Live Your Best Lives
Roses cannot grow in barren land, but the strong liquor in the northwest is enough to nourish long-lasting love. If you like romance, this place is not barren.
Song Dongye said: "Stranger, please give me a Lanzhou." The Low Wormwood Band once sang in "Lanzhou, Lanzhou": Tonight, the lonely hills behind the White Pagoda are quietly raining. The Yellow River, which has not flowed east, has a momentary ripple. Thousands of miles away, you are awake all night in a high-rise building. Lanzhou - always leaving in the early morning, Lanzhou - warm drunkenness at night, Lanzhou - the endless Yellow River flows eastward, Lanzhou - the end of the dream is the entrance to the sea,
I had the impression that Lanzhou was a city in the Gobi Desert, with no life but only loess. However, this time, I saw not only loess, but also the continuation of history from generation to generation.
When you come to a city, experiencing the food is a must. The journey with a bowl of beef noodles begins here!
【Moyangou Beef Noodles (Main Branch)】
I have to say that any beef noodle restaurant in Lanzhou is a real gem!
2: [Looking Back]
A collection of Lanzhou snacks, gray beans, sweet embryos, small fish in rice water, spicy three kinds, washed stuffed skin, meat pie, green tea sweet embryos YYDS!
3: [Desert BBQ]
It's average, normal level, the grilled lamb tripe is delicious (sour and sweet). I almost missed the train to eat it. 4: [Gamazi barbecue] Oh my god, it's covered with a layer of chili, and the flatbread is also full of chili, but it looks spicy and is actually quite fragrant.
Your eyes must be an unknown sea. The blue that comes into view is like a blue tear falling into the world. It is another day of being healed by nature.
Today we run here, stroll here, and ride around the lake here. Everyone is feeling the beauty in front of them in their own way. It is so beautiful that it seems unreal, as if it is a dream.
Chaka Salt Lake is located on Salt Lake Road, Chaka Town, Ulan County, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Prefecture, Qinghai Province. "Chaka" means salt pond in Tibetan, and "Dabusun Nur" in Mongolian means the sea of green salt.
It changes from a drop in the ocean into a pure world without any dust. All the colors are evaporated, leaving only pure blue and white. The body and mind are washed and purified. From then on, you can take the train to the "Sky Realm" and arrive at the end of the dream.
I have read a thousand sentences about summer, but none of them can compare to the breeze blowing in my face and the undefinable blue and green.
Emerald Lake, as the name suggests, looks like a huge piece of emerald, or a piece of green jade, embedded in the Gobi Desert, adding a different color to the desolate cliffs. The lake water is as blue as a gem and as green as emerald, and its colors are richer than those of the Chaka Salt Lake. It is another sky realm in Qinghai.
I ride a bicycle to inquire about the frontier, passing through Guyuan, a vassal state. The expeditionary force leaves the frontier, the returning geese fly into the barbarian sky. A lone smoke rises straight across the desert, the sun sets round over the long river. At Xiaoguan, I meet the marquis's cavalry; the Protector General is at Yanran.
——Wang Wei, "Envoy to the Frontier"
The lonely smoke in the desert, the camel bells on the ancient road, and the desert oasis, this is what I see in Mingsha Mountain.
Surrounded by the Mingsha Mountains, Crescent Lake gets its name from its crescent-like shape. Mingsha Mountains and Crescent Lake are a pair of transformed sisters in the vast Gobi desert, their namesakes reflecting the moon and remaining dust-free. "The spring never runs dry, even though the vast ancient sands never fill it." Nestled together to this day, the winding desert gleams with the sun's radiance, and the camel bells of the Silk Road seem to pour down from the heavens. The shimmering light and flowing shadows of the sand dunes create a sense of loneliness and beauty, a subtle vicissitude that grows amidst the changing world. I couldn't help but be captivated by the vast desert sands.
A life that has lived for a thousand years "Visiting Mogao Grottoes is not about seeing specimens that have been dead for a year, but about seeing lives that have lived for a thousand years." - Yu Qiuyu
The Mogao Grottoes: A history unextinguished by the wind, a brilliance unmistakable by the sand. The deserts of Northwest China once held many brilliant and splendid cultures. Some have been buried by the yellow sand, leaving only ruins, while others still stand tall in the wind and sand, constantly drawing admiration from modern people.
Mogao Grottoes are located in Dunhuang at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. It took a thousand years from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty to be built. This "nine-story building" is rare in China and the world. It is built against the mountain and is majestic. It is particularly dazzling among the grottoes. Its towering spires, staggered eaves, and the clanging of iron horses have become one of the symbols of Mogao Grottoes.
The morning rain in Weicheng has moistened the dust, and the green willows in the guesthouse are anew green. I urge you to drink another cup of wine, for there will be no old friends west of Yangguan. —Wang Wei, "Sending Yuan Er to Anxi"
The country's arms are stretched to connect to the Western Regions. The land has great beauty but it is not described. It is a feast for the world, a sunset shining on the red clouds.
The vibrant colors of the Danxia, like cinnabar, are a dazzling display of neon scattered across the world. The majestic Pingshan Lake embodies the Northwest's most distinctive and heroic spirit. Buddhism flourished on this fertile land, radiating for millennia. The Qilian Snow Mountains nurtured the Hexi Corridor, a mysterious sight visible just by looking up. It turns out that the Eight Sounds of Ganzhou possesses its own tenderness. Amidst the ancient monuments, listen to the tinkling of camel bells and experience the vicissitudes of time. Glacial relics collide with the Danxia, and rich history blends with splendid culture. A dialogue transcends time and space, a single touch. The vast mountains and rivers make life worth living.
Jiayuguan, a lonely fortress nestled against the backdrop of a vast mountain range, stands on one side, the snow-capped Qilian Mountains on the other, the impenetrable blackness of the mountains on the other. Amidst the bitter cold, Jiayuguan towers high beneath the blue sky, appearing majestic and profound. Beyond the solemnity of this place, one witnesses the whirlwind of history and its bloodshed.
"The Great Wall stretches from Jiayu Pass in the west to Shanhaiguan in winter." Known as the "Connecting Frontiers," this important ancient Chinese fortress was constructed by General Feng Sheng, the great general of the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition, after he recaptured Hexi. It served as a formidable defensive line to protect the Ming Dynasty's territory and suppress the Mongol barbarians. As a "glorious fortress," its strategic location at the narrowest point of the Hexi Corridor, combined with its meticulous and comprehensive defense system, vividly demonstrates the wisdom of the ancients in the age of cold weapons and the painstaking efforts they put into maintaining peace.
The rainbow accompanied us along the way, and my friends all shouted that they were lucky to have seen the colorful auspicious clouds and experienced the wind and sand. At this moment, we set out on the return journey accompanied by the rainbow. Under the snow-capped mountains, there are thousands of miles of grasslands with thousands of miles of flowers blooming. I walked through the snow on the Qilian Mountains outside the Yumen Pass, and also walked through the boundless grasslands with thousands of sheep and wild flowers blooming.
Following our car all the way, after crossing the pass, the view suddenly opened up, revealing stretches of beautiful, eye-catching green grasslands. The vast expanse of emerald green grasslands was dotted with colorful small wildflowers, and cattle and horses leisurely grazed, creating a pure and natural beauty.
I originally thought that this place was barren and lifeless, but later I found out that everything grows. I want to be a traveler, watching the stars and the sunset, free as the wind.
I just prefer this romantic and desolate Northwest. To be continued——
