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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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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