introduce
Tiemenguan used to be a natural and dangerous hub for the transportation between the north and the south of Xinjiang. It was the throat of the ancient "Silk Road", connecting Yanqi in the south and Cheshi in the north. Peacock River. The Jin Dynasty set up a pass here. Because of its danger and solidity, it was called "Iron Gate Pass", and it was one of the 26 passes in ancient China.
In "Shui Jing Zhu", the canyon where Tiemen Pass is located is called "Tiemen Pass", and later generations call it "Zheliu Valley". Tiemenguan has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and there are still four big characters in official script "Jinshandaihe" on the cliff beside the pass. Today, there are still ruins of ancient soldiers stationed on the hillside next to the pass. In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian was ordered to go to the Western Regions to pass through Tiemen Pass, and Ban Chao also drank horses in the Kongque River, so people also called the Kongque River "Yinma River". Cen Shen, a frontier poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem about Tiemen Pass: "The Tiemen Pass is on the west end of the sky, and there are very few travelers. A small official next to the pass faces the stone wall all day long. The bridge spans thousands of miles and the road is narrow on both sides. Climb to the west tower and look at it, and you will see nothing."
The Tiemen Guancheng tower that we see now is a newly built antique brick and wood gate tower. On the side of the gate tower, there are ammunition holes left in the Aguba period in Xinjiang. Walking through the gatehouse is the hydropower station built by later generations on the Kongque River, and there are also entertainment facilities such as water yachts.
opening hours
08:00-20:00 throughout the year (the latest admission is 20:00); the specific business status is subject to the opening of the day
