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This is a road that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty used to come and go from spring to autumn like a migratory bird. Peking University scholar Luo Xin, at the age of fifty-three, fulfilled his long-cherished wish fifteen years ago - to move from Dadu to Xanadu. "At my age, all hopes, dreams, confidence and ideals have been 'blown away by the rain and the wind', leaving only indescribable helplessness, frustration, anger and confusion. Yes, do I understand the society I live in? What is the connection between the distant and misty China I studied and the current China that often puzzles me?" Historian Luo Xin used arduous walking to start a profound exploration of history, the present and himself.

Professor Luo Xin has written many academic essays "related to professional reflection" in recent years, reflecting his reflection and understanding of history, historiography and historical work. These are similar to how he walked out of his study to measure history, discover China, and understand the world in his own footsteps. One purpose is to pursue the depth of history and try to discover and tell different historical stories. This book uses a series of cases to discuss issues such as the virtues of historians, the use and reflection of historical materials, the diversity of historical narratives and the reasons behind them, historical memory and forgetting, how to transcend nationalist historiography, the origin legends and myths of ancient nations, the imaginative space of historical research, the fluctuations in the western border of Chinese civilization, and the internal and external importance of empires. It questions traditional historical discourse in a historian's way and demonstrates a healthy attitude and method of viewing and interpreting history.

Where is Iron Gate Pass? What is the connection between the Rubaiyat, Samarkand Paper and Talas Prisoners of War? Why are dates called "thousand-year dates"? Why are Easter Island's forests disappearing? ...Luo Xin's journey is always closely related to these issues. This book contains ten articles, recording historian Luo Xin's inspections and travels around the world in recent years. It contains both rich perceptual details and fresh and sharp academic thinking. They bear witness to the overlapping and blending of identities of travelers and historians.

Looking at the fierce fire around her, Su Xiao smiled. She originally thought that Mu Zhuoli just didn't like it and wasn't so heartless, but it turned out that she was really not as good as Xia Suoning. After five years of marriage, Mu Zhuoli was gentle and considerate to her. When she fell deeply in love, Xia Wanning's appearance told her that love is not an equal thing, and you don't get what you pay for.

The reborn cat warrior, Bing Xing (Bing Xin) said that this is not a problem The cats' impression of her: The god of fighting, the king of hunting, the ghost of tracking, and the immortal myth. Tigerstar (Tigerclaw): I would rather be friends with Firestar than her enemy. Mars: If she wants to unify the four groups, she can do it at any time. StarClan: We can only be thankful that she remains loyal to us. This is a peaceful Clan kitten.

"Luo Talk" selects the author's incisive words in his TV programs and text fragments in social media in recent years, showing the author's profound insights and his unique personal charm, including the author's social responsibility and rich life experience. These seemingly trivial and messy fragments all contain the author's pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, which are the embodiment of his unchanging "original intention".

This book focuses on the author's research on various names closely associated with various peoples in Inner Asia during the Middle Ages. By analyzing the structure, function, etymology, application and evolution of these Inner Asian names, some difficult-to-understand transliterations of Chinese characters in traditional documents are sorted out, so that they can play a role in revealing the complex aspects of history.

This book contains twenty-nine papers written by the author over the years on ethnic issues on the frontier in the Middle Ages. It fully combines slips, stone carvings and traditional historical materials, and is divided into four themes: "frontiers and center", "discovery and imagination", "names and traditions" and "epitaphs and history". It provides in-depth and precise discussions on important issues such as the nomadic geography of the Han and Tang dynasties, the historical changes of the southern ethnic groups in the Middle Ages, the political development and cultural transformation of the Northern people during the Sixteen Kingdoms and Northern Dynasties, and the investigation and research of the epitaphs inscribed on stone tablets in the Northern Dynasties. The book is rich in material and clear in discussion. It not only contains in-depth excavation and rigorous textual research of historical materials, but also contains reasonable imagination of historical figures and events, demonstrating a solid historical foundation and touching historian's feelings.

Through the analysis of the structure, function and application of the political names of the Bei people in the Middle Ages of China, a new method of organizing the historical materials of the Bei people in the Middle Ancient period is obtained, so that all the proper names of the Bei people (including official names, clan names, personal names and place names) become data that can be used for historical analysis, thus opening up a new field in the field of the history of the Medieval Bei people.

The emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty were not only the emperors of the Chinese imperial state, but also the khans of the nomadic conquest groups in Inner Asia. Their historical activities were the collision, fusion and rebirth of multiple cultural traditions. The so-called "old capital system" of the Northern Wei Dynasty is clearly part of the Inner Asian tradition. This book starts from the Daibei factors in the Northern Wei emperor's enthronement ceremony, and extends it to the Heaven-sacrifice ceremony in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the power inheritance crisis in the early Liao Dynasty, the Tangzi's sacrifice to Heaven in the Qing Dynasty, etc. On the one hand, it observes the encounter, collision and variation between the Tuoba Xianbei political tradition and the Chinese tradition, and on the other hand, it examines the connection between the old Xianbei customs (the old capital system) and Inner Asia's political tradition. The inward-migrating Inner Asian people who played an important role in Chinese history were, on the one hand, deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and on the other hand, they inherited and adhered to some Inner Asian cultural traditions to a greater or lesser extent. Quite a few of these Inner Asian traditions have been forgotten or deformed in historical records, making them vague and difficult to identify. Therefore, cleaning up these remaining clues has become a task that can fully demonstrate the diversity and richness of history. There is undoubtedly huge room for rereading history from an Inner Asian perspective.

In 466 AD, Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty, Liu Yu, and his nephew Liu Zixun, who proclaimed themselves emperor in Xunyang, stood side by side. The civil war spread to almost the entire Liu Song Dynasty, and then evolved into a war with the Northern Wei Dynasty. Wang Zhong'er, who was born into a middle-level bureaucratic family in the Southern Dynasties, was forced to get involved, and his family was ruined. Two years later, he was robbed and became an ordinary maid of Pingcheng Palace at the age of thirty. However, her fate accidentally came into contact with the "child is valued until mother dies" system, and she was accidentally involved in the whirlpool of power struggle. She became a key figure in raising two generations of emperors as a palace maid and a bhikshuni, and lived in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty for fifty-six years. Professor Luo Xin used epitaphs and other historical materials to tell the story of Wang Zhonger's long and ups and downs life, and used her eyes to see the era in which she lived. He restored the emperor, concubines, relatives, courtiers, eunuchs and maids to specific people, and saw them facing each other. The joy, fear, arrogance, and despair of power... As the life story of Wang Zhonger unfolds, there is also the nearly eighty-year history of the Northern Wei Dynasty from Emperor Xianwen and Emperor Xiaowen to Emperor Xuanwu and Emperor Xiaoming. Of course, there are also many people swept by the stormy waves of the times. We pay attention to ordinary people in distant times because they are part of real history. Without them, history would be incomplete and unreal.

I accidentally broke into the men's room and met the boss of City A. The two people who thought they had nothing to do with each other, who knew it was love at first sight or a long-term plan? Xia Wanhao said: "Winter is so cute, even sneezing becomes "love Qiu"!" Gu Tingchen said: If meeting in life is to pay off the debts of the previous life, I hope you owe more. Later, Xia Wanhao learned about "love, this is something that many people know, but few people I have met." "

Information about the new president, Yu Wenhao, was playing on the big screen! The son of a famous American jeweler! Having a model-like body and charming face is not the point! The point is, he was the man Yan Xi met that night!