Sheepskin raft is a water tool invented by ancient ancestors in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River to transport people and materials with the help of river water. In the forties and fifties of the 20th century, land transportation was not very developed, and sheepskin raft was an important water transportation tool for Ningxia people and people on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Nowadays, when people travel on holidays, they can take a sheepskin raft to Shapotou reach in Zhongwei, Ningxia, or Longwan Village reach in Jingtai Stone Forest, Gansu, and enjoy the desert customs and the rugged and magnificent western landscape of the Yellow River Stone Forest.

Today, sheepskin rafts are still floating on the Yellow River. Rafters are not only shippers selling fruits and vegetables, but also tourists looking for seclusion and curiosity. Riding a sheepskin raft on the Yellow River has become a kind of leisure.

Part of the Yellow River civilization:

Sheepskin raft has a long history and is an important part of the Yellow River culture. As the oldest tool for crossing the river along the Yellow River, it was called a skin before the Tang Dynasty and Huntuo after the Song Dynasty. Later, it gradually evolved into the current sheepskin raft. This kind of water tool, made of sheepskin and raft through a series of processing, can carry people and goods like a ship.

In the era of underdeveloped land transportation, sheepskin raft was once an important means of water transportation for residents along the Yellow River, and it has a history of thousands of years to send people across the river and carry goods. Rafts are big and small. The largest sheepskin raft is made of more than 600 sheepskin bags, and the small raft is made of 10 sheepskin bags. Until the 1960s, sheepskin rafts were still active on Mother River.

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