Lanzhou
Lanzhou is located on the Northwest Loess Plateau in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River. The origin of the name of Lanzhou, according to the "Records of Yuanhe County", is derived from the name of Gaolan Mountain. Due to the traditional omission method of the ancients, the word Gaolan went to "Gao" to leave "Lan", which was named Lanzhou. According to the "Chronicle of Gaolan County", "Gaolan is Lanzhou, the name of Gaolan, named after the name of Nanshan Gaolan." Li Tang Shi Hun was inward-looking and thought that Lanzhou was the governor's mansion, and the name of Lanzhou began. "In the third year of the Sui Kai Emperor (583), the county was abolished and changed to a prefecture, and Jincheng County was changed to Lanzhou, and the governor of Lanzhou was placed in the prefecture, and the name of "Lanzhou" began here, and it has a history of more than 1400 years. Lanzhou City was established in July 1941. It is now the capital of Gansu Province. Lanzhou is also known as "Golden City", which has been used for the longest time and spread the most widely in ancient times.
Wu Wei
Wuwei is located in the eastern part of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, in the upper reaches of the Shiyang River. Wuwei was occupied by the Huns in the early Western Han Dynasty, and in the second year of the Western Han Dynasty (121 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Huo to conquer Hexi, and in order to commemorate this victory, he later named this place Wuwei and set up Wuwei County, so as to show the military might and martial arts of the Western Han Dynasty to reach Hexi. During the Western Han Dynasty, it was called Guzang, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was renamed Wuwei. In the Ming Dynasty, Liangzhou Wei was changed, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was changed to Wuwei County. In 1985, it was changed to Wuwei City.
Jin Chang
Jinchang is located in the eastern part of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. Jinchang is a name because the Jinchuan River flows through the territory and takes the golden character, because the Jinchang system is separated from Yongchang County, taking the Chang character, and the two characters are combined. Han Set Fanhe County, Ming as YongchangWei, Qing changed Tonchang County. In 1981, Jinchang City was dissolved from Yongchang County. Jinchang is rich in nickel, its reserves are numerous, the grade is high, in the same kind of deposits, ranking second in the world, because of the nickel capital.
silver
Baiyin is located in central Gansu Province, northeast of Lanzhou City. As early as the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a factory was built here to mine and smelt gold and silver. Because most of the ore mined is silver, it is also called "silver factory", and silver gets its name.
Tianshui
Tianshui is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, in the middle reaches of the Wei River and the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and is the key to the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. The origin of the name of Tianshui, according to the "Notes on the Water Classic": there was a lake in the northern city of Qiu (today's water), and there was a white dragon out of the lake, and the wind and rain followed, so the Han Wu Emperor Yuanding iii year (114 BC) changed to Tianshui County. The "Chronicle of Qinzhou" records: There is a lake in front of the county, and there is no increase or decrease in winter and summer, so it has the name of Tianshui. According to legend, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the southwest of today's water city, one day, suddenly red light appeared, thunder and lightning were combined, the sky shook, and the landslides cracked. The ground cracked a large crack, and the natural water poured into it, forming a lake. Since then, it has been said that the lake water is connected with the Tianhe River, and the local people call it tianshuijing. Later, Emperor Wu of Han built a city in The Lake Emperor and named Tianshui. The name Tianshui County began in five generations.
Zhangye
The place name Zhangye is derived from "stretching out the country to connect the western regions", which to some extent reflects the status of Zhangye on the ancient Silk Road. Zhangye was originally the territory of the Xiongnu King, so it was called Loude, and the Han Dynasty changed its name to Zhangye, which means to stretch the chinese arm, "to Wei Qiangdi". The great prosperity of the righteousness of stewing huang does not actually refer to the grandeur of the city scale of the county at that time, but is used to symbolize the civilization and morality of the Han Dynasty as great as the glory of the sun and the moon. Therefore, its first word should be stewed or stewed from the fire as the positive, and the word without fire next to the Word Dun is written as a false loan. The naming of the two counties shows the great talent of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who used both culture and martial arts, and combined rigidity and softness.
Cool
Pingliang is located in the eastern part of Gansu Province, at the eastern foot of Liupan Mountain. In 358, Qin Fujian wanted to curry favor with Qianliang, and set up Pingliang Commandery in Gaoping Town, taking the meaning of Pingding Liangguo, from which Pingliang got its name.
Wine Spring
One kilometer east of Jiuquan City, there is a large monument erected in March of the Qing Dynasty, and the stele is engraved with the Western Han Dynasty Jiuquan Victory "6 strong characters." Behind the stone stele there is a clear spring, called Jiuquan Spring", which has a history of 2,000 years. According to legend, the Han general Huo Quyi defeated the Xiongnu in the west of the jiangjiang river, and the good news reached Chang'an, and Emperor Wu of Han rewarded him with an altar of imperial wine. In order to let the soldiers taste the wine together, Huo went ill and ordered the imperial wine to be poured into the golden spring for the 3rd Army to drink. Since then, the golden spring water has a strong aroma of wine, so it is called Jiuquan". Some scholars believe that the name of Jiuquan County is named after the spring, specifically because of the "Divine Anomaly Classic" written by Emperor Wu Chu Dongfang Shuo, which records that there is a wine-like jiuquan in the northwest wilderness.
Jiayuguan
Jiayuguan City is located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, and is named after Jiayuguan, the western starting point of the Great Wall. "Jiayuguan" means "beautiful valley", the city is bordered by Qilian Mountain in the south, Mamane Mountain in the north, Jiuquan Basin in the east, and the flat Gobi in the west, located at the narrowest point in the western section of the corridor. Jiayuguan City has a total area of 1,298 square kilometers and a population of 100,000. Jiayuguan tourism resources are most famous for Jiayuguan Guancheng, Weijin Mural Tomb, the First Pier of the Great Wall, the Hanging Wall, the Great Wall Museum, and the Black Mountain Rock Paintings.
Qingyang
Qingyang is located in the Longdong Mountains, in the upper reaches of the Jing River, in the middle of the Loess Plateau. It is said that qingyang is named Qingyang because it is facing the mountain, and in the south of the mountain and the north of the water, it is called qingyang. It is said that Qingyang was the city of Bu Cave in ancient times, and in the twenty-second year of the Xia King, Liu Liu, the grandson of Bu Cave, moved to Xunyi, Shaanxi, and the descendants built the Qingyang Palace in Qingyang for the convenience of ancestor worship, and named it Qingyang. Qingyang was called Yiqu, Yuzhi, Honghua, Hue, and Anhua in ancient times, and the Song Dynasty changed Gyeongju to Qingyang Province. In 1914, Fucun County was abolished and Anhua County was renamed Qingyang County. Qingyang County is surrounded by mountains and rivers, for the military town of the past, the ancients built the city due to the situation, its shape is like a phoenix, so it is also known as phoenix city.
Dingxi
Dingxi is located in the central part of Gansu Province. The origin of the place name of Dingxi, the Song Dynasty called Xitou City near Lanzhou (now Yuzhong Triangle City) as Dingxi City, including the meaning of and settling the west, after which Xitou City was changed to Tongyuan Army, so the name of Dingxi was moved to Nuzha Fort and renamed Dingxi City, which is the earliest source of the name of Dingxi. In the third year of the Reign of the Jin Emperor (1143), The Western Prefecture was established. Dingxi is rich in flax, sowing about 150,000 mu of flax over the years, and the oil produced is rich in nutrition and good color and taste. Dingxi is known as the hometown of lentils, with an annual planting area of about 150,000 mu, and its seeds have high nutritional value, have the effect of clearing the pyrolysis department, and export to the outside world. Potato is a specialty of Dingxi, with excellent taste and quality, and has been exported to Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places in recent years. Dingxi has a long history, and pottery, stone tools, bone tools, bronze tools, scales, etc. left behind by various dynasties have been repeatedly discovered, so it is known as the hometown of ancient monuments.