China is an ancient civilization with a history of thousands of years, in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty once wanted to deal with the Xiongnu with the Great Moon Clan, so he sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to open up a Silk Road, in which there are many stories of ethnic divisions and integration, all of which have close ties with China.
There are many western countries on the Silk Road, these countries and the Central Plains culture do not stop, but now the country has become part of China, of which Khotan is once one of the many western countries, this country was once one of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, but the existence of time is far longer than the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1238 years, in 1006 AD was destroyed.
Khotan was once a powerful country in the western region, and because it was located in the center of the Silk Road, its position was very important. The state of Khotan belonged to the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty successively, and once rebelled against the Xiongnu, and after the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the state of Khotan was also constantly developing and growing. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Khotan was annexed by the Western Turks, and in the Tang Dynasty, due to the peace between the Western Turks and the Tang Dynasty, the Khotanese state was also returned to the Tang dynasty again, becoming a member of the four towns of Anxi.
Later, Tubo rose strongly in 670 and reoccupied the state of Khotan, but Khotan refused to be occupied by Tubo, fought hard, and finally broke away from Tubo and returned to the Tang Dynasty three years later. Five years later Tubo attacked Khotan again, changed hands in Khotan again during the Wu Zetian period, and later returned again in 692. Later, during the Song Dynasty, the Qarakhanid State took the Khotanese for itself, and later did not return to Khotan again until the Qing Dynasty, but after returning to Khotan, the state of Khotan was no longer the state of Khotan, but was called Khotan County, which is now Yutian County.