Kashgar is known as "Kashgargar", which means "the place where jade is concentrated". From the 2nd century B.C. during the Western Han Dynasty to the end of the 7th century A.D. in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it was the capital of one of the 36 countries in the Western Region, and has a history of more than 2,100 years.

Early in the 8th century AD to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the title of Shule was gradually replaced by "Kashgar". Through the Kara Khan Dynasty, Western Liao Khitan regime, Chagatai Khanate, East Chagatai Khanate and Kashi Gaer Kingdom, Yarkand Khanate and "Huojia" regime, until the Qing Dynasty set up Kashi Gaer Road. Kashgar is located in the main road to Central Asia, South Asia, and even West Asia and Europe, has a unique geographic advantage. The North and South Roads of the ancient Silk Road intersected here, and Kashgar has always been a major commercial town on the ancient Silk Road. Chinese and foreign merchants gathered here, the three major religions collided here, the four major civilizations converged here, and many cultures intermingled here....

One, Kashgar Old Town

Kashgar Gaer Old Town is located in the center of Kashgar, is a national 5A-level tourist areas, Xinjiang's first historical and cultural city, known as "not to Kashgar, not counting to Xinjiang; not the old city, not counting to Kashgar," said.

Kashgar ancient city of east and west, north and south have entrances, every morning at 10:30, the scenic area will be in the ancient city of the east gate held a grand opening ceremony. The Viennese girls sing and dance to welcome guests from all directions in this warm and traditional way. Of the 36 states in the ancient Western Regions, Guzi, Loulan and ü-Tep have all become historical relics, but only the ancient Shule state continues to this day and thrives here. However, the core of the ancient city today is not in the original historical site, but relocated and built in the early 16th century during the Yarkand Khanate.

In the 3.6-square-kilometer old city, there are a lot of heavy historical, cultural, architectural and folklore relics left behind, where every brick and tile reveals the breath of history, and every corner is scattered with fragments of time. The core area of the Old Town has been built up over hundreds of years and generations, and is now one of the largest surviving clusters of raw earth buildings in the world. With its crisscrossing streets and alleyways, staggered building heights and flexible layout, the Old City is the only labyrinthine urban neighborhood in China featuring Islamic culture.

Kashgar is known as "Kashgargar", meaning "the place where jade is concentrated". It was the capital of Shule, one of the 36 states in the Western Region, from the Western Han Dynasty in the 2nd century B.C. to the middle of the Tang Dynasty in the late 7th century A.D., and has a history of more than 2,100 years.

Two, Etigarh Mosque

Etigarh Mosque is located in the center of Kashgar, west of Etigarh Square, is a strong national style and religious color of the ancient Islamic architectural complex, was built in 1442, is now a national key cultural relics protection units. It is the landmark of Kashgar ancient city, a place that every traveler is bound to pass by.

The whole complex consists of a chapel, a church, a gatehouse and ancillary buildings, covering an area of nearly 17,000 square meters, and is the largest mosque in the whole of Xinjiang and even in the country, which is not only grand in scale, but also a place for Muslims in the whole of Xinjiang to "gather and worship", and every day there are a lot of Muslims coming to do worship. After the big worship, especially in the Gurbang Festival, Meat Ceremony, outside the temple on the square of the tourists one after another, Muslims accompanied by the rhythm of the drums and music, have jumped up the "Sama Dance" to revel in

Three hundred years of the old teahouse

This ethnic flavor of the two-storey building, condensed the Kashgar several generations of people's fond memories. beautiful memories. The old teahouse's bricks and tiles are left with the marks of time, the old teahouse's bricks and tiles are left with the marks of time.

There are no tables and chairs in the old teahouse, and the half-meter-high kang along the wall is covered with a patterned carpet, and the old Viennese people sit cross-legged on the kang, drinking tea, eating naan, chatting, or fiddling with the teahouse's durta, hot wap, singing a few lines along with the zither. Tea drinkers drink tea while enjoying, and join in at any time when the mood arises, and many tourists who come here are also infected by this joyful atmosphere. Now this has become a net red card place, to come here in the field of tea is not really in order to drink tea, but to come here to feel the local culture of Kashgar, close contact with the local people's life, drink is a kind of sentiment.

Four, Panjou City

Panjou City, located in the southeastern outskirts of Kashgar, also known as the Eskosa (Broken City), the beginning of one of the thirty-six countries of the Western Shule State Palace City, Kashgar, more than 2,100 years of history of the city's witness. During the 17 years from 74-91 A.D., Ban Chao used this place as his home base to subdue the Xiongnu forces and finally accomplished the grand cause of unifying the Western Regions.

Panchao City was destroyed in battle during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the Panchao City wall rebuilt after the Qianlong period was also destroyed after the establishment of New China.

The People's Government of Kashgar Municipality built the Banchao Memorial Park on the site of the Panchao City in 1994, which is named after the Panchao City. Inside there is a small section of the city wall of the remnants of visitors can think back to the year.

Fifth, Xiangfei Tomb

Xiangfei Tomb, the official name is Apak Hoga Tomb, is located in the northeastern outskirts of Kashgar City, 5 kilometers in the village of Hohan, covers an area of 30 acres, by the gatehouse, large and small temples of worship, teaching scripture and the main chamber of the tomb of the five parts of the complex is a typical Islamic mausoleum architecture.

The Islamic holy mausoleum was built around 1640, buried in the tomb of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Kashgar Islam, "Yi Zen" famous masters, and once captured the power of the Yarkand dynasty Apak Hoga, so people will be the mausoleum known as "Apak Hoga Tomb So, people called this tomb "Apak Hoga Tomb". Legend has it that among the descendants of the Hoga buried here, there was a woman named Ipal Khan, who was sent to the 亁隆后宫 as Princess Rong. Legend has it that this woman has a special fragrance, people will call her "Fragrant Concubine", so people will also call this tomb "Fragrant Concubine Tomb".