Feng Yan Loulan

A visitor came from the east, and I didn't know his name, but he was called "Ji Yun" and his courtesy name was Xiaoguang. During the reign of King Jing of Zhou Dynasty, the snow in Kunlun was melting and people were beginning to appear in Lop Nur. Ji Yun came and stayed on the bank of Daze for five hundred years. He saw reeds beginning to stand, clay pots beginning to be completed, and shepherds living in pursuit of water and grass. They taught fishing and hunting, taught Chinese characters, and dug wells to guide springs, so that the people in the wild gradually learned to cultivate crops. When iron tools were introduced, settlements were formed, and the Huns' iron cavalry knocked on the border, Loulan was established as a country between the Han and the Huns. Ji Yun personally saw Zhang Qian coming to the west with a sword, Zhao Ponu riding seven hundred horses to defeat the city, Fu Jiezi hiding his sword in gold coins, and blood splattering in the royal court. His son Ji Yuan entered Chang'an as a minister and became the prime minister of Loulan; his grandson Jizhong helped establish a new king, Wei Tuqi, and changed the country to Shanshan, and Loulan City became an important town. At that time, the Silk Road was just beginning to open, camel bells were ringing in the desert, and Hu merchants and Han soldiers were scattered in the city. Ban Chao established the Western Regions, and the thirty-six kingdoms returned to the Han Dynasty. Ji Yuan, a descendant of the Ji family, helped them and guarded the old city for generations. Kushan monks arrived, Buddhism spread eastward, Ji Shan took refuge, and built the first pagoda in the city. As a result, there were Thousand Buddha murals, Bayeux sutras, and a grand statue parade on April 8, and Loulan became the "Oriental Buddhist Country." In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the official residence of the chief historian of the Western Regions was established in three rooms, and the land was cultivated with thousands of stones. Merchants gathered there, and both Hu and Han Dynasties used Lu documents. This was the time when Chengloulan was at its peak. However, the world is unkind, the climate is getting dry, the rivers are changing their courses, and the yellow sand is intruding day by day. After the Feishui War, the sound of the Central Plains disappeared, Chang Shi's Mansion withdrew, and the isolated city defended itself. Ji Qin Baifa defended the city for twenty years, Ziji Shahu died in the battle, Sun Jilou led more than 400 households, carried Buddha statues and hid slips and slips in the pagoda and underground palace, and moved southward in tears. Amidst the sound of camel bells, I looked back at my old city, which was half lost in the yellow sand. In the next fifty years, the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Shanshan, and Loulan's name disappeared.