Gansu province is located in the heart of China's geographic location, is located in the qinghai-tibet plateau, the loess plateau and Mongolia plateau of the intersection zone, its shape is like a jade ruyi, also like a dumbbell, again like a dog, two head, narrow in the middle. Gansu province with a total area of 45.4 square kilometers, the sixth in the nation. Low high terrain southwest, northeast, with mountain and plateau is given priority to, generally in the 1000 m above sea level, the southern gannan plateau at an elevation of 3000 ~ 4000 meters. It in shaanxi province in the east, west of qinghai, xinjiang, north of Inner Mongolia, ningxia south sichuan. A wide of dozens of kilometers long corridor connects with the central plains of the vast west, people call this part of the hexi corridor, which is we are familiar with the "silk road" of one paragraph. Gansu landform is very strange and complex and diverse, mountain, plateau, would, valley, desert, gobi all. Northwest is the snow mountain peaks, the vast amount of frontier fortress scenery, the southeast is the jiangnan scenery of the mountains of TV, both "wind grass low now cattle and sheep" in the vast grasslands in gannan, there is also a barren hills of arid areas and channels of land of fish and rice, so can be rich and colorful natural scenery traveling in gansu province.
Trace the origin of Chinese civilization, along the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, gansu is can't ignore a place anyway.
Gansu province is one of the cradles of the Chinese culture, is the ancestor of the Chinese nation generation lives, important areas of reproduction. A brilliant culture gathers here, such as earth, horse home kiln bay culture culture, culture and so on, left behind the precious cultural heritage for human being.
From the southeast to the northwest of gansu province is the territory of China transportation hub, is also China's ancient silk road. Dunhuang grottoes in gansu province was "grottoes mural art treasure-house of the world", tianshui maijishan grottoes clay sculpture is well known in the world.
Because of gansu province is located in the cultural convergence region, here, a lot of folk customs and religious beliefs deserves careful study. Gansu province with a total of 44 people, including a population of more than one thousand people are han, hui, Tibetan, dongxiang, yulin, Mongolia, kazakhstan, security, earth, Sarah, with 11 people. Dongxiang, abundant solid and bonan settlement only in gansu province.
In the aspect of religion, many ethnic minorities,, kazak, hui, dongxiang, Sarah uygur national religion such as Islam, Tibetan, yulin, such as Mongolia, minority nationality 1.
The essence of the scenic spots in general distribution of gansu in lanzhou as the midpoint southeast west near the three directions of the traffic trunk line, the west, wuwei, zhang ye, jiayuguan, dunhuang, that not only can be a full world-class scenic spots in this line of utility, but also can enjoy the real big northwest amorous feelings; The downtown: linxia - Xia He - ma qu - temple - and all the lap - wu lang wood, natural and humanistic scenery along the way well, is a wonderful journey to find; The eastern front: tianshui - out - qingyang, for those who don't do traveler, this line is very tasty, scenic area rich in content, the western plateau fruity, a lot of beautiful scenery in buxuriant knowledge.
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