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Located in the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death".
There is one of the most mysterious villages in China - Dariyabuyi Village.
The Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in China, the tenth largest desert in the world, and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The Uyghur word for Taklamakan Desert means a legendary cursed city submerged beneath the desert.
The village of Dariyabuyi covers an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers and the people inside are known as the Kriya people.
The most mysterious thing about the village of Dariyabuyi is that it has been hidden from the world for nearly a thousand years.
It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that people learned of the existence of this place.
Today, let's unveil this mysterious nation.
In the nineteenth century the village of Dariyabuyi was discovered
In the early nineteenth century, the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin came to the Taklamakan Desert. Unexpectedly discovering an oasis, Sven Hedin immediately headed for the depths of the oasis, and suddenly saw several faint figures in the distance, and in this way, Sven Hedin became the first person to discover the place.
But he did not make the discovery public at the time, but silently wrote it into his expedition notes.
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the famous expeditionary archaeologist Stein conducted his famous four expeditions to Central Asia in 1900-1901, 1906-1908, 1913-1916, and 1930-1931.
The second Central Asian expedition is more familiar to Chinese scholars, and the main goal of this expedition is to excavate the ruins of Guloulan.
At the same time, after reading Sven Hedin's expedition diary, Stein was also very fascinated by this mysterious oasis in the heart of the desert, came here many times, and made ethnographic surveys for the Kriya, and he finally confirmed that the villagers were only descendants of an Indo-European people.
In 1956, with the mainland's exploration of various uninhabited areas across the country, this mysterious tribe that had been hidden in the sand sea for a thousand years gradually appeared in front of the eyes of the world.
In 1982, an oil geological exploration team was ordered to enter the Taklamakan Desert to conduct oil exploration, and in the process of traveling, the cross-country vehicles fell into the sand, and the loud noise made frightened the Kriya people in the distance to turn around and run. The exploration team did not know that there were humans living in the desert, and they were immediately frightened, so the news of "wild people found in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert" did not go away.
In 1989, it was incorporated into the jurisdiction and set up the People's Government of Dariyabuyi Township in Yutian County.
How the Kriya people survived continues to this day
The kriyas are a small number of inhabitants (according to statistics, more than 1,000 people) live on nomadic herders, and the primitive Kriya people live on yellow sand, the Kriya River, the Populus, etc., the most important of which is the Kriya River, the "mother river" of the Kriya people.
The Kriya River originates in the middle of Karakoram, flows downstream into the Taklamakan Desert, where the Kriya River is about to disappear into the desert, giving birth to a mysterious oasis that nurtures the quaint Kriya people, who named their village "Dariyabuyi", which means "along the great river", and the Kriya people have lived in more than one million acres of primitive poplar forests for generations.
The life of the original Kriya people is simple and happy, and the building material used by the ingenious Kriya people to build houses is a large piece of poplar wood, because there is no cement fixed, they use the silt at the bottom of the Kriya River instead, and the house will have a bed made of sand and the original fire pit of the Kriya people" ", that is, to dig a pit in the ground, as their stove, simple but practical.
When hungry, the Kriya people will make their special delicacy "sand cake", "sand cake" Uyghur called "Ku Maggie", divided into two types with meat and no meat, is a kind of round dough cake with a diameter of more than one foot. Beforehand, the Kriyas would light firewood, then lay a layer of sand under the firewood, and when the sand had heated, they would first pull the sand apart and spread the cake flat on the hot sand, cover it with a layer of sand, and then cover it with hot charcoal (the process is a bit like our baked sweet potatoes). Important festivals, the Kriya people will slaughter sheep to celebrate, make red willow roast meat.
Nomadism as an important human production lifestyle in ancient times, sheep herding is the main work of the ancient Kriya people, sunrise sheep, sunset and rest, sheep food is a patch of poplar wood forest, when the sheep are herded, they cut down the leaves on the branches of the poplar tree for the sheep to eat, the oasis will also have a piece of reeds in the summer, the Kriya people will store it, for the sheep to eat in winter.
Due to climate change and further degradation of oases, resource depletion, in 2016, the Shahe County government decided to relocate the residents of Dariyabuyi to places with better natural conditions. At a distance of 91 kilometers from the county seat of Yutian County, a new village was built.
Where did the Kriyas come from
The origin of the Kriya people is not clearly documented, so it has been debated to this day.
There are three main claims in the mainstream.
The first is that the Kriyas are descendants of the Ariguge dynasty in Tibet, whose establishment probably began in the 9th century and ended in the 17th century, and it is said that in the middle of the 17th century, the Guge dynasty was in civil unrest, and the king's brother asked The Ladakh army to attack the palace, and the dynasty was overthrown. One of the detachments broke through and fled, crossed the Kunlun Mountains, came to the Kriya River, and chose to live in isolation, which continues to this day.
The second is that the Kriyas are descendants of the inhabitants of Khotan. The current Yutian County, ancient name "Khotan", is the ancient Buddhist kingdom of the Western Regions, an ancient Cypriot city-state on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin, and one of the most powerful countries in the Southern Province of the Western Regions. In 960 AD, the Qarakhanid Musa Khan declared Islam the state religion, and between the Buddhist Khotanese and the Islamic Qarakhanids, a religious war lasted for nearly 40 years, and finally Khotan was defeated, and some people were afraid of religious persecution and left their hometown to come here.
第三种最具传奇色彩，克里雅人是古楼兰的后裔，楼兰国是西域古国名，是中国西部的一个古代小国，国都楼兰城（遗址在今中国新疆罗布泊西北岸），楼兰王国在4世纪突然消失，后便毫无踪迹可循。 于是有人猜测古楼兰王国的子民散布到了沙漠的各个腹地，其中的一部分人就来到了这里。
No matter who the ancestors of the Kriya people are, after all, in the hinterland of the desert, after thousands of years of vicissitudes and changes, they have recorded the brilliant civilization of China for thousands of years.