Bajiao City Ruins

A large number of cultural relics have been excavated in the Octagon City, such as metal currency, copper cattle, square bricks, simple tiles, and tiles during the Tang and Song Dynasty. In addition, in the flatlands, hills and platforms around the Octagon City, there are no ancient abandoned terraces everywhere, and some terraces have been repaired to the top of the mountain. In the past, the economy here was developed and the denseness of people was dense. Octagon City is located 35 kilometers north of Xiahe County, located on the river platform of Ganga grassland.

After investigation and survey by archaeologists, the preliminary conclusion obtained is that Octagon City has a city system within the scope of 0.5 square kilometers, and its city is a typical urban style of ancient society in China. The lower layer of the city wall is often sandwiched with Neolithic broken ceramic pieces, and the upper layer also has ceramic pieces since Tang and Song Dynasty. Plus the Han tomb group in the northwest highlands outside the city and the unearthed Wangmang era currency, the Octagonal City was built in the Han Dynasty. Octagon City with its unique city structure, for us to show the ancient tuntian point design to protect the city style, in the castle design breakthrough the past square, rectangular whole frame and natural system, in China's existing in the past square, rectangular whole frame and self-contained system, The existing ancient city in our country is unique.

The ancient city site of Xiahe Bajiao is located on the platform where the Yangqu River and Yangla River meet in the east of Ganga Beach, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, about 50 minutes' drive from Xiahe County. This is the key point of ancient Ganqing traffic, and it is also a military town where the central regime and the Tuguhun, Tubu, Xixia and Siam dynasty have been fiercely contested. The ancient city site of the Bajiao is basically preserved and was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Gansu Province in 1981. The Octagon City is named for its eight corners, and the city is a hollow cross. The Octagon City is2193.4 meters long,2.2 kilometers long, and the city covers an area of 300 mu. There are moats, moats, and outer contours outside the Octagon City ruins, and there are outer cities outside the south gate. From the perspective of architectural craftsmanship, the city system Tang built before, the architectural form broke through the square pattern, very unique. Although the city is not small, the distance between the corners of the city is within the effective range of the bow and the dragonfly, which can take care of each other, so it is easy to guard and attack. There is a natural village in the ancient city, with dozens of residents. There is an observation deck directly north of the ancient city site, which overlooks the whole view of Octagon City and enjoys the magical scenery of Ganjia secret land.

Octagon City as the name implies there are eight corners, but it is actually a "cross" shape, long 2193.4 meters, the existing remnants of the outer city are 1080 meters long, the city covers an area of 200,000 square meters, and there is a 140×100 meters square in the east of the outer front. There is a row of building residues surrounding the city in the north. During the period, the central river entered the contour, and the inner city was basically preserved. Only the north side was 15 meters long, which was built with stones in modern times. The circumference of the inner city was 1960 meters, covering an area of 169600 square meters, and the location was directly north. The wall of the south gate cave was1.4 meters thick,13.5 meters high, and5.2 meters wide. The two ends in front of the door are relatively open, along the outer contour, it is more than 10 meters of sand cliff, the cliff is the Yangqu River, which is the only passage to the Octagon City. The area of the South City Gate is about 15.3 10 square meters, and the east, west and north triangle of the city is one large pier with a raised area of about 20 square meters. On the south wall of the East and West Duns, there are half of the small clip road, the East clip road is3.6 meters, and the West clip road is 2 meters wide. It can be used for single people to ride horses in and out of the city. [View] Good [Interesting] Foot [Cost-effective] High

I really don’t think it’s worth going. The ancient city wall can only be seen by climbing to the observation deck on the mountain.

Go to Gannan Baishi Cliff and then go to Octagon City, there are still people living, you can enter the city or go to the observation deck to climb the city, very special, to this must eat local yogurt delicious.