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Some Chinese Sources on the Khazars and Khwarazm |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:37 来源：不详
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sp;of the Jin. However, Wugusun Zhongduan was not able to persuade with Chinggis Khan and then had to return to the Jin with empty hands in December of 1221. The journey made him realize that under the heavy attack of the Mongols, the destruction of the Jin state would only be a matter of time. In 1233, he committed suicide at home. The next year saw the destruction of the Jin Dynasty.
Liu Qi was a friend of Wugusun Zhongduan and also a famous member of the literati, who wrote the travel account according to Zhongduan’s talk. The text was entitled Note on an Embassy to the North, because people in the Jin Dynasty called the authority of Chinggis Khan the Northern Dynasty. The Beishi ji is collected in Liu Qi’s Guiqian zhi. It gives us a colorful picture of Khwarazm in the 13th century:
In December of 1220 I passed the northern frontier ( of the Jin empire ), and proceeded in a north-western direction, where the ground rises gradually. Advancing parallel with ( the northern frontier of ) the Xia empire, after&nbs << 上一页 [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] ... 下一页 >> |
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