Speaking of this, Gu Hengxi's eyes shone brightly: "We didn't expect that the entire royal city was built in the form of a mandala mandala. Such a town did not exist at all during the prosperity of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom. Of course, no one could guess that at that time, the ancient Shanshan people absorbed the Qiang and Tibetan culture of the Snowy Plains, integrated the Qiang and Tibetan culture with the culture of the Western Regions, completely excluded the Han style, and created this style that was completely unique to the Western Regions. The style of architecture.”
"It's just." Gu Hengxi changed the subject and said, "Miss Song also said just now that by the late Shanshan Dynasty, there were few other foreigners and only the Shanshan Lake people remained. If this is the case, why did they integrate with the Tubo people? Pagoda building?”
This question is also a point of curiosity for everyone. The last imperial city of the ancient Shanshan Dynasty abandoned the architectural styles of all ethnic groups, but only incorporated the Golden Dome Pagoda of Tubo. It is indeed very puzzling. .Ь.
Song Siyuan carefully observed the structure of the White Tower, her eyes lit up and she said, "Is it possible that we have mistaken the relationship between the front and back?"
The construction time of Shahai King City should be during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At that time, Tubo believed in primitive religion. Buddhism did not begin to be introduced to the Snowy Plateau until the early Tang Dynasty, and then it truly became a popular religion believed by thousands of people in the Snowy Plateau. , it was already the end of the Tang Dynasty.
In other words, Buddhism had only begun to be introduced to the Snowy Plateau when Shahai King City was destroyed. It was impossible for the ancient Shanshan Kingdom to be prosperous enough to borrow the architectural style of Tubo Buddhism. On this basis, she was more willing to believe that Tubo borrowed it. The Buddhist culture of the Western Regions, not the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, borrowed the Buddhist culture of Tubo.
To put it bluntly, the Buddhist culture of the Western Regions is about the father, and the Buddhist culture of the Tubo people is about the children. Children have always been like their fathers, not fathers like their children.
Regarding this, she was not just guessing randomly!
Buddhism originated in the Indian Peninsula and originated from the Kingdom of India. The architectural cultural characteristics of Buddhism in India are these inaccessible pagodas and splendid temples and pavilions.
Probably from the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Western eminent monks and great virtues began to preach eastward along the Hexi Corridor. One route entered the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor, and spread to Tubo, Southwest China, and Southeast Asia through the Western Regions. The other route, It directly enters the Guanzhong Plain through the Hexi Corridor, and then goes north and south along the Guanzhong Plain.
It is also because of this that since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a large number of Buddhist temples, sutra caves, and Zen monasteries have appeared in the north and south.
It can be guessed that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism from Tianzhu spread to the ancient Shanshan Kingdom along the Western Regions. These eminent monks began to build Buddhist temples and monasteries in the five major trading towns of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom. Of course, they also introduced Tianzhu’s pagodas to the Western Regions, and gradually formed the Western Regions. Buddhist culture.
The white pagoda and golden dome are actually one of the important features and expressions of Buddhist architectural culture in the Western Regions!
During the heyday of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, many Tibetan merchants traveled between the deserts and snow-covered plateaus to engage in trade. During folk exchanges, they also brought the Buddhist culture of the Western Regions to the Tubo Kingdom, and integrated it with the local primitive religion to form Tibetan Buddhism. After the Buddhist culture, pagodas with white pagodas and golden tripods also began to appear.
"In other words, the white pagodas we see now should be the Buddhist architecture of the Western Regions that reached its heyday. It is only because Tubo Buddhism has the shadow of Western Region Buddhism that we feel that these golden-domed white pagodas are a bit like Tubo pagodas."
Song Siyuan's statement just explained everyone's doubts. They no longer doubted the authenticity of the pagoda in Shahai King City, and walked along the sand under the slope towards the west gate of Shahai King City.
There are already several rivers washed out by nature under the sinkhole. They are not sure whether there is sand under the soil, so they are very careful when walking. The sand under their feet soaks into the groundwater, and it is slightly soft when walking on it, but it is not too soft for their feet. Falling into the sand, it feels like walking on yellow mud.
The further they walked inside, the more they could feel that the Sand Sea King City was completely preserved. Combined with the fact that it had fallen into a sinkhole, the completeness of the Sand Sea King City seemed a bit strange - from the sand layer on the ground to the sinkhole. The height difference has exceeded a hundred meters. At such a high distance, let alone an entire city, even a stone should be smashed to pieces.
How can such a large town remain intact, even if it cracks and collapses?
There were no signs, which really made everyone curious.
Song Siyuan seemed to be very surprised by this. She turned on the flashlight and carefully looked at the soil underground. He picked up the Luoyang shovel and pierced it directly into the sand to a depth of half a meter. When he took out the Luoyang shovel and looked at the surface of the soil, he found that there was indeed sand within an inch. But the other half meter away from it is a kind of black and yellow soil that is almost very moist. After a few minutes of rest, water can already be seen emerging from the soil, and water drops are dripping downwards.
She carefully observed the texture and shape of the soil, and seemed to have understood what was going on. She explained to everyone: "The secret of the Sand Sea King City not collapsing even though it fell into a sinkhole may lie in the soil with a very high water content."
She paused and explained the various reasons to everyone: "When the Sand Sea King City was located above the ground, it was always led into various tributaries by the Hotan River, thus forming an oasis. The soil moisture itself was relatively high. Under the geological disaster, the rock layer beneath the sand layer itself was not very strong, and it continued to break and crack during the earthquake, and eventually fell completely into the sinkhole."
During this process, there may be some kind of moist silt in the underground magma, which acts as a buffer for the rock formations carrying the Royal City. In addition, there is oasis soil above the rock formations. When the rock formations fall, there are people above and below unloading the Royal City. The impact-reducing structure protects the integrity of the Sand Sea King City.
As they spoke, they had already reached the west gate of the royal city. The door panel had been shaken loose during the fall and fell sideways. They removed the plank and walked into the ancient city through the doorway. What happened inside made everyone worried. Got suspicious.
"Where have all the living people gone?"
Yue Guanchao noticed something unusual and asked curiously.
When the Shahai Royal City fell, most of the people were in the royal city. Even the nobles of Shanshan Kingdom and the Queen of Shanshan disappeared into the desert together with the royal city.
At this moment, it is a fact that the royal city has fallen into a sinkhole. When the people in the city fell from a height, it was absolutely impossible to be intact. The place should be full of corpses. Now that they entered the city, they did not see any corpses. It was as if all the people in the city had fallen into a sinkhole. The people and all living creatures in the city have disappeared in the sinkhole, leaving only the abandoned ancient city that has experienced thousands of years.琇书蛧
"Is it possible that these ancients escaped with Queen Shanshan?" Xu Xiake said.
They couldn't see any corpses, which didn't mean that these people really died without a burial place. It was possible that they escaped with Queen Shanshan after the disaster.
