Dunhuang night

? Because the itinerary has changed, our group decided to stay in Dunhuang for two days to adjust the fatigue of the journey. On the first night in Dunhuang, our family of three and friends excitedly visited the famous Dunhuang night market, but they didn't enjoy themselves. The next night, we went to the night market with different flavors in Dunhuang.

The main entrance of Dunhuang Night Market is located in Yangguan Middle Road, Dunhuang City, adjacent to Shazhou Market, which is the best place for nightlife in Dunhuang. The night market is divided into several areas of different sizes, such as catering, arts and crafts, leisure and entertainment, etc. The catering and arts and crafts areas have the most tourists and players, and the business is the most prosperous. At 9: 30 in the evening, the night in Dunhuang is still in the dim light, and at 9: 40, night falls. The dim night light reflects the word "Dunhuang Night Market" engraved on the carved buildings full of rich China cultural characteristics and breath, which is particularly eye-catching.

? Stepping into the gate of the night market is a short passage, with exquisite lanterns hanging from the ceiling and soft lighting, and shops on both sides of the passage. The products filled with counters are mainly the specialties of northwest China, especially Dunhuang, as well as works of art, such as murals, antiques, colored stones, colored sculptures, luminous cups, jade articles, carpets, and many calligraphy and paintings, but most of them are not written by celebrities, and there are still many buyers. If tourists go straight in without buying anything, the first thing they see is a flying statue with a square base at the top. Under the dazzling neon lights, beautiful flying long sleeves danced and greeted tourists from all walks of life. Behind the statue is one of the central areas of the night market, which is an open space. The spacious venue was filled with long, short, large and small tables, and simple, light and fashionable chairs and stools were filled with tourists with different accents. What a lively and prosperous scene!

? There are food stalls around the venue, and vendors put tables, chairs and benches near the stalls. The food they make is naturally sold to tourists who are full of enthusiasm and drooling. Among many delicacies, Xinjiang mutton kebabs are the most famous and the business is the hottest. Almost every table is filled with large plates of mutton kebabs, and occasionally you can see the red willow mutton kebabs sold by Muslims, which reminds people of Changshoushan style ancient town food street in Gongyi, Henan. Red willow skewers, roasted vegetables, beer produced in Xining, Qinghai, and apricot skin water, a local specialty drink, are the best food combinations for tourists who like barbecue. Besides mutton kebabs, Sichuan's spicy kebabs roast pig's trotters, Shaanxi's Li's Chinese hamburger, red sesame seed cakes and hot squid are also very popular. Diners sitting in this area are the most comfortable, because in addition to enjoying delicious food, they can also enjoy the special program of Dunhuang-watching the artistic performance of Dunhuang propaganda articles. In a bustling commercial street, the elaborate performance of a local art group, although arranged for tourism development, has a strong commercial flavor, but over time, this mode of commercializing art has become one of the most important tourism R&D projects in countless places. Tourists can not only fill their stomachs, but also enjoy performances, and their aesthetic ability has also been improved to a certain extent, which is much better than just knowing to eat, drink and be merry.

Behind the bustling here are several rows of restaurants that look much quieter. I don't know if the store rent is too expensive or not many tourists come here to enjoy it. Many shops are empty. There are also many restaurants and noodle shops around these small shops. Here, visitors can taste Dandan Noodles, Dunhuang minced meat noodles, northwest stuffed skin, tender meat powder, Feijie mixed noodles, Lanzhou Lamian Noodles, spicy mutton offal, Dunhuang old yogurt and other Sichuan cuisine series. Most of the most famous mutton barbecues and donkey meat yellow noodles in Dunhuang night market are concentrated here. I saw shops on both sides of the street, specializing in pasta and so on. And all kinds of iron shelves are hung in front of each restaurant with a stove in the middle. The charcoal fire in the stove is blazing. The mutton covered with red willows or iron tags is thick with oil smoke and smells irresistible, while the table next to the stove or behind the stove is fresh mutton, mostly a whole piece of fresh sheep that has just been peeled, or mutton cut in half. Now it's definitely slaughtered and roasted. Rows of tables and chairs with different styles are neatly placed on both sides of the street, leaving only a passage for people to walk. Before the tourists walked past, enthusiastic vendors saw it from a distance, immediately shouted and came to invite tourists, hoping that all diners would sit in their bunks. Tourists are mostly spiced mouths, and they really hate that they only have one mouth, that they are too busy, and they are even more unwilling to disappoint enthusiastic and impatient vendors. Our party ordered two kebabs of red willow, some other kebabs and a glass of apricot skin water. Although roast mutton is expensive, we still want to eat it 10 yuan. The skewers I bought before were not comfortable at all, so naturally everyone ate more skewers of lamb chops and fried steamed bread. We wolfed down delicious food and drank apricot skin water, a local specialty drink. Apricot skin water is one of the delicious drinks I have had in Dunhuang. It costs 4 yuan a cup, which is really good and cheap. I took a closer look. The delicacies here mainly include yellow noodles with donkey meat, fried noodles with donkey meat, barbecues with different qualities, Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou, starch noodles, grilled fish, Hu spicy mutton hoof and so on. At this time, faced with such delicious food, I feel happy with the goods of Pig Bajie. That big belly is really a small warehouse, full of food and people.

? After enjoying the delicious food, one reflection is the handicraft area and local characteristics of the night market. This is definitely an interesting place for art lovers and collectors. Most of the buildings on both sides of this street are antique buildings. Simplicity and compactness are their main styles, and they have been transformed into shops. The middle of the street is also full of relatively independent but close shops, and there are pedestrian passages on both sides. As soon as tourists enter this sea of shops, they will be deeply attracted by exquisite goods in an instant. Except for a few specialty stores (such as Metersbonwe, Bang Wei and Bang Wei). ), almost all the stalls here are filled with handicrafts. My daughter and I are intoxicated with it, and the dazzling array of handicrafts makes us shine at the moment. We carefully selected and bought several bags, and our daughter bought several bottles of sand paintings. Further on, it is a specialty of different places, such as raisins in Xinjiang, red dates and black wolfberry in Ningxia ... All kinds of characteristic abortions are traded one after another in the clamor of vendors. I bought some traditional Chinese medicines for the old people, such as Cynomorium songaricum and Cistanche deserticola, which have the characteristics of promoting blood circulation and eliminating dampness, strengthening waist and strengthening yang. ? It is late at night. Visitors who come first and then arrive gradually leave after eating and drinking enough. But the night in Dunhuang is still lively!