Tangut country's territory is in the earth's desert climate zone, Badain Jaran desert, Kubuqi Desert, Mu Us Desert, Tengger Desert, which lie in the north put together the vast desert frontier, together with the vast Gobi, the resilience of the party's key man place to live, they are like Populus euphratica general, stubborn live.
Ejin the Badain Jaran Desert, China's third-largest desert, is the highest sand dunes in the desert. The desert is merciless and terrible, but in the sunset touch, the soft and graceful curves are beautiful, charming.
However, I think, come to Egina, the most stirring is not the 3000 Jo-shui, not the beautiful Populus euphratica, the mysterious desert, but are forgotten in the long history of the black water city.
Western Xia Jianguo, set up 12 jianjun Division, located in the border areas and near the capital of Western Xia in order to prevent foreign invasion. Among these there is one called the Blackwater Ejin southeast of the town of Yan jianjun Division. Here is the only channel Hexi leading Mobei, the Western Han Dynasty when a frontier fortress built pavilion impaired, large-scale settlement, with Juyan County; the Sui Dynasty, in order to prevent Turks south, where is located Datong town; Tang Empress Wu, an established North dohobu (In the current territory of Mongolia), here is the main gateway to Quwang Dohobu.
Acres of cultivated fields near here, then, but now, only Canyuanduanqiang in the Gobi desert, in the cloud shrouded the world, a testament to his former prosperous, telling his pathos and the vicissitudes of life. Qiu Jin's desert facing the wind, I walked in off the wall, not help for this piece of debris sorrow and pain.
Legend, the Western Xia dynasty, there is a Western Xia Morimasa stationed there, known as "black generals." In the enemy invasion, outnumbered and trapped in the city. Siege enemy Jiugong high, they cut off the water, forcing Weak diversion. Blackwater whole city into a desperate, black generals leading the non-commissioned officer in the city to dig wells, dug a few tens of meters but no dripping. Black general despair, he killed his wife and children, together with the city, 80 cars into dry hole in the buried treasures, after the breakout of Henan powerful generals, fought bloody battles for several days, completely annihilated ... ...
Several hundred years later, it is this legend, bringing the city to the Blackwater a calamity. In 1908, the Russian navy Lieutenant Colonel Kozlov (please remember this ugly name) led a scientific expedition team arrived in Blackwater City, began his concealed under the guise of inspection of the predatory excavation, it is easy He stole more than a dozen boxes of quality silk Buddhist paintings, coins, women's supplies a large number of cultural relics. In 1909, he was not satisfied here, this time he brought a professional excavation team began a large-scale excavation crazy. When he was in the ground could not find something more valuable, he locked in the eyes of those pagodas, when Blackwater big city Nazuo landmark pagoda been opened, he was shocked, it was not dug in a pagoda, but excavation opened a museum ah! So in just nine days, the barbarian robber waved his hoe ho, in one breath dug down more than 30 towers, 80 percent of the pagoda on the down on his hands! Blackwater city tremble with painful groaned, in slumber for hundreds of years later, completely destroyed as a culture in the hands of armed robbers, he completely destroyed the city --- the Heilongjiang River Museum of Western Xia civilization.
Russians gone, the British came, the British left, the Japanese came to this town ... ... Blackwater Western Xia dynasty occupies an important position in the Western Xia in northern political and cultural center, the call sign over and over again trampling the ravages become a ruin, in that desert, where the setting sun, such as blood, where the vast sand in the ... ...
Today, every one need to study the history of the Western Xia, must go to Russia, because those documents Heritage Museum in St. Petersburg. Blackwater City, it has become a pain in my heart forever!
Blackwater City, next to a large Tong Cheng was once the city of Jun Machang Blackwater, now, only a modicum of Canyuan broken in the wind is still standing ... ...
With pain and tears, with pairs of Ejin beautiful bear to say goodbye, Quwang the last leg of the Western Xia Dynasty capital of Yinchuan ---- where the land where the end of the Western Xia Dynasty.
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