Kashi ancient times known as "Shule", which is the western edge of the Tarim Basin, one of the most ancient oasis in the Western Regions 36 more than two thousand years ago, is an important country in one of the country.

Here adjacent to the Pamirs, here was a city on the ancient Silk Road, here is Marco Polo, Tang Xuan Zang, Sven - He will have gone through the place, here is said to have "Arabian Nights" in the scene, where once the eyes of countless explorers paradise, here is the fruit of the township and town dance.

In the Xinjiang has a "there will be less than the Xinjiang Kashi I do not know how much," saying, where about 80 percent of the residents are ethnic Uighurs.

"Went to Kashi, why Zaiqu Mecca" in the Uygur of the most famous 12 Cam I have ever seen such a text.

Here, I finally stopped his hurry, before it is too rich colors, also had a lost feeling.

- One day Friday in August

When I saw the street, "have never been to Kashi, it means that have never been to Xinjiang," billboards, I know they have come to Kashgar to this pearl on the ancient Silk Road is also the largest in southern Xinjiang Uygur neighborhoods.

Four days and three nights in a row, after the car finally came down the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, have gone through highest-Tibet Highway. Finally once again see a low-altitude oasis and cities.

Wide flat asphalt roads, four substantial exchange ads next to the spray, wearing a flower hat for the elderly Uygur rushing a small donkey cart, wearing a suit driving a Mercedes Uygur middle-aged, dressed in the Uygur Yidelaisi colored silk dress woman riding a bicycle, there are numerous red Xiali slowly wandering the taxi, they are in a different kind of harmony go hand in hand.
This is my first impression of this city.

Sky of Tibet that has no moving dark blue. Only the sun, everywhere are Zhilie of the sun, feel like the sun than the plateau but also warm.

Off the bus, carrying a backpack full of so dust into the August sun in Kashgar.
4 weeks passed and stay is our basic Uighur compatriots. Even so, I only found a Uighur before the police asked about the way to go.

When I walked in the exhaustion of domestic and foreign for the road is said to be the highest concentration of color over hotels, can have a cheap room, the entire old building have been filled with people.
Overseas Chinese hotel next door to a waiter actually do not know the Chinese language, and got close to a young Uygurs actually need to be able to communicate in English.

Aimless and cross the street, finally walked into the roof of extreme fatigue in the cafe with a huge sign of a hotel, eventually nearly two hours after the city on foot found the evening as long as 15 yuan beds.

Saw the neat beds, clean bathrooms saw saw Xiao had a bath the day, it is very common in all of this for me just down the Traveler Ali, already is a great pleasure.

To lay down their backpacks, wash away the travel fatigue, and now you can change into slippers onto the streets in the evening.

Western Regions square next to the night market has put a lot of stalls, from the black smoke of the kebabs, to numerous cook the chicken in large pot, as well as hair beans, fried river snail.
Next to watermelon, cantaloupe, Buddha lion melon, grapes, peaches, apples, pears, apricots many street vendors, in addition to the most is the size of Nang stacked are placed in the booth.

One day only eaten a cake at this time even stomach the food lost its appetite, extreme fatigue to a small bowl of rice Uygur gut can not swallow.

Finally fell, rapid unconsciousness is simply inverted in their beds, after all, has been a full three nights are spent in the car.

- One day Saturday in August

Hot, sultry feel only.

Fast until noon, wake up, do yourself a time lag explanation here can be used are the Xinjiang Uygur time, that Beijing than a full two hours late.

Residents said that her roommates look at my sleeping bag like and know I must be tired.

Talked to them difficult conditions in Tibet, where the road once again with emotion, and the wealth of material here.

Felt a sudden dizziness, headache, surprising not stop coughing up.
May be a few days from the elevation of 4000 to the 1000 elevation of 6000 to the current, changing too fast. May be a long time suddenly relax nervous tension sake bar.
Self-mockery is won, "oxygen-rich reaction" bar.

Adhere to the car reached the Kashi of the most prominent reputation outside of the Id Kah Mosque.
In Xinjiang, this is not only the country's largest Islamic mosque outside the hospital, is located in the center of the Id Kah Square.
Here the annual Eid al-Adha will be the center of the faithful to worship, but also rave sea.

This was founded in the year 1442 of the Id Kah Mosque, the most striking is the entrance of the Terakado, and both sides of the high tower.
Gate width are nearly 5 meters high, decorated with yellow glazed tiles, the main text of the Koran written on a plaque hung high,
Respectively, on both sides of stands 12.5 meters high with a brick of rice yellow --- cylindrical minaret minaret, spire is a symbol of a crescent of Islam.

Adhaan have a cylindrical tower of "House Call", which is probably the Imam calls a day Muslims pray for the timing of use.
The hall is a polygonal dome roof at the top also has a small cylindrical towers, of course, ultimately, it curved crescent moon logo.

From afar, the entire Great Mosque tower in daylight looked solemn ancient, sacred and solemn.

Walked into the gate, the channel side is symmetrical rows of trees, tall trees exceptionally cool, summer is intended to suggest that all evaporated.

Constantly looked into the visitors, this time even just want to sit down quietly.
Uyghur pilgrims on and sat under the shade of a tree inside the door, it is so quiet sitting, the clock on an hour and an hour of the past.
The end or not into the hall.

- One day in August Sunday

Still dizziness, cough is very severe.

In the long 2-3 / yuan per hour Internet cafes in the self-cultivation.
Internet forums can finally once again with familiar and not familiar with friends and white, was very cordial.

Kashgar Sunday Bazaar, but the busiest time and can not not go.

To bring the camera car reached the junction next to the Grand Bazaar, the conductor gave me Uygur specified direction.
Get off at first after the donkey cart to see is too many and too much fruit, junctions may be the fruit of the Bazaar Bar.

Bazaar in the Uighur word for "fair" means, but also do "door to the outside things" explanation. In short Bazaar was Uygur social and economic activities as a central location.

Sunday is the Kashgar Grand Bazaar is also known as East Bazaar of the most exciting time.

With a donkey cart ran hastily looked forward, in front of the crowd are far from street vendors are numerous, and the roads are brightly colored dress Uygur size and so on.
Motor vehicle stop by pressing speaker from the crowd and a donkey cart in the way through.

Donkey as if there is a kind of innate ability interludes, in the master's Chihe goods under Tuozhuo family Tuozhuo in freely walking in the bazar.
Said that if the donkey, if not want to go, then there is no force can make it can be moved, and legends of the devil even pulled its tail, could not make it onto the ark.

Green Paper of the watermelon, the melon yellow, black lion of Buddha melons, piles connected Yiduo stamp-phase.

Arbitrarily turned into a side street, all selling the same on both sides of the Uygur baked dumplings, selling grilled yellow Nang, selling red and white bean jelly, selling unique ice Uygur sour honey, selling cooked eggs, dyed red, and piles of raw eggs, Sell cut horizontally and vertically and cantaloupe, selling hand-establishment of a broom, a variety of sidewalk stands selling groceries.

Uygur from these street hawkers side through it, did not understand from their cries have gone through, from the street-side shops are placed in the Uygur music through it, into the Grand Bazaar in the fixed pitch.

Eastern Bazaar's official name should be "Central and Western Asia in international trade market", where all but even the entire Central Asian region of Xinjiang's largest market of the.
Here aggregation of all line of business in southern Xinjiang, where the best collection of artisan handicrafts.

Four townships will be collected here Uygur farmers and herdsmen in the streets of the roadside selling their agricultural products, professional tradesman who are here, the classification of the market put their goods.

Of each type of goods such as flower of Uygur cap, leather caps, such as a variety of dried fruits, such as the Uygur musical instruments and knives, such as handmade rugs, such as medicine, such as clothing, etc., where there were special and even a few blocks in a street sales.

Here Uygur its rich features, its rich variety of categories, no longer can turn a few hours can be roughly finished, nor is the language used to describe a short end of the.

Looking hooded brown thick veil of the Uighur women wearing traditional dress, is said to believe in traditional religions they do not wear a veil are not allowed to leave the house.
But the burning hair, dressed in beautiful fashion modernist Uygur girls also showed them as I have a beautiful presence.

The most unique thing is to spend a lot of traditional Uighur cap stalls, flat-topped, and dome, and clear bottom, color, and too many patterns and styles --
Flanging kid of the black hat is quite unique.

Here is not only a unique wooden Bataan Uygur spend the most unique cap designs, while the apricot branch here, the most expensive of course, dried fruit is the best kind to eat.
Compare very favorably with crispy cashew nuts and pistachio.
Of course, there's a lot of dried apricot, raisins, etc., are by Pay-per-kg, and is far cheaper than us in the Mainland.

When you walk into the bazaar knives and instruments, and perhaps the most exciting here.
Here you can see many of the characteristics of the Uygur musical instruments, many of either listen to presentations, you are simply unable to identify and call out their names.

Reed flute, suona Setar, Ai Czech Republic, playing a Boolean, single, he Er-, heat-watt-fu, the card dragon, bongo ... ... and so on, blown, drawn, bombs, click, nothing is there.
The mulberry wood, with Mangpi, with camel bone inlay the size of the fine musical instrument, and some have simply become a craft of.

Yingjisha knife may be familiar to many of us here from biggest to smallest, has too many knife working at different price points.
Authentic hand-Yingjisha said should be elbow, the blade engraved with Bataan wood patterns or Yingjisha text, hand on the knife handle and leather sheath will have a beautiful pattern.

Here, each one boasting its own sword master is how the knife is sharp, even when your face with the blade cutting iron, with a small knife Daoxue other.
Some will be used to fine hair shaving their legs.

Each looks very sharp, and many of the above has little to those who's name was engraved on the knife, in the constant haggling over the knife and bought the one they succumbed to temptation the Yingjisha a knife.

Herbs Bazaar saw hanging on the antelope head, clothing bazaar can see a little girl is selling something.
Too large, East Bazar. Too rich, and Grand Bazaar. So there will be tourists at home and abroad constantly use their video camera, the camera exposure, while the Uygur of the stall holders are even line the roadside people are calm and serene face of the length of the lens.

Again, walked back to the streets outside, there is entertainer or sale of drugs of the Uygur people snakes around his neck, shoulders a huge lizard crawling.

- One day Monday in August

Internet cafes continue to recuperate and beat some of the text on Tibet.

Will be unconscious and Tibet than a few months.
Feeling has been like a gourmet's paradise, where you can eat breakfast of bread, soybean curd, fried dough sticks, snacks can Shaanxi Liang Pi, Youpo face, smell of urine sub-surface, Xinjiang, pilaf, noodles, as well as Hangzhou, steamed buns, Sichuan noodles --

Fruit is even more expensive per kg date, triangle can buy watermelon, a dollar can buy melon and grapes, one dollar can buy water Pentagon a lot of pear, four dollars you can buy dried apricots, raisins are also only five yuan.
Where the most famous Buddha lion meat thin thick-skinned melons are only one dollar Pentagon.

Of course, but it will be business Uygur nationality, will be a human being becomes outcry, and shoppers will certainly build the price, and even many may intend to clear in half.

Do as the Romans, the most economical means and with the fellow sitting in the street Uygur Uygur grilled buns Tan Qian, using small bowl placed on special spices and drinking tea, eating barbecue, and Nang,
Or a baked buns.

Length and width of nearly two feet with iron to sign the child put on the kebabs in the bazaar can be as long as five cents, a Nang, and lamb are also as long as the Pentagon Roubao Zi.
The proportion with the amount of Feishou fragrant mixture of lamb, or pretty, but should definitely be accompanied by small bowl of tea, turn greasy do.

Such a two dollars eating fast food snack, after a dollar at the roadside to buy a 78 kg large watermelon, slowly with the Yingjisha bought a small knife in two, one go to eliminate out, both Jieshu thirst-quenching added sugar, vitamins, drink plenty of water all over the economy.

Just a day plus a large watermelon melon, although only two dollars, a person may be a bit like asking too much eating.

Along the roadside opposite the shopping center, three Uighur artists to continue carrying out their performances, eye-catching promotion for the store.

An old hat with a flower in the playing of the Su-na according to this ancient traditional folk musical instruments.
Su-Na according to the first popular in the West, South Asia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India and Central Asia, many countries, its shape is similar. Around the seventeenth century, the Su-Na according to spread to the Han area known as the suona.

Another using a pair of sticks beat Namibia in the amount of heat.
Said its ancient musical instruments is also one of the Uighurs, their Chinese translation were also called iron drum, is to use cast iron semi-conical drum body cavity作成above Mongolia Lvpi or calfskin, with a few weeks in the skin to wear Leather Strap along, the lower part of the Department in the dark, taut drum heads. Are generally fixed to the metal framework on the pairs.

In the streets playing fast-paced, drum loud and clear, appearing to celebrate and full of fun. The changes in the melody is shown with three skilled.

- One day Tuesday in August

Especially in hot weather continues.

Today, the hospital opened to the Agricultural Division of the treatment of cough medicines.
Continuous access more than 8 hours before Qiaowan an article on the Tibetan text.

And so on in the evening with tired eyes, out of the cafe, the street is still the first to hear the familiar sound of the suona and iron drum ensemble.

But the sound is moving, will be charmed on the streets looked. See is a Uygur marriage team.

It is a small truck in front of people, Cheong open compartment is three-band, Uighur musicians on the playing and beating a loud tune.
Followed by a ride behind the new car, of course, has been dressed into a float.

A small team in a city the size of the back and forth patrolling the streets, passers-by eyes are gathered in the car with the drum, which also bless his mouth.
Curious to learn Uyghur wedding.

Tianbuliangjiu both sides of the wedding is said to have to get up to prepare the morning after the morning ceremony, requested the Imam to come to witnesses in accordance with religious rituals, new eat soaked in brine Nang, meaning that close does not.

A formal wedding is held in the afternoon, the afternoon before the groom's buddies with a bunch of unmarried bride to marry the woman but also with a red scarf, but now many have accepted the white wedding dress. The previous practice is to use the carpet to lift the bride came.

The invitations to the guests in the afternoon, the bride's veil is said to be opened by the man's mother's.
Three times before the evening parade in the streets, the new friend of unmarried men and women began in the bridal chamber-style carnival, and many men and women meet here again.

Returned to the room, finally heard the ticking sound of rain, and finally a drizzle of.

- One day Wednesday in August

Internet access, medication.

The size of the streets like bookstores and cafes are many Internet cafes are broadband, the bookstore is also very rich in books.

The non-use can not read the book also, the book is in bookstores can not see are the non-.

Stood at a stretch finished look at the "Henan people who provoke a", is said to be now the most popular one for the Henan rehabilitate book.

Take a look at the network listed in the book makes a mockery of Henan people's scripts, and then look at the author cited an analysis by the justified, together with other people talking about experience in Henan.
Sense of the author's argument is insufficient.

"No one from Henan and provoke" is no shortage of plagiarism, "Jalan who has."
Eye-catching commercial hype.

21:00 several days have not yet black, slowly walked attractions are also said to "People's Square."

Behind the square with how many trees in parks, six on each side of red lanterns for the shape of lights, at least three meters in diameter.

Looked back, turned out to be high across the road, a whole body waving a huge statue of Chairman Mao, allegedly the only one in Xinjiang, but the theme of the square a statue of Chairman Mao.

Walk past the statue on the steps behind the wall turned out to be tens of meters of Chairman Mao was the first famous Patio spring.
"Several heroes, but also look at the present"!

Slowly down the dark night, and Fountain Square, the lights are also lights up the roadside grass in the soft light music also combines the room.

Place leisure is how many people, pretty girl Uygur, Uighur and lively child, full of wrinkled old Uygur, Uighur veiled women, or sit, or stand, or walk, they are not hurried.

Many of the children and their families in the pass and then inflated with a colored ball.

- One day Thursday in August

A person loitering in the streets looking for that legendary "Arabian Nights" in the Old City.
May be asked several members of the local Han people, but they really do not know.

Turn the modern post office, library inadvertently embarked on a Modal Vazha Road, Uygur street names are very difficult to remember.

This hundred-meter-long alley like streets in turned out to be a very interesting tradition of Bazaar.

Street, after all, Street, no modern buildings. Even a bit messy feeling.

Soil gray buildings, remove Uygur restaurants and Shitan.
There is only one old wooden chair barber shop.
There are covered with a variety of unknown the traditional musical instrument workshop.
There is also painted faces and teeth patterns of dentists shop.

There is a workshop production of wood, there is a workshop production of bronzes.
Craftsmen in the store, where the beating in the streets rattled the metal, and even many children to participate in these traditional processes.

Craftsmen here in the plate grid system, a huge wooden steamer, in the welding copper pot with boiling water, in the system, knocking out the iron pot shape.

Other side there is a small wood lathe turnings, workshops, baiyang wood of the Rolling pin, candle sets, roasted Nang hammer eyes are its finished product.
Even the remaining waste have been made into a small gyroscope.
Street kids beat the gyro is that it should work.

Red-Bronze shops are more of handicrafts, to remove fine animal shapes, fine drinking utensils.
Even the hand pot filled with water, then water Tongpen, Shengfan using copper disk, boiling water Shama Er ......
Chic styling and exquisite carved so that each one can be called a good national handicrafts.

Produced by craftsmen still sitting outside the complex to the copper coil on the carved patterns.

Maybe thousands of years, they and their ancestors are so sitting, so duplicate the completion of their craft.

Carpet shops, jewelers, stay in the streets, hiding in the alleys.

Old home there are nameless street alley, turned in to the space-time seems to standstill for centuries.
That old old old house that has a small mosque, crescent mark, then on the roof of the railings and bridges, as if there are thousands of years has not been changed.

Lazy summer sun shining above them all as if is no impatience, and all seems to have solidified the rhythm.

Only occasionally awakened by a passing Xiali era we now live.

(To be continued)
Author: freefeeling