Tomb of Yusuf Haas hajifu

Yusuf Hass hajifu tomb is located in TIYU Road, covering an area of 965 square meters. The owner of the tomb is Yusuf Hass hajifu, a Uygur poet and scholar in the middle of the 11th century. He was born in 1019 and died around 1080. Around 1070 A.D., he wrote a long narrative poem "happiness and wisdom" in ancient Uighur. This long poem is rich in content and vivid in language. It involves politics, economy, literature, history, geography, mathematics and medicine at that time. It is a large-scale historical document and has a great influence on the literary creation of later generations. It has been attached great importance by the historical circles at home and abroad. The tomb faces south and is rectangular. The main entrance is 4.2 meters wide and 8 meters high. On both sides of the main entrance is a cylindrical tower with a height of 8.7 meters. The tomb is composed of a group of tombs, a gate tower and a main tomb chamber. The main tomb is round inside and outside, covered with a dome, and there is a small tower in the middle of the top. Mausoleum layout is unique, grand, decorated simple, solemn, with a strong national style.

Transportation: take No.8, No.14, No.16, No.22 bus in the city, get off at people's Park, and walk along TIYU road.

Tomb of Yusuf Haas hajifu

Yusufu Hasi hajifu tomb is located in today's TIYU Road, Kashgar City. It is the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Features of Mausoleum

Yusufu Hass hajifu tomb covers an area of 1900 square meters, including five parts: Cemetery, mosque, memorial tower, exhibition room and reception room. The cemetery covers an area of 825 square meters, with wing rooms, basement and vault. The wing rooms are composed of 22 arched open door rooms, which are located on the East, North and south sides of the tomb, each 9 meters away from the tomb. In the west, there are two gates with gatehouses and four minarets. Four minarets with a height of 9.4 meters are also built at the four corners of the wing room. The tomb is divided into two parts: the outer chamber and the inner chamber. It is 17.58 meters wide from east to west and 11 meters long from north to south. The tomb is 3 meters long, with two minarets with a height of 16.4 meters. The outer chamber has three floors. On the first floor, there are circular steps and cabins leading to the basement and going up to the top of the door and around the tomb. The inner chamber has a 19.6-meter-high, 9-meter-diameter circular vault with glass windows on its four walls.

The mausoleum is paved with glazed bricks of various colors. There is also a 198.85 square meter basement in the mausoleum, which is moisture-proof. The layout of the whole cemetery is unique and grand, the decoration is simple and solemn, with strong national characteristics.

Related people

Yusufu hajifu was born in 1019 and died around 1080. He is a famous Uygur poet, scholar and thinker in the 11th century.

When he was young, he studied in the Royal Academy of Kashgar, the eastern capital of the karahan Dynasty. Around 1070, he wrote a long narrative poem "happiness and wisdom" in ancient Uighur. This long poem is rich in content, vivid in language, full of ethics and morality, involving politics, history, geography, mathematics and medicine at that time. It is a large-scale literature with a clear writing age, which has had a great impact on the literary creation of later generations, and is regarded as a treasure by the domestic and foreign historians.

Address: TIYU Road, Kashi City, Kashi Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Longitude: 75.994988587836

Latitude: 39.45847977456

Tel: 0998-2523370

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