Why did Xuanzang detour?

(First appeared in the Tang Dynasty) In the history of the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang was not so sissy in TV dramas before he was dramatized.

Xuanzang went abroad at the age of 29. At the age of 365,438+0, he went to study in Nalanduo Temple, a famous Buddhist school in central India. At present, he has traveled all over India (India was temporarily unified), and began to return to China at the age of 44, and returned to Chang 'an at the age of 46.

It took 17 years to travel abroad and study abroad, and it passed through 130 countries in advance. If he does have a customs clearance document, there must be a visa under it. It is true that he smuggled without a license.

During the period when the average life expectancy of that person was less than 40 years old, this trip alone consumed a person's half life.

Xuanzang's trip is of great significance from the perspective of religious pilgrimage, but it is not worth simulating for ordinary people. Let's look at the map. He took several detours.

Why did Tang Priest detour?

There are several main reasons for this. Some people take it for granted that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is too high to go outside, but there are at least three land routes to India in modern times. The shortest and most convenient way is to cross the roof of the world and the "Fanni Ancient Road" in Lhasa. The one that Xuanzang took first in Central Asia and then went south can be said to be the farthest of the three roads.

Fanni Road: Go through the ancient Tang-Fan Road, then go southeast, leave Tibet in Geelong, and you can reach Nepal.

It was not until 13 that Princess Wencheng married Tubo and his relatives after Xuanzang left the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty knew that they could go to Tianzhu through Tubo, which was several times shorter than the detour in Central Asia. Xuanzang returned to the present Tang Dynasty, and Tianzhu's internal affairs were basically like this.

But unfortunately, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty when Xuanzang left, people in the Tang Dynasty did not know the existence of this road, and even people in the Tang Dynasty basically did not know the important position of Tianzhu. Even in the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty published after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, the writers still copied the old materials and thought that Tianzhu was located in the northwest of Pamirs in Central Asia.

Even the earlier Sui Dynasty made this mistake. Emperor Yang Di has sent people to the western regions (Central Asia) to look for the countries recorded in the history books of the Han Dynasty, but he has searched all over the western regions (Central Asia) but can't find Tianzhu-it would be a ghost to find Tianzhu.

It is also a great pity, because 700 years before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a Han Dynasty man, invented the hemp fabric made in Yunnan in Central Asia-it is said that the Central Asians sold it from India to merchants in Shu. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms and even the Jin Dynasty, China's silk went from Chengdu to Yunnan, to India and finally to Rome. (This is the third way)

Even from some archaeological evidence, as far back as Sanxingdui culture in the middle and early Shang Dynasty, China had contacts with Indian.

▲ China and India are indeed brothers, even earlier than history books.

The astronomical common sense known to people in the Han Dynasty was forgotten in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that it gradually recovered.

We modern people have an illusion that once common sense and culture are improved, they will not disappear, so each generation must be better than the next, but this is an illusion.

There is a chatham islands in the southeast of New Zealand. There are only more than 2000 residents here. They have immigrated here from the North Island of New Zealand for more than 1000 years. Because of astronomical isolation, they forgot the shipbuilding technology and planting technology and returned to the hunting society. Because of the narrow area, in order to ensure that their prey is not ignited, they have adopted castration and birth control to control the population. The villages on the island formed a war alliance through negotiations. Finally, at the expense of cultural development, the harmony of social and natural was realized.

Then, a thousand years later, it was surrendered and destroyed by hundreds of Maori farmers with metal weapons. It all happened at 1835.

China at the end of the Han Dynasty and Europe after the disintegration of Rome experienced the development of this culture and the process of common sense being forgotten.

Still telling stories about the Tang Dynasty and India.

When Xuanzang was in India, he had contacts with India's powerful state of Mugatuo. Under his influence, the northern Indian forces sent internal envoys to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty also sent envoys to pay a return visit, taking the shortest road-Fanni Old Road. There is a name on the list of ambassadors that we should pay attention to-Wang Xuance.

Wang Xuance's highest life is nothing more than being a doctor with five products. Among the 30 official ranks in the Tang Dynasty, they are nothing more than 14, and can only be regarded as intermediate officials. However, his work made the ancients speechless thousands of years later.

Because India is separated by a Tubo who was hostile to the Tang Dynasty in advance, the communication between the Tang Dynasty and India's Mojietuo is basically a hostile gift and trade cooperation. Wang Xuance was an envoy in the first diplomatic mission of the Tang Dynasty, but he became an ambassador in the second diplomatic mission of the Tang Dynasty. The consequence is that something happened this time.

There was a coup in Mojeto. After the death of the original king, there was no heir, so warlords everywhere scuffled. Among them, a warlord named Arona Shun took a fancy to the specialties of various countries brought by Wang Xuance, and he was very shameless in predatory desire. Wang Xuance's diplomatic corps had only more than 30 people, so it won a great victory and all the goods were robbed. As long as Wang Xuance and the agreement Jiang escaped.

But the reason why the Tang Dynasty flourished was that there were too many real talents, and one suddenly appeared. Wang Xuance, who was originally unknown, did not flee to Chang 'an, but indirectly turned to his friends Tubo and Nipolo in the Tang Dynasty for help. These countries are also very eager to lend him 8000 soldiers.

The attack of Datang began.

Wang Xuance transformed from a civilian to a general, led 8,000 chosen men and defended Arona Shun, who had tens of thousands of people. In three days, they captured Chabu and Luocheng, beheaded 3,000 people, drowned more than 10,000 rebels, and Arona fled-quit-fought again-and lost again.

At present, Arona Shun and its princesses, princes and12,000 people have been captured, with 30,000 livestock, and 580 towns have surrendered to the Tubo army led by Wang Xuance. Other neighboring countries of India also wavered everywhere, offering hostile hints such as livestock, bows, knives and maps, and even adopting the portrait of Laozi, the state religion of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Xuance brought Arona back to Chang 'an with a large number of gifts, followers and prisoners from other countries.

Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, said sarcastically to Arona Shun:

"This man, his eyes and ears like wonderful music, and his mouth and nose are addicted to happiness, all of which are the sources of bad morality. If you don't take my emissary hostage, why are you here today? "

There is also a disgraceful beginning to this matter.

Wang Xuance brought back many rare treasures, but there were also some strongmen. Among them, a Tianzhu warlock named Nair's wife, Mei, claimed to have lived for 200 years and was immortal. Li Shimin was very happy. "Emperor Taizong is deeply respected, and the museum is under the door of Jin Biao. Make the medicine prolong life ",hoping to lose the" elixir of life ".

Li Shimin ordered Cui Dunli, the minister of the Ministry of War, to supervise the "elixir of life" and "make the world famous, and adopt strange medicines and stones that are countless." It took several years to extract it, but after Li Shimin took many pills, the curative effect was basically gone, and then she had to send her sister-in-law back to India. Li Shimin died of chronic poisoning at the age of 52.

So it's easy to understand that Wang Xuance made great contributions but only rose to the DPRK. Li Shimin's death was closely related to him, and the emperor who succeeded to the throne was also interested in the western elixir, so Wang Xuance was not promoted or demoted.

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