History of Xinjiang 丨 Episode 40, Episode 41

Episode 40 Stone City

The main content of this episode: Stone City is the ruins of an ancient city built with stone blocks and earth, built on a stone hill about 20 meters high. The ruins of the ancient city are built according to the situation of Shigang, slightly square, and are divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is relatively well preserved, with the ruins of monasteries to the east and more than 40 living quarters remaining in the west and southeast of the city.

Episode 41 Ancient Coins

The main content of this episode: In 2012, in a tomb near the western wall of the ancient city of Guizi, more than 14,000 ancient coins were unearthed at one time, including a large number of five-baht coins and Coins of the Central Plains Dynasty such as the Western Han Dynasty Half Two, Cargo Spring, Daquan Fifty and other Guizi local self-minted coins. After the western Han Dynasty unified the western region, the economic and cultural exchanges between Xinjiang and the Central Plains became closer, and the five-baht coin became one of the main circulating coins in Xinjiang at that time.

Source: CCTV

Edit: Xiang Rong

Intern Editor: Xu Xinle