The grassland god stone city is located in the winter pasture of Tost Township, Jimunai County, more than 40 kilometers away from the county seat of Jimunai, the total area of the scenic spot is 270 square kilometers, of which the core area is 67 square kilometers. On the ridges and slopes of the scenic area, the strangely shaped granite landform formed by dissolution and wind erosion is lined with strange stones, and the scale is grand, like a natural stone park, which is called "Odiye" by local Kazakh herders, which means "sacred stone" in Chinese.
Jimunai County Grassland God Stone City is known for its quiet, dangerous, strange and majestic, when you are in the grassland God Stone City tourist attractions, you can truly understand the meaning of this sentence.
Located here, there are close-ups of characters with different forms and vivid appearances, as well as the combination of rugged and magnificent stones, as well as the mystery of the ice mortar monster fish on the top of the mountain that makes people wonder, and there is also a "stone cave god spring" for you to explore, these strange stone forests carved by nature are both naturally formed stone artworks and natural historical landscapes with rich historical and cultural heritage, which is enough to be called a condensation of the culture of mountains and rivers and grasslands in western China.
Come to Prairie Stone City! The steppe stones carved by nature have been integrated with the green mountains and wildflowers here to form a wonderful picture.
Come here to see the magnificent and majestic stones, taste a taste of longevity of the sacred spring water, find the fun of childhood, how pleasant, how magical!
Tomb of the King of Erin County
Arriving at the Sacred Stone City, full of stones, grass, brown, grass green, mixed with the color of wildflowers, from my eyes all the way to the summit of Sauer Mountain, I went to the Sacred Stone City is the most abundant season of the year, when the sky is small, the clouds are as white as silver, and the Sacred Stone City will gradually reach its most abundant state in its original state.
The wind blows from all directions, and there is a fragrance of mountain flowers in the breeze, as if there is an ancient legend floating in the wind!
Walking up the mountain road to The Sacred Stone City, bypassing the mountain in front of you, a pictographic stone about 10 meters long, about 4 meters high, and about 3 meters wide is displayed in front of tourists, which is said to be the tomb of the Kazakh national hero King Erin.
According to historical records, the king of Erin County was the last kazakh county king, born in the Muhurtai area of Tost Township, Jimunai County, and was the fourth grandson of the hereditary duke Kukudai, the second son of the county king Beyler, and the second son of Jing'en Khan.
In September 1917, the Mongolian and Tibetan Court of the Republic of China government awarded Erin the title of King of Altai Kazakh County, and awarded him a crown belt and a seal letter. In 1934, he was appointed as a member of the Xinjiang Provincial Government, and after the founding of New China, he served as a counselor of the people's government of the autonomous region and a member of the CPPCC national committee of the autonomous region. He died in Urumqi in 1961 at the age of 77. This Kazakh county king has made great contributions to the reunification of the motherland and the development of the nation. For example, in the sixth year of the Republic of China, he actively responded to and supported the new provincial government and opposed Ma Rulong's separatist activities in Ashan.
There is a steppe stone figure in the tomb of king Of Erin, which is like a steppe guard, guarding the heroic spirit of this legendary hero. Next to the tomb of King Erin, there is also a stone that resembles a dog's head, and he guards his master like a steppe god. These stones make people can't help but think of it, I don't know if it is a coincidence, or a work of heavenly work, it is really incomprehensible, so this is enough to prove the magic of the grassland god Stone City, it can also be said that the grassland god Stone City is interpreting the legend of the deification of the grassland.
The "Sacred Stone" in the Steppe Sacred Stone City
In the Steppe God Stone City, everyone will meet their own acquaintance forms in the God Stone City, and those stone forms polished by time are abstract, but not empty, and even sometimes when they see these forms, they will make themselves have a certain sense of intimate flesh and blood.
In Shenshi City, many stone images will be poetic, and that lyrical form will conjure up some surprises in silence. Yes, like a dazzling inscription or temple, it will look forward to the shepherds and visitors who come and go to admire the stones with a sacred exaggeration or solemn expression.
Some travelers who arrive at Shenshi City by chance to take a look, wildflowers and wild grasses are too beautiful to be seen all the way, and those stones of different shapes seem to have their own story.
The whole Shenshi City can be regarded as a castle full of fairy tale world interest, located here in a variety of strange and dangerous, there are like lost "little ponies", huge "god chickens", there are like sleeping tens of thousands of years of "big and small two turtles"; there are like "giant pythons" out of the mountains, resurrected "big dinosaurs", there are also "giant shrimp" like cooking; there are "gorillas" like thinking about problems, lying "prairie lions" and "sheep", there are also "ants" with infinite strength; there are "big dinosaurs" that seem to be smiling" Santa Claus", the joyful "annunciation bird", and the "elephant" who bows its head and draws water, etc., all of which make people feel particularly amazed by the magic of nature.
In the Steppe God Stone City, there is also a hieroglyphic stone called "contemplation", you see him standing on the side of the road with a high nose and deep eyes, and the poetic expression is suddenly amazing. Of course, there are also people who call themselves General Patton or thinkers according to their own imagination.
At the same time, the strange stone groups and individuals in the grassland god stone city are very large-scale, with their own characteristics, the general stone height is between two meters and 5 meters, the height of large stones can reach tens of meters, and the stone shape is unique, which makes people have rich associations. Some experts believe that the grassland god stone city is currently an ideal natural physiospheric landscape sedimentation and tectonic system of the landscape.
In The Sacred Stone City, the stones with clear silhouettes and different shapes are both noble and magical, and they will also let you return to the basics and pursue your childhood. Therefore, it requires us to pour all our wisdom and temperament into order to use our own eyes to appreciate the charm and magic of the Sacred Stone City itself, to taste its colorful style and beauty with people's illusionary vision and imagination, and to be more profound, we can use our lives to experience its majestic charm and profundity. "The Mystery of the Sacred Spring of the Stone Cave" and "The Mystery of the Tadpole Script".
The grassland god Stone City also has a strong historical and cultural heritage, the most mysterious is the "mystery of the stone cave god spring" and "the mystery of the tadpole text".
In the middle of a high mountain in Shenshi City, there is a cliff tens of meters high, there is a hole two meters above the ground level on the north side of the cliff, climb into the cave to see a spring at the bottom of more than two meters deep, and there is a platform for stepping on, which is filled with wine, ghee, hada, coins and other offerings used by the Mongols to worship the gods.
According to local herders, every year a large number of Mongolians from the neighboring jimunai county and Buksel county come here to hold worship activities, and the water in this cave is said to prolong life after drinking, and this water also has the characteristics of storing for many years without deterioration.
What is difficult to verify is whether this hole was artificially chiseled or naturally formed. How is the spring water in the cave formed? It's really confusing.
Some speculate that this was once a fertile culture.
Because there is also a legend that has been passed down from generation to generation. On the opposite side of the stone cave spring, a towering stone pillar is said by the Mongols to be the heavenly root of Genghis Khan, 200 meters from here, there is a pictographic stone called "Sleeping Beauty", which is said to be the first concubine of Genghis Khan, these sacred stones seem to be interpreting the love story of the desert hero Genghis Khan and the first concubine, so the legend "Stone Cave Sacred Spring" also has the wonderful use of the holy water of Guanyin.
Walking along the sacred stone city, you can also see a strange stone engraved with wavy patterns and tadpole characters, and the regular patterns and handwriting are deeply engraved on the stone. It has not yet been possible to verify, so another "tadpole text mystery" has been formed.
Not far from the "Sacred Spring", there is a huge cave, people call it "Tongtian Cave", which can sit for hundreds of people, if you go out of the cave entrance, the beautiful scenery is in full view, making people feel relaxed.
According to geological experts, the Tongtian Cave in the grassland Shenshicheng scenic area is the largest known granite landform in China. What is even more amazing is that a strange slope was found in the scenic spot, which seemed to be uphill but actually went downhill, adding a bit of strong color to the magic of Shenshi City.
ay! How can a person from another country, or a traveler who enjoys the scenery and pleasure, once or twice briefly search and probe, explore the mystery of its deep hidden in the Sauer Mountains? The psychic of stone, which changes with time, or evolves with the wind and the sun, may not be eternal. But the nature, history, and the form of the stone left by the years will slowly make people endlessly reminisce, speculate, and of course, endlessly interpret it with time...