There is a city where Christians pour out their burning love for the holy city, "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my hands be crippled; If you are not my greatest joy, silence my tongue. In the Talmud, the Jewish Bible, the Jews lament: "If the world is very beautiful, nine points are in Jerusalem";www.biquge.info The Prophet of Worship also praised: "Jerusalem, Allah's choice among all his lands." "Jerusalem enjoys the only privilege on earth - it is regarded as a holy city by Jews, Christians and worshippers.

At the top of the mountain is the holy place of worship, at the foot of the mountain is the "Wailing Wall" of the Jews, and in the middle of it is the Way of the Crucifixion. Although the Old City of Jerusalem covers an area of only 1 square kilometer, it is the common cradle of the three major religions of mankind. Since King David founded his capital here 3,000 years ago, Jerusalem has become the historical and spiritual center of the Jewish people, a "God-given homeland"; For Christians, Jerusalem is the place where Jesus studied in his early years, preached in his middle age, and died and resurrected in his later years. Muslims, on the other hand, believe that it is the holy city where the Prophet Muhammad listened to the blessings and revelations of Allah, and has the most beautiful mosque in the world.

Standing on the quaint 12-meter-high walls of eastern Jerusalem, the old and the new are clearly distinguished. To the west is a new town full of high-rise buildings, and to the east is a living medieval capital. Two avenues, running north-south and east-west, divide the old city into four districts: the largest Muslim quarter to the northeast, the Christian quarter to the northwest, the Jewish quarter to the southeast, and the smallest Armenian quarter to the southwest.

Every morning, before the sky is white, the loudspeakers in the minarets of the mosque play a high-pitched, melodious call to worship. Hundreds of Muslims dressed in white robes gather in the alleys, like a white river, into the mosques, bending down and kneeling, their foreheads touching the ground, and praying in reverence. In a short time, the bells of the various churches rang out, and the Catholic, Orthodox, and Armenian priests and nuns dressed in black robes formed a black river and poured into the church, singing the main song in the holy candlelight and the solemn sound of the organ. Then the Jews hurried to the Wailing Wall (formerly known as the Western Wall) and chanted scriptures...... Day after day, year after year, in the old city with a radius of 1 square kilometer, these black and white "rivers" seem to have been arranged in order for a long time, and never "crash". Although the followers of the three religions live next to each other, they deliberately ignore the existence of the other, each sticks to its beliefs, earnestly fulfills its religious obligations, and never interacts with each other.

In Hebrew language, Jerusalem is the "City of Peace," but for thousands of years, Jerusalem has left the Jews with a "Wailing Wall." The Israelis vowed never to abandon the "Wailing Wall" because it is a reflection of the history of the Jewish patriarchs.

When it comes to the "Wailing Wall," we have to start with the Temple Mount. In the 11th century B.C., King David, the founder of the Jewish kingdom, conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of the Jewish kingdom with the intention of building a temple dedicated to Jehovah, the Lord of Judaism. After King David's death, his son, King Solomon, succeeded his father in seven years and spent 200,000 men building a magnificent temple on a hill in Jerusalem, known as the Temple Mount. This is the famous First Temple in Jerusalem.

In 586 B.C.E., the Babylonian army captured Jerusalem and the First Temple was destroyed. Later, the Jews rebuilt the temple twice, but in 70 A.D., the Roman general Titus captured Jerusalem and burned the temple, leaving only a section of the temple wall on the west side, hence the name Western Wall. Legend has it that when the Romans set fire to the temple, six angels sat under the western wall and wept loudly, and their tears seeped into the cracks in the stone, making this section of the wall stronger. During Roman rule, Jews were not allowed to enter Jerusalem except on the day of the annual mourning for the destruction of the Temple. For centuries, Jews have come here to pray against the wall, and whenever they recall the destruction of the temple and the forced exile of the Jews, they can't help but cry out in grief, hence the name "Wailing Wall". The "Wailing Wall" is about 52 meters long and 19 meters high, and is made of 27 layers of huge marble blocks.

Despite the devastation of Jerusalem, the remnants of the Western Wall remain. The Jews were convinced that this was because their faith in Jehovah had not left the temple and that King David was still watching over them. Therefore, on the Sabbath, especially on the Jewish Passover, New Year's and Yom Kippur, Jews gather at the "Wailing Wall" to hold religious ceremonies and prayers of repentance.

For Christians all over the world, the Dolorosa Road in Jerusalem is of great significance because it is the "Way of the Passion" of Jesus. According to the New Testament, when Jesus was 30 years old, he began to make disciples and spread new doctrines throughout Palestine. His activities were opposed and discouraged by the rulers of the Roman Empire and the upper echelons of Judaism. After a skillful maneuver, Jesus led his disciples into Jerusalem in 30 C.E. But because of the betrayal of the disciple Judas, Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane outside Jerusalem. It is said that after Jesus was sentenced to death by the Roman governor Pilate, he walked step by step along the Dolorosa Road to the execution ground in the northwest of Jerusalem. He endured the scourging of the Roman soldiers and the ridicule of the ignorant populace, carried the heavy cross on his back, staggered, fell, got up, fell again, and got up again...... From the place of trial to the "Gorgotha" heights where the Roman governor Pilate ordered Jesus to be crucified, the path Jesus traveled was called the "Way of the Crucifixion."

The "Way of the Crucifixion" is actually not very long, with a total of 14 stops, the last five of which are in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. The Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the "Church of the Resurrection", is a church built at the place where Jesus was crucified, killed, buried, and resurrected, and is considered one of the holiest places of worship by Christians around the world. In 326 AD, after Helena, the mother of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine I, visited the area, Constantine I ordered the construction of a rectangular church on the site, which took nine years to complete. However, the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre was destroyed by the Persians and then the Egyptians, and it was not until 1149 AD that it was rebuilt by the Crusaders. Walking in the Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre, the stone pillars in the hall are vertical and horizontal, and the shrine is solemn and solemn. After entering the door, the first holy miracle that the reporter saw was the anointing stone. It is said that after Jesus was carried down from the cross, he lay on this stone tablet, and his blood seeped into the cracks in the stone, staining the stone tablet red. Today's slabs still look like blood has penetrated into the stone grains. Many Christians kneel down in front of the slabs as soon as they enter the door, touching and kissing them incessantly, and the slabs become extraordinarily smooth over time.

Further inside, you can see a boulder about 15 meters high, called Skull Land, so named because of its resemblance to a skeleton. Legend has it that it was here that Jesus was crucified. Climbing up the stone staircase, there are two churches on the hill, the one built on the place where the cross was erected belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church; The church built at the place of Jesus' crucifixion belongs to Roman Catholicism.

Every year, from Good Friday until after Easter, Christians from all over the world carry the huge cross and follow the "Way of the Passion" of Jesus all the way to the Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre to feel the suffering of Jesus for mankind.

Walking in Jerusalem, no matter which angle you look, you can see a large golden dome that shines in the dazzling sunlight, which is the holy place for Muslims - the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Not far away, another dome echoes it at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third largest mosque in the Confession after the Kaaba of Mecca and the Prophet of Medina. The Dome of the Rock Mosque, built in 691 AD, is by far the best-preserved and most important masterpiece of early architecture. The name "Rock" is due to the fact that the temple enshrines a monolith that is 17.7 meters long, 13.5 meters wide, and 1.2 meters high. According to the Qur'an, one day, the prophet Muhammad of the Rakhan faith, inspired by Allah, suddenly came to Jerusalem from the holy city of Mecca in the middle of the night on a sacred horse named Barak. Accompanied by the angel Kitchenley, Muhammad ascended the heavens on a rock, traveled through the seven heavens, met the ancient prophets, received the "revelation" from Allah, and returned to Mecca at dawn the next day. The megalith on which Muhammad stepped on his feet when he ascended to heaven is considered sacred by Muslims to be as sacred as the heavenly stones in Mecca.

According to historical records, the Caliph of Alek Malik, who ruled Jerusalem, built the Dome of the Rock around the Holy Stone in order to commemorate and commemorate the Prophet Muhammad's "ascension". It is said that the footprints of the Prophet Muhammad and the handprints of the angel Gilberly holding the rock during Muhammad's "ascension" are still on the monolith. On the boulder, the reporter also saw a small square hole, which, according to local Muslims, is called the "well of the soul", where prayers are said to meet the souls of the deceased twice a week.

The rock-domed mosque built for Muhammad also endured the catastrophe. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1033 AD, but it was quickly repaired. After the European Crusades conquered Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was sacked and converted into a church, and the Europeans covered the sacred "rock" for Muslims with marble and built an altar on it. In 1187 A.D., Saladin recovered Jerusalem, and the mosque returned to Muslim hands.

Today, five prayer services are held in the Al-Aqsa Mosque every day. Countless Muslims have fulfilled their religious obligations in this holy place, and Muslims in other parts of the world have seen it as a great blessing in their lives to be able to pray here and remember the Prophet Muhammad.

In 3,000 years, the city has been conquered 37 times and destroyed in war 8 times. No wonder later generations sighed: If there is a lot of anxiety in the world, there are always nine points in the holy city. Now that the planes and tanks of the Chinese Wehrmacht had arrived outside the gates of the holy city, they were greeted with doubt, fear, melancholy, mildness, and appreciative eyes, but apart from this, no one seemed to have any intention of stopping them from entering Jerusalem, the 38th conquest of the city by a group of generals from the Far East, completely different from the three religions, who believed in the supremacy of the interests of the motherland and the people.

In Churchill's diary, there is only one line on March 10, the twenty-second year of the Lunar New Year: "The war on the ground is calm." Our forces in the Near East continue their strategic contraction, abandoning Jerusalem today. Perhaps the Prime Minister of the British Empire, who was once the world's hegemon, really didn't know what kind of brushstrokes to use to describe his mood at the moment, so it was better to be silent than to say more.