I muttered to myself, "It's strange, I feel like I've heard this name somewhere, how can it feel so familiar, but where have I heard it, why can't I remember it for a while." ”

Xiao Fei smiled and said: "Of course I have heard of it, didn't there be a very famous book called "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in modern society at that time, you forgot, at that time, it was a household name, everyone knew it, no one knew it, and it was also made into a TV series and movie at that time, which was very hot." ”

I suddenly realized, and said with enlightenment: "I said how can I be so familiar, it turns out that the ghost blows the lamp and writes on it in a superb ancient country." However, the gorgeous name of the exquisite ancient city makes it look like a fictional fantasy world, at the time I thought it was the author's whimsical and cranky name, because this name is too dreamy, too tense, the essence is really an imaginative name, too Latin American style of magic, not quite like the name in real life, I didn't expect this exquisite ancient city to have its place, it is really more colorful than the actual life, and the world is really wonderful. ”

Hu Jiaojiao asked curiously: "By the way, what are you talking about the origin of this exquisite country?" People always live in distant places, and yearn for those distant ancient worlds, and for those civilizations that have disappeared, people always have a kind of eagerness, looking forward to finding the answers to the present and future lives from there, or satisfying the historical imagination and romantic temperament, and this ancient person is no exception.

Duan Gongzi smiled slightly beside him, he really looked back and smiled, he was fascinated, he said unhurriedly: "This exquisite country has a great origin, it is an ancient country of the Han Dynasty, located in Minfeng County in the south of the Taklamakan Desert. An ancient kingdom in the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, known as the Sea of Death, is the site we see before our eyes. According to historical records, there were a total of 36 kingdoms in the Western Han Dynasty, among which there was a very famous country in the Niya region. The Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu's "Hanshu Western Regions Biography" was the first to record the name of the "exquisite" country. Jingjue country, the king is stationed in Jingjue City, 8,820 miles away from Chang'an. The population was 480 households, 3,360 of whom were victorious, of whom 500 were victorious. There is a superb captain, a general on the left and right, and a translator. It is 2,723 miles away from the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate in the north, and a four-day journey from Ronglu in the south. The terrain is closed, the transportation is inconvenient, and it leads to the west for 460 miles. This is one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions. This far-flung refinement, with officials and people, soldiers and generals, is like a fortress with complete institutions on the Silk Road. But around the 4th century A.D., this country suddenly and mysteriously disappeared into the dust of history, what kind of country is it, and why it disappeared mysteriously, it is the same as Loulan, it is also mysterious, in the Western world people call it the East Pompeii in the sea of death, for thousands of years, the country of Jingjue is buried in the vast sea of sand, its glory and abandonment has been haunting people's hearts unsolved mystery. ”

Xiao Fei also doubled his interest, and echoed and said: "Duan Gongzi said very well, but it is too generalized, I will give you a detailed explanation of the ins and outs of the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom, so that everyone can understand more about the mysterious Exquisite Kingdom." From our current point of view, the Elite Country is just a country with a sparse population, only as many as villages. Starting from Luoyang in the Central Plains, crossing the Hexi Corridor, crossing the Tarim Basin, crossing the Pamir Plateau, going to West Asia, and reaching the 7,000-kilometer Silk Road along the Mediterranean coast, Niya is in the middle. If it must be positioned, it will stretch out in a north-south direction along the Niya River from 39°50′36" north latitude to 82°43′57" east longitude to 38°02′30" north latitude and 82°43′10" east longitude. At an altitude of 1,250 meters, the remains of the later period are 180 square kilometers, the longest from north to south is 27 kilometers, and the widest point from east to west is 7 kilometers, generally three to five kilometers. At present, the smallest county in Xinjiang has 20,000 square kilometers, and the largest county has more than 100,000 square kilometers. Therefore, the area of the remains is only equivalent to a local administrative village today. But it is very important as a bridge between East and West, the most important section of the Silk Road, because this unique region preserves many relics of early human civilization. Although it is small, the sparrow is small, and it is a mixed civilization of Eastern and Western cultures. And thousands of years ago, many of the small countries in the Western Regions were mostly like this. The small country of Jingjue was a necessary place for business travelers on the ancient Silk Road, so it became a meeting place of Eastern and Western cultures. The exquisite silks, Gandhara art and the wooden slabs that we see now, as well as the dwellings and stupas that we see today, show that the economy and culture of the famous and exquisite country at that time were quite high, and scholars call the civilization here the Niya civilization.

However, since the "Book of Han" first recorded the Jingjue Kingdom, there are few records of the Jingjue Kingdom in the subsequent historical books, and when the Jingjue people finally appeared in history, they were already the people of the Loulan Kingdom who had changed their name to Shanshan. As a small country, a small country, and a country with only 500 soldiers, it is impossible for a country to stand alone and exist independently for a long time in an era when annexation wars were commonplace. After Loulan changed its name to Shanshan, because it was the first stop in Yangguan in the west, it was supported by the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was once very prosperous. Around the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the powerful rising star Shanshan conquered the southern Silk Road provinces of Loulan, Jimo, Xiaowan, and Ronglu, and of course several oasis city-states including the small country Jingjing, and established the Shanshan Kingdom from the Niya River in the west to Dunhuang in the east. After that, Jingjue became a state under Shanshan's rule. From then on, the Niya River valley was incorporated into the territory of the Shanshan Kingdom and became an administrative district of it, and the Jingjue Kingdom was renamed Jingjue Prefecture.

King Shanshan was also a relatively virtuous and virtuous monarch, ruling the country with benevolence, and he was more clever in governing the country. He appointed some powerful local figures to official positions and was responsible for managing the people of Jingjue Prefecture. The king also retained the power to send officials directly to inspect taxes and supervise local officials. He also decreed that if the people of the whole country encountered judicial, administrative, and civil disputes in the local area, they could directly appeal to the king, and the king himself would adjudicate and dispose of them. At that time, it was the Western Jin Dynasty, and although the elite people did not have their own country, their lives were better and more stable than before. Later, Jingjue regained the country, and still continued its splendid and glorious civilization in its original homeland. ”

Zeng Lu thought for a moment, she shook her head and said, "Then what happened to the situation of this Peerless Country later? ”

Wang Gongzi also became interested, and couldn't wait to say next to him: "Later, after the Western Jin Dynasty, the Niya civilization gradually declined, turning into a desert without people and quicksand. In the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang recorded in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": From the east of the Mimo River into the sand sea, walk more than 200 miles, is the city of Niyang (Niya). The city is three or four miles in circumference and is located in the middle of the Everglades. It was hot and humid, it was difficult to trek, and the reeds grew luxuriantly, and there was no way to pass through it, only the road into the city, so no one could pass through the city. Khotan, on the other hand, used this place as a gateway to its eastern borders. Continue east from Nepal and you will enter the Great Quicksand Zone. There is a long flow of sand, gathering and scattering with the wind, and people can not leave traces after walking by. And because of this, there are a lot of people who get lost there. In the big quicksand area, looking around, there is a vast desert, and it is impossible to distinguish between southeast and northwest. Therefore, those who traveled by gathered the bones of others as signposts. Not only can they not distinguish the direction, but there is also a lack of aquatic grass, and the hot wind is raging, and when the wind rises, people and animals are unconscious, and it is easy to contract diseases. From time to time, people would also hear singing and whistling and sometimes weeping. Unconsciously, people will follow the voice, be seduced, and do not know where they are, so that there are often people who are lost. It's all the work of ghosts and elves. After that, there was no record of the Essence Country, and the Kingdom of Essence disappeared mysteriously. ”

Hu Jiaojiao exclaimed and said: "Yes, fortunately we came here, this ancient city buried in the sea of sand for thousands of years has been known to the world again, and we are really indispensable." "I thought to myself, what's the use of coming, it's not that it can't be recorded in history, it's really cheap that foreigner - Stein, a British-Hungarian at the beginning of the 20th century, who was also famous and profitable, after exploring the ruins for the first time, and taking away a large number of cultural relics, since then, the obscure exquisite country has become famous, known all over the world, and known to the world.