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Shuidonggou Tourist Area
eographic location:Linhe Town, Lingwu City,
Yinchuan City, Ningxia
Level:AAAAA
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2. Famous scenery:Shuidonggou Site Museum, Zhangsan
Xiaodian, Shuidonggou Village
Suitable for the play season:Suitable for all seasons
Ningxia Shuidonggou Tourist Scenic Spot is the earliest excavated
Paleolithic cultural relics in China. It is known as “the birthplace of
Chinese prehistoric archaeology” and “historical witness of cultural
exchanges between China and the West” and is listed as “the most
Chinese civilization significance”. One of the archaeological
discoveries. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a
national AAAAA level tourist scenic spot, and a national geological
park. Won the silver medal of “China’s 50 most worthy foreigners to
go”. China’s only preserved the most complete three-dimensional
military defense system of the Great Wall. At the 2018 China
Northwest Tourism Marketing Conference and Tourism Equipment
Exhibition, it was shortlisted for the “Magic Northwest 100 Scenes”
list.
Shuidonggou Site Tourist Area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu City,
Ningxia, 19 kilometers west of Yinchuan City, 30 kilometers south of
Lingwu City and 11 kilometers away from Hedong Airport. It is
located at the core of Yinchuan Hedong Tourism Belt and connects
with Erdos City of Inner Mongolia in the north. It is the link
connecting Ningmeng tourism and covers an area of 14.4 square
kilometers.
The unique Yadan landform of Shuidonggou has created more than 20
unique landscapes such as Devil City, Cyclone Cave, Lituo Ridge,
Ferris Cliff, Broken Cloud Valley and Weiliugou. It records the human
life of 30,000 years ago. Activity track. The ancient Great Wall three-
dimensional military defense system consisting of “Dacheng Dabian”,
Qiduntai, Chengcheng Fortress, and Tibetan Soldier Caves has become
a relatively complete military defense building in China.
A sacred place where humanity flourished 30,000 years ago. In 1923,
the French paleontologists De Rijin and Sang Zhihua discovered

3. prehistoric cultural sites here. Through excavation, a large number of
stone vessels and animal fossils were unearthed. The water cave ditch
thus became the earliest ancient human cultural site in the Paleolithic
era in China. . At the 2018 China Yellow River Tourism Conference,
Shuidonggou was rated as “50 Scenes of the Yellow River in China”.
Geographical environment
Geographic location
Ningxia Shuidonggou Tourist Area is located in Linhe Town, Lingwu
City, Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It
is 19 kilometers west of Yinchuan City, 30 kilometers south of Lingwu
City and 11 kilometers away from Hedong Airport. It is located at the
core of the Yinchuan Hedong Tourism Belt. The city of Erdos in Inner
Mongolia is a link connecting Ningmeng and Mongolia, covering an
area of 7.8 square kilometers.
Topography
Shuidonggou is located on the southern edge of the Ordos platform.
The Yadan landform created by nature makes it full of majestic and
peculiar valley charm. It has experienced thousands of years of wind

4. and sand eroding. It is concentrated in the Devil City, the Hutuo Ridge
and the Motian Cliff. More than 20 scenic spots in the forests such as
Broken Valley and Taliuwan.
Climate
Shuidonggou is a temperate continental climate and belongs to the
temperate arid climate zone in the national natural division. Although
it is deeply inland in northwestern China, it has the characteristics of
drought, less rain, strong evaporation, large temperature difference
between cold and heat, sufficient sunshine, more wind and sand, long
winter cold, short summer heat, late spring warm, early autumn and
early weather disasters. It also creates the ultimate, thorough and
tough character of this water and soil.

5. Discover history
In 1919, the Belgian missionary Kent landed in the “Zhang
Sanxiaodian” when he passed through the water cave.
Kent found a rhinoceros skull fossil and a hand-made quartz rock on
the water hole ditch. I met Sang Zhihua, a French geological
paleontologist in Tianjin, and told Sang Zhihua about her discovery in
Ningxia.
In June 1923, Sang Zhihua and the famous scholar De Rijin came to
Shuidonggou after completing an inspection of parts of Gansu. On the
edge of the cliff, mammalian fossils exposed on the surface were
found. A 12-day exploratory excavation began in this way. A total of
more than 300 kilograms of stone products and animal fossils were
discovered, including stone cores, scrapers and sharps.
In the summer of 1960, the Sino-Soviet paleontology joint expedition
team entered the Shuidonggou and conducted a second excavation of
the site.
In 1963, Qi Wenzhong, known as the “father of Chinese Paleolithic
archaeology”, personally led the team and conducted a third
excavation.
In 1980, the archaeological excavation of the Shuidonggou by the
Ningxia Museum and the Ningxia Geological Bureau combined with
the archaeological team was the fourth.
From 2003 to 2007, dozens of experts and scholars carried out a new
round of archaeological excavations with great hope. This time, it was
jointly organized by the Ningxia Institute of Cultural Relics and
Archaeology and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This
archaeological project has the largest number of participants, the
longest duration, the largest excavation range, and the most fruitful
harvest. This time, not only mobilized advanced equipment such as
GPS locators, total stations, cameras, etc., but also invited experts in
geology, chronology, paleoanthropology, and paleoenvironment to
discuss and teach on the spot, and their archaeological achievements
were particularly attractive. Attention.
From June 10th to July 10th, 2014, the 4th Cultural Tourism Festival
and the 6th archaeological excavation were held at the Shuidonggou
Site in Ningxia. Experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology

6. and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the
Ningxia Archaeological Institute conducted archaeological
excavations on the Shuidonggou site.
During the 90 years of discovery in Shuidonggou, prehistoric
archaeologists such as Yan Wenzhong, Jia Lanpo, and Chinese
Academy of Sciences academician Liu Dongsheng and other famous
experts have come to explore or inspect, experts from the United
States, South Korea, France, Japan, Russia and other countries have
come from afar.
Main Attractions
The Shuidonggou area is also a large-scale military defense building
such as the Great Wall, the ruins, the castles, the gullies, the piers
and the piers of the Ming Dynasty in northern China. In the protected
area, the Great Wall, the towering piers, the quaint and mysterious
castles, and the deep and deep gullies that are going to the east are
fascinating, and it is thought that “A sergeant has a spear and a
general.” The heroic scene.
The Shuidonggou tourist area has become a tourist area integrating
tourism, scientific investigation, recreation and military exploration.
With the opening of the Shuidonggou Site Museum and the Ningxia
Great Wall Museum in 2009, the Shuidonggou Scenic Area will add
new highlights.

7. Ruins museum
The Shuidonggou Site Museum is built in the shape of a stone
sarcophagus unearthed from the Shuidong Ditch. The building area is
4,308 square meters. The Shuidonggou Site Museum is in the form of
sculptures, panels, projections, cultural relics and explanations. You
can understand the origin of human evolution, the rise of
Shuidonggou culture and the five archaeological excavations of
Shuidonggou site. At the same time, there are 12 minutes of dynamic
performances, let us experience the original production of 30,000
years ago. Scenes of life and forced migration when faced with flash
floods and landslides.

8. Real experience crazy man
The Real Experience Pavilion combines high-tech, artistic and literary
elements to make the time and historical scenes of the year go back.
Let you witness the ancient water-dong ditch from the lush
vegetation, animal groups, climate change, environmental
degradation, water hole The ditch people have to go far away from
the process of getting home. Experience the collection, hunting,
sacrifice, love, and prey of ancestors around the ancestors of 30,000
years ago, and the production and life scenes of singing and dancing,
as well as the torrential rain, floods, earthquakes and other disasters.
Scenes. Restore the interpretation through high-tech realistic, and
take you through the space and time distance of 30,000 years.
Zhang Sanxiaodian
In 1923, when a melodious camel bell came from a distance, the
owner of a car shop named Zhang Sanxiaodian knew that there must
be a guest coming from afar. Therefore, the owner Zhang San and his
wife stood at the door early to greet them. The two were yellow-blue-
eyed foreigners. Later, Zhang San and his wife learned that they were
French paleontologists De Rijin and Sang Zhihua. They were from this
time. Tianjin departed along the Yellow River for inspection. When

9. passing through the Shuidonggou, it was already in the Zhangsan
store due to the lateness of the weather.
There are four statues in the courtyard. They are the French
paleontologists De Rijin, Sang Zhihua, Chinese archaeologists Qi
Wenzhong and Mr. Jia Lanpo. These are all outstanding people who
have made great contributions to the archaeological excavation of
Shuidonggou.
Shuidonggou Village
The ancient Shuidonggou Village was created by the ancestors of the
North in a cave-like and crypt-style living room. This type of living
room is often built on the thicker slopes or gullies of the loess layer.
It has the characteristics of warm winter and cool summer. On this
basis, the Shuidonggou people improved this way of living and
developed into a semi-terrane construction. The method is to first dig
a certain depth of crypt on the loess slope, and then use the adobe
(pī) barrier wall to reach a certain height on the foundation of the
crypt, and then use the 桁(xíng) strip. The raft is topped, the firewood
is added, and the firewood is covered with mud to prevent water
leakage. Shuidonggou Village is such an ancient semi-terrane-style
gathering village site. The people in the northwestern region of China
are called “land nests”. There are 29 crypt-type building sites in the
Shuidonggou Village settlement. We have chosen some of them to

10. recover, so that we can intuitively understand the living patterns of
the ancestors.
Aloe Valley
The Shuidonggou tourist area has a three-kilometer-long reed valley,
and the reeds in the reed valley are swaying and swaying, walking in
the middle of the road, intoxicated in the hustle and bustle, and the
mood is quiet at the moment. The lake covers an area of nearly
300,000 square meters. Among them, there are 4 original ecological
wooden bridges on the lake, two pavilions, and a hundred birds in the
reeds. The green lake, crisp bird songs and beautiful pictures are
good places for recreation. The green waters of Hongshan Lake are
rippling, the cruises are coming, the Great Wall of the waterfront is
rare, and you can see the majestic ancient Great Wall on the cruise
ship. When you have not yet walked out of the fairy tale world of the
Tulin landscape, you will get off the dock and fall into a paradise, that
is, the sand jujube bay in the scenic area. The jujube trees in the
sand-sand-grass bay are clustered. When the jujube flowers bloom in
June and July, the bursts of fragrance will make you forget.

11. Ming Great Wall
The Ming Dynasty military three-dimensional defense system in the
Shuidonggou ruins tourist area is composed of the Ming Great Wall,
the Tibetan Bing Cave, the Side Ditch, the Grand Canyon, Hongshan
Fort, and Yucheng.
The Ming Great Wall in the tourist area is the Tuyu Great Wall, which
is the most intact section of the Great Wall in Ningxia. The Great Wall
of the Great Wall from the west of the Ming Great Wall to the Yellow
River is called the intersection of the two dragons and the east
reaches the salt pond. Standing on the Great Wall and looking around,
the Mu Us Desert in the north and the Shuidonggou Scenic Area in the
south have a panoramic view.

12. Shuidonggou Great Wall Observation
Deck
The Shuidonggou Great Wall Observation Deck is a Great Wall
Observation Deck that spans two provinces. In the Shuidonggou
tourist area, you can walk in the foot of the Ming Great Wall, or board
the newly built Great Wall Observation Deck. You can cross the two
provinces and stand on the Great Wall. The Mu Us Desert in the north
is a strong desert in the northwest. In the south of the Shuidonggou,
the lake wetland, Gaoxia Pinghu show the beauty of the south of the
Yangtze River, giving you a different experience.
The Shuidonggou Great Wall Observation Deck is the best place to see
the beautiful scenery of the Shuidonggou Grand Canyon and the
Luhua Valley. Standing on the observation deck, the gully is vertical
and horizontal, and the unique landscape of the soil is as if it is at the
foot, and it falls straight into the depths of the canyon. The whole
piece of green reeds swayed in the wind, and the scenery was
spectacular; sometimes the wild pigeons flew, the red-billed ducks
screamed, and the spring water creaked and gathered into the
stream.

13. Wild grassland
Over the Great Wall, it is 500 years ago, the monks and whales who
cultivated the habitat, the Mongolian wild grasslands that rushed to
the battlefield, experienced the wild and unrestrained life of the
Mongolians in the vast wild grasslands, and made a pure Mongolian.
Exciting entertainment such as wild grassland desert surf cars, wild
grassland camel riding, desert karts, etc. are waiting for you!
Hongshan Lake
Ascending the top of the dam, we present another unique landscape of
“Gaoxia Out of Pinghu”. This lake is called “Hongshan Lake” because
it is located in the Hongshan area. “Hongshan Lake” is also formed by
accumulating water in the side ditch. During the flood season, the
lake surface can extend more than 2 km to the east in the canyon.
There are often eagle cranes flying over the water. There are crickets,
wild ducks swimming in the water, and wild grasses in the
mountains. The scenery is very beautiful.
In the red mountain lake where you can ride the boat, you can watch
the Great Wall of the Waterfront and experience the harmonious
coexistence between the people and the waterfowl; the Great Wall
and the cliffs reflect the water; the blue sky and white clouds reflect
the different tastes of the water. This combination of nature and man,

14. the combination of history and culture and today’s ecology and
organic combination of the Jiangnan landscape is really rare. It can be
said that “the boat is on the blue waves and people are in the middle
of the painting.”
Grand Canyon
From Shuidonggou to Hongshanbao, there is a canyon about 4
kilometers long. It was a “masterpiece” of nature, but in the Ming
Dynasty, it became an important part of the Great Wall’s “deep trench
high barrier” defense system. On both sides of the gorge, the wind
and rain are often eroded, the gully is vertical and horizontal, and the
deep loess is washed by long-term rain. The soil column is sturdy and
has a strange shape, forming a “soil”. “Tulin” has been shaped like a
singularity by nature. Some people like to look up and look forward to
coming; some are like a pair of lovers, and they are close to each
other; some are like husband and wife, the two sides worship, Lin Lin
always has their own form, giving people endless delusions. . On the
cliffs on both sides of the canyon, there are Tibetan soldiers built by
the Ming Dynasty soldiers, which fully demonstrates the military
wisdom and intelligence of the ancient people.

15. Tibetan soldier cave
A black hole on the cliffs on both sides of the canyon is the famous
“Tibetan Cave”. The so-called Tibetan Soldier Cave is the Red
Mountain Fortress who is transferred from the ground to the ground,
concealing the army, protecting himself, waiting for an opportunity to
attack, or in an open space. Set the tunnel of the ambush. This is a
relatively complete ancient three-dimensional military defense
system in China. In the Great Wall defense system of our country, the
defense system that closely links the Great Wall, the castle and the
underground Tibetan soldiers is unique in the country. The strange
Tibetan soldiers are more than 10 meters above the bottom of the
ditch. They are twisted and twisted on the top of the hanging wall.
They are connected up and down, connected to the left and right.
There are quite a lot of forks in the hole, and the circle is hovering
around. It is like a labyrinth for a long time. There are rooms, food
storage rooms, water wells, stoves, weapons warehouses, gunpowder
warehouses, forts, traps, and hidden holes in the cave.

16. Value meaning
Since the stone wares of the European Moss and Orina cultures have
been unearthed in the Shuidonggou site, they are very similar to the
stone wares unearthed in the West. Some scholars have proposed the
Shuidonggou culture “Western”. . Similarly, there are a large number
of stone products with small stoneware traditions in northern China
in some places and surface areas of Shuidonggou, and there is some
correlation with the North China fine stone culture at the same time
or later. These two types of culture support the “native Origin says.”
A large number of archaeological findings indicate that Shuidonggou
was rich in water resources, animal and plant resources three or four
thousand years ago, and it also has superior production and living
conditions. According to the high-star researcher of the Institute of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, about 40,000 years ago, a group of ancestors
who lived in the Altai region of Siberia were forced by the cold of the
ice age and moved to the water cave. Borrowing interest, and using
the technology already mastered, made a lot of sharp stone tools on
the spot.

17. Travel Information
Ticketing guide
The full package of Shuidonggou includes: the exhibition hall of the
Shuidonggou Site Museum, the real experience of the museum, the
Zhangsan Xiaodian, the Shuidonggou Village, the Shuidonggou Mark
Monument, the Shuidonggou Site Excavation Site, the Luhua Valley,
the Ming Great Wall, Attractions such as the Grand Canyon and the
Tibetan Soldier Cave. The project includes: cruise ships, carriages or
bamboo poles, camel cars, sightseeing cars.
Preferential policy
Children under 1.2 meters are exempt from the ticket; military
personnel (including decommissioning), the elderly, and disabled
persons are exempted from tickets with valid certificates, and half of
the tickets for student ID cards;
Traffic Guide
Self-driving route:
Depart from Yinchuan – Go straight to the new river 203 provincial
highway – turn right to Shuidonggou tunnel – turn left to 103
provincial road – drive 4 km to Shuidonggou tourist area
Departure from Yinchuan→Dalian Square→ Yinqing Expressway→
Shuidonggou Exit→ Shuidonggou
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