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Chapter 211 Crazy catkins go with the wind

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    Harahelin [1], the capital of the Mongolian Empire deep in the steppe, was the center of the world in the thirteenth century.

    Ogodei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, established his capital here in 1235, and the former site is in Harhelin, the upper reaches of the Orkhon River in central Mongolia.  In the first year of Zhongtong [1260], Kublai Khan, the fourth son of Genghis Khan¡¯s fourth son Tuo Lei, ascended the throne in Kaiping City in the Zhenglan Banner of the Xilin Gol League; Ali Buge, the seventh son of Tuo Lei, established himself in the Harahelin area  For profuse sweating.

    In the winter of the second year, Kublai Khan's army defeated brother Alibu and occupied Helin.  In four years, Kublai Khan promoted "Kaiping City" as Shangdu, and in the following year Yanjing was promoted as Zhongdu [later changed to Dadu].  From then on, the political center of the Mongolian Kingdom moved to Monan Han.  After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty and moved the capital to Dadu, Helin lost its status as the capital and only set up the Marshal's Mansion of Xuanwei Sidu.  It is still an important city in Mobei. The Yuan government sent important officials to guard it and sent heavy troops to garrison it. It opened fields, built warehouses, and established schools.  In the first year of Huangqing [1312], the Yuan government changed the name of Helin Province to Lingbei Province, and changed Helin Road to Hening Road.

    [1] "Nine Quatrains Manxing. The Fifth" Du Fu. Poems

    Heartbroken Spring River wants to end,

    Chenopodium cuspidatum slowly steps up Fangzhou.

    The crazy willow catkins go with the wind,

    ? The light and thin peach blossoms flow with water.

    Da Changji and Hei Liangchen were originally from Helin.

    Since Hei Liangchen asked Shunhua to go away with him, he had long legs and wanted to go back to his hometown. There are people in their thirties, and they have finally joined the family, so let's go back to their roots.

    Dachanglegs and Shunhua walked eastward, avoided the capital, and came to Gaobeidian.

    Walking along the Tonghui River, the scenery along the way is beautiful.  In March, the wind is bathed, and the empty mountains are filled with clouds.  Shunhua leaned on a cane in one hand, and held the hand of the long leg in the other, just like an old woman leading her grandson for a stroll.

    When they were tired from walking, they stood on the river bank for a while.

    I only saw the catkins flying wildly with the wind unscrupulously, and the frivolous peach blossoms chasing the flowing water away.

    At this time, a little girl's voice came from behind, "My lady, can I let my little brother take out that book for me?"

    When Shunhua looked back, he saw a little foreign girl with snow-white hair, about seven or eight years old at most, and a black-haired girl who was younger than her beside her.

    Seeing Shunhua turning her head to caress her, the white-haired girl pointed to a book in the bushes by the roadside.

    Shunhua said: "You should call me Uncle."

    The white-haired girl immediately changed her words and said, "Uncle, can my little brother take out that book for me?"

    The long-legged man was unhappy when he heard it, and said, "Who do you call the little brother? See clearly, I am her husband!"

    Seeing that the long legs were a little angry, the little black-haired girl hurriedly explained for her sister, and she said sweetly, "Brother, don't be angry, my sister thinks you are her son~"

    Shunhua smiled: "If I have such a big son, how old will I be?" Then he said to the big long leg, "Foreign children have dumb eyes, don't worry about it, help them out!  "

    The long-legged man bent down and burrowed into the bush, saying: "You are afraid of being stabbed, but I am not afraid of being stabbed?"

    Just as I was crawling in carefully, I heard a man's voice: "Oh, my aunt, your calves run really fast. I just rushed to the 'Li Er Temple', and you two ran away again.  It's"

    The white-haired girl asked: "How do you know we have been to 'Li Er Temple'?"

    The man said: "As far as your white hair is concerned, whoever you meet on the road is not photogenic?"

    The white-haired girl asked again: "Uncle Liu, have you found my second sister?"

    Uncle Liu said: "Where can I find it!"

    The big girl complained: "I didn't find it, what are you doing here?"

    Uncle Liu raised his voice: "I can't lose you two if I don't find my second child!"

    The big girl said: "I'm already this old, how can I just throw it away?"

    Uncle Liu said: "Didn't you just lose my sister who is as old as you with two sticks"

    The long-legged man traveled all over the country to ask for food, and he was very familiar with the dialects of various places. Hearing that Uncle Liu referred to the "twins" as "double sticks", he turned around and asked, "This military lord, is he from Shandong?"

    "That's right," Uncle Liu said, "It's from Dongping, Shandong." Seeing the long legs backing away, he shouted, "Oh, don't go out, get me the book first!"

    "Oh~oh~" The long legs stopped backing up and crawled in again.

    [2] "Nine Poems of Jueju Manxing. The Seventh" Du Fu. Poem

    Grits path poplar shop white felt,

    Dianxi lotus leaves stacked with green coins.

    Bamboo shoots and pheasants are not seen,

    sand?? also embodies the grassland characteristics of the nomadic life of the northern peoples.  Hara and Lincheng are composed of two parts: the outer city and the palace city.

    The plane of the outer city is an irregular rectangle. The north and south walls are 1,500 meters long, and the east and west walls are 1,120 meters long and 580 meters short.  The circumference of the outer city is about 5.2 kilometers, about 3 miles, which is very close to what Marco Polo said "Hala and Lin, the city extends for three miles".  The city wall is built with loess slabs, with a residual height of about 0.5 to 2 meters.  There is one gate on each of the four walls of the outer city. There is no urn, and the south wall is seriously damaged. It may be that it was destroyed during the construction of the Erdeni Zhao Temple in 1586.

    In the outer city, a north-south street and an east-west street meet in the center of the city and lead to the four gates.  The intersection of the two streets forms a cross street. At the southeast corner of the cross street, there is a site about 22 meters wide and 34 meters long, which are handicraft workshops and commercial shops.  In addition, there are many architectural sites inside and outside the outer city.  In the city, in addition to the two major residential areas, "several huge palaces for the court clerks, twelve pagan temples belonging to various nationalities, two Muslim temples, and a Christian church" and other buildings were built.  , but most of them cannot determine their exact location.

    Miyagi, that is, the "Wan'an Palace" built by Wokuotai Khan (Tumen Amgurangtu Orer).  Wan'an Palace is located in the southwest of the outer city. "The wall of the palace is irregular square, about 255 meters long and 220-255 meters wide. There are 5 bases inside. The central base is about 2 meters high. There is a large palace site on it.  the surrounding four-pedestal buildings face the central hall, similar to the layout of Tang and Song palaces." The main axis of Wan'an Palace is 10 degrees westward, and its direction and position are not in harmony with the overall layout of the city streets.

    Wan'an Palace is composed of the audience hall, side buildings and gate hall.  In the north-central part of Miyagi there is a ruins with a length of 80 meters, a width of 55 meters and a height of 3 meters. This is the audience hall of Wan'an Palace built on a high foundation.  The floor of the central part of the hall is of green glazed tiles, while the floor of the northern part of the hall is of unglazed tiles.  On the ground of the hall, there are granite casting foundations supporting the 64 pillars of the hall. Through the excavation work of the Demont Joint Archaeological Team in 2000, all 64 casting foundations have been exposed to the ground.  Many red and green plate tiles, tube tiles and tiles were also found on the site, which should be the building materials on the top of the hall.

    Near the left and right sides of the hall are side buildings.  Many jewels, coins, and bronze mirrors, gold and silver jewelry, etc., which can only be enjoyed by nobles, were found here.  Therefore, it can be concluded that this is the warehouse or the luxurious residence of the kings and noble sons.

    The gate hall site is located in the middle of the south wall of the palace city, about 30 meters long and 15 meters wide. This is the entrance to the palace city.  During the period of Montgomery Khan, Master William, a craftsman in Paris, "made a big silver tree, with four silver lions at its base, and each lion had a pipe in its mouth, which sprayed white mare's milk. Inside the trunk  , four pipes lead to the top of the tree, the ends of which bend downward. Above each pipe, there is a gilded snake with its tail coiled around the trunk. Of these four pipes, one  From a pipe came wine, from another pipe Harakhumis, clarified mare's milk, from another pipe mead, from another pipe rice wine.  At the root of the tree, among the four lions, there were four pots, each intended to receive a drink. On top of the tree he made an angel with a trumpet in his hand."

    There is a relatively spacious platform between the gate hall and the audience hall, and this "silver tree" is built here.  On the south side of Miyagi, there is a tortoise carved out of granite, with a square cut on the back of the tortoise.  There are four such tortoises near Harahelin, all of which are pedestals for imperial inscriptions.

    The Mongol Empire also built religious buildings such as monasteries and churches to provide them with places for various religious activities.  At that time, Hara and Lin had religious buildings such as "twelve pagan temples belonging to various ethnic groups, two Islamic temples (in which the teachings of Mahathir were announced), and a Christian church".  Through archaeological excavations, a large number of Buddhist sculptures, murals, and thousands of Tsatsa and other relics related to Buddhism have been unearthed from the Wokuotai Khan Wan'an Palace site.  It shows the development scale of Buddhist activities and Buddhist art in Hara and Lin at that time.  During the period of the Mongolian Empire, religious classics such as the Tripitaka and the Koran were generally collected and translated in the churches of Harakorin monasteries.  At the same time, various religious cultures, philosophies, etc., spread to the residents of Hara and Lin through various religious figures.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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