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Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture
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Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab. view all
Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab. view all
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Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab.
Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab.
Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture
Articles • ali2007fr posted the article • 0 comments • 11 views • 10 hours ago
Reposted from the web
Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab. view all
Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab. view all
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Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab.
Summary: This travel note introduces Linxia Weekend Travel Guide: Songmingyan Hua'er Festival and Muslim Culture. Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. It is useful for readers interested in Linxia Travel, Hua'er Festival, Muslim Culture.
Around the 28th day of the fourth lunar month every year, a grand Hua'er Festival (a traditional folk song festival) is held at Songmingyan in Hezheng, Gansu. I attended the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival for the first time in 2019, missed it in 2020 due to travel restrictions from Beijing, and 2021 was my second time attending.
I arrived in Lanzhou on Friday night and first had sheep head with milk and egg jiangzao (fermented glutinous rice) at the Jianlan Road night market; the hot-mixed version tastes different from the stir-fried one, and it is also quite delicious!
On Saturday morning, I had Hezhou baozi (steamed stuffed buns) at Xiaoxihu in Lanzhou, then set off for Dahejia Town in Linxia.
At noon in Dahejia, I had shouzhuarou (hand-grabbed mutton), laotangji (old-broth chicken), and laochao mianpian (stir-fried dough slices); my standard order whenever I go to the Hehuang region is shouzhuarou and mianpian. This long-established restaurant was very crowded at noon; most people were eating cold noodles, while some ordered heyan (river-bank style dishes) and laochao (stir-fried dishes). Their kettles were filled with beef broth, and empty bowls were set out with chopped green onions and salt, so you could pour the broth directly to drink.
Dahejia is located at the border of Gansu and Qinghai; once you cross the Yellow River Bridge, you are in Minhe, Qinghai. People from many ethnic groups live here, including the Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui Muslims, and Tibetan people, and the town is full of Dongxiang shouzhuarou restaurants and Bonan knife shops.
I bought tianmaizi (sweet wheat) in Dahejia at noon and yogurt at Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia in the evening; combining them made a delicious tianmaizi yogurt.
The fresh jiangshui (fermented vegetable juice) in the shop is especially refreshing in the summer.
In the evening, I had beef casserole and stir-fried fazi mianchang (sausage made with sheep intestines and meat) at Lao Dongxiang Mainai in the Linxia North Street night market. Fazi, also called fazi, is sheep fat intestine stuffed with offal and minced meat. I think the specialty of the Linxia North Street night market is the variety of stir-fried dishes; flames over a meter high can rise from the stoves, but unfortunately, I didn't capture it on camera.
Drinking Gannan yak yogurt at the night market.
A night tour of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys in Linxia. This was my fourth time here, but the first time for Zainab, so I took her around for a good stroll.
Zainab had a very high opinion of the Bafang Thirteen Alleys and the entire Hezhou city; she liked it very much. At night, the Bafang Thirteen Alleys were full of locals out for a walk to enjoy the cool air; it was very lively. The scenic area is neat and clean, without excessive commercial development, selling only local snacks like handmade yogurt and youguozi (fried dough snacks); Zainab regretted not buying youguozi to eat while hiking the next day.
In the scenic area, you can also admire various exquisite Hezhou brick carvings. I took her to see the famous Beisi Longyingbi (Dragon Screen Wall at the North Mosque), which can be considered a representative work of Hezhou brick carving.
On Sunday morning, I visited the Hongyuan Square in Linxia. Hongyuan Square is a truly magical place; it is located right next to the Dagongbei, the core area of the Jahriyya Menhuan (a Sufi order), and at night it is a brightly lit children's playground, while in the morning it becomes a bustling morning market with everything. Besides vegetables and fruits, there were also fazi mianchang, highland barley, potato chips, ganba chicken (dried chicken), and tianmaizi; we bought corn and xiangdou (fragrant bean) guokui (flatbread) here to eat.
I met an auntie knitting hats on the spot, so I bought one; in these two years of not being able to go abroad, I feel like I have rarely bought new hats.
I had beef noodles and fentang (vermicelli soup) at the Xin Kuan Hezhou Noodle Restaurant in front of the Xinhua Mosque. Their place is clean, bright, and tastes good; the fentang here in the Hehuang region uses vermicelli, not the starch blocks like in Xinjiang, and it tastes quite fragrant.
After breakfast, we set off for Songmingyan. Every year during the Hua'er Festival, the entrance to the Songmingyan scenic area becomes a large market, selling everything and very lively. Before going into the mountains to listen to Hua'er, we first had cold noodles and half a jin (250 grams) of shouzhuarou at the entrance, then bought a corn cob to take inside.
At Songmingyan, you can buy the local specialty fruit, piteguo (a type of wild pear). Piteguo grows on mountains near Songmingyan at an altitude of over 2,000 meters; when first picked, they are sour and astringent, and they need to be placed on a fruit rack for half a month to soften, and their color will turn into a dark shade like frozen pears. The ripened piteguo is very juicy; you have to bite a small hole to suck out the juice before you can eat the flesh, and the taste is sweet and sour, very refreshing.
Entering the Songmingyan Hua'er Festival venue. After two years, I saw that Songmingyan had installed wooden walkways on the mountain this year, and some roads had been newly paved, but the environment had not changed much; it is still a very free mountain field for Hua'er.
Translation from my friend Caigen: "This flower is yellow, oh, yellow to death.
My dear sister, this flower has been picked by a bee.
I haven't seen you for these few years.
I have missed you to death.
I just want to ask you,
Who have you been attracted to?" "
Saying goodbye to Songmingyan, heading to Lanzhou to catch a flight back to Beijing. Before leaving, I bought Halal Dicos (a Chinese fast-food chain) at Lanzhou West Station; it is a childhood memory for Zainab.