Ningxia, A Place with Splendid Civilization

In China's history, Ningxia is a birthplace of the Chinese civilization featuring early development.As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River flows through Ningxia, which makes it a place where our ancestors were living.In the Xia-Shang-Zhou Dynasties, the region from Helan Mountain to Liupan Mountain and Yellow River was the pasture for the nomadic people of the North.However, during the Warring States period, Qin Dynasty started developing agriculture and firstly set up administration units.Benefited from the Yellow River, Ningxia is crowned as "e;Jiangnan of North to the Great Wall"e; since ancient times ("e;Jiangnan around the Great Wall"e; for now) and created typical agricultural civilization along the Yellow River.In Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian opened the path to the Western Region. The Silk Road, as the way for cultural exchange between East and West, passes through south Ningxia.Ningxia is an important channel of Chang'an (capital of dynasties located in Central China in ancient times) to exit Silk Road, and a place for massive minorities to live and prosper. Some monitories take Ningxia as the zone for transition to Central China.In Song Dynasty, Tangut set up and maintained for 200 years the State of Western Xia centered on Ningxia, which left numerous cultural relics.After Yuan-Ming-Qing Dynasties, Ningxia became one of the habitations for the Hui people.In the course of long history, as the arena of the ancient people and the place integrating farming and pasture cultures, Ningxia has been playing an important role for the battles and construction on it.?Featuring long history and cultural diversity, Ningxia has become an important part of the Chinese civilization.