About 70 kilometers south of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous RegionMap
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Remember our home? It's our memory of life. I hope you can come back and see our brother, see our home, I will wait for you here. Look at our blood-soaked frontier.
The Princess Castle was built during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Princess Castle is actually a military fortress designed to protect the traffic safety of the ancient Silk Road. The ruins of the castle are now preserved. Allusion: a Polysian king in a Han princess...
Princess Castle is located about 70 kilometers south of Taskurgan County, a mountain above 4,000 meters in the ancient Silk Road throat area of Karaqi Canyon, which is one of the highest ancient castles known in China. Chinese name Princess Fort Foreign Language PrincessCastle Geographical location about 70 kilometers south of Taskurgan County, more than 4,000 meters above sea level, also known as Kezikurgan
(Local Tajiks called "Kraki Kurgan"), located in the ancient Silk Road throat area of the southern Tashkurgan city of Karaqi ancient valley, an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, is one of the highest ancient castles known in China. The castle is located on the mountainside, and there is a mountain ditch on the north side that can reach the Great Slope of Tongpisling, 4,000 meters above sea level. It is the throat on the south side of the Silk Road. The ancient city site is an east-west earth wall, 150 meters long and about 10 meters high. The castle wall is built between earth and stone and branches. It consists of buildings such as the city hall, the heavy gate, the cave and the stone chamber. It is high and dangerous and difficult to climb. The wall is built on the undulating slopes of the mountain, and the protruding part of the wall on the west is like a horse face (commonly known as a fort). There are 13 residential relics in the castle. The fort wall has the terrain analysis from the castle, mainly a military nature of the project, and the protection of ancient silk road traffic safety. According to the British explorer Stein's test, this place is the castle where Tang Xuanxuan lived in the story of "Hanri Tianspecies" recorded in "Datang West Region Record". When Tang monk Xuanxu passed here, he heard a moving story: the local thirsty Pantuo King claimed to be Nativar Thamra, meaning "Han day heaven seed". Legend has a Polys king married a Han princess. The welcoming team returned here, due to the chaos of the war, found a Guling Weifeng to live, surrounded by strict guards, no outsiders can go up the mountain. I didn't want to spend 3 months, but the princess was pregnant. The welcoming mission was very scared. According to the princess's personal maid, every noon, a Junwei man rides down from the sun to meet the princess. The welcoming mission cannot recover its life, so it builds a city on the lonely peak. The princess has been the king and became the ruler of this area. The king called himself the Son of God, because his mother was a man of the earth, and his father was a seed of the heavens.
Princess Castle, located about 70 kilometers south of Tashkurgan County, Kashgar City, is located in the throat of the ancient Silk Road. A must-visit place to come to Kashgar.