[Love my Great Wall, rejuvenate my China - look at China along the Great Wall]
Once, "the ancient camel bell road silk road, Huma still heard the Tang and Han winds".
Today, the camel bell is gone, and Huma is drowned in the dust and smoke of history. But the long Silk Road, full of mystery, did not stop at the verses, but radiated new vitality.
Along the ruins of the Great Wall all the way to the west, a new picture of beautiful scenery, green industry, and cultural tourism fever is slowly unfolding at the foot of the Great Wall.
The ruins of Taer Temple in the ruins of Suoyang City, Guazhou County, Jiuquan City.
Gobi greenery
To the west of the Yellow River, at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, the Hexi Corridor stretches for thousands of kilometers and lies across the land of Longyuan. This was once the place where the dream of a great country came from - more than 2,000 years ago, the Western Han Dynasty listed four counties here, opened the Silk Road, and opened the Western Regions, opening a prosperous generation.
The corridor bee waist, sweet and cool throat, talking about Shandan County, Zhangye City, in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, the largest military horse farm in Asia in the past - Shandan Horse Farm appeared in front of you. As early as 121 B.C., Huo Quai, a hussar general of the Western Han Dynasty, became the first "field chief" in order to expel the Huns. Not far away, the snow-capped Qilian Mountains nourish the land with melting snow.
In July, the Shandan Racecourse is full of water and grass, and the horses are galloping. It had just rained at the end of June, and the grass was growing just right. "The role of horse farm and herding is no longer the role of the army, but we rely on the grassland, cultivated land and forest land with a total area of more than 3 million mu to carry out diversified management, and now the main task is to protect the ecology, protect the horse breed and protect the development." Wang Chun from the Party Committee Office of Shandan Racecourse told us.
In recent years, the forest and grass vegetation of Shandan Racecourse has been restored, with a vegetation coverage of 85.36%, the water conservation function has been continuously improved, the grassland ecological environment has been significantly improved, biodiversity has been effectively protected, and the wild animal population has increased significantly. Tens of thousands of modern wranglers have eaten "ecological rice".
In the middle of summer, in the Hongqiao Manor in Linze County, Zhangye City, endless grape trellises are neatly arranged, and bunches of green grapes hang on the branches. Standing in the vineyard and looking south, you can clearly see the beacon tower of the Ming Great Wall.
"Our estate was transformed from an old and abandoned forest farm and a barren beach." Jia Jin, a native of Linze, returned to his hometown 25 years ago to develop green industries in the arid and barren Gobi Desert. "The estate is located at 38.5°N, a golden latitude suitable for grape growth, and the wines are sweet and aromatic." Today, Hongqiao Manor has built 5,000 acres of organic wine grape planting base and 3,000 tons of wine production line.
Glow-in-the-dark glass of wine. A glass of wine, connecting the past and the present.
In the Yangguan Museum, an immersive switching ceremony leads visitors to experience the culture of the Han Dynasty.
Create myths
"Gansu is not big, creating myths." A joke from the locals, but it is not without basis - Gansu has no sea, but it can produce seafood.
Where does the sea water come from? Ma Guibin, the person in charge of Fengsen breeding technology in Linze County, took reporters into the breeding base. As soon as the curtain was lifted, the heat wave swept into the face with a salty smell, the two drainage pools were placed symmetrically, and the water circulation equipment at the edge of the pool made a roaring low sound.
"We adopt the 'seafood terrestrial culture' model, through the detection of the water indicators of the shrimp seedlings introduced into the place, and the accurate deployment in the breeding site, simulating the ecological environment similar to the ocean, and improving the survival rate of the shrimp seedlings." Ma Guibin said.
In the base, there is also a high biological pool, which is full of microorganisms, which can degrade ammonia nitrogen and nitrite into harmless nitrogen, and the remaining clean water is back. Environmentally-friendly recirculating aquaculture can reduce environmental pollution.
The Gobi Desert, which was once "lonely in the desert and the sun sets over the long river", is constantly growing green industries.
On the way from downtown Dunhuang to Yangguan, visitors will be attracted by a 260-meter-high heat-absorbing tower.
Viewed from the air, 12,000 giant mirrors are neatly arranged in a circle with the tower as the center, reflecting sunlight onto the tower. This is a 100 MW molten salt tower solar thermal power station with the largest installed capacity, the highest heat absorption tower and the largest heat storage tank in mainland China. Under the effect of the "super mirror", solar energy is continuously converted into clean electricity, which enters thousands of households through the transmission network.
The "Super Mirror Power Station" generates nearly 300 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 350,000 tons. Many tourists are interested in CSP power stations, and Liu Fuguo, general manager of Dunhuang Shouhang Energy Conservation and New Energy Co., Ltd., plans to open the power station in the future and do research and tourism, "all of which are green industries".
In front of the Yangguan ruins, the Hanfu photo seems to have passed through the millennium.
It's hot and piping hot
The Silk Road is never short of excitement. This summer, coming to Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring to attend a 10,000-star sky concert was included in the plan of many tourists.
Dunhuang, the first hub city of the ancient Silk Road, is now a famous cultural and tourism city. The small city with a population of 180,000 received 16.83 million tourists last year.
"In addition to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and the Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain, Yangguan and Yumen Pass are also must-see attractions for tourists, accounting for 40% of the total number of tourists, and the passenger flow has increased by 28% year-on-year since the beginning of this year." Yang Hong, deputy director of the Dunhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, dressed in Hanfu, acted as a publicity ambassador in front of the Fengsui site in Yangguan.
Research has become the key word of Yangguan and Yumenguan tourism. The children experienced drilling wood for fire, passing on beacon fire, building the Great Wall, hanging the relics of the Great Wall, understanding the "Liangguan Great Wall" and the Silk Road culture in an all-round way, and looking for the poems "The Desert is Lonely", "The Spring Breeze Does Not Pass the Yumen Pass", and "There is No Reason in the West Out of Yangguan......
"The world's first Xiongguan" Jiayuguan City, the villagers' spacious brick houses and small buildings are neatly arranged. At lunchtime, the owner of the homestay, Lin Jing, and her lover were too busy to drink saliva.
Growing up by the Great Wall, Lin Jing listened to his parents say that "when you see the Great Wall, you will go home". But in the eyes of the young Lin Jing, it was a pile of earthen walls. When she grew up, Lin Jing walked out of Jiayuguan and went to work in other places to learn cooking. In 2002, Lin Jing returned to the village after a long absence and opened the first farmhouse in the village.
Lin Jing's home is only a few hundred meters away from Guancheng, with a good location and good cooking skills, the homestay is running well, "in the tourist season, our 40 rooms are full every day."
The in-depth integration of culture and tourism has ignited the "fireworks" of the great northwest. Last year, Jiayuguan City achieved tourism revenue of 6.32 billion yuan.
When night falls, Jiayuguan people always like to go to the barbecue stall to play skewers. Jiayuguan has a long history of barbecue. The brick paintings of the Wei and Jin dynasties in the Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum reproduce the scene of people skewering at the foot of the Great Wall more than 1,700 years ago: slaughtering livestock, cutting meat and processing, skewering meat with iron forks, roasting on fire, and feasting for guests and hosts......
The flame rises, the fragrance is overflowing, the second Shandan fried diala festival summer opened, nearly 100 masters around the 3.3-meter giant pan and 100 small pots, in the shovel up and down to complete the plate of stir-fried diala production. Shandan fried diala, which was first prevalent in the military camp when Huo Qu was sick and fought against the Huns, is now adding another "fire" to the growing northwest tourism with its unique cooking method, bold eating method and long history.
The Hexi Corridor, where the Silk Road and the Great Wall converge, perfectly blends history and modernity. In the poems of the ancients, the Hexi Corridor is tragic, majestic, majestic, romantic and magnificent; Now, one more word should be added - hot and piping hot!
On the westbound road, on the side of the ancient Silk Road, there is an endless stream of high-speed vehicles, and high-speed rail trains are thousands of miles a day. In Wuwei, an important commercial and trade town on the ancient Silk Road, there is also the China-Europe freight train "Tianma", which is full of goods, unblocking the east and west, and becoming a "steel camel caravan" connecting the new Silk Road.
The thousand-year-old silk road is composing a new poem.
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Jiayuguan Guancheng "Chief" Li Sen: "Please take more care"
Bald head and beard, wearing a dragon-patterned flower arm coat and wearing armor, 44-year-old Li Sen is the "chief of the Guancheng" of Jiayuguan and has guarded the pass for 23 years. He is also the hottest "Internet celebrity" in the city - many tourists come for him.
"Who's coming? Get your name in! What is the reason for going to the Western Regions? ”
"Travel!"
"If you can't pass the tour, you will be denied a visa!"
"Go spy on intelligence!"
"You're playing Infernal Affairs."
While speaking, the "customs chief" has already signed a "care" for the tourists.
Issuing "care" to tourists is the main job of Li Sen. Hearing the name of the tourist's hometown, Li Sen can blurt out the ancient place name, and then write it out with a brush, read it out and hand it to the tourist, full of ceremony. Some tourists wait for dozens of minutes under the scorching sun, just to let the "commissioner" help them create a unique "care".
Li Sen is a native of Jiayuguan, when he was a child, he and his friends often played under the ancient trees planted by Zuo Zongtang on the edge of Guancheng, and also climbed the Great Wall to look at Qilian Mountain.
After graduating from junior high school, Li Sen left Jiayuguan and traveled to various places to do odd jobs, rubbing his back in a bathhouse, embroidering flowers in a factory, working as an electrician, and opening a restaurant. At the age of 21, he heard that there was also a stall in Jiayuguan Guancheng, so he decided to go home and give it a try.
At that time, compared with the bustle of the southern scenic spots, the tourism market in the hometown was not sluggish. "In an ancient city of more than 600 years, why are there no people?"
In the Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum, Li Sen saw the "care" plate of the Ming Dynasty, which was the certificate of entering and leaving Jiayuguan in ancient times, similar to the current "passport" and "visa". "It might make a special souvenir."
Therefore, Li Sen designed a set of "three questions for customs clearance", first asking the name of the tourist, then asking the hometown, and finally asking "what is the noble thing to do in the Western Regions". For example, if the other party is from Meizhou, Guangdong, he will say that he is a "person from Jiaying Mansion". Write the information of tourists on the "care", stamp the "official seal" engraved by yourself, and finally read out the content of "care", and the tourists can be regarded as "customs clearance".
Li Sen said frankly that the ancient place name is to shorten the distance with tourists. To this end, he searched for information, handwritten, organized, memorized more than 1,000 ancient place names. In addition to handwriting, printing, wood, scrolls and other "care", but also from the "line" of the full armament. Since 2012, Li Sen has grown a beard and tailored a set of "general armor" for himself.
"Do you know you're an 'influencer'?" The reporter asked.
"Actually, I'm the salesperson who watches the stalls in the scenic spot." Li Sen said with a smile that he most hopes that tourists will learn more about the history and culture in Jiayuguan, "It is not easy for Guancheng to be preserved intact, and we should pass on the precious heritage." ”
At this time, a tourist with children wanted to ask Li Sen to write a "care". Li Sen patiently explained, "The pass is the pass, and the photo is the voucher, that is, the pass to enter and exit the gate." This is where the word 'please take care of' comes from ......"
In the past two years, Li Sen began to make short videos to record the story of him and the Great Wall, and introduce the history and culture of the Great Wall. "It is an honor for my generation to contribute to the tourism industry in my hometown." Leeson said.
Reporter's Notes
The Great Wall, looking forward to more "Internet celebrities"
Along the way, we have met a lot of "Internet celebrities" - Li Sen, the "commissioner" who played the role of a gatekeeper in Jiayuguan City, awarded "care" to tourists for 23 years; The "Super Mirror Power Station" near Yangguan in Dunhuang is called the science fiction light hidden in the desert by netizens; There is also a chorus of 10,000 people on Mingsha Mountain, and the sleeping "son of the earth" on Suoyang City Road in Guazhou......
To carry forward the spirit of the Great Wall and inherit the culture of the Great Wall, continuous innovation is required. It can be a study on the theme of the Great Wall, an iconic landscape, an exhibition, or a cultural creation. The Great Wall welcomes all kinds of positive energy "Internet celebrities".
"In the past, most tourists regarded Yangguan and Yumen Pass as scenic spots, walked around the ruins, took pictures and left. Nowadays, tourists have begun to focus on the protection of the history and culture of the Great Wall, and more and more tourists come to the 'Liangguan' study trip. Yang Hong, deputy director of the Dunhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, said that the charm of the Dunhuang Great Wall is in the loneliness of "no one in the west out of Yangguan" and the vicissitudes of "the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass". "At the foot of the Great Wall, there is never a shortage of stories, and we look forward to more people and things coming out of the circle on the Internet."
We also believe that the "dividends" generated by the integration of culture and tourism will attract more and more people to check in on the Great Wall and promote and inherit the Great Wall culture. The story at the foot of the Great Wall will be told more and more, and it will be spread farther and farther.
(Source: New Gansu)