When is the best time to visit the ancient city of Axellippi?

The best time of the ancient city of Axellippi: spring, summer and autumn.

The ancient city of Hotan Axelipi is located at the edge of the desert at the west of Hotan Luopu County17km, and 3km east of Zulawu Oasis in Hanggui Township. Axlippi, which means Baicheng Fort or White City Wall in Uighur, is obviously the name of this abandoned ancient city.

Most of this ancient city was buried by quicksand. At present, there is a section of the north city wall, but the other three sections have not been found. The walls are curved. The remaining city wall is about100m long, 2.60m high and1.80m thick. The city walls are made of adobe with different notes. Adobe is about 50 cm long, 30-40 cm wide and 10 cm thick. There are carved symbols at the bottom of the clod, but the collected symbols are not clear. These character-like symbols are carved with fingers or branches. The city wall is divided into two parts: the lower part is wide for the defenders in the city to walk around, and the upper part is a breast wall with a row of square observation holes at equal intervals for observation and defense. Due to years of wind erosion, the land of the ancient city has been about four or five meters below the original surface under the city wall. According to the analysis of the curved city wall, the city should be round. Now, stone tools and pottery fragments are everywhere around the city wall, and sometimes iron and bronze fragments, copper coins, beads and bones can be found.

The ancient city of Axellippi has a wide range of historical sites, but the ruins of the ancient city are actually only on the east side of this range. The historic site is located in a desert with sand dunes, which is about 5-6 kilometers wide from east to west and more than 20 kilometers long from north to south. It is adjacent to Yulong Kashi Oasis in the south, Hanggui Township in the east, Jiya Township in the west and the deep desert in the north. In the lowlands between the hills of this desert, there are many pieces of pottery, and houses and fields can be clearly distinguished. About this historical site, China's earlier records can be found in Travels of Xinjiang written in the early years of the Republic of China. It is said that its sand dunes are undulating, as endless as Youlong, and it is said to be an ancient camp. Or that is to say, in the capital of Khotan, the ruins are exposed, and sometimes the quicksand opens, the city corridor is vast, the furniture is complete, and a lot of valuable things are seen.

/kloc-In the mid-9th century, several European explorers visited Axlippi, such as Dutli and Stan, and left notes. According to Doutreix's notes, a man named Grened wrote an article introducing the ancient city of Axlippi to Europeans for the first time.

190 1 On April 7th, 2008, Stein moved from Yulong Kashi to Axelipi Ancient City to survey the ancient city and collect coins, seals and other things in the Han Dynasty. At the same time, the remains of an ancient temple were found in the southwest of the city wall 1.5, and some reliefs were obtained, which were very beautiful. On April 10, Stan ended his investigation and turned to Zhivak State. The investigation results of this ancient city are scattered in Stein's English works such as Sand Burying and Hotan Site and Furuwada.

1June, 92914th, a famous archaeologist in China, Mr. Huang Wenbi, made a short visit to the ancient city of Axellippi, and later called it the ancient capital of Khotan,1-8th century ago. It is also said that this ancient story dates back to the eastern city of Kan, and the academic circles either say or question it. In 1950s, a cultural relics investigation team composed of scholars such as Shi Shuqing visited Axellippi, and collected five baht 1 piece, two cargo springs, a small copper coin from Khotan China 1 piece, a scissors wheel 1 piece and a Mo Yu coin 1 piece through Luopu County Committee. Four copper coins in the Tang Dynasty, four copper coins in the Song Dynasty 13, four copper coins in the black Han Dynasty, two copper coins in the old Wei Dynasty, one-eared red pottery pot 1 piece, red pottery elephant 1 piece, two red pottery horsehead coins, five red pottery monkeys, six red pottery figures, eight pieces of broken glass and small glass of various colors. 1 piece of bronze ring, 1 piece of bronze ear, 2 pieces of bronze dagger, 1 piece of bronze hairpin, 2 pieces of bronze horse ornaments, 1 piece of small bronze seal in Khitan language, copper and iron fragments, etc.

Among them, the red pottery silkworm is 5.2 cm long, with a big head, wheel-connected, lying and realistic posture. It is a proof of the prosperity of sericulture in ancient Hotan, and it has been highly valued by scholars. Among them, celadon four-ear jar is considered as a product of Cixian County, Hebei Province. This kind of porcelain has never been unearthed in all ancient sites in Hotan area, and the above-mentioned cultural relics are collected indirectly, not completely unearthed, so the celadon jar and 20 pieces of glazed porcelain are doubtful, not necessarily cultural relics. The most precious thing is that in 1929, Professor Huang Wenbi discovered 1 in this ancient city, and in 190 1 year, Stein also discovered 1 in this ancient city. Yu Chongwen is a coin of 1 century Yu Chongwen.

When Stan visited the ancient city of Exlippi, he first discovered the symbols on the clay embryo, but he couldn't recognize any characters. Since then, it has been silent for decades and is unknown to others. 1March, 977, these unknown symbols were first discovered, and the news spread like wildfire, which attracted the attention of archaeologists in Xinjiang. Since 1950s, many scholars have visited the ancient city of Axellippi and collected more cultural relics, but there is a lack of in-depth research. Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, the rise and fall of the ancient city of Exlippi should be from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and whether it is the eastern capital of the jade kingdom needs further study. 1957, identified by the people's government of the autonomous region as the key cultural relics protection unit of the autonomous region.