Ding~ Check in at Menyuan's Hundred-Mile Canola Flower Sea!

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When the July breeze sweeps across the Qilian Mountains, Menyuan's thousand-year-old sea of canola flowers begins to bloom with a fiery, magnificent, and ever-vibrant scene. With reverence, we drive through the snowy mountains and flower fields, waiting for the spectacular "clouds and mist shrouding the snowy mountain flower sea" 🏔️
The Hundred-Mile Canola Flower Sea in Menyuan is hidden in the "Golden Basin" of the eastern section of the Qilian Mountain range in Qinghai. Its legend is as splendid as the flower sea itself. In the Kunlun mythology, Gangshika Snow Peak is the Crystal Palace of the Queen Mother of the West. It is said that during her Mid-Autumn feast with the gods, she scattered immortal seeds from her sleeves, instantly spreading a hundred-mile flower sea across the human world. The intertwining of millennia of farming wisdom and mythology has made this highland flower sea, at an altitude of 2800-3500 meters, a miracle where nature and culture dance together.
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"Qilian's June snow, no flowers, only cold." We were quite lucky this time ❄️ It had just snowed the day before, and the hotel owner said the snow was about a foot thick, so this time we got to see the snowy scenery on the grassland. But the subzero temperatures really made us shiver. Walking on the Qilian Mountain grassland, looking at the snowy mountains on both sides, it truly was:
White on the snow-capped peaks, yellow beneath the canola flowers, horses chasing the clouds, and I am in the center of the painting 🏔️

Qilian Mountains, meaning "Heavenly Mountains" in the Xiongnu language, have been a sacred land of nomadic civilization since ancient times. In the second year of Emperor Wu of Han's Yuanshou era (121 BC), General Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu in the north, seizing this lush pasture and establishing an imperial horse ranch. The Xiongnu lamented: "Losing my Qilian Mountains, my livestock no longer thrive," expressing the strategic and emotional value of the grassland.

Post by AEQ. Abby 2093 | Oct 22, 2025