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Shanshan County has a long history, splendid culture, and is located in the main road of transportation, since ancient times, it has been a place of contention for soldiers and families, and it is also the door to enter the history, culture and geography of the western region. In the course of more than two thousand years, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Jingjiao, Manichaeism, Taoism, Islam and other religions have intersected here, thus forming many unique phenomena of the ancient history and culture of Shanshan. Due to the remaining ancient ruins throughout the county and the large number of excavated cultural relics, Shanshan County has become a major cultural relics county in Xinjiang, known as the largest "open-air museum" in Xinjiang. In the Turpan City Museum, the cultural relics of Shanshan account for more than 60%, and in the Museum of the Autonomous Region, the cultural relics of Shanshan account for more than 30%.
There are many cultural relics in Shanshan County, with long lines and large areas, and the excavated cultural relics are rare and valuable, and have high historical and academic value. By 2013, there were 150 cultural relics protection units in the county (excluding the Qan'erjing site), including 5 national key cultural relics protection units, 17 key cultural relics protection units in the autonomous region, and 131 at the county level. In 2012, the Shanshan County Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall was opened in the Civic Cultural Activity Center, with a collection of 260 cultural relics, bringing together cultural relics from the Neolithic period, the Cheshi period, the Gaochangguo period, the Tang Xizhou period, the Ming and Qing dynasties to the modern era, including 2 national cultural relics, 33 second-class cultural relics and 74 third-class cultural relics.
The ancient city of Asa, large and small
Panoramic view of the ancient city of Little Asa
The ruins of the ancient city of Asa in Shanshan County are located about 10 kilometers southwest of Baishtamu Village in Dalangkan Township, Shanshan County. "Asa" is Persian meaning "castle". Altitude - 138 meters above sea level. The city known as the "City of Crutches" consisted of two large cities 3 kilometers apart, the city on the east side was called "Little Crutch", and the west was called "Big Crutch" (now called "Big Asa" and "Little Asa"), and the remains of these two cities are still there.
Little Asa Ancient City Buddhist Temple and Stupa
Little Asa Ancient City
The entire ruins of the ancient city are adobe masonry, consisting of walls, beacons and a number of residential sites, the plane is irregularly rectangular, and the walls are mostly collapsed. The remaining east and west walls of the ancient city are about 95 meters long, with a circumference of about 304 meters, an area of 5400 square meters, a wall base width of nearly 5 meters, and a height of about 3 to 3.5 meters judged from the fallen remnants of the wall, the era is Tang-Yuan (Gaochang Uighurs, 840-1286).
The ancient city of Grand Asa
The Great Asa is an ancient fort site with a circumference of about 304 meters, the walls are made of adobe, all of which have collapsed, and although the southern wall of the ruins has collapsed, the residual height is still 5.5 meters, and the base of the wall is very wide, about 8 meters.
The little Asa Buddhist temple in the sunset
The Ruins of the Little Asa Buddhist Monastery are a group of monastic complex sites. The buildings are all adobe bastions, square in plan and 100 meters long on the sides.
In 1999, the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region announced it as an autonomous region-level cultural relics protection unit. In 2013, the State Council announced it as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Fossil rhinoceros
Excavated in the 1990s in the territory of Shanshan County, Turpan City, Xinjiang, it is connected by several skeletons to form a giant rhinoceros. The skeleton is about 4 meters high and about 9 meters long, making it the largest fossil of a giant rhinoceros found in China and the largest and most complete fossil of a giant rhinoceros found in the world. It is now on display at the Turpan Museum.
Dinosaur footprint fossils
In an exposed pre-mountain hilly section 8 km south of Baka Village in Qiketai Town and 1.5 km south of the eastern end of Flame Mountain, the surface lithology is lake facies brownish red sandstone, with thicker gray-green bottom conglomerate, which belongs to the Cretaceous stratigraphic accumulation. During this period, fossil footprints of Baka dinosaurs were found, causing shocks at home and abroad. The fossils are distributed on a sedimentary rock layer with an area of about 30 square meters, with a thickness of about 30 centimeters, and the fossils of large and small dinosaur footprints can be seen, each footprint area is about 60 square centimeters, the arrangement is relatively tight, and the footprints are clearly recognizable.
Dragon of Xinjiang
8 kilometers south of baka village in Qiketai Town, at the eastern end of the Flame Mountain, giant sauropod dinosaur fossils dating back to the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation were found. The dinosaur fossil preserves a complete femur (about 2 meters long), tibia, fibula, waist belt, dorsal vertebrae and recommended vertebrae, as well as some tail vertebrae, auxiliary bones and neck bones, etc., with a body length of more than 30 meters and a weight of 30 tons, which is the most complete preserved dinosaur skeleton fossil found in China so far, and the largest Jurassic dinosaur found in China so far. This dinosaur was named "Shanshan Xinjiang Dragon".
From/Shanshan Story Legend, Shanshan New Language
Edited by Guzailinur
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