Map over Yumen PassThe Small Fangpan Castle at Yumenguan – entrance from the northThe Great Wall from Han dynasty at Yumen Pass
Yumen Pass (simplified Chinese: 玉门关; traditional Chinese: 玉門關; pinyin: Yùmén Guān; Uyghur: قاش قوۋۇق, Qash Qowuq), or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220), this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed, and was the one road connecting Central Asia with East Asia (China), the former called the Western Regions. Just to the south was the Yangguan pass, which was also an important point on the Silk Road. These passes, along with other sites along the Silk Road, were inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site.[1] The pass is at an elevation of 1400 meters.
^"Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 17 Apr 2021.
YumenPass (simplified Chinese: 玉门关; traditional Chinese: 玉門關; pinyin: Yùmén Guān; Uyghur: قاش قوۋۇق, Qash Qowuq), or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate...
Yumen may refer to: YumenPass, pass of the Great Wall of China Yumen City, country-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China, named after the passYumen, Sichuan...
Yumen (simplified Chinese: 玉门; traditional Chinese: 玉門; pinyin: Yùmén, literally, "Jade Gate,") is a city in western Gansu province, China. It is a county-level...
about 8 BC was discovered at the site of a Western Han garrison near the Yumenpass in August 2006. The Xixia or Western Xia dynasty controlled much of Gansu...
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Chang'an Kumul/Hami Ürümqi YumenPass (or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate) (city called Yumenguan or Hecang) Anxi Kashgar...
of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall. In the Ming period, foreign merchants...
their way") near YumenPass. The Jiayu Pass, located in Gansu province, is the western terminus of the Ming Great Wall. From Jiayu Pass the wall travels...
Singing Sand Dunes The YumenPass, built in 111 BC, located 90 km (56 mi) northwest of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert. The Yang Pass White Horse Pagoda Dunhuang...
the Hexi Corridor. In western Gansu Province is Dunhuang (Shazhou), then Yumen, then Jiayuguan, then Jiuquan (Suzhou), then Zhangye (Ganzhou) in the center...
terminating in two places: the YumenPass in the north, or the Yang Pass to the south, both in the vicinity of Dunhuang. YumenPass was the most westerly of...
century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of the YumenPass, most often the Tarim Basin in present-day southern Xinjiang (also known...
Kingdoms period in 439 AD. The "Western Regions" refers to areas west of YumenPass, especially the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang. These areas would later...
Geopark" by the Ministry of Land and Resources on 16 June 2016, after it passed the on-site acceptance test. Known for its colorful rock formations, it...
Zhang, Lu (2010), "Condition, Conservation, and Reinforcement of the YumenPass and Hecang Earthen Ruins Near Dunhuang", in Neville Agnew (ed.), Conservation...
Yangguan, or Yangguan Pass (traditional Chinese: 陽關; simplified Chinese: 阳关; lit. 'Sun Gate'), is a mountain pass that was fortified by Emperor Wu of...
(4,070 m) an eastern outlier. Sections of the Ming dynasty's Great Wall pass along its northern slopes, and south of northern outlier Longshou Shan (3...
and Zhang Lu (2010). "Condition, Conservation, and Reinforcement of the YumenPass and Hecang Earthen Ruins Near Dunhuang", in Neville Agnew (ed), Conservation...
Silk Road, Shule traded mostly through the YumenPass and the Pamir Mountains. The Northern Silk Road that passed through Kashgar split off into the northern...
had him executed. The army met no further opposition on the way back to YumenPass. Having heard of Dayuan's defeat, the rulers of the Tocharian oasis states...
Hsi1-yü4; Uyghur: Qurighar, Қуриғар) referred to the regions west of the YumenPass. During the 2nd century BC, Chinese writers called the city states of...
China, between the 3rd century BCE and 8th century CE for regions west of YumenPass, including the Tarim and Central Asia. Some of the peoples of the Western...
Fragments of paper have also been found at Dunhuang dated to 65 BCE and at Yumenpass, dated to 8 BCE. The invention traditionally attributed to Cai Lun, recorded...
tumulus is said to mark the place where the two lovers were buried opposite to the gate to the pass. YumenPass Iron Gate Pass Tiemen Pass (Iron Gate)...
site. To protect the city, the Great Wall of China was extended as far as Yumen. Parts of the Great Wall still exist within the built-up area. After the...
the ancient Silk Road and the lost cities of Central Asia, and those who passed through Dunhuang noted the murals, sculptures, and artifacts such as the...
century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of YumenPass, most often Central Asia or sometimes, more specifically, the easternmost...
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