There is an imposing Populus euphratica forest-Populus euphratica, also known as buttonwood, which has a history of hundreds of years. When you come here in person, you will fantasize about this forest, and its primitiveness makes you feel really back to nature and integrated with nature. It is said that Populus euphratica can live for a thousand years and die for a thousand years. It won't rot for a thousand years. In fact, according to relevant data, the real life of Populus euphratica is far less than a thousand years. Its living environment is on the dry beach next door. Its various shapes give people a feeling of being senile, and the beauty in the eyes is in the heart. The antique trunk looks like being intoxicated in a beautiful guzheng song, which makes people have such a long aftertaste!
Hanging Spring Site Witness the Millennium Post Civilization
Hanging Spring Site is located in the Gobi Desert 1.5 km south of the Sweet Water Well Road in Andun Highway, Gansu Province, which is bordered by the Flaming Mountain of Three Dangerous Veins in the south and Shawo in the west in the north. It is a great reception and transit post for people and mail between Anxi and Dunhuang during the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Hangquanjia site is a small square castle, with the door facing east, surrounded by tall courtyard walls, with a side length of 5 meters, and a turret protruding from the dock in the southwest corner. The dock wall is made of adobe whose length, width and thickness are about 4 cm, 2 cm and 11 cm. There are 12 adobe wall bungalows in 3 groups (including one suite) in different periods on the west wall and north wall of the dock, which are accommodation areas; The east and north sides are office buildings; There are 3 stables in the southwest corner and north; There is a group of 3 stables with a length of about 5 meters and a north-south direction in the southwest outside the dock. Up to now, more than 17,65 pieces of various relics have been excavated at the Xuanquanjia site, including more than 15, bamboo slips with rich connotations. Other relics, such as copper, iron, lacquer, wood, pottery, hemp, fur, silk, paper, grain and animal bones, are classified into 11 categories. Such as bronze arrowheads, five baht coins, ironwood tools, farm tools, hooks, pottery pots, pottery bowls, lacquer fungus cups, inkstone, sketchpad, grass, reeds, bamboo mats, combs, leather shoes, toys, barley, wheat, highland barley, millet, millet, peas, lentils, garlic, apricot kernels and alfalfa. Judging from the sites that have been exposed, the integrity of the structure of the remains, the richness of unearthed relics, the well-preserved remains and the extensive cultural connotations are one of the great achievements of the archaeological community in China in recent years.
Sanwei Mountain Scenic Area-the first sacred place in Dunhuang
"Dangerous Peak to the East", the first sacred place in Dunhuang, the Mogao Grottoes were built because of the Buddha's light of Sanwei Mountain, and climbed the famous Buddhist art mountain to get a glimpse of the roots of the Mogao Grottoes. To enter the sacred land, first of all, sit at the archway gate on the seventh floor of the four pillars facing east and west, engraved with "Three Dangerous Sacred Lands". Not far ahead, surrounded by two mountains, is located the Wangmu Palace Hall, which is a second-floor Xieshan-style palace building imitating the Tang and Song Dynasties. According to legend, it was once the residence of the Queen Mother of the West. I walked past the "Guanyin Well" archway, but I saw an ancient Amitabha Hall and Guanyin Temple on the north mountain, and the newly-built Song-like building on the east side of Kannonji's double-eaves Xieshan Peak was integrated with the ancient Guanyin Well Pavilion. Heading eastward from Kannonji, a Dragon King Temple stands in the front hills, northeast and southwest. The temple is dedicated to Raytheon, the Dragon King of the Heaven and the Dragon King of the Four Seas with folk beliefs. Five dragon kings and gods. In front of Longwang Temple, there is Ping 'an Temple, which is a hall with hanging mountains and mountains, and is a place for offering sacrifices to the door gods, the god of wealth, the kitchen god and the land gods of the city god. Further on the far mountain, a 66-meter-high Buddha statue of Sakyamuni stands on the top of the hill, sits east to west, and is in line with other temples. At the foot of the Buddha, you can have a panoramic view of the three dangerous holy places. Laojun Hall is an ancient temple in the easternmost part, dedicated to the old gentleman on the throne, in order to bless one side's peace.
Mogao Grottoes-Thousand-Buddha Cave
Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand-Buddha Cave, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. It was built in the pre-Qin period of sixteen countries, and has been built in the Sixteen Countries, Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Xixia, Yuan and other dynasties, forming a huge scale, with 735 caves, 45, square meters of murals and 2,415 muddy colored sculptures. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.
The construction and historical process of Dunhuang Grottoes, the long history of Dunhuang, the influential clansmen and surnames in the area, and the relationship between Dunhuang and the surrounding ethnic groups and the western regions, with 22 Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, are not or rarely recorded in history. There are thousands of portraits of patrons in Dunhuang Grottoes, of which more than 1, still have titles. Can understand many historical situations and historical clues. The 1,-year history of Dunhuang Grottoes' construction comes at an important development period of China's long-term separatist regime after the Upper and Lower Han Dynasties, towards national integration and reunification between the North and the South, reaching the peak of the Tang Dynasty and declining from the peak. During this period, it was the formation and development of China's artistic procedures, schools, categories and theories, and also the establishment and development of China's Buddhist theories and sects after the introduction of Buddhism and Buddhist art, and the Buddhist fine arts became an important category of China's fine arts, and finally completed the period of China.
-the information comes from the small town newspaper.