Shuidonggou

Shuidonggou site tourist area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, 19 kilometers away from Yinchuan City in the west, 30 kilometers away from Lingwu City in the south, and 11 kilometers away from Hedong airport. Shuidonggou is the earliest Paleolithic cultural site excavated in China, and also the most complete three-dimensional military defense system of the Great Wall. It is a national 5A tourist attraction and a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is known as "the birthplace of Chinese prehistoric archaeology" and one of the ten new sights in Ningxia.

In Shuidonggou, you can experience the scenes of primitive people's production, life and disaster 30000 years ago in the high-tech Museum; you can also experience the interesting life of "crazy primitive people" in the primitive people's home; you can also experience the thrilling thrill of tunnel warfare in the Ming Dynasty in the underground cangbing cave, a canyon city full of killing planes and concealed weapons; you can cross the great wall and get to 500 Years ago, Tatar and Wala recuperated and galloped on the Mongolian wild grassland. In the vast and beautiful wild grassland, you can experience the wild and unconstrained life of the Mongolian people and be a pure Mongolian.

Take boats, bamboo rafts, camel cars, horse drawn carriages, sightseeing buses and other means of transportation in Luhua Valley, Hongshan lake, shazaowan, ostrich garden, Grand Canyon and other different scenic spots to experience the pleasant surprise everywhere and the bright spot step by step. Like thrilling, then there are high-altitude sliding rope, amphibious vehicle drift, wild grassland desert surfer and other projects waiting for you!

In 2017, the newly launched large-scale historical war live show "Northern Xinjiang Tiange" takes China's only military sites: the Great Wall, Grand Canyon, Tibetan soldier cave and hongshanbao as the live scenes; takes professional riders from Mongolia and more than 100 horses, camels, yaks and a number of simulation chariots as the live scenes; takes war and peace, national prosperity as the live scenes Decline as the main line, it deduces the story of a cargo transportation and robbery in Shuidonggou area, the ancient Silk Road Post station in the great wall and the ancient frontier battlefield, and finally rescued by cavalry; at the same time, it reproduces the growth process of Genghis Khan outside the great wall and the touching family and country feud between Genghis Khan and his good friend zamuhe, and finally unifies Mongolia into a prairie Khan. It is a heroic epic created by a famous director in China for two years.

In Shuidonggou, you can cross in ancient and modern times, and also in nomadic and farming ethnic groups!

Shuidonggou

Shuidonggou scenic spot in Ningxia is the earliest Paleolithic cultural site excavated in China. It is known as "the birthplace of Chinese prehistoric archaeology", "the historical witness of cultural exchanges between China and the west", and is listed as one of the "100 archaeological discoveries with the most significance of Chinese civilization".

It is a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAAAA tourist attraction and a national geopark. He won the silver award of "the 50 most worthy places for foreigners in China". China's only and most complete three-dimensional military defense system of the Great Wall. At the 2018 Northwest China Tourism Marketing Conference and tourism equipment exhibition, he was shortlisted in the list of "100 wonders of Northwest China".

Shuidonggou site tourism area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, 19 kilometers west of Yinchuan City, 30 kilometers south of Lingwu City, 11 kilometers away from Hedong airport. It is located in the core of Yinchuan Hedong tourism belt, and connects with Ordos City in Inner Mongolia in the north. It is the link connecting Ningxia and Inner Mongolia tourism, covering an area of 14.4 square kilometers.

The unique Yadan landform of Shuidonggou has created more than 20 wonderful landscapes, such as ghost city, whirlwind cave, wotuoling, Motian cliff, duanyun Valley, and qiliugou, which record the endless activity track of human beings 30000 years ago. The three-dimensional military defense system of the ancient Great Wall, composed of "Hengcheng Dabian", beacon towers, fortresses, and Tibetan caves, has become a relatively complete military defense architecture Grand View Garden in China.

Thirty thousand years ago, the holy land of human reproduction. In 1923, French paleontologists de Rijin and sang Zhihua discovered prehistoric cultural sites here. Through excavation, a large number of stone tools and animal fossils were unearthed. Shuidonggou became the first Paleolithic cultural site in China. At the 2018 China Yellow River Tourism Conference, Shuidonggou was rated as "50 scenic spots of the Yellow River in China".

geographical environment

geographical position

Ningxia Shuidonggou tourist area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City, Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is 19 kilometers away from Yinchuan City in the west, 30 kilometers away from Lingwu City in the south, and 11 kilometers away from Hedong airport. It is located in the core of Yinchuan Hedong tourist belt, and connects Ordos City in Inner Mongolia in the north. It is the link connecting Ningmeng tourism, covering an area of 7.8 square kilometers.

topographic features

Shuidonggou is located in the southern margin of Ordos platform. The Yadan landform created by nature makes it full of powerful and peculiar charm of barren valley. After tens of millions of years of wind sand carving, it has gathered more than 20 unique native forest landscapes, such as ghost city, wotuoling, motianya, duanyun Valley, Tamarix Valley, etc.

climate

Shuidonggou belongs to the temperate continental climate, and belongs to the temperate arid climate zone in the national natural division. Although it is deep in the inland of Northwest China, it is characterized by drought and less rain, strong evaporation, large temperature difference between cold and hot, sufficient light, strong wind and sand, long winter cold, short summer heat, late spring warm, early autumn cool and more meteorological disasters. It also creates the extreme, thorough and tenacious characteristics of this area.

Explore history

Six excavations in the history of Shuidonggou

In 1919, when Kent, a Belgian missionary, was passing through Shuidonggou, he settled down in "zhangsanxiaodian".

Kent found a rhinoceros skull and a piece of quartz rock which was artificially made on the cliff of Shuidonggou. He met French geopaleontologist sang Zhihua in Tianjin and told him about his discovery in Ningxia.

In June 1923, sang Zhihua and the famous scholar de Rijin came to Shuidonggou after their investigation in some areas of Gansu Province. At the edge of the cliff, mammal fossils exposed on the surface were found. A 12 day investigation and excavation started. A total of more than 300 kg of stone products and animal fossils were excavated, mainly including stone cores, scrapers, pointed vessels and other Paleolithic tools.

In the summer of 1960, the Sino Soviet paleontological joint investigation team opened shuishuidonggou and excavated the site for the second time.

In 1963, Pei Wenzhong, known as "the father of Paleolithic Archaeology in China", led his own team to conduct the third excavation.

In 1980, the joint archaeological team of Ningxia Museum and Ningxia Geological Bureau excavated Shuidonggou for the fourth time.

From 2003 to 2007, dozens of experts and scholars carried out a new round of archaeological excavation with great hope. This time, the team was jointly organized by Ningxia Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The archaeology has the largest number of participants, the longest duration, the largest excavation scope and the most fruitful harvest. This time, we not only mobilized advanced equipment such as GPS, total station and video camera, but also invited experts from geology, geochronology, paleoanthropology and paleoenvironment to discuss and give lectures on the spot. The archaeological achievements are particularly remarkable.

From June 10 to July 10, 2014, the fourth Cultural Tourism Festival and the sixth archaeological excavation were held at Shuidonggou site in Ningxia. Experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ningxia Institute of archaeology excavated the Shuidonggou site.

During the 90 years since the discovery of Shuidonggou, famous prehistoric archaeologists such as Pei Wenzhong and Jia Lanpo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Liu Dongsheng, etc. have come to excavate or investigate. Experts from the United States, South Korea, France, Japan, Russia and other countries have also come from afar.

Main attractions

Shuidonggou area is also a Grand View Garden of military defense buildings in northern China, such as the ancient Great Wall, beacon, Castle, gully, pier, etc. In the nature reserve, the great wall winding eastward, the high mound and Hough, the simple and mysterious castle, and the deep and tortuous gully make people dizzy. It is reminiscent of the heroic scene of "the first soldiers holding spears to fight against the base, and the general drawing swords to chase Hu soldiers".

Shuidonggou tourist area has become a tourist area integrating tourism, scientific investigation, leisure and entertainment, and military exploration. With the opening of Shuidonggou Ruins Museum and Ningxia Great Wall Museum in 2009, new highlights will be added to Shuidonggou scenic area.

Heritage Museum

Shuidonggou site museum, with a construction area of 4308 square meters, imitates the stone tools named stone core unearthed from Shuidonggou. In the form of sculpture, exhibition board, projection, cultural relic exhibition and explanation, Shuidonggou site museum can understand the origin of human evolution, the rise of Shuidonggou culture, and the process and achievements of five archaeological excavations of Shuidonggou site. At the same time, there are also some problems The 12 minute dynamic performance gives us a live experience of the production and life of primitive people 30000 years ago, as well as the forced migration in the face of flash floods and landslides.

Live experience of crazy primitive people

The live experience Museum combines high-tech, artistic, literary and other elements to turn back the time and historical scenes of thousands of years, and let you witness the process of Shuidonggou people having to go far away from their hometown in ancient times, from lush vegetation and swarms of animals to climate change and environmental deterioration. Together with the ancestors of Shuidonggou, we can experience the scenes of gathering, hunting, sacrificing, loving, roasting and dancing around the bonfire, as well as the disasters of rainstorm, flood and earthquake

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