After driving off the flat asphalt road, the van loaded with Chinese tourists began to jolt on the uneven gravel road. The wheels rolled over, and sand and dust were raised high. A tourist asked the Kyrgyz place of origin to pick up wheat: "Where are you going?" Wheat smiled mysteriously and said, "Go see an ancient city." "Which ancient city is it? Why is it so remote?" "Is it worth taking so long to see?" Some tourists became impatient and complained. Wheat shook off its "burden" and said, "This ancient city is listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site." "Oh, a World Cultural Heritage site? That should be a visit." "A World Cultural Heritage site? It must be spectacular, isn't it?" The brief Q&A seemed to shorten the journey. Just when the Chinese tourists were surprised, Mai told them, "Suyab is ahead of us." "Suyab? Never heard of it!" Some tourists looked puzzled, but two university professors immediately became interested: "Suyab! The great poet Li Bai was born here! It's worth seeing!" The bus stopped in front of a stone engraved with foreign languages. Two Chinese tourists took pictures of the words on the stone tablet with their mobile phones, and others were eager to see the style of the ancient city, so they rushed to the ruins of Suyab. However, everything before us disappointed everyone. What caught the eye were patches of wild grass, whose desolation far exceeded people's imagination. Although the basic outline of the city walls is indistinguishable, there are no other ground buildings left. Not only are the traces of the ruins invisible, but there are also no people living around. If it weren't for the stone tablets erected by UNESCO, no one would have believed that there was once a city that was powerful and once prosperous in history. Located in the east of Balkhash Lake in Kyrgyzstan and about 8 kilometers southwest of Tokmak City, the Suyab is also called the Plain Leaf City and Plain Leaf Water City because it is adjacent to plain leaf water. Because it is located on the Silk Road, it is a necessary route for Chinese and Western merchants and envoys from various countries. People from all walks of life met here, making Suyab prosperous. In the Tang Dynasty, the Suyab became one of the "four towns in Four Garrisons of Anxi" where the Tang Dynasty operated the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty troops stationed here for a long time. In the first year of Emperor Gaozong of the Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the Tang Dynasty reconstructed the Suyab in imitation of Chang'an City, which became the most remote town in the west of the Tang Dynasty and one of the most eastern settlements for Sute merchants to do business. According to literature records, Xuanzang, who went to India to learn Buddhist scriptures in 629, once passed through Suyab and wrote about the local products. He said that the fertile soil in that area was conducive to planting millet, grapes and other crops. According to Guo Moruo, a famous archaeologist in China, Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was born in Suyab. Li Bai moved to his hometown in Sichuan with his parents at the age of 5. Although Guo Moruo's textual research was controversial at that time, it has now been widely accepted by the academic community, which has also been recognized by the academic community of Kyrgyzstan. After leaving the Suyab site, someone translated the words carved on the stele by UNESCO into Chinese. It turns out that Suyab is composed of a castle, two fortified inner cities and a vast suburb surrounded by two circular city walls. It is an important transfer station on the Silk Road, of which the oldest part is 35 hectares, with architectural relics such as defensive walls and pagodas. special
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