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ZhenBeiTai
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Zhenbeitai Fortress is located in the north of yulin
city for 4 km on the peak of red mount. It is one
of the most ambitious and most majestic buildings
in the Ming dynasty of Great Wall ruins, known
as one of the "three wonders (east in shanhai
pass, north in zhenbeitai, west in jiayuguan pass)"
and "the first fortress of Great Wall". In 1992,
shanxi provincial government announced it as
the provincial cultural relics protection unit.
On June 25th, 2001, this fortress, as a
famous building was listed in the fifth group
of national cultural relic protection units by
the State Council.
HongShiXia
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Redstone gorge, as its name goes, famous for its red stones.
The beauty of gorge appearsapparently along with the setting sun and red stone.
The movie, Ashes of Time, was filmed there.
Redstone gorge is located in the north of Shanxi province which stands from the 4 km of north Yulin in
the red cliff. The valley's total length is 350 meters,but width is less than hundreds. It was landed for military
troops of Xixia regime in Song dynasty. North gorge is divided in two walls. The upper is the naturallake overflowed
outside that is golden shining condensed by yuxi river. The chivalrous man is in white, standing on the lake, enjoying
his sword with his inverted reflection in water. The sounds underwater strike, thunder rumble, wave roar, then loneliness
covered by jollification. Cliff in the east and west confronted witheach other which is chiseled into cave so that Mater Huang
created a heroic scenic of fighting with enemy in that cliff. This sort of grand gorge is appropriate formilitary competition and
could result in one saying that is quick in one's fatal.Xiong shan temple and Calligraphy carved stone stand in east and west cliff.
Inscriptional record and fresco were not existed any longer, but Mongolian carved stone is still a precious treasure.
HongJianNao
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The second “Lop Nor”
The Hongjiannao lake is the largest one in Shanxi province which is inland lake inside of Maowusu
desert and the biggest freshwater lake in China. Its area takes up 67 square kilometers, shoreline
stretches 43.7 km and level is 1100 meters, so it belongs to inland lake of highland. The cleanness
of its water, the vastness of its mist and ripples, the richness of seaweed, the beauty of environment
and the gorgeousness of scenery are combined with the scene of Jiangnan so that makes it an ideal
aquatic park for tourists. Here, “Zhuo” is Mongolian language which means lake or water.Hongjianzhuo,
also called “tears of Zhaojun”, it derives from a legend about marriage of Zhaojun. In Han dynasty, lady Wang
Zhaojun was engaged with Huns, on the way to prairie, she said farewell to Central Plains, her heart was filled
with melancholy and tears which lead to create this huge lake. This story moved the Queen of Heaven, so she
sent her seven daughters to hold one ribbon separately and after that there were seven seasonal rivers flowing
into “Tears of Zhaojun”.
Genghis Khan Mausoleum
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Legend of the beauty
The tomb of famous legend of the beauty Genghis Khan stood on the Ordos
plateau of western Mongolia autonomous region which has the shape of ger
architectural style. In 1219 and 1226, Khan went for westexpedition for two times,
on his road, he was deeply attracted by the beauty and eulogized it with his poem,
and he recognized here as burial ground. Then he died on August 1227, and was
buried in this land. Sincethen, this area was named as “cemetery of the master”.
Thick jungle, lush grass and trees characterize a fine spring in his cemetery. In
this quiet and harmonious grassland, this ger represents Khans conquer in the world
and sleepless in Mongolian. Erdos stick to their bravery, enthusiasm and sturdiness in
order to guard this hero from generation to generation.
TongWanCheng
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The Millennium relics
Tongwan city is located in Baichengzi village for the 58 kilometers
north of Jingbian county, cause its wall has the white color, local people
named it as White City (Baichengzi). This city was the relic of Xia dynasty
created by the Huns noble HelianBobo. It is also the unique capital city ruins
left by the Huns tribe in the human history which is the earliest and most famous
city in the northern Chinafor nearly 1600 years’. Tongwan city was founded in
AD 413, and completed in 418, then Han dynasty rebuilt and redecorated it. After
that, this city wasdestroyed and conquered during the unification of emperor Tuoba,
since then, it was set up as a military town.
ShiMaoGuCheng
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Shimao ancient city
Shimao ancient city is found by northern Shanxi that the largest
human activity relic in the late longshan culture sites and is also
the largest town in prehistoric times. It is located in the northern
mound of Tuwei river in Shimao county of Gaojia town which is in
the rim of loess Plateau. It is primarily recognized that it belongs to
the ruins from the late Neolithic age to the early Xia dynasty.Shimaorelic
dates back to 4000 year’s ago, and its area occupies 4.25 million square meters.
This city has ever owned beyond 300 years history. In 1976, archaeology
professor Dai Yingxin of Northwestern University did an investigation about this
ancient city since he heard from some folk tales. Then there were some teams
from Xian and Beijing to do the archaeological excavation.It was announced as
the National cultural relic protection units in 2006. Shimao, as the eve of Chinese
civilization, was chosen as the top ten archaeological discoveries, world's top ten
archaeological field discoveries and the vital archaeological found in 21st century.