Chapter Ninety-Three: The Coffin System
Is this huge building a burial mound?
No way!
The scale of this underground palace has surpassed any known Shang Dynasty tombs, if this is really the tomb of a big man in the ancient Shu Kingdom, then it should follow some etiquette!
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First of all, it is on the ground, after endless years it goes underground, and it is not completely obscured.
Secondly, this stone chamber is a one-story coffin, a two-story coffin in civil engineering buildings, this sarcophagus is so high on the ground, and it has not been buried, indicating that there was once a layer of elevation on its exterior, that is, three floors, and the sarcophagus is the fourth floor.
In other words, a four-tiered coffin!
What this meant in ancient China, everyone was clear.
In the early days, the Paleolithic Age, people died when they died, and gradually, people had a sense of reverence for death, perhaps because of the bacterium cholera of the dead, and there began to be burials.
At first, the corpses were directly put into the pit and filled with broken stones, and later in the Shaoshan period, wooden coffins appeared, which were only used for tribal leaders.
Later, it was not until Zhou Tianzi Dingding that there was a four-layer coffin in the Central Plains, and the four-layer coffin was equivalent to the lord of a country.
First of all, the age here is much earlier than Zhou, and secondly, why does this place appear here!
Even in the Shang Dynasty or even earlier, the four-tiered coffin had become the ritual system of the king, could there be a king here?
Zhang Shuqiao shuddered for a moment: "This, do you want to go in?"
"Come in, why don't you go in. Fang Hong stepped into this tomb and felt that the temperature of the air had dropped a lot.
Only when you enter the room can you see the whole picture of this sarcophagus.
There are still some patterns on the sarcophagus, which look very similar to the sunbird, but there are differences.
The entire lower part of the sarcophagus was completely excavated from a boulder, but it was impossible to tell what material it was.
The climate here is too humid, and with this lightless environment, the stones are a little blackened, and it is difficult to see the original appearance.
"Dong Zhongshu commented that the tomb 'has the distinction of Xuan crown, service, Guilu, and field house, and there is a coffin, a hanging, and a siege when the dead are killed', it seems that there is no meaning in turning people into a piece of loess after death, and the underground world is dark, even if the tomb is built on the ground, it will eventually be buried. ”
"Brother Gun, I don't think this is a tomb, you think such a big building, how can it be a tomb, if it's just an empty hall parked here? ”
In the face of the thoughts of the water friends, Fang Hong was powerless to complain, and he was overjoyed......
"You must know that it was an era of slavery, and it was not impossible for a powerful person to want a city where he was to be buried with him. And the etiquette system of that era was not perfect, maybe a rich master used the specifications of the tomb that only the king had, it is also possible, who called this place to rely on the country of abundance. ”
Liu Chao turned his head: "Do you want to open the coffin?"
"Can't open the coffin!" Fang Hong shook his head: "If there is really a corpse, such a good sarcophagus may have preserved his corpse, if the coffin is opened, it will oxidize rapidly, and it will be scrapped within a few hours, and no one can tell if there are any deadly bacteria and viruses in it." ”
"Bacteria and viruses may be tiny, but they are really deadly, just take the two biggest epidemics in human history. For the first time, the Black Death traveled to Europe, washing the already backward and impoverished Europe in blood and turning it into a hell on earth. ”
"Then the Europeans went to the Americas and brought the viruses and bacteria from the European continent to the Americas, and the Indians died madly in the bacterial invasion. ”
"Brother Gun, isn't it, didn't the Indians die in the white massacre?
"They died because of the whites, but not the slaughter of hundreds, and the Europeans went to America to plant a small flag, and it belonged to them? If you look carefully at the textbooks, there was at least a hundred years between the time they landed in the Americas and the establishment of the semi-colonies, and what happened in these hundred years? The answer is that the Indians were dyed by bacteria and viruses. ”
"At that time, there were two super-empires in the Americas, and if they were to start a war, Europe could not beat any of them by three. ”
The Indians were not at all soft on the whites, and Europe went to the Americas in the form of organizing companies, and every year they sent as many people as they went, they had to die ninety percent, and so on for many years before they could gain a firm foothold.
For example, the Virginia Company, when it gained a firm foothold in the Americas, it was already 80 years later, and when it became profitable, it had been more than 100 years, and those who invested in it back then, not to mention themselves, their grandchildren were almost dead.
This kind of sarcophagus is like a Pandora's box, and what is released may be the root cause of the epidemic, and without a professional, opening it is tantamount to suicide.
Of course, the coffins of many large tombs have been opened, and that is the temptation of Pandora's box, and everyone knows that the most valuable things in each tomb are placed in the coffin with the corpse.
Just when the three of them were observing the coffin, Liu Chao raised his head: "The sound of water." ”
"Huh?" Fang Hong raised his head: "It seems to be, it's quite close." ”
Zhang Shuqiao made a swing: "Don't scare me, you two, I didn't hear anything!"
Among the three, Zhang Shuqiao is the oldest, but he has not been exposed to this kind of thing, and his acuity is also low.
Fang Hong looked to the south: "If this is really a tomb, then it should be lowered to the south." ”
It is the lower terrain, because even in the underground, the king should have a higher status than the others. The slaves who could not be buried with them slept above the king!
"Speaking of which, if at the beginning, this is an above-ground building, then isn't that tower more than thirty meters!" Zhang Shuqiao was surprised: "This is all ten stories high, and it may be higher? This is really the building of the ancients?"
Fang Hong turned around: "The tallest building in ancient times is more than 100 meters, this is only more than 30 meters, what is impossible, the tower is relatively easy to build, and it is strong, not to mention the stone tower." ”
Liu Chao tilted his head: "Go over and have a look?"
"Well, I would like to know why there is water here. ”
Zhang Shuqiao was stunned for a moment: "This environment is terrible at first glance, especially what tomb robbery novels have been popular recently, and the radio is also broadcast every day, we are really in a big tomb." ”
"What are you afraid of, as you said, it doesn't have to be a tomb, maybe it's nothing, maybe it's really an empty coffin. ”
Walking to the door, Liu Chao suddenly looked sideways at Fang Hong: "You say, what legend is there in ancient times, there was an emperor who compared himself to the sun, which dynasty was that?"
"It's not the emperor, it's the king, Xia Wei will be the ...... of the sun" Speaking of this, Fang Hong was stunned.
The sun, the sunbird, the summer tree, the four-story coffin, 3,500 years ago.
In 1559 A.D., Xia Wei was defeated by Chengtang.