Astana group of ancient tombs - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Away from the city of Turpan about more than 40 km, is the ancient Gaochang Kingdom of urban and rural public officials and the public cemetery, 5 km from east to west, north-south 2 km wide. According to family graves to bury caste district to natural gravel for the sector, clearly the region. Astana Tombs shape for the slopes Mudao the tomb chamber. Plane shape of the tomb, such as "A". Tomb Fang, is a more than 10 meters long slope Mudao, attached at the end of Mudao tomb, the deceased rest in peace. General tomb is 2 meters high, 4 meters square size, or flat-topped dome-shaped roof. Many of the deceased placed in the rear of the chamber Tukang or simple wooden bed, cock their head pillows, towels, cover his face, eyes above Mingmu Two-hand wood, dressed in cotton, linen or silk fabrics produced by Kam clothes. Around the deceased, or simulation of the pavilions Chen Fang, traveling guards of honor, ink Qin Qi, Chen Fang, or grapes, melons and fruits, dumplings, cake, and other food for the dead or driven by the nether world to enjoy. Some of the posterior wall of the tomb, there are painted figures, birds, flowers, landscape murals, shape Realistic, smooth lines. There are instruments in ancient tombs unearthed, Epitaph, painting, clay figurines, pottery, wood, gold, stone, such as ancient coins and artifacts as well as silk, cotton fabric, and other precious relics at 10,000. The mummy unearthed here (that is, Gan Shi), which can be comparable with the mummy of Egypt. Astana Tombs of the Han burial to the main When the funeral car division, Turks, Huns, as well as high-car Toquz Zhao Wu, and other minority residents of the Kingdom of Changli This shows that at the time of the main ethnic Han Chinese is, between the various ethnic groups are equal. Admission: 20 yuan

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The ancient city of Gaochang - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Old City is located in the city of Turpan Changli East Huoyanshan 45 km south of wood River Delta, founded in the 1st century BC, the Han Dynasty, is one of the world renowned religious culture of one of the treasure.




Changli Old City were rectangular, 5.4 km perimeter, particularly the city, within the city, Miyagi in three parts. Outside 12 m-wide, 11.5 m high wall, who rammed into a building. There are nine of the Shing Mun town, west of the north side of the Shing Mun to preserve the best. Gaochang city in the 13 century war abandoned, most of the buildings disappear without deposit, the better to retain the current south-west and south-east corner of the city outside the two temples to preserve the site. In the middle of the city in the north is a Rules of the small castle square, where he is called "Fort Khan." In 1961, Changli Old City is listed as national key protection units.


Changli's Old City and outside the building types in the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and the shapes of the layout. To enter the city can be visited outside the city walls, inside walls, the palace walls, Khan Sukkar, Fire units, such as the pagoda retained a more complete construction. The southwest corner of a city outside the city have the largest Buddhist temple ruins, an area of 10,000 square meters, the temple has been on both sides of the stand tall pagoda, the middle of the hospital as there are remnants of the Buddha and the wall.

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Karez - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Ancient people in Xinjiang Karez is to create underground water irrigation, as early as 2000, before the Han Dynasty have been on the shape, and later spread to Central Asia, Persia. Turpan, there are over 1100 Karez, in run-off amounted to 294,000,000 cubic meters, it is an oasis of life source.
Karez root Turpan Basin, geographical conditions and characteristics of the evaporation of water, the use of ground water used for irrigation of farmland slope, which is open, culverts, and the shaft flooded parts of the four dams. Karez the length of each vary, up to 20 kilometers long, short, only about 100 meters. Karez is the oldest child spit Torkan Tsutomu It is located in the city of Turpan Qiatekale rural Zhuang village, 3.5 km in length, can be poured water on 20 acres, has been in use for 470 years.
Karez history goes back to ancient times. In this Han Dynasty in Shaanxi Province have excavated pit underground wells to create technology, "Well Drainage Act." Han-Western Regions, beyond the Great Wall Water and sand less easy beng, it will be "drainage wells" water method to teach the local people, people of all ethnic groups after their hard work, are becoming more and more perfect fit for the development of the Xinjiang Karez conditions. Turpan existing Karez were built one after another since the Qing Dynasty. According to historical records, as advocated by the Qing government and Tuen The measures adopted have been a large number of Karez development. Late Qing Dynasty as a result of smoking were firmly down and patriotic soldiers in Xinjiang Minister Lin in Turpan, a significant appreciation of Karez. 1845 (Qing dynasty 25 years) the first month, Lin went to Ken Lvkan south of the Tianshan Mountains, Turpan through the county seat, on the same day diary : "See more along the pit, the exercise of its name, said, 'Well Card' to be able to cross-flow of water from the south and weak, cited the increasing gradually, water from the soil to wear while acupoint, Prudential's incredible!" The qanat Turpan clear spring water moisture on the land so that the Fire Island into a desert oasis of fertile farmland to produce the famous grapes, melons and fruits and food Cotton, oil, and so on. Now, despite the Turpan has a large newly built drainage, reservoirs, but in the Karez modernization Shengmingzhiquan still plays a special role.
Is the largest known Karez-meter wooden clothes Kariaji Karez, 5 km in length, the depth of 80 meters of water can be poured on to 70 , 200-year history, it is Uighur-meter wooden clothes Kariaji from the opening, it should be named. You can close to the western suburbs of Karez Folk Park to visit this ancient legacy of the underground project.

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Grape Valley - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Grape Valley charming, Fire Island is the "Peach Blossom Spring." Located in the Turpan City, 10 km north-east of Huoyanshan, this is a 7 km long north-south east-west width of 2 km of the canyon. It is open to Chinese and foreign guests to visit the places, the mountain next to the water, quiet, elegant, natural scenery, several grape corridor deep, quiet Some tourists walking Putao Jia, Yang Shou your view of pearl-like grape taste, and some visitors sat beneath Putao Jia fresh grapes.



National park-style canteen, selling handicrafts of the yurts, there are places rowing play. Second, Hill grapes. This is the Grape Valley, self-contained, Do not resort higher. There is a high level of 120 beds, 120 for the dining room, there are ok karaoke rooms, swimming pool and so on. Third, Turpan Grape Gallery. Fourth, residential Turpan Uygur Folk Museum. Fifth, in the new company, the company is the main raw material for the production of grapes for wine and beverages Sino-foreign joint venture factory. Sixth, the grape of the Rural Village.



Artificial snow of the Tianshan led to the first people along the drainage ditch to wear down, gurgling sound of running water to the Grape Valley has added youth and vitality. Slopes on both sides, layers of terraced fields, even into a vineyard, green and luxuriant everywhere, as if the green Yang. In this sea of green, dotted with peach, apricot, pear, mulberry, apples, pomegranates, figs and other fruit trees, a Long Zhuangzhuangfenqiang farmhouse window shade in rich tree-lined, a block-out raisins "Yam" is arranged on the hillside, the farmyard, distinctive. Summer, the gifted landscape ditch , Breezy, Fire Island is a paradise for summer tourism season, Chinese and foreign guests, the stream flooded.



Grape Valley's beautiful scenery, rich in high-quality grapes and famous. 1994 ditch 315.6 hectares of grape cultivation, production of 8601 tons of fresh grapes. , The main white grape planting of a nuclear-free, and Ma breast, red grapes, Kashenhaer, dry days, 13 chain chain species. The fruits of its spherical, oval, oblong, and so on, and some grapes, such as crystal pearls, and some bright like agate, and if some of the Green Jade. The colorful, want to drop the fresh green grapes, coveted Only. In particular, there is a white grape production of a nuclear-free, thin, tender, juicy, delicious, nutritious, known as "pearls" reputation, its sugar content as high as 20-24% more than the California Vitis, in the world Number one. Thompson Seedless grapes with fresh air system, raisins, sugar content as high as 60%, The grapes are regarded as treasures.



Xinjiang has a song, "The Turpan grapes, Hami melons, the Korla fragrant pear boast all, the pomegranate Yecheng first-rate." Arrived in Turpan, Grape Valley can not taste the sweet grapes and cool, would not be able to understand the burning outside the Turpan That cool Italy.

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Turpan - Chinese tourism scenic spots

In the central part of the low-lying basin in Xinjiang, known as a "Fire Island", where the Grape Valley produces a variety of high-quality grapes, it is referred to as "grapes of the villages," the Turpan. Gu Chen Changli Turpan, the ancient Silk Road city, since the Ming Dynasty from Turpan said. It's an area of 15,738 ping Km, live in Uygur, Han, Hui, Kazakhstan, Russia, 24 nationalities, of which the Uighurs account for 71% of the total population.

  Regardless of Turpan Gucheng division, the division before the car to the Han Dynasty, Wang before the car division, said Tang Changli, West states, the state fire. It is located east of the Tianshan fault basin, east of ulu Qi 182 km. Turpan in Xinjiang is a popular tourist destination and one of the areas are renowned for their specific environment, heritage over and over, products that are rich in the world. Turpan Basin is China's lowest land, the basin was shaped Zaohe, 275 km from east to west, 75 meters wide north-south with a total area of 50,000 sq km, of which less than the sea The surface area of 4050 square meters, 100 meters below sea level below the land area of 2085 sq km, the lowest Ayding Lake basin, the lake 155 meters below sea level, the lake if total, the data for -160 Meters, the Turpan Basin is the world's second only to the Dead Sea, Jordan (-3 2 m) of low-lying second in the world.

  It is China's hottest places on the average temperature over 35 degrees Celsius in the number of days was 100 days, extreme maximum temperature had reached 49.6 degrees Celsius (July 13, 1975), the surface temperature has been measured 83.3 degrees centigrade, can be called China " Heat "Therefore, there are" Fire Island. "Wind is strong and often Basin, the largest wind up to 12 or more, so it has" the Treasury wind. "Fire Island for many years an average of only 16 mm of precipitation, and more Toksun To a small 5.9 mm, can be regarded as China's "very dry." Although the Fire Island hot, people do not feel too By because it's very low humidity, generally only about 3%, high temperature and low humidity, heat, although not stuffy. Although Turpan heat and little rain, fire Chau unique underground water - the water Kaner well into the ground, dozens of hectares of irrigation basin fields, so that turned into a desert oasis.

  Turpan basin as a whole were Kaner be more than 1,200 wells, the total length of over 5,000 kilometers, and is worthy of the ancient Great Wall of China, the Grand Canal comparable to the great project. Turpan grapes rich, long-staple cotton and fruits. By the precise determination of the Turpan grape sugar content as high as 22% - 26% more than the world's most sweet grapes. Huozhoutulu China is the "minimum" and "hottest" and "the most drought", "sweet", its unique natural environment, the magic.

The unique geographical position makes the Turpan-rich underground water storage, which Fengmao fruits, rich in grape, watermelon and other fruits; also due to dry weather and little rain, so the fruit-bearing Far too high, many people to travel is directed at local Turfan delicious fruits go. Turpan grapes as a result of the tourism industry and the prosperity of the local government to build a special grape street, there are many grape corridor for visitors to tour and pick grapes.

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