Huangcheng Grassland

Huangcheng Grassland

Huangcheng Grassland

Huangcheng Grassland, known as the "vast land of brocade" in the Book of the Later Han and hailed by contemporary tourism authorities as one of China’s six most beautiful grasslands, is the Jinyang Ranch in the Qilian Mountains.

Just as the sky leaves no trace, yet birds have flown overhead. The vast grassland turns fresh green year after year, and the Qilian Mountain Grassland remains indelible in people’s memories. In these boundless lands where the mountain winds once blew the great banners of wolves and the valleys echoed with the neighing of horses, the ancient Qiang people left traces of their camps. The Xiongnu Right Virtuous King lamented the loss of this lush pasture with the timeless sigh, “Having lost my Qilian Mountains, my livestock no longer thrive.” The Greater Yuezhi played their piercing eagle flutes here. The Tibetans lit the first flames on this land. Princess Xianhua of the Tuyuhun Kingdom set up her summer palace under the felt tents during the cool highland summers. Möngke Khan of the Mongols once built what he believed to be an impregnable fortress city here... As grazing grounds shifted and one fiery storm after another swept through, the grassland turned green again each spring. Only the legendary Haomen horses, the pearl-like white yaks, Tibetan sheep, Mongolian sheep, and black-purple lambs have endured, forever thriving alongside this grassland renowned through the ages.

When you step into Huangcheng Grassland, a sense of returning home washes over you. Some wish to become a red horse, standing atop the hill in the western wind, letting out a proud neigh. Others want to be a white horse under moonlight, dancing with its shadow in the soft glow of Luohai Lake, conversing with Tibetan mandarin ducks. Some long to be an eagle at dawn, soaring under the clear blue sky toward the rising sun, while others dream of being a meadow lark, singing their heart out in the boundless freedom of the skies...