After the tour: How much do you know about Lanzhou?

First, Lanzhou, we seem to know everything, but in fact we don't know anything.

Northwest China suddenly caught fire this year, and Lanzhou entered the fourth place in the national hot search city.

Panorama of Lanzhou

The most intuitive aerial view, Lanzhou is long and narrow, squeezed between Gaolan Mountain and Baita Mountain, accompanied by? Wide? The specifications of the super-long Yellow River are heroic.

This is a hardworking city. The history of beating iron horses was cultivated into peppers by Lanzhou people. It was splashed with Wang Shi's rolling oil, which smelled delicious. It was covered with a rag made of wheat and explained life with taste.

Before I came to Lanzhou, at least that's how I saw Lanzhou. I always feel that the legendary northwest is desolate, only north-northwest of Lanzhou; Snow-capped mountains, grasslands and high loess slopes are locked out of sight by city walls.

Lanzhou has the modernity that every city in China has in the new century, and it is the place where the mother river and the Yellow River are most attached.

The first Yellow River Bridge

However, Lanzhou is not a point on the map, it is a vivid trend, a pair of arms holding the past and the future, and a bronzed Rogue Knight with a hat and scars on his face.

It is unsmiling and rude. But I often sit alone with a knife, facing the bleak sunset of the Yellow River, motionless, turning myself into a lonely silhouette.

Look at its back, it's a barren rock, and it's hard to move when the waves are turbid and the wind is strong.

The temperament of the northwest is entangled in it, forming the most unusual fog cover in the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, blurring all the peeping and all the clarity.

What is Lanzhou? I thought I knew, but in the end I knew nothing.

Second, the history of the Yellow River.

Lanzhou, also known as Jinzhou, takes? As strong as gold? Meaning. Its original intention was to build a military fortress.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing, an ancient general who was too young, stayed? Seal the wolf in the house? The legendary crossing the Yellow River and going deep into Mobei to drive away the Huns; General Li Xi was ordered to find a ferry on the Yellow River to coordinate the troops.

Li Xi, who has always been calm, chose a long and narrow flat land where the three valleys meet on the Yellow River, that is, today's Lanzhou has built a fortress, and the army can advance and retreat freely.

Guan shan wan zhong

When Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty arrived, Jincheng County was formally established, that is, Xigu in Lanzhou today, which belonged to Jincheng County. Jincheng West reaches Hexi Corridor, the most golden position on the Silk Road; Passing south through Hezhou (now Linxia, Gansu) is the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; The north is a vast land where riders have been cruising for thousands of years. Needless to say, the rich Guanzhong Plain is within reach. Jincheng, with its superior geographical position, has since become an important pawn of the Central Plains dynasty in the frontier.

Schematic diagram of Lanzhou geographical location

Since then, Jinzhou's strategic position in the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty has been confirmed. It naturally has iron spirit and toughness in its bones. This kind of character is reflected in the hatred and fiery personality of Lanzhou people, which is similar to the honesty and frankness of Chongqing people. But correspondingly, the river's lake spirit is too heavy, and naturally there is no slowness and meticulousness in cities like Chengdu and Hangzhou.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty set up a governor's office in Lanzhou, named Gaolan Mountain. The name of Lanzhou appeared for the first time, and the division of Lanzhou gradually stabilized. In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army chased the Yuan army everywhere until it reached the Yellow River in Lanzhou and crossed the river as usual. Instead of riding a sheepskin raft, the Ming army set up a pontoon bridge on the river. Since then, Lanzhou has the world's first bridge: Zhenyuan pontoon bridge.

Yellow River Bridge

No pontoon bridge on the Yellow River can be safe and sound for hundreds of years. The successor of Zhenyuan pontoon bridge is Zhongshan Bridge, and friends who travel to Lanzhou will basically not tear it down.

Can a bridge be built on the Yellow River? Because the natural barrier has become a thoroughfare, Lanzhou's position is more obvious. In the Qing dynasty, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu moved to Lanzhou to control the western regions. Lanzhou has officially become the throat of northwest traffic. Shaanxi-Gansu Governor Zuo opened the Northwest Manufacturing Bureau in Lanzhou, which laid the foundation for Lanzhou's modern industrialization.

Lanzhou, which surrounds the Yellow River, connects the east and the west and radiates to the western regions, has become the most important city in the northwest.

Looking back on its growth history is like reading that sentence? How did the water of the Yellow River flow out of heaven and into the ocean, never to return? What stirs in my heart is endless heroism.

Third, the road came out.

To the northwest, Lanzhou is my first choice. It may be a pity that I can't help but regard it as a transit station, not a destination.

Lanzhou is the northwest transportation hub, and no one will object to this definition. Longhai Line, Lanxin Line, Lanqing Line, Baolan Line and Lan Yu Line? Too many railway arteries are centered on Lanzhou, radiating from China.

Night in Lanzhou

After the founding of New China, builders from all over the country came to Lanzhou from all directions. Lanzhou Railway Station was built in 1952, and the track was laid in the distance.

The dilapidated fortress in the northwest has turned into gold in the hands of builders who wave after wave. According to incomplete statistics, from 1949 to 1959, the population of Lanzhou expanded from 654.38+million to 700,000, a full increase of seven times!

The original decadent and desolate city scenes are becoming more and more, brand-new roads are built and bridges are erected.

Lanzhou, which is not what it used to be, has become a dazzling pearl in the hinterland of northwest China.

This beautiful city, with pride and persistence, has become what it wants; Like every China city with a mission, it is on an increasingly vigorous road.

Lu, what a group of like-minded people came out together!

Fourth, hard tenderness.

Lanzhou, soaked in the Yellow River. Girls in Lanzhou wear braids as long as the Yellow River.

Lanzhou is an immigrant city, and some writers ruthlessly describe Lanzhou people as sand blown by strong winds. They are sharp and wear-resistant, and they are very satisfied with it. However, writers forget that what they have is a calm Yellow River.

The Yellow River flooded the desolate floodplain, leaving a land of fruits and vegetables, and Lanzhou, which was soaked by the Yellow River, had the softness of life.

People in Lanzhou eat noodles, not the Lanzhou Lamian Noodles that anyone can blurt out, but Lanzhou beef noodles.

Authentic Lanzhou ren noodles

One clear and two white, three red and four green, Huang Wu, these standards, everyone in Lanzhou knows by heart.

Lanzhou de noodles

Big width, two thin pieces, leek leaves? These special nouns are everyday expressions in Lanzhou. When you arrive in Lanzhou, nothing is impossible with a bowl of beef noodles with garlic sprouts and Chili oil. If not, two bowls!

Why do you like this bowl of noodles? Besides good taste and good nutrition, it's actually the same as Lanzhou's? Immigrants? It is related to history.

People from different hometowns gather in Lanzhou, and it is difficult to adapt. A bowl of beef noodles perfectly balances everyone's needs: beef from pastoral areas, wheat from agricultural areas, skills of Hui people, fragrant smell, reasonable price, suitable for the tastes of people of all ethnic groups, and gradually becomes the favorite bite of Lanzhou people.

After eating beef noodles, you can look at the tenderness of this tough city with gentle eyes.

Zhongshan Bridge should be visited. Yellow River Bund? Need to go, the statue of the Yellow River mother must go bye-bye. She lay on her side with a boy in her arms, just like the Yellow River guarding Lanzhou.

Yellow river mother

Can you still be called by Lanzhou people? Xiaoxihu? Go to the park and see what Jiangnan charm is rippling in the green Yellow River.

Lanzhou has never lacked the emotional appeal of life. If you don't see its tenderness, you have closed your eyes to find beauty.

Many of the most beautiful flowers in the world often bloom in unknown places.

This sentence is written on the wall of Gansu People's Publishing House. Suddenly I feel that this is the portrayal of Lanzhou.

The Yellow River passes through the city day and night, and we don't need any reason to love this rolling muddy water; Lanzhou, standing on the bank of the Yellow River, is still silent, but I know that it is the person who is looking for him in the crowd. Heart like a tiger, sniffing roses? The peerless swordsman, I even smell the fragrant roses hidden behind him?

Lanzhou, I owe you a serious stay. Don't give up my greedy request in the near future.