Kizil Ga ha beacon tower

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Kizil Ga ha beacon tower

Kizil ga Ha Beacon Tower, one of the important cultural relic sites under the protection of Uyghur Autonomou s Region in Xinjiang, is located 10km from the northwest Kuche County with a distance of one kilometer from KizilGa Ha thousand-Buddha Cave. It is said that this place is one of the beacon tower relics as a boundary-alarming system in the Han Dynasty in Chinese history which is also called”Kizil Ga Ha Smoke Tower”. There is a watching tower on the upper place of this soil tower with a height of 13m and now there are the relics of palisades on it. It is one of the time-honored and best preserved beacon tower relics which witnessed the military and political systems that the central government of the Han Dynasty set up in the western China and the prosperity of the Silk road

Beacon towers on hami silk road

Xinjiang which is scattered a ll around spread in the same direction as thev Beacon towers are the alarming system in ancient times the beacon tower middle and north route of the Silk road and has played an important role in maintaining the traffic smoothness on the Silk road. By now there are 51 beacon towers of various times preserved in Hami which is the place with most and best-preserved beacon towers among which the beacon towers preserved Barkol County are largest in number in total of 29

The earliest beacon towers in Hami are constructed in the tang Dynasty and four of them are preserved till now, and yet most of the existing beacon owers nowadays were built in the Qing Dynasty. By now on the line from Barkol County where there locate the largest number of beacon towers down west to Salchalk. There is a beacon tower every 2-3km adding up to a number of 13, each of them looking at each other in distance. The both high and well preserved beacon tower beside the lake of Barkol, the length and width of which are both more than 10m with a height of over 9m, is in a distance of 400m far from the highway. In the heart of the to a round log which breaks through the tower with a diameter up to 25cm at the southeast of the beacon tower lie the relics of Jixin yard. Showered in the sunset, a number of Barkol beacon towers are of primitive simplicity and in neat formation, line up to repeat the previous splendor of the silk road