Coquettish Rebirth

There is a lot of work to be done to design Loulan as a lost city-state like Atlantis.First of all, Jia Hongjian and the others first imitated the design of the "water canal" in Rome to add beauty to the ancient Loulan country!how?Ancient Rome, which was about the same time as the Han Dynasty, still had running water?No!In ancient Rome, their water sources were on the mountains, and then a group of nobles built many elevated aqueducts like modern viaducts in order to drink water. The construction is that there is a slope that gradually decreases.In this way, the nobles in the last city of Rome can use the spring water on the mountain outside the city, what a pretense!

Jia Hongjian and the others want to use this kind of pretense in the ancient city of Loulan, but there are no mountains near Loulan—the place where Loulan is located is the place where later generations of China detonated nuclear bombs in the Northwest, and the surrounding area is deserted. How about the wasteland desert!Where is the mountain!However, it is not difficult to solve this problem. Does it require very complicated technology to raise the water?Wouldn't the waterwheel work?Ordinary waterwheels use the power of water flow to obtain power, but here the board of the waterwheel is replaced with three quarters of a hollowed-out cylinder, and then these cylinders follow the movement of the waterwheel The shelf rotates to the place where the highest point starts to descend. Let's design a pipe for receiving water. Doesn't this raise the water?Then can't it be transported to the water canal?It's amazing that such a waterwheel should be driven by human power or something!It doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not, what's important is to be a little bit aggressive!At first glance, people have a kind of "I don't understand what's going on. But it feels amazing"!

On the other side, if Jia Hongjian and the others want to design such a country, they must not just rely on imagination, but also get some rough historical facts as an aid.So when the artist and Nolan were thinking about the specific costumes of the characters, Jia Hongjian started making overseas phone calls back to China, and asked Ni Guangnan in China to help find an archaeologist to help Jia Hongjian answer some questions.Then, Mr. Ni Guangnan found him Mr. Yang Lian, a powerful archaeologist in the Academy of Social Sciences.

"Mr. Yang, we want to make a movie recently, and we will mention Loulan in the middle. How far have we studied Loulan so far? Can you give me a general introduction?" Jia Hongjian said politely. After asking angrily, listening to Mr. Yang over there, he introduced with a very polite smile: "Do you want to make a movie? Then I will briefly talk about it. It is also a bit more popular... in our country in the 80s A female corpse was unearthed in Loulan. This female corpse was quite dry because of the local environment. So it was preserved better. After it was restored, we saw that it was obviously Caucasian, that is, Caucasian, and it was quite beautiful. Yes. It’s just that the color of the hair is black. In the past two years, according to the results of the comparison of the remaining DNA samples by the anthropologists of our Academy of Social Sciences, we found that the people of Loulan are basically the ancient Afghans..."

wipe!At that time, Jia Hongjian was stunned when he heard it!Does your sister's Loulan still have a female corpse?And it recovered?Or beauty?Hiss... Are you really white?It seems that Jia Hongjian was right to find Sophie Marceau to play the role!After thinking of this, he immediately asked Mr. Yang. "Old man, what is the style of their clothes in Loulan? Is it a bit like that of India and Afghanistan, or is it a bit like us Chinese Han people?"

"It's not very similar. It's mainly similar to today's Central Asian nomads. They wear more fur. For example, the female corpse we unearthed should have lived 14 years ago based on carbon-3800 identification. She was wearing a fur. So I guess if you want to design, you may design a pointed felt hat with feathers on it, and the clothes you wear may also be more Mongolian, and the material is rough wool fabric and sheepskin, and fur boots sewn with rough thread should be worn on the feet..."

It was only after hearing this that Jia Hongjian realized that people in Loulan didn't wear bed sheets, did they?But if you think about it carefully, it seems to be true-don’t we say that in the northwest of the frontier, we all say “wear leather jackets in the morning and gauze in the afternoon, and eat watermelon with the stove in your arms”?There are wastelands around the house, and the sunshine time is very long all day long, and the temperature difference between day and night is almost certain!People wear fur clothes in the morning and evening, can't they finish the yarn at noon?Even though they can't be allowed to wear bed sheets in this way, Jia Hongjian, as a Chinese, obviously prefers to see beautiful women wearing Chinese-style clothing!

Next, Jia Hongjian told Nolan that they might have to change the design method, and at the same time continued to chat with Mr. Yang. "Where did the Loulan race come from? There is still no complete conclusion. After all, because the Loulan female corpse has been around for too long and the DNA fragments are really insufficient, we can only know that it is of the Caucasian race. However, there are rumors in China , The people who said that the ancient city of Loulan should be the legendary Aryans, that is, from ancient Iran, because according to research, the language spoken in Loulan is Tocharian, which originated from Northwest India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other regions, Northwest China has also been affected. Even now, some words in our Chinese are borrowed from Tocharian. For example, the word honey is derived from spit fire The myat in the Luo language, like the lion, comes from their sacake, and the Kunlun, which is the transliteration of the word klyom in their language..."

Whoa!When Jia Hongjian was surprised here, before he had time to react, he heard Mr. Yang continue to say, "But although their language is Tocharian, the Tocharian language has not formed its own language. Therefore, they use other characters, just like Mongolia. Before Genghis Khan, Mongolia did not have its own characters. Although they had Mongolian language, they still adopted Uighur as their own after Genghis Khan. Text. The same is true for Loulan. Their language is Tocharian, and their text is Kallu. It is said that it was invented by the donkey-lip fairy in ancient Indian mythology. The areas used are Northwest India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and my country. Some places in the northwest.

This text is more troublesome. There are a total of 252 different symbols to represent various combinations of vowels and consonants. It is written horizontally from right to left, usually in cursive script, but there are also inscriptions carved on stones and metal coins. ...Then their numbers are also very interesting. This number is similar to Roman notation. i is 1, ii is 2, and iii is 3, but their x represents 4, and they are written on the left to represent addition. For example, ix represents 5. xx stands for 8, ixx stands for 9,10, 20 is a small semicircle, and 3 is two small semicircles arranged up and down, which looks like [-]..."

wipe!At this time, Jia Hongjian was really glad that he called back and asked someone to ask!Just look at how many things came out of this question!In this way, when they design and restore the entire ancient city of Loulan, they will save Jia Hongjian and others a lot of trouble!At least there is no need to forge the text or anything else!At least how many brain cells were spent!And with Mr. Yang's introduction, Jia Hongjian understood that Buddhism was very popular in Central Asia at that time in history!It's not just India, like Afghanistan, to several stans in the west of China, and then to the northwest of China, all of them believe in Buddhism!It was only after the rise of Islam later that Buddhism was slowly squeezed out of the local area!

If this is the case, then the overall style of belief can also be very fixed-basically all the things of Buddhism all the way!There are many references to these things in Southeast Asia and China. Is it better than talking about some special primitive religions?

Then, Mr. Yang is quite powerful. After he explained Jia Hongjian’s confusion, he also faxed a few photos to Jia Hongjian—the archaeological department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recovered the female corpse from Loulan. after photo.After getting the faxed photo, Jia Hongjian looked at the photo, which looked like a copy, and had to say that this woman was really pretty, but she didn't smile, and she looked a little sad... Hiss, this Maybe it's the king of the daughter country who didn't meet Tang Seng and died in depression!Jia Hongjian couldn't help thinking in such a random way.

In addition to the appearance of the face, this photo also restores the clothes on the woman's body - although the clothes are still intact after thousands of years of drying, the color has faded a lot.Looking at the restored clothes, they are fat and big, and they are still very rough-at first glance, they are all kinds of coarse cloth and coarse wool!To be honest, if this woman hadn't been so pretty, Jia Hongjian would have thought it was something a maid was wearing at first sight!

Of course, this kind of coarse stuff must not appear on Sophie Marceau.According to the general pattern, the artist then started to design the overall shape of Sophie Marceau - because after wearing the felt hat, the crown obviously can't be used either!So the method used is to turn the felt hat into a crown, inlaid a huge ruby ​​or the like on the felt hat, and then inserted colorful feathers, which looks high-end and atmospheric!Then the fluffy felt hat should be made of white fox fur, so it looks absolutely cool and noble!By the way, the overall shape of the clothes is also based on the Mongolian national costumes. It has a pattern from the neck to the underarms that is somewhat related to the Central Plains. Changing this kind of robe to slim the waist can show the actress's amazing figure!Then, fluffy white fox fur is added to various necklines, cuffs, and open plackets.In this way, Sister Yu will have a kind of glamorous and cute look in this dress! (To be continued..)