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Tourist attractions - the first pillar of the Great Wall

Tourist attractions - July 1 Glacier

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Tourist attractions - the first pillar of the Great Wall

Grade key cultural relic protection units

The ticket price is 120 yuan

No data available for minor traffic

Method 0937-6396110

Scenic spots in the provinces and cities

The detailed address is 7 km south of Guancheng

The first pier of the Great Wall, also known as the Donlai River pier, is the southernmost pier of the Western Great Wall, and the westernmost pier of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty.

The first pillar of the Great Wall was built in the 18th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1539 AD) by Li Han, 7.5 kilometers north of Guancheng, standing on a cliff nearly 56 meters high beside the Tuo Lai River. For its heroic risk, the famous Great Wall expert Mr. Luo Zhewen once had a vivid intonation: "The heroic risk painting is difficult, the Dunbao looks at each other far away, the Great Wall is connected to the Guanshan Mountain, and the ape arm is difficult to climb."

On the line of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, there are countless piers and platforms, as dense as stars. Now, the pier is about 10 meters high, its bottom is irregular square, the bottom is 14 meters wide, the interior is still square, length and width of 6 meters. Built with loess ramming, rammed soil layer 10 ~ 20 cm thick. The inscription of "The first pillar of the Great Wall" was written by the late general Wei Traditional of the Western Route Army, the handwriting is elegant and free, beautiful and meaningful.

Transportation guide: It can be chartered in the city, the round-trip cost of 50 yuan, about half an hour each way.

Tourist attractions - July 1 Glacier

"Qiyi Glacier" is a deep mountain glacier in the mountain of more than 1,000 kilometers, hidden in the valley 120 kilometers southwest of the city. The mountain is one of the largest and longest mountains in China, and it is said that there are more than 3,000 glaciers of all sizes, with ice reserves of 114.5 billion cubic meters, and the "Juli Glacier" is only the closest one to the city among the many glaciers in the mountain. It is also known as the closest glacier to the city in Asia with the "No. 1 Glacier". What is unusual is that the "July 1st Glacier" is independent of the world because of its earliest appearance and its special status as the starting point of glacier research in China. It is more than 1,000 years old and was discovered in 1958.

The "July 1" glacier tourism area is about 4 square kilometers. Every summer and autumn, the ice peaks are sparkling under the blue sky and bright sun. Together with the babbling streams and the alpine pastures with green grass and flowers, they form a charming picture of quiet and full of vitality. Due to the high altitude of the glacier, visitors often encounter cloudy, sunny, rain, snow and other weather, and experience four seasons in one day, which is an unforgettable experience of a lifetime.

July 1 glacier landscape strange, distant like the Milky Way upside down, white overhang; Up close, the ice tongue slanted, the ice wall stood tall, the ice curtain hung, the ice hopper deep, mysterious. There are 5 kilometers of pedestrian mountain paths built at the glacier, and there is a monument of "not old, for the white head", and the tourist area is about 4 square kilometers. Summer and autumn season travel, but see the snow melt at the ice tongue, water four notes, waterfalls, sound shock valley. There are snow chickens perched on the hillside; Snow lilies and ice crystals compete with each other; At the foot of the mountain, on the grassy slope, cattle and sheep are everywhere, and the smoke curling up in the herder's tent gives people a sense of vitality.

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Grade AAAA

Ticket price 120 yuan/person in peak season, 61 yuan/person in off-season

No data available for minor traffic

Method 0937-6396110

Scenic spots in the provinces and cities

The detailed address is 7 km southwest of the province

It is the western starting point of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty, an ancient military castle built along the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty and its later generations, an important military fortress along the Great Wall, known as "Chinese and foreign defense" and "Hexi first pass".

It has a history of 631 years and is located at the junction of Hexi Corridor (middle to west). It was built nine years earlier. At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song Dynasty and the general of the conquest, was located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, the throat point of the east, the west of Yumen, the back and the south - Jianguan on the west foot of Jiayu Yuan. The Guancheng was built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372 AD), which lasted 168 years and was completed in 1540 AD. As recorded in the historical data "Qin Bian Ji" : "At the beginning, there is water and then set up a pass, and then build a building, and then build the Great Wall, and then build the Great Wall can be defended."

The layout of the Guan city is reasonable and the construction is successful. Guan Cheng has three walls, multiple lines of defense, there are cities inside the city, there are trenches outside the city, forming a heavy city and defend the trend. It is composed of: inner city, Wengcheng, Luo City, moat and three three-storey, three-eaves and hilltop pavilion buildings and moat, the Great Wall peak platform. The inner city is the main body of the city, with a circumference of 640 meters and an area of 25,000 square meters. Outside the inner west second door, there are barengcheng back protection, the area of more than 500 square meters. Wengcheng gate are open to the south, west urn face, built Luo city, Luo city wall in the middle of the west set a door, the lintel title "" three words. The existing buildings in Guancheng mainly include the guerrilla general's mansion, the Guan Well, the Guandi Temple, the stage and the Pavilion.

Guancheng is surrounded by mountains and rivers, guarding a gorge about 15 kilometers wide in the north and south, and the valley of the gorge is a natural barrier to the defense of the Guan. Nearby beacon towers, piers crisscrossing, Guan, west, south, north, northeast of the road a total of 66 piers. The terrain is formed in heaven, both offensive and defensive, and the nearby Great Wall, fortress, moat, beacon tower and other facilities constitute a strict military defense system, and is also known as "the first hero pass in the world".

The development of food diet is relatively late, so the local people put together the food, and now the diet has the characteristics of variety and regional integration. Famous food are snow mountain camel feet, Gobi bird shadow, roast lamb leg, braised mutton, braised mutton, Gobi goose shadow, Xiongguan crisp, camel foot soup, oil fried hump, chrysanthemum beef whip, camel feet and flame roast lamb leg, instant-boiled mutton and so on. So when you travel, you have to try something out of this world. On the ancient Silk Road, camels were the most important means of transportation. It can travel long distances in the Gobi Desert, mainly with four solid camel feet. Because the camel paw is all tendons, its nutritional value is very high. But the camel has a long life and is rarely killed, so the camel's paw is difficult to find, and it is as valuable as the bear's paw. This dish snow mountain white, silk road curved; Camel palm tendon rotten, delicious meat crisp, light yellow color, crystal clear, delicious taste.