Loulan is an ancient country in the western regions and an ancient small country in the west of China. Its capital is Loulan City (the site is located on the northwest bank of Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China). In 77 BC, Loulan State was renamed Shanshan State and moved to Mudeng, the capital of Loulan State, which surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Loulan City, the capital of the former dynasty, was sent by the Han Dynasty to cultivate land. There are Qiemo, Jingjue, Jimi, Yutian and Auto Market in the southwest, Yanqi in the northwest, Bailongdui in the east, and Dunhuang, the throat of the Silk Road.
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Development history
The earliest discoverer of Loulan Kingdom was Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. 1900 At the beginning of March, the Heding expedition came to the Rob wasteland along the left riverbed of the dry Peacock River, only to find that their shovel was accidentally lost in the campsite when crossing a desert last night. Harding had to send his assistant back to find it.
190 1 in March, Sven Hedin began to excavate, and found a stupa and three halls in Bolu, as well as a large number of cultural relics such as wood carving building components with Greek art and culture, with five baht and a letter. Later, they found many beacon towers in the southeast of this ruin and continued to March to an ancient city buried by sand on the west bank of Lop Nur, which is the ancient city of Loulan.
The plane of the ancient city is nearly square, with a side length of about 330 meters, and almost all of it is buried by quicksand. The city wall is made of soil and red willow alternately rammed. There is an ancient canal that runs through the city obliquely from northwest to southeast. There is an octagonal dome adobe stupa in the northeast of the canal.
On the earthen terrace in Tarnum, there are a group of tall wooden architectural relics, and Chinese, Palau documents, bamboo slips, five baht money, silk wool products, household appliances and so on have been unearthed. In the middle of the southwest of the canal, there are three large wooden adobe houses. A large number of Chinese documents, wooden slips and early Sogdian and Boluo documents have been unearthed in and around the house, which is estimated to be the remains of the government.
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