The Yellow River flows through Lanzhou for a short time, with a total length of 48.6 kilometers from Xigu to Yongjing. However, it is this short 48.6 kilometers that has built a 40-kilometer-long Yellow River Hundred Miles Customs Line in Lanzhou.
I came to Lanzhou just to see the Yellow River. How can you miss the 40-kilometer Yellow River amorous feelings line? There are countless beautiful scenery here, witnessing the development of Lanzhou. Countless landscapes such as Mother Statue, Waterwheel, Zhongshan Bridge and Yellow Crane Tower dot the city. Some tell the history of Lanzhou, and some show today's prosperity.
It can be said that with this Yellow River, the scale of Lanzhou today has been achieved, and the Yellow River has also made Lanzhou.
Let's talk about the big waterwheel in Lanzhou. The waterwheel in Lanzhou has a long history. As early as A.D. 1556, Duan Xu created a waterwheel suitable for Lanzhou according to its hydrological conditions. Starting from a waterwheel, there are many along the Yellow River, and countless fields and orchards have been irrigated.
Waterwheel is the oldest and most common tool to lift water along the Yellow River in ancient Lanzhou. Lanzhou Waterwheel also has many nicknames, such as "crown block", "rollover", "irrigation car" and "tiger car". No matter what the waterwheel is called, it looks very domineering and spectacular.
In ancient times, waterwheels were used from Guide in Qinghai to Zhongwei in Ningxia. According to statistics, there are 350 or 60 waterwheels. Such a scene must be beautiful. The waterwheel turns day and night, making the Yellow River a real mother.
On both sides of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, when the water rises in summer and autumn, the waterwheel turns day and night. Although no one has ever witnessed it, it is spectacular just by imagination. Due to different irrigation needs, the size of waterwheels is also different. Large waterwheels can irrigate six or seven hundred cycles, and small ones can irrigate two or three hundred acres.
Today, although the waterwheels are no longer in use, most of them have been demolished, leaving only a few sightseeing waterwheels. But it is these waterwheels that not only embellish the scenery on both sides of the Yellow River, but also record this once mark, which makes people feel deeply.
The Yellow River Waterwheel is an important part of the Yellow River culture in Lanzhou, which embodies the creativity of the Chinese nation and provides a witness for studying the agricultural civilization and water conservancy history of China. The invention of the waterwheel laid the foundation for people to live and work in peace and contentment and social harmony and stability. Lanzhou was once called the capital of waterwheels.
Urban sculpture can often reflect the history and culture of a city, and there is such an extraordinary sculpture along the Yellow River in Lanzhou.
The statue of the Yellow River Mother is located on the south bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, north of Xiaoxihu Park. It is the most beautiful sculpture of the Yellow River, the mother river of China. The statue of the Yellow River Mother is 6 meters long, 2.2 meters wide and 2.6 meters high, with a total weight of more than 40 tons. It consists of a mother and a baby boy. If we look closely at this statue, we will find that there are patterns of water ripples and fish patterns at the bottom of the statue, which originated from the original patterns of ancient painted pottery in Gansu. This mother image is not only a symbol of the Yellow River, but also a display of the Yellow River culture in Lanzhou.
In the portrait of the Yellow River mother, the mother's hair is fluttering and her face is kind, lying on her back on the waves, leaning against a baby boy on her right side, smiling with her head up, which looks naughty and lovely.
There is a dock just a few kilometers from the Yellow River in Lanzhou. The big boats on the water are like buses, but the most interesting ones are speedboats and sheepskin rafts. The sheepskin raft is made by traditional methods. It is uncomfortable to sit on it, but it has a special taste. It is a good choice to feel the traditional Yellow River traffic in Lanzhou.
Walking along the Yellow River in Lanzhou, every step is a landscape. The Yellow River has reached a new height here. Don't miss this beautiful riverside avenue when you come to Lanzhou.