Xiaritala Grasslands

Huangcheng is the most east-facing township in Sunan County. It is still very good to go to play in summer. The grassland is green and there are few people. There is a Yuanjian Reservoir near the imperial city and rural area. In July and August, there will be a large area of red grass on the edge of the reservoir (I don't know what grass is), the color is very shocking.

There is a Huangcheng Reservoir 47 kilometers south of Yongchang County, Gansu. Standing at the reservoir dam, you can overlook the Lenglong Mountain of Qilian Mountain. The snow-capped mountains are reflected on the water, the water and grass along the coast are beautiful, and the cattle and sheep are leisurely and quiet under the blue sky and white clouds. More than 2,000 years ago, Huo Gossick drove the Hunnu from here and found this fat grassland, so he ordered people to raise horses here. I didn't expect this work to last here for 2,000 years. If there is no prompt, passers-by will find the imperial city difficult, mistakenly thinking it is a row of ordinary loess mounds. The composition of Lenglongling, sheep, mounds, grasslands is very harmonious. As for where the mound came from? When did it come? If it is not a purposeful search for the imperial city, I am afraid no one will ask. I didn't meet a passerby here for the first time, until I raised the small plane and was bored to take some sheep material, I was surprised to find its existence. 400m high overlooking the square of the imperial city, the city raft, the moat, the big city gate, the small city gate, and the "work" type high platform where the palace is located. Visually, it is a thousand-person-level earthen plate building the old city. Strangely, the city is empty, still flat grassland, refreshing, no family. Recall the small plane, a group wanted to observe the earth city up close, and when they were approaching, they were stopped by a barbed wire fence, and only sheep could pass. Obviously, the imperial city has not been developed into a tourist attraction. But the local area has recognized its scarcity and preciousness, so it consciously moved to the imperial town two kilometers away. According to the "Yuan Shi Shizu IV", the imperial city was called "tiao diao" before the Yuan Dynasty, and it was under the jurisdiction of Panyu County, Wuwei County (now Yongchang County). It belongs to the Yongchang Wang only to Timuer. Wang Yongchang's grandfather is Wo Kuotai (the Mongolian Khan selected by Genghis Khan), his father is Kuo Duan, ranking the old three at home. Kuo Duan once took Liangzhou, controlling Tibet. Yuan to Yuannian (1272) Yongchang Wangzhu New Town, set up Yongchang Mansion. But later in the Qianlong years of the "Yongchang County Zhi", the "Huangcheng is Yongchang City" statement denied. And it is stated that it is the Muma City and the summer palace built by the Yongchang King. One is the city where people live, the other is Muma City. Under the prompt of the county, I immediately found the square city on the other side of the road. In fact, the two cities are only 200m apart. Because the Beicheng is eroded by the East River, the collapse is serious. The flat view is already very obvious. At first glance, it seems to be a sheep circle. The complete outline can be seen from the perspective of a small plane. The north city that is about to disappear, there is no barbed wire fence, no royal style. The two cities do not sit south to north, their gates face Lenglongling. The imperial city moat is about 10 meters wide, and the banks of the river are concave and convex. The round pier reflects the aesthetics of the Han nationality tradition. At the northern end of the city, there is a building base, the residual height is 1 meter, and the debris such as glazed tiles, tile stalls, kisses and porcelain were unearthed. Although the imperial city was built by the Yongchang king, it is not under the jurisdiction of Yongchang County today, but the turf of Sunan Yugu Autonomous County. The two counties are bounded by the imperial city reservoir. It is more convenient to visit here from Yongchang. In 1368, Zhu Yuanxuan broke through the Yuan Dadu (Beijing), and the Yuan Dynasty was turned over. In 1372, Ming defeated Feng Sheng in the Gansu area of Mongolia, and the Liangzhou army was defeated and fled to the north of the desert. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, local forces such as Turpan, Hami and Waqi outside Jiayu Guan fought for power and land, and continued to fight. In order to facilitate rule, the guards outside the Guanyu were moved into the Guanyu. The Yugu people also moved east to enter the customs, and settled in the Nanshan area of Suzhou and Ganzhou. During this period, the area of the imperial city was integrated with the predecessor of the Shandan Army Horse Farm, "Dama Yingcaotan". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the political situation was turbulent, and the surrounding people moved here to settle, becoming a Hui and Tibetan settlement area. According to the Huangcheng Reservoir, a Tibetan Buddhist Gelu temple in Hexi Village (Tibetan Village), 4 kilometers away, Shagou Temple (Flipping Danji Temple). A small mosque on the edge of the city wall is in stark contrast to the lonely imperial city under Lenglongling. At this time, the door was closed, and no one could see the entrance and exit from the front and back of the house. The owner must be the owner of the sheep. Although the Hui people in the imperial town only accounted for 2% of the total number, the temple was decent and stood on the grassland, which was very eye-catching. Self-driving tour address navigation: Huangcheng Reservoir, Yongchang County (the roadside opposite the reservoir dam is right) @Ctrip Video Jun