Where is the Awancang Wetland Scenic Area?

Awancang Wetland Scenic Area is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction.

Awancang Wetland Park, also called Gong sarca Mulu, means in Tibetan the place where three rivers, Gongqu, Selqu and Daojiqu, meet the Yellow River. Located in Awancang Township, Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, it is a basin-like grassland area centered on the confluence of Gongqu, Saierqu and Daojiqu in the northwest, covering an area of about 200 square kilometers.

Awancang is an ideal place for explorers, travelers, photographers and writers, and also a summer resort for tourists. It has beautiful scenery, unique scenery, beautiful wetlands and lakes, snow-capped mountains and the Yellow River coexist, and it has both the masculinity of the northern land and the softness of the Jiangnan water town. Magnificent and beautiful mountains and rivers, like legendary scenery, harmonious and serene pure land, generous and simple folk customs, splendid and colorful cultures and profound Sanskrit sounds, are not fantasies in dreams, but wooden roads in reality.

Gong sarca Mulu means the confluence of three rivers, Gongqu, Selqu and Daojiqu, with the Yellow River in Tibetan. Awancang Township Government, located 54 kilometers southwest of Maqu County, is a basin-like grassland area centered on the confluence of Gongqu, Saierxiaqu and Daojiqu in the northwest, covering an area of about 200 square kilometers. Including the famous Awankangnyangma Temple and Sanrima Temple, as well as the remains of the Tubo Zambuchide Songzan military command in Saierxiagou. Gong sarca's wooden road has a long history. In ancient times, it was the habitat of Dong, a Xiqiang tribe with white deer as its totem. Ethnic groups such as Dangxiang, Tuguhun, Tubo and Mongolia have lived here or established nomadic tribal regimes since their birth. In 70 1 a.d., Tubo Zampa Chidesongzan led his troops into Kamu Road, Gongsher, and attacked Songzhou (now Songfan County, Sichuan Province), Zhou Tao (now Lintan County, Gansu Province) and Amdo, using it as a logistics base for the war. In A.D. 1806, the third jamyang and Rosantu Tankumejiancuo went to Awancang to give lectures, which began the influence of the Labuleng Temple regime on Kamu Road in Goncer. 1875, after the "war of ten thousand people" between Labrang and Guoluo ended, Gong sarca Mulu formally surrendered to the management of Labrang Temple.

From a distance, you can see the scenic spot of Gonsar, Hetao, Qian Shan Sai, Larima Peak (4500m above sea level) and Shuifeng, facing each other across the river, just like two magnificent King Kong soldiers guarding the gateway of the wooden road in Gongsarca, with dangerous terrain, long valleys, gentle basins and lush green grass. This area has been a strategic place since ancient times, and it is the throat of nomadic people leading to Longnan, Western Sichuan and Qinghai. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for military strategists, and there is a saying that "if you want to win Hequ, you should take the public competition first."

There are many legends in Mulu Scenic Area in Gong sarca, especially the Gesar myth. According to legend, the exiled Gesar mother and son worked hard in Hequ, improved the ecological environment, established castles for trading, improved a series of public facilities, won the dependence and recognition of the herdsmen, and won the title of King Gelsall in one fell swoop through horse racing, thus opening the prelude to the world's longest epic, enriching and developing the spiritual and cultural products of human society and becoming a bright pearl in the epic. At the same time, it is also the place where many characters in the heroic epic "Biography of King Gesar" move. Up to now, many legends of place names, such as "Khorgo Day", are still circulating, all of which are piled up by the heads of many Khorgo invaders cut down by heroes in Guo Lin. Shuishan, it is said that all the scriptures in Guo Ling are hidden in the mountainside, so it became the transliteration of the Tibetan "Scriptures" of Shuizu. The local legend is that Walter married Larima after he became a holy mountain, and he had a son named Stie. Later, because Walter learned that Lalima and Sally were in love, Walter cut Lalima in a rage. On the way to escape from home, Larima continued to flee to the northwest with scars. If you have a chance to stand on the mountain and listen to this legend, you will be there. Watt Mountain is in the south and Larima is in the northwest.

The scenic spot is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an altitude of 3400 meters to 3700 meters. Due to the extremely low riverbank, poor drainage of rivers and rich forage species, the covered area is affected by the long-term drainage of the Yellow River, Gongqu and Saierxiaqu, forming ponds and swamps, which has become the core area of the most beautiful wetlands in China, such as Zoige, Gahai and Manzatang. Here, the scenery is beautiful, the scenery is unique, the wetlands and lakes set each other off, the snowy mountains and the Yellow River coexist, and the masculinity of the northern land is integrated with the femininity of the Jiangnan water town. It is an ideal place for explorers, travelers, photographers and writers, and also a summer resort for tourists. It is also a pure land to appreciate the unique and comprehensive natural landscape, rich rare animal and plant resources, splendid Tibetan nomadic culture and religious culture of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Because Tibetans follow the spiritual realm of harmony between man and nature, harmony between man and man, and harmony between man's inner and outer, they naturally return a fairyland with world biodiversity and ecological integrity to Maqu children.

Magnificent mountains and rivers, legendary scenery, harmonious development of pure land, generous and simple folk customs, splendid and colorful culture, profound Sanskrit, this is not a dreamland in dreams, but a realistic Gunther Kamu Road.

Address: East of Gesar Square, Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Opening hours:

8:30- 18:00

Tickets:

Tickets 35 yuan RMB

Source: Maqu County People's Government