Every city has its own? Landmarks? Beijing's Big Pants?
Every city has its own landmark, either a building or an attraction, or a neighborhood, such as Beijing's Big Pants? If you were to find a landmark for Kashgar, the westernmost small city in Xinjiang, it would be: Etigar Square.
In the previous travelogue, I have mentioned that on the first day of arriving in Kashgar, the place where I landed was Etigar Square, not only me, but also almost every first-time visitor to Kashgar will come here, which is the border town of the ? center?
South of Etigar Square, there is a thousand-year-old neighborhood, just like the old hutongs in Beijing known as ? Old Beijing? Like the people who live in Beijing's old hutongs, this neighborhood is home to a group of ? old Kashgar people?
And the intersection of the old street is a must-mention Kashgar? The iconic building: the Etigarh Mosque. building: the Etigarh Mosque.
Built during the Ming Dynasty, the Etigarh Mosque has a history of nearly 600 years so far, and is an extremely valuable cultural relic-level old building in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Aitigaer Mosque is both a temple and a school. From ancient times to the present, it has trained many famous people and scholars, who devoted their whole life's work and energy to the study of history and religion, and their reputation is famous at home and abroad.
But for tourists traveling to Kashgar, it seems as if people prefer to stay in this large square in front of the Etigarh Mosque. It is like an open street park, surrounded by a spacious road with pedestrians coming and going on the road, and centered on an open flat area with a flock of pigeons scattered on the ground all year round.
The pigeons were completely unafraid of people, pacing easily while staring with their two small round eyes dripping at the small children who were chasing and playing with their delicacies in their hands.
The pigeons swarmed around the small hand, and often a photographer would record it on camera.
On the side of the square near the road, there is a Uighur uncle who runs a business ? The Uighur uncle on the side of the square near the road operates a photo booth. The small stall, every year before and after the Gurbang Festival, the whole Kashgar lights, the square is booming, his business is also very hot;
The other side of the square is near an ancient neighborhood, where often held some cultural activities, such as? The show is very common in Kashgar. In Kashgar is very common, people tend to townships, streets as a single organization songs, dances, sketches performances, and occasionally there will be acrobatics and magic, just like a child built in front of the house? big theater?
This day's show had a lot of onlookers, and I stood there for a while just in time to catch the solo of a Uighur elder brother.
The friendship of friends ah higher than the sky than the earth is also vast, those days we will certainly remember a pop song with a strong flavor of Xinjiang, sung by Xiao Shenyang's masterpiece "my good brother".Without realizing it was already evening, I walked along the ? Stage? neighborhood next to it up a thousand-year-old street: Gustang Boyi Road, where the sun was quickly setting, leaving only a brilliant haze in the sky, hiding behind the trees as the evening sun went down, piece by piece.
The dusk in Kashgar is like a richly colored oil painting, when flocks of birds chirping low across the roofs of the houses on both sides, and the footsteps of the pedestrians on the road to return home are more hasty, the Uyghur woman's pink saree melts into the blue night, and the song fades into the distance?
Like a glass of wine, like an old song