This is the case in Gankun Bay, although this is my second time here. This time I came to Gankun Bay Scenic Area, which made me know more about it.
In the 68km reach flowing through Yanchuan area, the Yellow River has formed five great turning bays-Vortex Bay, Yanshui Bay, Fusi Bay, Gankun Bay and Qingshui Bay, which are the five giant big bays in the Yanchuan Yellow River snake group in Qin Jin Canyon. These five giant Dawans are fantastic and magnificent, and they are geological wonders made in heaven. In 2005, they were approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as "Yellow River Snake Qu National Geological Park", and China Geography magazine rated them as one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Canyon" in China.
The scenic spot is more than 50 kilometers away from Yanchuan county, and it takes more than an hour's journey. Soon after leaving the county, the car is walking in the gully of the Loess Plateau. It was also in geological museum that I learned what ditches, mounds, tablelands and promontories are called, and all kinds of landforms are available here.
So if you want to know something, it is also good to go around the museum.
The museum shows the reasons for the formation of the whole Yellow River serpentine landform, which makes me know that there are two kinds of "serpentine": free serpentine and embedded serpentine. What I saw in Bayinbuluke last year was the free snake music formed on the gentle grassland, and the Shanxi-Shaanxi Grand Canyon belongs to the embedded snake music formed by the river cutting rocks.
In addition to geological display, there is also an introduction to human history. Only then did I understand why Helian Bobo's tomb was on the roadside here: it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
We went to Qingshui Bay first, but didn't stop at the Dongzheng Memorial Hall. It is said that there was a stone mill where Chairman Mao sat and thought about state affairs.
There are many scenic spots in Qingshui Bay. After entering the first cable of the Yellow River, the tour guide instructed us to watch the "Dragon Play Pearl". Nine mountain ridges converge into a pool in the center below, and there is a convex circle beside the pool.
To my surprise, the story of "Qingshui Yamen" comes from here, and there is an antique building complex below. The tour guide said that this is the original site of Qingshui County. There is also a ferry here-Qingshuiguan. According to county records, it was the ferry here eleven years ago in Qing Daoguang.
Here, we have been looking for a place where we can take a full picture of Clear Water Bay, and we have found several places where we can take a full picture with a wide-angle lens of our mobile phone. Here, it's a place to fight for photographic equipment. We have colleagues from the Photography Association to show their talents. My pictures are all taken with their own wide-angle lenses of Huawei mobile phones, which is not bad.
The Great Bay formed by the Yellow River is wrapped around the middle "island" (actually a peninsula, which leads to the opposite Shanxi Province), and looks like a big straw hat from a distance. Looking up, the island's fields are like petals, which are pleasing to the eye.
Qingshuiguan is a gateway, so there are many sites of Guanxiang city wall. The scenic spot has newly built the city wall. Walking down the city wall, you can see many stone forests, some like lions and some like camels. It looks natural and vivid when you look closely.
There are 99 bays of the Yellow River in the world, and the most beautiful is Gankun Bay.
There are three scenic spots in Gankun Bay. The first one is Gankun Pavilion, and two lines of characters are engraved on the pillars of the pavilion: "Heaven and earth created Gankun Bay, and Emperor Xi deduced Tai Chi map". It is said that the ancestors of Fuxi looked up at the astronomical phenomena and geography in Gankun Bay, and invented the theory of Yin and Yang in Taiji Bagua.
Walking down the steps, I saw the magnificent and shocking Gankun Bay all the way. The Yellow River bends with nine twists and eighteen bends, and the vast and desolate Yellow River passes through all the way. Suddenly, a big bend makes a hard turn here, and a huge circle appears. Compared with Qingshui Bay, it is more spectacular here.
Staring at the sky and the earth, the big island in the river naturally forms the shape of a fish of yin and yang, with mountains as yang and water as yin, which interprets the "yin" and "yang" in the eight diagrams.
Go to the bottom, take a picture and open it. I can't take a panoramic view with the wide-angle lens of my mobile phone, but it's good to take a panoramic view.
This will test your photography.
I didn't go to the second scenic spot. Although there was a glass enclosure there, I personally felt that the viewing position was not very good, so I went directly to the third scenic spot.
I feel the best about the third scenic spot, and the effect of taking pictures from this position is better, that is, you can take the whole Gankun Bay without a wide-angle lens. Looking at the momentum of mountains and rivers from here, the awe-inspiring spirit of Chinese children arises spontaneously.
There is a "source of life" next to it. Look at the picture and experience the name yourself. The protruding rock is called Eagle Mouth Cliff, which is really like an eagle's mouth.
There are steps to go down, but I didn't go down, so I went straight up. There is a "giant snake watching the island". It is said that when local farmers cut a mountain to get a stone, they found that the stone looked like a big snake and looked at the "continent on the river". This is an auspicious thing, and some people put in coins to pray.
Leaving the Gankun Bay Scenic Area and driving in the ravines and gullies, I suddenly feel that this is like the dense wrinkles on people's faces, which gives people a sense of wordless vicissitudes. The beauty of northern Shaanxi is different from the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River and northern Shaanxi, which is spectacular, vigorous and masculine.
Only on this plateau, only by the river, can we feel this great beauty.
Due to the itinerary, I didn't go to many scenic spots, such as Huifengzhai, Crusade Revolutionary Memorial Hall, Qingshui Yamen, Yellow River plank road, Nu Wa's blessing, Nianpan Folk Museum, Millennium Ancient Kiln, etc., and left them for next time.
The other three bays, Vortex Bay, Yanshui Bay and Fusi Bay, are not fully open yet, so you can come again when you have the chance.
Reminder: According to the choice of scenic spots, tickets are 60 yuan to 80 yuan. It's very convenient to eat and live here. Apart from the resort hotel in the scenic spot, there are also many farmhouses along the road, and you can all eat the food with Yanchuan characteristics. It tastes good, but it's a little salty. In addition, the latitude here is high, and the temperature display in the sun at noon is 26, so we should pay attention to sun protection.
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