Stone Ruins site, located in the northeast of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is a city site from the Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
The Stone Ruins site is composed of city walls, city gates, temples, residential ruins and Qing Dynasty castles, with a circumference of about 1,285 meters. The ancient Ruins was built on the mountain, because of the limitations of the natural environment, in an irregular quadrangle, now the four walls are well preserved. There is a temple site in the east of the stone Ruins, and the remaining walls are about 18 meters long and 4 meters wide, and there are 4 to 5 houses, built of adobe. Three layers of grass and mud are applied on the walls, of which the second layer has color, and some of the mural remains remain, and the mural in the northwest corner of the temple is a Buddha statue. There are two residential sites, one in the west of the city, the other in the southeast of the city. From the geographical location and cultural connotation analysis of Stone city, it should belong to the former site of Tang Chupantuo State, is the Central Plains dynasties and Central Asia, West Asia and South Asia countries through the traffic, in history has played an important role in the prosperity of the East-West traffic. On June 25, 2001, Stone Site was announced by The State Council of the People's Republic of China as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units
