The Niya site is the former site of Jingjueguo during the Han and Jin Dynasties. It is scattered in an area 25 kilometers long from north to south and 5-7 kilometers wide from east to west. In this long and narrow ancient city ruins, the remnants of Buddhist temples, houses and cemeteries are scattered, and the farmland, forest belt, canal system and smelting ruins of the year are vaguely visible. It can be seen that the residents of Jingjueguo were separated by the Niya River, which passed through the city, and lived in the north and south districts, with wealthy families in the south and commoners in the north. But every home has orchards, pens, and ponds. There is a dirt pagoda in the ruins, although it is dilapidated, but the ancient style still exists. Jingjue country is located in the Taklimakan desert, on the weak side of the river, it is a small country. According to the "Han Shu Biography of the Western Regions", there are only "four hundred and eighty households, three thousand three hundred and sixty mouths, and five hundred soldiers of victory", and in the Eastern Han Dynasty "it was annexed by Shanshan, and the country was destroyed", but , South Silk Road, "all the people who come and go are from this city". The Silk Road merchants who traveled across the bridge of the Niya River brought glassware from West Asia, Greek-style artworks, cotton fabrics from India, brocade silk from the Yellow River Basin, lacquer ware, bronze mirrors and paper and other contemporary treasures to the small country and the widow. The blue-bottomed batik cotton fragments and cotton trousers unearthed from the joint tomb of the Han and Jin couples are the earliest cotton fabrics seen in my country so far. . The Kalu documents are found in the archaeology of Niya. There are 800 wooden tablets of Kalu documents unearthed in the Niya ruins. There are notices, letters and instructions, and the content covers almost every aspect of life at that time. Nia's abandonment is a mystery. Around the ruins of the ancient city, there are no signs of diversion of rivers or wars, and there are no traces of people in the houses and courtyards. A large number of official documents and slips have just been sorted out, and it is too late to transport them away. Even the loyal dogs are forgotten to be taken away, and they are tied to the pillars in front of the house. superior. The Niya people disappeared in such a hurry, leaving only the sand-buried ruins and the unsolvable mysteries in the vast sea desert.
The Niya site is the former site of the Jingji State in the Han and Jin Dynasty. It is located in Minfeng County, Xinjiang, northwest China. It is from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. The Niya site is a narrow strip centered on 82 degrees East longitude 43 minutes 14 seconds and 37 degrees North latitude 58 minutes 35 seconds. The remains of houses, yards, cemeteries, pagodas, Buddhist temples, fields, orchards, animal circles, river canals, pottery kilns, smelting sites were found in the site of the Niya site. Woodware, copper, ironware, pottery, stoneware, woolen fabrics, coins, wood-cuts and other relics were unearthed. 1962 was designated as the key cultural relics protection unit of the autonomous region. On November 20, 1996, the State Council announced it as the key cultural relics protection unit of the country. Now it is a historical and cultural cultural cultural scenic tourist area. [View] excellent [Interesting] strong [Cost-effective] high
It’s really unexpected that the remote frontier has such beauty to go. The hospitality of Uighur friends is not so fluent in verbal communication. They wash their hard work all the way through singing, dancing and drinking.
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Years later, Niya only left the mound of ruined walls
The Niya site is located in the south road of the Silk Road. It is a place where ancient East and West cultural exchanges are integrated. It has very important academic value for studying the history of the central government of Han and Jin Dynasty over the jurisdiction and governance of the western region. It is also of further revealing the spread of Chinese culture to the west and the ancient east. Western cultural exchanges are of great significance.
The desolation of the desert has also been brilliant, welcome to Minfeng County for tourism