Gansu Lanzhou | Baita Mountain Park | Mysterious temple experience

If you have been to the Lanzhou City Museum, you must have seen the white temple tower there. That tower is somewhat similar to the white tower on Baita Mountain behind Lanzhou Iron Bridge. Both are brick towers, and each layer of the tower eaves is full of copper bells. The upper half of the tower body is the same pavilion-style tower, the difference is in the lower half, the white temple tower is more obvious, more like a treasure bottle, while the white tower is a bowl shape. The white tower is an octagonal tower base, and the white temple tower is a cross-folded corner shape. - As for why they look alike? I'm not sure, they were both built in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that the White Tower was rebuilt nearly 200 years before the White Temple, maybe it was like this at that time. It was rebuilt on the ruins, and it was the early Ming Dynasty. - 📙Background knowledge: The builder of the White Temple Tower was a Mongolian. The timeline goes back to Lanzhou on the map of the Western Xia Dynasty. The Mongolians in the north invited the Lama in the south to discuss. The Lama passed through Lanzhou and died of illness. A tower was built here in memory of him at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. Even if it was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, it was a combination of two cultures. After all, Lanzhou is located in a region where various cultures blend, as it was in the past and is now. 🎩Wonderful experience: ❶ How to look at a tower? The structure of the tower body and the carvings on the tower base. After all, the base of Mount Sumeru is full of carvings, and the lines are simple and clear. There are also Buddha niches on the pavilion-style tower body, and there are even Buddha statues in the niches. ❷ Here you can see the Lanzhou Iron Bridge crowded with tourists. The sheepskin rafts lined up on the banks of the Yellow River. Lanzhou in the summer vacation is the starting point of various self-driving routes in Gansu and Qinghai, and there are really many people. The Baita Mountain, named after the tower, obviously has more locals coming here for a walk. Because the mountain is really not high, but the view is good. There are many pavilions on the mountain, which is indeed a good place for a lazy weekend. ❸ There is a night view. 📷Photography position: Drones can fly, be careful to avoid the crowd 🗺️Recommended route: You can walk over from Zhongshan Iron Bridge, and you can see it in front of the bridge. It's really not far or high. But Baita Mountain Park is not small in size, because it also includes the Lanzhou Stele Forest where the First Pavilion of the Yellow River is located. But the actual effect is much worse than on the Internet. 📍Location┆Gansu Lanzhou Baita Mountain Park 🎫Ticket┆Free ⏳Duration┆2 hours