The West Sea in Ningmin Town is covered with yellow sand. What is it like here now?

The West Sea in Ningmin Town is covered with yellow sand. What is it like here now? With the help of Fujian counterparts, this drama tells the story of migrant workers in Xihaigu, Ningxia, who moved and constantly overcame various difficulties to build a "dry beach" full of sand and stones into a "golden beach" with fragrant melons and fruits. Putting aside many "old drama bones" and competing on the same stage, it is only after watching the complete drama that the works with such themes are really touching! I was even moved to tears by the characters in the play many times. From then on, I remembered this place name that sounded very northwest: Xihaigu.

Ning Min town stills

There is sea in the name, but where is the sea here? There are endless northwest winds and desolate Gobi desert everywhere, and the ditches are deep and nothing grows!

If you open the map of China at this time, you will find that Xihaigu can't be found at all from the current administrative map of our country. Xihaigu is neither a city name nor a county name, and even towns and villages can't find its trace! So, where is Xi Gu Hai in the play?

"Shan Hai Qing" will be based on a true story, and the villagers also call this land Xihaigu, which is a historical habit! According to research, there is a place in Ningxia, located in the northwest inland area, which was called Xihaigu in the 1950s. But referred to as Xihaigu Hui Autonomous Region.

Xihaigu

The capital of the autonomous region is Guyuan, which we will focus on. At that time, Xihaigu had jurisdiction over Xiji, Haiyuan and Guyuan counties. The name of Xihaigu is to take the initials of the above three counties as the name of the autonomous region. However, as an autonomous region, it did not exist for a long time. A few years later, 1955, Xihaigu Autonomous Region was renamed Guyuan Autonomous Prefecture! Soon, the administrative divisions were re-divided, and the Guyuan area was renamed Guyuan District and Guyuan Area.

Xihaigu, which was once dry

I changed my name several times anyway. Today, Guyuan has become a prefecture-level city below Ningxia, and Xihaigu has already been revoked and lost its trace on the map. But the villagers in that place are still used to calling the place where they raised themselves "Xihaigu".

However, if you really trace its history, it will be a long time. Don't believe it. The Gobi desert, which seems desolate now, is just the opposite. Guyuan in ancient times was rich in water resources, humid climate, fertile land and dense forests and grasslands. Our ancestors cultivated agriculture and mulberry trees here, and the remains of Yangshao culture prove that it was once a splendid civilization!

yangshao culture sites

After the history entered the Spring and Autumn Period, Rongdi, Jackal and non-Jieyi Rongzu occupied Guyuan, and developed and grew with abundant aquatic plants. By the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was because of his fatuity and incompetence that all the important events of the general state were taken as a joke and attacked and killed by the cooperation between Shen State and Gou Rong, which led to the collapse of the Western Zhou Dynasty in 352.

This is a turning point in the history of China. In the following hundreds of years, the powerful dog Rong harassed the border many times and even invaded the hinterland of the Central Plains. Several vassal States were almost wiped out. In order to survive, the vassal States jointly expelled the dog Rong, and Qin, as the son of heaven, took the opportunity to step onto the historical stage. With the advantages of years of confrontation with nomadic people, he participated in the royal rebellion and embarked on the road of dominating the world. It can be said that relying on the nourishment of the Yellow River water, the dog Rong, which once occupied Guyuan, has evolved into an advanced iron age, the best war horse, the sharpest iron ware and the most powerful warrior through exchanges with the Central Plains, and has become one of the long-standing enemies of the Chinese nation.

Prince of Zhou Youwang bonfire drama

Guyuan is located in the northern gateway of the Central Plains. In the early Western Han Dynasty, Xiongnu in Mobei often plundered livestock and property in the south, and Guyuan was the focus of Hanting's fight against Xiongnu.

During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guyuan was ruled by Cao Wei, and the border ethnic minorities moved in constantly, and the war was turbulent. The Western Jin Dynasty quickly collapsed, and the northern land ushered in five chaos. The political situation in Guyuan danced with the smoke of the times until Xianbei Northern Wei unified the north and ended the separatist war for more than 200 years, and the social Guyuan area gradually settled down. At this time, there were not only Han people, but also Xianbei, Qiang and Di people.

Ran min

During the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, as the largest horse-raising center in the empire and the command center of northwest animal husbandry, Guyuan people were attached to the Central Plains, and cooperated with Tang Jun many times to fight bloody battles and resist the rule of Tubo!