What are the scenic spots in Dunhuang?

Mogao Grottoes, also known as "Thousand Buddha Cave", is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang County, and is named after Mogao Grottoes Town. It is the largest and most famous Buddhist art grottoes in China. It is distributed in three or four layers on the cliff of Mingsha Mountain, with a total length of 1600 meters. There are 492 existing grottoes, with a total area of 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2 100 painted Buddha statues. Grottoes vary in size, statues vary in height, the big ones are magnificent, the small ones are exquisite, the accomplishments are deep and the imagination is amazing.

Mingsha Mountain is located seven kilometers south of Dunhuang City. It was called Shensha Mountain and Shajiao Mountain in ancient times. The whole mountain system is composed of sand, which is about 40 kilometers long from east to west, 20 kilometers wide from north to south and tens of meters high. The mountain peak is steep, like a sharp sword. There is a layer of wet sand under the sand dune. The wind blows sand, and the sound can make the sand layer sing, hence the name. According to historical records, when the weather is clear, even if the wind stops and the sand is quiet, it will sound like playing music, so the "clear sound on the sand ridge" is a scene in Dunhuang. This is a kind of wonder in natural phenomena, which has been called "desert wonder" since ancient times and is known as "one of the scenic spots beyond the Great Wall".

Crescent Spring Crescent Spring is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, which is called manhole in ancient times and medicinal spring in common name. There are many kinds of medicinal materials such as Apocynum venetum and Lycium barbarum in the scenic spot, which has been one of the "Eight Scenes of Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty, and is called "Che Xiao in Yue Quan". The crescent spring is nearly 100 meters long from north to south and about 25 meters wide from east to west. The spring is deep in the east and shallow in the west, with the deepest point of about 5 meters. Bending like a crescent moon, hence the name, it is called "the first spring in the desert".

There are four unique features of the crescent spring: the crescent shape remains the same, the evil land flows into a spring, the sand mountain does not soak in sand, and the old fish in the ancient pond is not old. Evening and dusk are the best places to visit Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain. There are three treasures in Crescent Spring: iron-backed fish, five-color sand and seven-star grass. It is said that eating iron-backed fish and seven-star grass together can live forever! Robe kenaf, a small flower on the south bank of Crescent Spring, is a unique health-care Chinese herbal medicine beside the spring and also has the effect of delaying aging. Every June, July and August, these little flowers will bloom like stars at night. According to the older generation, the unique barracuda in Dunhuang may be the iron-backed fish, and Apocynum venetum on the south bank of Crescent Spring is the legendary seven-star grass!

Ya Dan landform Dunhuang Ya Dan landform is located 200 kilometers west of Dunhuang, with a distribution area of 10 km. The mounds are tall, mostly10 ~ 20m, 200 ~ 300m. Place names, also known as Sanlongsha, first appeared in the Han Dynasty, located outside the ancient Yumenguan Gate, where the northern line of the Silk Road passed. Sandong Shayadan landform is perpendicular to the prevailing northwest wind direction, but consistent with the flow direction of mountain torrents, forming the second largest scenic spot in Dunhuang with Yumenguan. Because of its peculiar characteristics, there is a ghost town.

Huang Du ancient city ruins

Located in the desert Gobi on the south side of Dunhuang-Yangguan Highway, 25 kilometers away from the city center. 1987 Dunhuang, a large-scale historical feature film co-produced by China and Japan, is based on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty, and is designed and built in imitation of the ancient city of Shazhou, with a construction area of 65,438+10,000 square meters. The architectural style of Dunhuang ancient city has a strong western customs, with three gates in the east, west and south, and towering towers; The city consists of five main streets: Gaochang, Dunhuang, Ganzhou, Xingqing and Bianliang, with Buddhist temples, pawn shops, warehouses, restaurants and houses on both sides. The ancient city of Dunhuang reproduces the majestic posture of Dunhuang, an important town in the northwest during the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is known as the architectural art museum in the west of China, and has the unique advantage of shooting military films in the ancient western frontier. Now it has become the largest film and television shooting base in western China, where it has been filmed successively.

Yangguan is located in Nanhu Township, 70 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City, which opened up Hexi for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is one of the two customs of "four counties and two customs". Since ancient times, the Silk Road has been the only way out of Dunhuang from the west and the gateway to the western border.

Sanweishan Dunhuang Sanweishan Tourist Area is located 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City. It is close to the Mogao Grottoes and Buddhism and reflects each other, forming a tourist landscape featuring Buddhist culture on the Silk Road.

In addition, there are Dacheng Hall, Longwang Temple and Mountain Temple dedicated to China's cultural sage Confucius. These buildings correspond to the Sanwei Mountain Pairs, providing places for tourists to cultivate their minds and cultivate their health. Cisi Pagoda near Laojuntang was built in the early Northern Song Dynasty and is the oldest existing wooden pagoda in China. Because of its special value in the architectural history of China, it is 198 1.

Sanwei Mountain is the first holy place in Dunhuang, and it is listed as the first of the eight scenic spots in Dunhuang in local chronicles, and it is called "the dangerous peak moves eastward". The development and construction of the Sanxian Holy Land, especially the opening of the Sanxian Great Copper Buddha, makes tourists come to the Guanyin Hall of the Great Copper Buddha to burn incense and worship Buddha after visiting the Mogao Grottoes, which can greatly satisfy the wishes of monks and nuns.