"What the hell is it? Plugged like this? ”

Yue Erpao stretched out his head, trying to see clearly what was clustered in front of him, his head itself was not short, but the people of southern Xinjiang had Hu blood, and they were all tall and big, after surrounding the front, he was already completely inadequate, and he couldn't see the front.

"Let's go, let's go across the street building and have a look, how can we see what's downstairs when we stand on a high place."

As he spoke, Yue Guanchao led them up to the street corridor next to them, and walked up the stairs to the street building.

The so-called street building, in fact, is across the street pavilion, they are not on the left and right sides of the street, but with the help of bridge sheds and other structures, directly connect the buildings on both sides of the street, with both sides of the building as the endpoint, the use of the bridge principle to form an arch bridge, the arch bridge and build a bungalow pavilion, and then with the street corridor, decorative window lattice, it becomes the street building.

Such a building hangs on the road, pedestrians and merchants can continue to pass from below, if there is a wind and sand or want to take a temporary break, you can also walk up to the street building, rest in it.

The street crossing building in front of them is the same width as the street, about ten meters long, and the arch bridge connects the buildings on both sides of the river, forming a pavilion with white walls and windows.

After getting out of the stairs, they were already standing on the street building, with four or five arched windows on both sides of the pavilion, many tables, chairs and benches, and many pedestrians gathered around the windows, sticking their heads out to look out.

Yue Guanchao and they walked to a window, and by crossing the high ground of the building, they could easily see the situation downstairs.

Surrounded by the crowd, they saw at a glance that in the sea of people and the open space, there were two artists dancing Hu Xuan dance!

The oldest of this pair of artists is only eighteen or nineteen years old, there are men and women, brothers and sisters, the age is about the same as Kli Nayi, and even the appearance is somewhat similar to the people of the territory, the woman looks more vivid than Nayi, with the delicate and beautiful women of the Western Regions, with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

It's just that this woman is obviously a dancing girl, dressed without Nayi's simplicity and youthfulness, dressed in colorful silk, revealing her skin, vivid eyebrows and eyes, and graceful manners, facing the surging crowd of countless visitors, her face is neither nervous nor timid, and even, she takes the initiative to throw flattery at those old nobles who are dressed in fine clothes and jade food, and everyone present can't help but look sideways.

It can only be said that the woman in this territory looks only seventeen or eighteen years old, but her mentality may be close to her thirties, and she has no youthful shyness at all, coupled with the charming makeup on her face, the gorgeous lines on her clothes, the jewels in her waist and neck, and the bracelets on her arms and wrists, just like the statue of the flying god in the Dunhuang murals.

At this moment, the young man on the side, seeing more and more spectators around him, began to pick up the huqin in his hand and pluck the strings, beating the small drum on his waist from time to time, and in the tapping sound of his footsteps, it can be seen that the silver bell on his ankle is also tinkling.

For a time, the huqin, waist drums, and bells, in the young man's modulation and frustration, intertwined the Hu music with a strong taste of the Western Regions, and people were quickly attracted to listen to it, as if they had returned to the prosperous and open Khotanese era thousands of years ago.

At this time, this Western Regions dancer also began to beckon and deliver, Hu spinning, in the continuous round dance loop, the posture is like a lark crane, a group of birds soaring, the waist arm bends the colorful silk flowing into the water, there is an indescribable agility and fastness, even, even the action of beckoning is secretly in line with the drum beat, so that the surrounding spectators can't help cheering, and they feel magical.

"What kind of dance is this, it's a little too fast!"

As the drums intensified, the woman's speed increased, and the movement could be seen just now, but now only a cloud of colored mist remained.

Finally, as her pace of rotation became faster and faster, the jade, agate, Yingluo, and gems on her body began to make a crisp sound against each other, such as Kunshan jade shattering and phoenix screaming.

In the midst of this turn, countless blurred colors of light began to emerge from her body, as if she was surrounded by the golden light of Caixia, rendering a brilliant five-colored light.

A fiery phoenix fluttered its feathers and tail feathers fluttered from the light mist around her, like a phoenix dancing in the sky, spiraling out of its body, flapping its wings and soaring overhead, and then completely dissipated.

At this moment, the Hu Xuan Dance also came to an end, and the jubilant ensemble of the instruments gradually died out, leaving only the gurgling of the Hu Qin, which was quiet in the intermittent plucking.

When the dancing girl Hu Teng ended, the two bowed forward, and the spectators did not seem to get rid of this shock, and after a long time, they broke out into fierce clapping, cheering and cheering one after another, and there was a posture of crossing the streets and alleys.

I played the musical instruments and danced!

These artists saw that the surrounding spectators were applauding, and they were finally about to start the main show, only to see the dancer elegantly pick up the copper plate behind the man, and walk towards the surrounding spectators with the plate, singing and saying in her mouth: "Those who have money hold a money field, those who have no money hold a personal field, all parents, old man and lady, ......."

As they approached the encirclement, the sound of silver coins, copper coins, silver ingots, oceans, gold and silver jewelry, and jewels and jade began to sound.

Moyu County is a big jade county, even if the Silk Road trade has declined, relying on the jade business, can also maintain the prosperity of trade in southern Xinjiang, there are not many business travelers here, but anyone who does small business in the streets and alleys, all know the hard work of performing arts, no money to reward two copper plates, rich to give two silver yuan, if you really like it, you are rewarded with gold rings, jade wrenches, people also accept all the orders.

There are many wealthy businessmen in the Hotan area who do jade business, and there is no shortage of rewards, but only for a moment, the copper plate is already full, although most of them are copper coins, there are still some gold bumps, gold rings, jade bracelets, agate wrenches, big silver dollars or something, it looks a little better.

"This is called Hu Xuan Dance, and it is an ancient dance that is on the verge of being lost." Nayi explained.

What is Hu Xuan Dance?

Hu Xuan Dance is also called Hu Teng Dance, Hu Er Dance, is a folk dance from Central Asia Kangguo, Ju Guo, when dancing, the dancer accompanies the drum beat of musical instruments, Hu Xuan Teng, the rhythm is bright, between the rotation and movement, there is a strong and free spirit, with the prosperity of the Silk Road trade in the Han and Tang Dynasties, Hu Xuan Dance was introduced to the Central Plains from Central Asia through the Western Regions, and became the exotic dance of the Central Plains that prevailed in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The popularity of Hu Teng Dance is inextricably linked to the fame of orchids in the Central Plains, which can be described as both prosperity and loss.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains through successive wars, the Western Regions into the territory, in the Tang Dynasty's Hexi elite deterrence, the Hu people of the Anxi countries, as soon as they heard the prestige of the Anxi soldiers, they all surrendered and trembled, under the suppression of this cultural spread and force, the Hu people began to call the Son of Heaven in Guanzhong as the Heavenly Khan.

In particular, after the opening of the Silk Road in Hexi, various Hu city-states began to take advantage of the hub status of the East and the West to do business in the Central Plains, and Zhuhu, including the Sogdians, began to buy silk, tea, porcelain, grain, textiles, handicrafts, salt and iron minerals in East Asia, and sold them to Central Asia and West Asia through the Silk Road, and at the same time, transported their spices, precious stones, furs, sese, jade, agate, snake beads, musical instruments and other treasures to the East, and then earned high profits from them.

In addition, they were also involved in the slave trade, among them, there were four kinds of favorite slaves in the Central Plains, namely the Bodhisattva Man, the Silla Maiden, the Kunlun Nu, and the Western Regions Ji.

First of all, the bodhisattva.

Bodhisattva Man, that is, Tianzhu Girl, at that time in the Indian Peninsula Nepal area, there is a rich beauty of the female barbarian country, these small state foreign women are dressed in colorful silk, neck Yingluo, hair comb high bun, enthusiastic and unrestrained, under the influence of Tianzhu Buddhist culture, Tianzhu girl has the most romantic and unrestrained appearance, at the same time with its own melancholy and mysterious religious atmosphere, spread to the Central Plains, deeply loved by the Guanzhong magnates.

Smelling the smell of money, these Hu people began to buy Tianzhu girls in the Indian peninsula, dressed them up and sold them to the Central Plains to make a profit.

Let's talk about Silla maids.

In the northeast of the Tang Dynasty, there were three kingdoms of Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje, and in the end, Silla unified the countries through foreign wars, and began to send Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty as a northeastern power.

They are fair-skinned, youthful and beautiful, gentle like water, low eyebrows and pleasing to the eyes, can meet all the requirements of the employer, Chang'an's magnates like to raise Silla maids the most, if the number of Silla maids in the house is large, it is a well-deserved rich and extravagant household.

Later, Kunlun Nu refers to the black natives of the Southeast Peninsula or South Asia, they have dark skin, strong body, very good swimming, and have always had a reputation for hard-working, docile and obedient, because the Southeast Peninsula is located in a remote area, it is not easy to sell, the price of Kunlun Nu has risen, and the most expensive Kunlun Nu is more expensive than gold.

Whenever the magnates of Chang'an travel, they must be hugged before and after, there are Kunlun slaves, Silla maids, and Bodhisattvas are surrounded by people, and there are also Western Regions dancers Hu Xuan for fun, dancing to help the fun, as for the last Western Regions dance queen, it refers to the orchid Ji, they can be famous, all rely on a wonderful Hu Xuan dance.

It is rumored that most of these orchids came from small foreign countries in the north and south of the desert, entered the Tang Dynasty through the slave trade, and after arriving here, they were bought by the major wine shops as wine sellers, in front of the tavern or to solicit customers, or dance to help the fun, and they can continue to whirl for three days without stopping.

If there is one of the most famous Hu Xuan dancers in history, it is probably the loyal minister of the Tang Empire "An Lushan"!

When the Duke of Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble and not usurped, An Lushan had always been well disguised before becoming the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, and never let the Li Tang clan discover his wolf ambitions.

It is rumored that An Lushan's father and mother Hu, fat as a pig, such a fat figure, but learned to dance with one hand, the fat body trembled with the dance when dancing, quite witty and funny, won the love of Emperor Tang Ming, in order to gain the trust of Emperor Tang Ming, he was willing to recognize Yang Guifei, who was younger than her, as his godmother, in such a flattering attitude, Emperor Tang Ming dispelled his suspicions about An, and handed over all the three towns to him.

After that, An Lushan gained a firm foothold in Hedong, and then began to plot against the great cause and covet half of the Tang Empire.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, Hu Tengwu also with the decline of the Tang Empire, quickly lost ground and declined, and no longer regained the thousands of weather in the Tang Dynasty, until the Tang and Song dynasties, it is no longer seen the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty in the past, the sweet and hot orchid, just like the bearded girl who escaped into the desert, only left the world with a charming back like a sea buckthorn bush!

When An Lushan's identity as a Hu person is frequently mentioned, the culprit of the Anshi Rebellion is also on his head, and the fate of other Hu people can no longer be trusted by Tang Ting as always, and their fate can be imagined.

When Nayi said this, everyone already understood what the charming dancing girl in front of them was!