Chapter Forty-Seven: Misery

"Sister, I can't tell," Ruyi replied,

"Sister, give, when I was sorting out the items left by Zhang Jixiang, I found that Zhang Jixiang's father's father, who is also your grandfather, saved a book with such an article, see if you can solve the reason for the death of your parents" Mo Feitian handed Zhang Ruyi a book and said,

"Let me see" Zhang Ruyi took it and saw it,

Dunhuang, a place I am obsessed with. When www.biquge.info I was a child, my family lived not far from Dunhuang, this place was a small railway station, a small railway station, every day I got off the train, thousands of yellow hair, blue eyes, high nose bridge, white skin, and all black foreigners like black charcoal, there were Americans, British, Russians, Japanese, Africans, etc., they said to each other, I don't understand the words, got off the train, took the car, sometimes when there is no car, just go around the street, take pictures, buy some raisins, melon seeds and other food, there are bold people to ask them where to go, they replied, Dunhuang, Dunhuang

Our place is close to Dunhuang, but there are very few people here who know Dunhuang, and there are very few who have been to Dunhuang. I feel strange, there are so many foreigners every day, why are they never far away, not afraid of hard work, must come to Dunhuang, what is there in Dunhuang, what attracts them? I asked familiar uncles and aunts, they don't know, by chance, some have been to Dunhuang, they just go around the mall, and the other situation is at a loss, what is going on?

Dunhuang put a veil of mystery on my young heart, and I silently shouted in my heart, Dunhuang, what do you have, so attractive, go to you, no matter the dignitaries, the poor and destitute, all follow you and worship you.

Soon, what happened to my neighbor seemed to give me the answer.

Early in the morning, a postman aunt rode a bicycle, came to the yard, parked in front of the neighbor's Uncle Wang, the aunt got out of the car, pressed the bicycle bell very loudly, every day at this time, who has newspapers, letters and other mailing items, will hear the pleasant bicycle bell ringing, you know that it must be the postman coming. Uncle Wang, a neighbor, opened the door and walked out, and saw that it was the postman looking for him.

"Lao Wang, this is your airmail, please sign for it" The postman aunt took out a large letter bag and registration book from the car bag and handed it to Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang took the big letter bag and registration book, and looked at the recipient on the big letter bag is his name, yes.

"Thank you!" Uncle Wang picked up a pen and signed his name on the registration book, then handed the registration book to the postman and said,

"No thanks! Lao Wang, you still have foreign relatives! "Aunt Postman said,

"No, I know foreigners," replied Uncle Wang.

"This is international air mail, it was sent to you by the French, you can see the sender's address," said the postman's aunt.

Uncle Wang looked carefully at the envelope in his hand, the sender's address was written in French, Uncle Wang had learned some French, and understood the meaning of the word French on it, and it was determined that the mail was sent from France, but I didn't know foreigners, and I didn't have relatives in foreign countries, so it was not sent by mistake.

"You sent it by mistake, it's not my mail," Uncle Wang said.

"That's right, you see that the recipient's address and name are correct, how can it be wrong!" Aunt Postman said,

Uncle Wang looked at the recipient's address and name, it was indeed himself, there was nothing wrong, what was going on? Uncle Wang looked dazed.

"You open it and take a look, and you'll understand, okay, goodbye," the postman aunt finished speaking, and said goodbye and rode away,

Uncle Wang hurriedly tore open a small side of the mail and took out the contents inside, it was a color photo, on which stood a middle-aged woman with yellow hair, next to a little boy, the little boy looked like his own son, take a closer look, it was his son Wang Yunpeng, what was going on? Reaching out and digging through the inside of the mail, it was empty, and there was no more explanatory letter in it. This child is usually more naughty and mischievous, causing trouble, either breaking the glass of this family, or bullying the children of that family, not worrying at all, people often come to the door and ask me to deal with it, is it causing something outside, ah! It's not good, this time it's a foreigner, and if it makes things bigger, it will affect international relations, what can I do? Uncle Wang was in a hurry.

"Yun Peng, Yun Peng, come back" Uncle Wang saw the figure of Wang Yunpeng who was playing in the distance, so he shouted loudly,

"Hey, Dad, I'll play for a while," Wang Yunpeng said.

"Come back quickly, I have something to ask you," Uncle Wang said,

"What's the matter?" Father shouted urgently Wang Yunpeng had no choice, so he ran over, came to his father, and saw his father's serious face, Wang Yunpeng was shocked, nervous, and thought about it, as if he hadn't made a mistake recently, and he didn't know what he had done wrong, which made his father unhappy again, and asked,

"What's going on?" Uncle Wang handed the photo in his hand to Wang Yunpeng and said,

Wang Yunpeng took the photo and saw a little boy and a middle-aged woman with yellow hair in the photo, isn't the little boy himself! Who is this middle-aged woman with yellow hair? Oh! I remembered that she was the foreigner.

"Say, tell me, what's going on?" Uncle Wang asked sharply,

"At that time, when I was playing, I picked up a bag, opened the bag and there were some colorful foreign currencies and passports, ID cards, etc., I went to the bus station, to the train station to find, and found the aunt in the photo at the train station, the aunt came back from Dunhuang, took the train home, accidentally lost the bag, was in a hurry, I handed the bag to the aunt, the aunt took the bag, opened it and saw that there was no missing object in the bag, moved to take out some money to me, let me buy delicious food, I declined not to ask, My aunt took a picture with me, left my home address, and then took the train away," Wang Yunpeng explained.

"Oh! It turned out that this was the case, it must have been sent by this foreign aunt, okay, you did a good job, I will keep the photos safe" Uncle Wang breathed a sigh of relief, his nervous heart was much more relaxed, and he said happily,

At this time, I saw that Wang Yunpeng had already run away and played.

"Hey! Uncle Wang smiled and shook his head, turned around and went into the house.

Half a year later, the French aunt sent a letter to Wang Yunpeng, greeting Wang Yunpeng's parents and Wang Yunpeng, asking if the photos had been received, the recent situation in Dunhuang, and whether there were any major changes in Dunhuang. Uncle Wang was very ashamed after reading it, first, after reading the letter last time, he forgot to reply to the letter, and it was too rude, and second, Dunhuang is far from his home, not far away, and he can get to Dunhuang by car for an hour, but he has not been there once, and he has not taken his son to go, how to reply to tell Dunhuang the recent situation? On Sunday rest, Uncle Wang led Wang Yunpeng to Dunhuang, in the morning just dawn from home to Dunhuang by car, in the afternoon from Dunhuang by car, when it was very dark, back home, Uncle Wang and Wang Yunpeng came back, I met at the door, Wang Yunpeng face was full of happy smiles, holding a craft cloth camel in his hand, saw me, raised the cloth camel in his hand, shook it at me, the camel on the copper bell, made a jingling sound, really made me envious.

Wang Yunpeng and I, in the same school, the same level but different classes, the next day, in the afternoon, the last class, is free activities, I was in the school playground, saw Wang Yunpeng, Wang Yunpeng told me about what I saw and heard in Dunhuang, Dunhuang is an oasis on the edge of the desert, Dunhuang City has white jade carving, a statue of a fairy playing the pipa, the strange thing is that the fairy plays the pipa, not playing, put the pipa on the back, and play it back. Dunhuang's Li Guangxing is particularly sweet, Mingshan jujube is particularly red, the barbecue is particularly fragrant, and there is a magical beef ramen. Dunhuang also has the world-famous Mogao Grottoes, only to see more than 400 caves on the mountain cliff, the walls of the cave are painted with exquisite paintings, graceful and colorful flying sky, music, exquisite and exquisite scripture paintings, Buddhist scripture story paintings, tall Buddha statues are as high as the mountain, there are colorful sculptures in the cave, Bodhisattva, Lux, etc., Dunhuang has Mingsha Mountain, crescent spring, you can ride a tall camel, walk in the desert, the desert surrounds a spring, for the crescent moon spring, the sand does not bury the water, the water is not dry all the year round, there is grass in the water, there are fish, Mingsha Mountain is made of red, yellow, blue, white, Composed of five colors of black sand, sliding down from the top of the mountain, you can hear the sand emitting a pleasant music sound, Dunhuang is very beautiful, I took a lot of photos, sent them to my French aunt, I still want to go to Dunhuang, my father has promised me, take me to Dunhuang every year.

Wang Yunpeng went to Dunhuang again, and when he came back, he was holding a small rebounding pipa sculpture in his hand, let me see, ah! Wang Yunpeng, I envy to death.

At night, I felt as if I had personally traveled through the history of Dunhuang and felt the vicissitudes of the thousand-year-old history of Dunhuang. I flew lightly over Dunhuang, I looked down and saw that in ancient times, Shun came to Dunhuang, Shun defeated the leader of the Sanmiao people who lived there, became the new leader of the Sanmiao people, and taught men to use clay to make pottery. The woman used pottery to carry water to the river, and used pottery to cook rice, Shun led the Sanmiao people to the nearby Qiang tribe with stone axes, stone guns, and stone knives, and defeated the Qiang tribe, and the Qiang people became slaves of the Sanmiao people, and the Sanmiao people danced a cheerful hula dance around the fire, and I heard the sound of the Qiang people's resentful flute wafting in the night air. In the distance, the Wusun people are singing, leisurely raising the whip, groups of white sheep in the boundless, green pasture, eating grass vigorously, the Yueshi people raised the bright scimitar, the bright scimitar, cut through the black of the night sky, the Yueshi people quietly approached the Wusun tribe, surrounded, after a bloody storm, the Yueshi people occupied the fat jacket pasture, the Yueshi people danced the scimitar dance, the Huns' iron cavalry smashed the Yue's dreams, the mind of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Guang's magic arrow, shot through the armor of the Huns' iron horse, The cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty was fierce and prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, Dunhuang was not an ancient battlefield, and the neighing of the horn could no longer be heard, the magnificence of silk appeared, the busyness of business travel, and the Tubo destroyed the prosperity of the Silk Road and occupied Dunhuang.

Dunhuang called me softly, come on! I'll get rid of your anxiety, come on! Throw yourself into my arms!

How many days and nights, Dunhuang haunts me, Dunhuang, I want to see you, collect you. Dreaming night and night, Dunhuang is the dream in my heart, the dream of Dunhuang, growing up with me.

Wang Yunpeng picked up the bag, found the owner, returned the bag, met a French aunt, often went to Dunhuang, since then love Dunhuang, when he grew up, went to work at the Dunhuang Academy, and had a more specific understanding of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Mogao Grottoes are commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, located in Dunhuang, the west end of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu, China, located on the conglomerate between Sanwei Mountain and Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City, the earliest cave was excavated in 366 AD, after the Northern Liang, the Northern Wei, the Western Wei, the Northern Zhou, the Sui, the Tang, the Five Dynasties, the Song, the Western Xia, the Yuan, The dynasties continue to excavate, the total length is 1618 meters, there are 492 caves, 4800 square meters of murals, more than 2000 statues, it is a grand and exquisite art palace. In 1900 A.D., Dunhuang Mogao Caves Tibetan Scripture Cave, was found by Taoist priest Wang Yuanqi when cleaning up the quicksand, opened the Tibetan Scripture Cave, the room was full of scriptures, documents, embroidery paintings, magic utensils and other things, Wang Yuanqi Taoist priest took the Tibetan Scripture Cave items as a gift, gave it away. Some foreign robbers, dressed as explorers and archaeologists, came to Dunhuang, bewitched and deceived Wang Yuanqi Taoist priests, snatched and stole a large number of Dunhuang scriptures, documents, statues, and even stole Dunhuang murals, causing Dunhuang to suffer huge losses and destruction.

About 60,000 ancient scriptures were looted in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and the precious cultural relics were lost in Britain, France, the United States, Japan, Russia and other countries, and are now collected in the Louvre Museum, the British Museum and other places.

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is a kind of Buddhist culture and art, which uses architecture, murals, sculptures and other artistic methods to shape the fairyland and heavenly world of Buddhism, the belief and worship of Buddha, the promotion of Buddhism, the spread of Buddhism, is the world of Buddha.

Mogao Grottoes need to be carefully cared for, and the murals in the caves are extremely fragile, fading, nailing, hollowing, phthalate, peeling, these are the symptoms of the murals, and the murals are treated by means of infusion and grouting and so on. Wind and sand and earthquakes are the old enemies of the caves, and small elements such as water vapor and insect infestation can cause fatal damage to the murals. Wang Yunpeng usually has to do the work, the big one is to maintain the natural ecological environment around the Mogao Grottoes, and the small one is to take care of every inch of the murals.

Wang Yunpeng built a sand wall on the top of the Mogao Grottoes, planted anti-sand barriers, blocked the wind and sand, cleaned up the quicksand in the Mogao Grottoes, and used precious and rare mineral pigments to copy the murals. The copying of a cave painting alone can sometimes take several years.

I have never set foot on the land of Dunhuang, but I have an innate familiarity, and I have never set foot on the land of Dunhuang, but I yearn for it even more. Dunhuang seems to have a magical magnetic force, attracting millions of tourists to visit, attracting the pious hearts of countless descendants of Yan and Huang.

I saw an ancient Dunhuang poem "Sauvignon Blanc" collected by my grandfather, and the couple was in Jiangxi, and the wealth was rare in the world. On the Red House all day long, dancing words. Frequently drunk like mud, gently change the gold. All day long with joy, this is rich and does not return. The mourner is in Jiangxi, and he is lonely and knows his own home. His face was full of dust, and he was deceived all day long. Chaochao stands in the west of the city gate, and the wind blows tears and tears. Looking at the length of the hometown, this is poverty and no return. As a guest in Jiangxi, he was sick and bedridden. Looking at the news, it seems to be parting. The villagers dragged them to the west of the road, and Ye Niang's parents didn't know. The body is decorated with a plaque and a book, which is a dead and no return.

A song "The Long Wind of the Desert", through the sagebrush grass, camel thorns, and sand date flowers, I gaze into the depths of the desert. Those camel bells, lonely smoke, and quicksand have brought my gaze and my dreams to distant history and to the distant ends of the world......

The long wind in the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it is still whining. The sunset of the long river still sets in the dusk of the desert and rises in the dawn of the desert. The goshawk that flew out of the Liangzhou words and ancient border poems hovered in the high places of the desert. It makes people feel that those distant years, in the empty desert, are like a piece of flying paper, a flying grain of sand.

The long wind in the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it is still whining. The desert wind that rushes across the undulating sand dunes is like a knife, carving the wrinkles on whose forehead into the antiquity of the plug? We listen to the howling wind and waves, as if listening to the eternal rhyme and the song of history.

A lonely old horse, lying quietly in the desert sun, is gradually approaching an ancient myth as its old neighing drifts away, like a wandering cloud.

The long wind in the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it is still whining. Huqin, pipa, guzheng, whose heartstrings are being plucked one by one? Don't say that the Iron Horse Glacier falls into a dream, and don't say that the luminous cup has been poured with grape wine, and the Qiang flute under the frost moon is still blowing the willows growing on the Silk Road. Snowing in August, suona thousands of miles. The long wind of the desert blows through the Qiaotou Post Station and the Qin bricks and Han tiles. In the tragic and magnificent state of mind, a thick dust and smoke were raised, and the mottled historical picture was displayed

The long wind in the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it is still whining. The expectation of 10,000 years is really too far, and the 10,000-year watch has burned to ashes. The flying sand and rocks have struck the eternal heavy bell, and the sun, moon and stars are full of our dreams. Alone in the vast desert, the rubble that shimmered under the moonlight for 5,000 years has been difficult to heal and rupture. The palpitations and trembling dreams will go away with the mighty desert wind.

The long wind in the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it is still whining. We will find the marks and marks of life in the heart of the desert. Blood flows gurgling through the body, soaked in ancient poetry, through the grains of sand of time. Our dreams grow in the long wind of the desert, and our longing continues in the long wind of the desert. The long wind of the desert may bend our memories and eyes, but it will never bend the posture in which we stand in life.

The long wind of the desert has been blowing for 10,000 years, and it will blow away for 10,000 years......

After reading this poem, I understood my grandfather's lovesickness for Dunhuang.

This is a relic of my grandfather kept by my father, who has never been to Dunhuang. Grandpa grew up to go to college, graduated from college and worked locally, later, got married and had children, only mother in his hometown, grandpa was divorced when he was young, relying on his mother to earn money by doing odd jobs, bringing up grandpa, grandpa took his mother from his hometown to live together, there were no relatives in his hometown, grandpa was busy with work, he did not go back to his hometown, during the war, grandpa's family hid in the suburbs, made a living from farming, and became farmers.

"Sister, from these grandfather's relics, it can be seen that grandpa's hometown is in Dunhuang," Zhang Ruyi said.

"Sister, this shows that your ancestors lived in Dunhuang, they were Dunhuang people, and they migrated from Dunhuang, I am so obsessed with Dunhuang, I have a Dunhuang complex, and my ancestors are Dunhuang people" Mo Feitian said,

"Sister, will my family be the descendants of Zhang Yichao of the Guiyi Army?" Zhang Ruyi said,

"It is possible that the Zhang family is also a big family in Dunhuang and has a history of thousands of years. During the late Tang Dynasty, the court was corrupt and incompetent, the national strength was weakened, An Lushan rebelled, this is the "Anshi Rebellion" in history, the Tang Dynasty hurriedly recalled the troops from all over the country to quell the rebellion, the guard army in Hexi was also transferred, Tubo saw the emptiness of the Hexi region, so he took the opportunity to expand his power and sent troops to occupy Dunhuang, since then, Dunhuang under the rule of the Tubo slave owners, the economy and production have stagnated, culture and education have been seriously damaged, and the people of all ethnic groups in Dunhuang have become slaves of Tubo, and have regressed from the feudal society to the slave society. The great retrogression of history, the whole Dunhuang is dark, and there is a scene of desolation and retreat. The Tibetans were brutal and ordered the people of all ethnic groups in Dunhuang to remove their original clothes and wear the clothes of the Tibetans. The Tubo people plundered the people's property, and when they were not satisfied, they killed people, treating the Dunhuang people as inappropriate people, and causing the people of all ethnic groups in Dunhuang to live in misery.

Zhang Yichao, a native of Dunhuang, practiced martial arts since he was a child, studied culture, was gifted and intelligent, read military books, studied military strategy, was brave and strategic, and since he was a child, he saw the inhumane atrocities of the Tubo people in his eyes, hated in his heart, and was determined to overthrow the rule of Tubo. Zhang Yichao wandered the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, all over Hexi, practiced chivalry and righteousness, got acquainted with the land of ambition, heroes and heroes, organized forces, mobilized the people, and waited for the time to rise, overthrow the rule of Tibet, and plan to return to the Tang Dynasty.

The king of Tubo died, the new king of Tubo ascended the throne, the people of Tubo were not convinced, there were contradictions within the country of Tubo, the tribes rebelled one after another, the domestic chaos in Tubo, attacking each other, fighting for power and profit, the war was endless, Dunhuang was full of corpses, houses were burned, the people of Dunhuang could not bear the suffering under the barbarian rule of Tubo, the anger of resistance against oppression was burning everywhere, and the struggle against the rule of Tubo was surging.

Zhang Yichao thought that the time was ripe, led the masses to revolt, the people of all ethnic groups in Dunhuang revolted under the leadership of Zhang Yichao, the uprising masses wore armor, armed with knives, swords, wooden sticks and other weapons, Zhang Yichao took the lead, and the people of all ethnic groups in Dunhuang shared weal and woe, surrounded the Tubo official Dunhuang City, the Han people in the city heard the response, shouting to assist. The Tibetan soldiers were so frightened that they abandoned Dunhuang and fled, and the rebels regained Dunhuang.

This is the period of the Tang Dynasty Dunhuang Guiyi Army, Zhang Yichao was the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, Zhang Yichao died and handed over to his eldest son Zhang Huaishen as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and Zhang Yichao's son-in-law Suo Xun was handed over to the Dunhuang Guiyi Army as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and Zhang Chengfeng was handed over to Zhang Chengfeng as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, Cao Yijin usurped the throne as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and Cao Yuande was handed over to Cao Yuande as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and Cao Yuanshen was handed over to Cao Yuanzhong as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army. After his death, he was handed over to Cao Yangong as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and after his death, he was handed over to Cao Yanlu as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and Cao Zongshou was handed over to Cao Xianshun as the envoy of the Dunhuang Guiyi Army, and the Western Xia captured Dunhuang, the Guiyi Army perished, and the Western Xia ruled Dunhuang. Western Xia was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Dunhuang used to be a local and some exiled soldiers, the big clans of Dunhuang were the Cao family, the Zhang family, the Suo family, the Song family, the Yin family, the Li family, etc., Dunhuang in the Han Dynasty was controlled by the Cao family, the Tang Dynasty was controlled by the Zhang family, the later period was controlled by the Cao family, and the early Song Dynasty was controlled by the Cao family. The Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty and immigrated to Dunhuang, and the Dunhuang family name became more complicated," Mo Feitian said,