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Scenery and resorts of Kashi

Kashgar is short for "Kashiger". Kashiger was called as Shule in the old ages,has over 2,000 years' history till now. Persia epic record that legendary archaic Tulan hero--Apulaboseya had ever founded capital of kingdom. Early the Han Dynasty, it belonged to Tongpu Duwei of Hun. The latter half of the period in 2nd century B.C., after Hanwudi emperor dispatched Zhangqian to sending on a diplomatic mission western region, began to submit to the authority of Western Han.1st century A.D. period, this place is a supreme headquarters where Banchao managed western region. It was often attached to west Turki kingdom in the later the Sui Dynasty and early the Tang Dynasty, after Tangtaizong, this was an important mIlitary beachhead of Tang Dynasty's government. Four towns of An'xi of the time, one of them is Kashiger. Kashiger was ever capital of Kalahan Dynasty. After Genghis khan went on a punative expedition west region, belonged to Chahetai prince. Qianlong in Qing Dynasty period, this place is a station of Kashiger counselor minister in Qing government period. there is a deep niche in the wall in the middle of the palace, a throne was put in the niche. When go to mosque, the big mulla stands in the niche and recite or chant scriptures. When Friday or "Gurbang" festival, the big mulla stands the step and readout the religion. After followers of the religion enter the palace, put in order, first inside the palace, then outside the palace, and go to mosque toward west.

places of interest

Yusufu Has Hajip Tomb

  Located on the campus of the Kashi Number 12 Primary school. Yusuf Has Hajip, a Uygur poet, scholar and thinker. He was born in Husiwurduo( Balashagun) In Karakhanid Dynasty, later immigrated to Kashigar. He wrote the long narrative philosophic poem Kuiadku BIlig ( The Knowledge of Happiness). After he died, he was buried Badige, outside the city of Kashgar. His tomb was moved to its present site when it was threatened by the flooding of the Toman River.

Mahmud Kashigari Tomb

  Located in the Wupar Village, Shufu County, is set off with trees and bushes. Mahmud Kashgar was born into an aristocratic family of the Karakhanid Dynasty in the eleventh century. An outstanding Uygur scholar and linguist, Mahmud compiled The complete Turkish Dictionary. His tomb is highly respected by the Uygur people and many Islamic scholars have contributed their favorite books to the tombs; it has thus slowly become a kind of library, and people respectfully call it HaizIliti Maolamu, meaning the tomb of honorable scholars.

The ancient city of Hanoi and the Mor Budddhist Pagoda

  30 kilometers northeast in Kashi city stands the ruined adobe-walled city of Hanoi, which lies in an area three kilometers long and one kilometer wide. According to textual research, the city is 1,500 years old. A few kilometers north of the ancient city is the site of the Mor Buddhist Pagoda. The pagoda has three square layers, each a little smaller than the one below it. The bottom layer has a circumference of more than forty-eight meters, the sceond layer forty meters and the third layer thirty-two meters, while the pagoda stands more than twelve meters high. The platform beside the pagoda was one of the central temple structures, and in its side walls were carved niches housing Buddha figurines. But now there are no figurines left, and even the niches themselves are barely visible.

The Grand Bazaar

 The Grand Bazaar, in Uygur means "farm trade market.2 The bazaar in Kashi is the biggest one in Xinjiang. As early as two thousand years ago, it was the collecting and distributing center of goods. Nowadays, it has become even more busy. On bazaar day every Sunday, the traffic gets heavy on every road with crowds upon crowds of market-goers coming in from all directions. There is on the bazaar just about everything you'd expect to find, such as various special local products, handicrafts, articles of daily use, fruits and vegetables as well as means of production and all kinds of domestic animals. Riding donkeys or driving carts, farmers from the suburbs get downtown by early morning. It is really a scene of prosperity with cheerful laughters and brisk buying and selling everywhere.

Boshikelamu Orchard

  Kashi has a good name "the hometown of melon and fruit", but melon and fruit of Boshikelamu is the first in Kashi. apricots have over 20 strains in the fruit, grape, apple, peach and Chinese date have many strains.

Apak Hoja Tomb

  Lies in 5 kilometers northeast in Kashi city. It is important cultural relics unit protected of Autonomous Region. It is a grave of Muslim ,began to found in 1640 or so, it is said that there are 72 persons in five generations of the same family were buried in the tomb. The first generation buried here was Islamic famous Yusupu Hoja, a celebrated Islam missionary. after he died, his eldest son Apaak Hoja carried on the missionary work and became the leader of the famous Islamic faction of , Baishan during the 17th century which seized the power of the Yarkant Court for a time. Apak Hoja died in 1693 and was buried here. Because of his reputation was greater than his father, so later people called the tomb as "The Apak Hoja Tomb". The tomb is a group of beautiful and grand ancient buildings including the Tomb Hall, the Doctrine-teaching Hall ,the Great Hall of prayer, the gate tower, a pond and orchard. The tomb is the main buildings with 26 meters high and its bottom is 39 meters long and the top is round, with a dome-shaped top of 17 meters and covered with green glazed tiles outside, the hall is very high, spacious and columnless. Inside the hall, there is a high trrace on which the tombs are arranged. All the tombs are built of glazed bricks with very beautiful patterns of blue flowers on a white background, glittering, simple and elegant. The Great Hall of Payer in the west part of the tomb, Ayitijiayi by name, is the place where the Muslim believers conduct service on big days. The Lesser Hall of Prayer and the gate tower are outmost buildings decorated with colorful paintings and elegant brick carvings. Outside the tomb there is a crystal-clear pond lined by tall trees making the place pleasantly quiet and beautiful.
The legend goes that among the Hoja descendants was one of the concubines of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong. She was called Xiangfei (Fragrant Imperial Concubine) because of the rich delicate fragrance of flower sent forth by her body. After she died, her remains was escorted back to Kashi by her sister-in-law Sudexiaang and was buried in the Apak Hoja Tomb. So, some people call the tomb" the Tomb of Xiangfei." But according to textual research, Xiangfei was none other than, Rongfei, a concubine of Emperor Qianlong, and she was actually buried in the East Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Zunhua County, Hebei Province after she died.

Id Kah Moseque

 Lies in the center of the Kashi city,is a large-scale Islamic struture, it has over 500 years' history till now. In 1442 A.D., Shaksmirzha, the ruler of Kahsigar, had the mosque here at first and say prayers to the souls of his deceased relatives. later by extending and repairing past dynasties and became into current form and scale. The mosque is made up of Hall of Prayer, the Doctrine-Teaching Hall, the gate tower, a pond and some other auxIliary structures, from south to north is 140 meters long, from east to west is 120 meters wide, total area is 16,800-square-meter. The gate, built of yellow brick with the joint of brick work with pointed with gypsum, has distinct lines. On both sides of the gate are eighteen-meter high round brick columns half embedded in the wall. On top of the columns stands a tower where the imam would call out loudly at dawn very to wake up the Muslims and summon them to attend service in the mosque. In the tree-graced courtyard, there is a pond, and on its bank many pottery pots are placed, which are to be used by the Islam believers to clean their bodies. The main hall with wide eaves is 160 meters long and 16 meters wide. The hall's ceIling, with fine wooden carvings and colorful flower-and-plant painting patterns, is supported by one hundred carved wooden columns.

 

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