Chapter 873

in addition to the natural scenery in the Canyon!

In addition, there is a cultural landscape worth visiting!

That is tuyugou thousand Buddha cave!

Tuyugou thousand Buddha cave is located in the middle of the canyon. It was excavated in the era of two Jin and sixteen states. It is one of the three famous Buddhist grottoes in Xinjiang.

Zhao Feng and his party walked to the section of thousand Buddha cave. They were immediately attracted by the caves carved from the cliffs on both sides of the Canyon!

Among these caves, there are not many caves with intact Buddha statues!

But you can still see the majesty of the Buddha!

Later, I saw a sign not far from the front. The introduction above made people know more about these caves!

It turned out that during the northern and Southern Dynasties, tuyugou Grottoes was one of the important Buddhist sites fully operated by the supreme ruling group of Gaochang kingdom.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist caves on both sides of tuyugou Grand Canyon developed further, and the Buddhist mural art condensed in each cave also developed to a new stage. According to the Tang Dynasty document Xizhou tujing unearthed in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, tuyugou was a fairyland on earth. The Xizhou tujing describes as follows: "in tuyugou, there are many monasteries spread along with the mountains. They are back to the dangerous peak, next to the Qingxi River, surrounded by green trees, dense Buddhist temples and Zen temples, floating Buddha music, continuous fireworks, gathering monks, and it is difficult to see the sun and moon in the depths of the pedestrian Valley".

However, compared with the Xizhou tujing, tuyugou now has only broken walls, which has long lived up to the grand occasion!

Tuyugou thousand Buddha cave has a history of more than 1700 years since it was excavated. It has gone through two stages: man-made destruction and natural collapse. There are 94 caves, and the surviving murals are only eight surviving in cave 46!

Those surviving cave murals still show people the style of ancient civilization and attract the attention of experts and scholars studying Buddhist history and Buddhist art all over the world. They are the historical basis and physical data for studying the history of Buddhist literature, Buddhist art and ancient architecture in China, and have immeasurable historical and artistic value.

Tuyugou thousand Buddha cave, known as "dinggu Temple" in ancient times, is a cave built earlier and preserved more early murals in Turpan area. The earliest caves appeared in the Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms periods. When the Juqu family became king (443 ~ 450 AD), tuyugou Buddhism was the most prosperous period.

Due to imperialist plunder and man-made destruction, more than 90% of tuyugou murals have been destroyed. Today, only eight caves still have a small number of murals with Uighur inscriptions. In caves 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Buddha sits on a Hu bed, which is only seen in the country. Some fragments of Buddhist scriptures have also been unearthed here.

Pass these caves!

But anyone who is a Chinese will inevitably feel heartache!

In that era of the last century, many national treasures were indeed plundered abroad by greedy foreigners, and even many were destroyed by those foreigners, and most of them were hidden in foreigners' collections!

If only the system could legally bring back those Chinese treasures plundered abroad!

Zhao Feng couldn't help thinking like this!

But for the system, this should also be a difficult thing!

The crowd then moved forward. When they were close to the south valley mouth, a yellow ancient building appeared in front of them!

This ancient building is a famous ancient religious relic in the canyon. Its full name is ishab kaihaifu Maza. It is said to have a history of more than 1300 years.

It is said that * * * missionaries first came to China to preach. After going through hardships, they finally went eastward to tuyugou.

With the help of local shepherds with dogs, ye mumnaiha and other six people lived here and continued to preach, * * * religion began to prevail in tuyugou. Later, after the death of six people such as ye munaiha and the first Chinese (Shepherd) who believed in * * * religion, they were buried in the cave, which is now tuyugou Mazha.

This relic has been weathered!

They still stand on this vast land. Maybe they and the thousand Buddha cave in the Canyon have also been looted by imperialism, but now they still silently proclaim the cultural traces that once existed on this land!

Tuyugou last stop is an ancient village!

Located in the south exit valley of the Grand Canyon, an ancient and quiet Uighur village with a history of more than 1700 years is the oldest existing Uighur village in Xinjiang.

When people arrive at the village along the canyon exit, they fall behind!

It is found that many people still live in this village. It is distributed around the halal temple with green pagodas, with about 200 families. This village completely retains the ancient Uighur tradition and folk customs. People often work at sunrise and sunset, communicate in the ancient Uighur language, wear the most ethnic costumes, and visit relatives and friends is still a classic donkey cart.

Zhao Feng, Liu Ruoxin and Liu Yuhong met many people in the village, whether old people, young people or children. Their faces were always filled with calm, self-sufficiency and happiness, giving people a good impression of simplicity, leisure and being independent of the world.

In the ancient village, the residents inherited the traditional habit of building houses with yellow clay for more than 2000 years. Some buildings also leave the mark of the integration of Buddhist culture and * * * religious culture. The buildings are kiln houses made of yellow clay, large and small, high and low; There are one floor and more than two floors; There are independent houses, and some are connected along the mountain. It is characterized by economic benefits, warm in winter and cool in summer.

When Zhao Feng and his party left the canyon by car!

The impression of tuyugou canyon on Zhao Feng and his party is still indelible for a long time!

Whether it is the thousand Buddha cave in tuyugou or huojiamubazaar, they have experienced the wind and frost of history, but history is not the murderer who destroyed them!

But human greed destroyed them!

Everyone's heart is heavy now!

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Coming out of the canyon, it's more than five o'clock, close to six o'clock!

But at this moment, the sun is still high in the air outside the window!

In Northern Xinjiang Province, the sun sets at 9 p.m. or even more every day!

Therefore, the work and rest time of Northern Xinjiang province may be different from that of some provinces in the East!

Nearly an hour's drive, the team finally arrived in Turpan.

The city of Turpan is still very impressive to Zhao Feng, because Zhao Feng learned a text called Turpan in primary school!

It describes the enthusiasm of the Turpan people and some specialties!

Zhao Feng still remembers his yearning for Turpan. After all, children like to eat raisins!

Although it is still early to dark, it is still necessary to find a hotel, so people stay in Meiju hotel. There is a park with a good environment in front of this hotel. If you want to see the light and water of the lake, this hotel is definitely the first choice!