Pyramid in Helan Mountain

🌈Attraction features: Xixia Cemetery, Xixia Museum, No. 1-3 Mausoleums. During the excavation of No. 3 Mausoleum, in addition to architectural components such as tube tiles and stone statue fragments, there are also copper altars, copper belt buckles, and copper animal face decorations. and copper saving 1 piece each. 🎟️Ticket related: 95 yuan/person (ticket 75 yuan + scenic bus 20 yuan, 54 yuan/person (students) 🕐️Scenic area opening hours: 08:00-17:30 💗Other tips: If you don’t buy a pass, you can only sit in Tomb No. 3, and then visit on foot. There is an additional fare to Tomb No. 1 and Tomb No. 2. The area is very large, and the normal tour time is 3-4 hours. The Imperial Tombs of Xixia, also known as the Imperial Mausoleums of Xixia and the Imperial Mausoleums of Xixia, are the imperial mausoleums and royal mausoleums of the Western Xia dynasties. The Royal Tomb is located in the west of Yinchuan City, Ningxia, with Helan Mountain in the west and Yinchuan Plain in the east. It is between 1130 meters and 1200 meters above sea level. It is one of the largest existing imperial cemeteries with the most complete ground ruins in China. It is also the largest existing Xixia cultural sites. The construction period of the Xixia royal tombs ranged from the beginning of the 11th century to the beginning of the 13th century. The royal tombs of the Western Xia Dynasty were influenced by Buddhist architecture, which organically combined Han culture, Buddhist culture, and Dangxiang culture, forming a unique form of Chinese mausoleum architecture. Among the 119 national key scenic spots in China, the Xixia Mausoleum is the only scenic spot composed of a single imperial tomb. It inherits the history of the Tuoba clan of Xianbei from Pingcheng in the Northern Wei Dynasty to Dangxiang and Xixia. The scenic area covers an area of ​​more than 58 square kilometers, and the core scenic area is 20.9 square kilometers. There are 9 imperial mausoleums and more than 200 tombs of princes and relatives. It is grand in scale and neatly laid out. Each imperial mausoleum is an independent building group in the shape of a vertical rectangle facing north and south, and its scale is comparable to the Ming Tombs. It absorbed the strengths of imperial mausoleums of the Tang and Song Dynasties since the Qin and Han dynasties, and was also influenced by Buddhist architecture, forming a unique form among Chinese mausoleum buildings, so it is also known as the Oriental Pyramid. On November 10, 2023, the Xixia royal tombs were selected as the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in Ningxia".