Tekes Bagua City

Tekes Bagua city is unique and the only complete Bagua city in the world. The relevant departments cancelled the traffic lights on the road in 1996, and Bagua city became a city without traffic lights. It is said that the Tekes Bagua city was first set up by Qiu Chuji, one of the seven sons of Quanzhen Taoism in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Qiu Chuji, a real man from Changchun, went to the western regions at the invitation of Genghis Khan. When he passed through the Tekes River Valley, he was moved by the mountains and rivers here, so he arranged the Bagua city. Bagua city is a radial circular city with a magic labyrinth of streets connected by roads and streets. At the same time, Bagua city has rich folk customs, profound history and culture, and beautiful natural scenery. There are well preserved ancient tombs of Wusun, the former site of Xiadu of Wusun state, ancient tombs of grassland stone man, sairen, ancient rock paintings, and rock tunnels.

The widely spread panoramic view of Tex city is aerial. Although there is a 50 meter high sightseeing tower in the center of the city, it can only be seen in the second ring road. Tourists can't see the panoramic view.

Tekes Bagua City

Tekes County in Xinjiang is famous for its eight trigrams layout. The relevant departments cancelled the traffic lights on the roads in 1996, and Bagua city became a city without traffic lights. It is said that the Tekes Bagua city was first set up by Qiu Chuji, one of the seven sons of Quanzhen Taoism in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Qiu Chuji, a real man from Changchun, went to the western regions at the invitation of Genghis Khan. When he passed through the Tekes River Valley, he was moved by the mountains and rivers here, so he arranged the Bagua city. Bagua city is a radial circular city with a magic labyrinth of streets connected by roads and streets. At the same time, Bagua city has strong folk customs, rich historical culture and beautiful natural scenery.

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At present, Tekes has the following characteristics: the largest and most complete Bagua city in the world; the only place where Wusun culture and I Ching culture interweave in the world; the most Western Bagua city and I Ching culture in China; the westernmost place where Chinese Taoist culture spreads; the location of Wusun state, the largest ancient nomadic country in the western regions of China; the place with the most existing Wusun tombs in China; the place with the largest number of ancient tombs in ancient China The place where the number of married princesses is the most in historical records; the place where the first princess was married in ancient Chinese history; the place where the largest Racecourse in ancient China, Khan grassland, is located; the place where the number of nomadic people in ancient China is the most; the place where the Han Dynasty and the ancient nomadic countries in the western regions had the longest and closest relationship; the only place in China named after Wusun Wusun mountain

Perhaps no matter how to describe Tekes county is not enough to convince you, because the mystery of Tekes lies in its rich Yijing culture and Wusun culture. If you want to understand tex today, you should understand tex's past.

I Ching culture

People who have just entered Bagua city often have the impression that tex is not as mysterious as he thought. However, as soon as you go to the Bagua sightseeing tower, which is more than 50 meters high in the center of the city, you can immediately appreciate the charm of the county. A bird's-eye view of the tower below, green gray streets, green grass crisscross, shaped like a Bagua exploration basin.

Unfortunately, you can only see the scenery within the second ring road from the sightseeing tower. If you have the opportunity to fly over the city, then the whole picture of Bagua city will be displayed in front of you.

This town, which embodies the cultural connotation of the book of changes and the peculiar mystery of the eight trigrams, takes the central eight trigrams Cultural Square as the "Yin and Yang" of Tai Chi. According to the orientation of the eight trigrams, eight main streets radiate out at the same distance and angle. Each main street is 1200 meters long, and a ring road connecting the eight main streets is set every 360 meters. From the center to the outside, there are four rings, one of which is the eighth ring road Street, the Second Ring Road 16 street, the Third Ring Road 32 street, the Fourth Ring Road 64 street. These streets formed 64 hexagrams according to the directions of eight trigrams, which fully reflected the changes of 64 hexagrams and 386 hexagrams. In order not to let people get lost, all the streets have set up directional signs.

Two wonders of Bagua City

There is a wonder in Bagua City: there is not a traffic light on the city road. According to experts and scholars, since all roads are connected and connected, there will be no traffic jam and road jam for a county. Vehicles and pedestrians can reach the destination no matter which direction they go. The relevant departments cancelled the traffic lights on the roads in 1996, and Bagua city became a city without traffic lights.

In addition to the lack of traffic lights, Bagua city is also a strange place, which makes it easy for outsiders to get lost; the streets and crisscross alleys make it impossible for newcomers to recognize the road immediately.

Address: gulebage Street (Qian Street), Tex County, Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Longitude: 81.839937642217

Latitude: 43.215063812145

Traffic information: Yining has a shuttle bus to Turks, which runs every half hour from 8:30 to 18:40, and the ticket is 20 yuan; self driving from Yining to Turks County via g218 and x706, the whole journey is about 100km.

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day