Chapter 52: A Dream of Loulan
When it comes to Xinjiang, there is one place that is full of attractions for an adventure tourist.
This mysterious ancient city, known as "Pompeii in the Desert", is the ancient country of Loulan in the Western Regions.
In March 1900, the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin led an expedition to Xinjiang to explore the desert. Returning to his original path to find a lost iron axe, Aikedi, a Uyghur from China, encounters a desert wind and unexpectedly discovers an ancient castle beneath the sand. He told Sven Heding about his discovery. The following year, Sven Heding arrived at this mysterious castle, excavated many cultural relics, and after research, it was concluded that this ancient city was the ancient Loulan City that had disappeared for a long time.
The reappearance of Loulan City has attracted explorers from all over the world to explore and find treasures. The British-Hungarian Stein, the American Hampington, and the Japanese Ju Ruichao arrived at this "highly cultured ancient city site" and looted a number of important cultural relics.
Loulan City has been discovered from under the sand dunes, but an even greater mystery puzzles explorers: why did the long-prosperous city of Loulan disappear, and the oasis became a desert and the Gobi?
Some people say that Loulan's death was caused by human beings violating the laws of nature-
The Loulan people blindly cut down and deforested, resulting in soil erosion, wind and sand invasion, salinity accumulation, and finally the inevitable demise of the kingdom.
Some people say that the demise of Loulan was caused by the confluence of the Peacock River and the Cherchen River into the Tarim River and into Lop Nur through the Kuruk River.
Thousands of years ago, Lop Nur was the source of life in ancient Loulan, but the migration of Lop Nur dried up the water source of Loulan. The death of plants led to a bad climate, and the people of Loulan could only sit and wait to die if they continued to stay here, so they had to abandon the city and leave, and the ancient city of Loulan disappeared in history.
Some people also say that the demise of Loulan is closely linked to social and humanistic factors-
Ancient Chinese books record that the last time of the ancient state of Loulan was during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was the most politically chaotic period in Chinese history, when many ethnic groups in the north established themselves as vassals and fought each other. And Loulan is a place where military forces and soldiers must fight. Frequent wars and predatory looting have devastating the vegetation and transportation and trade status of Loulan. And the ancient country on the edge of the desert, without these two basic elements, could not exist. As a result, it has become today's scene full of yellow sand and a vast expanse.
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How did the charming Loulan and the Exquisite Kingdom disappear? All this seems to be inseparable from the mysterious and peculiar place of Lop Nur.
No matter what you say, one thing is certain, the last blow to the people of Loulan is the plague!!
This is a terrible acute infectious disease, which is called "Rewozi disease" in legends, and one disease is a village, and one family dies.
In the face of great disaster, the people of Loulan chose to flee – just like the previous migration, they were forced.
The country of Loulan collapsed, and people blindly went up the Tarim River, where there were trees and water, they would go, and where they could live, they would go, and how many would live. The people of Loulan want to cry without tears. When they were on the road, they were catching up with the unprecedented wind and sand, it was a large formation buried in the sky, the sky was dark, the sand was flying and the stones were flying, the sound was like a ghost, and a city was scattered in the mud and blur......
The locals living in Xinjiang, even now in the 21st century, in the era of rejuvenating the country through science and technology, the new generation of young people are still full of awe and stay away from the place of Lop Nur, because the old people from generation to generation have flowed out of this existence, and they are very secretive.
Lop Nur naturally has a route for tourists to see, but such a viewing route is still a drop in the bucket compared to the entire area of Lop Nur, and what is even more tragic is that all tourists who leave the viewing route almost never come back alone.
The glorious ancient city of Loulan has disappeared silently from history forever, although the fugitive Loulan people have dreamed of resurrecting Loulan from generation to generation, but dreams can only be dreams. Moreover, in the end of the dream, even the dreamer couldn't wait, and disappeared, Loulan is still the territory of wind and sand, the kingdom of death.
When Li Luant and Jing Qiongshuang fell from the place of collapse by surprise, the weightlessness in the air was like walking on the moon, and the howling sound was more like the milk tea sold, which could circle the earth two and a half times.
And then the eggs.
"Ah!!!h
"! it!! ”
"Bang-"
It was as if there was a complete darkness that jumped in.
I've heard that boys are very gentle when they say "what".
Baby, where's your girlfriend?
For example, if you fall from such a high place, you still don't die?
So why do you have a modal word when chatting?
Yes, no, it's okay, you know, okay, that's it......
For example—"Miss Jing, are you alright?" ”
"Thanks, I'm fine."
But if you change, "Are you dead?" ”
The other party will reply to you, "I'm not dead yet, but I can help you fulfill your wish first." ”
It can be seen that modal words are very important.
Here, Li Luant is very familiar with the current affairs and uses the mood words, so what he gets is the gentle treatment of the years and the tigress.
Therefore, now the key point is here, and this key point must be difficult to exhaust in one word, and three orders are made five declarations. (Important things are said four times)
Of course, Li Green Ant was very curious, he fell from such a high place, and he didn't die like this? However, seeing the whereabouts of the two of them, it was suddenly clear.
But see the place where the two fell, is an elastic iron net covered in mid-air with iron wire, the iron net is so big, there are more than a dozen square meters, and it is falling directly below, which plays an absolute cushioning role, the iron net is fixed on the wall with iron cables around it, similar to the trampoline of the amusement park, the two just fell on the "got" sound, and bounced up, it took four or five times to come to their senses.
This wire is not estimated to be a serious wire, and it can still play a role after more than a thousand years.
But thanks to this wire, now Li Green Ant and Jing Qiongshuang are like big bastards caught in fishing nets, flicking their tails and struggling to get out, Guy In the moment when the two fell, the barbed wire seemed to be equipped with some kind of induction device, and in the sound of "De'er", it was quickly retracted, this is the trapped beast fighting, the turtle in the urn.
Now there are two turtles in this net, and they are struggling to break through the fishing net, break the cage of the nine-year compulsory education, and prepare to be a fish that slips through the net of quality education.
"I don't believe it yet!"
The two military knives that slipped out of Jing Qiongshuang's sleeves were suddenly violated, and they hooked the barbed wire for a long time, but they only left a faint white mark, and they couldn't help but be surprised.
"What is this??"
This barbed wire fence is very small, each one is only the size of a baby's little thumb, and it is intertwined vertically and horizontally, and the sergeant knife made of fine iron can't be cut.
"Save your effort, if you can cut it so easily, how can it be that it hasn't rotted for thousands of years? Speaking of which, the barbed wire fence saved both of our lives. ”
Li Luant observed the surrounding situation and adopted a negative mode, Jing Qiongshuang glanced at him, and continued to struggle regardless of it.
The two people who are messy in the wind, just like the multi-pack toad who wants to eat swan meat, just like the big black fish that has been beaten by society and has seen through life with a pair of eyes, just waiting for an emergency to come, the two can instantly switch from defense mode to attack mode.
If there is a light source candle at this time, it can be seen that the two of them are covered by a large net and hung in the air, like a question mark of a candle in the wind, and like the bitter gall that the head cantilever cone thorn thorn was full of when Gou Jian was lying on his salary, which was swaying in the air, graceful and graceful.
In the darkness, only a firefly in Jing Qiongshuang's hand lit up, and the rest was pitch black, and somehow, only Jing Qiongshuang's sergeant knife came from the sound of friction against the barbed wire.
So you see, this is the country I have laid for you. Why can't you look anywhere else now? Because it didn't come down over there.
After about five minutes in the darkness, there was a loud and crisp whistle.
"Phew—"
Jing Qiongshuang paused, and Li Luant looked stunned: What is it? Is there anything else in this darkness besides them?
Because the whistle came so suddenly, Jing Qiongshuang and Li Luant were in a state of confusion, still for about two or three seconds, it was the calm before the storm, and suddenly there was a "whoosh" wind blow, and a smell of kerosene pierced into the nose, and when they said goodbye, they were already brilliant lights under the barbed wire, reflecting each other.
It turned out that at that moment, the ever-bright lights hanging on the wall for two weeks were turned on.
And the two of them looked down at a height of dozens of meters, adopting a god-like perspective, and the scene they saw made them not come back to their senses for a long time.
But on the unobstructed open space below, it is like a mighty giant who has built a block-like city here, flat and neat, and well-behaved.
The criss-cross arrangement of the building, the exterior wall is mostly made of wooden bone wall, surrounded by columns, upper beams, lower floors, red willow branches interspersed in the middle, the outer and inner walls are attached to raw soil, and the roof is mostly composed of reeds and raw soil and other materials.
Most of the building materials are wood, raw earth, and some stones, and the wood has a large number of carvings of the art of the gyroscope, and the architectural layout is relatively casual, and the sense of life is very strong. There is a livestock pen and utility room, with a living room in the middle and a bedroom layout around it. The interior has a wooden fireplace, the fence is dominated by wooden fences, and most of the doors and windows are made of wood. The walls of the government office and the Buddhist temple and some large households are wooden structures, the middle is rammed earth, the indoor area is relatively narrow, there is a corridor at the junction of the room, the wall is very thick, the wall near the official office can reach about two meters, and the roof of the large household is mainly tiled.
And at the end of the vertical and horizontal, there are ninety-nine stone steps. Ascending the stone steps, a golden throne is placed, with small and fine gemstones inlaid on the hand, and a blood-red jade as red as a pigeon's blood and as big as a fist is carved into the top of the backrest. At this time, there seemed to be a person sitting vaguely on the golden chair, whose face should have been clearly illuminated in the glorious space, but it was always shrouded in a layer of fog, and it was not real.
Whether it is a house or an ancestral hall here, it is all neatly organized.
The underground palace of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, to a large extent, also has a large area of special open space, which is a one-to-one proportional series, directly copying the life scenes of the people in real life and integrating into his own house, and his own coffin has tried all the methods that can be done by manpower, and built a second layer of space above the heads of those people, and this second layer of space is scaled to build a small palace, and his coffin is placed there.
Naturally, this layer of space pressed directly on the heads of those people.
The fundamental purpose of working so hard and wasting money is nothing more than to think that he is the Son of Heaven, even after death, his status and identity must be above all the people, and create his own vision of immortality for thousands of generations, without death or injury.
In fact, there is never life or death, if it were not for those who are interested in power, youth, beauty, status, money, greed...... A person who has reached a pathological pursuit, a normal person, who would want to wander in his own reincarnation forever and live forever?
Look at your loved ones, grandchildren, partners, friends...... One by one, they are far away from themselves, no matter how many confidants they look for in this world, they will inevitably turn into a dusty fate, leaving themselves alone, wandering in the world empty.
Shen Congwen once said: I have traveled on bridges in many places and seen clouds in many places, but I have only met the best person in the best years.
It is enough to have a confidant in life, and the world should treat it with the same heart.
Life can't be too fulfilling, and it may not be a pity to ask for it.
Youyun: Huiji will be hurt, love will not live, the moon will be full, and the tide will retreat...... That's probably the reason.
If there are really people who are constantly floating in the cycle of reincarnation, and who go down with their loneliness and longing for power forever, sooner or later they will be dragged down by what they have obtained, become minions of power chasing, and die under the mountain of power.
Although Qin Shi Huang died, he hoped to live forever, although this wish was not achieved, but if it was achieved, who knows if he would regret it?
After all, it is now a well-off society in an all-round way that grows under the red flag.
All the features of this place make Li Luant feel familiar for no reason, which is due to the influence of empathy with the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
It's just that compared to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there is no second layer of imperial power symbols pressed on the heads of the people, but instead there is a throne of imperial power above the people.
Perhaps the man who built all this was the same as Qin Shi Huang's desire for power and status; But in a sense, there are some slight differences.
Jing Qiongshuang's breathing was a little short, if everything below was placed in broad daylight, at most it would be just a house of ancient ordinary people, and it would pass by if you looked at it, but under this deep underground, especially under the illumination of these ever-bright lights, they were arranged neatly, and there was no damage for more than a thousand years, and it was always sprinkled with some gloomy atmosphere for no reason, and people were stunned when they saw it, and they were always afraid that some ancient dried corpses would emerge from those rooms.
After all, the most famous Loulan beauties and Xinjiang and other places, the most found specialty, that is, dried corpses.
"Da-"
When it was dropped from the sarcophagus before, the painting that I picked up fell to the ground through the gap in the barbed wire, and it unfolded "with a bang", and the woman on the portrait came into sight under the candlelight.
The candle incense is darkly painted in the building, and the temples are full of frost and residual snow.
A thin short shirt in a surging color, wrapped in a piece of soft yarn, wrapped horizontally around the crisp chest, a long skirt with a plain waist of snow tulle underlay, the corners of the skirt are secretly embroidered with gold threads A few moon seasons, and the pomegranate red brocade face is as thin as cicada wings, which makes her more and more light. The hair is lightly tied in a beautiful bun, the oblique hollow carved crystal hairpin is combined, and the silver star and the moon are decorated under the hanging sideburns to line it. The eyebrows will be willow and compete for green, and the face will be peach and red. Graceful Tingting, cloud temples, slightly faint red tide smile, red lips and teeth, brilliance.
Its eyes are like water, like a deep pool of black jade, two lakes of Lingbo, ethereal and like the ethereal soft waves on Dongting Lake. The lips are like cherry petals, and the red is unparalleled. Laughing spring peach today, cloud pile green hairpin; The lips are full of cherry blossoms, and the teeth are fragrant. Fold the waist to micro-step, showing the wrist in the light yarn. Cut autumn water with your eyes, and peel green onions with your ten fingers. Gu Xiangzhu, the first tone of the silk tube, leaning on the breeze, and wearing the ring trembled slightly. It's really glamorous, budding to be released, delicate, with a moon skirt and a greasy face.
If you ask what it is? Spring plums dipped in snow. How pure is it? Autumn chrysanthemum is covered with frost. How quiet is it? Loose sound hollow valley. What is its beauty? Xiaying Chengtang.
Magnificent and elegant, quiet and leisurely. Tenderness and flattery in words. The brilliance of the cloth, the brilliance of the Yaobi. Wear gold and emerald jewelry, embellished with pearls to show off your body.
Famous flowers love the country, and the king often looks at it with a smile.
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Li Luant and Jing Qiongshuang couldn't believe it, but their thoughts were completely different.
This person, this person!
Li Luant thought that what he had encountered before was an illusion, and even if the woman in the illusion was beautiful, it was just a phantom, how could it be? How could it be that the painting was exactly like the woman?
Jing Qiongshuang was a little admired, "I don't know what the beauty of Loulan is, but if it really has the color of a falling city, it is probably so." ”
Could it be that Jing Qiongshuang fell into a hallucination with herself this time??
Impossible.
This time, there is no smell at all.
The portrait fell to the ground, which seemed to attract something, but seeing that there seemed to be a slight twitch in the air, and hearing a woman's light sigh, the person who was originally sitting on the throne suddenly stood up, and with a wave of one hand, the portrait that fell to the ground suddenly "snorted" and caught fire?!!
it??
This operation is a bit of a 6.
The woman who painted the Chinese color and heavenly fragrance disappeared, and became ashes along with the painting, I thought that this would be forgotten, but after the painting was burned, the painting that was originally missing actually fell into the hands of the person sitting on the golden chair.
Li Luant and Jing Qiongshuang's pupils shrank at the same time, glanced at each other, and affirmed their thoughts in each other's eyes.
If the expectation is good, once their feet touch the ground, they belong to the "yang" people into the "yin" between the intolerable things, if you want to get entangled with the "yin" world, you need to die first.
Therefore, this is not an ordinary building block city, this is equivalent to the so-called "yin house" in people's mouths!