Gansu C position｜The throat of the Silk Road, Yushan Gorge, the dust-sealed pearl of the sea

Gansu C position city tour, come to Jinchang Yushan Gorge. Geography calls the narrow strip between Qilian Mountain and Longshou Mountain the 'Hexi Corridor', this corridor is the cultural blending zone of the Silk Road, and is an important cultural gathering place. The throat of the northern route of the Han and Tang Silk Roads, the Yushan Gorge of the lofty mountains of Longshou Mountain, winding more than 10 kilometers, slowly walking in, but can turn over the dust-sealed years, pick up the civilization of the Silk Road. ✅Silk Road Hidden Famous Temple The narrowest part of Yushan Gorge, hides a famous ancient temple site in the history of Buddhism in our country, Yushan Gorge Shengrong Temple. In the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a large number of early mural materials come from the Shengrong Temple of Yushan and related content, some historians say, first there was Shengrong Temple, then there was Mogao Grottoes. The Shengrong Temple was originally named Ruixiang Temple, the first temple in Hexi with a history of more than 1440 years has been revived and continued to this day. ✅Gorge Leaves Traces This narrow valley, with a long history and culture, has left many ancient relics, the earliest of which can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. The most famous of the relics left in the gorge is the two towers of the national key cultural relic Shengrong Temple, the tower is a subsidiary building of Shengrong Temple named after the temple, built in the Tang Dynasty, is the earliest existing ancient tower building in Hexi. On the stone wall of the mountain cliff in front of Shengrong Temple, the Buddhist 'Om Mani Padme Hum' 'Six-Word Proverb' stone carving is still preserved. The Han and Ming Great Wall that crosses Yushan Gorge was once the guide of the Silk Road, now it has also become a ruin, becoming a civilization relic on the Silk Road.

In the Yushan Gorge, 19 kilometers north of Yongchang County, there is a Yushan Shengrong Temple with a history of more than 1,400 years. It was built in 561 AD. It is said that Tang Xuanzhao once said poetry and poetry here; the monks who practiced here have reached more than 1,500 people. Shengrong Temple is one of the few well-preserved thousand-year-old temples in China. There are two murals in the 231 cave of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, which describe a strange legend in detail: Shenglu Liusayun Yunyou At this point, overlooking the Yushan Gorge, predicting that the Yugu Mountain will open, there will be a statue of Buddha, the world will be missing, and the world will be one. On his day, the Thunder Mountain is split, and there is no Buddha statue on the cliff of Yuguyan. As the sun sets, walk through the temples, listen to the deep and long-lasting bells floating in the hustle and bustle of the Yushan Gorge, echoing in your ears...