Without the simple syllables explained by children, it might be difficult for me to fully understand the contents of the murals. These numerous murals can be said to record the rise, prosperity, and decline of a nation. It is an unknown history.
, Yuantu is originally a blank. Without these murals, I think many things in the past will forever be submerged in the water under this mountain.
Every nation has its decline and revival, but they cannot stop the erosion of time. I believe that after a long time, everything will fade with time. The greatest thing about a nation is not how strong it once was.
How glorious and culture is everlasting.
Just like the Mayans in South America, they have completely disappeared from this world. It is impossible for us to understand how they thrived and thrived in retrospect, but because of the corner of their national culture they left behind, the world will always remember the Mayan nation and culture.
, is an eternal light. As long as time is still flowing, this light will not go out.
It is said that Yuantu was a vassal state under the Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun. Judging from the content of the murals, this is indeed the case. The king of Yuantu was a woman. I don’t know if the murals were deliberately exaggerated. The woman was quite burly. The first Yuantu
The Queen of Tu separated from the Queen Mother of the West and founded Yuan Tu.
The Yuantu people were not good at agricultural production, and relied on the support of the Queen Mother of the West for many necessary food and living supplies. However, their metallurgical technology was outstanding. Judging from the era at that time, it should be far ahead of any country and tribe in the world.
The front part of the mural records the daily life of the Yuantu people. In a matrilineal society, women occupy a dominant position in production and life. The Yuantu have super-developed metallurgical technology, but they never produce any weapons, and they do not have a standing army in the country.
All the people in the team are craftsmen in the smelting field. If Yuantu is attacked, powerful allies will come to support from deeper in the Kunlun Mountains.
Ancient tribal countries have their own totems and beliefs. Like many ancient countries of the same era, the Yuantu people attach great importance to sacrifices after production. Sacrifice is also a very, very important part of life. A mural clearly records
The process of sacrifice. There are two types of sacrifices. One is the regular sacrifice carried out in Yuantu country, and the other is more grand. The queen of Yuantu will lead some of her subjects to travel long distances to worship the gods they believe in.
At this time, the child pointed at a mural. He pointed silently, but I seemed to understand what he wanted to express at once. In the mural, the Queen of Yuan Tu kneeled before a huge altar-like altar.
In front of the throne, her expression was respectful and humble, full of respect and fear for the gods. No need to explain too much, in this altar-like throne are the gods worshiped by the Yuantu people and even the entire Xiwangmu tribe.
When I saw this mural, or the gods on the altar, my eyes were immediately attracted. It felt very strange.
There is no statue of a god on the throne, only a cylindrical jar. It is difficult to depict such a three-dimensional thing perfectly in a flat mural. I can only see that it is a cylindrical jar, but is there anything else in the jar?
Things, I don’t know.
A lost ancient country that has existed in the Kunlun Mountains for a long time. Do they believe in a jar?
But the child had no other explanation, and then directed me to look down. He gave some simple syllables as a supplementary explanation. The content of the mural instantly returned to the place where the Yuantu people lived. The scene was very blurry, but it could be seen.
It was a huge smelting field. All the smelters worked together to cast a big iron ball. In my opinion, that big iron ball was just a static object, but to the smelters at that time,
Every time an iron ball is cast, it takes a long time and energy.
This has to make me doubt the significance of the existence of the Yuantu country. They were originally a branch of the Xiwangmu tribe. There was only the Xiwangmu in the Kunlun Territory as a practical ruler, and the enfeoffment system was not practical here. Xia and Shang Dynasties
Zhou implemented the enfeoffment system because the main country's national power was limited, its territory was vast, and there were foreign enemies on all sides. Only the enfeoffment system could better consolidate central rule.
There is no army in Yuantu, which shows that the Queen Mother of the West did not ask the Yuantu tribe to move here to resist foreign enemies. From my current knowledge, the only thing the Yuantu people can do is to cast those iron balls. This ancient country
The meaning of existence can never be as simple as casting iron balls.
After that, the Kunlun Mountains, which had been silent for many, many years, and the Xiwangmu tribe, as well as the ancient Yuantu Kingdom, received visits from some foreign guests. King Mu of Zhou and the powerful ancient Xiongnu who were far away in the Central Plains all set foot on this land.
These foreign visitors have their own purposes, and it may be their appearance that disrupted the order in the Kunlun Mountains that has lasted for tens of millions of years.
The time in the mural is vague. I don’t know how many years later, a large-scale war broke out. The long-term peace caused the Xiwangmu tribe in Kunlun Mountains to lose most of their combat effectiveness. Facing powerful foreign enemies, they were unable to do what they wanted. Many tribes gathered in
was razed to the ground.
After that, everything about the Xiwangmu tribe and Yuantu suddenly became blank. This was very similar to the disappearance process of the Mayans. A prosperous nation seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the world.
In the end, only one person was left. A lonely person. As the only existence in Kunlun Mountain, he continued to remain in this legendary sacred mountain.
In the Kunlun Mountains, which has a harsh and arid climate, ancient peoples in the past regarded rivers and lakes as the source of life and were extremely precious. They believed that everything in the world has spirits, and so does water. People who are naturally close to water are considered to be the spirits of water.
the incarnation of.
When the Xiwangmu tribe and even Yuantu disappeared, only this tribe who was considered to be the spirit of water remained. There were many things that the child could not explain clearly, but I can guess that since there are people left behind, there must be something related to them.
meaning.
He may be a guardian, guarding something.
The man who was left behind will always stay in the underground river under the Kunlun Mountains. He can lie dormant at the bottom of the water for a long time like a fish, without eating or drinking. In order to protect him, he can transcend nature. When he was just left behind, he
He is already an old man. When his life is about to end, he will go to a special place and fall into a long sleep. When he wakes up, his life seems to be full of new vitality and he is much younger.
This is an abnormal phenomenon. He will become younger and younger as he repeatedly falls asleep and wakes up.
At this moment, a kind of sadness and desolation appeared on the child's face. I was shocked because I seemed to have seen this expression from the old monk Wu Nian before.
Getting younger and younger is not a good thing. Everything will be imprisoned by laws. No matter from childhood to adulthood, or from adulthood to childhood, we are all walking the same path. Life is a starting point, and the same
It can also be regarded as an end point, as is death.
The only Yuantu man left in his homeland has transformed to the extreme. This life is his last, and he is a dying person.
I think this child is the Yuantu man who was left behind in his homeland in the mural. Looking at him now, I couldn't help but think of the old monk Wu Nian. In a sense, they are all the same kind of people. For
They are forced to live for a certain goal. As long as they don't reach the final moment of their lives, their mission will have no end.
From the child's vicissitudes of life, I understood him. He is a guardian, but he knows very well that his home and his people are all gone. What he protects is actually a meaningless secret. If
He spent his life underground and eventually died, then everything in Yuantu, including everything he protected, would be completely cut off.
I know that he doesn't want to tell us too much, but he doesn't want it to be lost to the world.
Before I knew it, I had almost finished reading all the murals, except for the last one. This mural is the final chapter of all the murals. In the mural, many people work together to push huge iron balls.
Towards the distance. But there is no record of the final destination of the iron ball in the mural. We can only see that they pushed the iron ball farther and farther.
When I saw the mural, the child's expression returned to calm. I don't know his name. He has been living in this underground river. No matter how old he is, he looks like a child. Life
Children in the river, kappa.
I really wanted to know where the iron balls were finally transported, but the kappa refused to take us away anymore. He existed to protect some things left by the Yuantu people. I looked at him and asked if we still wanted to go.
You can continue to look for it.
The kappa raised his hand and pointed at my chest. I understood what he meant. He didn't want the history of his tribe to be cut off, but he also didn't want the whole world to know about it.
Fan Tuan Su Xiaomeng and I floated in the water and began to swim slowly toward the secret room. My mood couldn't help but feel low, because when I think of kappa, I think of Wu Nian. I don't know where that kind white-bearded old monk is.
Whether everything is well in the world, whether you have achieved your wishes, and whether you can sleep without any worries.
When we were about to swim out of the small cave in the secret room, the kappa suddenly chased me quickly and stopped in front of me. The exchanges between Yuantu people and the mainland of the Central Plains may only have been during the period of King Mu of Zhou, so they knew little about Han culture.
Not too much. The kappa couldn't say a complete sentence that I could understand, but he kept making gestures and explaining.
This kind of communication is a bit difficult, because it requires a strong understanding ability to understand the specific meaning he wants to express. I don't know if my understanding is correct, but I feel that he is telling us something.
If on the way forward, we encounter any place that feels dangerous, don't set foot in it, otherwise, we will regret it.