Baitashan Park

Baita Mountain is located on the North Bank of the Yellow River. It is just across the Zhongshan Bridge. It is named after a Baita temple on the top of the main peak. It is said that the temple was built in memory of a famous Tibetan Lama in the Yuan Dynasty. There is a cable car on the other side of the river. You can walk to the top of the mountain for about 20 minutes to get to the white tower. You can have a panoramic view of Lanzhou City on the top of the tower. At the foot of the mountain is the Yellow River. When the weather is fine, you can find a tea shop on the top of the mountain. It's very pleasant to have tea and chat with the breeze.

Baitashan Park

Baitashan Park, located in the north of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is named after a baitashi temple on the top of the mountain. Built in the Yuan Dynasty and rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, the temple has a rectangular plan with a white pagoda in the middle. The pagoda is seven levels on eight sides, about 17 meters high. It has a green top on the top and a round base on the bottom. The whole body is white and beautiful. The south of the tower is the three main temple buildings, and the north is the zhunti Bodhisattva hall. There are several halls in the East and the West.

Climbing the top of Baita Mountain, you can overlook the appearance of Lanzhou city. It integrates exquisite architectural structure and exquisite carving art. It fully shows the intelligence and artistic creativity of the ancient working people. It is a masterpiece of ancient architecture in China. The white tower and the iron bridge on the Yellow River constitute a magnificent picture, which has become one of the symbols of Lanzhou city.

Development history

Statement 1

About one kilometer to the east of Baita, Lanzhou, is the site of Wangbao city in Yuan Dynasty.

It is said that in the early Ming Dynasty, the generals Xu Da and Feng Sheng were ordered to attack Wang Baobao of the yuan army, but they couldn't break the attack for a long time. Just at the Lantern Festival, Xu Da ordered the soldiers to make thick and long drums, disguised as the social fire brigade, and sneaked into the city. Taking the banner as the name, they finally defeated Wang Baobao. To commemorate the victory of the battle, this kind of drum was named "Taiping drum" and became the main performance form of Lanzhou Shehuo. Since then, Wang Baocheng and taipinggu have become more famous.

The pagoda was introduced into China from India together with Buddhism. The first Indian pagoda was of single-layer structure. Later, it was organically combined with Chinese pavilions, platforms, pavilions and other architectural forms. With development and creation, it formed multi-layered pagodas. There are thousands of pagodas in China, and they are countless. There are also many white pagodas, such as Beihai White Pagoda and White Pagoda Temple in Beijing There are too many white pagodas in China, and there are many stories about Lanzhou white pagoda!

Statement 2

"The white pagoda on the White Pagoda mountain was built on the original site by Liu Yongcheng in the Ming Dynasty", which is learned from the White Pagoda and the historical and Cultural Research Association of the White Pagoda Temple. This research meeting was jointly held by Lanzhou garden Bureau and Baitashan Park, and experts and professors from provincial local chronicles, Provincial Museum and other relevant units attended the meeting. However, the exact date of the completion of Baitashan was still uncertain at the meeting.

At the meeting, experts one by one overturned some of the previous statements and put forward a more moderate point of view. They suggested that when the white tower was rebuilt, it should be written on the stele that "I don't know who built the tower, and it will be rebuilt in?? years", leaving more space for future generations to imagine. At the same time, experts also proposed that the white tower should be promoted as a cultural tourism sign of Lanzhou.

Baitashan is named after "Baita". Baita temple is on the top of the mountain. It is said that it was built to commemorate the famous Tibetan Lama who died in Lanzhou in the Yuan Dynasty when he went to Mongolia to meet Genghis Khan. It is reported that Genghis Khan, the emperor Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote to the Sakya sect Dharma king of the Tibetan Lamaism when he unified the territory of the Great Yuan Empire. The king of France sent a famous Lama to meet Genghis Khan. Unfortunately, the Lama passed away when he passed Lanzhou, so the Yuan Dynasty ordered the pagoda to be built. The white pagoda built in the Yuan Dynasty no longer exists.

The existing tower was rebuilt on the site by Liu Yongcheng, the governor of Gansu Province during the reign of Jingtai in Ming Dynasty (1450-1456).

In 1715, the governor chuoqi made up for the old and added the new. He expanded the site of the temple and renamed it Ci'en Temple, but the people still call it bai'ta temple. The white pagoda has seven levels on eight sides and is 17 meters high. There are Buddha statues on each side of each level. Corner eaves have copper horse, breeze, crisp and beautiful, crown green top, build round base. Qin Weiyue, a man of Qing Dynasty, has a poem: "the North upper ring road is rugged, and the shadow of the tower is majestic and the highest slope. It is a famous treasure temple with scattered gold and a pillar of heaven overlooking the Yellow River. " It depicts the majestic posture of the white tower.

Main attractions

The white tower is a solid brick tower with seven levels and eight sides. Each level and corner has a small brick faucet which is tilted up. The wind chime is attached to it. It floats with the wind and its sound is clear and crisp. It is about 17 meters high, with Buddha statues carved on each side and iron horse bells attached to the eaves. The outside of the tower is covered with white mortar, such as white jade. Baitashan Park was established in 1958, with a total construction area of more than 8000 square meters. It is divided into three building groups, which are built close to the mountain, with cornices and red columns. The buildings are connected by pavilions, pavilions and corridors, extending in all directions. There were elephant skin drum, bronze bell and Bauhinia tree on the mountain, which were called "Zhenshan three treasures" in ancient times. Now Bauhinia tree has died. After years of greening, Baita Mountain has high trees, dense forests and winding paths. The unique "Yellow River Stone Museum" in the park is rich in stone, and the Yugur reception room is rare in other places, with unique style. At the foot of the mountain is Zhongshan Bridge, which makes them a must for Lanzhou tourism. After the completion of the white tower, after several strong earthquakes, there was no damage, showing that the ancient Chinese working people's architecture is scientific and exquisite, and the wisdom is superb.

Outside the gate of Baita temple, turn west and right to shuilian Guanyin cave. On the platform in the northwest of the cave, the temple of the emperor, the pavilion in spring, and the Lantai were built. At the top of the mountain, there was a pavilion called "Peony Pavilion". A little lower in the southwest of Baita temple, there is a rising peak, known as Fengling mountain. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, Sanguan hall and Guanyin cave were built on it. During the Jiaqing period, the medicine king hall, the God of wealth hall and three Lingguan buildings were added. There are three Taoist temples in the southeast of the temple. To the east of the temple is the Sanhuang hall. There is a stone arch bridge in front of the temple. The stone arch is the door for communication. After passing the archway, there is Luohan hall. In front of the hall, there are more than 10 suspended buildings for visitors to overlook and rest. Another peak in the southeast of Sanjiao temple is Sanxing hall. The hall is the archway of "Fenglin Xiangniao" and the back is "Xiuying Santai", which means Fenglin ancient pass in the East and Santai Pavilion in Gaolan mountain in the south. Along the winding path, you can go south to Sitai hall, which is also the main way up the mountain. On the east side of the mountain, there used to be Wenchang palace, with Kuixing Pavilion in the middle. It was the place where scholars prayed to be admitted to the imperial examination in the old days. Now it has been changed into Baihua tea hall, a place for tourists to eat and rest. In the past, the mountain was divided into ten levels, each with a small temple, collectively known as "ten kings hall". There is an arch bridge in the south of the palace, Yuhuang Pavilion in the south of the bridge, and zushi hall in the south of the pavilion. During the reconstruction, most of the ten kings' halls have been demolished, only one remains on the top of the cliff. The ancient buildings on the top of the mountain are yingxuke Pavilion. On the top of the three mountains, there are Dongfeng Pavilion and Xiyu Pavilion. You can watch the sunrise from the railings and the Yellow River from afar.

Baita Mountain has high trees, dense forests and winding paths. Standing on the mountain, you can have a bird's-eye view of the whole city and the nine winding mother river. Because of the White Pagoda of the Yuan Dynasty, it became a must for Lanzhou tourism. Early June to mid September is the best time for summer vacation and leisure every year. On Saturdays and Sundays, people gather.

Tourism information

Ticket information

Now it's free

Opening Hours

6：00-18：00

traffic

The routes of Baitashan park can be divided into the following three types: 1. Take bus No. 20, 35, 53, 131 to Baitashan Park Station, and then get off. 2. You can also take bus No.9, 11, 15, 26, 34, 136 to the Yellow River Railway Bridge station to enjoy the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Yellow River, and then walk across the Yellow River railway bridge. 3. Take bus No.1, no.6, No.4, No.75, No.106, No.107, No.113, No.137 to Xiguan Shizi, the most prosperous business district in Lanzhou. It only takes 15 minutes to walk north to Baitashan park.

get accommodation

Baitashan Park Hotel

There are nearly 50 hotels and restaurants in Lanzhou, and dozens of domestic designated hotels, which can meet the needs of many tourists at different levels. Lanzhou Feitian Hotel, Gansu New Century Hotel and other high-end hotels have good service and reasonable charges, which are good places for tourists to stay. Of course, for backpackers, it seems a bit luxurious to stay in big hotels. Fortunately, there are many cheap hotels and guest houses to choose from, and there are many places with good service, clean and tidy environment. Lanzhou is a typical temperate semi-arid continental monsoon climate zone, with dry climate, sufficient sunshine, long and cold winter, less rain and snow, transient spring and great changes in temperature and temperature, short summer, high temperature, but no heat, and fast cooling in autumn. The annual average temperature is 9.3; C, the annual temperature difference and daily temperature difference are larger. People who travel to Lanzhou must spare thick coats for a rainy day.

Special food

Lanzhou people are fond of food, especially hot and sour food, especially Sichuan cuisine and hot pot. Jingyang building, yuebin building, Emei Sichuan restaurant and Hui restaurant are the four most famous restaurants in the city. The roast pig and Thousand Layer beef cake are delicious and cheap. There are also many snack streets in Lanzhou, such as nongnong lane, Hezheng Road, Jianlan Road, etc. the business hours generally last from morning to midnight, and some stalls are open day and night.

"Beef Ramen" is the most characteristic popular economic snack in Lanzhou. In any beef noodle restaurant on the street of Lanzhou, you can have authentic beef noodle in clear soup, which tastes excellent. Lanzhou people are rough and bold, and they must drink Baijiu and drink to half a meal. Foreign tourists and

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