What is the name given to the famous Tang Wang City Site in Xinjiang

2023-08-09

The collection is located in the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum in Tumushuk City. Shi Yujiang captured the city of Tumshuk in Xinjiang, driving about 12 kilometers north and entering the territory of the 51st Regiment Fourth Company of Tumshuk City, the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. From a distance, he could see the beacon cherts sitting steadily at the top of Darewaztag Mountain (Damen Mountain) - this is the most representative beacon chert of the Tang King City site within a radius of 500 miles. Climb about 200 meters from the foot of the eastern mountain to the top of the mountain, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the beacon. Tang Wang City comes to the cliff stone carving. Yuan Qiang took a photo and looked east, faintly visible on the slope of another cement colored mountain were piles of loess. Local cultural relics staff told reporters that this is a relic of a Buddhist temple; Looking west, the well preserved Buddhist temple ruins under the cliff leap into view; Looking south, the desert covered with wild grass and greenery stretches straight towards the shadowy Tumushuke Mountain, flat and majestic; Looking north, you can see the ruins of the city wall in full view... According to reports, the ruins of Tang Wang City include beacon towers, ancient cities, cliff stone carvings, Buddhist temples, and so on. The remains of the city wall of the "Tang King City". Yiran Photography Ancient City is about 500 meters east west and 400 meters north south; There are three layers of city walls, built with soil, grass, and stone according to the mountain terrain, with a magnificent momentum, namely: Inner City, Outer City, and Great Outer City. The inner city wall circles from the mountainside to the mountaintop, the outer city wall continues from the inner city wall to the mountaintop, and the large outer city wall surrounds the southern mountain root from the outer city. There are ruins of city walls with north-south openings on the mountainside and mountaintop, built with adobe. The Yaxia Buddhist Temple site is arranged on a platform about 5 meters above the ground, with an irregular shape. Two soil pillars stand side by side, forming a gate shape and being well preserved. There is a large, four small, and five shallow niches of Buddha statues carved on the cliff on the west side of the ancient city, about 25 meters high. One of them was damaged to the point where only the shallow niches were visible and the Buddha statue disappeared. During a visit to the Xinjiang Reclamation History Museum through various historical facts, it was learned that from 1927 to 1930, Huang Wenbi, who taught at Peking University, participated in the Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang exploration activities of the Sino Swiss Northwest Scientific Expedition. During this period, he inspected the Tang King City and left precious written records, which became an important basis for later people to inspect the Tang King City. In 1959, the Southern Xinjiang Archaeological Team of the Xinjiang Museum came to investigate the Tang King City and excavated and collected more than 4000 cultural relics here. The important cultural relics discovered included over 30 written wooden slips from the 6th to 11th century AD, five types of Han Dynasty five baht coins, and ancient wheat ears, cottonseed, melon and fruit kernels. From 1990 to 1992, the cultural relics survey team in the Kashgar region of Xinjiang conducted investigations here and also made many new discoveries. Pottery jars in the Xinjiang Tunken Museum. Li Zongqian, the curator of the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum photographed by Shi Yujiang, told chinanews. com that in October 2021, the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cutural Heritage Administration had carried out a preliminary survey of the site of the Tang Dynasty King City. After specimen extraction, it was preliminarily judged that the date was the 20th century BC. From June to October 2022, the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, together with the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum, the Bachu County Museum, etc., will officially start the archaeological excavation of the Tang Dynasty King City site. This excavation discovered relics such as ancient river channels, main roads, city gates, Zoroastrian temples, ash pits, and unearthed pottery, copper, iron, glass, ancient coins, and Buddha

Edit:XiaoWanNing    Responsible editor:YingLing

Source:China News Network

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