Chapter 835: Deer Totem, Chronological Decipherment
"Old?" Hearing Laizi's words, the fat man immediately snorted: "You old fart!" Don't be a fat man, I don't know, you're only in your thirties this year, what kind of retired layman are you pretending to be, if it weren't for the fact that this matter involves Ah Meng's ......"
In the middle of the conversation, the fat man suddenly realized something, and hurriedly changed his words: "If you don't want to help, just say it directly, don't be sloppy with us here." ”
"Alas!" Seeing the silent Laizi, Zhang Meng stopped the fat man, didn't let the fat man continue to ask Laizi, and turned back to explain to Laizi: "Brother Laizi, in fact, I heard what the fat man said about your plan to retire, and I shouldn't have bothered you again." ”
"The last trip to Kunlun Mountain almost cost me my life, and until now, I still remember it vividly." Lai Zi shook his head with a sigh, turned around and picked up the tools on the side and continued to complete the repair work in his hand, as if he didn't want to listen to Zhang Meng's distress.
Seeing this, Zhao San also stopped Zhang Meng.
It is difficult to be strong, and in the end, you may not be able to get what you want.
Seeing that everyone was speechless, the fat man asked, "Then what now?" Can't go yet......"
"Of course I want to go." Zhang Meng said firmly.
Hearing Zhang Meng's response, the fat man suddenly remembered something, squeezed his eyes at Zhang Meng with Lai Zi behind his back, and then smiled maliciously at Lady Na: "I said, Lai Zi is not going, so can we still watch your videotape?" ”
Lady Na didn't expect Lai Zi to refuse everyone, but she still nodded: "Originally, I thought that Lai Zi would be able to see any clues in the two videos of you and me, but now that Lai Zi is not going, everyone still insists on going." Let's brainstorm and take a look! ”
Seeing that Lady Na responded to herself, the fat man turned his head and shouted at Lai Zi with his throat: "I said Ergou, it's okay if you don't go." Borrow our camera, let's see what's in this cassette first. ”
Hearing the fat man's words, Laizi, who had already seen through the trick, did not demolish the fat man, but smiled helplessly, pointed to the living room next to him with his finger, and said, "I just bought it a few days ago, you can try it." ”
"Gotcha." Seeing that Lai Zi didn't pick up everyone, the fat man took the videotape in the hands of Zhang Meng and Lady Na. While stuffing the videotape into the camera player and playing the video, he was afraid that Laizi would hear it and shouted at Lady: "I said, big......"
As soon as he exited, he was glared back by Lady.
The fat man explained in a whisper: "Cooperate! Cooperate! This dead second dog, although it seems that he doesn't care about anything, but in fact he is a money addict. As long as we leak some information, he will definitely change his mind. ”
"Hmm."
Everyone nodded, and let the fat man talk to himself and perform there.
"Big, you said there is a mysterious treasure here, hey, you can tell me clearly, what kind of treasure is it?" The fat man didn't look at the picture, but deliberately paid attention to Fang Wai Laizi's movements.
The others saw the tape in Lady's hand for the first time, and they all stared intently at the screen in front of them, for fear of missing a clue.
Lady Na has already watched the videotape in her hand countless times, and the contents have long been written down, and now it has not yet arrived at Zhang Meng's videotape, so she had to cooperate with the fat man to act: "There is no tangible evidence yet, we just guess that it is very likely to be related to Genghis Khan." ”
"Genghis Khan?" The fat man asked in surprise.
"How do you know for sure?" Zhang Meng interjected next to him.
Lady Na no longer hidden, and said directly: "As for where it was confirmed and guessed, I personally didn't find anything. It should be said that it was the Bogut company that was confirmed to be related to Genghis Khan......"
"Oh." Zhang Meng nodded.
"That's quite possible." Zhao San on the side echoed: "Meng Zai, do you remember the background in the half of the video tape in our hands?" ”
"Background?" Zhang Meng was slightly stunned, puzzled: "Which one is the third uncle talking about?" ”
"It's the four totems of dragon, wolf, deer, and eagle above." Seeing that Zhang Meng didn't think about it, the fat man was no longer acting next to him, but participated in everyone's discussion.
"Dragons, wolves, deer, eagles?" Hearing Zhao San and the fat man mention it again, Zhang Meng remembered the speech at the totem culture exhibition.
He pondered for a moment and said softly, "Didn't the totem have existed a long time ago?" The totem we see is not necessarily the totem of Mongolia, right? ”
"Since the emergence of human civilization, totems have accompanied the progress of civilization. However, the grassland people are different from our Han people, they live in barren places all the year round, and the progress of civilization is very slow, so they retain many ancient customs. Zhao San said: "The Mongols, like the Kham Tibetans, have feared the gods since ancient times, not to mention whether these totems are from the period of Genghis Khan, but at least, it is also a grassland totem, not a totem of our Central Plains." ”
"But there's a dragon in there?" Lady thought for a moment and said, "Different regions have different totemic cultures, Russian bears, Thai elephants...... But have you ever heard that the steppe people would fear dragons? ”
"That's right!" Hearing Lady Na say this, the fat man also chimed in: "They have no reason to fear our Han dragon!" ”
"Who said dragons have to be our totems?" Just when everyone was already at an impasse, Laizi, who was passing by here with a tool, finally couldn't help but speak.
"Heh, this second dog finally can't hold it back." The fat man squeezed his eyes proudly at a few people.
"Don't fiddle with your little tricks, they won't work for me." Laizi debunked the fat man's way.
"Damn, I know I can't fool you." The fat man didn't plan to let Lai Zi be fooled, for him, Lai Zi was a human spirit, and it would be strange if he could deceive Lai Zi. However, since Lai Zi has spoken, it means that Lai Zi has a certain curiosity about the whole thing, and immediately shouted: "Hey, don't go!" To be clear, what's going on? ”
"Do you know how many dragons there are?" Yoriko asked, turning around.
"This, the dragon is the dragon, how many more kinds are there?" The fat man asked.
"I know, there's a dragon." Zhang Meng said.
"Cut! I haven't seen it from film and television dramas. The fat man pouted disdainfully.
"Xunzi Persuasion" has beetle snakes, which can fly without feet, hornless ones are called chi-dragons, horned ones are called qiu dragons, as well as Ying dragons, pan dragons and so on. But none of them are orthodox dragons, orthodox dragons were three-clawed dragons before the Yuan Dynasty, sometimes the front two legs were three-clawed, and the back two legs were four-clawed, examples can be seen in the porcelain ornamentation of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties. Four-clawed dragons were popular in the Ming Dynasty, and five-clawed dragons were more popular in the Qing Dynasty. After Laizi finished speaking, he pointed to the image on the screen: "Look, how many claws are there on that totem?" ”
"One, two, three!" After the fat man finished counting, he suddenly exclaimed: "Three-clawed, it's really a three-clawed dragon." ”
"Then you can rule out the Ming and Qing dynasties after that." Lady nodded.
"Let's go back on that." Lai Zi continued: "Although many people think that the dragon is our Chinese totem since ancient times, but everyone must also know that our Chinese dragon totem body is a snake, and later after the Yellow Emperor's southern expedition to the north, it fused with horse face, dog nose, cow's mouth, antlers, snake body, eagle claws, fish scales, lion tail, shrimp whiskers...... In the end, it was finalized as the dragon we imagined. ”
"You mean to say that dragons are totems that fuse other tribes."
"Of course!" Lai Zi seems to be like a treasure: "China is originally a multi-ethnic country, and it is also a very inclusive country, and this itself contains the totems of the other Siyi tribes, and the dragon totem also has an unrivaled reverence for other ethnic groups." ”
"Oh." The fat man nodded.
Zhang Meng seemed to have an understanding: "If you say so, then it can explain why there is a dragon totem in the tomb of the grassland." But how can we be sure that it is from the Yuan-Mongolian period? ”
"That's easy to explain." Lady Na said on the side: "The wolf and the eagle themselves are the two most feared sacred objects in the entire grassland, and it is normal to become the totem of the grassland people. It's this deer totem......" Halfway through speaking, Lady Na turned her gaze to Raiko, as if waiting for Raiko's answer.
"You two don't play dumb riddles, tell me quickly, what's going on with the deer totem?" The fat man asked.
"Yes, in the Great Khing'an Mountains area, there are also a few Jurchen tribes whose totems are based on spirit deer." Lai Zi said lightly.
"Could that be the Jurchens from before?" The fat man asked.
"According to the history of dominating the grassland, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian, and Jurchen Manchus, since it can be concluded that the time was before the Ming Dynasty, there was only the Jin era." Xiao Lou snapped his fingers and counted carefully.
"Not bad." Lai Zi smiled slightly: "But think about it, if the Jurchens were not strong, would there be a grassland people who would regard the deer totem as a god of awe?" ”
Hearing Laizi's words, everyone suddenly realized.
Zhang Meng shook his head and said, "It seems that everyone is really nervous and confused, before the Jurchens did not rise, how could anyone worship this deer totem?" It seems that the time is only in the three periods at the junction of Liao, Jin, Yuan and Mongolia. ”
"Look at it again, the orientation of these four totems, especially the deer totem is inferior, if it is a Jurchen, how can they put the totem of their own clan in a humble position? In addition, the dragon totem is used to accompany the burial, unless the other party is the real Ninety-Five, or only those who have great merit can be buried with the dragon totem. Lai Zi looked at the flashing image, his eyes suddenly stunned, and his expression became sluggish.
Everyone didn't see Laizi's abnormality, and they were still in the answer given by Laizi.
"Since it is certain that this is the tomb of Genghis Khan, the treasure in Lady Na's mouth must be really a golden treasure!" Seeing that everyone agreed with Lai Zi's conjecture, Zhang Meng nodded and muttered to himself.
"I said Laizi, since you can see it, why are you still hiding? Just come with us to ......" Halfway through speaking, the fat man saw Laizi in a daze, and asked puzzledly, "What's the matter, Laizi?" ”