Tatirang

The manuscript, discovered in Tatirang, a village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is one of the earliest copies of the story. It was found in 1986 by a herdsman, along with 27 other documents.…Bai Wenyu, curator of the Shenyang Palace Museum, told Xinhua that Tatirang was once a Yuan city on a busy traffic line. "From the documents we can deduce that soldiers came from distant Shaanxi province. They read this book to kill time and quench their homesickness."