Postscript of Rock Painting Landscape in Helan Mountain
20 18 10 officially went to work in Yinchuan. Nearly 20 days have passed, and I haven't thought of visiting the scenic spots here. The first is because I just arrived and haven't had time to take care of it; The second reason is that I came to road trip. I went to Ningxia once at the end of April 20 12, and I have been to Shapotou, Hu Sha and Zhenbeibao Studios. The third is that the weather is already cold, which is not the best tourist season; Fourthly, Ningxia is a global tourist area, and friends and colleagues will come one after another. If you have been to all the scenic spots before and people still want to accompany you in the future, then simply don't consider it.
65438+1October 26th, weekend time. A boss of the cooperative company came to Yinchuan for inspection, and two friends who worked with the company's northern branch also came to see me. The company recommends everyone to go to Helan Mountain Rock Painting Scenic Area.
A group of eight people and two cars set off from the hotel to the foot of Helan Mountain, and it took about 40 minutes to reach Helankou Rock Painting Scenic Area. Helankou Rock Painting is the representative work of Helan Mountain Rock Painting and the most essential part of Helan Mountain Rock Painting. .
The rock paintings of Helan Mountain are national key cultural relics protection units, national AAAA-level tourist attractions and national research and tourism demonstration bases, and are art galleries of nomadic people in China. In ancient times, Helan Mountain was the place where northern minorities such as Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Uighur, Tubo and Tangut lived and hunted animal husbandry. They carved production and life scenes on the rocks of Helan Mountain, expressing their yearning and pursuit for a better life, and reappearing the aesthetics, social customs and life interests at that time. There are more than 20 rock paintings in the hinterland of Helan Mountain, which is more than 200 kilometers long from north to south. The most representative is Helankou rock painting. On 20 18 Northwest China Tourism Marketing Conference and Tourism Equipment Exhibition, it was shortlisted for "Magic Northwest 100 Scenes". At the 20 18 China Yellow River Tourism Conference, the rock paintings of Helan Mountain were awarded as "Fifty Scenes of the Yellow River in China". (above Baidu)
When I came to the scenic spot, I wanted to find a commentator to accompany me around the scenic spot, but unfortunately there was no commentator that day. My colleague Mr. Befenzhou volunteered to be the commentator of our party. I have to admire Mr. Zhou. He is proficient in humanities, history, culture and archaeology. Explaining the history of human civilization is also eloquent and endless. From his explanation, we also know that human civilization has three necessary conditions: language, metal utensils and the existence of national forms. Entering the scenic spot, a stone carving comes into view: "Years are silent, stones can talk", which is probably the most accurate summary of rock paintings. First, I visited the World Museum of Rock Paintings, in which rock paintings from all over the world were exhibited, which were all-inclusive and complicated. Manager Zhou is well informed and explained it clearly to us. After visiting the museum, we watched the rock paintings of Helan Mountain on the spot along the scenic road, which is called the ancient minority art gallery. On the rocks by the roadside, there are all kinds of rock paintings in high and low places. For the convenience of tourists, all the rock paintings in the scenic spot are prompted with red stickers. Some rock paintings are like animal shapes, some are like Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and some are all kinds of unspeakable symbols. After thousands of years of tempering, it is still vivid, clear and moving, and people have to sigh the diligence and wisdom of the ancient working people.
Walking along the scenic road, on a sunny hillside, about 10 meters above the ground, there is a rock painting with a red flag, which is the representative work of Helan Mountain rock painting "Sun God". This rock painting uses anthropomorphic techniques to create a lovely portrait of the sun god, which is amazing. Then I visited many pictographic rock paintings, especially those with many Xixia characters, which left a deep impression on people.
After visiting the rock paintings, a group of people stepped out of the scenic spot. On the mountain road leading to the exit, we actually saw a few rock sheep running on the cliff. They are sensitive and fast, jumping and walking on rocks, and they are very flexible. Blue sheep is a unique wild animal in Helan Mountain, and now it has become a national protected animal. In addition, there are special personnel in the scenic spot to manage the feeding, so the number of rock sheep is increasing. Sure enough, we saw many rock sheep foraging on the rocks near the exit.
Near the exit, we visited the Han Meilin Art Exhibition Hall, which is located here, and got a taste of the master artists.
Near noon, we went out of the scenic spot and had lunch at the "Shanrenjia" outside the scenic spot. It is said that this restaurant was originally called "Shanju", but it had to be moved outside the scenic spot because of the management of the scenic spot, so it was renamed "Shanju". Lunch is an authentic Ningxia dish. Naturally, Ningxia local hand-grabbed meat, ate wild vegetables and drank local drinks in Helan Mountain. There are many commendatory words in the group's evaluation of Ningxia.
After dinner, the group was not satisfied, so they drove to the wine producing area at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain to visit the winery. According to reports, the eastern foot of Helan Mountain is located at 38 degrees north latitude, which, like Bordeaux in France and Shacheng in Zhangjiakou, is a good natural grape producing area. There are more than 100 wineries here, but only one winery named "Zhihui Yuanshi" is open to the public. This winery has wine cellars, vineyards, tourist parks and so on. And turned the winery into a tourist industrial park. Wineries are all built with blue bricks in a retro way, like medieval buildings, antique. The winery is divided into many areas, some areas are filled with rows of oak barrels, and some areas are iron cages made of groups of steel bars. It is estimated that there are no less than 1000 bottles of dry red in each cage, and some areas are like caves, where wine racks are densely filled with bottled dry red. Mr. Zhou visited wineries in France, but the wineries here still shocked him. No matter the scale or products, the wineries here are not comparable to those in France. Out of the winery, we went directly to visit the vineyard by car. All the grapes in the vineyard have been picked, but the scale of the vineyard is still very eye-opening, and the vineyard is overwhelming and endless. Walking in the vineyard, we were surprised to find that there were many small clusters of grapes on the vine, which had turned into deep purple and withered, and almost turned into raisins. Picking and tasting, extremely sweet, first-class taste. What an unexpected surprise!
After visiting the vineyard, we visited the sightseeing garden. Many exotic willows are planted in the sightseeing garden. The trunk is very thick and short, and the branches on it are all new branches growing on the thick old trunk, giving people a feeling of desolation and suffering. According to the staff, these are all bought by gardeners from northern Shaanxi. There are more than 800 trees in * * *, each of which is valuable. The sightseeing park is still under construction, and more landscapes and plants will be built in the later period, and they will be moved in.
It was getting late, and our party had had enough fun, so we returned to Yinchuan by bus. At dinner, we entertained the guests and their party with the most grand hospitality of Yinchuan people-Delonglou instant-boiled mutton. This is my first trip since I came to Ningxia. I thought it was a memory of many days.