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'Ghost city' brings Silk Road to life

By ERIK NILSSON | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-09-07 07:58
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The Subash Buddhist Ruins in the dusty scrublands surrounding the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's Kucha city host a ghost city that keeps the region's Silk Road legacy alive today. WEI XIAOHAO/CHINA DAILY

Its last human "resident" was the skeleton of a 24-year-old noblewoman discovered on the bottom floor of the West Temple's pagoda by a worker after a downpour in 1978. The front of her skull was flat, since the ancient inhabitants tied boards to infants' foreheads to produce this aesthetic. Little else is known about her.

The settlement was constructed largely in the style of Gandhara Buddhism between the Tianshan Mountains and Kucha River, since this location was believed to host good feng shui.

There were also more practical reasons. Subash means "water source" in the Uygur language. And the surrounding area is largely desert.

Important chapters of this oasis' history were recorded in the Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions, compiled by monk Xuanzang in 646, after he completed a 19-year journey through western China and Central Asia to compare Chinese and Indian Buddhist texts. He's also the inspiration for the classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, of Monkey King fame.

But much of Subash's legacy remains a mystery buried in the bottom half of the hourglass of centuries. It's believed to have been abandoned around the 1300s.

One unanswered question is exactly where Chousi's rulers dwelled, and oversaw political and religious governance.

Archaeologists from China, Japan, France and the United Kingdom have unearthed ancient pottery, wooden artifacts, silk, ironware and sarira boxes containing the remains of cremated Buddhist spiritual leaders at the site.

They've also discovered coins minted in eastern China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), and currency engraved with the Uygur and Brahmi languages.

The complex also hosts a small pagoda resembling an iconic tower in Xi'an, which was China's capital, then called Chang'an, for over a dozen dynasties-again, nodding to regional exchanges during the Silk Road's zenith.

Only the 110,000-square-meter western half of the site is open to the public, although the eastern half can be seen just beneath the horizon.

The western section's 11-meter-high Central Pagoda, with a base of 20 by 40 meters, is one of the best-preserved buildings.

While only fragments of this once grand city remain, some large and some small, these clay crumbs, sandblasted by the winds of time, leave a trail to understanding the history of this ancient city-long abandoned but never forgotten.

 

 

 

 

 

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