Scenery and Historic Tourist Resorts
Aksu what
is new
Aksu is a region of ancient
Qiuci, Gumo, Wensu and Weitou, it belongs to protect-general
office in western regions. Anxi ancient city was moved
from Gaochang to Qiuci at the beginning of the Tang
Dynasty, it built Qiuci ancient city. Song Dynasty belongs
to Liao kingdom and Western liao. It is ZongWang--Chagatai's
awarding region in Yuan Dynasty, it was managed by Bieshibali
Excutive Chancery. It carried on as Bieshibali's regulations
in Ming Dynasty. Qianlong 24th year in Qing Dynasty(1759),it
set up chancellor which deal with the matter in Aksu,
Wushi, Kuqe and actualized mIlitary department regulation
and Aqimuboke regulation, was managed by counselor chancellor
of Kashi and Big General of YIli. It set up the Aksu
route. It was renamed as Aksu administrative office,
and was renamed as administrative superintendent office
(the fourth administrative region) in 1943.It was called
commissioner office.
Places of Interest
Yanquan ParkYanquan
Park which is called "the first historic
tourist resort in Tianshan" have three odd
views: swallow hill, nine springs and little secluded
garden. Swallow hill is steep and precious, it
is named because ancient shellfish fossil are
hide in hill. Following the flight of the steps
forward, you can look at a large stone which carved
"near and far is Han and Tang Dynasty".
looking at the distance through the hills, staggered
roads, rise and fall mountains, The whole Wushi
mountain city is looked at. In the woods bellow
the swallow hill, nine springs is put in order,
spring water is continued in the four seasons,
little secluded garden situated at the foot of
a hill with a stream nearby, high old willow trees
and artificial lake set each other off, there
is a stone boat in the lake, there are arch bridges
in the every side which link with it, building
and loft, lowers and trees doted, its overall
arrangement is very exquisite.
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Tarim River Tarim
River winds the north of the Tarim Basin, Yarkant
River, Hotan River, Aksu River converge into this
river system whose overall length is 2,179 kilometers,
is the longest inland river of China, it flows
glacier mountains, through the deserts, when hot
summer comes, glacier start to thaw, rate of flow
of the rivers begin to increase quickly, so it
looks like "a uncontrolled wild horse",
roars unscrupulously in wasters, After more than
thirty year's hard work. built Yamansu leak-flooded
sluice, Tarim sluice of barricading , Tarim bridge
and reservoir, generation station, these make
the unreined wild horse conquered. Desert becomes
into oasis, the blue seas convert into fields,
now melons and fruits filled with the garden,
fragrant of the flowers paddy 's spread in Tarim
River 's bank, forming the base of grain, cotton
and silkworm.
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Tomur Tomur locates
west of Tianshan mountains, it is 7,435.29 meters
high, is the highest mountain, is stipulated Compositive
National Reserve in our country. Pure white snow
,scenery is splendid in Tomur whole year ,wonderful
and odd national scenery is wonderful workmanship.
Stand tall and upright jade bamboo shoots",
vast ice mushroom, crystaline ice hole, soar-flowing
about 10 meter's waterfall, groups of deer, snow
panther, snow pigeons, wild donkeys, yaks, and
so on, most rare animals are snow leopards and
black cranes, they are stipulated as the first
type protected animals. Below the snow line, there
are over 600 types of wild plants, occupy one-fifth
of the whole Xinjiang or so, only medical plants
have over 100 varieties, also existing 26 sorts
of fungus and 31 sorts of lichens, they are discovered
for the first time,1000 square kilometers' spruce
woods is one of the most precious forest resources.
Tomur is biggest modern glacier region.
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Kizil Thousand Buddha
Caves Kizil Thousand Buddha caves is one
of the four biggest groups of grottoes in China,
is national Class A Cultural Relics Reserve, it
lies in Mingutag Mountains in Baicheng County.
Rock Cave was chiseled in the 3rd century or so
and was destroyed in the eighth century, now having
numbered Rock Cave have 251,hoarding murals about
10,000 square meters, they describe the content
of the Xiaocheng Buddha ;muddy sculpture have
a certain number, there is a Buddhism statue which
is high 6 meters in the new number one cave, is
a biggest existed statues. Besides religion ,there
are many picture which behave cultivate, hunting,
musician, dancing and ethnic customs and inhabits,
Mingutag mountains is behind of the Kizil Thousand
Buddha Caves, Weigan River lies south of it, it
is a Rock Cave which is built earliest and its
scale is bigger, it is famous for wonderful murals.
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Kumtura Thousand Buddha
CaveIt is the national Class A Cultural
Relics Reserve, the Rock Cave lies in a place
which is far away southwest of Kuqa 28 kilometers,
it was chiseled in the 4th century and was destroyed
the 11th century. Had numbered Rock Cave 112,existed
murals have several thousand square meters, they
describe the content of the Dacheng Buddha, murals
arts have thick "Tang Style", and have
some statues and amount of record of Qiuci character,
Han character and Huihu characters, they are important
references of studying the Qiuci culture. Content
and style of the Rock Cave is similar to Buddhism
Arts, appeared large-scale classic feature picture
like "The West Pure land", "The
Eastern Bhaisajyaguru", "Saddharmapundarika",
and so on, which is visualized and vivid, their
forms are graceful. Kizilgaha Thousand Caves is
an important cultural relics Reserve, located
in a place which is far away northwest of Baicheng
13 kilometers, is ruins of Tang Dynasty. Numbered
caves have 47,now more undamaged caves have 38,19
caves of their are Zhiti Cave, the other 19 caves
are Vihara Cave. Most of the murals are Buddhism
feature statues in the Rock Cave. The 24th Rock
Cave is more peculiar, it is a septanglar plane,
there is a center pillar, building path in its
left and right, the tunnel backs on to Rock Cave,
and it is Caitya Cave, this form is different
from the other groups of grottos, murals has thick
"Qiuci Style".
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Kizilgaha Beacon
It is an important cultural relics protection
region of burgh, located south and north of Kuqa
county. It is said that it is Beacon ruins of
Han Dynasty, the Beacon's height is about 15 meters,
its length is 6 meters from east to west, its
width is 6 meters from south to north, there are
watch tower at top of it, now there is ruins of
watch tower, it is a earliest and most undamaged
Beacon.
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Ruins of Ksle Zengke
TempleIt lies in northwest of Keping county,
it stands in the hillside of the east bank and
west bank of Subashi River, is ruins of the Buddhism
temples from South and North Dynasty to Tang Dynasty.
The east of ruins is made up of the Buddhist rooms,
Buddhism hall, Buddhism tower, there is 30 meters
from up to down, there are flight of the steps
which links each other; the west of ruins is made
up of dwellings, Beacons and step closures, there
is over 30 meters from up to down. The two ruins
are built by delamination of nature gradient,
architecture level is higher, is one of the most
peculiarest architectures in China, there are
ruins of murals in Buddhism temple.
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Zhaohuli Temple
It is also called ruins of Subashi BuddhistTemple
and is an important Cultural Relics Reserve. It
lies in a place which is 23 kilometers from northeast
of east of the Dique'rdage mountains, it is ruins
of Buddhism temple of Wei and Jin Dynasty. The
temple is divided into east and west part, they
scatte the east back and west bank of Tongchang
River, the area of east bank is 78,110 meters,
it is built pull into the hills, there are rooms
and ruins of towers in the temple, it is built
by earth, the wall's height is over 10 meters.
there are three high towers in city, the northeast
tower stand tall and upright half way up the hill,
you can overlook the ruins of whole temple. The
area of west bank is 116,450 square meters, it
is square, its perimeter is about 318 meters,
the wall's height is 10 meters, there are dense
remains in the wall, it looks like Buddhist rooms.
There are unearthed copper, iron, pottery, woodenware
and murals, muddy Buddhism statues, etc, we also
discovered wooden board where there are ancient
ethnic character. Zhaohuli Temple٬ it is
the existent most large-scale ruins of temples
in whole Xinjiang.
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The Stone Inscription
Eulogizing Liupingguo for Constructing PassIt
is a rock in Bozhaklage Valley which is 150 kilometers
from northeast of Baicheng county, there are several
rulers remove the ground, there are Chinese characters
in the rock, there are 101 Han words. It record
the story about the general Liupingguo of Qiuci
led six people which are Meng Boshan, Di Huping
, Zhao Dangbei, etc to come here to carve rock
and build pavIlion and investigated, and built
the city in the east .Time is 158 B.C. Ruins of
Han Dynasty of stone architecture is near the
stone carving, there are debris of ancient city
in the plain outside the ditch .Near this stone
carving, there are some stone carving about "
Chunyu Bokui from Dunhuang". The place is
one of the important routes from west of Xinjiang
to IIli River in Han Dynasty.
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Molana Eshding Tomb It
is also called Molana Hoja Tomb, lies in Kuqa
county. Molana's meaning is descendent of sage,
It is said that Eshding is the auspicatist of
going west to missionize, He went to Kuqa to to
do the missionary work in the Songlizong period,
he was buried here, ancestral temple was built
in Mazar, it is made up of ancestral gate, ancestral
hall, tomb gate, tomb room four parts, they are
decorated with green glazed brick, is a classic
Islamic architecture, is very magnificent. There
is a horizontal inscribed board where wrote four
big words" The Arabian Sages " in the
west corridor, there are recorded on the two sides
of it, is wrote by Lifan in Qing emperor Guangxu
the 7th year.
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Senmusaimu Thousand Buddha
CavesIt lies in the hill which is far away
northeastern Kuqa 40 kilometers of two bank of
the stream in Kulukdage mountain ,there are numbered
cave 52,most of them are Caitya Caves, Vihara
Cave is a few. The history of the cave can be
dated as eraly as the 3rd century, most parts
of the mural paintings belong to South and North
Dynasty, the latest mural painting belongs to
the early of Huihu Gaochang Era, it is famous
for several big statues cave and famous for described
various animals in mural painting.
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Wushkat Ancient CityIt
is meaning of "The Three-layer City",
lies in 20 kilometers in Xinhe county, and is
ruins of Han Dynasty, is considered as one of
the biggest cities in Qiuci kingdom in Han Dynasty.
This city have three layers, and includes outer
city, internal city, central city. They are earth
architecture, so the outer city has been destroyed,
the internal city is well preserved. From east
to west is 408 meters, from south to north is
451 meters, remains wall's width is 5 meters.
Ruins has been unearthed rare copper seal.
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Tonggusibashi Ancient
City It lies in a place which is about
40 kilometers southwest of Xinhe county, is one
of the more large-scale ancient city. Remains
of city's height is 6 meters, perimeter is about
1,000 meters, is proximal square. structure method
of ancient city is: put a layer of earth, a layer
of red willow in underneath, they supersede each
other, put the earth upside. By digging ,there
are remains of the houses, woodenware, shoes,
etc, and remains of book. According to analyses
of the pottery pieces, the movement of city is
most frequent in Tang Dynasty, is an important
mIlitary town of Anxi ancient city.
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