Twenty years ago, Chinese contemporary art master Wu Guanzhong's an ink and color painting" Jiaohegucheng" to set a high price 40.7 million in mainland China artists painting auction record. The painting and its companion volume," Gao site" described by two city, immediately became the focus of world attention, the world people know, cross the river, Gao, far away from these two ancient city, in the vast Western desert dependent companions, have worked together to come together for two thousand years of vicissitudes of time.
Jiaohegucheng Jiaohegucheng 2nd century BC to the 5th century were created by the car 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 city gradually cross the river the decline.
Jiaohegucheng Yuan Dynasty Chagatai period, Turpan area year after year war. Serious damage to cross the river city, and finally abandoned.
Jiaohegucheng is the world's largest and oldest, best-preserved adobe buildings city Jiaohegucheng is the world's largest and oldest, best-preserved adobe buildings of the city, but also save two thousand years of China's most complete urban sites, the highest military and political institutions Donsie domain Anxi Frontier Command in Jiaohegucheng early on. 1961 as a national key cultural relics protection units.
Old City is not a city It should be noted, is not the ancient Old City, in fact, in our usual concept, the ancient city of Pingyao, Lijiang, Dali, in fact, already can tell the difference between it and the ancient, and there is a past are already obsolete, there is still the last one is in use, of course, this is only my personal simple to understand.
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