Ancient Milan City
Ancient Milan City
Milan Ancient City is 40 km east of Ruoqiang Couty Town, formed with Tibet Old Castle and the relics of the ancient architectures in the period of Wei Jin Dynasty scattered in the surrounding areas, in addition with the facilities of farmland development during garrison and water conservancy in Han Dynasty and Yixun City relics.
Milan Ancient City is of an irregular square with a perimeter of 308 meters, with rammed walling of 6 - 9 meters in thickness. There are outstanding fortress mounds at the four sides, which still can be seen on north, east and west walls. There are still gaps left at the north section of the west wall and the west section of the south wall, which were the ancient gate routes. The outstanding castle outside the south wall has height of 9 meters. There were originally thick dust and earth against the foundation of walls inside the old city.Collapsed walls of residential houses are left at the foot of the east and north walls, which were for the ancient people's houses. In the 70s of 20th century, after the work of unearthing and clearing, it was discovered that, all the houses had a flat roof with some of them half under the ground, lots of inscribed wooden slips in Tibet language were unearthed, in addition with arms, lacquered turtle shells, grains and wool and silk fabrics, which are clearly remains in the late period of Tang Dynasty when Tibet came and occupied Xinjiang. Near the old city, in the 4 kilometers stretching from east to west,there are various Buddhism temples and pagodas. There are also quite large relics of the ancient farming development,with inter-linking irrigation trenches very well planned.
Gu Sbu Bao is a representative building in Milan Ancient City, which is at an important spot of Xingan Highway, with a width of about 56 meters from south to north and 70 meters in length from east to west in an irregular squared shape. It has rammed walling with branchy tamarisk branches inside the rammed earth, on which there are sun dried mud bricks.The west wall has two sections of gaps with a width of 5 -6 meters, probably were for the old protection castles gate.The north part is a big stair-shaped earth slope, with houses built from the hallow area to the north wall of the castle, all with flat tops without door holes. The east part of the castle is a big house. The south part is a mound with a height of nearly 13 meters, on which erected a pole, looking like a watch tower ,At east and west side of the old castle, there are various pagodas orderly set and relics of majestic temples.According history books, Faxian, Chinas ancient famous monk once taught the doctrines and worshipped Buddhism here on his way to West Heaven or back home in the east.
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