从北京西行一千公里,越过蜿蜒起伏的黄土高原,脚下是灰蒙蒙一片戈壁滩。莽莽苍苍的贺兰山一反常态是南北走向,成为一道名副其实的天然屏障。它绵延一百余公里,千万年来一直尽职尽责呵护着名闻遐迩的塞上明珠——宁夏川。 宁夏川,黄河川。俗话说,“天下黄河富宁夏”。九曲黄河从青藏高原的崇山峻岭奔突而出,到了贺兰山脚下却忽然变得平缓舒展。千万年泥沙沉积,终形成一片广袤、肥沃而神奇的平原。这片土地曾养育出一个神秘的古西夏王国。遥想当年,豪气于云的成吉思汗六度挥兵攻打西夏均铩羽而归,而他竟落得“出师未捷身先死”。当他病逝于西夏境内时,当是一种何等的悲凉！ 沧海桑田,千年以后的宁夏川与以往相比自是不可同日而语。借着西部大开发的春风,这片富饶的土地在回族、汉族和各族同胞的辛勤耕耘之下,正在发生翻天覆地的巨变。改革开放和西部大开发也给文化艺术的繁荣发展提供了前所未见的机遇。6月26日,《美术》杂志王仲、梁江和李伟一行三人赶赴西宁,与宁夏美协联合举办“西部大开发宁 A thousand kilometers west of Beijing, across the meandering Loess Plateau, at the foot of the gray gobi desert. The vastness of the Helan Mountain an anomaly is the north-south direction, become a veritable natural barrier. It stretches a hundred kilometers, tens of thousands of years has been due diligence care of the famous plug Pearl - Ningxia Chuan. Ningxia Chuan, Yellow River. As the saying goes, “the world’s rich Ningxia Yellow River.” Nine Yellow River from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau bolted out to the foot of the Helan Mountain suddenly become gentle stretch. Thousands of years of sediment deposition, eventually forming a vast, fertile and magical plains. This land has raised a mysterious ancient Xixia Kingdom. Looking back then, the heroic Genghis Khan in the clouds of six championships to attack Xixia are feather and return, but he actually fell as a “master is not the first to die.” When he died in Western Xia territory, when it is a kind of sadness! The sea and the sea, thousands of years after the Ningxiachuan compared with the past can not be the same. With the spring breeze of the great western development, this fertile land is undergoing earth-shaking tremendous changes under the hard work of the Hui, Han and ethnic compatriots. The reform and opening up as well as the development of the western region have also provided an unprecedented opportunity for the prosperity and development of culture and the arts. On June 26, the art magazine Wang Zhong, Liang Jiang and Li Wei and his entourage went to Xining to jointly hold "Great Western Development Ningxia