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An ancient country that mysteriously disappeared.
Preface to catalogue
The first chapter is the ancient Shu Kingdom & the legendary land of myth and reality.
Can Cong, Yufu, the legendary ancient king of Shu.
Sanxingdui is a proof of the splendor of ancient Shu.
Jinsha site, the golden key to the ancient Shu kingdom.
Hairstyle and the change of political situation in ancient Shu
The mysterious ancient Shu history hidden behind an ancient Chinese character
At the end of the Song Dynasty, people dispersed, and after the glory, the ancient Shu kingdom was destroyed.
Memorabilia of ancient Shu state
The second chapter is Donghu-a force that once made the Huns fear.
The mystery of the origin of Donghu people
Qin broke the East Lake, and China reverted to the Northeast.
Donghu memorabilia
Chapter III Xiongnu-a legendary dynasty fighting on the grassland
Moving to Mobei, the Yanhuang Line rose.
The Huns rose and ran rampant in China for hundreds of years.
The Huns fought and lost many times and fled far away.
Whip of God —— The Legendary Life of Attila, the Hun Emperor
Huns, where have you been?
Xiongnu memorabilia
Chapter IV Yue Family-A Free Country Outside China
After going through all kinds of hardships, Zhang Qian was brought back to Yue.
Thirty years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi-the change of Yue State.
Yueshi memorabilia
Chapter V Wu Sun-Wandering Knight in the Western Regions
Wusun, an ancient clan in the Western Regions
Princess Jiangdu, China and the first person in pro-history.
Princess You Jie and her maid, they have married three kings.
Wusun memorabilia
Chapter VI Loulan-the paradise of human dreams
Living in a mysterious country full of history and legend
Loulan was surprised.
Loulan girl who has been sleeping for thousands of years
I can't find a place through the iron shoes. When will the missing discovery be seen again?
Come out of thin air and come to an abrupt end
Loulan memorabilia
Chapter 7-The Ancient City of Pompeii in the Yellow Sand
The ruins of yesterday.
Perfect country and daughter's country
The mystery of the disappearance of a perfect country
Guo Jing memorabilia
Chapter VIII Qiuci-Western Civilization Affecting the Central Plains
The Romantic Love of King Qiuci
Brother Kumarajiva.
Changes of Qiuci Kingdom
The demise of the ancient city of Qiuci and its founder
Qiuci memorabilia
Chapter 9 Dayuan-the hometown of Tianma
Looking for a big bay in Uzbekistan
The Battle of Tianma —— The bloody tragedy of the Western Han Dynasty and Dawan
The Millennium Legend of Bloody BMW
Bowl memorabilia
Chapter 10 Khotan-the land of beautiful jade in the fog
Hetian, once a paradise in the western regions.
The meaning of the name "Yu Kan"
Yu Kan, the hometown of Meiyu.
The First Monk in China and Yu Kan's "Fate"
The Religious War between Khotan Kingdom and Karahan Dynasty
Stan stole from Tan.
Memorabilia in Khotan
Chapter 11 Yelang-an ancient country misunderstood by the world for two thousand years
Looking for "arrogant" Yelang country
The four veils of Yelang ancient country
Gu Yelang living in the history of Yi people
Yelang Wang Yin and the Living Dead
Yelang memorabilia
Chapter 12 Wu Huan-Hu Feng's Powerful Kingdom
Wu Huan, a descendant of Donghu people.
The five-ring fighters are a great shock to the Central Plains.
Cao Cao's Northern Expedition to Wuhuan
Wu Huan memorabilia
Chapter XIII Xianbei-Building a Country with the Most Ethnic Groups in the North
A powerful nation came out of the Great Xianbei Mountain.
600 thousand to 7 thousand, the fiasco of the northern Wei dynasty.
Queen Mother Xianbei was born in Han nationality.
Tuguhun, the Lost Grassland Kingdom
Memorabilia of Xianbei
Chapter 14 Rouran-Megatron Mobei Khanate
A kingdom founded by slaves
The ever-expanding western expedition
The Legend of Princess Ru Ru
The prevalence of witchcraft and grassland customs
After the prosperity, it will become empty.
Rouran memorabilia
Chapter 15 Gaochang-Buddhist country in the Western Regions
An abandoned ancient city
Pearl on the Silk Road
Buddhism and Xuanzang's Journey to the West, which swept the country.
Gaochang Geely, the window to explore Gao Changguo.
Gaochang memorabilia
Chapter 16 Khitan-Kingdom on horseback
"Kitay", speaking like a book, carefully seeking the source.
Qidan and Liao Dynasty
Mysterious qidan characters
Qidan saddle cockscomb pot
Renaming to witness national integration
Khitan memorabilia
Chapter 17 Xixia-Savage Nomads
The discovery of black cities
A powerful empire active in Helan Mountain
Xixia sword tells the story of advanced smelting technology.
Unique wine culture
Mysterious worship of stars and shapeshifters
Xixia memorabilia
Chapter 18 Dali-the name of elegant Buddha flies in the sky
The Duan family in history and legend
Changes in Dali
Elegant and fragrant Buddhist country
Monk king
Ear-cutting burial and ritual culture
Dali memorabilia
Preface to postscript
In the long river of history, many civilizations have spread to today, and many civilizations have suddenly disappeared on the way forward. When our eyes are focused on Atlantis, Maya, Troy, Pompeii and other ancient countries that have disappeared abroad, few people realize that China once had many small countries. Some of them have also made glorious history. This originally belonged to a page in the history of the Chinese nation, but few people explored and understood it.
When we keep forgetting and discarding, what we forget and discard is being regarded as priceless by westerners. A thousand years ago, countless foreign thieves ran amok in China under the banner of expedition. They took away many precious cultural relics. But it was they who helped us find many legendary ancient countries. This is a great irony to the people of China.
China is a country with a historical tradition. At least since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, historians have written books such as Shangshu, Mandarin, Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Zhuan, Warring States Policy, etc., which recorded a lot of precious historical materials, enabling us to understand the life of our ancestors. Since Sima Qian wrote Historical Records, the Central Plains Dynasty has had historical books handed down from generation to generation.
But unfortunately, due to the prejudice of ancient Zhongyuan people and the limitation of inconvenient communication, the records about ancient countries are very few and incomplete. In slave society and feudal society, history books were specially compiled for the Central Plains Dynasty. Every history book has a long and detailed account of the life of every king and famous minister in the ruling dynasty at that time. As for the surrounding affiliated ancient countries, historians don't understand and disdain to understand. The accounts of those ancient countries are very rough and incomplete. Because of this, some ancient countries have completely disappeared and no one knows at all. This makes people today have a great misunderstanding that China is just "China". In fact, today's China includes not only the Central Plains countries, but also those ancient countries that have appeared one after another. Our territory today is connected by the ancient Central Plains dynasty and neighboring countries.
Our ignorance of the ancient countries around the ancient Central Plains dynasty directly led to our ignorance and contempt for those ancient civilizations. This is why foreign cultural relics thieves can easily steal treasures from the ancient ruins of China at the beginning of last century.
We have lost more than just the cultural relics in ancient sites. China is a multi-ethnic country, and it was once a multi-regime country in ancient times. Every ancient country that once appeared in China is an important part of Chinese civilization. We have the responsibility to find them, interpret them and record them.
There are many ancient countries that have disappeared, many histories that we don't understand, and many romantic legends and myths are disappearing in the breeze. If you are interested in all these, please read on. This book, The Lost Ancient Country, tells the history and legend of an ancient country that once left a flash in the sky of China.
There are ancient Shu in the foggy age, the desert where Loulan girl sleeps, the rural Jinge iron horse on horseback, and the Sanskrit singing of Buddhist countries in the western regions. Some of them started at the same time as the Chinese nation, and some had feuds with the Central Plains Dynasty ...-Can Cong in ancient legends, Dali in martial arts novels, great virtues and eminent monks recorded in Buddhist classics, and sons and daughters of the Central Plains written by historian Tie. ...
The ancient country of 18 that once existed in this book is certainly not all, but it can represent all. Between the lines, the painstaking efforts of compilation are poured in, hoping that it can become the spiritual food for readers after dinner.