230. Ancient Greek architecture
Qin Shi Huang is really a figure known as the Dragon Ancestor, I have to admire" Zhang Jingyang looked at the words of the dragon flying and phoenix dancing on the scroll and said in amazement, he seemed to be able to see Ying Zheng's energetic spirit in the inscription here.
This is somewhat in line with Ying Zheng's proud style, Li Zimu looked at this scroll and thought to himself, born as a Chinese person, and died as a Chinese soul. From some points of view, Yingzheng is definitely a good emperor for the country and the people, and this Li Zimu still agrees.
"Although I don't understand your demeanor of doing something and not doing something, but judging from this scroll, Qin Shi Huang is a hero," Chi Ling said with a smile, isn't this the charm of a man?
"I want this scroll," Zhang Jingyang said as he carefully rolled the scroll into his backpack, they weren't interested, but he liked it.
Regardless of the value of the scroll itself, just looking at the word, there is a kind of oppression that makes people kneel, and the nomination of his own in the back directly raises the value of this scroll, if it is taken out and sold, there will definitely be people who are crazy to rob it, but he decided to keep it for himself.
Li Zimu didn't have any opinions, he preferred the golden Nine Dragons inkstone on this table and the golden pen. And the spirit doesn't want anything, what does she do with these things, there is no strong ** about money in her world.
There is nothing to visit in this front hall, the whole hall is divided into three areas, the front hall and the back hall also have a side hall, according to the current words to explain, the front hall is a conference room, the back hall is the place where the emperor rests in the middle of the meeting, and the side hall is used by civil and military officials to rest.
Usually the emperor goes to the court, there are daily court and important things on the court, sometimes the meeting can last for a day, and the middle is naturally to rest, so the front hall and the side hall have a carpet and low table for rest, and there are also some musical instruments to accompany the singing and dancing.
There is only one floor of this Wanhe Palace, and it will be done after a while, but there are a lot of old things that are old, of course, all the things here are old, but Li Zimu is not very eye-catching.
After the apse goes out, it is the stone steps down, and then there is a large square, there are many bronze sculptures in the square as decoration, from them straight past is a door, the door is written with three big characters of Jieshi Palace, according to the bamboo slips in their hands, through this door is the Jieshi Palace.
"The position of these bronze sculptures seems to be a little familiar......" Chi Ling looked at the seven bronze sculptures in this square and thought, each sculpture is in the shape of a person, looking up at the sky, from this distance, the position of these seven sculptures is definitely familiar to her.
"This is the Big Dipper, and the mouth of the spoon is facing the Wanhe Hall where we are standing now" Li Zimu said lightly, and he immediately saw the Tao in the middle.
The three of them walked down the stone steps to the square, which was as big as the square in front, but this time the square was round, and the floor tiles were black and white, and it looked like a huge Tai Chi pattern from above.
"Does this square have a name? I guess it should be called Tai Chi Square" Chi Ling walked slowly on this square and said, isn't this a Tai Chi, naturally it is the most appropriate to call Tai Chi Square.
"Almost, the word square came from Xila, we didn't have the concept of square in ancient times, only the school field for soldiers" Zhang Jingyang said lightly, every time he sees these are slightly different from other places, he will be careful to prevent for fear that there will be a mechanism, he has been scared of this stone underground palace......
But fortunately, in the end, there was still no mechanism, and the three of them came to the city gate very smoothly, and the plaque on the city gate read the three big characters of Jieshi Palace.
Li Zimu gently pushed open the door, and the scene behind the door appeared in front of him, this time it was no longer a square, but only a four-meter-wide path, and at the end of the path was the Jieshi Palace.
"This ...... Why is that a Western building?" said Zhang Jingyang, looking at the huge palace at the end of the path with wide eyes, curious as to why the Jieshi Palace was a Western building.
Li Zimu also frowned, the map saw that the Jieshi Palace was just a larger square, about the same size as the Wanhe Palace, and the specific structure was not drawn, and now when I look at this Jieshi Palace, it seems that something is wrong.
"When did the new route open?" Zhang Jingyang asked with a frown, this building is not the Gothic style of the modern West, but the style of the big column and flat roof, although he has never seen this style, but he still knows that this is the architectural style of ancient Greece.
"Fifteenth century" Li Zimu said lightly, the opening of new shipping routes was indeed in the fifteenth century, before that, the official history records that the earliest European to come to the East was only Marco Polo, which was also a matter of 124 years, more than a thousand years later than the Qin Dynasty.
Before this, Li Zimu had also seen some Europeans in the Crusades, and he had not seen them before, but who would have thought that more than 200 years BC, Westerners would have been to China.
"So Ying Zheng actually had contact with the people of ancient Greece? God, if this is going to get out, it will definitely cause a big storm in the archaeological community, right?"
"Yes, we are lucky to have witnessed history," Li Zimu nodded and said, as early as BC, Westerners had contact with China, and the ancient Greek architectural style in the distance is the best evidence.
The three of them followed this path and walked straight towards the Jieshi Palace, and now the hearts of the three of them were full of questions, even Li Zimu was no exception. Why didn't he know that Yingzheng had ever received Westerners?
It's too mysterious, Li Zimu thought to himself, although he has said it for more than 2,000 years, Yingzheng still looks so mysterious, the construction of this Jieshi Palace proves that Qin Shi Huang not only had contact with Westerners, but also learned a lot about ancient Greek culture.
"It's ...... Athena?" The three of them slowly walked to the door of the stone palace, and at this time there was a statue about five meters high standing at the door, holding a scepter in his hand, wearing a crown on his head, and a stone sculpture of a woman.
"Mm-hmm" Li Zimu nodded, he still had some doubts that this was researched by the people of ancient China, but now when he saw the sculpture of Athena, the goddess of liberty, the idea in his heart was ruthlessly overturned.
The status of women in the Qin Dynasty was very low, and it is absolutely impossible to say that there will be such a thing as a sculpture of women. And the face of this sculpture is the face of the goddess Athena in ancient Greek mythology.
This stone underground palace turned out to be a Western building!