Release Date:2025-09-09
Where the Yellow River Meets the Qinling Mountains in Weinan: 2025 Culture and Tourism Month, Part 3

Wanli Yellow River entered Shaanxi from Yulin. It was here that the two most majestic veins on China's land meet Qinling, and jointly compose a magnificent epic of natural and cultural intertwining.

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The Yellow River flows from Yan'an Yichuan into Weinan City, and the choppy tide soon shows a unique gentleness. Thanks to the gradual calming of the water, the largest hot spring lake-type wetland in the Yellow River Basin, known for its "one yellow river, ten liho ponds, hundred species of birds, thousand eyes springs, and thousands of alus."

The Yellow River flows 103 kilometers inside Weinan and breeds the unique cultural and tourist characteristics of 4 counties and cities along the coast.

Hancheng is the place of “Wind Chasing Sima”. It is home to the Sima Qian Temple, an ancient folk house in Party Village and one of China’s top ten archaeological finds.

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Heyang is known as “the birthplace of poetry, the source of love poetry in China”. The ancient sayings of Guanguan doves are born here. Heyang Qichuan Wetland presents a unique view of “not Jiangnan, but like Jiangnan.”

Dali is the “Weekend House”, where there are traces of the richness of human ancestors, “Dali Ape Man” 200,000 years ago. It has thousands of acres of Yellow River wetlands and China’s largest inland desert – Dali Shayuan.

Tongguan is the "Dongmen" of Shaanxi Province, known as "Chicken Whispering Three Provinces, Shutting Down Jiuzhou". This is the intersection of Qin, Jin and Yu three provinces. The confluence of Huang, Wei and Luo three rivers formed a mountain and river spectacle. When the Yellow River broke through the barrier of Qinjin Grand Canyon, it suddenly turned 90 degrees and rolled from north to east.

In Tongguan, the Yellow River and Qinling achieve the most magnificent encounter. The Qinling Mountains stop here, while the Yellow River swerves eastward, forming the only "Yue-fanciful" mountain scenery on China's land: looking up to the west, you can see Xiyue Huashan's majestic posture.

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In September, Weinan will also host the Hundred Group Theatre League event, Qin cavity, Bian cavity, Agong cavity and other local theatre genres will be staged. Famous rookies compete with Taiwan, traditional classics and modern innovations. Everything is showing the vitality and vitality of the "Great River."

Taotao Huang River from Tongguan bid farewell to the east of Shaanxi into Yu, has left many wonders of the Yellow River and endless scenery for the future. These have become an important support for the construction of the Yellow River cultural tourism belt with international influence in the new era, will also endlessly add to the construction of the province's culture and tourism strong province.


Source: Northwest Travel