Chapter 517: Lingxiao Treasure Hall (II)

I saw that the eight pillars were all cast in bronze, gilded on the outside, and there was a protruding pattern at the bottom, which was divided into two layers, and the middle was inlaid with red gemstones. The whole column is carved with dragons, but the images of those dragons are not ordinary, and they always seem to be missing something.

"There seems to be something strange about the dragon on this pillar, and it looks a little awkward." Yun Xian said.

"The dragon on this pillar is a clawless dragon." Uncle Lu said, it is true that the dragons on these pillars, although they look hideous and close to the images of our common dragons, all of these dragons have no claws. "It's understandable that the five-clawed dragon is for royalty, but why don't these dragons even have claws?" Uncle Lu doesn't seem to know the situation either.

"Only in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the five-clawed dragon was used by the royal family, and there was no such statement before, so it is right to say that this dragon has no claws, indicating that these dragons did exist earlier than the Ming and Qing dynasties." Yun Ximing said.

"Brother Childe, what is this statement?" Dazhe asked.

"In China, the dragon has gone through four major stages of development: the totem worship stage, the god worship stage, the dragon god worship and the emperor worship stage, and the Indian dragon worship and the Chinese dragon worship stage. During the totem worship stage, certain tribes in ancient China regarded the dragon as a totem as the ancestor and symbol of their own tribe. According to historical documents and relevant legends, the original form of the dragon was a snake, which was originally the totem of the Fuxi clan, and later became the totem of the Taihui tribe. The Taihui tribe is one of the most important origins of dragon totem worship. During the worship of the gods, agriculture and animal husbandry gradually took shape. Religious beliefs also developed, transitioning from a more homogeneous totem worship to a polytheistic worship. Dragon totem worship also developed into dragon god worship. People deified the dragon and worshipped the dragon as the god of water and the rainbow. After the dragon was deified, it was combined with the worship of the emperor. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the great unification of China required a great god to adapt to it, in order to integrate the beliefs of various places and ethnic groups, and the dragon worship was combined with the emperor worship. Ancient Chinese emperors presented themselves as incarnations of the dragon god or sons of the dragon god, or as people protected by the dragon god, with the help of the dragon to establish authority. Gain the general trust and support of the people. Such. The dragon has gained a more prominent status and played a very important role in the development of Chinese dragon culture. Finally, there is the stage of combining Indian dragon worship with Chinese dragon worship. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism spread rapidly in China, and the worship of the dragon king in Buddhism was also introduced to China. In the dragon worship of native China. It turned out that there was only dragon god worship. There is no dragon king worship. The worship of the dragon king was introduced after the introduction of Buddhism. With the spread of Buddhism, the dragon king, the dragon palace, and the dragon lady also spread rapidly. And because the original form of the dragon was a snake, the original dragons were all legless. Therefore, the carvings on the pillars here have no feet, which is enough to show that this is indeed Zuo Ci's tomb, and his age is even earlier than we expected. Yun Ximing said.

"These are the big pillars, but what are the little ones on the side?" Yun Ning asked.

"Those are not small pillars, those are niches." I said, I saw that there was a lamp niche in the middle of every two large pillars, which was a thinner stone pillar, and on top of it were a lamp niche with night pearls. The base of the lamp shrine is the lotus base, the upper layer is carved with the undulating pattern of the green mountain, the night pearl is placed in the middle, the small pillar on the periphery, the hollow carving is carved with the pattern of the deer crane prolonging the year, the lamp niche is above the eight cornices, the carving is extremely exquisite.

"I really don't understand, isn't this kind of night pearl very rare, why are all the night pearls in the ancient tombs we arrived, so it seems that there are a lot of night pearls since ancient times." Dazhe said.

"As a rare treasure, the night pearl is indeed very small, but this does not mean that it is originally few, there are thousands of treasures in the world, all of which cannot satisfy the extravagance and greed of human beings." I say.

"Didn't the advertisements say that there is no buying and selling, there is no killing. There are so many rare things in the world, and the reason why they are rare is not because you humans are killing them on a large scale. Where there are human beings, everything can be extinct, and the same is true for the Night Pearl, there is nothing unusual. Arrow said.

Dazhe stuck out his tongue, "What? Do flower demons also watch TV? Dazhe whispered to Min Lan.

"I don't think what Arrow said was wrong." "People kill elephants for ivory, rhinos for rhino horns, tigers for tiger skins and bones, bears for paws, turtles for turtle shells, and if people don't have that need, poachers wouldn't be so desperate to hunt them." There are also many people who have a bad habit of eating wild meat, so a considerable number of restaurants and restaurants have launched various game dishes in order to make money to the liking of diners. Where there is demand, there is naturally a supplier, and some lawbreakers have taken advantage of this and rampantly poached and killed wild animals. Not only in towns and small and medium-sized cities, but also in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, some markets, restaurants, and restaurants can also sometimes see the tragic fate of wild animals, such as pangolins, mountain muntjacs, civets, various snakes and various birds, etc., which have either died heroically and are waiting to be put in the pot, or are imprisoned in cages waiting to be knifed. All of this is due to the cruelty and greed of human beings, and this is true of animals, and so is it true of treasures. Min Lan said.

When we looked along the huge stone pillar, we saw the Imperial Road Stamped in front of us, one on the left and one on the left, and two on the front. All of them are carved dragons and painted phoenixes, magnificent. And in the center of the entire hall, the most eye-catching thing is the dragon chair. Dazhe, who was a good thing, ran up as soon as possible, Yun Ximing hurriedly followed, and after checking that it was correct, Dazhe did not hesitate to do it.

"This chair is quite comfortable to sit on, not like gold." Dazhe said.

"It's not gold, it's wood, it's just gold-plated on the outside." Simin said.

"Huh?! Something is wrong with this chair. Dazhe suddenly jumped up and startled us, "This chair has a scent. Dazhe said.

"Dead fatty, you're scared us to death, this is Nanmu's chair, of course there will be a fragrance." Yun Ximing said.

"Yin Yin, is there any purpose for this dragon chair to be made of nanmu?" Sister Wang Na asked me.

"This kind of golden silk is a precious wood unique to China. It is mainly produced in Sichuan, western Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and provinces south of the Yangtze River in China. According to records, among all the golden silk nanmu, Sichuan's golden silk nan is the best material, which is a national second-class protected plant in China.

The wood has a fragrance, the grain is straight and the structure is fine, not easy to deform and crack, and it is an excellent wood for buildings and high-end furniture. Historically, the wood was used exclusively for the construction and furniture of royal palaces and a few temples. The crystals in the golden silk nanmu are obviously more than ordinary nanmu, the surface of the wood is shining golden in the sun, the golden filament emerges, and there is a light and elegant fragrance. Jin Si Nan is a general name for some materials with gold wire and similar silk luster phenomenon of Nanmu, the generalized Jin Si Nan refers to the Nanmu showing gold silk are called Jin Si Nan, and in ancient and modern times, Jin Si Nan is another name for Zi Nan. In history, Nan, camphor, catalpa and Chun are called the four famous trees, and Nanmu is crowned with its head, which shows how high people's love for Nanmu is. In Chinese architecture, golden silk nanmu has always been regarded as the most ideal, precious and high-grade building material, and is widely used in palaces, palaces, temples and mausoleums. There are three kinds of Nanmu: one is Xiangnan, the wood is slightly purple and fragrant, and the texture is also very beautiful; The second is the golden silk Nan, that is, the purple nan, there is gold wire in the wood grain, which is the best kind of Nanmu, and what is even more rare is that some Nanmu materials form natural landscape character patterns; The third is water nan, the wood is softer, and it is mostly used to make furniture. The ancient feudal emperor dragon chair throne should be made of high-quality nanmu, and it is also a special material for the construction of royal palaces, mausoleums, gardens and so on in ancient times, and the tree species has been rare since the Qing Dynasty. There are even fewer varieties like this that have the aroma of fragrant nan, which can be described as precious and abnormal. I said.

"In this way, this Zuo Ci is still quite good at enjoying it, why doesn't this Zuo Ci put his grave here? Could it be that his tomb is more magnificent? Dazhe asked.

"I also have this question, this Zuo Ci took so much trouble to build this tomb, does he want to be the emperor himself? But with his ability, isn't it easy for him to do it? Yun Ning asked.

"I think he probably just wants to feel the emperor's enjoyment." Yun Xian said.

"Isn't he already the patriarch, why doesn't he just become the emperor?" Dazhe repeated Yun Ning's question, pretending to be thinking.

"Don't guess, Zuo Ci didn't want to be the Yellow Emperor at all, he didn't build this place for himself, he waited all his life for the messenger of the Protoss, so this place was built by him for his own god, and his god should live in the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, but he has never seen the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, so the Lingxiao Treasure Hall he built is just a conjecture in his own mind." Yun Ximing said.

"That's what I said, but it's all clear." Yun Xian said.

"This is also too exaggerated, he has no idea if there will be a descendant of the Protoss who will be able to come here, but he has spent so much effort to build such a place. The money he spent on this may have been all the savings of their left country. Dazhe said with emotion.

"That's right, according to the development of Zuo Guo, their tribe is conformist, backward and conservative, and resting on their laurels, I'm afraid that by the time Zuo Ci comes, it will be exhausted. After Zuo Ci tossed like this, Zuo Guo was completely defeated. Uncle Lu said.

"I'm afraid he did it for one purpose." I said, "For, faith." (To be continued.) )