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stage
The stage was built by Bao Shiyi, a guerrilla general in Jiayuguan, in the fifty-seventh year of Qing Qianlong (1792). Jiayuguan Landscape used to be an entertainment place for officers and men guarding the city, residents in the city and business travelers. Its modeling is a typical traditional classical stage in China. The wooden screen separates the foreground from the background, and there are eight figures painted in the center of the screen, which is the familiar content of the "Eight Immortals". At the top is the traditional Chinese pattern "Eight Diagrams", which is a comprehensive reflection of China's ancient thoughts, culture and science. On both sides are a group of amorous feelings murals, depicting monks and nuns in temples and their pets. These paintings are very rare on other stages. There are couplets written on both sides of the stage: "The joys and sorrows of the past were exhausted, and fools were loyal to the scene." Couplets highly summarize the historical changes of human affairs and the role of traditional Chinese opera performance places in past dynasties.
wenchangge
Wenchang Pavilion, built in the Ming Dynasty, was rebuilt in the second year of Daoguang reign (1822). The pavilion is a two-story building, with two eaves resting on the top of the mountain, single rooms on both sides of the ground floor and 18 red paint columns around it, forming a cloister. Inside is the official hall, three wide and two deep. There are lattice doors and windows on all sides, and more than 80 colorful landscape figure paintings are painted on the upper part. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this pavilion was a place where literati met and made friends, recited poems and painted pictures, and read books. In the late Qing dynasty, it became the place where civil servants worked.
downtown
The interior wall is 9m high, with overlapping wall1.7m and total height10.7m.. Rammed loess is within 6 meters, and adobe is above 6 meters. After more than 600 years, although the wall has peeled off, most of it is still intact and firm. The loess used to build the city wall has been carefully screened and processed. First, put the selected loess on the bluestone board, bake it in the scorching sun, and dry the grass seeds. The "Great Wall Badge" unearthed under the Great Wall in the northern section of Jiayu recorded in detail the division of labor in repairing the Great Wall at that time. The Great Wall badge is now on display in Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum. The badge is made of stone, with the words "I started work" engraved on the front, "Cai Zhimei started work" engraved on the back, and the names of the captains of various engineering teams who built the Great Wall engraved below. After the completion of the construction project, strict acceptance should be carried out: within a certain distance from the wall, shoot the wall with an arrow, if the arrow can not penetrate, it will prove that the wall is solid and qualified; If the arrow shoots into the wall, it proves that the project is unqualified and needs to be reworked and rebuilt. The strict management system of the Great Wall Project ensures the quality of the Great Wall Project.
Jiayuguan fortress
Jiayuguan, the starting point of the western end of Wan Li Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, is the most spectacular and well-preserved ancient military castle along the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty. It is an important military fortress along the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty and later generations, and is known as the "great defense at home and abroad" and "the first pass in Hexi". Jiayuguan is located at the junction of China and the West in Hexi Corridor (west of the central part), with a history of 63 1 year. It was built nine years before Shanhaiguan. In the early Ming Dynasty, Song Xianggong and General Sheng Feng were on their way to victory. He chose to build a pass at the west foot of Jiayu Plateau, which is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, bordering Jiuquan in the east, Yumen in the west, Montenegro in the back and Qilian in the south. Guancheng was founded in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1372), lasted for 168, and was completed in A.D. 1540. As recorded in the historical material "Qin Bianlue": "At the beginning, there was water, and then there was closure. With architecture, the Great Wall will be built later, and the Great Wall can be defended later. " Jiayuguan Guancheng has a reasonable layout and excellent architecture. There are three battlements in Guancheng, many lines of defense, one city in the city and one moat outside the city, forming the trend of guarding the city. It consists of: inner city, urn, Luocheng, moat, three-story and three-eaves, high-rise pavilion resting on the top of the mountain, moat, great wall peak platform and so on. The inner city is the main body and center of Guancheng, with a circumference of 640 meters and an area of 25,000 square meters. Outside the inner city and the west gate, there are urn retreats, each with an area of more than 500 square meters. The urn doors all face south, and there is Los Angeles in the west of the urn. The middle of the city wall is closed to the west, and the word "Jiayuguan" is engraved on the lintel. The existing buildings in Guancheng mainly include guerrilla headquarters, Guan Jing, Guandi Temple, stage and Wenchang Pavilion. Jiayuguan Guancheng is surrounded by mountains and waters, guarding the canyon area about15km wide from north to south, and the Qiu Lai Valley in the south of the canyon constitutes a natural barrier for customs clearance. Beacon docks crisscross Jiayuguan, and there are 66 docks in Guancheng, east, west, north, south and northeast. Jiayuguan is a natural terrain with both offensive and defensive capabilities. It forms a strict military defense system with the nearby Great Wall, city platform, moat, beacon tower and other facilities, and is also known as "the first male pass in the world".
Great Wall Wharf
The first pier of the Great Wall: Qiu Lai River Pier. 1539 is supervised by Haan Lee, Suzhou Police Road. It is the first pier of Wan Li Great Wall from west to east in Ming Dynasty, the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, and an important part of Jiayuguan Great Wall defense system. It is 7.5 kilometers away from Guancheng in the north, and the pier stands on a cliff nearly 80 meters high by the Taolai River, which can be described as "the first dangerous pier in the world".
The long history of the western regions gave birth to splendid ancient culture. Westbound along the ancient Silk Road, the majestic Great Wall, cultural relics and historic sites everywhere, countless ancient books and documents, exquisite grotto art and mysterious strange mountains and strange waters still make this vast ancient road full of brilliance. [1] The first pier of the Great Wall has spectacular natural scenery, with Jiuquan in the east, desert in the west, Jiayu in the north and Qilian in the south. Begging for the east river flows, in the morning light, just like silver flying to Gobi; At sunset, it is like a dragon swimming in a mountain stream. Looking south, the mountain peaks are white all year round, reflecting the blue sky, which makes them feel more fresh and picturesque. "There is heavy snow in all seasons, and it will continue to fall. It condenses flowers, strives for wonders, presents a show, and is lush and soaring in Wan Ren, like a pile of jade. " At the beginning of the morning, the rosy clouds are overwhelming, the sky is high and the wild, and the mountains and valleys are dressed in red and graceful. After the rain, the long clouds of Qilian Mountain are like practice, winding around the mountainside, or turning into various strange shapes, or becoming iron horses and armored soldiers; Or rainbows hang mountains and rivers after rain. As the saying goes: "I am far away from the cave and wet, and my expression is sparse."
The first pier of the Great Wall covers an area of about 3.22 square kilometers. The scenic spots include the First Pier of the Great Wall, the comprehensive service area, the Qiu Lai River zip line, the Qiu Lai Inn, the natural barrier suspension bridge, the sculpture group of "Drunken Lying on the Battlefield" and the "loong Forest". Among them, the sunken comprehensive service area is equipped with VIP reception room, tourist service center, bar, observation deck, zip line, tourist souvenir shop and other facilities. Jiayuguan Scenic Area, with the Great Wall culture and Silk Road culture as its connotation and the Gobi scenery and northwest folk customs as its foundation, is a good place for tourists to visit, explore, relax, entertain and study in past dynasties.
Xu' anbi Great Wall
Stone Guan Xia, also known as Water Guan Xia, has the snow-capped Qilian Mountain in the south and the majestic Montenegro in the north. The Broken Wall and the Hanging Wall are important parts of Jiayuguan West Great Wall. In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Haan Lee, Suzhou Junlu, supervised the construction. The Great Wall with Broken Wall is located in the south of Heishan Gorge, which runs east-west. The Great Wall with hanging walls is in the north of the canyon, which extends from north to south. The city wall is steep and straight, imposing, hanging like a cantilever, and is called "West Badaling". These two Great Walls form a vault and jointly guard the throat of Montenegro.
Qiyi Plateau Glacier
"July 1st" Glacier is located in the southwest of Jiayuguan City116km in the hinterland of Qilian Mountain. It is a plateau glacier discovered by technicians of Lanzhou Branch of China Academy of Sciences and glaciologists of the former Soviet Union in July 1958, and named after the date of discovery. Glaciers hang obliquely on the hillside with a slope of less than 45 degrees. The average thickness of the ice layer is 78m, and the thickest point reaches120m. The ice peak is 5150m above sea level, and the front edge of glacier tongue is 4300m above sea level. The "July 1st" glacier has a unique climate and charming scenery. It is a good place to carry out mountaineering exploration, summer vacation, scientific research and other tourism activities, and it is also an important part of Jiayuguan tourism resource system. In order to seize the historical opportunity of western development and speed up the development of tourism resources, Jiayuguan invested 3 120 10000 yuan in 2002-2003, laying 9.443 kilometers of gravel road from S2 15 line to the foot of the mountain, and building a 1000 square meter parking lot and 65438+. The "Glacier Environmental Protection Adventure Tourism Service Center" covering an area of 545.8 square meters has been built, with six rooms, including reception room, first aid room, studio, kitchen and dining room, equipped with generators, and complete accommodation and reception facilities, initially improving the infrastructure and reception service functions of Glacier Scenic Area. [2]
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folklore
The construction of Jiayuguan has spent a lot of manpower and material resources. It is not easy to build such a magnificent Guancheng under the primitive architectural conditions in ancient times, but it is precisely because of this that one touching legend has been interpreted.
Dingcheng brick
Refers to a brick placed on the back eave of the gatehouse in West Wengcheng, Jiayuguan. According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a customs repairman named Yi who was proficient in the 99 algorithm. As long as all the buildings are calculated by him, the materials used for labor are very accurate and economical. The supervisor who supervised customs clearance asked him to count the number of bricks used in Jiayuguan. After detailed calculation, Yi Zhankai said, "99,999 bricks are needed." The supervisor handed out the brick and said, "One more, one less, cut off your head and punish the craftsman for three years." After the completion, only one brick was left, which was placed on the back eaves of the West Wengcheng gatehouse. The supervisor was overjoyed when he learned that he wanted to deduct the wages of Iraq and all craftsmen. Yi said unhurriedly, "that brick was put by the gods and is a fixed city brick." If it is moved, the tower will collapse. " The supervisor is in charge, and dare not pursue it again. This brick has been put away, and now it is still on the Jiayuguan Gate Tower.
Ice channel stone transportation
When Jiayuguan City was first built, thousands of masons with a length of 2 meters, a width of 0.5 meters and a thickness of 0.3 meters were needed to chisel the stone strips in Montenegro, but people couldn't lift them, carts couldn't walk, the mountains were too high and the roads were too far to move. Everyone is worried while cutting stone strips. Seeing that winter is coming, the stone strips have not been shipped out of the mountains. If the construction period is delayed, it will be small without salary, and this head will be difficult to protect. Everyone is sighing. Just then, suddenly there was a muffled thunder from the top of the mountain, and a piece of brocade fell from the white clouds. All the craftsmen quickly caught it and saw several lines looming on it. After reading it, everyone suddenly realized and did it. When winter came, people built a road from the mountain to Guancheng, poured water on the road to form an ice lane, and then put stones on the ice lane to slide and transport. As a result, the stone strips were successfully transported to Jiayuguan City, which not only did not delay the construction period, but also saved a lot of construction period. In order to thank God for his protection, many craftsmen built temples near Guancheng to worship the gods, which became a must-visit place for craftsmen after they started their careers.
Goat brick
Jiayuguan City, the wall is 9 meters high, and dozens of pavilions of different sizes and countless stacked walls will be built on the wall. The amount of bricks used is amazing. At that time, the construction conditions were very poor, there was no lifting equipment, and it was all carried by hand. At that time, the bricks used to repair Guancheng were all burned 40 miles away. After the brick is burned, it will be pulled to the bottom of Guancheng by ox cart, and then carried up manually. Because of the height of the city, the only way to get up and down is steep and it is difficult to get up and down. Although many people were sent to carry the bricks on the wall, all of them were tired to death, but the bricks on their backs were still in short supply, which seriously affected the progress of the project. One day, a shepherd boy came here to play with sheep. Seeing this scene, he had a brainwave. He took off his belt, tied a brick at both ends and put it on the goat. Then he patted the goat on the back with his hand. The little goat trotted up the wall with a brick on its back. People were surprised and happy after seeing it, and they followed suit. A large number of bricks were quickly transported to the city wall.
Shi yanming
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a pair of swallows nesting in Rouyuanmen, Jiayuguan. One morning, two swallows went through the customs. At dusk, the female Yan flew back first, and when the male Yan came back, the door was closed and he could not enter the customs. As a result, the female Yan was heartbroken and made a "chirp" sound from time to time, crying and dying. After his death, his soul is still there. Every time someone hits the wall with a stone, he makes a "chirp" to tell people. In ancient times, people thought it was auspicious to hear the sound of Yan Ming in Jiayuguan. When the general went to war, his wife knocked on the wall to pray. Later, before going out, the soldiers took their children to pray in the corner, which formed a custom.