曹尚亭先生的早逝,令吐鲁番众多文道同仁无比惋惜,也令众多熟知他的人们无比地痛惜!每当想起曹先生,总是联想到新疆沙漠中不朽的胡杨树,每当看到《吐鲁番五千年》,又总是联想到华夏上下五千年的文明史。曹先生给我们留下了他倾其所有,以毕生精力完成的长卷——《吐鲁番五千年》之后,就匆匆地走了。但回想起他生前的点滴往事, Mr. Cao Shangting’s premature death, so that many of my colleagues in Turfan Road regrettable, but also so many people who know him extremely incomparable! Whenever Mr. Cao remembered, always reminiscent of immortal poplar desert in Xinjiang, whenever you see the “ Turpan five thousand years ”, and always think of China five thousand years up and down the history of civilization. Mr. Cao left behind us the long scroll he had devoted all his life and accomplished with his lifelong energies - “Turpan five thousand years” and he hurried away. But recalls his past bit by bit,