The tomb of Xixia in twilight

At sunset, we caught up with the last group of tourists, and we came to this place called Xixia Mausoleum, which seems more suitable to express a feeling of remembering and mourning.

Xixia Mausoleum is located 35km west of Yinchuan, Ningxia, with its back to the east foot of Helan Mountain. In the area of 5km between Helan Mountain and Yellow River, there are 9 imperial tombs and more than 25 buried tombs. During our trip to the northwest, we inquired about the road all the way and came here after many twists and turns.

This is a magical tribal group, a mysterious history, and a mysterious dynasty. Even this emperor cemetery is full of mysterious colors. In the twilight, I can see only a few scattered mounds, lost in the dust ... The Helan Mountain in the distance also stretches like a blur in the night.

This tribe is called dangxiang, which belongs to the Qiang nationality. It first appeared in history in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. This is a nation that swims in the cracks of history. What it shows is that it is particularly patient, flexible, big and small, and able to meet the needs of both sides. What remains unchanged in its bones is stubbornness and belligerence, and it never misses any opportunity to develop and expand itself. In the Northern Dynasties, faced with the powerful and increasingly threatening Tubo people, in order to survive, they moved from west to east for a hundred years, first to Qingyang, Gansu, and then to Mizhi and Hengshan generation in Shaanxi. The turmoil in the late Tang Dynasty and the split of the Central Plains in the Five Dynasties period gave this tribe a chance to thrive, and the things rooted in its bones were just about to move. What can't be ignored is the wisdom of this nation. They seized the opportunity of social unrest at that time, and even sent troops to help the rulers of the Tang Dynasty quell the rebellion, which was recognized and fiefdoms by the imperial court ... In 881 AD, they established the Xia Dynasty, appointed officials and collected rent taxes in their own jurisdiction, forming a local force that can't be ignored. During the Song Dynasty, they sometimes obeyed the imperial court and sometimes rebelled. The two sides fought for more than ten years, each winning or losing ... Finally, in the era of Li Yuanhao's grandfather and father, they marched to the north, "East and West merged", made a good relationship with the Song Dynasty to create a peaceful and peaceful environment, "plundered the Tubo war horse" to the west (finally got the chance of revenge) and "collected the fierce soldiers from the stork" to the north. After Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, he expanded his territory to Dunhuang generation through war. At this point, the territory of Xixia is "the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, the desert in the north, and the place is more than 1, miles, relying on Helan Mountain as a solid". In 138 AD, Li Yuanhao changed Xingzhou to Xingqing House and built an altar. With the support of ministers, it officially ascended the throne of the emperor ... A dynasty was established, which formed a tripartite confrontation with Song and Liao at that time, that is, the "Xixia Dynasty" in history, which was at its peak and its territory once reached 83, square kilometers. After 19 years, ten stories spread to its place. Even Genghis Khan, the "generation of tianjiao" who once conquered Europe, was finally tragically killed by the soldiers of Xixia Kingdom. Of course, they also suffered from the crazy revenge of the "people on horseback", bloodbath the capital, and the fate of a dynasty ended from now on ...

If we count from Li Yuanhao's grandfather, the Xixia dynasty should actually have experienced 12 dynasties. But why are there only nine mausoleums in Xixia Mausoleum? It is said that perhaps because of the growing strength of the Mongolian nation, several emperors behind were too busy to cope with the war and had no time to build their own tombs. In this way, the history of this nation came to an early end at the intermittent moment of the tomb. It is also because of the strength of the Mongols that the Xixia Kingdom became a blank in the twenty-four history, which was shrouded in mystery. This imperial cemetery, which was once comparable to the Ming Tombs in Beijing and Song Ling in Gongyi, lost its former glory and became a few lonely mounds in dusty places. It is said that at the beginning, this mausoleum was large in scale and well-laid, with a stocky platform, a wonderful hall for offering sacrifices, towering turrets, a towering platform and colorful ridges ... Each mausoleum of the Mausoleum was a complete architectural group. The emperor of a strong nation spends a lot of money for the luxury behind him ...

What is the mystery of this nation? Needless to say, Li Yuanhao's grandfather died in the battle with the Tubo people. Also, there are Xixia characters created by Li Yuanhao. It is said that those characters have the shadow of Chinese characters, but they are much more complicated than Chinese characters, and their structure is much fuller, so they are difficult to write, recognize and remember, and finally disappear with the demise of the kingdom. What else is there? Is romantic lewd, not only the emperor romantic lewd, even the queen mother is no exception. Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor, took his daughter-in-law as his concubine and died at the hands of his son. The queen mother was killed in a lover's rivalry. Xia Xiangzong, on the other hand, got his aunt's support by having an affair with his aunt who was the queen mother, and sat on the throne ...

A mysterious kingdom disappeared, a mysterious history disappeared and disappeared in the endless dust of the desert. Along with it, there is also the grand building of this tomb, which was noisy and prosperous for a while. According to the data, compared with the lavish Qin Mausoleum, the beautiful Tang Mausoleum, the elegant Song Ling and the graceful Ming Mausoleum, the Xixia Mausoleum stands in the desert and tells the interrupted history, which is desolate and tragic. In the 197s, the tomb of Xixia returned to people's sight through occasional discovery.

The night really came, and the twilight covered several mounds of "Oriental Pyramid", and Helan Mountain became a vague shadow ... Fortunately, I walked in the mausoleum in a hurry, got some faint marks, came back to find some words, and sat alone at my desk quietly knocking on the story of Xixia 8 years ago ...

-Is this also an accident? !

or it's just providence!