On the morning of October 27, Weibo netizen @Kang Weikai sent a message saying that liu Tuo, a young archaeologist, had unfortunately died of falling off a cliff after visiting the murals of the Aba Jiazhaer Cave Cave in Sichuan.
Liu Tuoqiren: Obsessed with ancient monument travel
He was caught by mistake while inspecting monuments in Iraq
According to public information, Liu Tuo, born in 1990 in Kunming, Yunnan, a native of Changde, Hunan, is a doctor of the School of Archaeology and Archaeology of Peking University, and was an associate professor at the School of Tourism of Lanzhou University of Arts and Sciences.
In addition to professional study and research, Liu Tuo loves cultural relics and monuments and related travel, and has so far traveled to more than 30 countries and nearly 700 counties in Iraq and Afghanistan, visiting more than 200 World Heritage Sites and more than 1,500 national key cultural relics protection units.
Liu Tuo at the Jam Minaret in Afghanistan
In 2015, he first entered the public eye, but also because he ran to Iraq alone to see the monuments, he was mistakenly arrested by the government army as a "terrorist".
In 2018, Liu Tuo took the "one seat" and told everyone that "many of the cultural relics I photographed later disappeared". Introduce yourself to the many lands in the Middle East where wars and chaos are frequent, and the forces of all sides are divided, and visit and record the stories of those important relics.
In order to see the Jam Minaret, a world cultural heritage site in Afghanistan, Liu Tuo took a small plane to Chakh Charan, the county seat where the tower is located. It was unusual for a foreigner to suddenly appear in such a small place that he was caught by local soldiers just a few minutes after leaving the airport. Fortunately, the military commander was friendly, sent more than a dozen soldiers, two pickup trucks with submachine guns, drove more than 100 kilometers, passed more than a dozen checkpoints, and escorted him to the valley where the tower was located.
Liu Tuo recalled: "The clerk was very happy to see us coming, and solemnly took out a notebook, hoping that I could write some impressions on it. It was a notebook of foreign tourists visiting, and most of the text was written in Pashto, and only five or six were in English. The most recent of these is already in 2012, and it has been 5 years. I wrote one in Chinese and he asked me to use English and I said I must use Chinese. ”
"On the way back, I was actually very nervous, because I was thinking about how much it would cost me." But they never mentioned it. They said, after you came, we had a day off, and we went out for a day, and we were very happy, this place is very dangerous, you hurry up and get on the plane. It was a journey that touched me so much. ”
In the same year, Liu Tuo also went to "Strange Story", telling about his 14 days in prison in Iraq. In Ma Dong's words, the screenwriters could not make up his stories—a Chinese who relied on singing Kun opera in a foreign prison to relieve his homesickness, and made a thief friend named Omar.
For his reckless behavior led to arrest, Liu Tuo also apologized, saying, "It is very dangerous, don't learn for academic research!" ”
Some people on "Zhihu" concluded that Liu Tuo was "the first surprise person to see the network in 2018, cute, introverted, professional, literate, probably that kind of water, but rich in mineral elements beneficial to the human body." This year, he was already a doctor in the Department of Archaeology at Peking University.
Liu Tuo's archaeological collection, Notes on An Ancient Visit to Afghanistan, was just published by Peking University Press in June this year.
Ex-Boss: So sad!
Rescue archaeology is his strongest dream
The Red Star News reporter contacted Gao Yafang, dean of the School of Tourism of Lanzhou College of Arts and Sciences, who told reporters that she received more news from Liu Tuo's mother at 4 o'clock this morning and learned of this bad news. "His parents have already flown from Beijing to Sichuan on today's early flight to deal with his aftermath."
"It's so sad that this child is very persistent about the cause he loves, his heart is simple, and he insists on doing what he likes." She told reporters that Liu Tuo only joined the Tourism College of Lanzhou College of Arts and Sciences in January this year, but he resigned again in July this year. "He spoke to me very sincerely and said that he felt that teaching was not his strongest point of interest. His favorite thing is archaeology. ”
After several retentions, Gao Yafang still decided to respect Liu Tuo's choice, and yiyi reluctantly agreed to his resignation. "He also wants to go to Afghanistan, because there are very few archaeologists who have done systematic archaeology in Afghanistan, so he is ready to go there with some archaeologists in China to do rescue archaeology." This is the dream he most strongly wants to achieve. ”
Liu Tuo's new book "Afghanistan Visiting ancient travels", Gao Yafang also bought two copies, one herself, and gave her own mother a copy. "When I left school, Liu Tuo wrote me a long paragraph on the title page..."
Go on a solo expedition
After falling off a cliff, he died after being rescued ineffectively
An archaeologist who has long been engaged in the protection of the cave temple told the cover news reporter that the Kazarzha Cave is a spiritual cave located on a cliff. Years ago, when archaeologists arrived, they hung a safety rope to descend to the cave. The reporter saw from a picture sent by the reporter that the cave was located on a cliff wall, which was very thrilling.
The green circle is the cave location
According to @Western Decision-making news, Malkang Municipal Government staff said that Liu Tuo and his party of 4 people went to investigate, of which 3 people turned back due to road dangers, and Liu Tuo 1 went alone. At about 20:40 on the 26th, the search and rescue team found Liu Tuo who fell off the cliff, when he was seriously injured, the person had lost consciousness, and died after ineffective rescue.
According to the data, the Jiazharjia Cave where Liu Tuo was killed is located in Dashihan Village, Baiwan Township, Malkang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on the southern foothills of the Jiazharjia Mountain, about 5 kilometers away from the township government station. The cave is a natural rock cave, there is a remnant stupa in the cave, the east and west walls and the stupa are painted with a large number of Buddhist murals, which is an important cultural relics for studying the art of Tibetan Buddhist painting and the history of Tibetan Buddhism in the northwest Sichuan Plateau during the Ming and Qing dynasties. On March 5, 2013, it was listed as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Affected by the construction project of the Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station of the Dadu River, the murals of the Jiazhar Cave cave in Malkang City need to be relocated for protection. In August this year, the relocation and protection plan for the murals of the Cave caves in The Cave of Jiazhar Cave in Malkang City was approved by the State Council.
Liu Tuo once said in an interview, "I am pursuing monuments, not adventures." In the book's afterword, he also writes, "Afghanistan is not only a fragile heart of sympathy and compassion in Eurasia, but its war and preservation are part of the diversity of the world, just like its antiquities and monuments." Objectively recording and investigating, calmly accepting the stories encountered during the journey, is wonderful enough. ”
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