The Elegy of the Six Towns of Jiuzhou Wild Burning Record

During the Taihe period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang, and many Xianbei nobles moved with him. The six military towns that guarded the northern frontier for the Northern Wei Dynasty gradually fell into neglect due to the lack of fighting and peaceful borders. In the last years of Taihe, the imperial court issued an edict that the soldiers and civilians of the six towns were not allowed to leave the town without transfer orders, except for official duties and special tasks. Anyone who violated the rules would be sent to their place of origin with a stick, so the people's resentment gradually accumulated. But life goes by day by day, and people get older day by day. The lights of swords and shadows in the court hall, and the turbulent clouds under the supreme imperial power are still too far away from the run-down military families who guard the garrison and live a peaceful life under the Chile River. Until a certain year and a certain month, famine swept everything...