Chapter 460: The Beginning of Human Sacrifice

Seeing the charming face of the person who looked the same as Wu Jinghan, I felt uncomfortable in every pore of my body.

What's even worse is that the two of them are tired in front of me, so embarrassed that I just want to find a crack to get into, but fortunately, I was tired of it for a few minutes, and the woman who looked like Wu Jinghan got up and left.

I hurriedly seized the time to continue asking.

"Dragon Leader, why do you like to live in this cave?"

The dragon slowly stood up, and its tall figure looked even more burly in the cave, which reminded me of the legendary Pangu. There is even such an idea: Could it be that the legend about Pangu was made up by the ancients who came to Dongyi after seeing such tall figures as Chiyou and Chilong?

"It's a magical cave - you come with me!"

With that, Chiyou turned and walked towards the depths of the cave.

Only then did I realize that there was a hole in the corner of the large space cave, and it was pitch black inside.

Hey?

I'm not a night vision! It's pitch black in front of me, and this is the first time since I ate that black substance.

The dragon led me into the cave, walked a few hundred meters, and then stopped.

When I looked up sideways, I was stunned by what I saw.

Bronze doors?

There was a bronze door in front of me, but it was much smaller than the two bronze doors I saw before, but it could be seen at a glance that except for the overall two smaller sizes, both the color and the pattern on it were exactly the same.

This kind of dragon pattern and auspicious cloud totem are very representative, and I was impressed by it at a glance, so I recognized it at a glance.

The dragon's torso is curly, end-to-end, or spiral-curling, often decorated in the center of the plate.

It is recorded in an ancient book: "The dragon scroll is sacrificed." Zheng Xuan's note: "Draw the dragon in clothes." Kong Yingda Shu: "The dragon scroll is a sacrifice, the volume is curled, and this dragon-shaped curl is painted in the clothes to sacrifice to the temple." ”

In ancient times, dragons and snakes belonged to the same kind, so the dragon was painted as a snake body.

There are such decorations on bronzes from Yinxu to the Warring States period, but the image structure is different.

As for the auspicious cloud totem, it has now become one of the representative patterns of the Chinese nation, and even in the 2008 Capital Olympic Games, it was designed as the representative pattern of the Olympic Games.

As for the bronze door, since the first time I saw the bronze door hidden in the mountains, I like to search for information about the bronze door on the Internet when I have time or not.

There is a piece of information released on the Internet in recent years: It was revealed some time ago that a "bronze door" was found in the deep mountains of Guizhou, and no one has opened it so far, and the locals: It is a treasure cave!

This peculiar door is located in the mountains of Guizhou, and if you want to get to it, you have to go through a very rugged distance, only to see potholes on the ground, strange rocks and grass, and a dark and closed environment.

Even on a sunny day, there will be mist entangled, behind the stone mountain, you can clearly see this mysterious stone gate, the locals speculate, behind this door there will be a new world, can lead to another world, of course, more people think that behind this door there is a treasure cave, which contains countless gold and silver treasures.

However, there are different opinions on how the stone gate was formed, and no one can give an accurate statement. The expert was also very curious about this matter, so he came to study it, and the final result was that this should be a miracle of nature, but it just looked like a door.

Regarding the bronze gate, in fact, the most famous is still in Changbai Mountain in the northeast of China.

There is a huge bronze gate in the depths of Changbai Mountain, and the first to discover this bronze door were the Manchus, that is, the Jurchens before it. According to some wild histories in Northeast China, the Nurhachi family, a small family of the Manchus at that time, accidentally discovered a bronze gate hidden in the depths of Changbai Mountain, and the result was known to the whole country.

was originally a very inconspicuous surname, but it became the founder of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, during the three hundred years of Qing Dynasty rule, Changbai Mountain has always been in a state of "closed mountain", and every few years, the Qing Dynasty royal family will organize large-scale ancestor worship.

The ancestor worship of the Qing Dynasty royal family was open and hidden.

It is said that it is open because the scale of each ancestor worship is grand, even to the extent of rejuvenating the teacher; It is said that it is hidden, because the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty royal family, except for the royal family, no outsiders know the specific ancestor worship activities.

The earliest ancestor worship in Changbai Mountain, there should be a record of Nurhachi himself, and later, although the emperor did not go in person, he would also send humerus ministers to worship the god of Changbai Mountain for the emperor, and the area around Changbai Mountain was banned as a sacred mountain.

In the Kangxi period, the Kangxi Emperor named Changbai Mountain as the "God of Changbai Mountain", in order to ensure that the country will always be prosperous. After the eighteenth year of Kangxi, the ceremony of worshipping the god of Changbai Mountain was handed over to the local officials of Dawula, under the jurisdiction of General Ningguta, in Banshan in the west of Wula City, Jilin Province.

Since then, the two emperors of Kangxi and Qianlong have visited the Songhua River three times to worship Changbai Mountain.

At the end of the 17th century, the country was not stable, and the Qing court was unable to take care of the northeast frontier, so the Tsarist Russian army took the opportunity to invade the Heilongjiang River valley and other places in China, killing and plundering local residents.

It was not until the twentieth year of the Kangxi reign (1681), after quelling the Sanban Rebellion and unifying the bay, that the Qing court turned its attention to the northeastern frontier and sought to counter the invasion of Tsarist Russia.

It was in this context that in the twenty-first year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi visited Jilin for the first time. On March 25, he arrived in Wula, Jilin (present-day Jilin City), and in addition to extensively receiving local civil and military officials and conducting large-scale military parades, he also led the crown prince and princes and ministers to set up a tent and an altar on the banks of the Songhua River and hold a ceremony to worship Changbai Mountain.

According to the secret history of the Qing Palace, "three kneels and nine bows are performed to be the land of the ancestors of Longxing", and wrote the poem "Looking at Changbai Mountain": "The famous mountain Zhong Lingxiu, the two waters are the true source." The green mist cages the sky cave, and the red clouds embrace the roots of the earth. A thousand years of good fortune, a generation of ceremonial honors. Looking forward to Qinghao, the emperor is forced to win. ”

In the late autumn of the 37th year of Kangxi (1698), Kangxi once again toured east to Jilin, in addition to understanding political affairs, observing the people's feelings, strengthening border defense and other government affairs, an indispensable content is to visit the Songhua River to worship the god of Changbai Mountain.

Kangxi inspected Jilin twice, because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation, it was difficult to go to Changbai Mountain, so he had to temporarily set up a tent and set up a sign by the Songhua River to pay homage to the birthplace of his ancestors. The imperial court felt that this was by no means a long-term solution, so it decided to choose a site to build a temple as a permanent place to worship the god of Changbai Mountain. After a long-term investigation, we finally fell in love with Banshan in the western suburbs of Wula City, Jilin.

Banshan, also known as Xiaobai Mountain, is located in Baishan Township, a district of Jilin City. This mountain is not only located in the place of Longxing, the birthplace of the Manchus, but also "the small hill is better than the hills, far away from Changbai", and the Changbai Mountain is a vein of the mountain. In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), the Ministry of Rites reconsidered: "General Ningguta Changde plays, Changbai Mountain is the birthplace of blessings, and the miracles are remarkable. ”

In the eleventh year of Yongzheng, the Ministry of Industry of Shengjing was dedicated to building a temple on the top of Banshan to worship the god of Changbai Mountain.

In the vast archives of the Provincial Archives, there is a volume of archives at the bottom of the budget of the Qing Dynasty in the 14th year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1834) when the Qing court needed to use materials and silver to repair the Changbai Mountain Wangxian Palace.

This archive allows people to understand the activities of the Qing Dynasty to pay homage to Changbai Mountain, as well as the scenes of the two emperors Kangxi and Qianlong visiting Jilin Province, and trace the origin of the administrative history of Jilin Province.

Changbai Mountain is the source of the three rivers of Songhua River, Tumen River and Yalu River. The Manchu people, who have been inherited from the ancient Sushen people, regard Changbai Mountain as the sacred mountain of Shengyue. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has also been widely spread that the fairy bathes in the fairy lake of Changbai Mountain, swallows the zhuguo and loves the Xinjue Luo clan. Beanie boxes

Influenced by the geography of the mountains and rivers of the Han nationality and the Feng Shui theory of Kanyu, in order to prove the unification of China and the family of the five ethnic groups, Kangxi sent people to make a detailed investigation and research on Changbai Mountain, and wrote an article on Changbai Mountain to express his unique opinions.

He believed: "I carefully studied the situation, studied the ground in depth, sent people to make navigational surveys, and knew that Mount Tai was really born in Changbai Mountain." The meaning could not be clearer: Changbai Mountain is the dragon vein of Kyushu, and the dragon vein of Mount Tai in the Central Plains also originates here. Guanli and Guanwai are a Chinese family, and the Manchus are in charge of China and the Han people in the Central Plains are undoubtedly orthodox.

In order to thank Changbai Mountain for its blessings, Kangxi followed the example of the Central Plains Emperor to seal Changbai Mountain, which opened the prelude to the Qing Dynasty's more than 200-year sacrificial activities on Changbai Mountain.

In the sixteenth year of Kangxi (1677), Emperor Kangxi issued an edict: "Changbai Mountain is the birthplace of many miracles, and the mountain spirit should be crowned and the ceremony will be held forever, so as to show the meaning of the country's luxuriant gods." "Order the minister Jueluo Wumuna, the first-class imperial guard Fei Yuese, and the first-class guard Sai Nursing and other generations

After the completion of the Banshan Wangji Temple, every year on the spring and autumn equinoxes, the Jilin general led the officials to represent the emperor, prepared three animals (20 mountain deer, 20 green cattle, 20 fat pigs), and held a ceremony to worship the god of Changbai Mountain.

In the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754), Emperor Qianlong toured Jilin Wula to the east, boated on the Songhua River, climbed Longtan Mountain, went to Xiaobai Mountain to worship the god of Changbai Mountain, and wrote the poem "Looking at Changbai Mountain" to record this trip. In the tenth year of Jiaqing (1805), Emperor Jiaqing traveled east to Shengjing, wanting to follow the example of the first emperor to worship the god of Changbai Mountain, and was afraid of the high mountains and rivers, so he sent officials to Jilin to worship Changbai Mountain, which was also regarded as following the training of "counting the classics and not forgetting the ancestors".

After that, the Qing Dynasty emperors such as Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu also sent court officials to go to Banshan in Jilin City to worship the god of Changbai Mountain, but the scale and momentum were not as good as the previous one.

In the fourteenth year of Daoguang (1834), in view of the erosion of the Wangji Temple by wind and rain for many years, the Jilin Industrial Division carried out a comprehensive renovation of it. This archive treasured by the Provincial Archives is the bottom of the budget report on the need for the maintenance of the Wangji Temple.

At the bottom of the book, it is also recorded that there are 5 halls in Changbai Mountain, with a face width of 9 feet, a depth of 2 zhang, a column height of 8 feet 9 inches, and a depth of 4 feet in the surrounding corridors. The bottom of the book is a paper rope binding, 30 cm long and 19 cm wide. Between the pages is printed with the seal of "Jilin Industry Division Customs".

In fact, there is another record, which is a wild history, but I think it is quite reliable.

The gist of it is to explain why the Qing Dynasty fell, and it is still related to Changbai Mountain.

It is said that in the early years of Guangxu, a group of tomb robbers entered Changbai Mountain, found something in the mountain, and then ...... Then the Qing Dynasty went to an end.

To put it bluntly, it was this group of tomb robbers who destroyed the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty.

The land around Changbai Mountain is fertile, rich in products, many ancient myths and legends come from here, the Qing Dynasty royal family blockaded here, superstition is not to want the Han people to contact the Manchu dragon vein, destroy the dragon vein of the feng shui.

In fact, even experts who specialize in the history of the Qing Dynasty can't tell which part is true and which part is apocryphal.

When I saw this bronze door again, my feelings are hard to describe in words.

The dragon turned to me and smiled slightly: "In this cave, many things have been found...... But this door has not been opened so far, and I believe that there must be something more precious hidden behind it, so ...... So I'm guarding it! ”

This surprised me again.

Sure enough!

The sudden rise of the Dongyi tribe is really related to the secret under the Yellow River, and as for this bronze door - I think of the history of the Dongyi tribe.

The Dongyi tribe led by Chi You, the rebel army rose and had a number of powerful armies, first defeating the Miao barbarians living in the south, and later defeating the Yandi tribe.

Could this have something to do with the Bronze Door?

To be precise, it has to do with the secret behind the bronze door.

Returning to the large stone chamber where the coffin and bronze animals were kept, before the two of them could speak, another person came in from outside.

This man is also tall and has the air to stand out from the crowd.

But what shocked me the most was the moment I saw what he looked like.

This person actually looked exactly like me, and the name "Chiyou" instinctively flashed in my head.

This person is Chiyou, the twin brother of Chilong.

The two are twins, and they are eight or nine points similar.

Chilong introduced me to Chiyou, and I felt even more weird, so I reached out and shook it with him.

I couldn't interject in the conversation between the brothers, so I had to listen to them on one side.

"Brother, just now many villagers reported that their condition is getting worse and worse."

"I know thisβ€”I just can't think of a way to do it!"

"Can you hold a river worship ceremony?"

"Sacrificial river?"

"Yes! Didn't our ancestors sacrifice to the river every ten years! ”

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Listening to the voice, it is getting closer and closer to the time when Chiyou himself takes the initiative to be a sacrifice, I am both excited and worried, excited that after dealing with this side of the matter, I can return to my own time, worried because I have not come up with a good way so far.

I don't know if it's a preconceived reason, although in addition to temperament, Chiyou is exactly the same as me, but when I saw him, I felt that this person was not authentic, and there was an evil nature in his eyebrows.

This is one of the originators of mankind!

In the end, the two finally talked about choosing a person as a "human sacrifice" - this is the oldest and highest standard sacrificial ritual of the Dongyi tribe, and to put it bluntly, it is to sacrifice a person with a special status to save the whole clan.

In the end, the two brothers decided to use human sacrifice! I'm even more anxious! I am in a hurry and I have no way to deal with it.

After chatting about this, the two talked about the bronze door in the depths of the cave, but Chi You still insisted on his opinion: use human blood to try to open this bronze door.

The implication is that he has tried several times before, but it has not succeeded, and he wants to change it a few more times.