Qiaowan city site in Jiuquan

Qiaowan city site in Jiuquan

Located 80 kilometers east of Anxi County, beside Ganxin highway, it is 320 meters long from east to west, 122 meters wide from north to south, 5-8 meters high, with corner piers at four corners, and houses and other relics in the city. The original bridge on the Shule River is called Tiansheng bridge, which is full of traffic. It is called Qiaowan as the river bends naturally. There are also museums in the bay city. There are all kinds of specimens of wild animals and plants, dry corpse and cultural relics in the Gobi desert. There are replicas of rare treasures Ivory Buddha and the essence murals of Yulin cave 1:1.

General situation of the site

Qiaowan city site, commonly known as "Kangxi dream city", is located in the south of 312 National Road, 85 km east of Guazhou County, Gansu Province. It was built in the 11th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty. It is connected to Jiayuguan in the East, Qilian Mountain in the south, Mongolia in the north and Turpan in the West. Since ancient times, it has been an important road leading to the East, West and north of China. It is an ancient cultural heritage site integrating the great wall of the Han Dynasty, tombs of the Han Dynasty, tombs of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, ancient temples, ancient city sites and other cultural contents. The vast Gobi, magical backflow River, strange ancient trees, wonderful Tiansheng bridge, charming mirage, war-torn beacon tower, Yongning Temple with corrupt officials' heads all constitute the most natural landscape and cultural heritage with Western characteristics Scenery. The world-famous Great Wall of the Han Dynasty runs from east to west, from the north of the city, through the twin towers, the West Lake, Dunhuang and Yumen pass to Lop Nur in the west of China. Along the line is an important part of China's ancient northern military defense system.

Qiaowan is a rectangular City, 122 meters wide from north to south. It is made of loess. The walls are well preserved, with a residual height of 5-8 meters. The South and north gates are opened, with buttress walls and remains of city buildings. There are corner piers at the four corners of the city. There are East-West roads, houses and temples in the city. There is a Tiansheng bridge on the Shule River in the southwest corner of the city, which crosses the Shule River and connects the north and the south. The river flows under the hard yellow soil bridge, and vehicles and pedestrians pass through the bridge. A curved river is gradually formed here, and Qiaowan is also named after it.

legend

According to the annals of Anxi County, "on the night of Kangxi, the city of Qiaowan was a dream, and the jade belt was hung on the willow of Guanyin.". According to legend, Emperor Kangxi had a dream. He dreamed that the holy driver was cruising to a place in the northwest. In the desolate Gobi sand moraine, an oasis suddenly appeared. However, he saw the clear water flowing westward. By the river, there were two towering trees with golden crowns and jade belts. It was like a fairyland on earth. When Kangxi woke up from his dream, he was very happy and felt that the dream must be a holy land of dragon travel. He ordered the ministers of the imperial court to make a survey according to the scene of the dream. The ministers came to the Qiaowan area of the vast Gobi desert, and suddenly saw that the Shule River was flowing westward with clear water. The grass waist and straw hat were hanging on two tall Populus euphratica trees by the river, which was exactly in line with the scene of Kangxi's dream. The visiting ministers rushed back to Beijing to play Emperor Kangxi When Emperor Kangxi heard of this, he was very pleased. Then he issued an imperial edict and allocated a large sum of money to send Cheng Jinshan and his son to build a Nine Mile city in Qiaowan to make the emperor's western tour palace. Cheng Jinshan and his son came to this place under orders. Seeing that it was desolate and remote, they thought that the emperor could not come here for a tour. They forgot the law when they saw the money and embezzled the money for the construction of the city. They only built a small city with a radius of three Li. They perfunctorily went back to the capital to recover their life. Later, an imperial envoy visited the Hexi area and found that there was a big difference between Qiaowan city and the situation reported by Cheng Jinshan and his son to the emperor, so he went to the imperial court. Emperor Kangxi was furious and ordered to kill Cheng Jinshan and his son. He took his head, peeled his skin, made a human head bowl and a human skin drum, and hung them in Yongning Temple, beating them day and night to warn future generations. From this comes the allusion of Emperor Kangxi's night dream of Qiaowan city.

Yongning Temple

In the 31st year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Yongning Temple was built in the northwest of Qiaowan city. The temple is large-scale and resplendent. In the main hall, there are statues of Buddha, Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi's robes, saddles and other objects. In addition, there are human skin drums, head bowls and so on. The temple chants sutras all the year round and has a strong fragrance. At the same time, it set up "Yingxun thousand general capital department" to reserve food and grass, and focus on defense. It became an important military fortress for Emperor Yongzheng's western expedition to Zhungeer. At the end of Xianfeng and the beginning of Tongzhi, the Hui people rebelled, the bandits invaded, the city lost, the people fled, the temple was destroyed and the monks scattered. Today, the site still exists, there are a lot of bricks and tiles on the ground, and the temple base is crisscrossed. You can appreciate the scale of the building in that year. There are a large number of Han tombs and Wei Jin tombs in the East and south of Qiaowan city. The cultural content of Qiaowan area is a collection of Han Great Wall, Han tombs, Wei Jin tombs, ancient temples, ancient city sites, fossils and other ancient cultural sites. The vast Gobi, the clear river, the magical ancient trees, the wonderful Tiansheng bridge, the charming mirage, the war-torn beacon tower, and the "Yongning Temple" with the heads of corrupt officials all constitute the most natural and cultural landscape with Western characteristics.

Today's Bridge Bay

Qiaowan ancient city is the only place that Jiayuguan leads to Dunhuang and Turpan. Since 1979, a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists have come to visit it every year. The story of Kangxi's dream of Qiaowan city in the night of Emperor Kangxi and the killing of Cheng Jinshan, a corrupt official, is a household name in Hexi, Gansu Province and has been handed down for a long time. The handed down cultural relics here, such as leather drum and head bowl, have become living teaching materials for anti-corruption education. They still have a strong sense of the times and intuitive practical education significance in today's China. They have become a hot spot for modern people to visit, and even an excellent teaching material for anti-corruption and anti-corruption education in Western China . In recent years, Wei Jianxing, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Cao Gangchuan, director of the General Equipment Department of the Central Military Commission, Zhang Huaixi, Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Qian Zhengying, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, Xiao Xiahua, director of the CPPCC office under the State Council, Wang Shuchen, Minister of the Ministry of water resources, and other party, state, provincial and ministerial leaders and well-known figures at home and abroad have visited the Qiaowan exhibition hall to express their opinions on Emperor Kangxi's punishing corrupt The exhibition content of "show posterity" has been highly praised and affirmed, and its popularity has been significantly improved. In 1992, the "Sino Japanese Silk Road investigation team" organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered another 7-meter-long "Dong's steal dragon" in MAZONGSHAN area, north of Qiaowan city. Complete fossils of elephant paleokeratosaurus and parrot billed dinosaur have become a hot spot in the study of dinosaurs along the Silk Road, which is of great significance to reflect the changes and evolution of paleoecology and Paleontology in this area.

traffic

Bus: there is no direct bus to the scenic spot in the city, you can take a local taxi or charter to the scenic spot.

Self driving: drive to Jiuquan and Jiayuguan from Dunhuang bus station and get off at Qiaowan exit of Lianhuo expressway.

shopping

Black melon seed: black melon seed is also one of Jiuquan's specialties. It has the characteristics of big, thick meat, black skin, white meat and fragrant oil. It is very popular with customers inside and outside the province.

Onion: onion is a famous specialty in Jiuquan. Farmers have accumulated a whole set of cutting and training experience, and the planting scope is expanding day by day. It is characterized by thin skin, thick meat, fat petals, and clear luster. It is not only a delicacy on the table, but also a good medicine for fitness. It can be fried and cooked. It tastes sweet, warm fried with big meat, and has a special flavor.

Address: beside Ganxin highway, Guazhou County, Gansu Province

Longitude: 96.739705

Latitude: 40.574098

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