A Buddha cut from the cliff
At Huangduobao, a seated Tang Maitreya 20.6 meters high occupies a niche in soft red sandstone, among caves begun in the late Northern Wei.
Guyuan.
Guyuan is the mountain prefecture of southern Ningxia, set in the Liupan hills far from the irrigated plain. The Xumishan grottoes cut a Tang Buddha into red sandstone, the museum keeps Silk Road objects, and Huoshizhai's Danxia cliffs rise in Xiji.
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Coffin painting, silver ewer, glass bowl
In a Tang-style hall on Xicheng Road, the provincial museum keeps a Northern Wei lacquer coffin, a Northern Zhou gilt-silver ewer, and a green glass bowl with raised bosses.
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Liupan Mountain: where three rivers begin
A narrow, forested ridge in Jingyuan, Longde, and Yuanzhou feeds the Jing, Qingshui, and Hulu, and carries the memory of the Central Red Army's crossing in October 1935.
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Huoshizhai: red sandstone in the sun
North of the Xiji county seat, bare red cliffs face the sun, trees hold the shady slopes, and cave halls occupy the same Danxia rock.
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Xumishan Grottoes
At Huangduobao, a seated Tang Maitreya 20.6 meters high occupies a niche in soft red sandstone, among caves begun in the late Northern Wei.
Guyuan
Guyuan Museum
In a Tang-style hall on Xicheng Road, the provincial museum keeps a Northern Wei lacquer coffin, a Northern Zhou gilt-silver ewer, and a green glass bowl with raised bosses.
Guyuan
Liupan Mountain
A narrow, forested ridge in Jingyuan, Longde, and Yuanzhou feeds the Jing, Qingshui, and Hulu, and carries the memory of the Central Red Army's crossing in October 1935.
Guyuan
Huoshizhai Danxia
North of the Xiji county seat, bare red cliffs face the sun, trees hold the shady slopes, and cave halls occupy the same Danxia rock.
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A large seated Buddha is carved into a sandstone cliff inside a round-arched niche, with stepped brick stairs, metal railings and a few small figures in front.Guyuan Municipal People's Government · Rights information Photo source ↗