Top 10 tourist attractions in Jiayuguan

Top ten tourist attractions in Jiayuguan: Zixuan Winery, First Pier of the Great Wall, Jiayuguan City, Jiayuguan City Museum, Wei and Jin Dynasty Mural Tombs in Xincheng, Jiayuguan Fantawild World, Hanging Wall, Western Pearl Weather Pagodas, shallow rock carvings on Black Mountain cliffs, and Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum.

1. Zixuan Wine Manor

Zixuan Wine Manor is located in Jiayuguan City at the junction of the east and west of the ancient Silk Road and at the west end of the Great Wall. It is the largest steel base in northwest my country - -A wine-making enterprise invested and built by Jiayuguan Hongfeng Industrial Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd.

Zixuan Wine Manor was officially rated as a national 4a-level industrial tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration in April 2010. Based on the core function of winemaking, the manor takes the eight basic steps of winemaking as its main content, namely: "harvesting → destemming → pulping → fermentation → sulfidation → blending of wine → bottling → bottle sealing".

2. The first pier of the Great Wall

The first pier of the Great Wall, also known as Tuolaihe pier, is the southernmost pier of the Jiayuguanxi Great Wall and the westernmost pier of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. A pier. The first pier of the Great Wall was built in the 18th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1539) by Li Han of Suzhou Bingbei Road. It is 7.5 kilometers north of Guancheng. The pier stands on a nearly 56-meter-high cliff by the Tuolai River.

3. Jiayuguan City

Jiayuguan City is 6 kilometers southwest of Jiayuguan City. It is located in the middle of the narrowest valley of Jiayuguan, on the highest Jiayu Mountain, with walls on both sides of the city gate. Crossing the Gobi Desert, it connects to the Black Mountain Cantilever Great Wall 8 kilometers to the north, and 7 kilometers to the south to connect with the first pier in the world. It dominated the western end of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty and has been the first pass in Hexi since ancient times.

Guancheng was built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372). It took 168 years (1372-1539) from the initial construction to the completion of a complete pass. It was one of the nine great passes along the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. The most dangerous pass among the more than a thousand passes under the town's jurisdiction is well preserved.

4. Jiayuguan City Museum

Jiayuguan City Museum is located at No. 1379 Wuyi South Road, Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, east of Xiongguan Square, covering an area of ??20,986 square meters and a construction area of ??11,038 square meters. meters, with a total height of 21.45 meters and an exhibition hall area of ??6520 square meters. It is a comprehensive museum.

On August 20, 2008, it was officially opened. On November 8, 2019, the Jiayuguan City Museum was transferred from the Jiayuguan Municipal Natural Resources Bureau to the Jiayuguan Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau for management. As of 2019, the Jiayuguan City Museum has a collection of 808 pieces/set.

5. Xincheng Wei and Jin Mural Tombs

Located on the Gobi Desert in Xincheng Township, 20 kilometers northeast of Jiayuguan City, more than 1,400 brick tombs have been discovered, most of which date from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. (AD 220-419), the underground murals are so large that they are known as "the largest underground gallery in the world". Among the excavated parts, there are 8 tombs with painted bricks and murals. More than 700 mural bricks were unearthed. Currently, only tomb No. 6 is open to tourists, and tomb No. 7 is only open to researchers.