The former site of Xusanwan Castle is located on the Gobi Desert about 30 kilometers southwest of Gaotai County, Gansu Province, about 5 kilometers east of Camel City and 5 kilometers west of Caogujing City. For the ancient city of Han and Tang Dynasties. The plane is square, 66 meters long from east to west and 84 meters long from north to south. The door opened in the south wall, 7 meters wide, with an urn. The city wall is well preserved, with a base thickness of 8 meters, an upper thickness of 3.5 meters and a residual height of 8 meters. It is made of rammed earth slabs. Corner piers are built in the four corners of the city, with architectural relics on them. Nanyuan has a horse face left. There are tombs about 1 km west of the city, which are large in scale, dense, neatly arranged and equal in size. 1958, the local people collected bronze arrows and ancient coins 1 surplus ton, such as Wuba, Daquan 50, Huoquan and Kaiyuan Bao Tong, and the bronze seal was engraved with the side of "Don't take Du Yin". This city may be an ancient outpost to resist alien harassment, ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road and guard the Camel City.
Thousand-Buddha Cave
Thousand Buddha Cave: In front of Manjusri Mountain. As one of the grottoes in manjusri temple, it was dug halfway up the cliff. Built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is the Zhiti Cave. The eaves of the three bays outside the cave were rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty. The mouth of the cave is1.68m high, 3.82m deep, 3.94m wide and 3.64m high in the cave ... The plane is square, and the central column goes straight to the ceiling with a width of 2m. Each side above the altar is divided into three layers, with circular arch niches and beaded niches. Statues were rebuilt for future generations, and most murals were painted out. The top of the grottoes is painted with flying murals of geisha music, the upper right wall is painted with a picture of a saint robbing a thousand buddhas, the middle part is a Buddhist picture, and the lower part is painted with a line of patrons, which is as bright as new.
Thousand-Buddha Cave
Wenshushan Grottoes
Manjusri Mountain Grottoes: In the valley of Manjusri Mountain. Caves are mostly distributed on the cliffs of Qianhoushan Mountain. There are more than ten existing caves, most of which have been broken. Thousand Buddha Cave and Ten Thousand Buddha Cave are relatively complete, with a distance of 100 meter, and both belong to Zhiti Cave in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Thousand-Buddha Cave is located in the north of the Thousand-Buddha Cave. It is larger than the Thousand-Buddha Cave, with a square plane and an early cave with a central column. It seems that it was excavated at the same time. Although the statue has been rebuilt by later generations, some works still maintain the artistic style of the early statues. The murals are colorful and elegant in style.
Yan zhishan
Yan zhishan
Yan Zhi is also called Rouge Mountain and Yan Zhishan, and there is another one called Delete Danshan. It is located in the center of 50 miles southeast of Shandan County, Gansu Province. It is named after the red color of the rock is like rouge. Stretching between Qilian Mountain and Longshou Mountain, it is the watershed between Shandan River (a tributary of weak water upstream) and Shiyang River. The natural forest covers an area of 6.5438 0.5 million mu. Rich aquatic plants are suitable for animal husbandry. The snow and ice melted, and the clear stream slowly descended and gathered into a canal. Maying grassland beach, with lush grass at the foot of the mountain, is a prestigious pasture. After liberation, it became Shandan Military Horse Farm. The original temple built by Geshuhan on the hillside has long been destroyed. There is a Huocheng site in the north of Shanxi Province, which is said to be the place where Huo Qubing, the general of the Han Dynasty, stationed troops. Huo Qubing went to Lintao, Yan Yue helped the mountain, and defeated the Xiongnu. The Huns lost the mountain, but sang, "I died in Qilian Mountain, and my six animals were unhappy;" The loss of my rouge mountain made my married wife colorless. "The Huns are called Yu's wife, which means that this mountain is more important than the Huns. Huns have no written language, and this oral ballad is a treasure in the history of China literature.