In the year of the Western Zhou Dynasty, under the rule of You Wang Gongyang, the imperial court was corrupted and the country was in ruins. In order to fight for the victory, the princes were laughed at and played with by beacon fire, which finally led to the invasion of the "nomads" from the West, destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, and occupied the area of today's Shaanxi and Gansu.
At that time, there was a large group of nomadic people who worshiped the "white wolf" as their totem and respected the domestic dogs that accompanied them in hunting and training. This nomadic group was named Quanrong.
Later, when the time passed, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin Dynasty unified the Central Plains, and there was a country called Rong Di in the west. They believed in the sacred dog totem, and they were the descendants of the Dog Rong who destroyed the Zhou Dynasty. In 672 BC, Duke Xian of Jin conquered the east and west, merged with the Seventeenth Kingdom, and served
In the thirty-eighth year of the Kingdom, the Rong Di Kingdom was defeated.
Duke Xian of Jin's harem beauties included a new trophy, a princess of Quanrong descent, Li Ji.
However, this nomadic princess was not an easy person. She designed to alienate the Jin royal family, killed the Jin prince, supported her own heirs to usurp the country, and created the famous Liji Rebellion in history.
The Rebellion of Liji was not a simple battle for the right to inherit the throne, but a turning point in the national destiny of Jin, the hegemonic hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period at that time. After the Rebellion of Liji, the state of Jin turned from prosperity to decline, declining all the way, and was finally divided into "three families".
Destruction ended the Spring and Autumn Period and entered the Warring States Period, which shaped the course of history.
There are many records in the history books about the disintegration of the Jin royal family after the Liji Rebellion, but there is little mention of the final whereabouts of the key figure who was the initiator of the Liji Rebellion, "Liji". It is so old that there is no way to verify it. There are scattered rumors that she fled when she fled.
He was overtaken by the Jin generals and whipped to death by the river.
But obviously, when Zhou Baqi and the others looked into the tomb with flashlights, that was not the case.
The damp tomb is filled with earthen jars. There is a stone coffin in the center of the tomb. There are murals under the moss on the surrounding walls, with vague and obscure nomadic characters and sacred dog totems engraved on them.
"Did such a large tomb structure exist during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?" Zhou Bawa turned his flashlight and shined a light on the river to find the way.
Jiang Xundao stretched out his hand to block Zhou Baqi's flashlight: "The structure of large tomb chambers was recorded in the pre-Qin Dynasty and began in Zhou Dynasty. Theoretically, it is not possible, but..."
Jiang Xundao shined Zhou Balu's flashlight on the mural: "The customs of nomadic peoples are complicated and difficult to explain. Many nomadic peoples have been practicing 'cremation' and 'sky burial' for a long time, and do not use the construction technology of earth burial tombs, but not all of them have
Yes, for example, the Yanghai ancient tomb discovered by XJTLF has a large number of animal totems similar to this."
"It seems that your Archaeological Bureau doesn't have much information?" Zhou Ba wax walked to the damp mural and wiped away some algae.
"After all, I have never been here before. After many years of peripheral inspection, I have deduced that it is the tomb of Li Ji, Princess Xian of Jin Dynasty. Moreover, from such an early historical era, there are not many objects left. History can be left behind, and objects will not be left behind."
Jiang Xundao also went to the mural and took a flashlight to look at it.
The paintings on the murals are extremely abstract. If you say they are paintings, they can only be regarded as totem combinations. After all, the painting skills of that era were much worse than today, but you can barely see the content.
"Is this a dog? It has four legs and a long mouth, but why are the two legs on the side that look like human bodies holding the dog's head..." Jiang Xundao illuminated the mural, which showed many four-legged dogs and two-legged dogs, regardless of the four legs.
Whether it's a dog with two legs or a dog with two legs, they are all surrounded by a huge ball that flies upwards.
The ball was pitted, and one corner seemed to be damaged. It broke away and fell into the wavy lines below, which may represent the river. A piece of the ball fell into the river.
"Do you recognize these ancient characters?" Zhou Baqi pointed to him at the bottom of the mural. There are some neatly arranged symbols here, which may be characters.
Jiang Xundao knelt down and looked: "It doesn't seem to be gold inscriptions."
The bronze inscriptions are the bell and tripod inscriptions, which are commonly referred to as the ones on bronzes. The common writings in the Spring and Autumn Period continued the Zhou rites for a period of time, but later they were divided into the writings of the Seven Kingdoms, and each country began to use its own. It was not until the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms that a new one was unified.
Word.
The ancient inscriptions on the murals are not bronze inscriptions, and the calligraphy is of an unpopular type.
Jiang Xundao asked Huang Yuzhen to hold the flashlight, and he took out his mobile phone to take pictures. This too professional work had to be left to the old experts of the Archaeological Bureau.
Jiang Xundao was busy there, but he didn't pay attention to Zhou Bashi's side. In addition, the tomb was already dark, and a pair of emerald cat eyes suddenly opened on Zhou Bashi's shoulders.
With vertical pupils and ghostly eyes, the green emerald cat eyes scanned the ancient characters on the mural. The ink flowed down his shoulders. Zhou Bawa spread his hands, and the ink gradually condensed into characters in his palm. Each ancient character was recompiled and translated into modern Chinese.
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After a moment of translation, there was a soft and silent meow, the emerald green vertical pupils disappeared, and the black fluff that almost merged with the darkness disappeared in a flash, and returned to Zhou Ba Wa's body temple.
Opening and closing a corner of the temple, you can vaguely see the documents and books in the temple, and the four treasures of the study are hidden. It is not any of the three previous temples in Zhou Baxi, but a new temple that has never been seen before.
Zhou Ba Wa lowered his head to read the words. After translating, he had learned that what was written on the mural was mostly the ritual process of worshiping totems. Indeed, as Jiang Xundao said, this was the mausoleum of the Quanrong people, a nomadic people during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The murals
The text refers to their totem belief: the dog from the sky.
Heavenly Dog, Heavenly Dog... The free translation into modern Chinese is probably like this, and its original meaning should be the name of a god.
Zhou Bachu was not interested in the sacrificial process. He continued to look for useful information. The words on the mural also mentioned the mythical story of the Quanrong tribe's totem belief. He understood everything in the religious textbooks, but it was compiled in a mess, making it look like
Like the Bible, Zhou Bachu only picked out a short story that caught his attention.
The story goes that when the first leader of the Quanrong tribe was persecuted by other tribes, he fled to his skin, drank all the water in his skin, ran out of food, and almost died of thirst and starvation.
On the plateau, soon, the dug hole was filled with swollen rivers,
In three days, the river turned into a huge rolling yellow dragon. The leader of the Quanrong had to drink water to survive. Then he saw a two-legged dog walking out of the river. He gave him three sheep beasts, letting the leader of the Quanrong eat one and take back the remaining two.
He taught him how to herd animals and hunt, so that the tribe could have enough food.
After the Two-Legged Dog finished his work, he returned to the river and disappeared. The leader of the Quanrong returned to the tribe with two sheep beasts. He herded the animals according to the method taught by the Two-Legged Dog in the river. Within a few months, the sheep were in herds, and his tribe had a rich harvest.
He quickly became stronger and stronger as a result. This original leader swept through the surrounding tribes and established the Dog Rong tribe. The totem he worshiped was the divine dog that granted the laws of livestock husbandry and hunting.
This is a story recorded on a mural. It must not be taken seriously. A piece of the moon fell off and the Yellow River was born. Two-legged dogs came out of the river. Animal husbandry and hunting were taught by these two-legged dogs. It is all outrageous. But on August
Wax also lamented that this kind of thing can be surprisingly unified all over the world, which smells of "prophecy".
In ancient times, there was a fox screaming in the belly of the fish, the sky is dead and the yellow sky is standing, and in foreign countries, there is the Sword in the Stone Easter. Myths are political tools. Ruling leaders have seen gods and received teachings from gods. Such prophecy stories are often used at the end of every dynasty.
If you catch a large handful, the villagers who even pee in the village will become the sons of destiny.
Of course, although this story was probably a prophecy compiled by the leader of the Quanrong tribe thousands of years ago when he was establishing his own territory, Zhou Bawa also sensed some clues from it.
The moon, the Yellow River in floods, the sacred dog totem believed by nomadic people... Recently, many seemingly unrelated things seem to be closely related.
A few people were looking at the mural when little Fujin suddenly poked his head out of Zhou Baqiu's bag: "You'd better leave quickly, the Heavenly Official is catching up with you."
Jiang Xundao looked up at his surroundings. It was very bad. They had nowhere to go. The tomb ended here: "There is no way ahead. We can only turn back and either fight them or avoid them..."
Zhou Baqu interrupted him: "There may not be a way out."
Jiang Xundao: "How to say?"
Zhou Bawa glanced at the algae on the surrounding murals: "In the long-term dark environment in the underwater tomb, algae rely on respiration and consume oxygen to survive for thousands of years. If there is no oxygen supplement, they will die early and cannot survive today."
Zhou Ba wax said as he lit a fire stick. The fire was very stable. The burning of the flame also requires oxygen. If it was an oxygen-deficient environment, it would not burn so well: "The entrance at the other end of the tomb is completely blocked by water. Oxygen is not available."
You can't get in, which means..."
Jiang Xundao: "Because there is oxygen coming in, there must be other channels connecting to the outside world!"
Jiang Xundao: "But where is the passage? Now there is no road ahead, and the tomb can be seen at a glance. It doesn't look like there is any place to hide things..."
Zhou Ba wax looked at the tomb, raised his foot, and kicked open the lid of the coffin in the middle.
There was no one in the coffin, but there was a big hole.