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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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Macartney has gathered the earlier notices of Lulan
from Chinese sources. According to the "Tsien Han-shu,"
or "History of the First Han Dynasty," Lulan came into
intercourse with China between B. C. 140 and B. C. 87.
When the history was written, at some date between B. C.
100 and A. D. 50, the district had a population of 1570 fam-
ilies, 14,100 people, with 2912 trained troops — fifteen or
twenty times as great as the population to-day. The land,
according to the history of the Hans, is "sandy and salty,
and there are few cultivated fields. The country relies on
neighboring kingdoms for cereals and agricultural products.
It produces jade, abundance of reeds, the tamarisk, the
clococca, and white grass. The people remove their cattle
for pasturage wherever they can find sufficiency of water
and herbage. They have asses, horses, and camels. They
can manufacture weapons like the people of Tso-kiang."
This sounds as though there were but little agriculture.
There appears to have been some, however. In B. C. 77, the
king of Lulan, Hui-Tu-Chi, petitioned the Chinese emperor
to establish a military colony in the city of E-tun, where,
he said, "the land is productive and rich." The emperor
sent forty cavalrymen "to cultivate the fields at E-tun, and
soothe the people."
Our next information as to Lulan is derived from certain
manuscripts and other articles found by Hedin in the ruins.
The written documents date from about 264 A. D. to 270
A. D., and probably indicate approximately the time of the
abandonment of at least the particular group of villages in
question. Coins found in the ruins belong to two kinds, one
struck between B. C. 118 and A. D. 581, and the other between
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