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Long and Short Books —— From Metropolis to Shangdu

People will go back to their old places and books will be opened again. Reading regression from city to business capital.

Dadu in Yuan Dynasty, referred to as Dadu for short, is called "Kan baruch" in Turkic, which was built in Yuan Dynasty, which is now the old city of Beijing.

Shangdu, formerly Kaiping County, was the seat of the Summer Palace in the Yuan Dynasty. That is, the lightning river in the northwest of Duolun County in Zhenglan Banner of Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. More accurately, it is Jinlianchuan.

Professor Luo Xin set off from Beijing for 15 days and arrived in Jinlianchuan, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. The flowering period of Jinlianchuan on the grassland had not yet arrived, Jinlianchuan was in sporadic bloom, and the resident birds and white finches on the grassland were hard to find. Standing in front of Professor Luo Xin is the newly-built tourist area-Yuanshangdu Site, which is carefully preserved in the scenic fence by modern building materials.

The book From Metropolis to Shangdu has a long preface, Towards Jinlianchuan-a pre-publicized hike. This preface not only expresses the exploration of the origin of a hike, but also focuses on such a self-question: "So, as a person who studies the history of China, do I really know the China I studied? I asked myself over and over again. Such a question, in addition to Professor Luo Xin's professional consideration as a historian, also contains the concern about the current history. This road from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty is not too far in history. However, the historical round trip between Dadu and Shangdu is enough for us to ponder and explore. For most cities and merchants, the different fates of these two cities are the same as the historical nodes. When history gets there, either go straight or turn around. The road from shangdu to metropolis is only 1000 years old. When we understand and appreciate the geography, customs and history of 1000 years ago with modern eyes, we will find that history includes not only the long past, but also our present examination.

Most of them-that is, Beijing now, and Shangdu-are still Jinlianchuan. At present, these two place names which can not be ignored in historical geography also represent different historical trends. Most of the Yuan Dynasty became a large-scale city after Yuan Shundi hastily resigned as a temple. Later, most of them changed several times in the historical sequence of Yuan, Ming, Qing and China, and their names were changed from mostly to Beijing and Peiping. As the seat of the Summer Palace in the Yuan Dynasty, Jinlianchuan, the more simple name of Shangdu, has remained basically unchanged. If we know that more than a thousand years ago, it was such a flat valley, which was once a gathering place for thousands of people and exotic goods, we may all be a little skeptical. Professor Luo Xin named this purely personal hiking trip "From Metropolis to Shangdu", but he tried to answer these questions one by one. Answer why these histories belong to us, what we have experienced in these histories, what lessons these histories have given us, and what remains these histories have left us.

In Professor Luo Xin's travel notes "From Metropolis to Shangdu", on the way from Beijing to Jinlianchuan, there are not only the back of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, but also the figure of the rider of the Ming Dynasty, and the cries of people fleeing along this road. We seem to be able to see Professor Luo Xin, like a transparent soul, mingled in the vast procession on the road from Dadu to Shangdu, and in the procession with horses and chariots and tombs. Start when the morning bell rings and rest when the evening drum rings. He followed the winding car account team over the mountains to clear customs. The emperor's summer vacation team is still marching according to the same itinerary and schedule. No one in the team noticed the existence of Professor Luo Xin and turned a blind eye. In Professor Luo Xin's view, on this once busy road, people come and go, trying to leave their marks in different ways. But in this way, no one can completely own the road and the land on both sides of the road. At the end of the road, the golden lotus on Jinlianchuan is still in full bloom, and those who can appreciate it have gone through several cycles. From Dadu to Shangdu, from Deloitte Gate, through the gap of Yanshan Mountain, we reach the grassland outside the Great Wall. If you don't stop riding, you can continue along this vast grassland and reach the edge of the European continent-the English Channel as much as possible. In the heyday of Jinlianchuan, business travelers and people with different languages and accents came here from all directions. After a refreshing summer here, they dispersed in autumn and returned next year.

We pick up these histories not to prove that our history is profound, but to remind us of our indifference to historical cognition. Although the Yuan Dynasty only existed in the history of China for more than 80 years, such a period of history existed objectively. But how much energy have we spent exploring this history? And this period of history is a part of the history of the Mongolian empire. History is closely related to history, and most of the reasons for the lack of history lie in our indifference to history itself and always thinking that we understand it. In fact, we often know nothing about it, even worse than the golden lotus blooming on the Golden Lotus River.

"Some things happened in the frontier" described in "Dadu to Shangdu" focuses on the next generation. And take the "Qin Long Peace Proposal" as the dividing line.

From a more grand perspective, From Metropolis to Shangdu should be a personal observation of "something happened in the frontier". "What is the frontier" has always been a vague concept. But there is an invisible but real dividing line between geography and humanities. The positions on both sides of this line can be said to be the "middle zone" in the frontier reality. Juyongguan was the frontier of the Ming Empire, but the area north of Juyongguan was the "buffer land" of the Ming Empire. In fact, the "buffer land" is the real frontier of the Ming Empire. As for people living in this obscure buffer zone, they will inadvertently become pawns in the wrestling between the Ming Empire and Mongolian tribes. There are Han and Mongolian people in the border areas. As far as the historical term "something happened in the frontier" is concerned, these Han Chinese and Mongolian ancients are the first to bear the brunt. When they were in the place where the Ming Empire collided with Mongolian tribes, their choices and backs constituted most of their fate.

When the great historical narrative of "something happened in the frontier" gradually became the change of place names written by Professor Luo Xin, the personal fate of one celebrity after another. The historical content of "you come and I go" isolated in that secret frontier is gradually implemented in specific details. We may really realize that the hidden "frontier" is real. What Professor Luo Xin saw and heard along the way from Dadu to Shangdu is not hundreds of years old, but has been synchronized with history. All traces of people are very easy to be covered up under the environment of wind and grass every year. From Metropolis to Shangdu, there are many abandoned villages, ruined villages in the city and deserted wild roads. These scenes are easily overlooked in the background of the frontier. Only when walking, these landscapes will be remembered and recorded, and then they will remain silent until they are unrecognizable and have no memory.

We have to admit that in the content of China's grand historical narrative, the content of "something happened in the frontier" is on the edge of the historical record, just like the place where it happened. When we re-examine the two historical endpoints linked by this road, the grandeur of this road will appear on the land where this road travels or extends. Time has passed, but it doesn't mean that everything will pass. When we look back and forth on this road with the help of Professor Luo Xin's vision, we should also include specific things such as cold, food, water, climate, rivers, pastures, cattle and sheep, salt tea, tribes and so on. When these concrete lives are carried out in the frontier, we will know that "some things are not hearsay gossip" After that, there were walls, beacon towers, barracks, sidewalks, walled cities, passes, bows and arrows, and swords and horses. In the beautiful scenery of frontier poems, in fact, few people can survive safely. When we observe and examine history from various perspectives and materials, we often need a historical reader like From Metropolis to Shangdu to help us understand more deeply what happened in the corner of great history. The wonderful places in the frontier are as wonderful as the history of Beijing's capital as we know. It can even be said that the grand scale of the history of these remote places is often beyond our misunderstanding!

In the eyes of historians, the history in actual geography is far richer than that recorded in historical books. Similarly, the history contained in these geographies is much deeper than what we have browsed roughly. When Professor Luo Xin gives advice and enjoys what he has seen along the way, we may find such a truth: "It is new to look at old books with new eyes; Look at new books with old eyes, and new books are old books. " The horizon is different from the weather, and what you see also presents a different scene. The difference between the old and new scenery is people's cognition of the old and new. If it weren't for Professor Luo Xin's foresight, we might not be able to explain why we are facing a desolate wilderness.

Jinlianchuan is named after the golden lotus that blooms in the valley grassland. Trollius is not a lotus, but a Ranunculaceae plant. Its leaves are as round as lotus leaves but much smaller, and trumpet-shaped flowers are much smaller. Its color is mainly yellow and orange, hence the name Trollius chinensis. This herb likes cold and cold, and grows in a humid environment of two to fifteen degrees Celsius.

Jinlianchuan is named after wild flowers, but the name is natural and arbitrary. A lot of artificial ingredients are missing. There are many wild flowers on the grassland, but when a kind of wild flowers is particularly popular, the flower season is coming, and wild flowers can also show incomparable momentum. From the other side of the mountain to the other side of the mountain is home.