
Loulan Five Stacks (empty City Period)
by Qiu Huadong
About This Novel
Loulan, later known as Shanshan, existed from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD. The site is located in Ruoqiang County, Xinjiang. Guard the northern and southern bifurcation points of the Silk Road. In modern times, the "rediscovery" of Loulan by Sven Hedin and others and the unearthing of the "Loulan female corpse" have made Loulan reappear in the sea of sand. "Five Layers of Loulan" includes five chapters: "First Layer: There is Fire in the Swamp", "Second Layer: Never Forget Each Other", "Third Layer: The Transformation of a Dragon", "Fourth Layer: Endless Sand Dunes" and "Five Layers: Resurrection of a Corpse Girl". It uses the sound of a bull's horn to run through the front and back, presenting the layered changes in Loulan's history and telling the rise and fall of the "Pearl of the Silk Road" Loulan ancient city and the Lop Nur civilization. Babu and Luhua were given a horn as a token of love by fighting a tiger to prove their love. Later, Luhua died in childbirth. Babu put the horn into his hand and rowed northward to leave. In the Han Dynasty, Fu Jiezi traveled westward under the imperial edict. He carried a horn as a gift from his lover and decisively killed him at a banquet. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, King Bilong of Loulan faced Tuoba Tao's extermination of Buddhism and Juqu's Anzhou invasion. In order to protect his people, he asked his substitute Cao Wu to lead the tribe to migrate to Qiemo. In 1900, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin was exploring the Lob Wilderness, and his guide Oldeke accidentally discovered the Loulan ruins while looking for a shovel. In 2013, a team of photographers went through many hardships to reach the ancient city of Loulan and picked up a horn horn among the ruins. When the horn was blown at night, the mummy of the "Loulan Beauty" holding the same horn horn in the museum seemed to be awakened, performing a fantasy scene of "resurrection of a corpse girl".
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