Jiayuguan
~Aaron
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| The Silk Road |
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The Silk Road Day 4:
Dunhuang, Jiayuguan
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| Jiayuguan Great Wall |
Jiayuguan City is an important city along the Silk Road. It is the western-most place along the world-known Great Wall. The Great Wall, which starts from the Shanhaiguan Pass in the east (Beijing), goes across 15,500 miles and finally stops at Jiayuguan City in the west.
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| Jiayuguan Pass |
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First pass
in the world
天下第一雄关
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The Jiayuguan Pass is a very important place. The pass had defensive walls, gates, and camping troops. The name of Jiayuguan came from this Pass. It is the only way through a thin canyon between the snowy Qilian Mountains and Hishan Mountains. Armies camped behind the gateway, in case other invaders went through the pass. These reason are the cause of what it is sometimes called, the Impregnable Pass.
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| Great Wall Museum entrance |
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A Chinese fort with cannons and spikes to slow enemies
(the actual fort would have been much larger though) |
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| The Han Dynasty Great Wall |
The Great Wall Museum has many interesting artifacts with Great Wall facts. The Han Dynasty Great Wall reached Jiayuguan. Did you know the Jiayuguan Pass was started in 1372 (the Ming Dynasty)? It was already the Qing Dynasty when Jiayuguan Pass was made the end of the Great Wall. This museum has pieces of Great Wall architecture. Ancient cannons and spikes from ancient China show the Chinese defense long ago.
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| Parts tooken from the Great Wall |
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Hand-rails and bricks
of the Great Wall |
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| Remains of the Han Dynasty Great Wall |
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| A picture of Chinese soil around Jiayuguan |
Jiayuguan is a wonderful city
every single day. Travelers can go to many fascinating attractions here, such as
the Great Wall, the Great Wall Museum, Jiayuguan Pass, and the Heshan Stone
Carvings (didn't visit a few on this list).
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| Jiayuguan Great Wall |
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| Poem writing about Jiayuguan by China's first president |
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