Ancient towns are the symbols that best show the prototype and civilization of a city. It has experienced rise and fall, and has accumulated a strong historical charm. With the continuous changes of history and the passage of time, it becomes more and more mysterious.

Qingcheng Ancient Town

Located in Yuzhong County, Gansu Province, on the south bank of the Yellow River at the northern end, it is the only national-level historical and cultural town in Lanzhou City, and is also known as The hometown of folk art, Qingcheng Ancient Town is also a relatively well-preserved national 4A-level tourist attraction in Gansu Province. The main attractions include ancient buildings, ancient residential groups, etc., all of which reflect the northwest style. This is also the place where TV series have been filmed many times. TV series such as "Old Persimmon Tree" and "Yellow River Waves" have been filmed here.

Yongtai Ancient City

Located in Sitan Township, Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province, it has a long history. It is said to have a history of more than 400 years. , was originally built by the Ming government to defend against the invasion of northern ethnic minorities.

Bikou Town

Bikou Town, also known as Biyukou and Bixiakou, is located in Wen County, Longnan City. It is connected with Maying Town and Huating Town in Tongwei County. Ankou Town and Hongcheng Town in Yongdeng County are collectively known as the "Four Famous Towns in Gansu", and Bikou Town is also listed as the first of the Four Famous Towns in Gansu. Bikou has very good climate conditions, with warm weather and abundant rainfall.

Shichuan Town

Shichuan Town is located in Gaolan County, Lanzhou City. Shichuan has a unique climate. Many high-quality fruits in Lanzhou are produced in Shichuan. Sichuan has nationally renowned fruits such as soft infant pears and winter fruit pears.

Dajing Town

Dajing Town was once an important commodity distribution center and a pearl on the ancient Silk Road. It was called Dajing Town during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. "Pu Huan", here, business activities are the most active.

Lixin Ancient Town

Lixin Town is located in the northwest area of ??Gangu County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. It is known as one of the top ten ancient towns in Gansu Province. It not only has a long history but is also famous. One of the birthplaces of "Yangshao Culture". Jieting Ancient Town Jieting is located in Longcheng Town, Qin'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. It was the throat of Guanlong at that time and had a very important strategic position. It has inevitably become a battleground in history. The famous Battle of Jieting between Wei and Shu during the Three Kingdoms period took place in the ancient town of Jieting.

Qingcheng Ancient Town is the only national-level historical and cultural town in Lanzhou City. Qingcheng is also a relatively well-preserved national 4A-level tourist attraction in Gansu Province.

Yongtai Ancient City, located in Jingtai County, was built in the Ming Dynasty. It was built by the Ming government to defend against the invasion of northern ethnic minorities. After its completion, it became a military fortress. The Lanzhou General at that time was stationed here. To this day, the military facilities of that time are still clearly visible, including tall city walls, towers, urns and moats. In addition, if you look around the ancient city, you can also see beacon towers stretching for dozens of miles, which can be called "ancient Chinese military fortresses". A textbook model."

Bikou Town, an ancient town with mountains and rivers, is located in Wen County, Longnan City. Maying Town in Tongwei County, Ankou Town in Huating County, and Hongcheng Town in Yongdeng County are collectively known as the "Four Gansu Provinces". Daming Town", and Bikou Town is also listed as the first of the four famous towns in Gansu.

The ancient town of Jieting in Qin'an, Tianshui, can be called the throat of Guanlong and has a very important strategic position. The famous Battle of Jieting in Wei and Shu during the Three Kingdoms period took place in the ancient town of Jieting.

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In the eyes of many people, Gansu is the land of the Western Regions thousands of years ago , it is also a desert battlefield of war and iron horses, and it is also a deserted Gobi with hundreds of miles of wind and sand.

Over time, sandstone yellow seems to have become the commonly recognized background color of this province.

But in fact, rough and desolate is just everyone’s stereotype of Gansu. When you have the opportunity to visit Gansu in person, you will find that there is also a place as graceful as the south of the Yangtze River. This place is Bikou Ancient Town. 1. A "treasure land of abundant water" where two rivers converge

Bikou Ancient Town is located in the southeast of Wenxian County, Longnan City. It is a place with mountains in the back and rivers in front.

On the one hand, after the Bailong River and Baishui River meet here, they flow quietly through the town and continue forward, merging into the Jialing River. The abundant river water nourishes the exquisite and elegant temperament of the ancient town.

On the other hand, Bikou, with an altitude of 624 meters, is a truly low-altitude area in Gansu Province with an average altitude of more than 1,300 meters.

The tall and continuous Qinling Mountains block Bikou Ancient Town from the cold air whistling down from the north, while the Bailongjiang River Valley that opens vertically and horizontally to the south allows the southwest warm and moist airflow formed in the Indian Ocean to pass through the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, The Sichuan Basin extends to the middle and lower reaches of the Bailongjiang River Valley.

Therefore, Bikou Ancient Town has become the only place in Gansu and even the entire northwest region where you can feel the climate of the Yangtze River, and it is also the place where greenery sprouts first in the year.

The water flow gives the ancient town its unique character, and the ancient town also prospered for a time because of the river. Historically, Bikou was once the flood and drought wharf in Ganchuan and Sichuan provinces, a transit point between waterways and land routes.

The river and Bikou Ancient Town mutually complement each other, so this place is also known as the "starting point of the Water Silk Road".

Bikou Ancient Town, home to many merchants and prosperous trade, not only ranks first among the four famous towns in Gansu, but its unique water town style also makes it the most unique place in the province. 2. Why go to Jiangnan if I knew there was Longnan

The houses here are all built along the river. The stone roads are winding, winding into each house at one end, and connected to the dock at the other end. Simple boats Moored steadily by the river.

When you walk into the alleys of the ancient town, what you encounter is the reality and fullness of urban life.

The morning in Bikou Ancient Town starts with a steaming bowl of bean curd noodles. There are two main streets in the town. The shops on both sides of the streets are unevenly lined. It fluttered leisurely under the breeze, and the frustrated shouts seemed to continue the prosperity of the past here.

When you come to the ancient town, you want to place your body and mind in the distant clouds on this picturesque waterfront, walk alone in the cool and refreshing air, and let your lazy thoughts surge.

Walking on the roadside of the ancient town, your eyes are full of neon lights; walking on the waterside of the ancient town, you are filled with the light wind and calm clouds.

As night falls, the day in the ancient town gradually returns to calm, and the new moon appears. Such pure silence adds a bit of mystery and a bit of innocence to the ancient town.

After dinner, accompanied by the hazy night, the gentle night breeze, looking at the colorful lights, strolling by the water and taking a breath, this is the best time of the day in the ancient town. .

As the river flows eastward, it takes away the once glorious water transportation era. What cannot be taken away is the flavor of the town that flows day and night and the stories that continue to happen in the town.

Here it seems that the world has nothing to do with you. You can temporarily forget your own life and, as a bystander, experience all kinds of daily life in the small town.

If you are tired of the city's feasting and feasting, then Bikou is the most suitable place for healing. When you fall asleep to the sound of the roaring Bailong River, you will also see green mountains and beautiful waters in your dreams. 3. More people drink tea than eat Lanzhou Ramen

"Bikou is not as sweet as sweet", this local saying is true at all. The language, food, customs and habits here are mostly the same as those in Yijiang. Sichuan is similar.

In this small town in Gansu, all you hear is the flurry of Northern Sichuan dialect. There are not many Lanzhou ramen shops in the streets and alleys, but Chuan Chuan and hot pot restaurants abound. It made people feel a little confused for a moment, and they couldn't tell whether they were in Gansu or Sichuan.

There are many places to drink tea in the ancient town. There are teahouses, roadside shops, and teahouses by the river. We are welcomed and dropped off every day, and the tea place is always full all year round after listening to the store owner's introduction.

The tea culture here is inseparable from Bikou’s special geographical location close to Sichuan.

Because of the frequent waterway exchanges between Ganchuan and Sichuan, trackers and boatmen have served as cross-border "communication ambassadors" between the two places. They not only increased the population flow at the dock, but also brought the custom of drinking tea in Sichuan.

Tea can stimulate the brain and relieve fatigue. Soon the custom of drinking tea became popular among the boat gangs, and then became a habit in the entire ancient town.

Although the boat gang has become lonely, the custom of drinking tea has still been preserved to this day. Like Sichuan, drinking here is equally comfortable.

Shichuan Town is about 20 kilometers away from downtown Lanzhou. In the eighth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1495), the governor of Gansu built the "Shizi Chuan Fort" in the center of today's Shizi, so it got its name. Shichuan has a long history. It was once the birthplace of the Yellow River culture. It was already famous as early as the Han Dynasty. It is dotted with cultural landscapes, including the ruins of Ming Dynasty castles, and has beautiful and moving historical legends. The geographical environment of mountains and rivers, the ingenious natural landscape, and the beautiful pear orchard of 10,000 acres make it an "outside the world pear orchard" in the suburbs of Lanzhou.

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It is located on the south bank of the Yellow River at the northernmost end of Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, 110 kilometers away from Jincheng, about a two-hour drive. It was a flood and drought dock and trade center on the ancient Silk Road. It was an important frontier military town during the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. It is known as the "Millennium Ancient Town on the Yellow River".

It is also the only provincial-level historical and cultural town in Lanzhou City and the hometown of national folk art. It is also a town with relatively complete preservation of ancient dwellings in Gansu Province. It is known as the first ancient town on the Yellow River. The filming location for "Yellow River Source" is the place where Li Zicheng retired to his hometown.

Qingcheng has a long history and has left behind many precious historical and cultural heritage and relics. The town has the Gao Family Ancestral Hall, a provincial cultural relic protection unit, and other cultural relic protection units, Qingcheng God Temple, Qingcheng Academy, and Erlongshan Theater. There are more than 60 relatively complete ancient residential courtyards from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and more than 400 trees of various types that are more than a century old.

02. Shichuan Town

Shichuan Town, known as "the world's first pear orchard", is about 20 kilometers east of Lanzhou. It has a long history and ancestors have lived here for thousands of years. In the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian "rebuked the Xiongnu in the northwest" and established it as an ancient battlefield; in the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing "battled Gaolan" and built the Great Wall beacons; in the Song Dynasty, a castle was built and troops were garrisoned, so it was called Shizi Chuanbao was later renamed Shichuan and is still in use today. The castle was rebuilt in the eighth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty. "Gaolan County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty listed Shichuan's "Liyuan Huaguang" as one of the ten scenic spots in Jincheng.

The area of ??pear orchards in the territory exceeds 10,000 acres, including 3,939 acres and 11,939 ancient pear trees that are over a century old. The existing ancient pear trees have towering green covers and are full of vitality. Being in the pear orchard is like entering a "green oxygen bar", which is refreshing and refreshing.

03. Hekou Ancient Town

A ferry turns into a century-old ancient town. A city tower, guarding a hundred years of prosperity. The meandering Zhuanglang River meets the Yellow River here. Since ancient times, Hekou Ancient Town has been known as the "West Gate of Jincheng".

It was once the largest commercial port out of Lanzhou in the west. Because of its dangerous terrain surrounded by mountains and rivers, it was once known as the "golden waterway". The naturally formed river mouth ferry connects Qinghai-Tibet to the west and the Hexi Corridor to the north. Reaching Lanzhou and the Central Plains in the south, it has been one of the four famous ferries in the upper reaches of the Yellow River since ancient times.

Hekou Ancient Town also retains a large number of ancient residential buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is an important material for the study of Ming and Qing architecture in the northwest. There are two clan temples from the Ming Dynasty, three clan clan temples from the late Qing Dynasty, three shops and 38 courtyards from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are also lanterns, gauze lanterns and genealogy made during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

04. Yongtai Ancient City

Yongtai Village, Sitan Township, is located 27 kilometers southwest of Jingtai County and 110 kilometers away from Baiyin. Because the castle is shaped like a golden turtle, it is named Yongtai Turtle City. It had an important strategic position in the Ming and Qing dynasties and was a complete military barrier and fortification.

The original ancient buildings in the city, such as the Great Buddha Temple, the Pavilion of the Gods, the Jade Emperor's Hall and several archways, were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s. The existing "Yongtai Primary School" was built in the third year of the Republic of China. Gothic architecture combined with Western style. Yongtai Ancient City has experienced more than 400 years of vicissitudes since it was built. The influence of three generations of Yue Zhenbang, Yue Shenglong, and Yue Zhongqi on Turtle City has made Yongtai Ancient City famous.

Film and television dramas such as "The Last Winter", "Beautiful Big Feet", "Snowflakes Gone with the Wind" were filmed here. Turtle City is a precious historical and cultural heritage that can be developed into a film and television city.

05. Bikou Town

Bikou is sentimental and prosperous because of water. After the Bailong River and Baishui River merged at Yuleiguan, they flowed quietly through Bikou. It merges into the Jialing River. It was once the flood and drought wharf in Gansu and Sichuan provinces, and there were many merchants. It ranked first among the four famous towns in Gansu. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchant ships have been on the two hundred-mile waterway from Bikou to Zhaohua, Sichuan, on the Bailong River and the Jialing River. They lined up to fight against the stormy waves, and the sound of trumpets shook the canyon. The ropes on the trackers' shoulders connected the connections between Gansu, Qinghai and Bashu. Therefore, Bikou is said to be the starting point of the "Water Silk Road".

In the deep mountains and forests west of Bailongjiang River in Bikou, there are also "national treasures" giant pandas and golden monkeys living there. Part of the Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve, one of the three giant panda reserves directly under the State Forestry Administration, is located in Bikou.

06. Jieting Ancient Town

Jieting is located in Longcheng Town, 40 kilometers northeast of Qin'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, and 8 kilometers away from the Dadiwan ruins. It is an ancient town about 6 kilometers wide. The open area, which is more than ten kilometers long, is the throat of the Guanlong land. It has become the intersection of the "Guanlong Road" and the "Shulong Road" and a battleground for military strategists. Therefore, it has also left many historical monuments.

The Battle of Wei and Shu Street Pavilions during the Three Kingdoms period took place here. The location of the street pavilion is a strategic location with an open river valley, extending in all directions, and dangerous mountains in the north and south. It can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang sent Ma Su to the army to supervise the vanguard armies. General Wang Ping served as the vanguard of Ma Su's army and guarded the street pavilion. Because Ma Su disobeyed Liang's deployment and did not listen to Wang Pingli's advice, he "did not guard the way to draw water, relied on Nanshan Mountain, and refused to go down." City" was eventually defeated by Wei general Zhang He. Zhuge Liang learned that Jieting had been lost, Ma Di (who was responsible for escaping from prison) was imprisoned and killed, and Shangshu asked to be demoted to the third level. From then on, the street pavilion became famous all over the world.

07. Dajing Town

If you want to make money, go to Dajing Tumenzi, but everyone says there is no money, and everyone brings out a few pots. ——Gansu Folk Song

Dajing is located at the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor, with the remaining veins of the Qilian Mountains to the south and the Tengger Desert to the north. It is a bright pearl embedded in the Silk Road. It is a place with a great reputation in history. The cultural relics unearthed from Majiayao reflect the founding traces of ancient Dajing civilization.

Dajing was historically one of the four famous towns in Gansu. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was called "Puhuan" and had the most active commercial activities. Businessmen in Shaanxi and Shanxi areas indeed say, "If you want to make money, go to Tumenzi in Dajing." Therefore, literati called Dajing the city of Junji Tianshi, which reached its peak of prosperity in the human world. During the day, merchants gather, people and cars come and go, and thousands of people move; at night, thousands of lights are twinkling, like a market in the sky.

08. Yangguan Town

I advise you to have another glass of wine, and there will be no old friends when you leave Yangguan in the west. ——Wang Wei's "Send Off the Second Envoy to Anxi"

Yangguan Town is located in the south of Dunhuang City, 64 kilometers away from the urban area. It is the chokepoint of ancient China's overland external transportation and a must-pass for the southern Silk Road. of passes. 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.

Today's Yangguan is no longer synonymous with the desolate and euphemistic "no friends left in Yangguan in the west" written by Wang Wei. Today's Yangguan is full of green willows and flowers, luxuriant forests, abundant grain, and clear spring water. , a good place for bunches of grapes, and is also a famous tourist attraction. Yangguan, Yumenguan, Wowachi, Shouchang City and other places of interest are located in Yangguan Town.

09. Hadapu Town

Hadapu is located in the northwest of Dangchang County, Longnan City, Gansu Province. It is an important coordinate point in the Red Army’s Long March. The reason comes from an old newspaper . On September 12, 1935, the Central Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau on the Russian border in Diebu County, Gansu Province. Eight days later, the Central Column of the Red Army entered Hadapu Town, Dangchang County, Gansu Province, and received a "Ta Kung Pao" there. There is news about the Red Army and the base area in northern Shaanxi. After receiving this information, Mao Zedong made a major strategic decision to go to northern Shaanxi and reorganized the Red Army into the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment. The Red Army marched to northern Shaanxi with a clear goal. Therefore, Hadapu Town is also known as the "Decision" An important decision-making place for the fate of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March.”

10. Lixin Ancient Town

Lixin Town is located on the south bank of Qingxi River 40 kilometers northwest of Gangu County, Tianshui City. It is one of the top ten ancient towns in Gansu Province and has a long history. Historically, it is one of the birthplaces of the famous "Yangshao Culture". The painted pottery at the Lixin site has become a unique cultural landscape.

The Qingxi River flows eastward from the valley of the Loess Plateau, nourishing the river, making the vegetable fields on both sides of the river look like a brocade, with rice fields, lush willows, and luxuriant flowers and trees. Lixin has become an oasis famous far and near.

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