The Ancient City of Xiyangtage

　　Introduction　　    The Ancient City of Xiyangtage is situated approximately 150 kilometers northeast of Minfeng County and 27 kilometers east of the Andier Pasture. This ancient city is a ruin of an urban settlement, consisting of three parts: a stupa, the ruins of the ancient city of Tiyingmu, and the ruins of the ancient city of Daozileke. These three sections are distributed in a roughly linear formation, with the core area forming an independent, upright quadrilateral structure. The walls are built from clay bricks and remain remarkably well-preserved to this day.

　　      To the southeast, there are two attached smaller settlements, with residential ruins found within the main area. About 500 meters to the west stands the ruin of a Buddhist temple pagoda that reaches up to 10 meters in height. Based on estimates, this site dates back to the period between 206 BC and 790 AD, roughly corresponding to the Western Han Dynasty through the height of the Tang Dynasty.

　　 Hotan, Xinjiang