Where does the "Su" from Gansu come from?

Because of a satellite launch center, "Gansu Jiuquan" often appears in the words of the news.

Although the "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is not in Jiuquan" has been revealed countless times, it is not a cold knowledge. But I still often hear such questions: Where is Jiuquan?

Jiuquan, a city that appears in news headlines throughout the year with "aerospace".

Photography /FLY_TO_SPACE

The world knows Dunhuang, but few people know it belongs to Jiuquan. The unfamiliar is the area of ​​Jiuquan -42%of the total area of ​​Gansu, which is equivalent to two Jiangsu. The "Su" in Gansu is also from Jiuquan.

Although there are counties and cities such as Dunhuang, Yumen, Guazhou, Jiayuguan City is inserted in the middle like "wedge". In Suzhou, Jiuquan City, it is like a flying ground compared with the scope of Jiuquan.

Jiuquan is the largest city in Gansu.

Map / Sun Lu

The same is the four counties in Hexi. The political status is not as good as Wuwei. It is not as rich as Zhangye. Is it famous than Dunhuang? Is the face of Jiuquan really vague?

Light and wind, sand and water collide here. Jiuquan is actually romantic and fantasy.

Desert, Gobi, Snow Mountain, Glacier,

Jiuquan is in the most complicated section of the Silk Road.

Photography/Xu Haiyang

The legend of her name in Huo Qubing into the spring and the generals drinking with the soldiers was the earliest "customs" in China for the world; she watched the killing of fighting and the camel bell. She is the first space city in China, the first oil -heavy place in China; she is the most potential clean energy production area in China, and it is an important agricultural species base and the hometown of melon and fruits across the country ...

Some people say that Jiuquan is a city with "local than the whole". There are many familiar names hidden here. In addition to Dunhuang, there are Yangguan, Yumen Pass, Guazhou, Suoyang City ... People from China and even around the world have endless imagination of the city.

The Silk Road Camel team may be the most classic in Jiuquan's impression.

Photography/Xiang Yan

The ultimate scenery of 1/2 in Gansu, the provincial name of 1/2

All in Jiuquan

Open the map of China to see Gansu. Many people think that Dunhuang or Jiayuguan is the western city in Gansu. In fact, Dunhuang is a county -level city in Jiuquan, and Jiayuguan, the smallest prefecture -level city in Gansu, is surrounded by Jiuquan on three sides. The west side of the "jade" in Gansu is the whole boundary of Jiuquan.

The Qilian Mountains, crossing the south of Jiuquan.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road was also prosperous. Starting from Chang'an, crossing the Yellow River through Longyou, through Wuwei and Zhangye, the climate along the road is getting dry, the sun is no longer gentle, and when the wind stabs the face pain, Jiuquan just appears for people to stay. Going forward, Guizhou and Dunhuang are not far away. After the sun is out, the western region is vast. The Tang people's experience, the donkey friends who follow the Ganqing Da Ring today must also resonate.

Yangguan was once an oasis in the dark sand.

Photography/Zhao Gaoxiang

Today, Jiuquan's large volume, the victory of the mountains and rivers, and the richness of things have far exceeded the imagination of Han Tang. This 192,000 square kilometer land has such a complicated and strange faces.

The most "Northwest" Northwest

Jiuquan is located at the junction of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, and Gansu Province. There is also a national border with Mongolia. He is in the northwest, Jiuquan, hiding the Hexi Corridor, and the most extreme natural scenery in the entire northwest.

In Xinjiang in the west, Jiuquan has Yadan landforms like the Devil City, and the Gobi Desert who can't look at it at a glance:

The undulating desert Gobi, no lonely smoke.

Photography/xxn photography, Figure/Figure insect · Creative

In the north, Mongolia, the Malaysian Mountains are connected, and isolated from the Wudi Sand Sea that extends from the Mongolian Plateau; the north of the Qinghai and the lifeblood of the Hexi Corridor -the Qilian Mountains is between Gan Qing, such as a wet island that extends to the desert, flowing Precious ice and snow melt water:

Qi Lian Xue Mountain melted the water and flowed down from the mountains.

Photography/Fu Ding

Looking in the Inner Mongolia east, it is still the Yellow Sand Desert that is ups and downs, and the euphratica that grows upside down:

Jiuquan Hollywood Forest, blocking the "Great Great Wall" of the desert.

Most counties and cities in Jiuquan are between the snowy mountains and deserts, and on the stars' corridor plain oasis, the inland river originates from Qilian Mountain.

Jiuquan is so vast, no wonder the travel industry has spread such a sentence: "Going to Gansu is equivalent to going to China 4/5; when you go to Jiuquan, it is equivalent to going to Gansu 1/2."

Under the Qilian Mountain, Jiuquan also has a rich side of water and grass.

Photography/Xu Haiyang

Two thousand years ago, the Han army repelled the Huns and "listed four counties, according to two levels" in the Hexi Corridor. The west and west regions, north to Mongolia, and Qinghai -Tibet in the south. In such a hub, Jiuquan has been the city since ancient times.

"Su" in Gansu, come from Jiuquan

For the Central Plains dynasty, losing the wine, Hexi is not guaranteed, endangering the Central Plains. Therefore, the Great Wall and the Ming Great Wall extended all the way, and the western end stopped at Jiuquan. Inside and outside the ancient Great Wall, the epic of the years of war and harmony was staged.

The standing Great Wall, the Great Wall of China, faintly visible to the border.

Photography/Li Wenbo

After the Han Dynasty in the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, Jiuquan was ruled by Cao Wei, Western Jin, Qianliang, Qian Qin, Houliang, Xiliang, Beiliang, Beiwei, Northern Wei, Western Wei, and Northern Zhou Dynasty. During Xiliang, Dunhuang and Jiuquan became the capital. In the Sui Dynasty, Jiuquan was restructured to Suzhou, and the meaning of "Su Jingning Bian" was taken. Since then, Suzhou has become another name of Jiuquan.

After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, Jiuquan was occupied by Tubo. Until 848, Zhanghuang's Zhang Chao troops recovered the entire Hexi, and Jiuquan returned to the Tang Dynasty. The peace here did not last long. After the death of the Tang Dynasty, Jiuquan was successively ruled by Jiuquan, Xixia Party Xiang, and Mongolians. When Xixia ruled Hexi, it took the first word in Gansu and Suzhou to set up the Gansu Army Department. Dunhuang south Tianmen. According to legend

Standing here and seeing thousands of Buddha light.

Photography/Xu Haiyang

The Ming Dynasty established an indestructible Jiayuguan. At that time, Suzhou Wei became the first town in the northwest. Outside the Guan, the Seven Guards of Kansai were established and ruled by the leader of the local tribe. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the frontier strategy was further contracted, Jiayuguan was completely closed, and the place of Kansai was abandoned. Jiuquan was separated from Dunhuang, Guazhou and other places.

The Qing Dynasty re -controlled the Hexi Corridor and Xinjiang, and Jiuquan's business road recovered again, but it was no longer the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties. In the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang entered the Xinjiang Ping rebellion, and he poured the whole army in Jiuquan and planted Zuo Gongliu.

The most dazzling Gansu Grottoes

The most complete ancient Chinese city

All in Jiuquan

Jiuquan, from the city, it is not just as simple as a city.

Her ancient city is connected to myths and legends and historical legends; her borders are written into poetry to spread later generations. Her grottoes and murals even affect Chinese culture and aesthetics. The intercepted flying sky and nine -color deer poured all beings.

In the Talta Temple of Suoyang City, Xuan Zang once talked about the scriptures here.

Photography/Li Wenbo

If Gansu is the unique "grotto art gallery" in the world, then the grotto group of Jiuquan is the most dazzling paragraph in the corridor. Dunhuang studies from the Dunhuang Grottoes and Tibetan Scriptures have become world -class learning in centuries.

Bianguan Ancient City: Real iron blood and romantic legends

In the imagination of the ancient Chinese people, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are the Central Plains of "in the world", and the Kunlun Mountain in the west is the fairyland where the fairy lives. Two thousand years ago, Jiuquan was in the eyes of the Central Plains, and there was a bizarre myth.

"Shaling Qingming, Yuequan Xiaocheng."

The name of Yumen Pass comes from the old "Jade Road" that is older than the Silk Road. As early as the Han Dynasty, Hetian jade in Xinjiang was transported from here to Central Plains, and also left the treasure "Nights Cup" for Jiuquan, and "Jade The title of Jiuquan ".

In the myth of the ancients, Yumen is the "Yaochi Yushan Gate" living in the Queen Mother of the West. In the Tang Dynasty, Yumen Pass had moved from Dunhuang to Guazhou, and Xuan Zang took risks to "smuggle". Now I have come to Jiuquan and go straight to Yumen Pass, my heart must be a poet:

"Why bamboo flute complain willow, spring is not degree Pass."

——Wang Zhizheng

"Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, Lonely City looks at Yumen Pass." (Wang Changling)

Photography/Zhao Gaoxiang

Yangguan is named after the south of Yumen Pass. Most of the people who came to Yangguan were holding the ancient poem: "I advise the king to do a glass of wine, and the west is out of the Yangguan." Today, Guyangguan has been razed to the ground, leaving only a hoe on the hillbag for future generations to say goodbye, and it is endless.

Yang Guansha like snow.

Photography/Sun Zhicheng

Yumen Pass and Yangguan are not only the landmarks of the Poetry of the Tang Dynasty, but also the north -south Daotong of the Silk Road, just like the two doors of the Central Plains Western Regions. How many soldiers have been lying here and drinking snow here, guarding the battle, how many businessmen, envoys, and monks verify customs clearance here. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chao, who was stationed in the Western Regions, wrote to the emperor. Willing to be born into Yumen Pass ", a sigh of sighing hometown is still deafening.

There are countless ancient cities, "air -dry" because of the disappearance of the river water source. The river warehouse city near Yumen Pass is the granary of Yumen Pass in the Han Dynasty. The reason why it is named "River Warehouse" is that it can be carried by boats here. The spring water of "Xuanquan" was named. They have long been "dehydrated" and buried by dust and sand.

Xuanquan setting site in the Han Dynasty,

Located at the foot of the flame mountain in the northern foot of Qilian Mountain.

Photography/Yang Wenjie

The Suoyang City on the banks of the Shule River was the place where the Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty was speaking, and the Shippot Tuo (one of the prototypes of Sun Wukong) was apprentices. In the city, Suoyang City became the largest and most complete ancient city pool in the Hexi Corridor, and it is also a large large -scale Tangcheng site in China.

Jiuquan can be called the "Ancient City Museum of China".

Map/Sun Lu

一块绿洲荒废了，人们会沿着河流开辟一块绿洲；一座城池风干了，人们会再建一座新城，于是留下了一座又一座残破的古城，诉说着河西走廊上一个永恒的真理：没有水，只Can die.

Fortunately, Dunhuang City has always been nourished by the Party River, and the world -class treasure, Dunhuang culture, has been circulated.

Dunhuang in the world: After suffering but immortal pearls

Two thousand years ago, the first county established in Hexi in the Han Dynasty was Jiuquan. With the increase in Central Plains immigrants, Dunhuang County was set up on the Party River Oasis. "Qianyang Guanhou Yumen, controlled Esxi and Mobei", as Dunhuang, who is "key to the pole", has taken advantage of the limelight since then.

Mogao Grottoes were originally called "Mogao Grottoes", which means "the height of the desert".

Photography/Xu Haiyang

From Han to Tang, Dunhuang was the "throat in the throat" in China and the West, and it was "the first capital of Huarong's association". At that time, the merchants gathered, the car was horse, and the various races in the Central Plains Western Regions were bustling. The various goods in the shop are full of goods, and there are everything, called selling sounds, noise, deafening ... In Dunhuang, Chinese culture, Indian culture, Greek culture, and Islamic culture integrated together, creating unparalleled miracles in the history of human civilization. Fascinating is not just Mogao Grottoes.

Yulin Grottoes, also known as Wanfo Gorge, is named after the album of the river bank.

It is the treasure trove of mural art after Mogao Grottoes.

Photography/Li Wenbo

From the Changma Grottoes all the way to the west, not only can I see Mogao Grottoes along the way, but also the Dongqian Buddha Cave, Yulin Grottoes, West Thousand Buddha Caves, and Five Temple Caves ... If the Silk Road is one The magnificent symphony, then the Dunhuang Grottoes are the most moving movements in this symphony.

Jiuquan's Buddhist Grottoes are not just Mogao Grottoes.

Map/Sun Lu

In the age of openness, the forefront of Dunhuang was naturally prosperous. However, as soon as the Jiayuguan of the Ming Dynasty closed, the footsteps of openness fell, and Dunhuang quickly declined. Moreover, Dunhuang was easily attacked by the wind. A flood in the party in the early Qing Dynasty even destroyed the ancient city of Dunhuang in the Han Dynasty. Later, during the Yongzheng period, the Dunhuang immigrants had built a new city on the east bank of the Party River.

In contrast, Suzhou is slightly inclined inland. It has not changed the city for two thousand years. The river is stable and the oasis are vast. This is why, Dunhuang, who was sitting flat with Jiuquan at first, was under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan for a long time.

Jiuquan is one of Asia's largest Yadan's landforms.

The wind shaped here into a strange life forbidden area.

Photography/Jin Bochen

The discovery of the modern Tibetan Scripture cave has re -attracted countless gaze for Dunhuang, and Jiuquan did not seem lonely -ancient Dunhuang Feitian, Jiuquan "rushing into the sky" today: exploring the sky and drilling oil. Modern Jiuquan people planted fruits and vegetables on Gobi, "planting the sun" in the desert ... Miracle is re -re -entered this ancient land.

The "Son of the Earth" sculpture was lying on the Gobi Beach of Guazhou.

China Aerospace Cradle and Petroleum Industry Classes

Today Jiuquan, "scenery" is unlimited!

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center -one of the three major satellite launch bases in the world. At present, China's only manned space launch site -undoubtedly one of the most well -known business cards in modern Jiuquan. Because the main launch base is not in Jiuquan, there is a virtual name for Jiuquan?

In fact, the satellite launch base is well deserved in the name of "Jiuquan".

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

Photography/FLY_TO_SPACE

In 1958, when the Aerospace City started construction, he chose to be in an oasis on the Ejea Banner Badan Jilin Desert. The location here is hidden, and the sun is high, which is suitable for satellite launch. At that time, Ejin Banner actually belonged to Jiuquan, Gansu, and was later classified as Inner Mongolia. In addition, Jiuquan, as the closest city, has long undertaken the supply of materials at the launch base for a long time, and is responsible for the establishment of the base living area, special railway and highways.

On June 5, 2022, the "Long Two F Rockets" launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

Send Shenzhou 14 into space.

Photography/FLY_TO_SPACE

In the sky, Jiuquan is the cradle of China's aerospace industry. "Drilling the ground", "drilling" the birthplace of the petroleum industry.

Yumen Laojun Temple Oil Mine is one of the earliest oil fields developed in my country. In March 1939, Old 1 was oil -out, which greatly encouraged the people's hearts of the War of Resistance and War. After the founding of New China, Yumen Oil Mine became my country's first oil industry base. Since then, talents and equipment have been transferred to more than 50 oil fields including Daqing Oilfield and Changqing Oilfield. The iron man Wang Jinxi was the Yumen people who played the first oil well in Daqing Oilfield, leaving the hard -working and hard -working "iron man spirit".

Yumen Petroleum River, it is said that a pit can be dug next to the river.

With the development of the industry, immigrants from all over the world came to Jiuquan. Now, in the morning, I heard Shaanxi dialect in the people who eat the pan, or hear the Tianjin accent on the street. It is not surprising.

The spirit of pioneering and hard work has continued in Jiuquan to this day. Whether it is breeding fruits and vegetables, or "growing the sun", Jiuquan people can!

Dunhuang molten salt tower -type light heat power station,

The "new sun" in the desert.

Photography/Zhao Gaoxiang

This is one of the most abundant regions of China's solar resources. Dunhuang's melting salt tower -type light -thermal power station is the first tower -like light -thermal power station in Asia. Reflected into the central melting tower, and a new "sun" was planted in the desert, and the scene was spectacular.

The narrow pipe effect of the corridor area also makes Jiuquan a "world wind storage". The wind speed in the afternoon is the largest, and the sunset wind stops, leaving the proverb of "the wind is afraid of the sunset" in the local area. In June 2021, my country's first tens of millions of kilowatt -level wind power bases were completed in Jiuquan, which is well deserved.

Jiuquan workers are making wind power equipment.

Not only industry, Jiuquan Agriculture is also amazing throughout the country. Thousands of years ago, the seeds floating from the Western Regions first settled on this oasis. Then continue to spread to the East, float to the land of the Central Plains. Today's Jiuquan is an important national grain cotton base, fruits and vegetable base, and one of the most advantageous breed breeding bases and foreign trade systems in the country. Who can think that the rare rainfall is the largest onion planting, processing, circulation, and export base in my country, and the output accounts for one -tenth of the country's total output. There are also Dunhuang grapes, Guazhou Melon, Suzhou pepper ... this ordinary northwestern town has bred countless extraordinary products.

Pepper in Suzhou District.

The temperature difference between day and night and sufficient sunshine, providing excellent conditions for chili species.

Recently, the inland river such as the Shule River reversed the decline. The original dry lake bed also reproduced the vitality. Along the ancient Great Wall, an ecological "Water Great Wall" that blocked the desert quietly appeared in Jiuquan, as if it was indicating what.

Whether it is open or closed, war or peace, and melody, the ancient city of Jiuquan has never completely fell. As long as Qilian's melting water flows, this city can grow tough like the euphratica and sacrifice in the desert.

China Jiuquan, Flying!

Photography/Tang Hua

For two thousand years, Jiuquan, always next to the Gobi of the desert, on the oasis, waiting for the people of the East and the West.

Text 丨 Li Yi

Picture Edit | Nafu

Map Editor | Sun Lu

Design | Wu Yanyang

Headmap Photography | Visual China

Covering Photography | Li Wenbo

Unexpected picture | Visual China

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Jiuquan City, editor -in -chief of Sun Zhan'ao, Fang Zhi Publishing House, 2007

Gansu Jianshi, Editor's Office of the Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Provincial Press, 2020

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