This time, I will talk about going back to the prison cell where the prisoners are being held in the palace. By the time of the Ninth Hui Dynasty, the Wangfu Prison covered an area of 2 acres, with 18 cells, with 1 prison director and 4 jailers, who were specially responsible for the custody and management of prisoners. The prison does not provide food for prisoners, and the families of prisoners deliver meals every day, in addition to this royal prison, there are also large prisons and water prisons in NaomaoHu and Sanbao.
Regarding the prison of the HuiwangFu, there is also a touching story. Everyone has heard of the famous "Hami Muqam", which is a collection of twelve sets of music improvised by Uyghurs, consisting of songs and songs and dances.
One year, Hami returned to Beijing to make a pilgrimage to the emperor. At that time, the round trip alone took several months, plus the Hui King also had to participate in state affairs in Gongyanli, so it took a year and a half to come and go. After returning to the king, the queen was lonely and bored all day and asked unhappy, and did not think about tea and rice. When the courtiers looked at it, they were afraid of being blamed after the return of the king, and someone came up with an idea to fan the queen: "Why don't you ask the artist to play the song to relieve the boredom?" The queen was very happy to hear this, and sent someone to ask the folk artist Kurban Usda to come to the palace to play and sing. Kurban is talented, can sing the whole "Ha Shi Muqam", the singing is elegant, the storyline is touching, the queen is fascinated, and Kurban is left in the palace. After returning to the dynasty, he saw that the queen was more and more gorgeous and seductive, and asked the queen strangely: "How did you live after I walked for such a long time?" The queen truthfully reported: "It was the company of folk artists who brought me joy." After hearing this, the king was jealous and suspicious, and sent Kurbanfa to the remote and desolate Naomao Lake north of the Tianshan Mountains.
Naomao Lake is the territory of the Hui King, and it is also the Laogai farm of the Hui King's Palace, and since then Kurban has become the lower level of the Hui King. But he did not stop singing, and in the dark days, he took the song as his companion and the song as the pleasure, and expressed the sorrow, goodness, longing and hope of the toiling masses in song. Decades have passed, and dozens of muqams he has collected, sorted, and recreated have been collected, arranged, and re-created, forming the unique style of Hami muqams. The Maza we see now is the tomb of this Muqam poet and descendant, and after his death, in order to commemorate him, people buried him outside the tomb of King Hami, which is known as the tomb of the Uyghur music master.