began in Wushi County (in the south of present-day Yuanzhou District) during the reign of King Huiwen of Qin (337 BC to 311 BC), and later added Chaona County (now an ancient town in Pengyang County); in the Ming Dynasty, Guyuan was one of the important towns of the Nine Borders.
Guyuan Museum
Convex glass bowl
Guyuan has unique natural resources. Liupanshan Nature Reserve includes bracken, sea buckthorn, hair vegetables and national key protection of astragalus, Tao'er Seven, and the rare nest seven in the north, violent martin incense and so on. Precious tree species include spruce, oil pine, Huashan pine and ash willow. There are 530 species of wild medicinal plants, and dozens of species of shellfish, eleutherococcus senticosus, sanchi, ginseng and angelica are used clinically. The forest area is also inhabited by the national first-class protected animal golden leopard, and the third-class protected animals forest musk, golden eagle and red-bellied golden pheasant. Liupan Mountain is extremely rich in insects, and its dominant taxa are ruler moths, nocturnal moths, sky moths, regular moths, twelve-feathered moths, longhorn moths, silkworm moths and flowing fireflies. There is only one specimen of the wax moth in Beijing Agricultural University, but it is extremely common in the Liupan Mountains. The brown-striped twelve-feathered moth only exists in Liupanshan, and there are no records in other parts of the country.
Liupan Mountain
There are 5 proven coal production areas in minerals, with a total reserve of 930 million tons; 1 pyrite site with reserves of 59,000 tons; There are 5 copper mines with reserves of 8.93 million tons, and 1 phosphate mine with reserves of 139,000 tons; There are 4 quartz placer mines with total reserves of 1.6 billion tons; 10 gypsum mines with total reserves of 3 billion tons; 4 limestone mines with reserves of 130 million tons; clay reserves of 1.33 million tons; glauber salt reserves of 2 million tons; dolomite reserves of 59 million tons; gold ore reserves of 100,000 tons; oil and gas resources of 492 million tons, and preliminary proven reserves of more than 1.7 billion tons within 30 square kilometers of the salt mine core area, which are large-scale salt mines in the country, with prospective reserves of more than 10 billion tons, with shallow burial, large thickness and high grade , easy to mine and other characteristics. Granite, diorite, clay, etc. also have considerable reserves.
Flint Village Danxia landform
In 2016, the total area of forestry land in Guyuan City reached 6.68 million mu, accounting for 42.2% of the city's land area, the forest area reached 3.607 million mu, the forest coverage rate was 22.8%, 9.6% higher than that of the whole region, and the forest and grass coverage reached 73%.
Mount Meru Buddha
Guyuan, there is a tragic past. In 1622, a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred in Guyuan, and the history books recorded that "the stars died (meteorites) like rain"; on December 16, 1920, the Haiyuan earthquake killed 148,000 people.
Guyuan, with characteristic folklore. When I was young, I looked forward to the New Year the Most, not only to take the money and set off firecrackers, but also to start the social fire on the ninth day of the first month. Dressing up different characters and shouting words that you don't understand, everything is so novel. New Year's indispensable paper cutout, red window flowers pasted on the window, and the white snow outside the window, yellow dogs constitute a beautiful picture. When the Hui compatriots celebrate the festival, they can't help but sing flowers, and dance with the pleasant sound of the mouth strings.
Braised hemp food
Soba noodles
Suddenly want to come in the morning a bowl of haggis, an oil cake, thick oil heavy spicy seeds full of a full meal, noon to eat hemp food, whether fried or braised, a bite of hemp food, a bite of garlic. If you are not full, then come to a bowl of foreign trade swallow noodles to knead; at night, either eat the churned dough made by your mother at home, or eat a bowl of soba noodle dumplings, accompanied by Lund's vinegar, and eat a beautiful meal. In the evening, the barbecue looked up and walked up, with the "Northwest Hanzi drinking Western Xia" of the Western Xia, in the deserted street, the east and west crooked to say goodbye to friends.
Swallow noodles kneaded
Guyuan, I miss you.