Talk:Luoyang
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Here is a passage from the Chinese novel "The Three Kingdoms":
Dong Zhuo sent five thousand troops out [to luoyang] to plunder and slay. They captured many thousand wealthy householders and, having stuck flags on their heads saying they were Traitors and Rebels, drove them out of the city and put them to death. Their properties were all seized.
30 The task of driving forth the inhabitants, some millions, was given to two of Dong Zhuo's commanders, Li Jue and Guo Si. The people were sent off in bands, each band between two parties of soldiers, who drove them torward Changan. Enormous numbers fell by the road side and died in the ditches, and the escort plundered the fugitives and defiled the women. A wail of sorrow arose to the very sky.
31 Dong Zhuo's final orders as he left Capital Luoyang were to burn the whole city: Houses, palaces, temples, and everything were devoured by the flames. The capital became but a patch of scorched earth.
32 Dong Zhuo sent Lu Bu to desecrate the tombs of the emperors and their consorts for the jewels therein, and the common soldiers took the occasion to dig up the graves of officials and plunder the cemeteries of the wealthy. The spoil of the city, gold and silver, pearls and silks, and beautiful ornaments, filled several thousand carts. With these and the persons of the Emperor and his household, Dong Zhuo moved off to the new capital in the first year of Inauguration of Tranquillity (AD 190).
33 Luoyang being thus abandoned, the general of Dong Zhuo at River Si Pass, Zhao Cen, evacuated that post of vantage, which Sun Jian at once occupied. Liu Bei and his brothers took Tiger Trap Pass and the confederate lords advanced.
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Maybe this event ought to be mentioned in the city's history?
- Please do so. Down here things happen faster if you make them. :) --Plastictv 07:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Do not see much need for such additions. As the city witnessed quite a number of better or worse events in history, listing this event alone gives an incomplete, and biased indication.
Do you know there are actually four locations of the city, three as ruins under or near the present one? I am not against expanding the history section, but we it must be done with enough amount of material.
