There were many cities on the Silk Road. Because of the age, coupled with the desert sand erosion and the threat of war, many ancient cities have disappeared. The ancient city with good luck still has a ruin, and the city of Lockyang is one. Lockyangcheng, formerly known as Bitter City, is located on the Gobi Desert, about 70 kilometers southeast of Guazhou County, Gansu Province. It is also one of the well-preserved Hantang ancient cities in China. It was first built in the Han Dynasty and about 1 in the east of the city of Lockyang. There is a piece of Tutalin at the kilometer, which is called the Ta'er Temple by the locals. This is the site of the Great White Pagoda in the Ta'er Monastery. In the Tang Dynasty, the gelatin Kaiyuan Temple was recorded. According to the "Da Tang Western Regions", Tang Xuanzang once said that it is more than half a month. According to historical records, the Ta'er Temple is a place where the local officials of the Guazhou and the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the people performed religious sacrifices during the Tang and Five Dynasties. It can be seen that during the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was very lively. From the aerial view of the ancient city, you can see that the main city is rectangular, 470 meters long from north to south and 430 meters wide from east to west. In addition to the main city, there are 4 Yucheng. There is no existing house, only one tower with a height of more than 1 meter, lining the adobe and five small towers. Historically, the city of Lockyang is a large ancient city on the throat of the Silk Road. It plays an important role in politics, economy, culture and military, and preserves the best ancient military defense system and ancient farmland irrigation system. At the same time, it is also a typical specimen of the vicissitudes of the ancient desertification evolution process. It is the most perfect tourist attraction combining the ancient cultural relics and unique natural landscapes in western China. If you want to experience this history, you can come here and take a turn.

() is based on the Tang dynasty Tang Xuanyuan's westbound journey. The battle of the Red Army of the West China Road in modern times shows that Baihuguan has different and unique features in all the famous Guanzhong. It's unique, except for everything that stands around the heights. What's more unique is that the only caravan supply point of the past caravans of dozens of kilometers is holding the water and soil of this side. Then they kept the south and went north. As for this small piece of wetland, flowers and birds, lakes and fish, and shepherd beaches, there are different ecosystems with a radius of several tens of kilometers. It is also the reason why Baidun has a place in many famous customs.

Dream back to the Millennium Lock Yangcheng there is always a city, harboring a glorious past, there is always a place, waiting for you to listen to its story. On the golden section of the ancient Silk Road, there is such a county with a profound history and culture. It is named after the melon, and it is named after the "history". Because of the "road", it is the melon. Among the merchants and towns that are eastward and westward, there is another ancient city ruins, Lockyang City, which has experienced more than 1700 years of wind and frost. The ancients said, "Why do you want to blame the willows, and the spring breeze is not the jade gate." The Gobi Desert in the early spring did not have a little greenery, and the little bit of the shuttle was growing stubbornly. Because the season of going is not right, I can't see the lock-yang that is known as desert ginseng, because the lock-yang is generally exposed to the ground in May and June every year, and matures in July and August.

The sister cave of Mogao Grottoes - about 10 meters to the east of the Yulin Grottoes Dunhuang City, a river called Yulin flows quietly, accompanied by a cave that overlooks thousands of sails - Yulin Grottoes. Yulin Grottoes, also known as Wanfo Cave, were built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. They are all carved on both sides of the Yulin River Gorge. Their content, artistic expression, and painting skills are the same as the Mogao Grottoes. Although the Yulin Grottoes are not as magnificent and spectacular as the Mogao Grottoes, the preservation of murals far exceeds the Mogao Grottoes, and the artistic value of the murals in Xixia is much higher than that of the Mogao Grottoes. There are 43 caves in Yulin Grottoes. The caves are divided into three types: the central tower and the cave, the central Buddhist altar, and the big cave. According to the style and content, there are five periods of Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Xixia and Yuan Dynasty. The mural paintings of various dynasties are rich in presentation, the composition of murals is clearly visible, the characters are vivid and vivid, all kinds of objects are vivid and beautiful, and the strokes are meticulous and exquisite.

Surrounded by the vast expanse of the desert Gobi, overlooking the large sculpture of "The Son of the Earth", it becomes a spectacular Gobi cultural landscape. The "Child of the Earth" sculpture is 15 meters long, 4.3 meters high and 9 meters wide. It crouched on the ground and fell asleep on the Gobi Desert in Hongshanpo, Guazhou County, Gansu Province. The rough texture of the sandstone, the calm and heavy brown-red tone of the stone itself, and the cultural connotation of the work itself are all blended with the vast Gobi situation. In terms of creative concept, the baby itself should be a tender, authentic, delicate life. When the baby sculpture image no longer appears with normal mass and common smooth materials, instead of replacing the coarse gravel stone with red sandstone, the work There is a shocking expression of vitality and respect for life itself, and at the same time it has a strong visual effect. The plain nature of the situational integration is always the main face, which is where the traditional Chinese art spirit lies.

I have heard about the world cultural heritage - the ruins of the city of Guazhou, and its amazing today! This is a huge and rare world! The Lockyang City Site is an archaeological site that integrates ancient sites, ancient Buddhist temple sites, ancient canal systems, ancient Shu area, and tombs. It has important research, protection and utilization value. The remnants of the Lockyang City Wall are still clearly visible. The outer city is irregularly rectangular and relatively broken. It surrounds the inner city from the north, west and east sides. There is a large temple site, commonly known as the Ta'er Monastery. There are 9 small towers arranged in the east-west line of the big tower. The shape is similar to the big tower, and most of them collapse. There are two temples in the south of the temple, which may be the remains of the bell tower and the drum tower. According to the record, the temple was originally known as Ashoka Temple.

Lockyangcheng, the civilized specimen of the Silk Road Changyang City, the civilized specimen of the Silk Road Yangyang City, was once an important city in the Tang Dynasty, and Xuanzang was going to set foot on the west. road. Nowadays, most of the buildings in the city have been inundated by the infiltrating quicksand. Basically, there is no such thing. Only the northwest corner of the city has a round tall building with arched door openings and east-west connections. It is said that Kaiyuan was also found in the city. Tongbao coins, Tang Dynasty brick and tile artifacts. Winter in the western Gobi is cold and chilly. Entering the area of the Lockyang City Site, you can stand on the side of a well-preserved turret, and look at the ruins of large and small ruins. Think of Wang Changling's sentence: "Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, lonely city looking at Yumenguan." When we must have the same experience with us at this time. Walk to the ruins of the city wall, the hustle and the ancient shacks that are far away from the hustle and bustle, scattered in the wilderness of the vast sky, added a few more Shen Hongxiong. Near the red willow piles, a clump of valerian grass, a cluster of camel thorns, dotted between the yellow sand dunes, looks so rich and lush. The construction scale of Lockyangcheng is twice that of the old city of Jiaohe in Xinjiang. In the existing ancient city ruins in China, the city of Lockyang can be compared with Jiaohe Ancient City and Gaochang Ancient City. The old city standing in the Gobi, how many memories of the winds of the millennium? Standing on the site of the wind-eroded city wall, looking far away, except for the lonely city that is about to fall into the mud, only the Gobi desert. In the sun shining in the east, the sighs of Canghai Sangtian will not come out.

The Ta'er Temple, the starting point of Xuanzang's classics 1 mentioned in the Ta'er Monastery, people immediately think of the Ta'er Temple in the suburb of Xining, Qinghai, which is famous in China and Southeast Asia. Little known is that in Guazhou in the Hexi Corridor, there is also a Ta'er Monastery. The name of the temple of the Ta'er Monastery is passed down from the local shepherd population. In fact, the original name is Ashoka Temple. Although it is now a broken wall, yellow sand. Today's Ta'er Monastery site, surrounded by red willow, camel thorn, valerian and other sand plants swaying in the wind, the remains of the walls, courtyards, soil platforms, towers, rubble and other buildings, silently telling the once prosperous history. The area where the Ta'er Monastery is located is relatively well preserved and consists of two parts: the outer wall and the inner main courtyard. In the main monastery, there are mountain gates, main halls, large round towers and small round towers along the central axis from south to north. From the scale of the site, the Ta'er Monastery was a magnificent and magnificent large Buddhist temple and a relatively large Buddhist center along the Silk Road. Now you can see the bases of several large Buddhist temples. Although these ancient plaques have long since quit silently on the stage of history, the years are long, but they are like the monuments of the history of the seat, still standing on the Silk Road, silently telling people the distant land of the original In the past, it shows the historical glory of the Silk Road. Deliberately came here to photograph the sunrise. Against the backdrop of the spectacular morning sun, the snow covered by the years on the Qilian Mountain in the distance can no longer be seen. Only the site in front of it stands in the wind, which is solemn and desolate.