The camel bell rang, and a camel caravan from Chang 'an, a distant and rich city, was slowly coming to the beautiful ancient city of Loulan. The destination of their trip is Mugato, an ancient Indian country, which has traveled thousands of miles. The dry food brought from Chang 'an has long been empty, and the hungry caravan has entered a new area. The grassland here is full of rare and gorgeous wild flowers. In the tall and lush Populus euphratica forest, birds and animals are jubilant, and the mountains in the distance. Cattle and sheep flock at the foot of the mountain, and the caravan is shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of it. The scenery here is very different from Chang 'an, and I have seen many beautiful scenery along the way, but the beauty here is like a fairyland. But no matter how beautiful it is, the caravan has to speed up and hope to find water as soon as possible. At this time, they saw a sapphire-like lake, and the clear water waves rolled gently. Fish swim freely in the lake, which is beautiful. The thirsty caravan stopped and rushed to the lake to drink water, only to find that the clear lake was salty and astringent, which made the thirsty caravan worse and dehydrated. Finally, they trudged as hard as they could. The caravan was deeply attracted by this exotic ancient city. They unloaded silk products, porcelain, dried fruits and seeds from camels' backs and went to the ancient city to satisfy their hunger. Only then did they know that the great lake they met on the road to transport precious stones was the "Blue Ocean Prison".
In the ancient city of Loulan, the people of Loulan King also warmly welcomed these guests from afar. They presented cantaloupe from Yizhou, red dates from Hotan, delicious baked naan, roasted whole sheep and hand-grabbed rice. Loulan people who can sing and dance piled up a bonfire, played the kalongqin and knocked on the sheepskin drum. In the cheerful music, men, women and children sang and danced all night.
In order to thank the kind and enthusiastic people in the ancient city, the caravan gave them precious silk and porcelain. When they set out, the people in the ancient city prepared many bags of baked nang and air-dried mutton for them as dry food for their trip.
In spring in Qiu Lai, cold and summer alternate, and camel bells ring in the golden Populus euphratica forest. Last year's camel caravan came back. Their camels were full of exotic treasures from western countries, including grapes, walnuts, alfalfa, sesame seeds, jewelry, spices, glassware, musical instruments and delicious food. The most precious is the seven-color peacock brought from the ancient Indian country of Mojeto. In order to thank Loulan people for their hospitality to the caravan, Wan Li specially brought it back to King Loulan as a gift, and told King Loulan that this seven-color peacock is the national treasure of Mohist Tuo, which has mysterious power different from all things in the world and can resolve all disasters and bad luck.
King Loulan is very fond of seven-color peacocks, and with the good will of reciprocity, he gave his precious Hetian jade Pisces Pei to the caravan and asked them to take it back to Hanwang, which Chang 'an gave them. And specially ordered the Peacock River to be sealed to seven-color peacocks as a permanent habitat, which shall not be changed from generation to generation. Since then, it has lived freely by the Peacock River, drinking nectar in the morning and eating flowers at night. Whenever the morning glow reflects the beautiful seven-color peacock, the golden crown feathers on its head are noble and gorgeous, shining with brilliant light, and the seven-color wings are dazzling and resplendent. It fluttered its wings and flew to the ancient and prosperous ancient city of Loulan, and the crisp song resounded through the sky. Kind people see seven-color peacocks kneeling and praying, and they firmly believe that it is an ancient city.
The ancient city of Loulan has become more and more prosperous under the leadership of generations of Loulan kings. With the increase of population and the crowded space, the ancient city of Loulan continues to expand, which is followed by the competition for water resources, excessive logging and grazing, land disputes, and the destruction of resources, resulting in serious desertification of land and reduced rainfall. The once clear Peacock River dried up day by day, and the seven-color peacock finally failed to survive the severe climate change. Coupled with the shortage of food, it quietly died on the cracked Peacock River bed.
The young king Loulan was deeply saddened to learn that he was still clinging to the dead seven-color peacock, saying that it had mysterious power different from all things because of the will handed down by the former king, and he wanted it to live anyway. This peacock has been safe for hundreds of years, but now it has been raised to death by itself. It was remorseful, and the seven-color peacock did not exert its mysterious power until its death. Maybe it's just that the late king was kind to his pets in his time. He doesn't know that the death of the seven-color peacock indicates the rapid decline of the ancient city of Loulan. When he wanted to bury the seven-color peacock by the peacock river, the beautiful young princess looked at the golden feather on the dead peacock and liked it very much, so she pulled it down and made a feather hairpin with it, which was very beautiful to wear in her hair. It is also a memorial to the bird that accompanied them to grow up.
With the increasingly serious desertification of land, yellow sand covers the sky, the glory of Loulan ancient city no longer exists, high-rise buildings collapse and a large number of people move out. Even the once sapphire-like "blue ocean of prison" gradually dried up and evaporated into a white saline-alkali land, and the once fish schools had long since disappeared. The thin sheep struggled to find food in the vast saline-alkali land, and only the tenacious Populus euphratica was still guarding the Peacock River basin, which was black and blue, plus the enemy's attack. The ancient city of Loulan is in danger, and people complain a lot. Looking at people living in dire straits, Princess Loulan also fell into sadness. At night, listening to the roar of yellow sand outside, she fell asleep with a heavy heart. At this moment, a beautiful peacock with seven colors appeared in front of her eyes and told Princess Loulan, "Please take me away, and I will save you. My seven-color feathers have special powers. Red feathers can save terminally ill people, orange feathers can make crops mature quickly, green feathers can avoid national wars, blue feathers can predict all natural disasters, blue feathers give people hope for life, and purple feathers bring people romantic and pure love. Only Jin Yu needs users to give up their lifetime wealth.
Sand and stones were flying outside, and a tall thousand-year-old Populus euphratica could not resist the erosion of wind and sand, and finally fell down in the dark. The loud noise woke up the dream princess Loulan. She told King Loulan the scene in her dream, and King Loulan ordered the seven-color peacock's body to be dug up. Unfortunately, it has been eroded by salt and alkali, leaving only the golden hair hairpin.
In 448 AD, the enemy troops of the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked, and the grief-stricken King Loulan decided to give it a try anyway for the sake of the suffering people and the future of the ancient city!
On second thought, the greatest wealth today is food. They did not hesitate to open the warehouse to release food, and distributed all the food to the bony victims, even clothes, gold coins and treasures. The princess's Pisces used to be a couple, but now only the princess's Pisces still exists. She reluctantly buried Pisces in the yellow sand, which was the last thing she wanted to give up.
She hugged King Loulan with tears, took off the golden feather hairpin in her hair, and prayed for Jin Yu to exert her divine power to save the distressed people and the decaying ancient city. In an instant, the golden light shone, and the ancient city of Loulan was restored to its former prosperity and beauty. Everything has been restored, and the ancient city of Loulan has become an eternal pure land of bliss, but they are invisible and still thrive in their own ancient city. No matter the foreign caravan or the attacking enemy of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they only saw the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan in broken walls, gradually submerged in the sand. The Loulan people who disappeared that night could not find the body, so the northern Wei army and the passing caravan who attacked Loulan brought the news to Chang 'an. Everyone knows that the ancient city of Loulan disappeared overnight, but why it disappeared has become an unsolved mystery for thousands of years, until an archaeological team entered the ruins of Loulan ancient city thousands of years later.