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Local people, what I want to tell you is: “Pull away the dust and see you again.”
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”.Feeling
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culture,
     
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It is a city with a long history and culture.
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It is also one of the must-pass points on the ancient Silk Road. Among them, the Mogao Grottoes contain Buddhist culture that shocked both the country and the world, including the wonders of Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring, where deserts and springs depend on each other. There is also the line mentioned in Wang Wei’s poem, “I urge you to toast me with a glass of wine, and there will be no old friends when you leave Yangguan in the west.” “The Yangguan ruins in “Yumen Pass”, the Great Wall ruins of Han Dynasty, and the Yadan landform gifted to us by nature, many of which are filmed in
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I had a great time shooting in Yadan Devil City. It is conceivable how many touching and unknown stories are buried under this Gobi desert.
The most famous among them is the Mogao Grottoes, which belongs to the whole world.
Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is a complex of rich and magnificent grottoes dating back more than 2,000 years. It is the largest, longest-standing, richest and best-preserved Buddhist and grotto art in my country and in the world. treasure house. One of the four major grottoes in my country. excavated in
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On the cliff at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of the city, it faces Dangquan in the front and Sanwei Mountain, a branch of the Qilian Mountains in the east. The total length from north to south is 1,680 meters. There are a total of 735 caves built in the past dynasties. They are distributed on cliffs with a height of 15-30 meters, ranging from 1 to 4 floors. It is divided into southern and northern areas. The southern area is a place for Buddhist worship activities. There are 492 caves with murals and colorful sculptures from the Northern Liang, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song, Uighur, Western Xia and Yuan dynasties. , more than 2,400 painted sculptures, more than 45,000 square meters of murals, five wooden eaves from the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the nine-story building that was rebuilt in the early Republic of China as the symbol of the Mogao Grottoes. There are more than 20 lotus pillars and stupas, and more than 20,000 floor tiles. The 243 caves in the North District (another 5 caves have been included in the 492 North District) are places for monks to practice, live and bury themselves. They have training and living facilities such as earthen kangs, stove pits, flues and walls. There are niches, lampstands, etc., but most of them lack colored sculptures and murals.
Each cave in Mogao Grottoes is a comprehensive art integrating cave architecture, colored sculpture and painting. The largest cave is more than 200 square meters, and the smallest one is less than 1 square meter. The main shapes of caves include Zen Grotto, Central Tower Grotto, Buddhist Niche Grotto, Buddhist Altar Grotto, Nirvana Grotto, Seven Buddha Grotto, and Great Statue Grotto. The colorful sculptures that combine sculpture and painting mainly include statues of Buddha, Bodhisattva, disciples, kings of heaven, and powerful men. The forms of colored sculptures include round sculptures, relief sculptures, shadow sculptures, good karma clay, etc. Except for the two giant Buddhas in Cave 96 and 130, and the two reclining Buddhas in Cave 148 and 158, which are clay sculptures with stone bodies, the round sculptures and reliefs are all wood-frame clay sculptures. The Buddha statue is in the center, with disciples, Bodhisattvas, heavenly kings and warriors standing on both sides, ranging from three to eleven. The 35.6-meter-long seated Maitreya statue in Cave 96 is the tallest, while the smaller one is more than 10 centimeters. Most of the characters are expressed in exaggerated colors with different expressions. Its rich connotation can be called a thousand-year history of Buddhist painted sculptures in ancient China. The murals are rich in content and divided into seven categories: Buddhist statue paintings, Buddhist scripture story paintings, Buddhist historical relics paintings, Sutra paintings, paintings of gods and monsters, portraits of donors, and decorative patterns. The wide variety of murals reflect the social reality of ancient times in many aspects. Life, in order to study the history of feudal society in my country, Culture, politics, economy, science and technology, military, religion, architecture, transportation, clothing, music and dance, and folk customs provide extremely precious visual historical materials, and are therefore internationally known as the “Museum on the Wall” and “The Longest Gallery in the World” , an “image history” spanning thousands of years.　
The Mogao Grottoes are also a veritable treasure house of cultural relics. More than 50,000 scrolls, documents, embroideries, and portraits were unearthed in the Sutra Cave, which are of extremely high artistic value. Unfortunately, due to the turbulent society at that time and the corrupt Ming and Qing governments, as well as the neglect of Taoist priest Wang Yuanlu, Due to poor management, almost all of these treasures were stolen abroad. Now at the foot of Sanwei Mountain opposite Mogao Grottoes, there are
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The institute undertook the construction
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The Art Exhibition Center has replicated parts of the original large caves, making visitors’ viewing experience in the Mogao Grottoes more colorful.
“Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring” where desert and spring water coexist.
Yaquan is surrounded by Mingsha Mountain. Throughout the ages, it has been famous for its wonderful landscape of “mountains and springs coexisting, sand and water coexisting”, and is known as “one of the unique scenery outside the Great Wall”. Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Moon Spring and the artistic landscape of Mogao Grottoes are integrated into one, which is
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The “two wonders” connected in a continuous line in the south of the city have become a tourist attraction that people in China and the world yearn for. Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area, the main attractions are Crescent Moon Spring and Mingsha Mountain. Crescent Moon Spring is surrounded by Mingsha Mountain and is named after its shape resembling a crescent moon. Mingsha mountain distance
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It is 5 kilometers south of the city and is named after the sound of sand. Mingsha Mountain is formed by quicksand and is divided into five colors: red, yellow, green, white and black.
Yangguan was the chokepoint for China’s ancient overland external communications and a must-pass pass on the southern Silk Road. Located in Gansu Province
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Near Antique Beach in the southwest of the city. The pass was built in the Western Han Dynasty, so it was named because it was located to the south of Yumen Pass. Together with Yumen Pass, it was the gateway to the Western Regions at that time.
After the Song Dynasty, due to the gradual decline of land transportation with the west, the pass was abandoned. Antique Beach is named after a large number of cultural relics from the Han Dynasty, such as copper arrowheads, ancient coins, stone mills, and pottery cups, which were exposed on the ground. “Research on Xiguan Sites” states that Gutan was Yangguan in the Han Dynasty, but according to “Gansu Xintongzhi” and “Gansu Xintongzhi” of the Qing Dynasty,
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“County Chronicle” believes that Hongshan Pass is Yangguan.
     
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Yadan National Geopark, commonly known as
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Yadan Devil City. yes
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An important part of the western tourist attraction, distance
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The urban area is 180 kilometers long and is located northwest of Yumen Pass. The scenic spot is divided into north and south areas, about 25 kilometers long from east to west and 13 kilometers wide from north to south.
The park covers an area of ​​346.34 square kilometers and is mainly geological relics formed by wind erosion. In December 2001, the Ministry of Land and Resources approved the establishment of “Gansu
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Yadan National Geopark” was officially opened and opened to tourists in August 2003. In November 2006, it was rated as an AAAA tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration, and has been approved as a land and resources science popularization base and a Gansu Province science popularization education base. , Gansu Province provincial geological heritage nature reserve, etc.
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Yadan National Geological Park is a filming location for film and television commercials. It has filmed many film and television commercials such as “Hero”, “Legend of Tianmai”, “Poseidon”, “Seven Wolves”, and “Twelve Women’s MTV Scenery Film”. work.
     
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Yadan National Geopark, with its unique desert scenery, various geological wonders, and ancient folklore, has attracted countless brave explorers to uncover the mysterious veil of the “Devil City” and explore the mysteries of nature.

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