entity Updated 2026-08-07 Tags: Place, Archaeology, Tang-Dynasty, Frontier, Xinjiang, Urban-History

交河故城 / Jiaohe Ancient City

交河故城 / Jiaohe Ancient City is one of the western-region sites discussed by [[ZhangXingyun|张星云]] in EP264 踏访“唐诗之路”:盛唐气象少年心. The episode recommends it near Turpan, especially because night visits make the Tang Xizhou urban structure easier to sense than a purely textual description would.

The source links Jiaohe to [[TangFrontierPoetryFieldExperience|边塞诗的实地经验]] and to the larger archaeological landscape around Beiting, Gaochang, and Astana documents. Its role is to show how frontier poetry can be read through ruins, routes, and administrative traces as well as through famous lines.

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