Ningyuan contact information: 0951-6723298 Ningyuan is located on the south side of Jiefang East Street, Yinchuan City.
Introduction to Ningyuan Attractions:
Ningxia’s first small garden with Qing Dynasty antique buildings as its main body, Ningyuan, was completed during the National Day in 1987.
Ningyuan is located on the south side of Jiefang East Street in Yinchuan City. Entering the garden from the west gate, you enter the bonsai area. The main area consists of Xingqing Hall, Qinming Pavilion, monument, corridor and pool. Xingqing Hall is the tallest palace in the garden. The mural "Xixia Fengyun" in the hall artistically reproduces the politics, economy, culture, military and customs of the Xixia Kingdom in Chinese history. In the square pool in front of Xingqing Hall, there is a white marble sculpture of Nezha Naohai. On the left side of the Xingqing Hall is the Qinming Pavilion, a rolling shed-style antique building, and on the right side is a zigzag stele corridor with four corners connected by a double eaves pavilion and a hexagonal pavilion, named Hanmo. The walls of the corridor are engraved with the inscriptions of Mao Zedong, Dong Biwu and district officials. Works by calligraphers inside and outside. To the north of the East District is a group of large rockeries with ponds, pergolas, and flower ponds for tourists to rest and relax.
In recent years, in order to discover buried cultural and artistic treasures, the autonomous region and The People's Government of Zhongning County has carried out cleaning and repair work on the Shikong Temple Grottoes, and most of the grottoes and temples have been renovated and rebuilt.
It is difficult to determine clearly when the Shikong Temple was built according to the historical data of the Ming Dynasty. According to records, it is called Yuangu Temple". As for the age when the caves were excavated, there have always been three legends: Tang, Xixia and Yuan. Judging from the shape and style of the caves today, it is most likely that they were excavated in the Tang Dynasty.
The Shikong Temple Grottoes became one of the famous landscapes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was once known as the "Sky Sky Night Lantern". There was a poem praising it at that time: "The mountains are stacked and the rocks are exquisite, and who can open the orchid and look like the blue clouds" In the middle of the night, the monk sat with a lamp burning, and saw the green mountains a little red in the distance?