Photos of Dafangpan City Site

Hecang City, commonly known as Dafangpancheng, was built in the Western Han Dynasty and is located in the Gobi Desert 60 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang. If you don't come to the front, it is difficult to find this warehouse. It can be seen that the ancients chose this place to build the military supply warehouse, and it took a lot of painstaking effort, and it was carefully surveyed and designed. There are also several beacon towers guarding Cangcheng in the Gobi Desert, like the eyes of the castle, watching vigilantly there. From the Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Hecang City has always been an important military supply warehouse for the Great Wall's frontier defense grain reserves. The officers and soldiers guarding Yumen Pass, Yangguan Pass, the Great Wall, Fengsui, and returning from the west to the east all took food, clothing, and fodder supplies from the warehouse to ensure that they have strong fighting power. Therefore, Hecang City is an ancient, large-scale and rare military supply warehouse that has survived the frontier defense of the Great Wall in northwest China in ancient times. Hecang City runs from south to north and is built with rammed earth in a rectangular shape. It is about 132 meters long from east to west, 17 meters wide from north to south, and 6.7 meters at the top of the ruins. There are two walls in the north-south direction in the city, which divide it into three warehouses side by side. Each library opens to the south. Most of the four walls have collapsed, and only the north wall is relatively intact. There are triangular holes on the top and bottom of the wall, three on the top and five on the bottom, and the interval is staggered and equal, which may be ventilation facilities. There are two walls on the east, west and north sides.