The night view of Lanzhou Zhongshan Bridge is beautiful and ethereal, giving people the illusion of traveling to the future high-tech world.
The bustling city spans this exquisite bridge, which really adds a lot of luster to the night view of Lanzhou.
There are all facilities for eating, drinking and entertainment in the surrounding area.
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Lanzhou, the ancient city of Jincheng, is an important town on the Silk Road.
The pearl of the plateau in the northwest desert, today, the "Sichuan-Shaanxi-Chongqing All-Media Gansu Tour Group" arrived in Lanzhou to taste Lanzhou cuisine and take a night tour of the Zhongshan Railway Bridge.
They were all deeply moved by the beauty of Lanzhou’s food. They took out their cameras to look for the best angles and devoted themselves to sightseeing activities.
When they returned to the hotel with exhaustion and surprise, it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.
On August 5, reporters, editors, influencers, and Internet celebrities from various tour groups gathered in Lanzhou from Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Chongqing, from Zhongchuan Airport to the main city of Lanzhou, where there are many historical sites.
Everyone was deeply attracted by the scenery of the northwest desert, overlooking the Yellow River Bridge, which was rough and bold.
At 6 o'clock in the evening, the tour group came to a Lanzhou restaurant.
Local friends said that Lanzhou is a beautiful and livable place, and Lanzhou food is the most representative.
The reporter found that Lanzhou has a lot of delicious food. Lanzhou beef noodles, stuffed skin, slurry, and thousand-layer beef cake are all authentic Longshang flavors.
But the most famous one is Lanzhou Beef Noodles, which everyone seems to know.
It started during the Guangxu period and has been famous for its noodles in Jincheng for nearly a hundred years. Its delicacies such as hand-caught mutton and spinach mixed with mutton liver are also unique.
According to Lanzhou locals, Lanzhou beef noodles pay attention to five major characteristics: clear soup, white radish, red pepper, green coriander, and Huang Wu.
The noodles are hand-pulled on site. A bowl of noodles can be prepared in less than two minutes. It is topped with beef noodle soup and white radish slices, mixed with red chili oil, green garlic sprouts and coriander. It tastes amazing.
This is economical and commonplace for Lanzhou people, and you are guaranteed to return home satisfied.
This is the popular beef noodles in the eyes of Lanzhou people.
After tasting Lanzhou’s delicacies, everyone came to the Internet celebrity Lanzhou Zhongshan Bridge Scenic Area.
Zhongshan Bridge is commonly known as "Zhongshan Iron Bridge", formerly known as Zhenyuan Bridge, and is known as "The First Bridge on the Yellow River in the World".
The Zhongshan Railway Bridge was built in 1907 (the 33rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty) by German businessmen at a cost of 306,000 taels of silver.
There are two large stone squares at both ends of the bridge, with the words "Three Sides Benefit" and "Jiuqu Anlan" engraved on them.
The bridge has four piers, with cement and iron columns at the bottom and stone at the top.
The steel arch beams were added later during reinforcement works.
In 1919, due to the war, the railway bridge was closed for 11 days, and was later repaired and reopened.
In 1942, in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, it was renamed "Zhongshan Bridge" and the name of the bridge is still used today.
At night, the Zhongshan Bridge on the Yellow River, with its waterscape and lights complementing each other, is majestic, like a golden dragon lying across the Yellow River.
Lanzhou is the only provincial capital where the Yellow River passes through the city. Lanzhou Yellow River Zhongshan Bridge is also the first highway bridge on the Yellow River.
Known as the "No. 1 Bridge on the Yellow River through the ages", it has become a beautiful business card for Lanzhou's leisure and sightseeing that Internet celebrities check in.