Atlas of China
Wuzhong 吴忠Wúzhōng
Teahouse breakfasts, a hillside of 108 stupas and Tan sheep on the desert edge
About Wuzhong
Wuzhong is a heartland of the Hui, who make up more than half its people, and it is known for morning tea: eight-treasure tea, hand-pulled noodles, beef and pastries served in hundreds of teahouses. In the Qingtongxia Yellow River Grand Canyon, the One Hundred and Eight Stupas rise in a triangle above the river. To the south stands Tongxin Great Mosque, Ningxia's oldest, while Yanchi, where the Ming Great Wall crosses the edge of the Mu Us Desert, is famed for its Tan sheep.
What to eat in Wuzhong
- Wuzhong morning tea (吴忠早茶)
- Tongxin bowl-steamed lamb (同心碗蒸羊羔肉)
Listed sites in Wuzhong
9 sites in Wuzhong are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Qingtongxia Yellow River Grand Canyon and 108 Stupas 青铜峡黄河大峡谷 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A scenic area of about 126 km² around the Qingtongxia gorge, officially described as the last gorge on the upper Yellow River, taking in the Qingtongxia dam (begun in 1958), a water-conservancy museum and the Dayu culture park at the heart of the Ningxia Yellow River irrigation system, a World Heritage Irrigation Structure. - Dong Fuxiang's Mansion (Dong Fu) 董府 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The fortified residence of Dong Fuxiang, the late-Qing general whose Gansu troops took part in the 1900 siege of the Beijing legations, built in 1902–1905 after he was dismissed and sent home. - Habahu Lake Ecotourism Area 哈巴湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A national nature reserve on the south-western edge of the Mu Us Desert, where small lakes and wetlands lie among sand dunes, dry steppe and planted belts of willow, peashrub and other trees. - Niujiafang Folk Culture Village 牛家坊 4A scenic area · on the map
A village on the southern edge of Wuzhong developed as a rural tourism area of about 130 ha, with grey-brick houses, rammed-earth courtyard walls and a village museum of Yellow River farming and folk life. - Tongxin Great Mosque 同心清真大寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Regarded as Ningxia's oldest and largest mosque, it is built in Chinese style with Islamic decoration on a 7 m brick platform; it probably began as a Yuan-period Buddhist temple, became a mosque in the early Ming and was rebuilt several times, notably in 1791 and 1907. - Yanzhou Ancient City Cultural Tourism Area 盐州古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A cultural tourism district on the north side of Yanchi county town, laid out along the Ming Great Wall that runs past the town and forming the core of Yanchi's part of the Great Wall National Cultural Park. - Kangji Temple Pagoda 康济寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda of the dense-eaves type in the old town of Weizhou, about 43 m tall since its 1985 restoration. - Xingwuying Ming Garrison Town 兴武营城址 National heritage site · on the map
The walls of a Ming garrison town founded in 1444 where two lines of the Ming Great Wall meet, a rough rectangle about 600 by 475 m with barbican gates on its south and west sides. - Zhangjiachang Ancient City Site 张家场城址 National heritage site · on the map
The site of a walled town used from the late Qin to the early Eastern Han, which archaeologists believe was the seat of Xuyan county; its low rammed-earth walls are now mostly buried under drifting sand.
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