Hami: Xi Deyang Guan Wen/Li Wei

People from outside the city often ask me where I am from, and after hearing hami, some of them will ask where hami is. For such a question, almost all Hami people will have this rhetorical question: "Have you ever eaten cantaloupe?" After that, everything was relieved. In fact, Hami answered very well somewhere, all the way to the west, smelling melon, it was Hami.

　　Speaking of cantaloupe, it is natural to think of Hami, mention the Silk Road, Hami, but also a place that can not be bypassed. If cantaloupe is a taste symbol of hami, then there are many special symbols that are still new and strange to most people, and some elements may make people feel familiar, but there are also some local cultural characteristics that many mainlanders can't imagine with their brains. Therefore, the ancient Silk Road has brought the city not only the economic prosperity of bartering, but also the characteristic prosperity formed by the subliminal immersion of Han culture. I want to thank Zhang Qian for chiseling the Western Regions, because it was he who made this ancient Silk Road make a historic stop in Hami and extended this road from Hami to a farther distance.

　　Hami, ancient name Ximo (Xima), Gu rongdi, Kunmo, Han called Yiwu or Yiwulu, Tang called Yizhou, Yuan called Hamili, after the Ming called Hami. Hami is a multi-ethnic gathering place with a long history, diverse cultures, and abundant land, and has been the throat of the Silk Road since ancient times. After the Silk Road entered the western region, it underwent many diversions, but none of them departed from the geographical scope of Hami, making the two words of fusion and collision the key words of multicultural convergence here, and also achieving a perfect fit between Hami's splendid culture and long history. How long the ancient Silk Road is, how long the story of Hami is; how far away the ancient Silk Road is, how far the melon fragrance of cantaloupe floats.

　　If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't have believed that the two counties in the first district of Hami were in the same time and space, and they were only separated by a heavenly mountain. And it is this separation that has spawned a thousand different styles of Hami and the three places, all kinds of beautiful scenery and great pride, if you travel between the three places in a day, there will be a sense of trance accompanying you, and even can't tell where you are.

　　The surrounding scene of Yizhou should be in line with the imagination of the mainland people in Xinjiang, because only words such as the sunset of the long river and the lonely smoke of the desert can arouse their infinite yearning for the mysterious Xinjiang, most inland people will ignore the existence of the Oasis in Xinjiang from the bottom of their hearts, in fact, the oasis on the Gobi is the cradle that nurtures the local civilization, and the continuous history and culture are based on the existence of people, and the Yizhou of Hami is also an oasis on the vast land of Xinjiang, so for thousands of years, countless people have stopped, or stayed, or walked from Iraq.

　　King Mu of Zhou came, driving his eight horse carriages, bringing the rewards and majesty of Western Zhou, and after meeting with Yaochi, the Queen Mother of the West and Yaochi bid farewell to Xima, which is today's Hamiyi Prefecture. Ban Chao came, he threw his pen from Rong, looking for the direction of Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty, and also stepped into the western region, Ban Chao made a contribution in the wolf smoke of the beacon, after the defeat of the Xiongnu, there was a beautiful City of Iwulu by the Poplar River, which was later called Ravjok. Xuanzang came, all the way to the dust, with dedication and piety to the Buddha, the abbot of the Miaoergou Buddhist Temple was so happy that he ran out to greet him without even wearing shoes. Zuo Zongtang came, carrying the heavy coffin, which was praised as the person who had made the greatest contribution to China's territorial integrity in five hundred years, to ensure the logistical supply of the counterinsurgency troops, and finally completed the great cause of swearing to die to drive out the invaders, thus becoming famous for eternity.

　　Once came to this oasis, there are university scholar Ji Xiaolan and Humen tobacco Lin Zexu, of course, the celebrities of all dynasties have measured here with their feet, they have left poems, left stories, left legends, left footprints, but the Si people have gone, whether heroes or civilians, in the history of Yizhou can leave, not only a name, but also a legend and dust, the important thing is that they are the forerunners who set foot on the land of Yizhou, it is they, giving The legend of Yizhou's gorgeous color.

　　Shannan Yizhou is an oasis in the vast Gobi, while The north of the mountain is full of primitive pine forests and grasslands, which is the visual contrast mentioned above, from the gray-yellow tone suddenly enters the boundless green, and it is a sudden entry, this visual difference, will be unforgettable.

　　Each ancient city of Bari Kun is a witness to a dynasty, and every ancient mansion with carved beams and paintings is a reflection of its former glory, as well as the ancient city walls that are so wide that they can drive carriages on it, which for hundreds of years still stand on the grassland in the wind, paying no attention to the rise of the city's tall buildings. For passers-by, no one is willing to seriously face a piece of history or culture, we should casually stretch the vicissitudes and thickness left by the history of Barikun, and there is no need to deliberately experience the culture here, but only when looking up, blinking, or casually talking with locals, we can capture the epitome of local ecology, architecture, clothing, and song and dance.

　　Whether it is an extension of the Silk Road or a stop on the Jade Road, it is accompanied by many Qing Dynasty literati and exiled criminals, and the Qing Dynasty poet Shi Shanchang wrote a poem "To Bari Kun": "There is no way to doubt here, and the mountains are wrapped in a city." The light is too ancient snow, less than half a day clear. The drum horns are strong and strong, and the wind and snow are all drawn. This one, just one of them, has outlined Barikun's stick figure.

　　In the grassland north of Mount Hami, it is necessary to mention a Mingsha Mountain, which is the demarcation sign of the three places of Hami, to the south is Yizhou, to the west is Bari Kun, and the direction to the east is Yiwu. The name Yiwu originally belonged to Hami, which was the ancient place name of Hami in the Han and Tang Dynasties, known as Yiwulu in Han, Sui and Tang set up Yiwu County, and today's Yiwu is only later transferred to this name. Like Barikun, Yiwu was an important town in the Hami region of the ancient Silk Road, bordering Mongolia in the northeast and with pleasant scenery.

　　When the ancient Silk Road extended into Hami, there were two roads converging here, the caravan of merchants entered Yiwu from the capital through Inner Mongolia, or through the Hexi Corridor to ma mane mountain Gobi and then entered Yizhou, no matter which direction the caravan came from, when it reached the Border of Yiwu, it would make another choice of direction, either to go south of the mountain, but the climate was hot and dry, and the bandits were endless, or to go north of the mountain, although the environment was pleasant, but there were often wolves. In the end, the choice of caravans depended entirely on whether they were armed and well supplied, and most of the caravans still entered the territory of Iwu County, thus using this as a temporary stop, and then went to Bari Kun to unload their goods, at least by taking this road to avoid the pain of the caravan crossing the Tianshan Mountains.

　　Hami natives will use this way to describe the relationship between Yizhou, Barikun and Iwu, saying that Yizhou is the eldest in hami's family, and is the big brother of the two little sisters of Barikun and Iwu. When the Silk Road crossed Hami and made many changes between the three places, it would eventually go in one direction, and the three children were still witnesses to this ancient Silk Road to this day.