On July 7, Tumen Pass (Hol Tibetan Xianggao in Tibetan) in Gansu Province under the blue sky was magnificent, and the remains of the Guan wall showed the vicissitudes of history.

Tumen Pass was once an important pass of the Ancient Tea Horse Road and one of the twenty-four famous passes in the Ming Dynasty. It is located in the transition zone and boundary line from the Loess Plateau to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It guards the Daxia River Gorge. It also travels from Lanzhou to Gannan and Sichuan via Linxia. , Qinghai Qinghai-Tibet Plateau must pass through the pass.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa


Release time: 2021-07-08 21:40:06 【Editor: Wang Yi】