Zhangye is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, the east region and Jinchang Wuwei city, west Jiuquan region, in 121 BC by Emperor Han Wu Huo westwards were only established after the defeat of the Huns Zhangye County, taking "off the Huns of the arm, Zhang China tuck (axillary) "meaning the name. For the Hexi Corridor, one of the ancient four counties, successive dynasties in the north-central plains of the political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic activity center. Zhangye areas under the jurisdiction of Linze, high-profile, Sandan, folk music, Sunan county and Zhangye City 5, with a total area of 41,000 square kilometers, with a total population of 1.17 million.
Zhangye City, the state-level historical and cultural city, Zhang Qian, Pan Chao Fa Xian, Tang Xuan Zang went to the Western Regions were all through Zhangye; Emperor in 609, convened by the Western Regions in Zhangye, 27 countries had sovereign envoy, held "World Expo "; Marco Polo had wrapped up here, stay as long as a year. There Zhangye Heihe River water for irrigation, flat, fertile soil, for the construction of 12 national key commodity grain base, products rich in order to Wujiang m the most. Ancient times known as the "Golden Zhangye", later renamed Ganzhou, there is "no hope Qilian Mountains on the snow, the fault will be Ganzhou when the South" in Sentences. Zhangye is a temperate dry climate, annual precipitation 198 mm, average annual temperature of 7 ℃. City is a total area of 4240 square kilometers, with a total population of 45 million permanent residents in urban population of 100,000.
Zhangye abundant tourism resources, and a large temple, the most famous wooden pagoda, and the Drum Tower. Neighboring districts have Sunan mati temple, Shandan Jun Machang, New River Station and other attractions. Zhangye, 312 State Road, and Lan-Xin Railway double-track across the whole territory, transport facilities, tourist reception capacity to take shape.
Big Buddha Temple is located in Zhangye City, southwest corner, with Zhangye hotels are separated by a wall, there are side door interlinked, because Temple has China's largest indoor Wofo like the name. Temple was built in the first year of the Western Xia Yong (1098), containing the history of Western Xia-National Division in this dug a tile-covered Wofo Tsui and built a large temple. The existing building has Great Buddha Hall, depositary of Buddhist texts, soil tower 3. Great Buddha Hall hall 33 meters high, Miankuo 9, large-scale. Dianmen inlaid on both sides with a six square meters of brick left the "heavens Heaven" and "the West San Mirror" and the right to "enter Moody", "Gion Speech Act." Hall with wooden tires clay Buddha statues, a statue of 34.5 meters length, shoulder width 7.5 m, foot length 4 meters, 2 meters long ears, gold mounted painting, realistic shape, depending on if the wake up call is just as sleep soundly. Wofo ten disciples behind plastic, plastic 18 on both sides of Langfang Arhats hall walls as "Journey to the West" and "Shan Hai Jing" mural. Depositary of Buddhist texts within the collection Ariake Yingzong Banci volume of more than 6000 Buddhist scriptures preserved scripture to scripture written in gold and silver powder is most precious. Sihou a 33.37 meters high earth tower, tower, one of the five elements of Zhangye, one, two-story pedestal Siyu each build a small tower, unique style, for the domestic rare.
Big Buddha Temple in Zhangye served Kublai Khan was born, the other Kat Queen Mother's coffin had parked at the Temple. Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Xian Song Gong cases have been captive to this post Bihuo the monk. Big Buddha Temple large-scale, 16-century mosque can accommodate four or five thousand people at worship.
Wooden pagoda was originally called Manjuji, located in the county of Zhangye City South Street, is currently the Zhangye secondary school. Temple and tower built in the beginning of the Northern Zhou Dynasty or earlier, after the Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties rebuilt. According to "rebuild Manjuji Inscription" contains, "Jianie release, the cremation of Samadhi, may relic 84000. Ashoka Tower home-made bottle of each and all to build a tower, one of Ganzhou pagoda also." Its construction techniques and sets world 926 years for one of Zhangye City, the Five Elements tower. Tower 32.8 meters, the eight-nine, each level there are wood octagonal lead, mouth with Sarah, the next hanging wind chimes. The main tower of wooden structures, Wai Yan Department of pavilion-style construction, tower hollow brick wall, each floor has windows and doors, floors, corridors and towers heart. Windows carved with flower decoration and lintels are embedded brick banners. The whole tower is not a nail or a rivet, thanks to poor brackets, beam column links, criss-crossing each other Rachel, seamless. Boarded the top of the tower, railings overlooking the city scenery panoramic view. Wooden Pagoda Temple is now turned into Zhangye City Folk Museum.
Chen-yuan floor commonly known as the Drum Tower, located in Zhangye City, East and West 4 Street intersection here, is the largest remaining Drum Tower Hexi Corridor. House tomorrow Masanori two years (in 1507) built on a brick package of high stage, story platform and 32 meters wide and a height of 9 meters, the base to the roof over 30 meters. The three-tier pyramid structure for the wood floor, cornices Qiao Jiao, richly ornamented, structure compact, form magnificent. The base of "10" the word-hole and four north-south street leading to convergence of East and West. Upstairs there are four hanging plaque: the East as "Jincheng spring rain," the west "Jade Guan Xiao-yue," the South as "Qilian Qingxue," North to "Juyan ancient animal husbandry." Don Bell Drum Tower is now the southeast corner of a hanging is based on copper-based alloy cast, exquisite workmanship, vigorous majestic. Chung was 1.3 m, diameter 1.15 meters and weighs 600 kilograms. Chung body decorated with flying, and Suzaku, basalt, White Tiger, Dragon pattern. This clock is used to the newspapers more than ancient or fire alarm.
Mati temple is located in the territory of Sunan; 65 km south of Zhangye City, is a grotto art, Qilian Mountain scenery and Yugur style in one of the tourist area. Caves by Sheng Guo Temple, Bogwang Temple, Caves, gold pagoda, the upper, middle and lower guanyin cave seven with a total of 70 are more than Kukan, was founded in. The legendary Horseshoe Horseshoe Western blot stored in Bogwang Temple hall, becoming the town of Temple treasure. Mati temple cave is unique in that there are more than 500 Thousand-Buddha Cliff pagoda Kukan, the size of pet large; urn carved temple, a large flesh fly ancient Chih-Ya for domestic only; Bogwang Temple 33 days of the holes, Cave 21 down five-story pagoda-shaped arrangement, there are Buddhist temple hall, outside the corridor, a total of 49 holes to open up as many inside and outside Kukan, looks strange. Mati temple environment, beautiful, green mountains, Shui Sau, Feng Qi, the hole 4 must be called different. Tourists like to visit can also live Yugur tent, drink highland barley wine, eat meat Shouzhua to experience the unique lifestyle and nomadic steppe culture.
Yugur of Gansu Province, one of three specific ethnic minorities concentrated in Sunan live in, the existing 10000 people. Yugur is an ancient nation with heroic history. As a national community, solid family can be traced back to the Tang and Song period, the Uighurs, the latter's civil war, things move uncertain until the second half of the 14 century before migrating to the Qilian Mountains to settle down. Yugur is a typical steppe nomads, by plants and resettlement. Yugur live in tents, wearing gowns, catering to beef and mutton, butter tea, mainly highland barley wine. Clothing Hua-Li bright, cheerful and lively singing and dancing. Yugur living language and customs, and some Hungarians have striking similarities, has attracted great attention of the sociologist. Whether they originated from the same ancestor and it is still an urgent need shrouded in mystery. Yugur and customs of their ethnic differences in the source while the other east-west, but they all believe in Tibetan Buddhism and primitive religion. Yugur warm hospitality, simple and sincere, with singing and dancing guests wine generously. Mati temple visitors can enjoy the Yugur Yugu accountant within the cheerful song and dance warm grasslands, and enjoy a unique wine and clutch Bowl mutton, had some steppe peoples nomadic way of life.
Shandan Jun Machang Shandan County in Zhangye region 55 &127; km south of the Qilian Mountains at Malaysian camp grasslands, is currently the world's oldest and largest in Asia, the world's second Malaysian market. Shandan Jun Machang flat, plants lush, green grass in summer and winter a golden is a horse reproduction, growth, the ideal place, as early as three thousand years ago, there had been horse. Since the Western Han Dynasty has been here for a local Mongolian horse, based on the Western Regions has introduced a variety of good horses, cross-bred mountain Dan MA world-famous, ancient royal charger here, became a breeding base, enduring. Mountain Dan MA shape symmetry, thick and firm, vigorous Biao Han, anti-roughage, adaptability, good, excellent speed and endurance Ju is the pack, riding, harness use either of Liang Ji, there are currently more than ten thousand horses.
Shandan Jun Machang beautiful scenery. Visitors to the Malaysian camp, to continue to Jun Machang 50 kilometers east of a line can be held in equestrian tourism, camping, visits to horse or horse show, and tour the natural scenic attractions. Here is also an ideal venue stuffed with film and television. Since the "Wrangler" and "Mongolian roots Flower", "Princess Wen Cheng", "Wang Zhaojun", etc. more than 30 television films in this film and broadcast, mountain Jun Machang Dan MA, and also became famous as a major Television tourist destination.
Shandan New River Station is located 20 kilometers southeast of Shandan County, Han-Ming Great Wall is a newly built tourist attractions. Great Wall, well-preserved ruins Shandan County, 312 State Road, across the wall Huokou east-west stretch on both sides of the walls, the new River Station Road intersection that is located on the Great Wall and the 2642 milestone, No. 2.5 kilometers east. Here was the ancient Ming and Qing Dynasties Inn, the existing site soil is a square fort, side length 70 meters, with a total area of 4,900, the wall on the wide and 3 meters wide and 5 meters under the loess Ben Zhu, wall memory, a Station well. This site is currently being repaired stages of development. Upon completion, tourists can ride car the previous number in the Inn or the 2642 landmark office and get off at .5 km long "Silk Road" experience the ancient Silk Road on the long journey in the joy. New River Station tourist areas to provide accommodation for visitors to entertainment services.
Su Nankang Long Temple hunting is open in Gansu Province, one of the three major international hunting preserve, located in Sunan, recreation area, the territory of Hong Shi Wo township, 80 km from the Sunan county, Zhangye city, 91 kilometers away. Hunting because there is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery named Kanglong Temple. Camlong Temple hunting ground is located in the hinterland of Qilian Mountain, field wide and 40 km east-west, north to south and 60 kilometers, an area of 2400 square kilometers. In the terrain from the mountains bare rock, alpine scrub and forest and grassland composition. In the 2000-4500 m above sea level between the peak of the main hunting areas 3870 meters above sea level. Camlong area lush grasslands, mountains north slope in order to spruce, juniper-based natural forest trees blocks out the sun. Hunting areas have snow leopards, red deer, musk deer, deer, mink, lynx, Tibetan gazelle, oh throat gazelle, lan MA chicken, frozen chickens, bears and other wild prey species and large quantities, easy hunting. Camlong Temple mountain grassland hunting is a semi-humid climate zone. According to hunters, who want to travel agents or by the Gansu Province, Safari Club International organization providing adapted to live in the wild, hunting tents, generators, food, medicine, cars, horses and other basic living and transportation facilities. Hunting more than each can accommodate 10 hunters. To go out hunting the main horse riding, walking or travel assistance. Hunters must bring their own cold-proof clothing and self considers necessary drugs. Entry of foreign hunters to carry firearms handling procedures, may bring their own shotguns, bullets entry.
Village Beyond the Great Wall Zhangye Corning Corning village, farm guest tour Zhangye City Xiaoman Township belongs to the village relatively flat topography, gradually extending from south to north, water sufficient, belongs to the building full of irrigation, fertile land, the main producing wheat, corn, a small amount of Mi Valley, potato, pulses, industrial crops are flax, apple, sunflower and so on. Corning village, over the years due to strong emphasis on the development of courtyard economy, planting pear trees, making the village per capita income has been the highest in the villages in the region, is a pun on "well-off village." Zhangye, 1992-1993, white pear endless, giving the tourists more than praise bar, Liulianwangfan. Introduction of tourism content:
⑴ organized team arrived by the start of Zhangye Corning village, in the township government hold a forum on rural village development leaders Corning comprehensive introduction to understand the status of the village of Corning.
⑵ visit orchard production, in the edge of the fields picking enjoy a variety of seasonal fruits.
⑶ visited the village of Corning township enterprises.
⑷ visits to farmers, in-depth understanding of farm life.
⑸ arrangements for tourists farmhouse guests, tasting dishes and a variety of local farmers snack.
⑹ enjoy the local theater Shaanxi opera, eyebrow households.
Gansu-Sichuan snacks a street Street is located in Zhangye City of democracy. The street stalls are lined up on both sides of a variety of snacks, providing unique twist Zhangye fish noodles, lamb Fenpi gluten, fragrant rice, small rice, fried blood sausage, sheep's head soup, fish powder, gray bean soup, chicken pad examination paper, Shandan oil and other fruit snacks. Throughout the streets clean and tidy, great variety of food, inexpensive, fragrant. Snack Street archway erected at both ends of antique, reproduction of the old style of Ganzhou. Snack Street, generally from early morning to 6:00 am the following day the opening of three or four closing down entirely.
Rub fish noodles pasta twist with the palm of your hand will be an inch long, the middle of thick, two sharp fish-shaped surface section, to salad or stir-fried eat.
Lamb Fenpi gluten starch hook into the paste to add Fenpi mutton soup, gluten made, used for breakfast.
Fragrant rice dishes known as the Northwest in order to roll skinned pigs, sheep lung, the result of "dry sub-volumes", cut into wafer, on the yards cooked pork films, fungus, eggs, hot pepper sauce made from films and poured.
Small meals of local breakfast foods, by a sub-surface made of small square, add mutton soup, Fenpi, red beans, tofu and so on.
Fried black pudding with fresh sheep blood into a paste with flour and saute the oil poured into the gut, combined with vinegar, garlic consumption.
Sheep's head soup will be cooked sheep's head, into the tendons of fillet into bowls, and pouring Tonga fans, garlic silk, parsley, accompanied by pepper oil consumption.
Zhangye specialty gray gray bean soup with bean soup, soy flour and more Yuba thin, fragrant beans, supplemented by sesame sugar, sweet and delicious.
Examination paper will be thin-skinned chicken pad sprinkle chopped green onion into the grease volume segments into the tender chicken soup cooking, soup, pan can be boiled to make food.
Fruit will Shandan oil into the two Sino-skinned sandwiching a layer of brown sugar, made of bergamot-like, into the deep-fried and cooked, sweet and Suxiang.
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