Jiayuguan, known as "the first male pass in the world", is located in the middle of the narrowest valley 5 kilometers west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province.
The city walls on both sides of the city pass through the desert Gobi, connecting the Great Wall with hanging walls in Montenegro in the north and the first pier in the world in the south. It is the westernmost pass of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty. It was once called the throat of Hexi in history, and it is known as the key lock because of its dangerous terrain and magnificent architecture.
Jiayuguan is the traffic fortress of the ancient Silk Road and one of the three wonders of the Great Wall of China (Shanhaiguan in the east, Beitai in the middle and Jiayuguan in the west).
Jiayuguan was built in the fifth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1372). It consists of inner city, outer city, Luocheng, Wengcheng, moat and the Great Wall on the north and south wings, with a total length of about 60 kilometers.
The Great Wall is dotted with towers, piers and castles, which are composed of three lines of defense: inner city, outer city and moat, overlapping and defending, forming a defense system of five miles, one embarrassing, ten miles, one pier, three miles, one fort and one hundred miles.
Jiayuguan cuisine:
Sichuan-style mala Tang, steamed pork, mapo tofu; Sugar dumplings and fish dumplings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; Shaanxi rice noodles, glutinous rice noodles, and meat cakes; Xinjiang kebabs, noodle soup mutton.
Jiangsu scallion cake; Northeast flavor sticky fire, bean paste cut cake, jujube paste glutinous rice cake; Clear soup beef noodles and pot stickers in Lanzhou, jiaozi; Linxia Hui nationality's stuffed skin, etc.