Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Jongmyo Temple, the Sheji, and the Main Hall
What bullshit happened on the boundary back then, Xing Jie and Professor Yang said that they didn't want to pay attention to it.
Now that it has come to this point, all the two of them can do is read it all over. The record of the record, which direction will have something to remember. Wait until you go out and then run to the Erlitou ruins to see if you can find something you didn't find back then.
No matter how excited you are, how can you know more of the truth, the time has spanned thousands of years, even if Xia Houqi was a little wronged, even if someone poured sewage on him about those things back then, so what? Everyone is playing politics, so it's better to be mentally mature?
Since someone has robbed you of your country, then you are willing to gamble and lose, and if you lose all, then leave naked, and be splashed with sewage, grit your teeth and endure it.
Besides, if you look at the king of other businessmen, Emperor Xin, isn't he also covered in. People didn't say anything, this is the example that a king of a dead country should make.
When all the virtual scenery that originally covered this large area of ruins receded, the field of vision suddenly widened a lot.
At this time, there is no need to walk on those stone paths, there is no time to waste.
The two of them rushed straight to the front of the temple and the shrine. Professor Yang instructed behind him, and Xing Jie was responsible for starting the search.
"The Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven are the focus of the records in the Book of Rites, but the earliest records of the Temple of the Son of Heaven in the Book of Rites are only in the early Zhou period. There is also a Shang Dynasty that has been inherited for 500 years, so there is not much reference value for the temple here.
In addition, we know too little about the Xia Dynasty, and we are not very clear about their religious forms. It can only be roughly inferred that it was a country of primitive religion, that is, the Celestial Atlas Worship, and the rest is not particularly clear. Professor Yang glanced at the completely destroyed temple and said helplessly.
Generally speaking, Jongmyo was the most important place for a dynasty to worship its ancestors, which is a custom that has been handed down from ancient times to the present. No matter who it is, from the emperor and princes to the common people, it is an extremely solemn thing when worshipping the ancestors.
Even ancient criminals who were about to be beheaded would be allowed to beg their nephews to get some paper money and burn them to worship their ancestors. And then being cut down with a knife and kicked as a ball, these are two things that have nothing to do with each other at all.
However, Jongmyo was also the first and most completely destroyed place in the battle to break the city. In modern words, Lao Tzu not only wants to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots of you, but also dig up your ancestral grave!
So, Xing Jie took a look at the large area of buildings that were destroyed and then completely demolished, and could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, expressing his helplessness here.
Even if he Xing Jie has great ability, no matter how much he has experience in this aspect of architecture, it is impossible for him to restore the entire temple by himself.
Besides, it has nothing to do with luck.
But it's a shame, this is a temple.
What exactly is in the Great Xia Dynasty, no one cares. But there is one thing that every emperor in later generations worries about. That's Jiuding!
What Jiuding looks like, no one knows after the Qin Dynasty.
At the beginning, these artifacts were cast by the Great Xia God King Dayu, and then they were positioned as national weapons!
The last monarch who saw this Jiuding was King Qin Wu, well, it was the guy who bragged that he could lift the crown, but as a result, he broke his leg and died of pain.
It has been passed down for 2,000 years!
It wasn't until the First Emperor unified the Six Kingdoms that Jiuding completely disappeared. Later generations can only use their imagination to imagine how miraculous this national weapon that has bathed in the national faith for 2,000 years is.
Even though Professor Yang and Xing Jie knew that this place would definitely be destroyed, they still ran over without giving up, not thinking about what to do. Seeing Jiuding with his own eyes, this honor, in Professor Yang's opinion, as long as he looks at it, even if he dies immediately, it is worth it!
Compared with the temple that was demolished and there was not even a brick left, the Sheji piece is much more complete in comparison. After all, it is a place where the earth gods and the grain gods are worshipped. Even if Shang Tang Zixu killed Xia Houqi, it would just rob the world.
After all, even if you become a super boss, although you can drink minced meat, but those ordinary people also have to eat, and the common people don't have food to eat, so it is possible to eat the meat of the king!
"Dad, what exactly did you dig up in Erlitou? didn't you even find this kind of thing?" Xing Jie asked, pointing to the crystal clear tree on top of the five-colored earthen platform.
"What is this? It looks like the strange sacred tree you found in the underground pyramids of the Amazon. Professor Yang also thinks it is amazing.
This thing is indeed made of five-colored soil, representing all the land in the world, for the harvest of grain in the whole world. Emperors worship here every year, without exception.
But in the end, it's just a dirt platform.
And I've never heard of anyone planting a tree on this platform! Can you use the whole land to supply a tree? No one dares to do that.
What's more, what meaning this tree represents, Xing Jie knows too well!
The unique apple tree in the Christian canon that gives human wisdom (albeit to be deceived). Although it itself has been deliberately erased by successive popes, it has been forgotten intentionally or unintentionally.
But it can bear the fruit of wisdom in a way that no one can omit.
"This is the legendary apple tree, and I got a hundred and ten in Mexico this time, if you are interested, you can go and see it when we go out. But now I don't understand more and more, how can this place have anything to do with that kind of ruin?" Xing Jie said lightly.
"I've written it down, and I'm in a hurry to get in the general direction, so let's move on. Professor Yang said.
Xing Jie's hand when he left again glanced back at it. Although it was very similar, the appearance of this tree was already in a mature state, which was fundamentally different from the saplings Xing Jie found in the warehouse. It feels like this tree is like a bonsai of a wisdom tree that has been planted on the five-color soil platform!
What is the magic of the five-colored earth society? There are still a few red liquid balls hanging at the end of the branches, although they are small, Xing Jie can already identify them 100%.
It's the same thing I saw!
Forget it, just know that there's a strange apple tree here, and you'll have to wait until you're gone. The ruins of Erlitou are there, and they won't run away, right? So he reflexively walked towards the main hall.
The main hall, although nominally the highest level, is after all the place where all the bigwigs of the Xia Dynasty work.
But it doesn't seem to make much sense now.
Good stuff is not generally stored here either.
Ceremonial vessels and sacrificial vessels must have been stored in the Jongmyo Temple, and were in the hands of the high priest. They are all human beings, and no one is much smarter than anyone else, and no one has a brain in the water to put some precious treasures in the place where they work. That's not what to do with stealing? It's all uncle's relative, so what else can you say about your gadget? After all, the Xia and Shang period was the beginning of the world, and the ministers in the entire court were all more or less related to the Xia King.
This is the real nobleman.
It doesn't matter if you want to enter the court? Don't even think about it. Being a petty official was already a matter of green smoke on the ancestral grave, and the hierarchy at that time was so strict that later generations could not imagine it at all.
Just have a general impression of this kind of place, Xing Jie didn't even stop.