The Western Regions, with a bit of the mystery of the lost ancient city;
Stained with some rumors of Xuanzang's sutras;
Silently straddling the ancient Silk Road;
Here bustling no more,
The remains were silent in the wind and sand;
Here people go to the empty building,
The faintly visible city is silent in the vast dust;
There are many mysteries here,
The vanished ancient city is lost in the mysterious story, lost again;
Only the fading ancient city is revealed to the world in the wind and sand;
In this mysterious and vast land,
Not only is there a gorgeous natural scenery,
There is also a long history of civilization.
Xinjiang is the pearl of the ancient Silk Road,
The Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions have left a long historical echo here,
Ancient Egypt, the Two Rivers Valley, India and the Central Plains cultures met here,
Created the enigmatic Western Civilization.
Loulan Ancient City: The Impenetrable Desert "Pompeii"
In ancient times, it was a place with abundant water and grass and flat terrain, and after B.C. there was a prosperous Loulan Kingdom, which was a famous Silk Road town at that time.
Lou Lan beauty prototype
The world-famous Loulan Ancient City, an important historical site in Xinjiang, is located in the west of Lop Nur and is located in the hub of the western region, occupying an extremely important position on the ancient Silk Road.
However, around the 4th century AD, this once famous country suddenly disappeared mysteriously, leaving only countless unsolved mysteries.
Restoration map of the ancient city of Loulan
Why does a kingdom disappear overnight? To what extent has the Loulan civilization developed? To this day, this historical site that shocked the world still brings people unsolved mysteries.
Address: Northwest of Ruoqiang County, 300 kilometers away from the county seat, located on the north-west bank of Lop Nur .
The Old City of Milan: The Pearl of the Silk Road 2,000 years ago
Ancient Milan was an ancient oasis city in the south of the Taklamakan Desert, located at the intersection of the Lop Nur and Argin Mountains, and was an important passage in and out of Central Asia on the southern route of the Silk Road. Ancient Milan was once an important base for the Central Dynasty to run the Western Regions. According to historical records, during the Western Han Dynasty, this place was the Yixun City of The Western Regions. The three most famous symbols of the ancient city ruins are the flying wing angel mural, the earliest stupa in China, and the complete water irrigation system of the Han Dynasty.
Nowadays, when you come back to the ancient city at that time, you can only find some traces of "earth buns". One by one, the broken earthen walls and mounds dot the desert, and thousands of years have made this uplifted loess merge with the desert, with a wisp of loneliness and desolation of the ancient atmosphere, outlining the picture of the desert's lonely smoke.
Address: 80 kilometers east of Ruoqiang County, 5 kilometers away from milan town of 36 regiments.
Gaochang Ancient City: The largest ancient city ruins in the Western Regions
The Uyghur name of the ancient city of Gaochang is also "Du Mocheng", which means "Wangcheng", which was once the capital of the Kingdom of Gaochang. Founded in the 1st century BC, it is divided into three parts: the outer castle, the inner castle and the palace castle, and there are nine gates in the whole city, and the gate on the north side of the west is the best preserved.
The old city was abandoned in the war at the end of the 13th century, most of the buildings disappeared, and the two temple sites in the southwest and southeast corners of the outer city are better preserved.
Address: Sanbao Township, more than 40 kilometers east of Turpan City
Beiting Ancient City: 600 years of prosperous old dreams
Beiting Ancient City is one of the famous cities in the ancient Western Regions, located twenty kilometers north of the current city of Jimsar County. The ruins of the Beiting Ancient City were expanded on the basis of the JinmanCheng in the Han Dynasty, and now only the ruins and broken walls remain, but the official offices and street markets are still faintly visible.
The Beiting Dynasty once stood in the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains for 600 years, and began to decline in the mid-14th century, destroying it in the war in the early 15th century. Nishidaiji Temple is one of its outbuildings.
It is the only remaining treasure house of Buddhist culture and art in the Northern Xinjiang region that has gone through the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and the "King's Travel Map" and the frescoes of the donors in the 105th auxiliary hall have to be seen.
Address: About 10 km north of Jimsar County.
Tashkurgan Stone City: A Glance Through Time
The remains of an ancient city built on a high platform are the largest post stations on the Silk Road through the Green Ridge, the Pamir Plateau.
Although the stone city is only left with ruins and broken walls, the surrounding snow peaks, grass beaches, and rivers, with a strong Tajik national customs, are even a bit rough and bold.
When the sun is about to set, the whole stone city will reflect a rich amount of light, and the whole city will be gray-black at first, followed by brick red and ochre.
Standing on this pile of rocks, looking at the grassland under you, the bare mountains in the distance, it seems that you will forget the existence of time.
Guizi Ancient City: Mogao Grottoes in Xinjiang
Guizi Kingdom, one of the ancient western countries, the inhabitants are good at music. The ancient city is located in the village of Piran, about two kilometers west of the county seat of Kuqa. During the Han and Tang dynasties in China, the central government took Guizi as the political center and set up political institutions to administer the western region.
The ancient turtle country was once known as the "Western Regions Buddha Capital" and "Western Regions Ledu", and the Guizi Grotto Art and Guizi Music and Dance that were bred have widely influenced the Central Plains and Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, of which the Guizi Grottoes are known as one of the "Four Great Buddhist Grottoes in China". As early as the third century AD, Buddhism spread to the Silk Road town of Guizi through the Silk Road, and monks and laymen built temples, opened caves, statues, paintings, offerings to the Buddha and other activities have been very frequent, and great monks such as Kumarosh and Xuanzang have traveled here.
The ancient city of Nya: the legendary ancient country
This is the exquisite ancient country in "Ghost Blowing Lights", which has reappeared after 1,600 years of loss of years. The Niya ruins are the largest surviving settlement sites in the southern part of the Silk Road and the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, and are the ancestral sites of the "Jingzhi Country" recorded in the "Hanshu Xiyu Biography".
Located at the crossroads of the southern silk road, the Nyaya site is a place where ancient cultural exchanges between the East and the West converged, where Han culture, ancient Indian culture, Kushan culture, La Roman culture and early Persian culture met. The preservation of the site is good, the cultural connotation is rich, and the scale is magnificent, which is rare in the world.
The ancient city of Nya is the most influential attraction in Hotan, and since the british scientist Stein first discovered the ruins of Nya in 1901, it has been the focus of attention of explorers and archaeologists around the world.
The Niya Cultural Relics Museum in Minfeng County also contains the oldest traces of the Nyaya homeland, such as felt, spinning wheels, clay pots and other living and production utensils, as well as excavated dry corpses. These exquisite cultural relics are like exquisite and delicate sketches, and the pictures of the life of the nobles of the homeland jump in front of the eyes, making people feel as if they have traveled through the limitations of time and space and felt the eternal thousand-year culture of Nya.
Houses, monasteries, pagodas, fields, ancient bridges, pottery kilns and other relics are either submerged by vast yellow sand, or covered by tall and dead red willow sandbags, or blown away by the relentless wind and sand.
Some coffins have also been exposed from the ground by the wind and sand, and the corpses are violent, telling the vicissitudes of this former oasis.
Address: Minfeng County, Hotan Region, Xinjiang, about 100 kilometers north of the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the lower reaches of the Niya River.
Jiaohe Ancient City: The most perfect ruins
Jiaohe Ancient City is located about 10 kilometers west of Turpan city. Once one of the most prosperous cities on the ancient Silk Road, it is an ancient city in the Western Regions with the same name as Guloulan, known as the "Pompeii city of the East", and the highest military and political institution in the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Capital Protectorate, was located in the ancient city of Jiaohe at the earliest.
After thousands of years of ups and downs, the main structure of the city's architectural layout has been miraculously preserved. All this is due to Turpan's unique dry and rainy climate.
It is currently the largest, oldest and best-preserved city in the world, the only most complete Han Dynasty city site in China, and the only specimen of the world-famous study of ancient cities. In the old city, the loess mound with no grass is completely unable to see the appearance of that year, only the roots and cliffs are left, but it will still give you an unprecedented shock and a feeling of desolate vicissitudes.
The city is a huge ancient sculpture, its construction is unique, the entire ancient city monasteries, official offices, city gates, houses of the wall is basically raw earth wall, especially the streets and alleys, narrow and deep, like a meandering trench. Not only is this the only one in China, but it is also rare in foreign countries.
Standing on a high slope, staring at the fragments of broken walls, if the old city had not collapsed, you can imagine how lively and prosperous it was back then.
The Ancient City of Subash: Where is the Daughter Country?
The ancient city of Subash is located on both sides of the exit of the Kuqa River about 20 kilometers north of Kuqa County, in front of the ancient city, three mountains facing each other, and the terrain is dangerous. And there are mountain springs that spew out from the dragon's mouth and merge into the meandering Kucha River.
The ancient city of Subash was built in the Wei and Jin dynasties and flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. When Tang Xuanzang traveled west to take the sutra through Guizi, he held an altar here for two months; in the middle of the 7th century, after the Anxi Capital Protectorate moved to Guizi, there were more monks gathered here, and Buddhism flourished; buddhism began to decline in Guizi after the 9th century; and subas monasteries were abandoned after the 13th century.
The three pagodas of the East Temple have Persian-style domes, and the West Temple has many ruins, one of which is a square Buddhist hall more than ten meters high, which is the landmark building of subash's ancient city. Climbing to the top of the tower via a staircase offers a panoramic view of the old city.
In ancient times, Subash was a famous daughter country, built on the mountain, with an area of about 5,000 square meters, and the daughter country was once prominent. At that time, the nomadic tribes on the mountain, salivating this treasure land of feng shui, had invaded many times. The daughter of the country, the whole country, all united in one heart, swore to defend the city to the death. History is merciless, and the daughter country that was once dominant, but later it is still dead. It is said that due to the flash flood caused by the earthquake, overnight, the flood was about to engulf the castle, and the daughter country disappeared with it.
The last ancient city: the xenoside peach orchard watered by the Chelchen River
Historically, the largest river in the Kunlun and Argin mountains, the Chelchen River, has been watered into a paradise, where there were thousands of miles of fertile fields, fertile fields, boundless pastures, and lush flowers and grasses on both sides of the river, trees and reeds.
Since the ancient Han, Xiongnu, Qiang, Tubo, Hui, Uighur and other ethnic groups once lived here. Nowadays, when I come to this land again, even the pottery pieces, iron blocks, iron slag, grinding stone fragments, glass pieces, and beads that can be seen everywhere in the past are nowhere to be found, only the sparse loess soil.
Huiyuan Ancient City: The first important town in Xinjiang during the Qing Dynasty
Huiyuan is one of the nine cities of Ili built in the Qing Dynasty, with two new and old cities. It was the seat of the Ili General's Mansion in the Qing Dynasty, and was also the military and political center of Xinjiang at that time. It is located on the north bank of the Ili River, 7 kilometers southeast of Huocheng County and 38 kilometers away from Yining City.
The city is centered on the Bell and Drum Tower, and the four main streets lead to the four gates. The Bell and Drum Tower is a traditional Chinese three-storey three-eaves brick and wood structure building on the top of the mountain, with carved beams and carved buildings, solid roots and extraordinary atmosphere.
The former site of the "Ili General's Mansion", on the east side of the new city, the pavilions of the mansion gate, the stone lion, the hall, the vault, the box and the garden are still well preserved.
Prosperity is no more, people go to the empty building,
The remains of the remains were silent in the wind and sand,
The faintly visible city is silent in the vast dust,
See those mysterious ancient cities that have disappeared into history.
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