Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Travel guide - What's so interesting about extension?

What's so interesting about extension?

Cuipingshan scenic spot

Cuiping Mountain is located in Nanshan, Yanchang County, with an area of 1.57 square kilometers. Zhaizhai Mountain in the north and Dongjiayuan Tourist Village in the south. The second-class highway in Bai Yao passes through the mountain tunnel, and the Yanhe meanders through the foot of the mountain, with high mountains and deep valleys and beautiful scenery. According to the county records, as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was listed as the first of the eight ancient scenic spots, named "Cuiping South Planting". According to legend, this scene was built in the Tang Dynasty.

Cuiping Mountain Scenic Area is a landscape scenic area in northern Shaanxi, which integrates garden, religion and humanistic tourism, and is close to mountains and waters. Cuiping Mountain Scenic Area consists of Cuiping Mountain Garden Tourist Area, Zhangjiashan Botanical Garden Scenic Area, Leijiashan Special Breeding Area and Sun Jiahe Upstream Park.

Goutoushan natural scenic spot

Goutou Mountain, also known as Shige Mountain. Located in Leichi Town, Yanchang County, on the west bank of Shanxi-Shaanxi Yellow River Grand Canyon, it is 62 kilometers away from the county seat, 3 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide, with an altitude of 1220.6 meters. There is a saying called "stand on the mountain of dog head and stretch out your hand to wipe the sky". Overlooking the mountain peak like a dog's head, it is majestic and tall, and is famous for its risks. Standing on the top of the mountain, surrounded by the public mountain, the wolf is opposite to God, and the pheasant is lying still. The majestic Lvliang has a considerable appearance, and the Yellow River and big rivers are faintly visible. It is a rocky mountain with the geographical characteristics of northern Shaanxi.

The first oil well on land in China.

The first onshore oil well in China is located in the west of Yanchang County. Yin Hong, the alternate magistrate of a county in the late Qing Dynasty, hired Japanese technicians and others. 1907 successfully drilled and produced industrial oil, which was named "Yanchi Well", ending the history of no oil production in Chinese mainland. Yanchang Petroleum began in Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was first seen in Han Shu Geography written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "High slaves are combustible when mixed with water". In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo recorded in Meng Qian's Bi Tan: "There is oil in Yanyan, and it was said in ancient times that Gaonu County produces fertile water." . The scientific naming of "oil" was put forward for the first time, which was 600 years earlier than the naming of oil by German George Bayer in 1556. China's first onshore oil well, Gonggai Huaxia, was designated as a "national key cultural relic" and listed as "the best in China". Yanchang Oil Mine is known as "the mother of China's oil industry" and the "Whampoa Military Academy" in the oil industry.

Matouguan Yellow River Grand Canyon

Matouguan, the ancient ferry crossing on the Yellow River, is located on the west bank of the Yellow River in Luozishan Township, Yanchang County, 80 kilometers away from the county seat, backed by towering mountains and across the river from Daning, Shanxi Province, and is known as the "crow two provinces".

Matouguan Yellow River Gorge, located in the middle of Shanxi-Shaanxi Yellow River Gorge, has a river bank width of 800 meters, a water surface width of 600 meters, a valley depth of 100 meters, a flow length of 44.7 kilometers and a drainage area of 2,295 square kilometers. It starts from Fengjiagua in Anhe Town in the north, reaches Zhoujiagua in Nanhegou Township in the south to Hukou, and flows through 3 townships and 25 villages. It was once the first place of the Red Army's eastward expedition, the main battlefield of the river defense and defense war, and the first chorus of the Yellow River.