In addition to the absence of traffic lights, the Eight Diagrams Town is also known for its strange phenomenon that strangers to the place are likely to “miss their way”. It is said that a trucker from other places had his truck heavily overloaded. So he chose an outlying road at night to make the round to the Eight Diagram Cultural Square at the center of the town. He saw a traffic police was on duty far and away through the lamplight. He was scared and turned about in an instant, in the hope of getting round the police. But no matter how he tried to get round, the trucker was simply unable to avoid the “blasted” traffic police. He went around for a night in the end. The next day, when the dog-tired driver told his “hard lot” to his fellow drivers, it became a laughingstock and soon went about throughout the county seat. In fact, the “confused and disoriented” driver saw only one traffic police at the night at the crossing towards the Eight Diagram Cultural Square.
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Tekes was one of the political, military, economic and cultural centers of the Wusun State during the Western Han Dynasty period (202B.C.～9 A.D.). As shown in the distribution of nearly 20,000 existing Wusun tombs and the unearthed cultural relics, the Wusun State was a well-off leading nomadic state in the Western Regions.
The unearthed cultural relics include exquisite utensils that combined Chinese and western styles, the central plain culture and prairie culture, the Buddhist culture and Islamic culture. To date, Tekes County Cultural Relics Protection Management Institute keeps 112 pieces of cultural relics. They are separated into 59 varieties, including stone human statues, copper boilers, ancient calligraphies, gold kettles, copper head portraits, armors, ancient grain processing tools, ancient farm tools, swords, spears, potteries, and wooden printing molds. The Wusun cultural relics are listed to receive first-grade state protection. They were largely excavated in the course of building roads, digging dykes and constructing houses in townships, farms and pastoral areas since 1978. Some other cultural relics were handed over by villagers.
Editor: Dong Lin
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