黑城悲歌

Sad Story of An Ancient Town

王大爷吃力地把水桶提得老高,将水倒进门行车后座上的水桶里。我问,这井有多深?“9.6米。”他不假思索地回答。四周黄沙漫漫,近旁是古弱水故道。几百米开外,矗立着一片沙掩尘埋的残垣断壁,那就是黑城。元末明初的一场战争令河流改道,古城从此死寂一片,沦为废墟。73岁的王则恭三年前来到这里,负责收门票,是大漠孤城里唯一的臣民。认识他的人都叫他“王市长”。怪树林凝聚成深刻黑城任内蒙古最西部的额济纳戈壁上。在蒙语中,黑城叫“哈拉浩特”。黑城的历史很沉重。

Heicheng is located in the westernmost Ejina Banner of Nei Monggol.It was a border town during the Western Xia period and was known to be Hallahot in the Mong- gol language. In 1226 AD, Genghis Khan and his solders took the so-call^d impregnable town at one strike. In 1372, Ming Dynasty Martial Feng Sheng and his troops stormed this town but were not able to seize it.Martial Feng Sheng then decided to change the river course to cut out the town s water supply.Heicheng fell. For the next hundreds of years He...