But because I am far away from Shapotou, one is north and the other is south, with a distance of three or four thousand miles, I can't come immediately if I want to. I am an "office worker". You can't go to other places to play without "work", can you? Because I can't come at once, it has become a great "regret" in my heart, just like owing an unpaid debt, which makes me eat sweetly, sleep uneasily, and live in fear all day. In April this year, I took a 20-day holiday, and I had plenty of time. I have nothing to do at home except eating. I thought I had time now, so why not go to Shapotou and have some fun? Go to Shapotou, this is my dream for many days, this is my long-cherished wish for many days! So, I decided that I came to Shapotou from the far south, traveling by train and bus, and I was exhausted. Shapotou is a protected area, located in Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Founded in 1984, it covers an area of 13000 hectares. The main protection objects are Tengger desert landscape, natural sand-dust vegetation and its wild animals. Located on the southeast edge of Tengger Desert, it is the intersection of grassland and desert, Central Asia and North China Loess Plateau. There are 422 species of plants and more than 50 species of wild animals/kloc-0, which fully shows a biological world that is transitioning from the north temperate zone of Central Asia to the desert.
Shapotou, as the name implies, is the "head" of the desert and the beginning of the desert. Looking around, there are lattice sand dunes everywhere, which are inclined from northwest to southeast and distributed in a ladder shape. It is famous for its desert ecological management and tourism. It is the first nature reserve with desert ecological characteristics in China, and has achieved good results in sand control. It is a "treasure house" of biological resources in arid desert and has important scientific research value. The third and fourth programs of Hunan Satellite TV's large-scale parent-child program "Where is Dad?" filmed the location here.
When evaluating the image of China tourist area, many people say: "See more, play less;" It makes people meditate more and feel less happy. "In Ningxia, a land called" the last virgin land of China tourism "by China tourism circles, when the mysterious veil was unveiled, a modern fashionable desert tourism of" enough seeing and enough playing "began, which made people amazed. Because it is beautiful, it was awarded as one of the "Five Most Beautiful Deserts in China" by a jury composed of more than a dozen academicians and nearly 100 experts organized by the most authoritative China Geography magazine in June 2005. Because it is fun here, it was rated as one of the "Top Ten Most Fun Places in China" by the Tourism Television Committee of China Television Artists Association, the National TV Tourism Program Cooperation Conference and CCTV in June 2004.
Shapotou Tourist Area is located 20 kilometers west of zhongwei, Ningxia. It takes more than three hours to drive from Yinchuan, which is the southeast edge of Tengger Desert. It is a combination of desert, Yellow River, mountains and oasis. It has both magnificent scenery in the northwest and beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. Its natural landscape is unique and rich in human landscape. It is praised by tourism experts as the world's monopoly tourism resources.
Shapotou Tourist Area is the first batch of AAAA-level tourist attractions in China, the first national desert ecological nature reserve, and the location of Shapotou, one of the three famous shaming bells in China. Its fruitful sand control achievements were awarded the honorary title of "Top 500 Environmental Protection Units in the World" by the United Nations in 1994, and the "Special Award for Scientific and Technological Progress" by the State Council in the same year, and it was called "Sand Capital" by the world. In 2004, it was awarded "Twenty Scenes of National Fitness" by the State Sports General Administration. On May 8, 2007, Shapotou Scenic Spot in Zhongwei was officially approved by the National Tourism Administration and upgraded from the original 4A level to the national 5A level.
If you ask Shapotou what's interesting, fine! Then I'll tell you, there is the largest natural slide field in China, Shapotou Yellow River zip line, the 800-meter-long "the first rope in the world" crossing the Yellow River, the ancient waterwheel representing the Yellow River culture, the first desert railway in China and the sheepskin raft, the oldest means of transportation on the Yellow River. There are rare mirage in the desert.
Here, you can ride a camel across the Tengger Desert in the tinkling sound of camel bells, you can ride an off-road vehicle on the sand and surf hard, and you can enjoy the magnificent wonders of the desert solitary smoke and the long river sunset at close range. The south bank of the Yellow River is a U-shaped peninsula with sand on three sides and mountains on one side. Here is superior terrain, unique landscape, simple folk customs and rich resources. You can watch song and dance performances with exotic customs and ethnic characteristics in the interpretation center, and you can stay by the Yellow River to do farm work, eat farmhouse meals, sleep in farmhouse kang and listen to farmhouse music. You can experience the bathing of the mother river in the riverside bath. The Great Wall and pottery kilns in the Qin Dynasty have left immortal remains here, which can make you enjoy it and stay for a long time.
"The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river falls in yen." When we were in school, we could almost recite these two famous poems by Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, but we don't know when and where Wang Wei's famous poem "To the Frontier" was written. In fact, that poem was written in this Shapotou. Now, when I visit here, I stand on the top of Shapotou, stare at it, have a panoramic view of the Yellow River, desert, green hills and oases, and then touch the statue of Wang Wei and the stone tablet engraved with his poems with my hands. At this moment, I really realized the significance and emotional charm of this well-known poem.
Shapotou is connected to Xiangshan Mountain in Qilian Mountain in the south, Tengger Desert in Wan Li in the north, and the Yellow River rushes down in the middle. Between the sand and the river, it is a lush oasis. Sand and river, originally incompatible contradictions, were skillfully combined by nature at Shapotou. The vast Tengger Desert, the Yellow River with exquisite charm, the Xiangshan Mountain on the south bank, and the World Cultural Heritage Warring States Qin Changcheng and the Great Wall of Qin Shihuang compose a fantastic symphony of nature, which is beautiful and exciting.
"Ming history? Geographically, Zhongwei "has sand mountains in the west, millions of piles and rivers in the south". "Reading Historical Records Minutes" records that Zhongwei is "five miles west, made of sand, or the cloud is a million piles. "Visible, Shapotou this big sand mountain, has always been famous, is famous. There is a very loud reputation in history, called "Mingsha Mountain". "Reading Historical Records Minutes" quoted the records in Historical Records of the Yuan Dynasty as saying: "From Lanzhou to the east, across Beibudu, Daming Shahe, across Yingli Prefecture, to Ningxia Road to the east. Mingsha River is the South Yellow River in Mingsha Mountain, Zhongwei, Ningxia. "The' Mingsha Mountain' mentioned here is Shapotou today. According to research, there were ancestors in Zhongwei area at least 30 thousand years ago, with a long history.
"Ningxia is in Huang Hefu", since ancient times, Ningxia has an indissoluble bond with the Yellow River, from which Ningxia's reputation as the south of the Yangtze River comes. More than 2000 years ago, in the first year of Ding Yuan, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to station troops and guard the border, he built dikes to divert water and dug canals in Shapotou, creating a glorious history of diverting water from the Yellow River with dikes. Genghis Khan made seven personal expeditions to Xixia, two of which were in the central defense. He stationed troops to camp in the water, stopped Shapotou, transferred troops to cross the Yellow River for nine times, and died in Liupanshan, Guyuan. As a result, the mountains and rivers of Zhongwei became the destination of Genghis Khan, and also left the last footprint of "a generation of Tianjiao".