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century. He discovered Roman coins from the time of the Emperor Valens (AD 364-78) andpaintings of figures dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries showed strong Gandharan influences which were passed on to those at Datong's Yungang caves. Badaling Great Wall MapThe British Museum has acollection of wooden plaques and terracotta figures brought back by Stein. Larger sculptureswere left in place, Forbidden City Toursburied again in the sand. Five years later when Stein visited the site again,all the statues had been smashed by Chinese treasure hunters.
There are 24 rivers of various sizes in the Khotan area, many of them carrying Khotan's mostfamous product, jade, first mentioned in Chinese histories during the Han dynasty in the timeof the Emperor Wudi (140-86 Bc). A jade image of the Buddha was sent from Khotan toSuzhou Travel theimperial court in AD 541. Later Islamicized Turki groups were said to have had no interest inthe material but to have recognized the demand from theBeijing Airport Pickup east, and the Yum6n (Jade Gate)near Dunhuang was so named for the shipments that passed through it. Jade workers andhawkers alike today appear to be still mostly Han.
Like all the towns on the fringes ofHimalaya the Taklamakan, Khotan's greenness and its abundantcrops (it's particularly famous for honey peaches) have always depended upon careful watermanagement. Many early Western commentators put what they perceived as the laziness ofthe sedentary Turkis down to the ease of cultivation in the oasis towns:Beijing Travel Agency the seasonal meltwaters of the Kunlun Shan and Tian Shan offered far more predictable supplies of moisturethan the rainfall essential to success elsewhere.
There are 24 rivers of various sizes in the Khotan area, many of them carrying Khotan's mostfamous product, jade, first mentioned in Chinese histories during the Han dynasty in the timeof the Emperor Wudi (140-86 Bc). A jade image of the Buddha was sent from Khotan toSuzhou Travel theimperial court in AD 541. Later Islamicized Turki groups were said to have had no interest inthe material but to have recognized the demand from theBeijing Airport Pickup east, and the Yum6n (Jade Gate)near Dunhuang was so named for the shipments that passed through it. Jade workers andhawkers alike today appear to be still mostly Han.
Like all the towns on the fringes ofHimalaya the Taklamakan, Khotan's greenness and its abundantcrops (it's particularly famous for honey peaches) have always depended upon careful watermanagement. Many early Western commentators put what they perceived as the laziness ofthe sedentary Turkis down to the ease of cultivation in the oasis towns:Beijing Travel Agency the seasonal meltwaters of the Kunlun Shan and Tian Shan offered far more predictable supplies of moisturethan the rainfall essential to success elsewhere.
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