My travel to the silk road----part five
21.10.2006
The impregnable pass in the world-the Jiayu Pass is composed with three defense lines - -inner city, outer city and city moat. The inner city is a main part, layer upon layer, and forms the military defense systems of one mound every 5 Li, one fort every 30 Li and one city every 100 Li. The outer wall was built with mud except for the western section, which was made of bricks. The double walls indicate the important strategic statu of this pass.
We walked down to the city Cape, and found a couple of pits being knocked. The guide told us at that time, people all kept a sorrow in mind when they had to beg for a life. Every time when they walked out of the Pass, they took a scree to knock the city Cape and it chittered as the swallow were crying. It sounds like calling the people far away from home “return, return, return”. This is also a negative reflect to the hard life of the poor people.
We ended today’s trip at 7:00pm, and had dinner in a restaurant.
On September 30th, 2002, we were waked up with drowsiness at the wee hour of 4:00am. We took the train to Gansu province with heavy baggage on our shoulders.
We reached the last destination of our trip to the west—Xi’an at the wee hour of 2:00am next day. After walked out of the station, we got rid of the ravelment and settled down in a three-star hotel near the train station.
Xi’an is a world famed start of the “silk road”. It is noted for historical importance. With 6,000 life-size terra-cotta warriors and horses, the world-famous Terra-cotta Warriors and Horse of Xi’an unearthed from the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty were acclaimed as the "eighth wonder" of the world and it is the greatest archeological found of this century. The other landmark like Big Wild Goose Pagoda mirrors China’s long history.
We ended this long journey at 2:00pm. On the train, we freely enjoyed the aftertaste of the significative and colorful travel of exploration. With the well-prepared arrangement, we really had a great time. Through this trip we had a further study of our splendid history and a holy baptism in our heart. We believe that life is fascinating and worthy while our hard working.
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