Horse in the North Wind -- Deserts Tale

Author: Gao Jianqun
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: In this book, the renowned contemporary writer Gao Jianqun, famous for The Last Xiongnu, uses a sharp and talented pen to dance in the vast spaces of history and reality. He vividly recreates the final journey of the Xiongnu people, the rise and fall of the Loulan dynasty, the fate of the Western Xia dynasty, the sweeping conquests of Genghis Khan's cavalry, and the majestic landscapes of Central and Western Asia. Thus, he naturally concludes that "A history of the Chinese nation's civilization is, in fact, a five-thousand-year civilization shaped by the conflict and fusion of agricultural and nomadic cultures." Standing outside the Great Wall, gazing at the Central Plains, you will realize that the views of the twenty-four histories, which historians are fond of, are completely overturned here. From this perspective, the five-thousand-year civilization of the Chinese nation exists in another form. This is that whenever the Chinese civilization dominated by agricultural culture reaches a crossroads and struggles to continue, the galloping hooves of the nomadic tribes cross the Great Wall and sweep in with a roar, giving new "blood of the Hu and Jie" to the stagnant civilization. This is perhaps the entire mystery behind why the ancient Chinese nation did not disappear from the path of history like several other ancient civilizations in the world.