Inside the dim and ghostly brick tower, four or five bright flashlights were dangling.
Dou Sprout reminded me excitedly, "Slow down! Slow down! Don't break Fengzi! What the hell is this!"
I tried not to touch the bones, and carefully took out a palm-sized pottery tray from the bottom of the jar. There was a circle of Sanskrit printed on the edge of the pottery tray.
Jiao Jiuye glanced at the things on the tray and said casually, "This is a Tibetan Buddhist Tsa Tsa from the Liao and Jin Dynasties. It's not worth much, only one or two thousand yuan."
"ah?
"Only one or two thousand yuan?"
"What do I think is a good baby?" Dou Sprout looked disappointed. .??.
I counted, there were six tsacha in one plate.
"Tsa Tsa" refers to a small clay pottery Buddha statue, which was carried by common people who worshiped Buddha in the past. Some people would put it in a silver Gawu box, tie it with a red string and hang it around their neck. According to legend, Tsa Tsa
It has the effect of warding off evil spirits and preventing disasters, so the price has increased in recent years.
Jiao Jiuye said it was only worth a few thousand dollars. It didn't see it, and I couldn't be stupid enough to say it out loud.
This group is no ordinary tsa. Each one has a row of ghostly characters printed on the back, which are obviously the lost Xixia characters.
Should it be a sentence or a place name? I don’t understand Xixia, so I don’t know yet.
After putting the wipe away in my bag, I bit the flashlight and looked up, and suddenly realized that Brother Yu didn't know what was wrong.
"Brother Yu, what's wrong with you?"
Brother Yu suddenly cried, tears streaming down his face.
He wiped his face and said hurriedly, "I don't know what happened to Yunfeng. Suddenly I couldn't control myself and wanted to cry. I felt a sad emotion here."
Ah Chun stretched out his hand to wipe Brother Yu's face, and said with a joking smile, "Yu Wenbin, do you feel that the Buddha is calling you, but you are a flower monk, smoking, drinking and sleeping with women. You have broken the precept many times."
Brother Yu hurriedly moved away Ah Chun touched his face with his hand and said, "Sin, please don't talk nonsense. I have long since returned to secular life and am no longer a Buddhist."
Since entering this stone tower, I have been frowning and talking little.
At this time, he sighed with relief, pointed to the white bones sitting in the pottery jar and said, "I know, he is the Xixia national master during the Chongzong period, the famous monk Si Neng."
"It is rumored that after his death, he was buried in Ningxia together with the underground palace. Who would have thought that he would be here if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes." He held back his sigh.
"Wei Ming Si Neng?"
I asked who this was? Anyone with a weird surname must be a great person.
Let me tell you, many people don’t know that it was this man who proposed to build the present-day Reclining Buddha Temple in Zhangye, Gansu Province.
In addition to Tsa Tsa and the double-headed golden Buddha, there is also a set of silver plain oil lamps in the pagoda that are valuable. The lamp oil has long since dried up. Dou Sprout wiped it and put it in his bag, and then we left here.
open.
big.
As we explored, we were shocked to discover that the underground space here is getting bigger and bigger!
It has far exceeded the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, which is famous for its large area!
Said to be an ancient tomb, this place is more like the palace of the Kingdom of Xiwu in those days.
It can almost be concluded that Li Xian, the last emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty, was the first king of Western Wu in Ganzi, Sichuan in history!
On the tomb wall, the mottled excavation marks of ancient tools are vaguely visible.
From time to time, you can see one or two large stone sculptures of tomb beasts standing in the corners. Five or six people walking here feel like they are walking in a secret realm.
Dou Sprout held up his flashlight and took pictures back and forth. He said, "This place
It’s also too big, bigger than the park in our town!”
"Don't talk nonsense, can you pick up cultural relics in your park?"
Just as I finished speaking, I saw a strange building in the corner of my eye.
"Look, what is that? It's in the southwest corner."
Brother Yu looked at the direction I pointed and said doubtfully, "I don't know, that's a kitchen, right? There's also a chimney."
This building is not big, and its overall appearance is flat and prone, like the shape of a dog pooping, with a large chimney installed at the top.
Brother Yu said it was the kitchen, but I said it didn't look like it.
In the past, some ancient tombs did have separate rooms for kitchens, mainly in the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Anyone who has traveled to the Xixia Imperial Tombs in Yinchuan knows that each imperial tomb is very large, with an average area of more than 100,000 square meters, and the largest one exceeds 150,000 square meters. It can be seen from this that if Li Xianxiu’s own imperial tombs The total area of the mausoleum palace is by no means small.
After looking over, I found that the door of this peculiar building was completely covered with blue bricks, each brick being more than three feet thick.
The crowbar broke open, and I took the lead in getting in to investigate.
After I entered, I couldn't stand upright and could only bend down. In addition to the broken bricks and tiles on the floor, there were also some things that looked like "saggers".
I immediately realized where this place was.
This is a porcelain well kiln unique to Xixia. Many building components used in tombs were fired here. Later, when the tomb was completed, the place was closed and abandoned.
The Xixia Porcelain Well Kiln is not as famous as the Lingwu Kiln, but it is more mysterious than the Lingwu Kiln. Legend has it that the kiln entrance is specially used to bake things for the dead, such as soul bottles, barns, triple jars, tomb beasts, burial figurines, etc. wait.
These discarded saggers were piled in the corner covered with dust. We rummaged through them and found quite a few. Semi-finished building fragments and a complete green-glazed two-headed human-faced bird are valuable. It is called "Upaka" in the Buddhist scriptures, and it can be regarded as the follower of the Miaoyin Bird in the West.
I'm a little excited. I have all these things, but I can't guarantee that there is a second sound bird here!
Douyazai suddenly called me, "Fengzi, come here and see this!"
At the bottom, there is a very large sagger. It looks big and thick, more than three times larger than the others. This kind of large sagger may have been used to burn special things in ancient times.
After opening it, I was shocked when I looked at it! I was so scared that I took two steps back.
In this large sagger, there is a bald clay figurine child more than half a meter long with eyes open.
When I shined a flashlight on it, I saw that the facial features of this clay figurine child were lifelike, and its eyes seemed to be alive, staring at me.
I took a deep breath and told myself that this was just an ordinary dead thing, it was nothing.
I was just about to take it out when Jiao Jiuye suddenly stretched out his hand to block me. His eyes were fixed on the clay figurine child lying in the sagger.
Staring and staring, Mr. Jiao Jiu's face looked strange.
Yang Zhenghe asked, "Master, do you have any questions?"
Jiao Jiuye squinted his eyes and asked his boss in a deep voice, "Brother Wang, have you seen this thing?"
The head man said with the same solemn expression, "When I was young, I saw someone dig it out. The other one was smaller than this one. Master Jiu, is this a Feng kiln doll?"
Master Jiao Jiu nodded, "Most likely, disciple, don't touch it with your hands, use a crowbar to turn it over, I'm taking a look."
Yang Zhenghe nodded. He borrowed the crowbar from Dou Sprouts' hands, stepped forward and fiddled with it carefully, and used the crowbar to turn the clay child over.
Turn it over to see clearly.
The entire butt of this clay-baked kid is dark black!