Yulin Grottoes is also called Caves of Thousands of Buddhas. It is one of the treasure houses of Buddhist grottoes art in China. The caves were built on bank cliffs at two sides of the Yulin River valley. There are now 42 caves in existence, 31 on the east bank and 11 on the west bank. Clear water runs through between banks where thick woods of elms grow, hence the name of Yulin Grottoes (Elm Grottoes) was called. In the grottoes preserved are statues of nearly a thousand ones and frescoes of more than a thousand square meters. The first group of caves were built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and in the following dynasties more caves were built or restored. The forms of caves and contents of paintings showed close connection with those in Mogao grottoes. They are important component parts of Dunhuang Art, and have great historical and art value.

During the reign of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty a ivory sculpture of Buddha was found in a cave. It had been a treasure handed down from generation to generation, and was presented to the state by the latest abbot. The appearance of the sculpture shows a Buddha riding on a elephant. The whole statue is 15.9cm in height, 11.4cm in length and 3.5cm breadth. It is divided into two halves. On the inner face of each half carved are Jataka narratives which tell of the good deeds performed by Sakyamuni. All together there are 279 figures and 12 horse-drawn carriages. They all have vivid gestures, but not alike. According to the art style, it should be a art treasure made in India about one thousand years ago, and brought to China by monks in Tang Dynasty. The original article is now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and there is a reproduction on display in Anxi County Museum.

Caves No.25, No.3 and No.29 are representative works in Yulin Grottoes. Frescoes well preserved in the three caves are masterpieces which reflect outstanding level of wall paintings.

The Wine Spring Park located 1.9km east of the Drum Tower, covers an area of 270,000 square meters. It is the only garden in style of the Han Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor. It has a long history of more than 2,000 years. In the garden there are lakes, hills, bridges and a group of sculptures. The whole garden is sheltered under woods of tall, straight and thick ancient trees. There are also pavilions, archways and temples with carved beams and painted rafters. It has always enjoyed the reputation of being lush southern-type fields beyond the Great Wall and a bright pearl on the Gobi Desert. Now it is a scenery of AAAA rated by the State Tourism Administration.

The front gate in the south is the main entrance. The arch over the gateway is built modeled on the imperial palace gate. It has two watchtowers on each side. It is classical, beautiful, elegant and imposing. There are two inscribed boards hang on the gate. One of them says “bright pearl on Gobi Desert”, the other says “famous scenery of spring and lake”. Above the boards there is a relief sculpture of a bull head, carefully covered of granite picked in remote place in Mountain Qiliang.

It is said that in late period of the Ming Dynasty and early period of the Qing Dynasty, the town frequently flooded. They said that it was demons and ghosts who made trouble in here thus built two temples to suppress the devil spirits. One was built on the northwest corner and the other on the southwest corner. The two temples and the drum tower formed a shape of bull head therefore the town had a local name of “town of crouching bull”.

The Wine Spring, a historical site of the Western Han Dynasty, was located in centre of the garden. It is said that in the Western Han Dynasty, Huoqubing, a young general, commanded a mounted troop of less than ten thousand people to fight against Xiongnu (the Huns) of tens of thousands, won a decisive victory. The Emperor was overjoyed on hearing the news, because things were better than he expected. He sent a envoy to bring him three jars of wine to reward him. The general though it was not enough for everybody of the cavalry, thus had the wine poured into a spring and shared it with his men. The story spread like wild fire. Hence the spring was called the Wine Spring and the place was so named when prefecture was first set up in here in Han Dynasty in honor of him for his immortal contributions to the court.

Diversiform-leaved poplar is one of the rare species of trees. They have soft quality and large leaves and great vitality. They are drought-enduring. There are only 3 forest zones of diversiform-leaved poplars in the world. Ejina Banner is one of them still in existence in large scale. Diversiform-leaved poplars in Ejina Banner are almost hundreds of years old but still have masses of branches and leaves.

The Eastern Grottoes of Thousands of Buddha is located 98km west of Anxi County, dug on cliffs of riverbanks. There are 23 caves in existence. Among them nine caves have statues and wall paintings. Preserved in cave No.5 of the Western Xia Regime, cave No.1 of Yuan Dynasty and cave No.3 of the Qing Dynasty are frescoes of 486 square meters and 56 painted statues. The frescoes in cave No.5 of the Western Xia Regime are well preserved and cover a lot of ground.

Set up in 1978, the Musenm of Suzhou District is a comprehensive museum with functions of collection, protection, study, propaganda and education of relics. Preserved in it are relics of bronze, pottery, jade, gold, silver, stone-covering, silk, Buddhist scriptures, painting and calligraphy, patterned brick and painted brick, total 4,138 pieces. It also takes charge of protection of 268 places of outdoor historical sites. They date from prehistoric times to the Qin Dynasty, among them, one is of national level and thirty-three are of provincial level. They reproduce to people the history of politics, economy, science and technology, culture and art, agriculture and husbandry, religious belief, conditions and customs, from which people can learn the development of civilization in history in Jiuquan. The cream of them on exhibition are painted bricks, stone statue of pagoda, the nether-tree lamp, stone crouching ox.