The Ming fortress at the wall’s western end
Begun in 1372, Jiayuguan’s layered gates and ramparts mark the western end of the Ming Great Wall. The modern city grew around a fortress built to control movement through the corridor.
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Jiayuguan took its name from the pass. The city was established in 1965 and administers the Xiongguan and Gangcheng subdistricts, together with Xincheng, Wenshu and Yuquan towns. The fourteenth-century fortress stands within the modern city, while the Han frontier at Yumen Pass lies farther west near Dunhuang.
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Work and celebration painted on tomb bricks
The Wei–Jin tombs near Xincheng preserve painted bricks showing farming, herding, travel, military life and banquets in the Hexi Corridor.
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Jiayuguan Fortress at dusk姜喜宝 · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
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A painted brick from Tomb 7 at the Wei-Jin tombs of Xincheng, Jiayuguan, depicting a board game.Author not specified on source page · Public Domain Mark 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.