What are the fun attractions in Tianshui?

Maijishan Grottoes

Maijishan Grottoes is located in the southeast of Tianshui. It is one of the four largest grottoes in China. It is a world-famous art treasure house and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Hall". Maiji Mountain is named after the mountain is shaped like stacks of wheat. The grottoes were built more than 1,500 years ago. Most of them were excavated on cliffs between 20 and 80 meters high. Like a honeycomb. Each cave is connected by a plank road, which can be climbed up to the top of the mountain. The southwest side of the mountain is a cliff, and the grottoes are carved on the cliff. Some are twenty or thirty meters away from the base of the mountain, and some are as high as seventy or eighty meters. It is rare among Chinese grottoes to have hundreds of caves and Buddha statues carved on such a steep cliff.

Fuxi Temple

Fuxi Temple, also known as Taihao Palace, is located in Xiguan, urban area. Its architecture is solemn, simple and majestic. It is a holy place for Chinese at home and abroad to trace their ancestors. Since Fuxi was the first emperor in ancient history and legend, the building complex is in the form of a palace, making it the largest Fuxi sacrificial building complex in the country. The courtyard is dotted with ancient cypresses, which were planted in the Ming Dynasty. They are tall and green, and can be shaded from the sun.

Xuanyuan Valley

Xuanyuan Valley, commonly known as Sanhuanggou, is located in Baihe Village, Shanmen Township, 70 miles east of Qingshui County. According to provincial, city and county records and folklore, it is the birthplace of Emperor Xuanyuan Huang. The era of emperors was a very important era in the history of Chinese civilization. This era inherited the primitive culture represented by Fuxi culture, created chiefdom civilization, and laid the foundation for slavery civilization. Xuanyuan Huangdi, as the representative of culture in this period, created Chinese civilization. He spent his early years in Qingshui, which is why Qingshui is called the "Hometown of Xuanyuan".

Nanguo Temple

Nanguo Temple is located in a mountain valley 2 kilometers south of Tianshui City. The temple has a history of more than a thousand years and has been a tourist attraction for poets and poets of all ages. Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, wrote more than a hundred hymns when he lived in Qinzhou (today's Qinzhou) in 759 AD. Throughout the ages, it has aroused people's interest and yearning for it. On the hillside on the back of Nanguo Temple, there is the only natural poplar forest in the ancient city of Tianshui. It is lush and green, adding green and vitality to the temple.

Yuquan Temple

Yuquan Temple is located in the north of Qinzhou District, Tianshui City. It was built in the third year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty (1299). The existing buildings were rebuilt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit. It is named because there is a jade spring with crystal clear water and sweetness on the mountain. When Liang Gongbi, the emperor of Qinzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, recited the sentence "The northern suburbs of the mountain temple are famous for the jade spring" when he built the temple. Inside the temple is "Yuquan Fairy Cave", one of the eight scenic spots in Qinzhou.

Xianren Cliff

Xianren Cliff is 15 kilometers away from Maijishan Grottoes. It has beautiful natural scenery and cultural landscape second only to Maijishan Scenic Area. It is the home of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism** The only remaining scenic spot is composed of three cliffs, five peaks and six temples. Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there have been buildings and sculptures here in all dynasties. The existing temples were built and renovated in the Tang, Song, Ming, Qing and other dynasties, and some of the clay sculptures are from the late Northern Wei Dynasty.

Shuiliandong Grottoes

The Shuiliandong Grottoes are located in the Zhongshan Canyon about 25 kilometers northeast of Wushan County, Tianshui City. Built in the Later Qin Dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, it has been built many times through the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan dynasties. The main ones include Shuilian Cave, Lashao Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Xiansheng Pond and Sanqing Cave. At the grotto. Shuilian Cave is an arched natural cave about 50 meters long, 30 meters high and 20 meters deep on the cliff on the east side of the Shiaxu Mountain that looks like an axe. During the rainy season, spring water and rainwater gush out from the roof and walls of the cave, and water flows down the eaves of the cave, just like a bead curtain covering the door, hence the name Shuilian Cave. The cliff face of Shuiliandong preserves huge Buddhist murals from the Northern Wei, Sui, Tang and Yuan dynasties.

Hu's ancient residential building

Hu's residential building is an ancient residential building in the Ming Dynasty. It is located on Minzhu West Road, Qinzhou District, Tianshui City, adjacent to the Confucian Temple to the west. It is one of the outstanding representatives of existing Ming Dynasty residential buildings in Tianshui City. It is also the only existing Ming Dynasty official residence in northwest my country. It has high historical, cultural and artistic value, and its scale is also rare in the country.

Guatai Mountain

Guatai Mountain is also known as the Guatai Painting Platform. According to legend, it was the place where Fuxi began to draw the Eight Diagrams by looking up at the sky and looking down at the earth. It is located at the northwest end of Sanyang River and is currently under its jurisdiction. It is located in Weinan Township, Beidao District, about 15 kilometers away from Tianshui City. Guatai Mountain looks like a giant dragon sticking its head out from the mountains. It is surrounded by green temples and pavilions. The Weishui River circulates, the bells and bells are beautiful, and the atmosphere is extraordinary. Climbing to the top of Guatai Mountain and overlooking the Sanyang River, it is not difficult to find that the ancient Wei River bends into an "S" shape from east to west, dividing the oval Sanyang River Basin into two, and drawing a natural Tai Chi. picture.

Li Guang’s Tomb

“As long as the flying generals in Dragon City are here, they will not teach Huma to cross the Yin Mountains.” Buried in Li Guang’s tomb is this flying general who killed the enemy in blood Li Guang. Li Guang's tomb is located at the foothills of Wenshan Mountain in the southern suburbs of Tianshui City. The tomb is about 2 meters high and 26 meters in circumference. There are three sacrificial chambers hanging on the top of the mountain. The gate on the wall is inscribed "Flying General's Good City" on the forehead. The tombstone is engraved with the seven characters "Tomb of Han General Li Guang". According to research, this tomb is Li Guang's "clothing tomb", where swords and clothing were buried. There were originally stone animals and horses in front of the tomb, which were vividly shaped, hence the name Shimaping.