On August 10, 2019, when the typhoon was approaching Shanghai, our international flight with its final destination in Madrid was only delayed by half an hour despite the cancellation of most flights. It soared into the sky and arrived in Xi'an safely.
The first stop in Xi'an was the Eighth Route Army Office. Dong Biwu, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping and others all worked there. Under the noses of a large number of Kuomintang spies, they transported more than 20000 young students to Yan 'an, with a lot of effort.
Bell and Drum Tower is so famous. There is a story that fascinates me-long, long ago, eight hundred miles of Qinchuan was an ocean. The source of the sea water is a spring in the place where the Bell and Drum Tower is located. In order to return peace and happiness to the people, the immortal came and locked a divine turtle to the spring hole, and built a bell and drum tower above it. It is said that in the dead of night, at the base of the wall of the Bell and Drum Tower, you can still hear the sound of the sea waves and the snoring of the sleeping turtle. My ears are bad and I can't hear.

Stay at Century Golden Source Hotel in the evening.

2019.8.11 27 years ago, I visited the Terracotta Warriors. Now, I have never seen anything except pit No. 1.
The Terracotta Army Museum is crowded with people. With sweat, I drew a wonderful picture with white lines on the chest of a dark blue T-shirt. After listening to the tour guide's introduction, I felt that Baidu's description was so pale.
The area of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is equivalent to 73 Forbidden City in Beijing or 2 Macau. The terracotta warriors in the three pits currently excavated are just the troops on the outskirts of the imperial tomb, including the special forces in Pit 3. Due to the limitations of existing technology, the entire development work can only be said to have just begun. Interestingly, the farmers in the village where the Terracotta Warriors were discovered in 1974 have already lived in villas and started business operations after the government relocated and resettled them. The couplet in their house read: "Never forget the Communist Party when you turn over, and get rich all depends on Qin Shihuang." The horizontal letter is: Thanks to Lao Yang (the person who discovered the Terracotta Warriors).
In the afternoon, visit Huaqing Palace and take the cable car to visit Lishan. Looking at the high beacon towers is amazing. In order to win the smile of Baosi, King You of Zhou "played with the princes"; Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty became the Imperial Consort Yang,"From then on, the king will not go to court early"; Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, who did not love the country and beauty, and "I would like to abandon my property and follow her to herd sheep", etc., because of these stories, history is so romantic and exciting. The view of "beauty is a disaster for water" is a bit poisonous. Women are beautiful, what is the crime?!

▲ Huaqing Yutang

2019.8.12 There is a Dacien Temple in front of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. More than 1300 years ago, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built in order to collect treasures brought back from the Western Regions and to translate scriptures. The poet of the Tang Dynasty said: "The tower is like gushing out, towering tall in the sky." It can be seen how solemn and majestic the 64.5-meter-high Big Wild Goose Pagoda was in the Tang Dynasty. For thousands of years, people have been searching for where have so many scriptures brought back by Tang Priest gone? Where have the more than 10000 relics gone? It is said that these treasures may be in the underground palace of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, but no one dares to touch the cornerstone of the pagoda.
The Little Wild Goose Pagoda is in a park with a Shaanxi Museum next to it. Tickets are not required. After an earthquake, the Xiaoyan Pagoda collapsed two floors, and the whole cracked, maintaining 13 floors. Amazingly, after another earthquake, the cracks in the tower body were all closed, and even the cracks could not be seen clearly. After repeated research by scientists, it was found that the tower base has the function of self-repairing under the action of external force. The wisdom of our ancient builders is really amazing.
Today, our family and friends group ended their journey in Xi'an and arrived in Xining late at night by bullet train to stay at the Shenwang Hotel.

▲ Bronze statue of Tang Priest at the south gate of Dacien Temple

▲ The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which is more than 1370 years old, is also known as the Cien Temple Pagoda

▲ Xiaoyan Pagoda, formerly known as Jianfu Temple Pagoda, is over 1300 years old

2019.8.13 Taer Temple, Jinyintan Grassland and Qinghai Lake Erlangjian Scenic Area, walk around three places, and arrive at the hotel at around 10 p.m., so traveling is also very hard.
Tar Temple is the birthplace of Yellow Religion in Tibetan Buddhism and the activity center of Tibetan Buddhism in Northwest China. It covers an area of 450,000 square meters and is a large scale.
Visiting the Jinyintan Grassland, the immortal melody-"In that Far Place" has been echoing in my ears. Wang Luobin wrote this famous song here in 1940, and also wrote more than 50 works one after another.
Qinghai Lake is beautiful with golden rapeseed flowers. We went out to sea on a yacht and went to the peninsula before we saw blue skies, white clouds and golden beaches. Walking there, my horizons have a feeling of openness. The scenery of Qinghai Lake is comparable to that of the bay and beach in northern Europe.

Stay at Xiangying Hotel for the evening.

2019.8.14 Chaka Salt Lake, together with Ta 'er Temple, Qinghai Lake and Mengda Tianchi Lake, is one of the four beautiful scenery in Qinghai and is known as the "Mirror of the Sky". We arrived at noon and missed the most beautiful scenery. This may be the fate of most tourists, because it takes a three-hour drive from the hotel to the attractions. Fortunately, everyone's clothes are bright, and red, green and green silk scarves float from time to time on the white earth. Beautiful!
In the evening, enter Delingha. The sunshine boy who wrote the poem "Facing the sea, the flowers bloom in warm spring" wrote a sad poem in Delingha-"Sister, I am in Delingha tonight": At the end of the grassland, I am empty-handed, and I can't hold it when I am sad. A tear drop... Sister, I don't care about humans tonight, I just miss you. It was this poem that made Delingha famous. In order to commemorate Haizi, Delingha has Haizi's Museum and holds the Haizi Poetry Festival every two years.

Stay at Senyuan Bayinhe Hotel in the evening.

2019.8.15 Jade Lake, also known as Dachaidan Lake, is a piece of rough jade being carved. It has both the basic characteristics of Chaka Salt Lake and some characteristics of Jiuzhaigou. There are few tourists, so you don't need to buy tickets. Most travel agencies won't go there. On the one hand, it is relatively small, and on the other hand, they are rushing to Dunhuang. If they go to Jade Lake, it will be 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening to get to Dunhuang.

In Qinghai, for some reasons, foreigners are hardly seen. Infrastructure construction is much behind compared with other provinces. In places close to Gansu, WeChat signals are often not received. From Delingha to Dunhuang, due to lack of water, large areas of land are deserted, the mountains are almost bare, and there is a long way to go for environmental protection.
When we entered Qinghai, we were mostly above 3000 meters above sea level for the three days. According to the tour guide's requirements, I was a teetotaler. Today in Dunhuang, I drank rice wine happily with everyone. In the words of the children: Go west all the way, face the sea, and the flowers bloom in warm spring. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we must all be happy people.

Stay at Dunhuang Huaxia International Hotel for the evening.

2019.8.16 I have been to the Southern Wave Valley in the United States, the Devil City in Xinjiang, and the Devil City I saw in Dunhuang today, with a distinctive personality. There are golden lions welcoming guests, peacocks opening their screens, sphinxes that are lifelike, and there are also magnificent voyage fleets that are stunning. Although the temperature reached 34 degrees, the strong wind blew everyone to sway, and the sand and gravel hit their faces, which really hurt a little. We were still intoxicated by the extraordinary craftsmanship of Dunhuang, a Yadan landform...
In the Yumen Pass Scenic Area, facing a large area of ruins, there is a strong and tragic feeling of the poems "An Isolated City, Thousands of Mountains" and "The Spring Breeze Doesn't Reach Yumen Pass".

▲ Golden Lion welcomes guests

▲ Sphinx

▲ Majestic ocean fleet

▲ Peacock jade stand

▲ What is most lacking here is the strong wind. The endless wind "carves" the Devil City

2019.8.17 According to the local guide, the Dunhuang fever has only been five years for the mainland. Previously, most of the people they received were Japanese and Hong Kong people.

Speaking of Dunhuang, you will think of Yu Qiuyu's famous prose-"Mogao Grottoes". The article has many wonderful descriptions about the history of Dunhuang. When describing the tourists he admired, Mr. Yu wrote: "It is reserved because of its beauty, and hidden away because of its wealth. It insists that every pilgrim trade long-distance hardships in exchange for rewards." However, isn't it a bit stingy to open only four grottoes to tourists who have come from afar, in addition to queuing for nearly 2 hours? Isn't it a little less magnanimous to have friends coming from afar?
The sun only shone brightly for a moment, and the sandstorm came again. In the afternoon at Mingsha Mountain and Yueyuan Spring, I experienced a sandstorm for the first time: strong winds wrapped in yellow sand and covered the sky, making it a sea of yellow sand. The ridge of Mingsha Mountain is like an inaccurate focus, blurred. I also put on a veil for the first time. What's the use? It tasted great with sand and sand all over his body and yellow sand in his mouth.
Last month, several friends came to Dunhuang one after another and took cover-level photos in Mingsha Mountain. Today, I would also like to show you the other side of Dunhuang and see what environment Dunhuang people are doing a good job in protecting and greening cultural relics; and see how difficult the development of the Northwest China still has.
In the evening, the travel company and relatives and friends celebrated my birthday. This unexpected surprise added a festive color to this trip. Thank you to my brothers and sisters, and thank you to my friends and relatives.

2019.8.18 Just like in the United States, Canada, Northern Europe, Xinjiang, and Qinghai, Gansu's attractions are hundreds of kilometers apart. Today, I visited Jiayuguan after 11 hours on the road. It will be past 7 p.m. to the second scenic spot. There are no tickets in the scenic spot.
Jiayuguan, Shanhaiguan and Zhenbeiguan, ranks among the three wonders of the Great Wall of China. It is known as "the No. 1 Pass in the World" and is quite completely preserved. What everyone talked about most was how tragic it was to attack and defend the city with such a tall and thick city wall.
Gansu's infrastructure construction should be significantly better than Qinghai's. Take the highway service area for example. Gansu's facilities are basically complete, while Qinghai's facilities are quite primitive. Several service stations do not have public toilets, and private ones are not clean and charge one yuan.
Tomorrow, the journey is still far away. Fortunately, the program is exciting and worth looking forward to.

Stay at Holiday Inn Zhangye Capital City in the evening.

▲ The world's first pass

▲ One of the three wonders of my country's Great Wall-Jiayuguan

On the morning of August 19, 2019, the temperature dropped sharply, the sky was gloomy, and light rain fell from time to time. On the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 viewing platforms of Zhangye Danxia Landform, the spectacular scene of the colorful Danxia still shocked us. The creator created a picturesque scene in the mountains, which is amazing.

On the highway across the Qilian Mountains at an altitude of 3800 meters, two local guides told us about the local customs and customs, which aroused everyone's great interest. Grazing families, although their clothes are simple, are quite good financially. A sheep can be sold for 1500 to 2000 yuan, and a cow can be sold for 7000 to 10000 yuan. On those rolling hillsides are land contracted by families, and goats are walking leisurely in the green grass. Some of these families raise hundreds of sheep and hundreds of cattle, which are definitely big households. So, in addition to being romantic, is the guy who "I am willing to give up my property and go herd sheep with her" pursuing a rich girl with hundreds of sheep and hundreds of cows?

Stayed at Menyuan Jieyun Hotel at night.

It took nearly 11 hours to travel from Menyuan to Lanzhou on August 20, 2019. Almost half of that time was spent in the canyon. Due to the rain yesterday, the river water on the road was turbid. Many stones fell from the steep canyon, some of which were very large. Fortunately, there was no danger. There is a good saying: the best scenery is on the road. Looking at the scenery in the canyon reminds me of many small villages in the mountains in northern Europe. The buildings there are neatly arranged, and bright cottages are scattered in the green mountains and fields. Unfortunately, people here have no time to think about these issues. Fortunately, some people have already targeted the land, and there is a construction site like a B & B under development. Gold always shines.
When going to Zhutuo Mountain Scenic Area, I took the wrong way and the station wagon couldn't pass through. I could only take two photos.
After three consecutive days of long-distance travel, coupled with resting in Menyuan at an altitude of nearly 3000 meters yesterday, everyone was a little tired.

Stayed at Lanzhou Feitian Hotel at night.

2019.8.21 Baita Mountain Park, one of the eight scenic spots in Lanzhou, is an open garden. From the top of the mountain, you can overlook the whole picture of Lanzhou. Three people in our family took the lead. It took less than 40 minutes from the summit to the descent.

On the platform of Baita Mountain, a group of auns danced in the square around a circle. There was an old man carrying bottles and cans he had picked up and danced freely among his aunt. The scene was quite warm.
At the foot of Baita Mountain, there is a Zhongshan Bridge, which is known as the "First Bridge of the Yellow River". It was built by the Germans 110 years ago and withstood the test of war and the impact of floods. It is said that on the 80th and 100th anniversaries of the bridge, relevant German parties wrote to the Lanzhou government to remind them of the maintenance of the bridge. Later, Lang Xianping disclosed that the German company that built the bridge had closed its doors as early as 1946, so there was no warning. This is similar to the statement that Qingdao's underground drainage facilities were built by Germans. If you say too much, it will be untrue. Of course, the quality of German products is still good.
In the afternoon, I visited the Gansu Province Museum and enjoyed all the treasures that appeared among the national treasures. It was a worthwhile trip.

▲ The bronze horse of the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in 1969 stepped on a swallow, showing the characteristics of "side-to-side steps" of special good horses in Hexi after training. A first-class national treasure cultural relic is a symbol of the spirit of the Silk Road

▲ The head-shaped colored pottery bottle with the mouth reflects the head and face decoration of primitive humans during the Neolithic period

▲ A magnificent bronze chariots and horses honor terracotta troops composed of 38 warriors riding 38 bronze horses, slaves and other vehicles