The beauty of this heaven and earth, the beauty of natural scenery, in the vast land of Guatemala, Lake Atitlan is like an eye, baptizing the vicissitudes of the years, and the three volcanoes surrounding Lake Atitlan loom in the clouds and mist, like shoulders, carrying the legend of the years, the mountains, lakes, clouds, forming a beautiful picture.

The beauty of this heaven and earth, but also the beauty of its historical vicissitudes, Guatemala is one of the ancient Indian Mayan cultural centers, from 200 AD to 850 AD Maya people prayed, sacrificed, divined, and lived in a piece of land, and the Mayans used their wisdom to create a civilization that human beings have not yet guessed.

Chen Rui entered the country of Guatemala.

This country is very foreign to Chen Rui.

Most of the information that is known about the country is obtained through online searches.

In this magical land of Guatemala, there is a mysterious civilization - the Mayan civilization,

Chen Rui is ready to spend some time to experience this country and feel the mystery of the Mayan civilization.

As soon as he entered Antigua, Chen Rui felt a strong Spanish atmosphere, chessboard-like roads, many richly carved and decorated Baroque buildings, and churches, monasteries, and seminaries everywhere.

Those who don't know think they've come to Spain.

In fact, during the Spanish colonial period, Antigua and Mexico City, and Lima were the three major colonial centers of the entire New World.

It was the Spaniards who built the city on the original foundation.

Chen Rui wandered around the colonial town of Antigua like a tourist.

This town has the most profound image of Chen Rui. The streets of this town and the people of the town are very quiet and peaceful.

Maybe it's because of the frequent earthquakes here. All the buildings are very low.

At last. There are many churches, and I heard from the locals that this town with an area of just over 50 hectares has more than 50 churches, probably more than the Vatican, but you don't have a pope.

Chen Rui tasted the local delicacies, beef crispy and Mayan grilled sausages.

Feasted on the eyes. After eating enough food, Chen Rui rented a local hotel.

The next day, Chen Rui hired a local guide.

Under the guidance of the guide, Chen Rui visited the beautiful Lake Atitlan, the archaeological park and Mayan cultural site of the pre-Mayan capital of the early classical period, and the Tikal National Park, the center of the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization.

Personally feeling the mystery of the Mayan civilization and the glorious civilization created by the Mayans made Chen Rui feel that he was not in vain.

On December 24, the guide took Chen Rui to Lake Izawal. The largest lake in Guatemala.

The lake covers an area of 590 square kilometres, which is more than three times the size of the island of Tortuga.

The lake is famous for its crocodiles.

Guide Polochik. Isafi was a Mayan. The family lives in a Mayan tribe on the shores of Lake Izabal.

Unlike most of the rest of the world's primitive indigenous tribes that live deep in the jungle or on desert islands, isolated from the rest of the world, never interact with outsiders, and even attack outsiders, the Maya may have been conquered by the Spaniards and integrated into the foreign open culture, the Maya were very open, they would also live in towns, wear modern clothes, live a modern life, and they would also make a living like modern people, although the means of making a living were very limited.

They usually sell handicrafts to tourists, scarves with Mayan motifs, blankets, flutes with Mayan faces painted on them, and so on.

Guide Polochik. Ísafi is fluent in English.

Maybe it's because I've been a tour guide for a long time, and I'm very talkative.

When Polochik. When Isafi introduced Lake Ishawar to Chen Rui, he talked about something that interested Chen Rui very much.

There is an ancient legend that has been passed down from generation to generation in their tribe.

"Legend has it that before the formation of Lake Izawal, there was no lake at that time, it was a lowland plain. On the plains, there lived people from the other side of the sea, who were very mysterious, who were able to smelt the ore from the nearby mountains into sharp weapons, and made exquisite utensils, and they would sacrifice to the gods and ancestors they worshipped with all kinds of utensils made of white stones dug out of the mountains, and they were warlike, and they conquered the innumerable tribes of the land with their sharp weapons, and they enslaved countless people to build tall cities and palaces for them, and they put into the palaces the innumerable treasures plundered in their conquests, Finally, one day, their actions angered the gods, and the gods became angry, and a tidal wave drowned them in a vast ocean. ”

Inadvertently from Polochik. Isafi heard the legend from his mouth.

Suddenly, the Yin civilization that mysteriously disappeared appeared in Chen Rui's mind.

It seems that a lot of things about the Yin people can be linked to the ancient legends of the Mayan tribe.

The person who came from the other side of the sea may be talking about the Yin people who crossed the sea.

At the end of the Yin Shang period, Di Xin was committed to opening up Dongyi, Huaiyi, Huyi, about 1045 BC, during the first month of the Yin calendar, Di Xin returned to Yin to sing the New Year from Shandong. On Jiazi Day, King Wu of Zhou led his army to cross Mengjin, and Emperor Xin sent 700,000 slave soldiers to meet Yu Muye. The slave soldiers defected, the king was defeated, and Lutai set himself on fire, at that time, Di Xin's elite troops stayed in Dongyi because of the expedition to the forest side, so the emptiness of the song was broken by the king of Wu.

After Shang Yin destroyed the country, the more than 100,000 elite soldiers who remained in Dongyi were led by the general Yu Houxi, who was accustomed to fighting, but they disappeared without a trace, and became a mystery through the ages.

The Yin people who crossed the sea may refer to this part of the army and some Yin people who did not want to be slaves of the country.

You must know that the Yin Shang was still in the era of slavery, and the defeated captives and the subjects of the lost country were all treated as slaves to be slaughtered by the victorious countries, and most of them lost their territories and noble status, and were lucky enough to be forced to leave the land in order to make a living and do some small business of goods trafficking, which is the origin of the 'merchant'.

The most unfortunate were martyred as slaves with their masters.

'The ore from the nearby mountains is smelted into sharp weapons!!' 'The ore may be bronze, and the sharp weapons are bronze weapons, as exemplified by the 12 bronze weapons found in the jungles of Panama. (To be continued.) )