Where is the East Tianshan Mountain? What's interesting about East Tianshan Mountain?

East Tianshan Mountain is a characteristic scenic spot with obvious natural wonders. Every inch of land here is full of beautiful pictures, which makes people laugh, because what you see is not only the greatest mysterious works in nature, but also the most desirable thing in the depths of human soul.

Where is the East Tianshan Mountain?

1. The East Tianshan Mountain is located in the Tianshan area east of Midong District in Urumqi, and it is also an important passage and post station of the northern road of the ancient Silk Road.

2. Midong District, formed by the merger of Miquan City in Changji Prefecture and Dongshan District in Urumqi, has shown its unique historical location advantages and become a key development area in Urumqi.

Introduction to playing in East Tianshan Mountain

On April 19, 2008, I drove to the East Tianshan Mountain, which is 58 kilometers southeast of Midong District. It is the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain and belongs to the forest park of the autonomous region.

Starting from Midong District, you should pass Tiechanggou Township and Xiamenzi Scenic Area, and walk all the way up the mountain along the asphalt road in the valley. On both sides are ancient elms and houses of local villagers. Now most of them have been changed into farmhouses or homestays, with orange wooden fences and red roofs, which constitute a beautiful scenery between the valleys.

In recent years, with the development of tourism and the exploration of outdoor people, the mystery of the East Tianshan Mountains has been gradually uncovered, especially a section of the Haxiong Valley in the deep mountain canyon. Because of the charming scenery, the four seasons of mountain scenery, water scenery, snow scenery and tree scenery here are particularly attractive, making it a paradise for tourists and outdoor people inside and outside Xinjiang to explore.

There are many birch and ancient elm trees in the valley from the Haxionggou Mountains to the spruce-covered area. These trees rise and fall with the mountain, and they are stacked one after another, like empty green waves, and the scenery of light and shadow floats all over Shan Ye. All these make people feel the magic and mystery of nature and feel more comfortable and happy.

It's almost the end of April. The trees here have just turned green and the grass has turned green. Compared with the mountains, spring comes later, but it doesn't lose a good mood.

At this time, Haxionggou welcomed many city people driving private cars. Most of them come to enjoy the scenery and breathe the fresh air in the mountains. But I'm here to find the footprints of history and what happened.

Coming down from the hillside of Haxionggou, we drove to a farmhouse not far away. This resident, surnamed Ma, is an authentic Hui nationality. His ancestors lived here for many years.

We ordered barbecue and peasant chicken, and the old horse was busy, so we chatted with him. He said that he is 58 years old and his children work in the township units in Midong District. Unable to do heavy work, he and his wife started a farmhouse.

Speaking of the history of Haxionggou, Lao Ma knows a lot. He said that the bear ditch was not simple, and outsiders said that there was no bear in the bear ditch because no one saw it. When he was a child, he often saw bears running around in the mountains, scaring the villagers not to go out for fear of being attacked by bears. Half a century later, with more and more people living here, bears gradually disappeared.

However, the old horse is talking about a topic that interests me. He once heard grandpa say that Haxionggou is an ancient road. In the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army went from here to Dihua (now Urumqi) to counter the rebellion.

Because Haxiong communicates with fukang city in the north and Beiting in Jimsar County, his grandfather's grandfather often travels back and forth on this mountain road, mainly making a living by selling sheepskin and wild animal fur.

A hundred years ago, there were many brown bears in Haxionggou, and the locals named them after them. The old horse said that his grandfather had a home-made shotgun and hunted while grazing in the mountains.

According to legend, his ancestors should have moved from Gansu with a history of at least 200 years. He said that he heard all this from his grandfather, and the details were not clear even to his father who had died for many years.

According to historical records, after the Qing Dynasty unified Xinjiang, in order to restore and develop the social economy, a series of policies were adopted for local residents, such as tax exemption, extensive planting, recruiting the unemployed poor in the mainland and resettlement, which made the population of Xinjiang increase continuously.

These historical materials can be found in the book Progress of Household Folklore in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

At that time, the Han and Hui people from the mainland flooded into Lachal in northern and southern Xinjiang (now Yanqi, Xinjiang) to participate in reclamation, so it may be that the ancestors of the old horse moved from Gansu to Midong.

In any case, the villagers whose ancestors lived here can cross from Haxionggou to Fukang City, and relevant historical materials also support it. Then this mountain road, Haxionggou, may be a branch of the Northern Silk Road, and its traffic function has continued to this day, which is enough to prove that there are ancient human footprints.

Controversy over Luntaicheng Site in Tang Dynasty confirms history.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Luntai City was located in southern and northern Xinjiang. This is an indisputable fact through historical records and descriptions of ancient frontier poets. The Luntai in Han Dynasty refers to today's luntai county, while the Luntai in Tang Dynasty is near Urumqi. There is a lot of controversy about the wheel platform in northern Xinjiang now.

To find out whether Haxionggou is the ancient Silk Road, we must first find out the specific location of Luntai City in the Tang Dynasty, so as to determine the historical trend and footprint of Haxionggou in the East Tianshan Mountains. This is very important.

At present, there are three most controversial sites about the specific location of Luntai City in Tang Dynasty.

One is the ancient city of Wulabo in Urumqi.

Second, the ruins of Dabucheng in Gumudi Town, Midong District, Urumqi City.

Third, the ancient city of Liu Yun in the north of Fukang.

Although there is no detailed historical record, we can find the answer from the poems of frontier fortress poets.

As we know, Cen Can, a famous frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, followed Feng Changqing, the capital of the Northern Dynasties, to the capital of the Northern Dynasties, and stayed in Luntai town to guard the military strongholds in the west and south of the Northern Dynasties.

Moreover, this place used to be the only place where Feng Changqing went to counter-insurgency in southern Xinjiang, more than 0/00 kilometers away from Jiaohe (now Turpan)/KLOC, the old city of the automobile market.

From Cen Can's two frontier poems, we can see the clue and prove the specific location of Luntai City.

The first one is a poem in Bai Xuege, which is "Farewell to Tian Wu's Way Home": "Luntai East Gate sends troops into Tianfeng Road Snowdrift." The other is a poem in "Going to Sichuan to Journey to the West": "On this September night, the cold was blowing on the wheel tower, and the valley was full of gravel like pecking rice, which fell with the wind."

From this, we can completely rule out the third kind of dispute. In northern fukang city, except farmland, it is the Gobi Desert, and most of them are hills. Where can I get "Snow Mountain Road", "Wind and Night Roar" and "Gravel as Big as a Bucket"? Then the second statement can also be ruled out, only Wulabo is in the tuyere zone, close to Tianshan Mountain. Therefore, many experts believe that Luntai City in the Tang Dynasty is the ancient city of Wulabo, or it is nearby.

Today's Urumqi is not an ideal city in the Tang Dynasty, but a pasture in the deep mountains, which just confirms the historical statement that Midong District is called an ancient pasture. The traffic in ancient times was not as developed as it is now. There is no road, only a horse road or a mountain road. Moreover, transportation is limited to horses and carriages, and it is difficult to form a wide road even on the gravel road.

Therefore, the Haxionggou in the East Tianshan Mountains naturally became a shortcut to traffic at that time. Along the valley to the east, you can reach the North Tingdu Hufu directly, and to the north, you can reach Altay and other places. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small branch of the North Road of the Silk Road, at least it can connect the business travel between the north and south of the East Tianshan Mountains.

Haxionggou in the East Tianshan Mountains highlights the humanistic advantages of the new era.

From Haxionggou along the valley or mountain road, you can reach the south of Luntai and pass through Shirengou and other places along the way, which is much closer than bypassing Urumqi today. After all, Shiren Gully was carved from stone by the ancients. Now, in the stone man ditch, you can see a huge stone man standing on one side of the mountain.

From the above analysis, Haxionggou must be the traffic artery on the ancient Silk Road, bearing the continuation of history and recording the historical footprint. In the near future, Haxionggou will certainly become an area to promote the economic development of Urumqi, and it will also let us experience the bustling scene on the Silk Road.

Nowadays, Haxionggou area is not only an autonomous forest park, but also farmhouses and homestays everywhere along the valley, as well as many ancient elms and newly developed scenic spots on both sides of the highway, which have brought considerable benefits to local residents and greatly promoted regional economic development.

According to Ma Lao, the owner of the farmhouse, an ecological garden scenic spot will be built near Bajiahu Lane in Tiechang Town at the mountain pass coming out of Haxionggou, mainly planting rare flowers such as tulips. Within two years, it will be a big garden, and it will also attract tourists from all over the world to visit, enjoy the scenery and spend money here, and their local residents will also rely on tourism to get the greatest benefits.

As the saying goes, villagers who live in the mountains like old horses have no fields to cultivate. Their ancestors lived by grazing or breeding. Their small yard is only a vegetable field at most, barely meeting the supply of vegetables in summer.

However, the mountains are suitable for farming. The old horse raised more than 2,000 chickens, and each chicken sold at an average price of 150 yuan. The annual net income is close to 200,000.

In recent years, with the vigorous development of tourism in Xinjiang, various places have vigorously launched tourism projects such as human history tour, natural landscape tour and agricultural sightseeing tour, striving to build a characteristic tourism industry, promoting urban and rural economic development, realizing the economic engine of driving local industries with tourism, and finally achieving the goal of "living and enriching the people".

For Xinjiang, which has a rich history, I am still optimistic about the necessity of digging deep into human history. After all, culture needs to be passed down and continued. No matter now or in the future, history, as the source of China culture, will be remembered and carried forward by future generations.

If we forget history, a nation or country will lose the source of life and soul and spirit.

Since Zhang Qian hollowed out the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty, the history of Xinjiang has turned a new page. Although it has experienced more than 2000 years of ups and downs, it has now shown great vitality. This is because the new China has opened up a socialist road with its own characteristics and demonstrated the great strength of the Chinese nation all over the world.

As a cultural carrier leading economic development, the ancient Silk Road was once full of vitality in all parts of Xinjiang, and the Haxionggou in the East Tianshan Mountains was only a node in the Silk Road Economic Belt. When Xinjiang runs through every node in southern Xinjiang and northern Xinjiang, there will be a cry that makes the whole world tremble and cheer!

This is the charm of the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang and the embodiment of the unique charm of China's cultural history.