Mesmerizing! Kashgar is Full of Mysterious Crafts and Customs Still Shining with the Glory of a Thousand Years Ago
The entire Kashgar is a great market
Kashgar has two cities, one old city, also known as the walled city, with over 40,000 residents. Most of them are Muslims, and the Chinese government has recently returned to Kashgar. Kashgar New City is located 7 miles south of the old city (approximately 11.3 kilometers), and is smaller than the old city. Most of the residents there are Han Chinese. Both cities are surrounded by walls and very thick walls. Each city has four huge iron gates. When the sun goes down, the gates close, and when the sun rises, the gates open again. Outside each city is a wide moat, which looks very impressive.
The wall that impressed Catherine Magnettie has been demolished. Returning to Hanjiang, after mutual infiltration, the market is just as prosperous as before.
I chose the largest of Kashgar's dozens of markets. The international big market of Central Asia and Asia is the 'British Market' in the eyes of the local population. Young girls wearing 'Adils' (local dyed silk) dresses, old men with black long loop sheepskin hats, determined to become 'merchants' among the 25 professional markets, 4000 plus stalls, 9000 plus goods houses seriously trading, I like all the tourists with neck-mounted cameras wandering aimlessly and enjoying the bliss of doing nothing.
This day is neither Market Day nor Gelbon Day. It's simple and lively, with a good balance. I didn't need local produce, handicrafts, daily necessities, fruits and vegetables, raw materials, and small to medium-sized livestock. I ate a bowl of a mountain of frozen yogurt. It was sweet and sour, and I had a big appetite. I also ordered a bowl of rice – an entire leg of lamb buried deep in the rice, steamed slowly over a small fire until the rice and meat were cooked through, the rice was very thick. At the same time, I also added a yellow carrot, a local specialty, chopped into five-grain mixture, refreshing and greasy.
On one day in 128 BC, Zhang Qian wrote a record about Kashgar: 'A frontier line'. At that time in Kashgar, 'I would use my life to go to the post station, and never stop selling, selling, selling'. Swedish scholar Gunnar Yalin continued, two thousand years ago, a hammer's sound has been fixed in Kashgar's life, is built on the market surrounding. The entire Kashgar is a big market.
