Yangguan

Yangguan Ruin 陽 關 遺址  /  阳 关 遗址 , Yángguān Yízhǐ
Ruin of a fire tower on Yangguan
region	Gansu , People's Republic of China
expansion	Pass road
Map (Gansu)
Coordinates	39 ° 56 '25 "  N , 94 ° 12' 56"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 56 '25 "  N , 94 ° 12' 56"  E

Yangguan ( Chinese  陽關  /  阳关 , Pinyin Yangguan  - "South Pass / Southern Pass") is the name of an original at the time of the Western Han Dynasty in Chinese western border of emperor Wu fortified pass about 70 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang in the present-day Gansu Province of the People's Republic of China . Like the Jade Gate Pass ( Yumenguan ), it connected China with Central Asia .

The Yangguan Street ( 陽 關 大道  /  阳 关 大道 , Yángguān dàdào ) - an important connection to the so-called " Western Regions " ( 西域 , Xīyù ) - led through him. Its name comes from the fact that it was located in the south of the Jadetor Pass . Since the Song dynasty , it lost its importance and fell into disrepair.

The Tang poet Wang Wei sang about the pass and the road. The ruins of the pass from the Han and Jin times have been  on the list of monuments in Gansu Province as Yangguan Yizhi ( 陽 關 遺址  /  阳 关 遗址 , Yángguān Yízhǐ - "historical relics of Yangguan") since 1961 .

literature

reference books

• Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5

See also

• Gansu corridor
• Four garrisons from Anxi

Web links

• Yangguan Pass of Great Wall (Yangguan) - English

References and comments

1. ↑ See Song Yuan Er shi Anxi 送 元 二 使 安西 , "Farewell convoy for Yuan Er on his way to Anxi" (translated by Dorothee Schaab-Hanke: "Qin sounds from ancient China" (PDF; 53 kB), transmission manuscript for WDR broadcast on September 5, 1986), silkqin.com: Thrice (Parting for) Yangguan and Song Liu si zhifu Anxi 送 刘 司 直赴 安西 ( cctv.com : Wang Wei yu "Song Liu si zhifu Anxi" ) (found on February 28, 2010).