Talking about the Tibetan mood

Xiang Xiong's capital city is known as K Hyung Lung Dnglu Mkhar in the literature, and some of it is also known as vault silver castle, which is called "vault Vika" in Tibetan.

Uh ... "Dome" means Dapeng bird, "Long" means "Chu", and "Dome" is where Dapeng bird lives. "Wei" originally meant silver, here it is extended to silver, and "Carl" means castle. In short, vicard is "Dapeng Silver City".

According to the Dunhuang Tubo historical document Zanpu Biography, after Samaga and Li Mixia got married, they sent Bujin Zanmang to visit Samaga in the dome fortress. Samaga described the situation of the dome silver city in his song, which said, "The place where I married him is the dome fortress. Some people think it is a vast area, but it is a steep cliff from the outside and gold from the inside.

In the field of archaeology, the exact location of the dome silver city is still inconclusive, but it can basically be determined in the Xiangquan River basin in Ali area.

Since the 20th century, the large ancient ruins in the upper reaches of Xiangquan River have gradually attracted the attention of explorers. Among them, there are the ruins of the "Vault Silver City" in Gaer County and the "Vault Silver City" in Zada County, both of which are castle ruins built on the mountain, and both meet the geographical conditions of the "Vault Silver City" recorded in the literature [1].

Xiangquan River Basin is the most important birthplace of ancient civilization in western Tibet. The famous Xiangxiong Kingdom (called "Toarey Yang" and "Nvguo" in China history books) and Guge Kingdom have created brilliant cultures around this basin. Because this basin is adjacent to the South Asian subcontinent and the Central Asian grassland, it has also become a crossroads for the exchange of civilizations between China and foreign countries, and has always been highly valued by academic circles at home and abroad. From the 1920s to 1930s, foreign scholars, represented by Italian Tibetan scholar Giuseppe Twitch, began to make archaeological investigations in this area, but after the early 1950s, the archaeological work in this area was basically at a standstill. It was not until the late 1970s and early 1980s that Chinese scholars re-entered this area to carry out archaeological work, and successively made a series of remarkable archaeological achievements, such as Guge Ancient City Archaeology, Tuolin Temple Archaeology and Piyang Donggadong Temple Archaeology.

From June to August, 2004, with the support of National Cultural Heritage Administration, the "Xiangquan River Basin Archaeological Investigation Team" composed of China Institute of Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University, Department of Archaeology of Sichuan University and Xizang Autonomous Region Cultural Relics Bureau went to Xiangquan River Basin to investigate the coastal cultural relics in China, and made great progress on the basis of previous work.

Among the pre-Buddhist archaeological remains discovered in this investigation, the most important one is the "dome silver city" site group located in Menshi Township, Gaer County. According to legend, it is the capital of Xiangxiong Kingdom in history. The site is located on the north bank of Xiangquan River in the eastern margin of Zhada Basin. Three small rivers named Quna River, Quga River and Qinlang River meet on the south side of the site, so the small place name is also "Qusongduo". After careful investigation and mapping by the survey team, it is preliminarily found that the site is located at the top of a narrow strip with a slight northeast-southwest trend, with a total area of about 1.3 million square meters.

Up to now, the local Bonism monks still regard the site group of "Yinqiu Yin Cheng" discovered in this investigation as the birthplace of the prince of the elephant kingdom, and the ancient place name "Yinqiu Weikar" is also recorded in Tibetan history books. Judging from the temporal and spatial characteristics of the site, the possibility that it belongs to the remains of Xiangxiong Kingdom cannot be underestimated. However, for a long time, there is no corresponding archaeological data and literature to confirm each other.