Bagua City is located in Tekes County, Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang.

Tekes County is a county under the jurisdiction of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in the eastern part of Tekes Valley in the upper reaches of Ili River. The county seat is 116 kilometers away from Yining City and 815 kilometers away from Urumqi. Tekes County is the only well-built and formal Bagua City in China, which is famous for its layout of gossip.

bagua city is radial and circular, and the street layout is like a magical maze, with roads and roads connected and streets connected. At the same time, Bagua City has rich folk customs, heavy history and culture and beautiful natural scenery. As far as the name "Tex" is concerned, one view is that it means "wild goat", and the other is that there are streams in the plain wilderness.

Architectural features of Bagua City:

This town, which embodies the cultural connotation of the Book of Changes and the strange and mysterious thoughts of the Eight Diagrams, takes the central Eight Diagrams Cultural Square as the two instruments of Tai Chi "Yin and Yang", and eight main streets extend outward like rays at the same distance and angle according to the eight diagrams.

each main street is 12m long, and a ring road connecting eight main streets is set at intervals of about 36m. There are four ring roads from the center to the outside, including eight streets in one ring, sixteen streets in the second ring, thirty-two streets in the third ring and sixty-four streets in the fourth ring.

These streets have formed sixty-four hexagrams according to the eight diagrams, which fully reflects the Yijing mathematical theory of 64 hexagrams and 386 hexagrams. In order not to let people get lost, all the streets have set up orientation boards.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bagua City