A must-see spot for Tianshui tourism

1, Maijishan Grottoes is located in the southeast of Tianshui, one of the four largest grottoes in China. It is a world-famous art treasure house and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Museum". Maijishan is named after the mountain is like a pile of wheat. Grottoes were built 1500 years ago, and most of them were cut on cliffs 20 to 80 meters high, overlapping each other and being as dense as a honeycomb. There is a plank road between the caves to climb to the top of the mountain. The southwest of the mountain peak is a cliff, and the grottoes are dug on the cliff, some twenty or thirty meters away from the foot of the mountain, and some seventy or eighty meters away. It is rare to dig hundreds of caves and Buddha statues on such a steep cliff in China.

2. Fuxi Temple, also known as Tai Hao Palace, is located in Xiguan of the city. Its architecture is solemn, simple and magnificent, and it is a holy place for Chinese at home and abroad to seek their roots and pursue their ancestors. Because Fuxi is the first generation emperor in ancient legend, all the buildings are palace-style buildings, which is the largest Fuxi sacrificial building in China. The courtyard is densely covered with ancient cypresses, planted in the Ming Dynasty, tall and straight, green and shaded from the sun.

3. Xuanyuan Valley, commonly known as Huangsangu, is located in Baihe Village, Shanmen Township, 70 miles east of Qingshui County. According to provincial, city and county chronicles and folklore, this is the birthplace of Xuanyuan Huangdi. The imperial era is a very important era in the history of Chinese civilization. It inherited the primitive culture represented by Fuxi culture, created chiefdom civilization and laid the foundation of slavery civilization. Xuanyuan Huangdi, as the representative of this period's culture, initiated Chinese civilization. But he spent his early years in Qingshui, so Qingshui is called "the hometown of Xuanyuan".

4. Nanguo Temple, located in a ravine 2 kilometers south of Tianshui City, has been built for more than 1000 years, and is a place visited by poets of all ages. Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, wrote more than 100 hymns when he lived in Qin Zhou in 759 AD, which aroused people's interest and yearning for it. On the hillside of Nanguo Temple, there is a natural Yang Shulin unique to Tianshui ancient city, which is lush and green, adding green and vitality to the temple.

5. yuquan temple is located in the north of Qinzhou District, Tianshui City. It was built in the third year of Yuan Dade (1299). The existing buildings were rebuilt in Ming and Qing Dynasties and are national key cultural relics protection units. Named after the clear and sweet Yuquan on the mountain, Liang Gongbi, an Oracle of the Yuan Dynasty, once recited the phrase "Mountain Temple in the northern suburbs, famous mountain Yuquan" when building the temple. There is Yuquan Fairy Cave, one of the eight scenic spots in Qin Zhou.