–Osnah
“The Western Xia occupied the stretch of the Silk Road, the most important trade route between North China and Central Asia. They made significant achievements in literature, art, music, and architecture, which was characterized as ‘shining and sparkling’.

TuobaYuanhao was the first emperor of the Western Xia Empire. He is a vigorous and persevering leader versed in military strategy.”

The history teacher, Mrsniu slowed down.
Kaya’s mind is still wandering through the esoteric Empire. After a few seconds, she noticed the teacher’s sight dropped on her and stayed on her for a while. It was not long ago, one question she asked had casted quite a silence. No one is able to find the answer in the book.
Kaya is one of the best students on this. And Kaya raises her hand fast to try to be the first one to answer.

The classmates, especially the girls, tend to be more quiet in the class. Though they don’t care about the inner world of the figures in the text books, seems they care a lot about the other girls. “Is she thinking too much?”, “How can she think about that?”

Mrs. niu, before he even took over the assignment of the head teacher of the class, she already had a list of the good students of the class. Kaya is the first on the list. And this again got more consolidated after Kaya had won the first place in the first important exam after entered middle school.

She broke the silence, asked Kaya, Kaya stood up answered. Mrs. Niu seems surprised, she added one more question, did you think this out yourself or it if from books you read. Seems Kaya’s extensive reading habit is known by everyone.Class ended. Classmates ran out of for fresh air.

Kaya stays on the desk, not moved, her mind is back to the esoteric dynasty from the history class. Kaya still remembers a TV series she saw when she was still a primary student. She remembers Yuanhao: tall and handsome with tall nose. Their hair style looks really weird, but it didn’t make yuanhao’s great look compromise at all. The life style of the people around that time looks very special too. Kaya also remembers the very beautiful wives of yuanhao as well. Some of them with strong personalities left strong impressions to kaya as well. The TV series ended with Yuanhao’s death.

After the TV show finished, Kaya’s parents had biked to mausoleum of Xixia Dynasty. It is nothing special, just big. It certainly won’t catch the attraction of a kid that much. Only at the time, it is mentioned that it has been there for over a thousand years, kaya felt a little different. Kaya’s parents don’t say any single word, at the end, on the way back however, Kaya somehow felt a little proud. The TV drama said the scripts they left kept as mystery, not any one can decipher back. She started feeling more proud when she recalls more about TV show. She had a feeling she never had before. She is feeling amazing that the land she is living right now, used to be the capital of a kingdom. They had their own language, they had their own hair style, they had their own clothes styles, they had their own names, they had their own country.