I wish to see a mural. A brave warrior is hunting on horseback. Behind him, a woman is sitting in front of a tent preparing food. Two children are playing around butterflies. It seems to be a family of four in the suburbs.
Wild trip?
Gao Bin's mind was agitated:
"Isn't this a tomb?"
Huang Yanyan looked at him immediately:
"You mean, the Zheng family ancestral hall was built on top of the tomb?"
"Besides this possibility, I can't think of any other possibility." Gao Bin rubbed his chin and wandered around the tomb.
"Can you tell what dynasty this is?" Huang Yanyan asked?
Make a wish and shake your head:
"It's okay if you ask me to learn about the past, but I've never done anything like going to the tomb."
Gao Bin returned to the mural and said:
"These tomb murals are not pure works of art, but the product of funerary activities. They use unique artistic language and logic to express care and expectations for the direction of life.
The mural styles of each dynasty are different, from the ethereal and ethereal in the Han Dynasty, to the solemn etiquette of the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, to the secular joy of the Song and Yuan Dynasties."
After hearing the wish, he followed:
"Then this mural should belong to the category of solemn etiquette?"
Gao Bin nodded:
"It seems so. A family outing in the countryside in the spring, such a comfortable and open time, at least in the Wei and Jin Dynasties."
Human beings are afraid of death and cannot avoid it, so they have various understandings and ways of dealing with it.
Tombs are the connection between life and death, as well as the emotional link between the dead and the living. They are confusing and thought-provoking.
It vividly displays the abstract view of life and death, reflecting people's wandering in the two worlds of life and death.
The differences in different eras, different regions, and different beliefs are also a reflection of social and historical changes.
Funerals in ancient China have an unbreakable principle, that is, "death is the same as life" and "life, death is with etiquette, burial is with etiquette, and sacrifice is with etiquette".
Because of this ideological concept and code of conduct, people call tombs "yin houses".
"Yin Mansion" includes architectural construction, mural carvings, funerary objects, etc. There are creations that are both meticulous and fantastic, giving death a lot of meaning.
If you understand people's views on life and death, you won't feel that the tombs are eerie. Although there is a tragic ending there, it is the beginning of a wonderful story.
The tomb is a "yin house", which is clear from the emergence of the coffin burial method.
There are multiple coffins. In addition to the inner coffin where the bones are placed, each other coffin has a special function and can hold different types of items.
After about the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, bricks and stones began to be used to build tombs, completing the transformation from "coffin tombs" to "chamber tombs", and the appearance of "Yin Zhai" became more clear.
The "chamber tomb" can be dug into the mountain or built with bricks and stones to simulate the scene of a residence in the sun.
For large tombs, each tomb chamber can be designated as a living room, bedroom, kitchen, woodshed, toilet, etc.
People believe that the deceased will continue to enjoy themselves in the gorgeous "hell house". After the limited life ends, the eternal years have just begun.
Based on this judgment, the tomb they are in now must be after the Han Dynasty.
However, when building tombs that attempt to reproduce life in the mortal world, there are limitations in design, materials, and environment, and the complex yearning for death cannot be fully expressed.
Therefore, as a supplementary means, murals were painted, images were carved, and utensils were placed in the tomb.
The mural images make it possible to visualize funeral concepts that are difficult to express with tomb shapes and funerary objects.
Da Jinya has very rich historical knowledge, and Gao Bin constantly searches his memory to determine which dynasty the tomb they are in currently belongs to.
If you can determine the dynasty, you will have a chance to find the exit and escape smoothly!
In the deep and dark underground, the understanding of life and death is expressed through images. It has experienced several major changes from the Han Dynasty to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, reflecting the process of people's continuous thinking.
The images in Han tombs reflect reality, history and imagination. The most prominent ones are the world view of heaven and the immortal world and the moral concept of "Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Virtues".
After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, banquets and ceremonial ceremonies became the mainstream, and efforts were made to express the identity of the tomb owner and show his majesty.
From the late Tang Dynasty to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, people did not want to enter the fairyland with melancholy, nor were they satisfied with the pursuit of etiquette. They hoped that there would be singing and dancing in their homes after death, and they tried to integrate life before death with enjoyment after death.<
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The three major adjustments are the transformation from fantasy to etiquette, and then to reality. The inheritance, abandonment, and innovation during the period are the renewal of thinking about life and death, and the improvement of rationality in the lingering contradictions.
In the memory of Da Jinya, what is striking about the early Western Han Dynasty tombs and tomb murals is that there is a "picture of the four gods and clouds" on the top of the tomb.
That is, green dragons, red birds, white tigers, and monsters are flying in the sky, and the surroundings are outlined with clouds, etc., creating a mysterious atmosphere.
There is also the phrase "ribbon piercing the jade". The round hole of the jade is generally interpreted as the "Heaven Gate", which is a metaphor for the tomb owner to pass through the hole of the jade and ascend to the fairyland.
The idea of immortality was very strong in the Han Dynasty. Many people believed that people could ascend to heaven after death. There are many images that reflect this intention.
The images of Han tombs should not only show real life, but also express people's ideal pursuit after death. For example, if the tomb is mainly someone who has the experience of being an official, then his tomb murals will also include elements such as banquets, production activities, and war pictures.<
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This person is mainly chasing immortals, and there will be myths and auspicious patterns such as strange birds and animals, the sun, moon and stars, the East Prince, the Queen Mother of the West, etc.
The sun, moon and stars shine eternally on the dome, and gods and beasts roam freely in the clouds on the tomb walls. These are some of the assumptions of people at that time about the situation after death, and can be regarded as the main theme of the tomb murals at this time.
Although its meaning has different interpretations, it basically revolves around "fairies", "heaven" and "fairyland".
At the end of the Han Dynasty, wars broke out and the economy was in decline. All forces raised military funds for the war and started robbing tombs.
The consequences of tomb robbing force people to think about whether tombs, as eternal shelters, are safe?
Therefore, after the war subsided, Cao Wei, the supreme ruler of the Western Jin Dynasty, successively issued orders for thin burials.
Compared with the previous thin burial ideas and edicts of the Han Dynasty, which advocated frugality, the new thin burial ideas stem from a new understanding of death and how to deal with it after death.
The purpose is to change customs.
The concepts of "a rich burial that the deceased does not know and the living must not know" and "a rich burial will not benefit the deceased" are accepted by more people.
This led to epoch-making changes in the tombs after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The stone carvings on the ground were cancelled, the underground multi-chamber tombs transitioned to single-chamber tombs, the burial objects were much simpler, and the mural images also rediscovered the way of communication between the worlds of life and death. p>
Perhaps due to the sparse burials, the mural tombs fell silent for a time after the Han Dynasty, and did not flourish again until the Northern Dynasties.
The resurgence of murals is not a return to tradition, but a new look.
The tomb chamber shows the tomb owner and his wife or the male tomb owner sitting on a couch under the curtain, with a screen behind them, tables and tableware in front of the couch, and waiters, pommel horses, and acrobats dancing on both sides.
On both sides of the tomb are pictures of life in the manor on one side, and on the other side pictures of traveling by carriage and horse or hunting in the mountains and forests.
Some tombs also depict doorkeepers or door gods, Fuxi, Nuwa, green dragons, white tigers, etc.
If you look at it this way, it is easy to judge the dynasty of the tomb in front of you. The wife of the owner of the tomb is in front of the curtain and sitting on the couch. There are male and female servants, trees, and pictures of serving food next to her.
The owner of the tomb himself was hunting on horseback, and the walls next to it were also painted with bullock carts, pommel horses, male and female servants, and trees.
"Northern Wei!"
"Northern Wei?"
After hearing Gao Bin's judgment, Xu wish couldn't help but ask:
"How to determine?"
Gao Bin summarized his analysis and then said:
"However, we have no specific basis. If it were really the tomb of an official or general from the Northern Wei Dynasty, it would have been empty by the people of Zhengjia Village!"
After that, he groped along the wall and finally found a clue on the wall opposite the mural.
"Come here."
Gao Bin pressed his hand on a blue brick, which was concave than the blue bricks on other flat surfaces.
"Would you like to click it and give it a try?" He asked the other two people for their opinions.
"Press it, otherwise you will die if you stay here!" Huang Yanyan said decisively.
Make a wish and nod along with it:
"Yes, brother Bin, press it, we will follow you whether you are dead or alive."
Gao Bin stopped talking nonsense and pressed down hard, and the stone door next to him opened with a sound.
The gap is not big, barely enough for one person to pass through. Compared with two big men, it is much easier for the slim Huang Yanyan to pass through.
Re-entering the tomb passage, Gao Bin still walked in front, but he walked very cautiously, God knows if there are any traps here.
He never doubted the wisdom of the ancients.
However, the mechanism of an ordinary official's tomb is not too complicated. Unless they happen to meet the Mohist family, or the tomb of an expert who specializes in designing tomb passage mechanisms, it is unlikely to encounter those magical mechanisms on TV. The most common one is quicksand, which is low cost, easy to make and has good effects.
The dry fine sand is like water and highly mobile. Grave robbers cannot dig holes in this soil. They will dig holes here and there.
Moreover, even if the excavation is completed, there is still a danger that it will be quickly buried by the leaked fine sand, causing the upper layer to collapse.
If this happens, few people will survive and will eventually become victims.
Then there is the taped stone, but the taped stone is generally used in imperial tombs to seal doors and resist theft.
The so-called "automatic stone" is actually equivalent to a door stick. There is a groove at the bottom of the stick so that the stone door cannot be pushed open from the outside.
Judging from the conditions of the excavated tombs, a stone trough was dug behind the stone door of the underground palace, and a long slab of stone stood on it. After the door was closed, the tap stone standing in the trough was inserted diagonally into the gap between the two doors.
The door is blocked and it is difficult for outsiders to open it.
As for hidden weapons such as crossbows, bows and arrows, even if they exist, they have probably lost their effectiveness after thousands of years of baptism. Therefore, there is no need to be too worried. As long as you are careful where you step and don't fall into traps, the problem will not be big.
Gao Bin felt in the dark and carefully explored the path ahead. He soon walked through the four to five meter long tomb passage and entered an internal space that was obviously a cave.
It seems that the tomb chamber just now was just the front chamber or one of the side chambers of the mausoleum, and it did not have much value.
Gao Bin and the other three breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, they finally came out.
"Leave quickly, it's not a good place to stay for a long time."
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The main purpose of coming this time was not achieved. Gao Bin was somewhat depressed and had a bad start.
It seems that if you want a bronze mirror, you have to find another way.
No matter what, leave this unfortunate place first to avoid being blocked by people from Zhengjia Village.
After finally getting out of the cave, they found that it was already dark. They were halfway up the mountain, and at the bottom of the mountain was Zhengjia Village.
The village was filled with smoke and bright lights. It seemed that the disappearance of himself and others did not attract their attention. In other words, their attention was distracted by other things and they had no time to pay attention to them for the time being.
This is good news, Gao Bin said:
"Let's go, go south, you can definitely get out."
Who would have thought that this journey would take three days? The moment he walked out of the mountain, Gao Bin had the urge to roar loudly.
Fortunately, he endured the second grade disease and cheered up his two companions.
The image of the three of them is not very good, which is nonsense. Anyone who has been sleeping in the mountains for several days would be surprised if his image is good.
Huang Yanyan's hair was tied up, Xu Wishan's face was even more shiny, her hair was like a chicken coop, and her jeans had a hole in them. This was not following fashion, it was just a fall!
"I finally came out." Xu Yuan forced a smile and looked quite optimistic.
"Work harder, the entire Anyang belongs to the Zheng family, we can't take it lightly."
Huang Yanyan hangs on Gao Bin:
"No, let me take a break first, just one minute."
Gao Bin looked around. They were following the stream, and next to it was the clear mountain spring water.
"Drink some water and rest for two minutes. The Zheng family shouldn't be found here."
When Huang Yanyan heard this, she sat down directly. She had really worked hard these past few days. A girl was working as a savage in the mountains with them. The hardships were unimaginable to ordinary people, but Huang Yanyan never complained.
"Let me look for something to eat." Xu wish volunteered.
In the past few days, they picked wild fruits when they were hungry. During this period, Gao Bin caught a hare and roasted it. There was no seasoning, so he could only use the juice of wild fruits to rub on the meat and roast it. Not to mention, it tasted pretty good.
After eating a few fruits, drinking water, and having something in their stomachs, the three of them gathered their strength and walked towards the village at the foot of the mountain.
Gao Bin asked Xu Yuan and Huang Yanyan to stay and take shelter while he went to check the situation. Firstly, he had a way out, and secondly, he was good at avoiding danger in time.
Fortunately, the villagers in this village were quite simple. When they learned that they were 'scientists' from the capital and had lost their way in the mountains, they took the initiative to use tractors to take them into the city.
Four wheels are easier to use than two legs. Sitting behind the tractor, the three of them felt alive.
Entering Anyang City, although we are still not out of danger, at least it is much safer. No matter how crazy the Zheng family is, they will not dare to do anything in a crowded place.
They didn't dare to delay, so they went back to the hotel to find Kana Kido. Three days had passed and they didn't know how she was doing!
Sure enough, when he returned to the hotel and inquired, Kido Kana checked out two days ago and did not know where she had gone. However, Gao Bin guessed that there was a high probability that she had returned to the capital to move reinforcements.
After leaving the hotel, I found a room at a small hotel. I took a hot shower first, put on dry clothes, and refreshed myself. Then I went to find a small restaurant outside, where I was going to eat and plan the next step.
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It’s impossible to leave. If you don’t get the bronze mirror, you absolutely can’t leave!
After these three days of baptism, Huang Yanyan no longer pretends to be a wealthy lady. She is not dirty, as long as she can have a full stomach.
The tables in this small shop are shiny with oil and the walls are blackened. Even so, it cannot stop the enthusiasm of the diners.
The Central Plains people love braised noodles as much as the Jinmen people love fruits.
I made a wish and looked at the history of noodle soup on the wall with great interest.
According to legend, one winter before Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty became emperor, he led his troops to fight in a war, accidentally caught wind and cold, and was trapped in a Huimin home.
The kind-hearted Huimin mother and son raised an animal in their home that looked like a deer but not a deer, had a head that looked like a horse but not a horse, a body that looked like a sheep but not a sheep, and hooves that looked like an ox but not an ox. Some people also killed the animal that they called "elk" and made soup for them.
Li Shimin warded off the cold, and then prepared to make noodles to satisfy Li Shimin's hunger.
However, as the chasing troops were approaching and the situation was urgent, the old woman could only pull the dough into strips, throw it into a soup pot, cook it, and serve it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin ate and drank, eating all the broth instead of noodles. After eating, he was sweating profusely and feeling hot all over. He suddenly became energetic and recovered from his cold illness.
Li Shimin said goodbye to his mother and son and continued on the road.
Later, after Lao Li became emperor, he ate delicacies all day long, but found them boring.
Suddenly he remembered that he had eaten the noodles made by Huimin's mother and son, and was grateful for their life-saving grace, so he sent people to search for the whereabouts of their mother and son, so as to increase the reward.
All the hard work paid off, and finally we found their mother and son.
Li Shimin also asked the imperial chef to learn how to make noodles from his mother and son. From then on, "Kilin noodles" was added to the imperial diet of the Tang court.
Later, because the "Sibei" was extremely rare and difficult to hunt, Wu Zetian killed several tribute envoys, but to no avail. She could only replace the Sibei with goats, and the unicorn noodles were also changed to goat braised noodles.
After appraisal by imperial doctors, goat braised noodles are no less inferior to unicorn noodles in terms of taste and nutritional value.
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty also firmly believed that goat braised noodles had the effect of replenishing the body and repelling cold.
When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, she fled to Shanxi. She also asked Li Lianying to summon the imperial chef many times to make goat noodles for her, and the cold illness on her body was eliminated in time.
It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that Pang Enfu, the master chef of the Manchu-Han banquet, escaped from the palace and lived in seclusion in the Central Plains section of the Yellow River because he was unwilling to endure the strict discipline of the palace kitchen.
When the braised noodles are served, the milky white soup exudes a strong aroma of mutton soup.
The soup contains vermicelli, day lily, black fungus, shredded tofu, kelp, coriander, etc.
Mutton braised noodles must include cooked mutton. Cut the cooked mutton into small pieces and mix it into the soup together with other side dishes to form a source of fragrant aroma.
After three days of cold weather in the mountains, eating this bowl of braised noodles made the cold go away and I finally came back to life!