After confirming that it was not fake, we rushed to the small stone house.
About two or three miles away, we arrived at this place an hour later.
Not a mirage in the desert.
A stone house really appeared in front of us. The stone house had a square roof. From the outside, it looked like it was built up of rocks.
When I walked in, I saw two stone doors outside the stone house. The stone doors were full of small holes, which had been severely corroded by the wind and sun. Some knife marks could be faintly seen on the stone wall above the stone door. I am not sure this is man-made.
The carving marks are still caused by natural weathering and corrosion.
This stone house is not a modern building at first glance.
Stone houses have stone doors. In the past, most of them were underground palace structures, like the underground palace of the Ming Tombs. Open the diamond wall and you will see the stone door. No living person lives in such a house, and it is very tiring to open and close the door.
We have been deep into Alxa for more than ten days and have long since entered the uninhabited land. What is this stone house for? Standing here alone, exposed to the wind and sun, who built it?
These aroused my curiosity.
I tried pushing it now, but it didn't work.
There was a gap between the two stone doors. I lay down on the door and looked in. It was so dark that I couldn't see anything.
I put my backpack on the ground and called Dou Sprouts to come over and push it together. Xiaoxuan also helped me.
"Fuck, try harder." Dou Sprout's face turned red from holding back.
Then, we pushed the stone door open little by little.
It was very dark inside when I entered, so I turned on my flashlight for lighting.
Shaking the flashlight back and forth, I saw a thick stone table on the left. There was a stone statue on the stone table. There was a black pottery bowl in front of the stone statue. Both the stone table and the statue were covered with a thick layer of dust.
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"Isn't this really a temple?"
Reaching out to pick up the pottery bowl, I saw that half of the bowl was filled with black solid matter.
When I hit it with a flashlight, I found that the stone sculpture behind the bowl was a sheep's head. The sheep's head stone sculpture was inserted into a thin stone pillar. The stone pillar was connected to the circular base underneath to support the weight of the sheep's head.
The knife carved three circles.
The Arabic numerals 03, 5, and 26 are engraved in the center of the circle.
"Is this sheep's head valuable?" Dou Sprouts stretched out his hand to get it.
I hit him, frowned and said don't move yet, I haven't studied it clearly yet, I don't even know what dynasty it is from.
Douyazai said "Oh, you study slowly, I'll see what's going on" Is there anything valuable in that place?
In the antique shop, animal-shaped stone sculptures are the hardest to date.
You can open the face of the human statue to see the cutting technique of the decoration. The sheep head does not look like the shape of the Central Plains region at first glance. I infer that it is probably something from a few tribes or nomads. As for the year, I can only say that it was probably before the Yuan Dynasty.
, because it is close to Heishui City, it is also likely to be from Xixia.
"Come on, come on, there's something else here." Dou Sprout shouted.
"Fengzi, what do you think this is?"
Dou Sprout found a rotten copper basin in the northwest corner. There was less than half of a black-red solidified object in the copper basin. Dou Sprout put his hand in and poked it, and got some on his fingers and smelled it.
"Huh? This smells like that." I saw Dou Sprout squinting his eyes, with a serious expression on his face.
"Does it smell? What kind of smell?" I asked him nervously.
"I lied to you, it doesn't taste like anything, haha." Dou Sprout said with a smile.
"Fuck off, I don't have time to argue with you."
At this time, Xiaoxuan tugged on my clothes and whispered, "Let's go. It feels eerie here and I feel uncomfortable staying here."
I said okay, let's go, I also felt that it was a bit eerie here.
The stone-carved sheep head may be something for sacrificial offerings, but I don't want to take it, firstly because it's heavy, and secondly because it's not very expensive in the market.
"If you don't take it, it's useless, Fengzi. I'm a sheep, and I think this sheep's head looks good. If you don't want it, I'll take it," Dou Sprout said and wanted to take the sheep's head off.
He took it and found that he couldn't move it.
Upon closer inspection, I found that the base supporting the sheep's head and the stone table were integrated. To put it bluntly, the stone table and stone sheep were made from the same stone.
Dou Sprout's face turned red from suppressing it. He wanted to take the sheep's head away and sell it for money, but he couldn't take it off with both hands.
"Fuck, I don't believe I can't get it!"
Bean Sprouts got angry, so he stepped up and started kicking violently. He kicked several times in a row, and finally broke the stone pillar and the connecting base with one kick.
Seeing that the sheep's head fell off, Dou Sprouts reached out to pick it up with a look of joy. When he took it, he found something was wrong, a black hole appeared on the stone table.
Why is this stone table hollow in the middle and double-layered? Isn’t the stone solid?
I said Yazai, please get out of the way and I'll see what happens.
I looked over with a flashlight and found that the middle of the stone table was indeed hollowed out, and there was something like a wooden board placed in the middle. I don't know how it was stuffed in. If Dou Sprout hadn't kicked it in half, we wouldn't have discovered it at all.
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My first reaction was excitement.
Could it be a wooden scripture?
Xixia people, from emperors and queens to ordinary people in the city, believe in Buddhism and worship Buddha. It is normal to build pagodas and carve Buddhist scriptures. If it were really a woodblock version of scriptures from the Xixia Dynasty, no matter what kind of scriptures were engraved on it, if this thing had been preserved to this day,
We sent it.
Could it be that someone built this stone temple back then just to hide this thing?
I said hurry up, get the things out and take a look.
Dou Sprouts said it was easy to handle, just give him a hollow kick.
I told you to be careful and don't break the board.
Dou Sprout said he understood, then he jumped onto the stone table, followed the hole, lifted his feet and landed.
Once the stone is incomplete, it is easy to break. In just a few strokes, Dou Sprout kicked the hole bigger, and the wooden planks hidden inside became clearer and clearer.
"Okay, okay," I stopped him and said it should be almost ready to be taken out. You can try it.
Dou Sprout stepped on both sides of the stone table, bent down and pulled away some gravel, and carefully took out the wooden board.
I quickly took it and laid it flat on the ground to look at it.
I thought it was a wooden scripture book, but when I saw it, I found that it was not. It was not a scripture book.
What the hell is this?
Character map? Story map?
This wood carving board is usually more than 30 centimeters. I tested the hardness with my fingernail. It should be a soft wood such as camphor wood. There are several scenes densely carved on the board, with many characters. These wooden figures are luxuriously dressed and have bald heads.
The sideburns have small braids on both sides. This should be a Dangxiang person from Xixia. In ancient times, only Dangxiang people had such outrageous hairstyles.
These characters are vividly depicted with noses and eyes, and one of the scenes really interested me.
Above the wooden carving board, a scene is carved.
A group of people were kneeling, but only two people were sitting. Judging from the faces and figures of the two sitting people, one looked older and the other looked younger. The young man was bending over to salute. The older man sitting there has four Chinese characters carved on his head.
"Wei's name is Xiaoxiao."
Dou Yazai was fascinated by what he saw, and he read: "What's the name of Wei Xiao?"
"What is it?" I said if you don't understand, don't read it blindly.
"Then what do you mean by this word?" Dou Sprout asked me.
I said I didn't know, it wasn't really about reading.
"Wei Ming Wei Mingshi."
Damn it, I suddenly realized it!
I wonder why it looks so familiar!
Isn’t this Li Yuanhao’s nickname?
Yuanhao has five nicknames, Weiming is Xiaoxiao, Tuoba Yuanhao, Weiming is Yuanhao, Zhao Yuanhao, and Qingtianzi. His nickname is Xiaoli, and some people call him Xiaolizi.
Which wood board was carved by Li Yuanhao?
It’s also topped with a spooky sheep’s head!
This is disrespectful!
Xiaoxuan saw me so surprised and whispered who Li Yuanhao was. I know there is a person named Li Yuanba.
I say Yuan Hao is comparable to Yuan Baniu, he was the founding emperor of Xixia.
Huh? So, this person is
I looked at the young man next to Yuan Hao on the wooden carving board.
Everyone else was kneeling, but he was standing, which showed that this young man must have a high status.
Could it be Yuan Hao's son?
I remember that Yuan Hao had three sons, the eldest was named Ning Ming, the second was named Brother Ning Ling, and the third was named Liang Zuo.
Which son is this?
Looking at the wooden board and studying it carefully, I found that the face carved by this young man was very similar to Yuan Hao's, and it felt like he came from the same mold.
I secretly guessed that this young man might be Yuan Hao's second son, Brother Ning Ling, because history books say that the second son looks most like Yuan Hao himself.
I called Dou Sprout again and asked him to take out the sheep head.
Bean sprouts took it out and gave it to me.
I first looked at the place where the sheep's head was originally placed on the stone table.
Then, I moved the board down and tried to restore the position as much as possible.
I put down the carved stone sheep's head and found that the sheep's head was right on top of the four characters above Yuan Hao's head.