With the hot screening of a series of film and television literary works with the theme of "Tomb Robbery" and "Ghost Blowing Lights", it shows people one mysterious place full of legends one after another, of which the most impressive is the ancient country of Loulan.
Loulan Kingdom belongs to one of the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions, from the founding of the country in 176 BC to the sudden mysterious disappearance around 630 AD, a total of more than 800 years of time, during this time, the most active should be the Han Dynasty period, and now the most recorded ancient kingdom of Loulan is mostly the relevant documents of the Han Dynasty.
The reason why the ancient country of Loulan is so legendary is inextricably linked to its sudden disappearance.
So why did the once-flourishing Loulan Ancient Kingdom suddenly disappear mysteriously? Where did the Loulan people go? What is the truth behind it?
From ancient times to the present, countless scholars have explored these problems, and the closest to the truth is undoubtedly the following reasons.
First, if you don't break the building, you won't pay it back
In the poems of the Tang Dynasty border poet Wang Changling, there is "do not break the Loulan and never return", and in the poem of the poet Li Bai, there is "Straight to cut the Loulan".
So, what exactly did Lou Lan do? Attract so many people to want to get rid of it quickly? What does Lou Lan's mysterious disappearance have to do with this?
In fact, the Loulan mentioned in these two poets is not Loulan Guo, but refers to some ethnic minorities.
The real glory of the Loulan Kingdom was in the Han Dynasty, and its reputation was no longer obvious during the Tang Dynasty, and in the late Tang Dynasty, it completely disappeared and mysteriously disappeared.
Loulan State is one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, because of its strong army at the beginning, it was also listed as one of the seven powerful countries in the Western Regions, and its land area reached 120,000 square kilometers.
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty created the Silk Road, the Han Dynasty had many contacts with the State of Loulan.
In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, the Loulan state was limited by its national strength, and could not resist the invasion of the Xiongnu, nor could it resist the conquest of the Han Dynasty, and the king of Loulan did not want to completely become a vassal of any country, so the "political diplomacy" of two sides and three swords was born. Sometimes they were attached to the Xiongnu and sometimes to the Han Dynasty, and they courted each other without interfering with each other.
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first sent emissaries to dredge the countries of the Western Regions, Loulan was a necessary place for emissaries, and Loulan often became the eyes and ears of the Xiongnu, not only informing the Xiongnu of the whereabouts of the Han Dynasty emissaries, but also assassinating and robbing the Han Dynasty emissaries many times.
These actions eventually angered Emperor Wu of Han, so Emperor Wu of Han sent troops to Lou Lan and brought a prince of Lou Lan Back to the Han Dynasty as a hostage.
The importance of a country's prince is self-evident, but just after Prince Loulan was captured by Emperor Wu of Han and returned to the Han Dynasty, Loulan State not only did not draw a clear line with the Xiongnu, but also took the initiative to send a prince to the Xiongnu Country as a hostage, to show that in the heart of loulan State, the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty were equally important.
Originally, if this had been the case, perhaps the Han Dynasty would not have sent troops to Lou Lan again, but after that, Lou Lan repeatedly violated the orders of the Han Dynasty, and even more secretly calculated the emissaries and troops of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, during the reign of Emperor Han Zhao, the intolerable Emperor Han Zhao sent people to kill the king of Loulan and appointed Prince Loulan in the Han Dynasty as the new king, and at the same time, the state of Loulan changed the name of the country to Shanshan, completely loyal to the Han Dynasty, and was garrisoned by the Han army in Loulantun.
Second, the mystery of the disappearance of the ancient country of Loulan
Due to the special geographical location of the ancient state of Loulan, it brought many advantages to the Conquest of the Xiongnu by the Han Dynasty and the rectification of the countries in the Western Regions.
However, in such a place, around 630 AD, the original Loulan Kingdom suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and the Loulan people suddenly disappeared.
Since the Tang Dynasty, many people have been greatly interested in the sudden disappearance of the Loulan Kingdom, and even in modern times, many relevant people have discussed and searched for it, but in the end there is no clear answer, only many related inferences, and the most likely conjectures are nothing more than the following reasons.
The first reason is that the Guloulan Kingdom disappeared into the war.
Legend has it that after the Han Dynasty, the Loulan kingdom gradually went into decline, nearly 120,000 square kilometers of land, only more than 14,000 Loulan people lived, the military power of the Loulan state was extremely empty, and Loulan was located in the western region, so it was often spied on by other countries.
Therefore, it is very likely that the Loulan kingdom will be completely breached by a powerful country at the time of aggression, and the remaining Loulan people will have to move their families, so the Loulan country will suddenly disappear, and the Loulan people will also disappear.
The second reason is that the Guloulan Kingdom had to relocate because of environmental reasons.
As we all know, Loulan country is located in the desert, the ecological environment is extremely harsh, and in the various historical documents found in the past, Loulan country is the first country in the world to implement environmental protection laws.
Therefore, it is very likely that the environment of Loulan country has become extremely harsh, and even there is no water source, so it has to force the whole country to migrate to other places to survive.
The third reason is that Loulan may have suddenly contracted a plague circulating from other countries.
Because the Loulan Ancient Kingdom is located on the western key road, so the number of outsiders traveling to and from the Loulan Ancient Country is large, it is very likely that the people who traveled to and from the Loulan Ancient Country at that time brought the plague virus from the outside world to the Loulan Ancient Kingdom, which led to the "natural disaster" in the Loulan Ancient Country, resulting in the death of many Loulan people.
Those who were lucky enough to survive had to carry out family relocation in order to survive, so the ancient country of Loulan would suddenly disappear mysteriously.
Third, the mysterious Ancient Kingdom of Loulan
Nowadays, with the continuous development of science and technology, more and more researchers have gone to the Loulan site, hoping to find some clues related to the sudden disappearance of Loulan Country, but there are few gains, the most famous of which is the "Loulan Beauty Ancient Corpse" discovered by the archaeological team in 1980.
"Loulan Beauty" provides very few clues for archaeologists, and only it can be known that this ancient poem should have a history of nearly 4,000 years, but it is still unknown whether the people represented by "Loulan Beauty" are the natives of Loulan country or migrated here later.
With the passage of time, although archaeologists have carried out countless surveys and analyses of the ruins of the Loulan Ancient Kingdom, there is still no final conclusion on why the Loulan Ancient Kingdom suddenly disappeared, but in the various speculations made about the truth of the mysterious disappearance of the Loulan Ancient Kingdom, the above three reasons are undoubtedly relatively high in credibility.
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