Dunhuang
If you are ambitious, you will win. Dunhuang people, grand and brilliant.
A bright pearl on the Silk Road in Dunhuang is located at the western end of Hexi Corridor, at the junction of Gansu, Qinghai and New Provinces. With its unique geographical location and long history, Dunhuang has become a cultural shrine in China. Greek culture, Ilan culture, Indian culture and China culture once merged here, emitting fascinating brilliance.
Dunhuang is a fascinating place. Known as the Gobi desert oasis, the pearl of oriental art, the dawn of human civilization, the treasure house of world art and so on. Won the title of China touching the world brand city, national tourist card city, top ten cities in China, etc.
Dunhuang has a long history and culture. In the sixth year of Yuan Ding, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a county here. In the second year of BC, Zhang Qian cut through the Silk Road, and Dunhuang became the cultural exchange center between China and the West on the Silk Road. Famous places of interest in Dunhuang were found in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: the east of the dangerous peak, the Lingyan of a Thousand Buddhas, the Xiaoche of Yue Quan, the Qingming of Shaling, the northward flow of Dangshui, the spring ploughing of Xiurang, the ruins of the two customs, the view of the ancient city in the evening and the eight views. Newly developed tourism products such as Yadan National Geopark, Leiyin Temple, Dunhuang Film and Television City, Danghe Customs Line, Sleeping Buddha, West Lake Yangguan National Nature Reserve and Mengke Glacier have been added.
Eight Scenery
Among many places of interest, the Mogao Grottoes, the Crescent Moon Spring in Mingsha Mountain, the relics of Liangguan, Yadan National Geopark and the Yangguan Wetland in West Lake are even more magical and amazing. Walk into Shazhou night market, walk for business, etc. The cultural characteristics of Dunhuang are highlighted everywhere, and the distinctive restaurants and famous snacks in the east, west, north and south are gathered together. Four series of food, namely, Dunhuang Eight Scenes Banquet, Dunhuang Banquet, Desert Style Banquet and Dunhuang Dance Banquet, have been excavated and launched, and won the Golden Ding Award of the National Food Festival. Among them, the Dunhuang Eight Scenes Banquet independently developed and created by Tang Le Palace Business Hotel is the most famous.
the blue waves of crescent spring are as clear as a mirror. The Danghe River is snowy and clear, just like a jade belt. After thousands of years of vicissitudes, the ancient city tells people about Dunhuang's past glory, thousands of Buddha caves, murals, Yadan Shaling, magical craftsmanship and three dangerous sacred places, which has a long reputation. The whistling of yellow sand and the neighing of war horses record a long historical legend. A spring breeze does not pass Yumenguan, and there is no reason for people to leave Yangguan in the west. Telling the eternal love. . . . . . . . . . Based on these beautiful legends and stories. A beautiful picture made in heaven is the background. Taking ancient production methods and Dunhuang murals as raw materials, absorbing the essence of many cuisines and selecting local high-quality raw materials. Through years of research and development, it successfully showed the world the exquisite cuisine of Dunhuang culture-Dunhuang Eight Scenery Banquet. And successfully registered the national trademark in October 212.
It's a pity that non-heroes don't eat the Eight Scenes Banquet in Dunhuang until they reach the Great Wall. Dunhuang people under the shining Buddha's light welcome everyone to Dunhuang.
Yuequan Xiaoche
Crescent Spring was called Shajing, Yaoquan and Yaochi in ancient times. It was named because there was a spring in the sand mountain that was not submerged by wind and sand all the year round, and there were seven-star grass, iron-backed fish and the legendary Queen Mother bathing here.
The blue waves in the crescent spring are as clear as a mirror, and Yue Quan vividly reflects each other. When you sit in the small hall by the spring at night, listening to the cuckoo's cry, watching the crescent moon reflected in the spring, drinking tea and writing poems, and rambling about life, you will be relaxed and happy.
This dish is made of green agar in the shape of a crescent spring, with clove fish as the main material instead of iron-backed fish in the spring, and broccoli instead of seven-star grass. It is made into a vivid Yue Quan with beautiful color and fragrance, which makes people dream back to Yaochi and feel like a fairy. At the same time, it also reminds people to cherish rare species and protect the ecological environment.
Dangshui flows north
Danghe-a mother river, Life River, which melts from Qilian Mountain
and enters Dunhuang. Snow melts and flows like a jade belt. It is also the only infiltration river in China that flows from south to north. She moistens the Gobi Oasis and nurtures the people of Dunhuang. The vast Gobi tells the story of the oasis, and the trickle records the desert Cang Sang. The glory of the past is gone, and a wisp of clear water nurtures future generations.
This dish uses Dunhuang characteristic stuffed skin as the main material to represent Dang river water, and golden bread crumbs to represent the vast Gobi. It embodies the generosity and gratitude of the hardworking and kind Dunhuang people who have contributed to the protection and construction of the mother river.
heart of desert
represents: heavenly heart, geocentric heart, human heart, and three hearts in one
Nan cake: a kind of baked pasta necessary for the Silk Road. It was first burned with sand and burnt on the sand, which can be preserved for several months and is an essential staple food for camel teams.
leg of lamb: when the camel team triumphs, the camel team will roast the sheep and give the most precious leg of lamb to the most respected person or warrior.
We use Qilian Mountain lamb leg, homemade Nan cake and high-quality peanuts to make this dish according to the traditional practice of Dunhuang people.
The combination of these three foods actually brings people's hearts together, giving them confidence and strength, and overcoming all difficulties in life will eventually lead to victory.
The Great Wall of the Han Dynasty
In order to resist the invasion of Xiongnu, the hardworking and peace-loving Dunhuang people built the Great Wall with the existing local gravel and reeds. Now it has become a precious cultural relic and a historical fossil.
We make this dish by stacking pork belly and tofu as the main materials to make the Great Wall, and putting rectangular lotus leaf cakes into the shape of the city wall.
It will be a special flavor for you to appreciate the thousand-year vicissitudes of the Great Wall of Han Dynasty while savoring its historical changes.
the ancient city overlooks
Dunhuang ancient city pier site. There is only one pier left, which is majestic and imposing. Poets in Qing Dynasty wrote that the setting sun was reflected in the clouds, and the west of the city was originally an ancient Dunhuang. The city walls that have experienced thousands of years of wind and rain tell people about the past glory of Dunhuang.
The hotel uses a special secret recipe to make the pork belly with sauce flavor into a meat tower that looks like the pier of the ancient city. While tasting it, you can review the long history and splendid culture of Dunhuang.
East of the dangerous peak
This scene is named after Le Zun monk standing on this mountain and seeing thousands of Buddha's lights in the east, and it has a long-standing reputation. There are Laojuntang, Guanyin Shengjing and Nantianmen in the mountains. It is a must-see for many believers in Dunhuang.
isn't it fascinating when people taste the donkey meat and crispy popcorn, reminisce about the people coming and going, and look at the men, women and children drinking holy water? There is also a beautiful vision of shining Buddha and wishing you good luck.
clear singing in the sand hills
Many people will make a rumbling sound when they descend from top to bottom on Mingsha Mountain. Legend has it that the location of Mingsha Mountain is a treasure house of the Jade Emperor. In order to stop people's greed, Taibai Venus was ordered to be buried with yellow sand, so it would make noise if it was empty. There is also a legend-in the Han Dynasty, when the Han army was at war with the Xiongnu, strong winds rose, and the yellow sand all over the sky buried all the horses of the two soldiers in the sand. The noise was the shouting of the two armies and the neighing of the horses. Actually, it's the sound of sand and stones rubbing against each other.
We make Mingsha Mountain from golden bread crumbs, and pour the sauced snow mountain yak meat into a container filled with red-hot colorful stone to make this dish.
Here, you can enjoy a unique wonder, feel a poetic legend, and listen to the whistling of yellow sand and the neighing of war horses.
Two passes on the Silk Road welcome friends
Talking about Yumenguan Gate in Yangguan reminds people why Qiangdi should complain about the willow, and the spring breeze does not pass Yumenguan Gate. Advise you to drink a glass of wine more, and the song "A man without a reason goes out to Yangguan in the west" will never be sung again.
Yangguan and Yumenguan are the main military sites and post stations along the Dunhuang section of the Silk Road, connecting the western regions and Europe and Asia. Famous at home and abroad, love is ancient and modern. After leaving the two passes, I entered the vast Gobi desert.
We use special containers, local five-grain rice and golden melons, and make them with a unique formula.
when you hear this dish and see it, you will think of the prosperity of the ancient silk road. It means that Yangguan is warm and welcoming guests in spring, and Taoist Yuguan has a bright future.
Embroidering soil for spring ploughing
Dunhuang is an important Silk Road town with many ethnic groups mainly engaged in agricultural cultivation. The increase of foreign population and great mobility have promoted the vigorous development of all kinds of agriculture, mainly cotton, wheat, corn and grapes.
this dish uses local coarse cereals and vegetarian dishes as the main ingredients, and is made from special raw materials and recipes while improving the method of making flour cakes by the ancients.
the season of the year lies in spring. The old Dunhuang people said, "People are mistaken for a moment, but they are mistaken for a year.". This dish represents the expectation and joy of farmers who have worked hard in the busy spring ploughing season for future harvest.
Thousand-Buddha Rock
The Mogao Grottoes, also known as Thousand-Buddha Cave, are said to have been carved by a Taoist monk, Le Zun, who traveled west here to see ten thousand buddhas' lights. After thousands of years of digging, they formed a large scale, and the colorful sculptures were charming and the murals were shocking. Mogao grottoes is a world cultural heritage and a research base of Dunhuang studies.
this restaurant is based on the nine-story Buddha in Mogao Grottoes, and it is mainly made of golden goblet fish in South Lake of Dunhuang. It means the splendid culture and prosperity of Dunhuang under the Buddha's light.
the double statue of the great desert
The double statue of the great desert is improved from the camel's paw of the famous Dunhuang dish Snow Mountain. This dish is made of two main ingredients, one is the forepaw meat of desert camel, and the other is a fungus called Pleurotus nebrodensis at the foot of snow mountain in the deep desert. These two materials have high nutritional value and have the effects of strengthening tendons and tonifying kidney, resisting aging, caring skin and removing spots. The original Dunhuang people can only enjoy this dish in wedding date, but now it has stepped onto the dining table of tourism, which means double happiness and good fortune.
Yadan Shiquan Dabu Decoction
Yadan, known as ghost city in the world, is the most comprehensive treasure house of geological data. On the prosperous ancient silk road, it is one of the biggest natural landmarks. This soup is a tonic soup for strengthening the body and resisting fatigue. The raw materials are all over the Silk Road, mainly including: It is prepared by decocting more than ten kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, such as Cynomorium songaricum, Cistanches, Mingshan Jujube, Lycium barbarum, Nostoc flagelliforme, Carthamus tinctorius, Shenshubao, Herba Epimedii, Testudinis Testudinis, Saussurea involucrata, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum and Ganoderma lucidum.
These herbs come from natural green food, and they are especially precious today. In Dunhuang, people often boil this soup to eliminate pathogenic factors and diseases, and also use this medicinal material to soak wine, tonify the kidney and nourish the year.
Five-colored camel peak silk
It is said that the Queen Mother passed Yaochi westward and saw the vast desert of Dunhuang, which was desolate and people lived a hard life. He waved the artifact in his hand and scattered thousands of colorful lights for Dunhuang. There are nine-color deer in the murals of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, seven-color stones in the desert and five-color sand in Mingsha Mountain. We use this beautiful legend and Dunhuang culture, and choose high-quality hump meat and five vegetarian dishes to make it. It means that Dunhuang is rich in products and the ancient Silk Road is prosperous.
Seven Immortals Apply Jujube
According to legend, a long time ago, Dunhuang artificially lit a fire to keep warm and cut down a large number of trees. Angered the gods, so that the gods flooded houses and farmland with yellow sand as a punishment. And people have a strange disease that they just want to sleep. Just as the seven fairies traveled here, they turned into practitioners and kneaded dates with colorful alchemy drugs, and distributed them door to door, telling people how to plant jujube trees. Hard-working Dunhuang people finally understand that this is what God told them. They should not destroy the ecological balance, but plant a lot of trees to benefit future generations. There are patches of drought-resistant jujube forests near the crescent spring in Mingsha Mountain, and the jujube produced by the world is called Mingshan jujube.
Mingshan Jujube is one of the four famous jujubes in China. It has a small core and crispy skin. There is a saying that if you eat three jujubes a day, you will never get old.
Four famous dates in China
{1} Jinsixiaozao in Laoling, Shandong
{2} Seedless Jujube in Cangxian, Hebei
{3} Lingling Jujube in Yiwu, Zhejiang
{4} Mingshan Jujube in Dunhuang, Gansu
Dunhuang Goddess, dreaming of Dunhuang all the year round. Let you taste the splendor of the world's top art after sightseeing.
Today, in Dunhuang, highways extend in all directions, aircraft flights increase year by year, and train lines continue to extend to tourist hot cities. The comprehensive reception capacity and service level of more than 3 star-rated hotels and restaurants in the city and tens of thousands of tourist cars in tourism professionals are constantly improving.
savoring Dunhuang is like savoring a pot of taro. Only by chewing it carefully can you taste her meaning. She is mellow and long.
Dunhuang, a cultural shrine and the capital of art, a modern city with fashionable trends, will warmly welcome guests from all corners of the country with an open mind.