The Ta'er Temple, the starting point of Xuanzang's classics 1 mentioned in the Ta'er Monastery, people immediately think of the Ta'er Temple in the suburb of Xining, Qinghai, which is famous in China and Southeast Asia. Little known is that in Guazhou in the Hexi Corridor, there is also a Ta'er Monastery. The name of the temple of the Ta'er Monastery is passed down from the local shepherd population. In fact, the original name is Ashoka Temple. Although it is now a broken wall, yellow sand. Today's Ta'er Monastery site, surrounded by red willow, camel thorn, valerian and other sand plants swaying in the wind, the remains of the walls, courtyards, soil platforms, towers, rubble and other buildings, silently telling the once prosperous history. The area where the Ta'er Monastery is located is relatively well preserved and consists of two parts: the outer wall and the inner main courtyard. In the main monastery, there are mountain gates, main halls, large round towers and small round towers along the central axis from south to north. From the scale of the site, the Ta'er Monastery was a magnificent and magnificent large Buddhist temple and a relatively large Buddhist center along the Silk Road. Now you can see the bases of several large Buddhist temples. Although these ancient plaques have long since quit silently on the stage of history, the years are long, but they are like the monuments of the history of the seat, still standing on the Silk Road, silently telling people the distant land of the original In the past, it shows the historical glory of the Silk Road. Deliberately came here to photograph the sunrise. Against the backdrop of the spectacular morning sun, the snow covered by the years on the Qilian Mountain in the distance can no longer be seen. Only the site in front of it stands in the wind, which is solemn and desolate.