Lianyuan Suoshi Jiayuguan

1300 years ago, the Tang dynasty empire was at its most powerful stage. A poet named Wang Wei bid farewell to a friend who was about to leave for Anxi (present-day Xinjiang) by the Weishui River outside Xianyang, and wrote a poem: "Weicheng is rainy and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow-colored. I advise you to drink more wine. It makes no sense to go to Yangguan in the west. "

The poet of that year should not have thought that this poem was composed by later generations into a famous work "Three Layers of Yangguan". What he didn't expect was that hundreds of years later, under the erosion of quicksand and the tempering of wind and snow, his Yangguan became a barren hill with mottled loess.

To the east of Yangguan, a brand-new gateway is rising.

This pass is Jiayuguan.

About 470 kilometers from Dunhuang to the southeast, you will reach Jiayuguan City.

Jiayuguan, built by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, is located in the narrowest valley in the west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province. It is the westernmost pass of Wan Li Great Wall and the throat of Hexi Corridor. It is the largest pass on the existing Great Wall, and it is also the largest pass in the history of China, and is known as the first male pass in the world.

1842, Lin zexu was demoted to Yili for destroying opium in Humen. When he left Jiayuguan, he wrote a poem: Yan Guanxi went a hundred feet, and Wan Li recruited people to stay in horseshoe. The flying pavilion is far away from Qin Shu, with dazzling walls and low clouds. Tianshan stands shoulder to shoulder, and the vast sea is fascinating. Who said that faith is eternal? Looking back, I saw a grain of mud.

Lin Zexu, who bravely boarded Jiayuguan in those days, did not expect that Jiayuguan, a hundred feet away, would become one of the most famous tourist attractions in China more than a hundred years later.

It was early morning when I arrived at Jiayuguan Guancheng. In the early morning of early autumn in northwest China, the moon has not yet set, the sky is clear, and there are no clouds in Wan Li. The towering Jiayuguan Tower is even more majestic against the blue sky. The four-character horizontal plaque of "the first gate in the world" shines in the morning light.

Jiayuguan Guancheng is divided into inner city and outer city, with a moat at the outermost end, which is integrated with the Great Wall. The outer city is 2.7 meters higher than the inner city, and there are watchtowers, watchtowers, turrets and gates on the wall. Jiayuguan was a tucheng when it was first built. After many expansions and repairs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was repaired and reinforced several times after the founding of the People's Republic of China, forming the current Guancheng with heavy doors and heavy bases.

Climb Jiayuguan city wall, carve beams and draw buildings inside the pass, and the Qilian Mountain is towering outside the pass, and the Gobi Desert is vast. The standard on the wall flutters in the wind, as well as the watchtower and watchtower, as well as the inclined archery hole on the wall and the hole where the lights are put inward, which makes people have to think of "Look at the Xue Hai Saibenma River! And sand, from the desert, the apprentice "and" the battlefield is drunk and not laughing, and there have been several wars since ancient times ",remembering that hundreds of years ago, countless soldiers fought bloody battles inside and outside the Great Wall just to protect the land behind them. The era of war has long since passed. In the west wind, the magnificent customs are like iron and hunting with flags, as if counting the stories that happened here hundreds of years ago.

Jiayuguan Guancheng, about 8 kilometers to the west, is the footwall of summer. The Great Wall was built in the 19th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1540). The city wall is steep and straight, hanging like a cantilever, and is known as the "West Badaling", which is an important part of Jiayuguan West Great Wall.

Standing under the wall of the Great Wall and looking up at the beacon tower at the highest point of the Great Wall, I only feel towering into the clouds, and my heart is timid. I don't know if I can climb to the highest point. Climbing the city wall, the road is flat and the steps are steep, and the steepest section has an inclination of 45 degrees.

Step by step, the 750m Great Wall took 15 minutes to reach the highest beacon tower.

Standing on the beacon tower, you can see the Gobi desert outside the customs in the distance. At the foot of the Great Wall is an ancient Silk Road. From a distance, a series of statues of pedestrians, camels and carriages seem to be alive. The sound of camel bells took away the silk and porcelain in the Central Plains and brought fruits, crops and horses from the Western Regions. In the further distance, the yellow sand is rolling, and the west wind of Ma Si is faintly heard, and the sound of swords, guns and armored weapons is ringing. In the ancient battlefield, countless soldiers are fighting each other. ...

Both inside and outside the pass are national territory, and there is no bonfire at the top of the city.

Jiayuguan has been built for more than 600 years. On the vast Gobi desert, Jiayuguan is not only an important national defense place to ensure the security of Hexi region, but also an important checkpoint to clear the western regions and the Central Plains.

Jiayuguan is the westernmost place in the Ming Dynasty. The vast land from the west of Jiayuguan to Xinjiang was once the territory of China in the Han, Tang and Yuan Dynasties, and became the territory of the East Chagatai khanate in the Ming Dynasty, and was not reintegrated into Chinese territory until the Qing Dynasty.

There was no particularly serious war in Jiayuguan in history, but it was a diplomatic gesture and way for the Ming government to open and close Jiayuguan tribute, and it was also a means for the Ming dynasty to shock all directions. Now, Jiayuguan has become a place where people miss historical sites and look back at history.

Looking back at history, the Great Wall has never been able to really resist the invading foreign enemies. It is the people who can really resist and defeat the invaders.

? Jiangshan belongs to the people, and the people belong to Jiangshan. A powerful country and unyielding people are the real Great Wall of Wan Li and the best place in the world.

Attachment:? An ancient poem about climbing the hanging wall of Jiayuguan

? The narrow valley is far away from the sky, and the dangerous road is between white clouds.

? The lonely city locks the border and stands high in Jiayuguan.

? Raise the whip to drive the Land Rover and immediately guard the rivers and mountains.

The national flag was displayed in the west, and it was 600 years in a blink of an eye.

Climb the hanging wall and see the width of the world.