Glimpses 驚豔

Yazd 雅茲德

Professor Hui Cheuk Kuen, Desmond (許焯權教授)

Situated in the desert region of Iran, 6.5 hours by car (621 km) from the capital of Tehran, Yazd is an ancient city of Persian culture remote from battles and destruction. Known for its environmental engineering, with windcatcher towers, underground irrigation, cisterns, coolers, handicrafts and bicycles, it has also been the centre of Zoroastrianism: the flame in its Fire Temple is over 1,600 years old. To appreciate all these achievements in the city, one has to venture out into the surrounding desert to observe the contrasting relationship of humans with nature in the ever-changing sandscape of sun and wind…

離首都德黑蘭六個半小時車程(621公里)，在伊朗沙漠中的雅茲德是古波斯的文化中心，因為位置偏辟得以避免戰亂和破壞。雅茲德以卓越的工程和環境建設聞名，例如捕風塔，地下水灌溉，儲水池，散熱室，手工藝和自行車等，這裡更是瑣羅亞斯德教(即袄教或拜火教)的發源地，瑣羅亞斯德聖殿供奉的聖火已有超過一千六百年的歷史。要欣賞這些城市內的建設成就，一定要到環繞城市的沙漠去親自體會人與自然關係的對比，這個關係建立在陽光和風向下千變萬化的沙丘奇觀中...

December 29, 2018

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