Everyone travels for different reasons. Some people aimlessly get in a car and set off, some people go to meet someone who is important to them, and even fall in love with the city from then on.
The common denominator of these cities in Gansu is that a famous general was born in each place, who watched over their homeland when they were alive and made meritorious achievements, and after lying down, became a striking history, and the place where they were born also became a famous attraction visited by later generations.
Go to the hometown of these 8 famous generals in Gansu, reminisce about a piece of history, enjoy a scenery, and taste a bite of food.
This is also a reason to travel.
1. Li Guang's hometown - Qin An
Li Guang: A famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, a native of Chengji, Longxi (present-day southern Jingning County, Gansu, around the north of Qin'an). In his career as a horseman, he repeatedly built up his miraculous feats, but his fate was bumpy, and he was never crowned marquis. The surviving tomb is at the foot of Mount Wenshan on the southern outskirts of Tianshui City.
Ruins of Dadi Bay
The ruins of Dadiwan are distributed on the gentle slopes of the second and third terraces on the south bank of the Qingshui River, a tributary of the Hulu River. The area is about 2.75 million square meters, the thickness of the cultural layer is 1-4 meters, and it is 7800-4800 years old.
Archaeological excavations were carried out for seven consecutive years in 1978-1984, and supplementary excavations were carried out in 1995, with a total excavation area of 14,752 square meters. More than 8,000 pieces of various cultural relics including pottery, stone, jade, bone, horn, tooth, mussel, etc., 17,000 animal bone specimens, 240 house ruins, 104 stove sites, 342 ash pits and cellars, 38 kiln sites, 79 tombs and 9 trenches were excavated. It is divided into five phases (Dadiwan Phase I or Laoguantai Culture, Yangshao Culture Early, Middle and Late Three Phases, and Changshan Lower Stage).
◆Address: Wuying Township Shaodian Village
◆Opening Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday:
Summer 9:30- 17:00 (last admission at 16:30),
10:00-16:00 in winter and closed on Mondays
(Except national holidays)
◆ Admission: Free of charge
Nuwa Shrine
The construction date of the Nüwa Ancestral Hall can now be traced back to the Qin Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,000 years. The Nüwa Ancestral Hall has gone through vicissitudes and has been relocated five times to this day.
Today's Nuwa Ancestral Hall is magnificent and the statue is solemn. The statue of Nüwa, who is dressed in kindness and solemnity, was carefully sculpted in 1989 by the famous sculptor Ms. He Chen.
◆Address: South of Longcheng Town
◆Opening hours: 9:00-17:00
◆ Tickets: 10 yuan / person
◆ Qin'an food recommendation: stuffed skin, sweet sauce, cold powder, oil cake, beige bun, hemp rotten bun, sour and spicy belly soup, spicy noodles, etc.
2. Li Xi's hometown - Gyeongseong County
Li Xi (李息): A general during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, a native of Yuzhi County (present-day Qingcheng County) in the northern region. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the battle against the Xiongnu, Li Xi heroically resisted the enemy and made great achievements for the Western Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu.
Qingcheng County belongs to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, and is located in the eastern part of Gansu Province. Qi Bo, who was later known as the originator of Chinese medicine, was a native of Gyeongseong County.
Zhou Zu Mausoleum
The Zhou Ancestral Mausoleum has a long history, Zhong LingYuxiu, and is named after the famous tomb on the top of the mountain, the Zhou Ancestral Buzhu Mausoleum.
First of all, from Fengcheng across the bridge to the foot of Zhou Zuling Mountain, through dense forest belts and a rugged and simple road to reach the parking lot. The overall layout of the Zhouzu Cultural District at the top of the mountain is strict and standardized, and it is staggered.
◆ Address: Qingcheng Dongshan (commonly known as "Zhou Lazy King Mountain")
◆Opening hours: 8:00-18:00
◆ Tickets: 30 yuan / person, 1 yuan for those with local ID cards, free for people over 60 years old
◆ Gyeongseong food recommendation: Gyeongseong people generally eat in the morning, noodles in the afternoon, and the noodles that must be tasted to Gyeongseong are wonton noodles and soba noodles. Other special foods include white melon seeds, wine dates, buckwheat tea (you can eat tea directly, without soaking water), yellow cauliflower and so on.
3. Xin Qingji's hometown - Lintao South
A general of the Western Han Dynasty, a native of Di Dao (present-day Lintaonan, Gansu). When he was young, he threw his pen into Rong, and then he followed the army led by Changluo Hou Changhui to the Wusun capital chigu city in the western region to garrison the border and reclaim tuntian. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty (48 BC), he supplemented the history of the jin city and moved to Zhangye and Jiuquan Taishou.
Lintao County belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, is one of the important birthplaces of the ancient culture of the Yellow River, known as "the hometown of faience pottery" and "cultural county".
Yuelu Mountain Forest Park
Yuelu Mountain Forest Park is known for its "green head", and has the reputation of "Guilin Landscape and Water Under the Heavens, Lintao Dongshan Does Not Bow Down". It is known as the "South Gate of Lanzhou".
Yuelu Mountain is named after the Song Dynasty built the Dongyue Temple between the foothills. The total area of the forest park is 84 hectares, the park is rich in animal and plant resources, and the main cultural monuments are 42 landscapes such as Chaorantai, Daotong Ancestral Hall, Wuhou Ancestral Hall, Sanxing Pavilion, Longquan Temple, etc., of which Chaoran Academy, Fengtai Flying Pavilion and Jiang Weidun are particularly famous.
◆Location: 0.5 kilometers east of Lintao City;
◆Opening hours: 8:00-17:00
Majiayao ruins
Majiayao is located on a first-class terrace on the west bank of the Tao River. First discovered and excavated in 1924, the site is 280 meters wide from north to south, 350 meters long from east to west, and about 90,000 square meters. The cultural connotation of the site is rich, including the Yangshao culture temple bottom ditch type, the Majiayao culture of the Shilingxia type, etc., of which the Majiayao type is the most abundant, and the Majiayao culture or Majiayao type is named after it.
◆Address: 10 kilometers southwest of Lintao County, the Cunmayugou mouth on the south side of Majiayao Village on the west bank of the Tao River
Ruins of the Great Wall of Qin
The westernmost point of the ruins of the Great Wall of Qin stretches from the tomb of the King of Killed in the west in Lintao, Gansu Province, and the slope of the Great Wall of Yaodian 23 kilometers east of the county seat. North-south, loess slabs, residual height of about 1 meter. It is the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty, intermittently passing through Weiyuan, Longxi, Tongwei, Huining, Jingning and other 8 counties into Ningxia, and then returning to Gansu Jinghuan County, Qingyang County into Shaanxi Province, over the mountains and mountains, flying across ravines, through the desert grassland, meandering east, ending on the banks of the Yalu River.
◆Address: Yaodian Great Wall Slope
◆ Lintao food recommendation: Tao river fish, shortbread, potato churn, pulp water surface, red tofu.
4. Jiang Wei's hometown - Gangu
Jiang Wei: A famous military figure and military commander of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, a native of Tianshui Ji (present-day southeast of Gangu, Gansu). He was once a general in Wei Tianshui Commandery, and later surrendered to Shu Han, was made the Marquis of Yangting, and later promoted to the rank of Zhongjian Army and general of Zhengxi. Throughout his life, he did his best to defend the Shu Han regime until he died in battle.
Gangu County is a county under the jurisdiction of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, located in the eastern part of Gansu Province, northwest of Tianshui, in the Weihe River Basin.
Tomb of Jiang Wei
There are two tombs of Jiang Wei in Tianshui City, Gansu Province, one in Gangu County and the other in Tianshuiguan. Gangu Jiang Wei tomb is divided into two floors, a total of nine steps, taking the meaning of the Nine Cut Central Plains, the center of the stone steps, lined with two large seal-shaped characters - "Yuanzhi", in front of the tomb erected a tombstone, which reads "The Tomb of the Great General Of the Shu Han Dynasty Jiang Wei".
Behind the tombstone is a tall tomb, and the entire cemetery coincides with Jiang Wei's life. The height of the tomb is 3.5 meters, which means that Jiang Wei held an important position under Zhuge Liang at the age of 35 and made many military achievements; the diameter of the cemetery is 6.2 meters, indicating that Jiang Wei died at the age of 62, and he was righteous and rehabilitated, and his career was not successful and hated Jiuquan; the stone platform was 1.2 meters high, which means that Jiang Wei was smart and brave at the age of 12, and he joined the army with his hair.
Jiang Wei Memorial Hall
The memorial hall is composed of a front square, a gate, a vestibule, a torii-style ear gate, the main hall and other buildings, the main building is a double slope water on the top of the hanging hill, a bucket arch cornice, a peripheral porch with twelve columns, a ridged tile beast, two dragon play beads, a glazed cylinder tile, with nine beams and eighteen columns, and an antique civil structure. (Reference book "Gansu Historical and Cultural Celebrities")
◆Address: Liufeng Town Jiangjiazhuang
Big like a mountain
Gangu Daxiang Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the top, with a total length of 1.5 kilometers, covers an area of about 640 acres, is one of the important cultural relics of the ancient Silk Road in southeast Gansu, which integrates grottoes and ancient buildings, and was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2001.
The mountain is covered with pine junipers, lilacs are overflowing, pavilions are built on the mountain, and the carved gallery is covered with green trees. Between the cliffs in the mountains, there is a large cave on the cliff, and the cave sits on a stone tire clay statue of a big Buddha.
◆Address: Wenqi Mountain at the western end of Qinling Mountains, 2.5 kilometers southwest of Gangu County
◆Opening hours: 8:00-17:00
◆ Tickets: 30 yuan / person, 5 yuan for those with local ID cards
◆ Gangu food recommendation: pulp water surface, Gangu pepper, croak, powder fish, ghee circle, oil cake, buckwheat flour, etc