Chapter 1: Wedges
Loulan, a mysterious ancient kingdom.
Its appearance is a mystery, and its disappearance is even more of a mystery.
Loulan southwest through the end, exquisite, detained, Khotan, north through the car division, northwest through Yanqi, east when Bailongdui, through Dunhuang, choking the Silk Road.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Loulan repeatedly acted as the eyes and ears of the Xiongnu and robbed the envoys of the Western Han Dynasty. Later, he was intimidated by the increasingly powerful forces of the Western Han Dynasty, sometimes becoming the eyes and ears of the Xiongnu, sometimes attached to the Han, playing duplicitous means, between the two major forces of the Han and the Xiongnu, and skillfully maintaining their political life.
Because Loulan was located in the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, the Han could not cross this area to attack the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu could not threaten the Han Dynasty without pretending to use the power of Loulan, and both the Han and the Xiongnu tried their best to implement a policy of softness towards Loulan.
The special historical status made the Loulan Kingdom go through more than two centuries of glory, but finally collapsed.
The people of Loulan blindly went up the Tarim River, and wherever there were trees and water, they went there, and if they could live, they went there, and how many they could live were few.
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 glorious ancient city of Loulan has disappeared from history forever and silently.
Although the fugitive Loulan people have dreamed of resurrecting Loulan from generation to generation, 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.
Only the wind of the eternal desert blows through this once beautiful land.
It tells the mysterious or poignant legends that once happened in this land......