The lookout holes in the city walls are laid out in beautiful geometric shapes with plain stones. The terrace above the www.biquge.info city gate is unique and somewhat dilapidated. Above there is a stone lion peeping around. The flower decoration rock carving under the eaves is like a circle of upside-down copper bells. The building is decorated with Islamic style red sandstone carvings, and the plant leaves are used to make various shapes of parquet, which is simple and elegant.

The parquet decoration on the Old Fort Citadel in New Delhi is simple, the color contrast is clear, and the visual impact is very strong. The largest surviving building in the old mosque fort is the mosque. No detailed information about this mosque can be found, and it is estimated that it was used by the royal palace castle at that time, so it was built alone in the castle.

It was abandoned with the abandonment of the castle - it was empty, and there were no religious facilities, religious personnel or religious activities in sight, so it was probably an abandoned mosque, which is now only for visits. The mosque is the largest and most remarkable of the remaining buildings of the Old Fort. The main body of the building is made of red sandstone.

Red sandstone looks red brick color from the appearance, and the texture is similar, with good color, firmness, good toughness, good plasticity, easy to cut, easy to carve, moisture-proof, noise absorption and other advantages, and is widely used in some ancient buildings in India. The exterior of the building is dominated by brick red, and the lower part and walls are decorated with white patterns.

The contrast between red and white is bright and the color balance is very attractive. The shape of the building is beautiful and generous, from the top to the door frame to the wall, various shapes: square, round, rectangular, horseshoe-shaped, triangular...... There are many patterns, staggered with each other, with exquisite collocation, meticulous carving, and the construction technology is extremely exquisite.

The mosque's parquet above the main entrance of the mosque, and the small window that resembles a terrace is used to let in light and air. Four or five hundred years ago, there were electric lights. There are electric lights on the wood? What a difficult time it was at night! The vertical strip pattern on the side of the mosque's door opening is decorated with Islamic characters.

It is said that this is also one of the characteristics of Moorish architecture. The white marble decoration on the side of the mosque doorway is very beautiful floral pattern. The scene you see when you walk into the mosque building, looking longitudinally, there is a string of horseshoe-shaped door openings, and the sense of perspective is very strong. If you look up, you can see the round dome high above, all decorated with red and white patterns.

The entire interior is empty except for the building itself. The shrine on the inner wall of the mosque building, like a closed doorway, may have been the place where the clergy preached. The building is divided into several connected spaces, each with a dome and one such shrine, and each shrine and its surrounding pattern are different, which is very beautiful.

The main shrine of the mosque is particularly beautifully decorated. Stone carving with parquet inlay. The first two shrines of the mosque are the most simply decorated, but highlight the carved stone tablet in white marble in the middle. In the center of each shrine in the mosque is a monument carved from white marble, all of which are not identical, perhaps due to the difference in the rank of the deity.

Half of the mosque's dome is like the moon, and half of the lotus flower is hidden inside. The decoration of the four corners of the dome of the mosque is very delicate and beautiful. A relic building inside looks like a royal palace, but there are no items in it. The Octagonal Tower of the Old Fort in New Delhi used to be an observatory and was later converted into a library building.

The building has a special commemorative significance, that is, Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal dynasty, accidentally fell down the stairs of this building and died. The grief-stricken Humayun inherited the Indian possessions of his father, the first Mughal emperor, Babur, and conquered Gujarat.

Defeated by the ruler of Bihar, the builder of the old fort of Sherhan, he had to flee to Persia and Afghanistan for 15 years, and finally regrouped with the help of Persian soldiers to defeat the enemy and occupy Delhi, restore the rule of the Mughal dynasty, and become the emperor again.

It doesn't get much saddder than that. Fortunately, he had a good son, Akbar the Great, who is famous in Indian history. Exterior decoration of the Octagonal Tower at Old Fort in New Delhi. Much simpler than the mosque I saw earlier. Sunflower white marble mosaic of Old Fort New Delhi. Simple and bright shapes, red and white bright color matching, gaze at it.

There will be a sense of jumping and diverging from the heart outward. After seeing the old castle, take a tuk tuk back to the hotel, I don't know why, the driver here shook like a rattle when he heard that the snow fell and the location of Liu Jingshu's hotel - he didn't go, so he had to take a taxi to Connaught Square first, and then transfer back to the hotel from there.

The hotel is hidden in a small alley, it is extremely difficult to find business cards, the butt of the tuk tuk is carrying snow and Liu Jingshu around the neighborhood with black smoke, and it is not easy to find it after asking many passers-by, and the driver is resentful. It's no wonder that the drivers on the old fort side don't pull the work here, and the whole "Bermuda Danger Triangle".

During the day, I arranged a day trip to Delhi and went to the Red Fort, Jama Mosque, King's Road, Presidential Palace and other attractions. The night train leaves Delhi for its next stop, Amritsar. Overnight on the train. I got up very early, and I was not used to the first night of the Indian stay, and I couldn't sleep at all because of the noise of people and cars on the road outside the window.

After checking out of the hotel, store your luggage and take a tuk tuk to the first stop of the day, the Red Fort. The fare is 150 RMB, which is equivalent to 15 RMB. The tuk-tuks in India have two rows of seats facing each other.

The Red Fort of New Delhi is located in the eastern part of the Old City of Delhi, with the Yamuna River in the backdrop and the Chandeni Chok Avenue in the west and the "Moonlight Boulevard" to the west to the entrance square. Important places like Jama Mosque, Spice Bazaar, Moonlight Bazaar, Gandhi Mausoleum, and Old Delhi Railway Station are nearby.

The Red Fort is 915 meters long and 518 meters wide, and is named after the maroon red sandstone used in its construction. It was once the royal palace of the Mughal dynasty and was designated a World Heritage Site in 2007. After the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan moved his capital from Agra to Delhi, he took Agra Fort as the prototype and took 10 years to build from 1638 to 1648.

This castle is the same as the old fort I saw yesterday, with an empty city and still existing buildings, but all the historical relics inside are gone, compared to the royal palaces of several local vassal kings in Rajasthan, which I visited one after another.

Xueluo and Liu Jingshu went in the morning, which is west, backlight, and haze, although the castle is very spectacular from afar, but the fog is boundless. It is best to take pictures of this strange-looking castle tower in the afternoon, with good light. There are a lot of people, and the environment is dirty. Don't look at the smooth ground in front of you, it was the snow that helped clean it up.

In fact, there is a lot of dirty paper dog poop on the ground, and the original picture is hung up, and the snow falls and feels that it is really unsightly, and I can't stand it, so I helped the Indian people clean it up. Early in the morning, I met many Indian students who came to visit here in groups, and the group in front of me looked like college students, and saw the snow falling with a camera.

dragged the snow to take a group photo with them. Indians are very weird, they love to drag foreigners to take pictures, and the enthusiasm makes you overwhelmed, as if you meet your relatives returning home. Strangely, they only ask for a group photo, not a photo, why? There is a saying that being put on camera is like being favored by the gods. I don't know if it's true or not.

In their eyes, are Xueluo and Liu Jingshu gods, or are the camera lenses gods? Xueluo wants to be a human being, not a god! I was really flattered at first when I encountered a passionate desire to take a photo, but I slowly got used to it. If you encounter a handsome person, you won't refuse, and sometimes you take the initiative to say hello and charge the camera, and if you encounter something sad about your image and behavior, you can hide.

I can't afford to spend time. The students here are the same as Xueluo and Liu Jingshu in China, and the boys and girls like to be in separate groups, in their own formations, and in their own activities. This reminds Xueluo of the rumor that women are not safe in India. To say that India is disrespectful to women, according to Xueluo and other field trips, it is really a bit wronged.

In fact, for this country where all the people believe in religion as a whole, there is still a lot of respect for women, and whether there is a status or not, Xueluo can't tell clearly, not only Xueluo and Liu Jingshu have not met along the way, but also have not seen anyone harassing women, at least women walk on the streets in broad daylight, and even wear the kind of red and green that is extremely eye-catching, and they don't feel unsafe.

Perhaps, this is because Indian society is also progressing, which was not the case before. Judging from the news, there are many problems in remote rural areas. Entrance to the Red Fort. To be precise, it is the entrance to the Urn City of the Red Fort Lahore Gate, not the main gate of the Red Fort. The main gate is inside the urn city.

From here you pass through the city gate and enter a very small inner city, which is quite like the urn city of the ancient city walls of some cities seen in the country. Urn City, one of the main defense facilities of the ancient city, that is, to build a semi-circular or square gate outside the main city gate, forming a separate large courtyard, surrounded by towering city walls, when defending against the enemy, you can "close the door and fight the dog".

The entrance to the Red Fort is at a 90-degree angle to the main gate of the castle, which is also a defensive design, which can prevent enemy chariots, horses, elephants and soldiers from directly attacking the main gate after entering the urn city. Look at the battlements of the walls of the Red Fort in front of you, is it very imposing.

The imperial city, the king's demeanor is complete. Above the high city wall, you can see many large and small "yarke hats", which look quite joyful, but they are actually watchtowers standing on the city wall. It is said that this is a characteristic of "Moorish architecture" that originated in North Africa, which was decorated with arched buildings.

The walls are very high, looking about the height of the walls of the Forbidden City of Chang'an. In addition, on the outside of the city walls, there is a deep moat. I felt that the situation of resisting the enemy here when it was first built was more tense than the Qing Dynasty palace in the Dragon Kingdom. Lahore Gate: This gate is the main entrance to the Red Fort.

There is a long pavilion on the top, and there is a tall minaret on each side of the long pavilion. The walls are brick-red and decorated with various patterns and stained windows. These are typical Islamic architectural styles in India. India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared India's independence at the Lahore Gate of the Red Fort and raised the first Indian tricolor flag.

Before coming to India, Xueluo thought that Indians should believe in Hinduism, and that Hinduism should be a religion that spreads widely and influences in the world. India is a predominantly Hindu country, not a Muslim one, and isn't Hindu India a bitter rival with an Islamic Pakistan?

Why is it that there are so many Islamic style buildings in India, and many castles and palaces are inhabited by Islamic rulers? When I was doing the road book, I consulted the history of India, and after arriving in India, I learned that a long part of India's modern history was ruled by Muslims, and the Muslim rulers brought Islam and the corresponding architectural styles.

The real Islamic conquest of India began in the 11th century and was carried out by the Turkic peoples of Central Asia. The Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud made several expeditions to North India, followed by the Ghur dynasty from Afghanistan, and after the conquest of North India, the appointed governor of the Ghaznavid, Qutebuddin Abbak, adopted the title of Sultan Emperor or King to rule the conquered areas.

The capital was Delhi, and thereafter, until the establishment of the Mughal Empire, the history of North India is the history of the Delhi Sultanate. Subsequently, the Mughal dynasty, which played a major role in the unification of India, was also descended from the Turkicized Mongol Timur who embraced Islam. Aurangzeb, the sixth emperor of the Mughal dynasty, brutally suppressed Hinduism.

Many ancient Hindu buildings were destroyed and then replaced by Islamic buildings. In short, the centuries-long rule of India by Muslims from the north has led to many Islamic buildings in India today. But today's India is a society where Hinduism has the absolute upper hand, and it feels distorted to see so many Muslim buildings.

Red Fort Red Fort Ticket Office, Delhi. The price board shows that the ticket for foreigners is 250 yuan or about 25 yuan, and the small museum inside is 5, and the camera charge 15 photos for free. And the ticket for Indians is 10, which is a big difference.

First, through a long passage in an enclosed building, on both sides of the passage are shops selling small crafts. After passing through this passage, you will come to the Red Keep. The Drum Tower is the first building facing directly after entering the castle park. The front of the building is full of flowers, surrounded by trees, and green grass.

The well-known travel guide book Lonely Planet – India lists the building as the "Drum Tower". According to the book, the building got its name because of the "elephant gate inside" where visitors come down from elephants or horses as a sign of respect. The old wall on the wall of the drum tower.

The painting depicts a fruity hawthorn red fruit tree with lush foliage. Painted floral ornaments on the dome of the verandah. Centuries-old paintings, faded. The hundred-year-old paintings on the walls are somewhat mottled. The front of the drum tower is the one on the back. The building is red on the front and white on the back.

The gate hole in the middle can walk with elephants. From the main entrance of the Red Fort, you will come to the central lawn through this drum tower, and on the opposite side of the lawn is the "public hall". Group photo in front of the Drum Tower. There are not many such group photos on this road, because you need to ask someone for help, and you need to be able to use a DSLR.