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敦煌月牙泉,月牙泉位于敦煌市西南5公里处，是一处神奇的漫漫沙漠中的湖水奇观。鸣沙山下，泉水形成一湖，在沙丘环抱之中，酷似一弯新月而得名月牙泉。月牙泉，古称沙井，俗名药泉，自汉朝起即为“敦煌八景”之一，得名“月泉晓彻”。月牙泉南北长近100米，东西宽约25米，泉水东深西浅，最深处约5米，弯曲如新月，因而得名。一湾清泉，涟漪萦回，碧如翡翠。
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Old is Yongzhou Gansu provincial capital Lanzhou. Located in the upper Yellow River, located in the geographical center of China, between latitude 32 ° 31 '~ 42 ° 57', longitude 92 ° 13 '~ 108 ° 46' between. It is the east, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Sichuan controlled South, West Hill Xinjiang, brief Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, is the ancient Silk Road of the key sections of land and gold, and with the Mongolian border, it was like a magnificent gem, set in central China the Loess Plateau, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia plateau, something more than 1,600 kilometers meandering, aspect 453,700 square kilometers, accounting for 4.72% of the total area. Population 26 million (968 million in 1949), Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan, Mongolian, Kazak, Tu, Salar, Manchu and other ethnic groups. Among them, the Dongxiang, Yugur, Bonan is a minority of Gansu.
