Xinjiang Jiaohegucheng: the ruins of the world's most perfect

Twenty years ago, Chinese contemporary artist Wu Guanzhong's an ink and color painting "Jiaohegucheng" to the 40.7 million set a high price in mainland China artists painting auction record, this painting and its companion volume, "Gao site" by depicts the two ancient city, and immediately become the focus of world attention, the world learned that talent, cross river, Gao, far away from these two ancient city, in the vast Western desert accompanied by dependent, have worked together to come together for two thousand years of vicissitudes time.

Jiaohegucheng 2nd century BC to the 5th century were created by the cars and construction division, due to water diversion around the city, the so called cross the river, reached its peak in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty, 9 to the 14th century due to successive war, the gradual decline of the cross-river city.

Yuan Dynasty, Chagatai period, Turpan area year after year war. Gyoha serious damage to the city, was finally abandoned.

Jiaohegucheng is the world's largest and oldest, best preserved adobe buildings of the city, but also China to save the city over two thousand years the most complete remains of the highest military and political institutions Donsie domain Anxi Frontier is located in the earliest years Jiaohegucheng .1961 been listed as national key cultural relics protection units.

It should be noted, is the Old City is not a city,In fact, in our usual concept, Pingyao Ancient City, Lijiang, Dali, in fact, it already can tell the difference with the old, and one is already existed in the past are now obsolete, there is still the last one is in use, of course, This is just my personal simple to understand.

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