Where is Tuanjia ancient city in Xining? Is it worth going?

Tuanjia Ancient City Scenic Area is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. Many people may not have heard of this ancient city, but it is very famous in Xining. So where is the specific location of Tuanjia Ancient City? Is this ancient city worth visiting? Let's look at some interesting places.

where is the ancient city of Tangar in Xining?

Tuanjia Ancient City in Xining is located in the East Street of Huangyuan County, Xining City.

Tuanjia is a Mongolian transliteration of Tibetan "Dongkol", which means "white conch". Built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it covers an area of 25, square meters. There are more than 12 scenic spots in the ancient city, such as Gonghaimen, Chenghuang Temple, Tuanjiatang, Confucian Temple, Quyuan, Performing Arts Hall, Zhenhai Xie Ying and Yingchunmen. There has been "Little Beijing" since ancient times.

Traffic Guide:

Self-driving: Xining-Beijing-Tibet Expressway-Huang Xi Expressway-Tuanjia Ancient City, about 1 hour.

Trains: Xining West Railway Station has two trains to Huangyuan every day, which are 7581 and leave at 8:25, respectively, and K983 and leave at 21:25, which takes about 4 minutes.

ticketing information

1. Adult ticket: 3 yuan/person

Applicable conditions: at least 18 years old.

2. Student ticket: 15 yuan/person

Applicable conditions: undergraduate students and below can purchase student ID cards, and students over 1.2m (inclusive) can purchase student tickets with their ID cards/household registration books.

3. Child ticket: 15 yuan/person

Applicable conditions: this ticket is suitable for children whose height is 1.2m (inclusive) -1.4m (exclusive).

introduction of scenic spots in the ancient city of Tangar

Huozu Pavilion

Huozu Pavilion was built in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and completed in the Daoguang period. It is an attic built to commemorate Huo Zuyan, which has a history of more than 2 years. Everyone may know the Vulcan Zhu Rong, but not necessarily, the ancestor of Vulcan is Shennong Yandi. We Chinese people are descendants of the Yellow Emperor, who taught people to use fire, grow crops and identify Chinese herbal medicines. Everyone knows this, but there is a problem that you may not know, that is, Emperor Yan is an ancient Qiang people, and here we are the place where the ancient Qiang people lived and multiplied, which means that this is the hometown of Emperor Yan. So in Huangyuan Spring Festival, I played a social fire. On the first day, an official named Yan was called out. This official is the fire ancestor Emperor Yan. The main building of Huozuge is 14 meters high with a building area of 22 square meters. In 1982, it was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. Local chroniclers call it "the first pavilion in the upper reaches of Huangshui River", which has become a landmark building of Tuanjia ancient city.

Yingchun Gate

Yingchun Gate is the east gate of Tuanjia, an ancient city. There are two gates in the ancient city. The west gate is called Gonghaimen. Only through this gate can you really enter the ancient city of Tuanjia. In the past, when I arrived in beginning of spring, the county magistrate ordered people to pull two cows with plows until the Spring Festival. County magistrate fu Li, symbolically beating cattle with a whip and turning twice, is called making love. Then the cultivation preparation of Huangyuan began. Therefore, welcoming the Spring Festival appropriately expresses people's desire for the revival of all things, and welcomes tourists from all over the world in the alpine region.

Tuanjia, with an area of 26, square meters, is an ancient historical and cultural city, with faint streets and lanes interwoven with latitude and longitude, unique residential courtyards, splendid temples and temples, well-preserved "Xie Jia" commerce, and Huangyuan lanterns with different styles, bearing rich multicultural information, reflecting rich local ethnic characteristics and the strange sight of the intersection of farming and animal husbandry cultures.

"Xie Jia" is a local agent sitting on the floor. Every autumn, herders from Yushu Guoluo and other pastoral areas transport their livestock products to Tuanjia, where they are bought by these "Xie Jia", and then they return to the mainland. Xie Jia has a large throughput and high profit. At the peak, there were more than 6 "Xie Jia" in Huangyuan.

[ Tangar Old Street ]

Tuanjia Old Street was the main street of that year and the main commercial street of the ancient city. It is connected with the city god temple, Tuanjiatang, Zhenhai Xieyingfu, Confucian Temple and other buildings, and is a place where folk customs of the ancient city gather together. The houses in the city have the characteristics of typical quadrangles in the north. Tuanjia, an ancient city, is also an important military town. The predecessor of Xie Yingfu in Zhenhai was Tuanjiaying. Due to military needs, Daoguang was upgraded to Xie Yingfu in Zhenhai during the year. Its main function is to be responsible for the military affairs around Qinghai Lake and ensure the normal business activities of the regiment. At present, protective restoration has been carried out on the original basis.

The origin and historical function of the ancient city of Tangar in Xining

The origin of the ancient city:

It is an ancient Qiang land, which was located in Qiang County in the Han Dynasty, Jincheng County and Xiping County in the Three Kingdoms Period, Xi Du County in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Huangshui County and Shanshan County (Xiping County) in the Sui Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty belonged to Shanshan County. After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Tubo. After three years of worshipping Ning in Song Huizong (114), it belonged to Xining Prefecture and was transferred to Xining County of Xining Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. In 1913, Tuanjia Guild Hall was changed to Huangyuan County.

in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924), commercial trade reached its peak. There were more than 1, large and small businesses and handicrafts in the city, with more than 5, employees, and the total silver trade reached more than 5 million. Businessmen gather, trade is prosperous, and Tuanjia, the ancient city, also has the reputation of "the merchant on the sea" and "Little Beijing". Whenever dusk comes, the light box advertising signs with strong national characteristics made in the shops and foreign firms in the city are brightly lit, attracting thousands of viewers. Today's' Patten' is the evolution of this advertising logo. It can be said that Huangyuan brand lamp is the earliest advertising light box in China.

according to records, after the completion of the ancient city, a group camp was set up in the same year, with 3, and 1, members stationed in the General Staff Department, including General Staff Department I, General Staff Department I, General Staff Department II and 2 arms training halls, arms depots, gunpowder bureaus and grasslands. In the third year of Daoguang (1823), due to military needs, Tuanjia Camp was upgraded to Zhenhai Club Camp, with a deputy commander stationed in charge of military affairs in Qinghai Lake and other places to ensure normal business exchanges between Tuanjia and Canada. Since the founding of the city, Tuanjia Camp, Zhenhai Camp, General House and Qianzong House have been set up successively, and 14 deputy generals, 17 deputy generals, 7 generals, 29 commanders, 4 commanders and 31 commanders have been appointed successively, which shows the importance of its military geographical location and is a veritable' military city'. This ancient city is named after Dongkol, a famous Tibetan Buddhist temple.

Function of the ancient city:

Since the Western Han Dynasty, Tuanjia has become an important commercial and trade place. The Tang Dynasty and Tubo established the first "tea-horse exchange" merchant on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under the Moon Mountain today.

In Qu Zhi, by 1924, commercial trade reached its peak, merchants gathered in cities, and trade flourished. Tuanjia, an ancient city, is also a religious resort.

With the development of commerce and cultural exchanges among ethnic groups in the future, the Town God Temple, the Golden Buddha Temple, the Huozu Pavilion, the Huang Yu Temple, the Guandi Temple, the God of Wealth Temple, the Beijishan Temple and the Mosque are all built in the ancient city. These temples are magnificent in architecture and exquisite in murals. At the same time, they also vividly displayed Chinese culture with Confucianism and Taoism as the core, Tibetan culture with Tibetan Buddhism as the core and Hui culture with Islam as the core.

Tuanjia, an ancient city, is also a religious resort. This ancient city is named after Dongkol, a famous Tibetan Buddhist temple. In the fifth year of Qing Shunzhi (1648), Dongkeer Temple moved from Tibet to the east of the ancient city and became a famous temple in Qinghai and Tibet. The temple is magnificent in architecture, rigorous in layout, beautifully carved and beautifully painted, showing endless mysterious charm.

Tuanjia ancient city is also a city of culture, where all ethnic groups meet and merge, and all kinds of cultures grow together here, forming a unique regional culture. A tile, a brick, a door, a window and a courtyard street all contain ancient and splendid cultural information. In addition, many famous poems, myths and legends, folk arts such as lantern-inserting, paper-cutting, folk arts and sheepskin embroidery, and traditional folk cultural activities such as' flower' parties, mountaineering parties, temple fairs, dharma meetings, cave worship and sea worship have all remained in the ancient city, adding rich cultural connotations to the ancient city.