Linxia's Eight Blocks and Thirteen Alleys exude the lively atmosphere of an ancient Hui district

🍁 Returning from Gannan to Lanzhou, passing through Linxia City, one must stroll through the ancient streets with Hui ethnic charm—Eight Blocks and Thirteen Alleys. 🍁 The entire street architecture is like entering a 'Grand View Garden' of ethnic architectural art. The area is very clean and well-organized, with each street having its corresponding name. There are a total of eight mosques here. From the Tang Dynasty to the present, around the eight mosques, eight teaching blocks and thirteen streets and alleys have formed, historically known as Eight Blocks and Thirteen Alleys. 🍁 The whole alleyway is interconnected with many gates, integrating Hui brick carving, Han wood carving, and Tibetan painting, among other multi-ethnic cultures, all of which can be presented in this alley. It turns out that the Northwest also has gentle and delicate ancient streets and courtyards. 🍁 There are also many delicacies in the alley, the yak yogurt is very tasty, with a layer of milk fat that is golden and shiny on top. There is also traditional milk cake with a particularly strong milky flavor, which I personally think is a great value. 🍁 Linxia, known as the 'Little Mecca of China', is filled with mosques everywhere. The mosques here often use a perfect combination of ancient Chinese architecture and mosque design, which is unique and completely different from mosque architecture in other places. And the mosques in Linxia's Eight Blocks and Thirteen Alleys are the most concentrated!