Chapter Nine hundred and forty-eight Qin Twelve Golden Men (Part 2)
Chapter 948: The Twelve Golden Men of Qin (Part 2)
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However, Liu Dong has always expressed doubts about the idea that the Twelve Jin people were based on the Yi Di people. You must know that according to the records of the "Tsinghua Slips", the Qin people did not come from Xirong, but after the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. The Qin people's culture mainly came from the Zhou Dynasty.
culture, and the culture of the Rong people comes from the Siwa culture.
The Qin people mainly live in the open plateaus and gentle terraces on both sides of the upper reaches of the Western Han River, while the Rong people mostly live in the valleys of the lower reaches of the Western Han River or in the tributaries. The Qin people and the Rong people live in a staggered and confrontational distribution. According to archeology
According to discoveries and historical records, the Qin people and the Rong people had a long and fierce tug-of-war, and the two tribes were incompatible with each other in terms of nationality and culture.
Qin Zhong, the fourth generation king of Qin, and Qin Xianggong, the sixth generation monarch, both fell on the battlefield of the conquest of Xirong. And more than half of Qin's more than five hundred years of history is the history of wars with Xirong. Xirong and Qin
The hatred between China and Japan is exactly the same as the hatred between China and Japan today. How could the Qin Dynasty cast the weapon of its country into the shape of the Rong and Di people? Is this disgusting for itself?
Even if it is cast, it should be cast into images such as kneeling and kowtowing to disgust the enemy and symbolize one's own achievements!
As for the so-called Twelve Golden People symbolizing "the feudal unified country established by Qin is a multi-ethnic united country." It is even more nonsense. The first emperor Yingzheng was so ambitious and proud, and the six people he defeated were defeated.
Even the Chinese people don’t take it seriously, let alone Rong Di!
"The old Qin fought against the national calamity together." The Qin Dynasty under the Legalist military conferment was a rigorous war machine. With a population of five million, it supported millions of troops and swept across six countries.
Conquer the world. This is an impossible task in the eyes of any military expert, but the Qin Dynasty did it!
The Qin Dynasty can be said to be the most powerful dynasty in terms of military strength among all the dynasties in China. It is also a great military empire that if you don’t accept it, I will beat you to accept it!
Therefore, when the proud people of Qin collected the soldiers of the world and forged weapons to suppress the country, their image could only be that of the Qin people themselves, and they would never consider anything else!
Just like what Liu Dong saw now, the bronze giant with a height of nearly 14 meters and a weight of more than 80 tons. He was wearing armor, holding a sword in his hand, and looked like a solemn military commander. He was eighty-nine times similar to the image of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xian-Yang!
However, compared to the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the casting of this twelve golden figures is more detailed and the image is more vivid. Of course, it is also more valuable!
In addition to this standing bronze figure, the remaining five large wooden boxes also contain a golden figure. However, this one, who is also dressed as a military general and has similar inscriptions engraved on his body, is different from the former.
, but a figure holding a Qin crossbow in a half-crouched posture like a launch!
Compared with the former, its height is only 9 meters, and the weight difference is nearly 30 tons!
Looking at them, Liu Dong was really excited and heartbroken. He was excited that he could obtain such a national treasure, but he was heartbroken that they were originally intact and brutally cut into pieces by Sun Dianying and his thieves.
The treasure is damaged!
"Fortunately, everything can be undone!" Liu Dong thought.
Although his relic Yuanguang cannot make these separated golden figures become one again, it can restore the bent and shriveled bronze to its original posture.
If you want to make these two golden figures stand up again, you can only rely on professionals who are proficient in antique restoration, especially bronze restoration. Liu Dong himself will definitely not be able to do it!
But what he didn't understand was why two of the twelve golden men of the Qin Dynasty appeared among Qianlong's funerary objects.
There are three speculations about the whereabouts of the Jin people: Some people believe that Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, burned the Epang Palace after conquering Xianyang, the capital of Qin. When the Epang Palace was burned, the 12 golden people, who symbolized the eternal stability of the Qin Dynasty, were also
Burned together.
Some historians pointed out that these 12 golden figures were destroyed in the hands of Dong Zhuo. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo led his army to invade Chang'an. 10 of the golden figures were destroyed and minted into copper coins. The remaining two
He ordered them to be moved to Qingmen Lane in Chang'an City. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui ordered the two bronze figures to be transported to Luoyang. When hundreds of craftsmen transported them to Ba City, the weight of the golden figures was too heavy.
, had to give up this huge project, so they stopped transporting them. During the Sixteenth Kingdom of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shihu of Later Zhao transported the two Jin men to Yecheng. Later, Fu Jian of the Former Qin unified the north, and he
The two Jin people were transported back to Chang'an from Yecheng and destroyed. By that time, all 12 Jin people who had existed in the world for about 600 years had been destroyed.
Another theory is more optimistic. According to historical records, they believe that these 12 golden figures were not destroyed. Because the 12 golden figures were Qin Shi Huang’s favorite things during his lifetime, after the construction of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum, these 12 golden figures were
The individual gold coins and other exquisite treasures were buried in the mausoleum as funerary objects after the death of Qin Shihuang.
In addition to these three speculations, the official histories "Three Kingdoms", "Book of the Later Han" and "Zizhi Tongjian" all record that Dong Zhuo destroyed bronze figures and made copper coins.
"Three Kingdoms. Wei Shu Liu. Dong Er Yuan Liu Biography Sixth" records that "(Dong Zhuo) broke the vertebrae of the bronze man, Zhongya, and broke the five-baht coin. He made it into a small coin, a big five-cent coin, no articles, no good meat.
Lun Guo, no grinding."
"Zi Zhi Tong Jian" Volume 59 "Under the Xiaoling Emperor": "Dong Zhuo destroyed five baht coins and cast small coins. He also took the bronze men, Zhong Ya, Fei Lian and bronze horses from Luoyang and Chang'an to cast them.
Therefore, the goods are cheap and the goods are expensive, and grains and stones cost tens of thousands of dollars."
The "Xi" in "Xizhui Broken Bronze Man" and "Xizhu Luoyang and Chang'an Bronze Man" means "all, all", which means that all twelve bronze men were destroyed by Dong Zhuo!
Therefore, no matter which explanation is used, it cannot be completely believed by people. Even if Liu Dong has obtained two golden men now, he is not sure that the remaining ten have been completely destroyed by Dong Zhuo!
But no matter what, these two golden figures added two more national treasures to his collection!
As for how to display these two inestimable national treasures openly and openly in the future, Liu Dong has not thought about it for the time being. The most important thing now is to look at all the treasures. I will be happy first, and the headache will be later!
After putting away the two Qin and Jin figures, Liu Dong looked at a large wooden box next to him that was more than two meters long and wide! The wooden box was not square, but stood upright.
After Liu Dong removed all the box boards except the ground, a knight wearing armor and dressed as a Qing Dynasty general appeared in front of Liu Dong. The knight grabbed the reins with his left hand, pressed the sword with his right hand, hung a bow and arrow on the saddle, and had a sword behind his back.
The arrow pot looks forward with both eyes and a serious expression, as if it is waiting for the monarch's inspection!
The war horse under the knight's crotch has hooves as big as a bowl, slender limbs, a strong and powerful body, its neck is raised high, its mouth is open to make a neighing sound, and the horse's mane on the back of the neck is clearly visible, everything is like reality!
Liu Dong, who was standing next to him, immediately felt that the knight on horseback was not a dead thing, but a warrior who was really ready to fight on the battlefield!
"Is it a true yellow flag?" Liu Dong thought to himself as he looked at the knight made of gold and the style of the armor on his body.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Dong opened another wooden box about the same size as him next to the knight, and there was also another mighty knight riding a war horse!
And what is the same between them is that both the war horse and the knight themselves are made of gold. If you add the base of the war horse which is two meters long at the feet, 80 centimeters wide and about 40 centimeters high, but the height of these two gold statues exceeds 250 centimeters.
The gold used by the knight weighs nearly 10 tons!
Of course, the second golden knight decorated the edge of the armor with red. Of course, this red is not fuel, but a piece of ruby. Although there is no pigeon blood red in these rubies, it is second only to pigeon blood red.
Ruby!
From the costume of this knight, we can see that it represents the yellow flag!
The Jurchens were hunting hunters. Nurhachi won successive victories in the war to unify the various Jurchen tribes. As his power expanded and the population increased, he established the four banners of yellow, white, red and blue in the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, known as
True yellow, pure white, pure red, true blue, the flags are all solid colors. Forty-three years ago, in order to meet the needs of the development of Manchu society, Nurhaci created the Eight Banners system on the basis of the original cow record, that is, among the original four flags
In addition, four additional banners were added: yellow, white, red, and blue. All people under Hou Jin's jurisdiction were included in the banner.
The Manchus used this military organization system to establish the Qing Dynasty. In peacetime, people were engaged in farming, hunting and other activities; in wartime, they were recruited as soldiers. It originated from the Jurchen tribe's hunting organization-Niuji. Family members with flag status are called
Bannermen. By the end of the 19th century, with the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners military organizational system no longer existed. However, some descendants of the Eight Banners still called themselves bannermen.
The military organization system of the Eight Banners was formulated by Nurhachi, the leader of the Manchus. Nurhachi initially divided his army into four banners, and the four banners were identified by flags of different colors, becoming the "Zhenghuang Banner" and so on. As the army grew, he also divided the army into four banners.
The four flags were added with borders to form the "Pelted Yellow Flag" and so on, forming the Eight Banners. Relying on this military organization system, the Manchus established the Qing Dynasty in 1636.
It can be said that the Eight Banners system was the fundamental political system of the Qing Dynasty. Just like the current political system in China, it is the most fundamental political policy of the country and the basis of national stability. Its importance is self-evident!
It is not surprising that knights representing the Eight Banners system appear in the tombs of Qing emperors, but they are made entirely of gold, which makes people surprised by the extravagance of Emperor Qianlong.
But when he saw the third knight sculpture, Liu Dong instantly felt that the first two golden knights were actually conservative!
Because the third knight is basically a national treasure-level handicraft made from the finest Hotan first-grade white jade, combined with the peak jade-cutting skills of the craftsmen of the Royal Ruyi Pavilion! (To be continued)