Ban Chao Biography

Far up the Yellow River among the white clouds, there is an isolated city called Wanren Mountain. Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass. "The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass" - we have all read this poem, but few people ask: Who is guarding those places where the spring breeze does not pass through? Ban Chao stayed there for thirty-one years. Thirty-six people escaped, and ten survived. He pacified fifty kingdoms in the Western Regions and granted the title of Marquis of Yuan. The history books use the word "Dingyuan" to summarize his life, but only nine words are given to the woman he loved: "The wife was sparse and the daughter was exterminated due to accidents." Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The real sorrow is never in the sound of the flute - behind the city gate where the spring breeze can never blow, in a strand of brown hair wrapped in sheepskin for two thousand years, in the wax-sealed bamboo slip with only three words that Ban Zhao hid deep in the Orchid Terrace. History books remember his achievements. This book remembers his price.