Chapter 365: Songtsen Gampo
Under the instructions of Mu Xiu, we quickly put the beautiful zombies together, only to see Mu Xiu take out a handful of yellow talismans and paste them around the several corpses lying flat, and then chanted words to the corpses, and after a while, the yellow talisman burst into flames. The flames quickly enveloped several corpses, and soon several corpses were burned to several bones.
"Wow, are you three real fire? It's amazing. An Xiangfei asked in surprise.
"No, it's a fire charm." Mu Xiu said lightly, leaving me and An Xiangfei with a confused face, belly = walked alone towards the next corridor, and the two of us quickly followed.
This corridor is more and more different from the previous one, it is more spacious and brighter, and there are statues of soldiers at intervals between the two sides. This makes us really feel that we are getting closer and closer to the main burial chamber. The mood is getting more and more nervous.
Walked a short distance, I found that the front was actually full of people, lively and lively, let us be surprised, the three of us immediately walked up quickly, walked to the Yongdao crossing, looked inside, only to see which is the cave or the tomb, this is a duli world, a lively market, the Hu people come and go in unique Hu clothes, there are old and young, men and women, they are happy, in front of the vendors to communicate, there are also leading horses to walk through, The three of us were completely stunned by this magical sight.
"It's not ...... It's not ......," An Xiangfei suddenly stammered and wanted to say something.
"What?" My eyes were completely absorbed by the exotic scene, and I muttered as I asked.
"The scene we saw on the mural before, the people in here are all coming down from that wall." An Xiangfei swallowed the saliva and said.
An Xiangfei said this, and Mu Xiu and I quickly withdrew their eyes, and my spine tingled, so the scenes in these bazaars are all from the murals, so what is going on with these people. The three of us looked at each other suspiciously, and I quickly closed my eyes and opened my eyes to look at the bazaar, so frightened that I almost ran away. Because what kind of exotic scenery I saw in my mind's eyes, countless dried corpses, walking corpses walking back and forth on a dark, damp cobwebbed street.
Seeing this, my face had become pale, and when I opened my eyes and looked at Mu Xiu and An Xiangfei, my expressions also changed greatly.
"How so?" I asked quietly.
"Look at that high platform over there." Makushu gestured with a look in his eyes. I followed Makushu's eyes and found that at one end of the street, there was a circular high platform with a sarcophagus hanging in the air, glowing pale blue from time to time, and there were many dried corpses underneath that kept kowtowing and bowing.
"You mean...... Where is the coffin of the owner of the tomb. An Xiangfei said. Me and the curtain were nodding.
"So how do you get there?" An Xiangfei asked. Hearing An Xiangfei ask this, Mu Xiu and I slowly turned our heads and smiled at him, and then walked straight towards the crowd, An Xiangfei shrugged his shoulders and followed. Because we're trying to get past in the way.
Along the way, the three of us passed by passers-by from time to time, every time I was in my heart, but fortunately there were no major problems along the way, and soon the three of us came to the bottom of the high platform, only to see a stone tablet standing impressively under the high platform, on the book "King of Tubo, the tomb of Songtsan Gampo" and on the side of a few small characters was written 'Princess Wencheng'. Seeing this, the three of us couldn't help but gasp, it seems that our guess is correct, this is indeed the joint tomb of Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng.
According to historical records, the original inhabitants of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were called the Mon people. After the Warring States period, some Qiang tribes, such as Faqiang and Mitang, gradually migrated to the present-day Xizang region. They blended with the local people, multiplied and developed, and formed the Tubo people. The establishment of the Tubo Dynasty in Tibet was carried out in the Yalong River Valley, and the unification of the yak tribes was called Qi Nie Qi Zampu. "Zampu" means a strong husband, and later became the honorific title of the Tibetan monarch. After the 8th Zampu Budai Gongjia, the Tibetan society achieved rapid development, and gradually transitioned from a primitive society to a slave society.
In 629, at the age of thirteen, Songtsen Gampo succeeded Zampu by quelling the rebellion and unifying Xizang. Songtsen Gampo has also carried out reforms in many aspects. He moved his capital to Lhasa, and from then on he became the center of Xizangzhengzhi, economy and culture. He referred to the central bureaucratic system and the government military system of the Tang Dynasty, and established the zhengzhi military system from the central to the local. In order to meet the needs of the economy and zhengzhi, Songtsen Gampo began to adopt the calendar, prescribed unified weights and measures, created the Tibetan script (later developed into today's Tibetan) based on Yutian, Tianzhu and other scripts, and formulated cruel laws.
Therefore, Songtsen Gampo is a figure in history that has never been seen before or since. So that the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the later period created conditions for marriage with it, and the reason why Princess Wencheng was able to have such a high status and be buried with Songtsan Gampo was mainly because the Tang army defeated the Tubo army in the Battle of Songzhou, Songtsan Gampo withdrew and apologized, Tubo withdrew from the party, Bailanqiang, etc., and Tuyuhun in Qinghai became a vassal of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty controlled Longyou, Hexi for a long time, and gradually controlled the Western Regions (Anxi Xiting), and the Tubo Songtsen Gampo accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty had an advantage over Tubo, making Princess Wencheng have a high status in Tubo.
As for the later period, the Tibetan Dynasty began to decline gradually in the eighth century. A dynasty that existed for hundreds of years eventually disappeared into a speck of dust in the long river of history.
And now, the two protagonists in the incident of Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, which has been rumored to be a good story until today, are in front of us, which has to shock the three of us and have a few more respects.
In order not to be discovered by these walking corpses, the three of us also followed their example and knelt on the ground, and after kneeling on the ground, we pretended to kowtow and worship, but at the same time we planned how to go up and open the coffin.
"How?" An Xiangfei asked in a low voice while kowtowing.
"Shh......h
I turned my head slightly to look at these dried corpses, only to see them bow a few times to the high platform reverently and seriously, and then actually smiled at me and nodded, so scared that I almost lost my face at that time, but fortunately, this girl has a high psychological quality and politely smiled back.
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