How Much Do You Know About Gansu? After Watching This, You'll Understand Everything

Do you know about Gansu?Is it the Gobi Desert scenery depicted by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, 'Long River and Setting Sun, Round; Vast Desert, Straight Smoke'; or is it the desolate scene depicted by Wang Zhao, 'Hucheng Hu's Lament, Willow Green; Spring Wind Doesn't Measure the Jade Gate?' Believe that after watching this segment, you will definitely have a new look at Gansu.

Gansu,is located in the northwestern part of our country, with a total area of 45.44 square kilometers, ranking seventh in China, which is larger than Japan. Gansu's terrain is like a lucky charm: 1600 kilometers winding east to west, equivalent to the distance from Beijing to Fujian, 530 kilometers wide north to south, and the narrowest place only 25 kilometers.

Gansu is located at the intersection of the Tibetan Plateau, Loess Plateau, and Inner Mongolian Plateau, so Gansu has the most abundant landforms: grasslands, forests, plateaus, glaciers, and deserts… Besides the ocean, there are all other landform types in Gansu.

Gansu's diverse landforms

When it comes to Gansu, or when traveling to Gansu, many friends first think of Dunhuang. In fact, there are many places to play in Gansu:

See misty rapeseed flowers in spring, grasslands in Ganzhou in summer, golden poplar trees in autumn, and visit the Qianglin Glacier in winter.

In addition to this, you can also go to Jiayuguan to see the magnificence of the pass; go to Zhangye to see the magical; go to Jiuquan to see China's aerospace technology and how Yang Liwei took off; go to Pingli to seek immortality on Kongtong Mountain; and go to Linxia to listen to the purest flowers.

When traveling in Gansu, you not only experience the scenery but also the Chinese nation's five-thousand-year history. China's history is called five thousand years, while Gansu's history is close to eight thousand years. The three emperors and five emperors invented the Eight Trigrams with Fuxi, and Nuwa, who made people out of clay, were all born in Gansu's Taiyuan; the goddess Nuwa, according to legend, descended to Pingli in Gansu; Qin Shi Huang, who unified the world, had his ancestors in Longxian's Baiji; and 'the history of the world came from Longxi', the founder of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Yuan, Han General Li Guang, and Li Bai, all had their ancestry in Longxi's Chengji; now more than 100 million people have the surname Li, but tracing their ancestors is in Gansu's Longxi.