Dan Geer Ancient City-Witness to Rich History
   The Dan Geer ancient city was established in 1727.For having roads available to Tibet,Dan Geer,approaching Qinghai,was known as the trading place for Hans、Tus、Mongols and Huis.In 1892 for the rise of trade,the establishment of the Dan Geer Provincial-Level Department had been retarded.The Dan Geer ancient city,with a history of 600 years,is not only an important west-China stronghold of the economy、culture and military,but also a cultural city.
   The city has a central north local-style dwelling houses are characteristics of typical centralcourtyard, secondary trenchant, many houses by a into two Chambers, have bungalow, also have two layer buildings, more for civil structures, metope thick solid, winter can heat preservation, summer is cool, can cover on the gate has YingBi, with various auspicious patterns brick. Building plank more sculptured and painted with colour simple, the moral unique all sorts of adornment design, shows when people live and work and rich. The whole building materials, appearance style is shirt-sleeve farming culture and the grassland culture elements, reflect the rich local characteristics and national features. Meanwhile, the star-studded shops, workshops, teahouse, reflects the ease, leisurely and comfortable and tranquil cultural characteristics. A wide about six meters, insufficient kilometers long street is that main street, connecting the city god temple, guandi temple, the Confucius temple, Dan zhungaer hall department, the town HaiXie camp department such as buildings, is an important part of the ancient city and HuangYuan folk agglomeration of place.
   Ancient city layout rigorous architectural structures, jinwei interweave faint street, unique structure of residential compound, vehemence generous monasteries temples, maintain integrity of "rest home" trade name, style different HuangYuan row lamp, without exception, carrying heavy multicultural information, showing the frontier city development of magnificent picture scroll, reflect the rich local characteristics and national characteristics and farming culture and animal husbandry cultural fusion of singular sight intersection.