Qiemo Town
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Qiemo
چەرچەن 且末 Qarqan | |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture |
| County | Qiemo |
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| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 841900 |
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The oasis town of Qiemo or Cherchen (Template:Langx, Chinese: 且末; pinyin: Qiěmò; Uighur: Qarqan, also spelled Charchan) is the capital of Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is on the Qiemo River and at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, on the Southern Silk Route. In ancient times, the town and the kingdom it controlled were jointly known as Shanshan.
History
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Settlement in the Qiemo area dates back to the Bronze Age. The town is located along the ancient Jade Road that traded with the earliest Chinese dynasties, and Bronze Age rock carvings were found south of town along another ancient trade route to what is now Tibet.[2] Mummies dated to 1,000 BCE were discovered at the Zaghunluq site less than six km southwest of the city center. A particularly well-preserved one is known as the Cherchen Man.[3][4]
Qiemo existed as an independent kingdom during the Former Han dynasty (123 BCE to 23 CE). It was described in the Hanshu, chapter 96A thus:
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The seat of the government is the town of Ch'ieh-mo, and it is distant by 6820 li from Chang'an. There are 230 households, 1610 individuals with 320 persons able to bear arms. [There are the following officials:] the noble of Fu-kuo (support of the state), the leaders of the left and the right and one interpreter-in-chief ... There are grapes and various types of fruit. To the west there is communication with Ching-chüeh at a distance of 2000 li."
— Hanshu, chapter 96a, translation from Hulsewé 1979.[5]
Although the town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered, even though four major expeditions have searched for it.[6]
The area was ruled as the kingdom of Calmadana during the earliest heyday of the Silk Road. Its fortunes have since ebbed and flowed, mainly with the popularity of the southern trade route. The Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian left a brief account of the country after his visit c. 399 CE, recording that there were probably more than 4,000 monks in the country, all Hinayana. Song Yun passed through around 519, and wrote that the country had just been defeated by the Tuyuhun. It was sometimes abandoned, as when Buddhist monk Xuanzang passed through in the year 644, and when Marco Polo came by in 1273.
In 2018, Jiayuan was newly listed as a residential community.[7][8]
Geography
Qiemo was strategically located at the junction of the main route from Dunhuang to Khotan via Jingjue and the mountain route to Xining via Qinghai Lake.[9] Qiemo is 315 km east of Minfeng, 605 km east of Hotan, and 351 km west of Charklik/Ruoqiang Town along Highway 315.[2]
Administrative divisions
The town is made up of six residential communities and one village:[10][7][8][11][12]
Residential Communities (Mandarin Chinese Hanyu Pinyin-derived names):
- Quegelimaya (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Gulukawuruke (Script error: No such module "Lang"., formerly Gulekeruike (Script error: No such module "Lang".)), Jiahabage (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Ketaimai (Script error: No such module "Lang"., formerly Ketaiman (Script error: No such module "Lang".)), Dianshi Xincun (Dianshixincun; Script error: No such module "Lang".), Jiayuan (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
Village:
- Caidui (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
Transportation
- Qiemo is well-serviced with buses from the modern bus station just south of the city center, with routes west to Hotan, east to Ruoqiang and north to Korla.
- Qiemo Airport is located 13 km northeast of the city center. China Southern Airlines operates flights, usually twice per week, to and from Urumqi via Korla.
- Qiemo railway station serves on the Hotan–Ruoqiang railway.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.1997年且末县行政区划. XZQH.org (in 中文（简体）). 10 December 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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- ^ a b A Tourism Guide to Cherchen / Qiemo, Xinjiang, China Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Centralasiatraveler.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-12.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dolkun Kamberi (January 1994). "The Three Thousand Year Old Charchan Man Preserved at Zaghunluq :Abstract Account of a Tomb Excavation in Charchan County of Uyghuristan" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers. 44.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mallory, J. P.; Mair, Victor H. (2000), The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, London: Thames & Hudson
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hulsewé, A. F. P. (1979). China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BC – AD 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. E. Brill, Leiden. pp. 92–93. ISBN 90-04-05884-2.
- ^ Bonavia (2004), p. 330.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.2018年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：且末镇 [2018 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Qiemo Town] (in 中文（简体）). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.2017年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：且末镇 [2017 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Qiemo Town] (in 中文（简体）). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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- ^ Hill (2009), note 1.13, pp. 83–85.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.关于印发《且末县常态化开展环境卫生工作实施方案》的通知. Script error: No such module "Lang". (in 中文（简体）). 10 September 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.2009年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：且末镇 [2009 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Qiemo Town] (in 中文（简体）). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.2009年且末县行政区划 [2009 Qiemo County Administrative Divisions] (in 中文（简体）). XZQH.org. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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Further reading
- Bonavia, Judy. (2004). The Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar. Revised by Christoph Baumer. Odyssey Publications.. Template:ISBN.
- Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. Template:ISBN.
- Hulsewé, A. F. P. (1979). China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BC – AD 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. E. J. Brill, Leiden.
External links
- Tourism Guide to Cherchen / Qiemo A Tourism Guide to Cherchen / Qiemo, Xinjiang, China Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Centralasiatraveler.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-12.
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