Why was Rome called Chin in Han dynasty?

you waatched cartoon so much. also in Chinese history book record that Han have fought with Roman legion in middle Asia and crush them by 5000 against 20000.

Mulan live in the period of Tang dynasty, which she lead an army defeat Turks, not Huns...

you waatched cartoon so much. also in Chinese history book record that Han have fought with Roman legion in middle Asia and crush them by 5000 against 20000.

If only there were proof. Dubs's theory rests mainly on tantalising hints found in ancient Chinese historiography, none of which refers specifically to Romans. There is a reference to the use of a "fish-scale formation" by soldiers in Zhizhi's army, which Dubs said described the testudo formation of overlapping shields "made only by Roman soldiers". And Zhizhi's town had a double wooden palisade outside its wall - a type of fortification he said was often used by Romans and not by the Huns. Then there is the name of the town, Liqian, which may have been used at the time to refer to the Roman empire. In 9AD the name of Liqian was changed for a few years to Jielu, which may mean "prisoners captured in storming a city". In the sixth century Liqian ceased to be used as a placename.

Dubs was not the only one to believe in the Roman connection. Guan Yiquan, a Chinese scholar in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, also became convinced that Liqian had links to Rome. From 1978 until his death 20 years later, he laboured on a huge 450,000-character tome on Liqian. According to his son, Guan Heng, it was not until 1988 that he saw a copy of Dubs's lecture, which happened to dovetail with his own views. Unfortunately, as the younger Mr Guan admits, it too contains no clincher.

Chinese officials would probably not have cottoned on to the tourist- pulling potential of the Roman story had it not been for an Australian writer and adventurer, David Harris. Mr Harris, virtually penniless and upset by the break-up of his marriage, decided to set out for China in search of the town mentioned by Dubs. With the help of the elder Mr Guan, he narrowed his search to the village of Zhelaizhai. His experiences are described in his travel book, "Black Horse Odyssey". Mr Harris's efforts drew attention from the media, as well as from the authorities. Even the Communist Party's main mouthpiece, the People's Daily, carried an approving article. But there were sceptics aplenty. Liu Guanghua, a retired professor at Larizhou University, says the name Liqian derives from the second and third syllables of the word for Alexandria, the Egyptian city sometimes used by the Chinese as a term for the Roman empire in general. Yet Alexandria was not conquered by the Romans until 30BC, and it was only after this date that the Chinese began to use the name in this way. Some scholars also think Liqian was founded well before the Romans were supposed to have settled there.

As for the somewhat foreign-looking faces of a few Yongchang residents, it would hardly be surprising to find some mixed racial features in the county, given that it straddles what was once a major trading route and borders on Central Asia, whose peoples look quite different from the Han Chinese. For a few among the people of one of China's poorest provinces, there is perhaps romantic consolation in the thought that they share their blood with Caesar. But the abandoned shell of a new luxury hotel and the dark empty corridors of the main guest-house in Yongchang suggest the romance is proving slow to take hold more widely.