The introduction of this chapter, "The Routines of the Ancient Emperors", is placed at the end of the first volume and is a public chapter.

If you haven't seen it, you can go and see it, and it's better to look at that and then look at this.

First of all.

Yao ...... in the Classic of Mountains and Seas It's an emperor.

Rummaging through the Book of Mountains and Seas, Yao only mentions Di Yaotai, in addition to the opening sentence, there is also 'Di Shan, Di Yao is buried in Yang, and Di Yao is buried in Yin', in short, let us know that he is an emperor, and it is gone.

Some people say that Dayi was sent by Yao to kill monsters and shoot for nine days. But I'm sorry, that's all a later statement, and it was written in the Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi".

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is written: "Emperor Jun gave Yi Tong a bow to help the country, and Yi was the first to go to the land to overcome the difficulties." ”

Yi was appointed by Emperor Jun and had nothing to do with Yao, even much earlier than Yao's time.

Obviously, later generations forcibly placed Di Jun's deeds on Yao, after all, Yao really can't make great achievements that can be praised.

He is just an emperor, and he is not at the level of the Five Emperors at all.

Even the dynasty surnamed Ji was cut off after Yao.

And what about Shun?

The Classic of Mountains and Seas: "Shunyi Dengbi is born with a bright night, candlelight, and a river in Daze, and the spirit of the two daughters can shine on this place for a hundred miles." ”

The Yi character of Shunyi is a problem with variant characters, and it should be Shun's wife.

Approximate translation: Shun's wife is the Dengbi clan, and they gave birth to 'Xiaoming' and 'Candlelight', and on the big lake, the spiritual light of these two daughters shines for a hundred miles.

Tut, it's a daughter again, we saw it again, a daughter with a name and a surname, and the last time it was the daughters of Emperor Yan......

So, it's likely that this is another 'tool man'. That is, on the surface, it is said that he gave birth to a daughter, but in fact, he invented something new.

Birth, in addition to giving birth to children, also has the meaning of derivation, creation, and inheritance.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas: "There is the country of Beidi." The grandson of the Yellow Emperor is called Shi Jun, and Shi Jun was born in Beidi. ”

The 'sheng' here refers to derivation, referring to a descendant of Shijun who derived the tribe of Beidi.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas: "Emperor Jun was born after Ji, and Ji descended to the valley ......"

The 'birth' here is to give birth to a child, and Houji is a person. The Zhou people thought that he was their ancestor, and it was impossible for the Zhou people to sacrifice their ancestors wrongly, he must be a personal name, not a family.

It is because of the problem that it is easy to make mistakes that later generations use "birth" instead of "birth" when describing "giving birth".

For example, in "The Imperial System", it is written: The Yellow Emperor produced Changyi, and Changyi produced Gaoyang, which was for the emperor. The poor cicada is produced by the poor cicada, the poor cicada is produced by Jingkang, the sentence is produced by Jumang, the frog is produced by the cow, and the frog is produced by the cow, and the Chonghua is produced by the emperor......

There is no doubt that when the word 'birth' is used, there is no ambiguity, it must be to give birth.

So, is Shun Sheng's nightlight candlelight an item or a daughter?

The first possibility, daughter.

The latter is written 'The Spirit of the Two Daughters'.

Then this record refers to the fact that the two daughters have a miracle, standing on the big lake, shining for a hundred miles.

It is also possible that the two daughters died and turned into spiritual candles.

Then, the second possibility, invention.

This is similar to what I said before, Jingwei Nuwa, which is to extend the things invented and created by the emperor, or the phenomena caused by it, to the daughter of the emperor.

So the light of the evening candle, literally, is not it a lantern and a candle?

However, I don't endorse it.

What is there to be surprised about the lantern and candle being so ridiculous? Didn't the ancients ever see a torch? Is it necessary to boast that a candle can illuminate a hundred miles?

I believe that it is a searchlight, or a large lighting facility, at least it does not insult the intelligence of the ancients.

To be worthy of such a record, it must be a kind of unprecedented brightness that the ancients had never seen at night.

At least there is a clear difference from things like torches and campfires.

So, which is the possibility?

First of all, figure out the meaning of the words "night light" and "candlelight".

Supper, eight or nine o'clock in the evening, after 'dusk' is 'supper'. Refers to the period of time between eating dinner and going to bed.

So Xiaoming, literally, means that eight or nine o'clock in the evening is as bright as day.

Don't misunderstand, candle is not the meaning of candle, the big seal is in the shape of 'candle', and the pictogram of Shu is the sunflower insect.

During the Zhou Dynasty, it was interpreted as torch.

Scholars now explain that the pictogram of fire and insects refers to the wick of the lamp grass like insects. There's a fire next to it, isn't it the wick of an oil lamp?

But the definition of the candle word was only in the Zhou Dynasty at the earliest, was there any earlier?

What about oracles? Does oracle have candlesticks?

I'm sorry, there are similar, but the words are too abstract, it's a long bug with fire on it.

There is a big gap with the glyphs of [Fire and Shu] later......

Up to now, paleographers have not reached a conclusion, and they are still arguing about whether it is the word 'candle'.

Because according to them, the Shang Dynasty candle characters should be torches and torches like pictograms, and the golden text and big seal are like insects, which can also be interpreted as the pronunciation from 'Shu'.

How could the oracle candle be a completely fired, long worm?

So now, the official has not given which oracle bone inscription of the candle word is.

I have my own understanding, though.

Because to interpret the Classic of Mountains and Seas, standing in the era of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to think, we only need to find out what other references to the word "candle" in the Classic of Mountains and Seas mean, and that's it.

Yes, as we all know, the candle dragon ...... 'there is a god with a snake face and a red body, and his eyes are straight and straight. Its eyes are obscure, and its sight is clear. No food, no sleep, no rest, wind and rain are admonishable. It is the candle nine yin, and it is called the candle dragon. ’

About the candle dragon, it is too complicated and involves too much, I can only explain it in a separate chapter, I won't say much here, and I will tell you my thoughts directly.

That is, in ancient times, the word candle did not refer to a torch, but to a candle dragon.

The candle dragon is also called the candle yin. The 'dragon' is the body of the candle, in ancient times, when it came to 'candle', it had no other meaning, it only referred to an object, specifically to the 'candle dragon'.

The pictogram of the candle in the oracle bone inscription, and even in the earlier text, is either a pictogram, or a pictogram of the dragon.

The dragon is the length of a scale insect, a long insect with fire on its head, this is the pictogram of the candle dragon.

The word 'candle' refers specifically to it.

The meaning of candlelight is: the light that seems to be the candle dragon's eyes.

In the vernacular, it is a long, straight pillar of light.

At night, if a strong light source travels in one direction and is dark around it, and there is a lot of dust and fog in the air, it will scatter and form a distinct pillar of light.

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the pillar of light, this is the meaning of candlelight.

In the dark night of antiquity, there was no other light source except moonlight and torches.

It was extremely shocking for people to see the pillar of light in mid-air.

No less than us, seeing a turtle faction qigong wave.

Yomei refers to a thing that illuminates the night. A candle is a pillar of light.

Only by understanding the phenomena behind these two names can we understand the records in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

"Shunyi Dengbi is bright and candlelight, and the river is Daze, and the spirit of the two daughters can shine on this place for hundreds of miles. ”

First of all, it can't be as simple as a lantern or a torch, but it must be like a searchlight, a large light source.

At night, beyond the perception of people at the time, it was a light that had never been seen before.

It shines for hundreds of miles, and there are long, straight pillars of light.

I think with your mentality of doing things, the first reaction is that there are UFOs......

At night, on the big lake, two luminous bodies are suspended, illuminating a radius of hundreds of miles.

A pillar of light that pierced the sky, either horizontally or vertically, I don't know what it was doing. shocked the tribal people managed by Shun.

Shun's two daughters were taken away like this......

Hahaha, this is probably the most intuitive understanding.

But even I, who supports aliens, have to be skeptical.

First of all, if it is a UFO, then it is far-fetched to say that the spirit of the second daughter can follow this direction.

Why is it related to the second daughter? It doesn't make sense, unless there are two possibilities.

One possibility is that the second daughter ascended to heaven and was taken away by a UFO.

The pillar of light took Shun's two daughters away, and for onlookers, it was naturally the spirit of the two daughters, shining for hundreds of miles.

But it's too far-fetched, I don't even believe it.

The other is slightly better, that Shun just gave birth to two daughters, or just died two daughters and died, and as a result, UFOs appeared on the big lake.

Then people will correspond to it. Jiang Shun's daughters, one is called Xiaoming, and the other is called Candlelight.

This can be explained, after all, the ancients were just born, and they did not take a name, and generally waited until they were older, after the most likely to die at the age of one or two, three or four years old, they would take a nickname. After that, when you reach adulthood, you will take a big name.

In the earliest days, this was the case, but later with the improvement of medical standards and the increase in the survival rate of infants, the time for choosing names became earlier and earlier.

Modern times have just been born, or have not yet been born, so the name is taken. In fact, in ancient times, names were taken very late.

Back to the topic, because I happened to have a daughter who died, or a few days after giving birth to a daughter, I witnessed a UFO incident, so according to the phenomenon, one was named Xiaoming, and the other was named Candlelight.

I have a daughter who doesn't have a name yet, and there happens to be an unexplained event, so it's reasonable to connect, but I think it's too much of a coincidence.

Moreover, there is still no direct evidence.

You see, I always introduce the concept of aliens when interpreting the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but I want to explain, that is actually a helpless move.

There is no way, except for super technology, which cannot be explained, so I will introduce the concept of aliens, or ancient technology.

Whatever can be explained normally, I try to give a normal explanation.

So, can the long and straight pillar of light, which shines for hundreds of miles, explain the conditions of antiquity?

OK.

Shun, or Shun's wife, or Shun's daughter. Two phenomena of light were discovered.

One is reflection and the other is scattering.

The reflective umbrella in the studio is the kind of silver-white umbrella, which is responsible for collecting light, hitting the place where you want to shine, and the initial light is evenly distributed and soft.

When is the softest light, evenly filled at each point?

The brightness of the day is completely different from the brightness of the torch at night, and the former can be called 'bright', that is, there are no dark spots.

Xiaoming does not mean that it is particularly bright, but refers to something, which illuminates the tribe very transparently, and every point is very bright.

What is the problem with light sources such as torches and wicks? That is, the light is only concentrated in a spherical range, and the farther away from the torch, the darker it becomes, and the layers are decreasing, and only illuminate a small area, turn off the lights, light a candle in the middle of the house, and the surrounding walls are still dark.

During the day, even if the light only comes in through the window, it is much brighter than the power outage at night and the candles are lit.

That brightness is a very soft, full 'brightness'. During the day, if you wear an umbrella to block the sun, you will also see that it is bright underneath.

This clarity is caused by the reflection of sunlight from the entire earth's surface.

Therefore, in the dark night of antiquity, if curtains coated with some kind of original reflective coating material are erected in all directions, then as long as there is a small amount of bonfire and torch-level light source, a large area can be illuminated clearly and evenly.

If you can come up with a similar reflective coating, then go home and paint all the walls of your house, then turn off the lights at night and light a candle in the middle of the room, and you will understand what 'evening light' is.

Perhaps, Shun invented or possessed the material 'Xiao Ming'. Let every house paint it, and then set a fire in the house at night, so that the whole house can be brightened.

However, this is contrary to the 'river Daze' in the back, and this phenomenon occurs on the big lake.

Therefore, this material was not available to everyone in ancient times, or it was not popular. Think about it, we modern people, none of us brush reflective paints in every house. When I was a child, there was a power outage at home, and I could only barely read a book with a candle, and the house was still dark.

It can't be that we are worse than the ancients, right?

I don't know any of you, I've seen some night scenes in the old days, and I've only seen them on TV, when the village sets up a stage to sing at night, and tall curtains are raised all around to enclose the whole scene. In the era when there are only light sources in the form of lanterns and torches, this method can effectively concentrate the light, making the scene much brighter than without a curtain.

Well, the truth may be that Shun has a large bonfire on the big lake, or some kind of ceremony.

During this ceremony, he made a very shocking 'light show'.

A very high cloth was raised, and the 'witch pigment' he had concocted with more primitive natural materials had a strong reflective effect.

These reflections are laid out in a large circle, around the surface of the lake, and there is a circle of torches around the lake.

The firelight illuminates the entire lake and even the cloth on all sides, so that everyone can see each other clearly at night, making the audience seats on the shore particularly bright.

At the same time, on a large wooden platform in the middle of the lake, Shun's daughter danced in the mist, or some kind of sacrificial dance.

Around the bottom of the high platform, a large bonfire is lit and floats on the water, shining and dancing and swaying.

People gather around the lake and watch the beautiful and mysterious ceremony in the middle of the lake from afar, coupled with the 'dawn'-like atmosphere of live lighting, full of awe.

This is a large-scale light show: "Night Dawn".

Then, on a high platform in the center of the lake, another girl, seeing that the fire had grown, erected one or more huge mirrors.

She fiddled with the giant mirror, adjusting the focus, reflecting the firelight, shining on the people on the shore of the lake.

I think everyone played with this kind of reflection when they were kids, using a mirror to dazzle people's eyes.

It is worth mentioning that if you do this, there will be no pillar of light between the mirror and the shining place.

And if you want to form a pillar of light, it is actually very simple, as long as there is dust, dust, and mist in the path of light propagation.

Between the stage in the middle of the lake and the audience by the lake, there is a section of water, which is darker because there is no fire.

Use a light mist, or artificially increase the density of dust in the air.

Then the girl reflects the edge of the lake with a mirror, and it will form an obvious pillar of light above the lake.

This is the big light show: "Candlelight".

This is 'Shun's wife Dengbi's birth is bright, candlelight, and the river is Daze, and the spirit of the two daughters can shine on this place for hundreds of miles'.

Such a light show is just a show for us, and it is not even as good as a small open-air party in the county.

Maybe the level of light is not as good as I described, after all, the material is poor.

But for the people of that time, it was enough.

At the time, it was an extremely amazing, supernatural sacrifice or some kind of ritual.

The two women in the middle of the lake are people who are 'Lingzhao Baili', and they are worthy of being the daughters of Emperor Shun.

Seeing this, I don't know if you understand it......

I even suspect that Shun is a traverser......

Combined with the interpretations of [The Routines of the Ancient Emperors], combined with the process of Shun rising from the end of the year, getting ahead, and walking to the pinnacle of life.

It should be said that it is worthy of 'ancient Wang Mang'!

Shun's knowledge was significantly beyond that of ordinary people at that time.

Either he was gifted enough to discover several characteristics of light in the details of life and pondered these 'witchcraft'.

Either someone taught him "Optics", and Shun knows how to use reflection and scattering to create a scene atmosphere and shock the public, increasing the mystery of his own family.

I think that some of you have traveled back to ancient times, and you may not be able to take advantage of the humble conditions of ancient times to make such a miraculous large-scale pretending party with a bright candlelight and a hundred miles of light.

Of course, this belongs to 'witchcraft', that is, [several ways to pretend to be a wizard].

So after the Jedi Tiantong, only his wife or daughter can do it, and Shun just needs to enjoy the aura they bring.

Use theocracy to set off the imperial power, and use religion to enhance the political force.

Of course, I'm not saying that Shun is a traverser, but he does have an unexpected ability and the wisdom and care that stood out from the crowd at that time.

He came to our time, was educated by us, and eventually must be an academician-level physicist, and he can also manage other scientists and lead many important projects. And interpersonal relationships must be handled very well, with his emotional intelligence, he can become a star scientist.

That's my most sensible interpretation of this.

If you don't need aliens, then you don't need aliens.

I prefer to believe that it is the ancient emperor Shun, the light of wisdom that shines for hundreds of miles.

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