How Stella Bay

How Stella Bay

Laoniuwan is located at the junction of Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, bounded by the Yellow River. To the south is Pianguan County of Shanxi, to the north is Qingshuihe County of Inner Mongolia, and to the west is Zhungeer banner of Ordos Plateau. It is a place with three cities of Jiming. The Yellow River enters Shanxi from here, the Great Wall inside and outside meets here, and the Grand Canyon of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia starts from here. The geomorphological features of the vicissitudes of China's Loess Plateau are highlighted here. At the same time, there is also a magnificent landscape of big rivers.

Laoniuwan is the place where the Great Wall shakes hands with the Yellow River. It is one of the ten most beautiful canyons in China. The whole laoniuwan tourist area consists of three bays and one valley, namely baozi tawan, laoniuwan, four tawan and yangjiachuan canyon.

geographical position

Laoniuwan scenic spot is located 13 kilometers north of Wanjiazhai Water Control Project dam, 270 kilometers away from Datong City, Shanxi Province

It covers an area of 800 mu, and 209 national highway passes through and connects Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, with convenient transportation. Surrounded by the economic Golden Triangle of northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, the scenic spot is a necessary place for many tourist routes with superior resources and environment.

Main attractions

Laoniuwan, a natural bonsai in the Grand Canyon of the Yellow River

Baozi tawan

When you climb high, you can have a panoramic view of the nine bends and eighteen bends of the Yellow River in baozi tawan scenic area. It is most appropriate to describe baozi tower as "the cliffs are as steep as monkeys, and the birds don't go through the mountains and rocks". The Yellow River turns back here, turning a nearly 360 ° round Bay, enclosing it into a peninsula. Some people call it "Colorado of China" vividly, which is the most fascinating part of the whole canyon

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old castle

Built in the third year of Chenghua (1467 A.D.), laoniuwan castle is located on the cliff close to the Yellow River Grand Canyon. It is a garrison castle of the Ming Dynasty's defense system. The Wanghe tower at the north end of the castle is the viewing place of the barracks. It is an exquisite architectural style of the Ming Dynasty and one of the symbols of laoniuwan scenic area. The buildings of laoniuwan ancient village are located on the hillside and are scattered. All the buildings are selected locally They are all made of local stones and flakes. The ancient houses with different shapes are shaped according to the situation. The stone walls and stone courtyard follow the shape. The stone cabinet of stone mill and stone bin can be seen everywhere. The whole village can be regarded as a classic stone architecture museum.

Four towers

The four tawan have a typical mountain village scene in northern Shanxi Province. The farmers are working hard in the ten thousand hectares of terraced fields. The four tawan in this scene give people a very soft and beautiful feeling. It is as quiet as a virgin, which makes people forget to return.

Yangjiachuan small Canyon

Yangjiachuan small Canyon is 8 kilometers long. Along the line, there is a unique landscape composed of the Great Wall, ancient castle, ancient village, ancient temple, plank road and wharf. The cliffs on both sides of the river bank plunge into the clouds, the woodcutters and pharmacists sing along, the grotesque rocks at the bottom of the valley, the gushing mountain springs, the singing of rare birds, and the deep and quiet primitive natural scenery constitute a beautiful landscape painting. It's a good place for explorers. Boating on the Yellow River, visiting the Great Wall, having a picnic, sleeping in the open, drinking in the bar and night, you can enjoy the free space of nature at will. You can also visit the farmhouses, live in caves, and experience the rich local folk customs. We will welcome tourists from all walks of life to visit us in a simple and modern way. The Yellow River natural danger has made laoniuwan magnificent. The Great Wall castle has added infinite charm to it. The Loess culture and frontier culture are attracting scholars, artists and tourists from all walks of life. With our continuous protection and development, laoniuwan will become a domestic and even international tourist destination.

As a helpless watchman, he will never know why people come to such a miserable place as laoniuwan one after another. When the painter comes, oh, he understands that the painter is going to come here to depict the landscape; when the crew comes, oh, he understands that the crew is going to come here to pick up the location; when the Great Wall expert comes, oh, he also understands that this is originally a part of the Great Wall. People come to laoniuwan with a purpose. What are you doing?

Last time, he asked me: what are you doing here? I couldn't speak for a moment.

I have to say: I'm here to talk with you.

Old song began to laugh and spoke to me. About the harvest, about the weather, about his two daughters and a son. The son ran in and looked at the stranger timidly, holding the doorframe and not talking. He took off his shoes as soon as he came in. The floors of the old song family are all paved with bluestones. Laoniuwan lacks everything, but it doesn't lack stones. The bluestone floor polished the children's feet. He hoped that his son would study hard and leave laoniuwan for a big place in the future. As for where to go, he didn't know. He only knew that laoniuwan could no longer let his children and grandchildren live in it.

The son's eyes are black. He knows what we are talking about. It must be an old topic that his father has talked about a thousand times. There is nothing new. After listening for a while, he went to play with his two sisters.

People on the Bank of the Yellow River naturally talk about the river in front of them.

The old song family was not originally a native of laoniuwan, nor was it stationed as a soldier. His great grandfather was a shop assistant in Pianguan city. He was appointed by his boss to buy grain in laoniuwan.

Laoniuwan ferry gradually rose after the abandonment of border preparation in Qing Dynasty. Although laoniuwan is extremely steep, with upright river banks and curved river channels, its water potential is gentle and it is a good natural harbor. No matter how deep the draft is, no matter how large the tonnage of ships can dock. At the same time, there are soldiers stationed in laoniuwan all the year round, which can ensure the safety of personal and property. Those shrewd and unusual merchants, judging the situation, transformed this heavily fortified barracks Fortress into a border shopping mall.

Although the mall is small, the throughput of goods is amazing. Old song said that in his father's hands, he still remembers that there are many masts at laoniuwan ferry pier, and 30 or 40 big ships need to berth every day. After unloading, the goods were sold by land to piantoulaoguan, and then transferred from piantoulaoguan to Pinglu and Wuzhai.

Along the line from Lama bay to Laoniu Bay, there are many waves in the Bay, and hidden reefs and open reefs are full of rivers. When the rainy season comes in summer, the water regime is unstable. A dragon moat is not only a golden waterway, but also a fatal waterway. The boatmen all turned pale. Often, when large tonnage ships enter Shanxi, they have to hire Lama Bay boatmen to escort them. Lama Bay boatmen will send them to Laoniu Bay, and then put on Laoniu Bay's old boatman to go down, pass through Wanjiazhai and guanhekou, and escort them all the way to Longkou. When the boat arrived at Longkou, the old boatman of laoniuwan got off the boat and landed. He handed over the cargo ship to the famous ship hanzhangfen in Longkou.

Longkou is not only the end of this long gorge, but also the most dangerous place in it. Because the river cut down and the river bed closed up suddenly, the river suddenly became angry and rolled back and forth like a python. The water is big, the waves are roaring, and the mist is rising. When the boat arrived at the mouth of the gorge, a huge underwater rock suddenly raised the riverbed and inserted it into the middle of the river.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, after several blasts, several people were killed, but the huge rock was still lying there. This huge stone is called "Longkou threshold" by boat men. Crossing the threshold is very dangerous. There is only one boatman named Bai Erleng who can cross the river. The boatman of laoniuwan held his breath and watched the boat pass safely. Then he was relieved and returned by land.

When Lao song described the river outside his house, he was obviously a little excited. When he finished, he was also relieved to find that the charcoal fire in the stove was almost out.

Outside the gate of the courtyard, the sky outside is overcast. Higher up in the sky, there is a layer of floating dust that blows every year. The floating dust is motionless in the sky, depicting the sun as a fuzzy round shadow. There was a chill in the air along the river, but in the courtyard of the old song family, some grass came out little by little from the cracks between the stone slabs, which was a touch of green.

Friends in the same trade gave him advice on how to get rich. For example, he could make use of the tourism resources of laoniuwan to build a small hostel. For example, he could also make use of the advantages of Wanjiazhai Reservoir to buy some boats and develop water tourism projects in the reservoir area. Lao song laughs innocently. Listening, he has no spare time. He rushes to clean up the potato seeds. He looked at the land in front of him and said: once the Qingming Festival is over, the festival will not spare people.

Laoniuwan has the Great Wall, the big river, the ancient castle, the beacon tower, and countless ancient ferry legends. It is rich in tourism resources, but this is secondary. The important thing is that it has countless historical topics.

Huling, laoniuwan area, rocky mountains, downstream to Sigou, presents a Loess Plateau landform completely different from laoniuwan.

One autumn a few years ago, my painter friend, who was at the bottom of his life, was disheartened and in a bad mood. He came to this small village called Sigou. At this time, the Loess Plateau was covered with yellow emeralds, and a hundred grains were harvested. The cool wind of autumn blew a large cloud from the sky, and the huge shadow of the cloud passed slowly under his feet. Facing the huge Loess Plateau, my painter friend felt ashamed, and his melancholy went with him.

In the future, he became a famous master of traditional Chinese painting in China, and his painting "Da Yuan" with the theme of Loess Plateau caused a sensation in the art world.

Sigou

He told me about Sigou more than once.

By Pianguan County

Chinese PinYin : Lao Niu Wan