Chapter 463: Double Dragon Playing with Pearls and Night Pearls

With that, with a wave of his hand, several strong men rushed up, grabbed my arms from both sides, and held me down.

In fact, seeing a few strong men suddenly flash, I already expected this result, and I was mentally prepared, but with the black substance I had eaten, I had more strength than ordinary people, but I was not very afraid.

Who knew that these people were very strong, and after holding me, they let me eat hard, and I couldn't break free.

"How about I try the blood of the Vulcan Emissary!"

Although Chi You said this with a smile, it made people feel cold from the bottom of my heart, and even made me feel a thrill.

"What are you going to do? I...... I'm your brother's friend! ”

Chi You sneered again: "My brother? If it weren't for my brother blocking me, our Dongyi clan would have become strong a long time ago! ”

I was taken into the cave, only to find that after entering the cave more than 100 meters, there were three forks, before the dragon took me to the far left, at this time you took me to the rightmost one.

At the intersection of the cave, I saw the girl who looked exactly the same as Wu Jinghan, she was dressed more charmingly before, and at this time she was even more disheveled.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, something happened in history, Zhao Guangyi killed his own brother Zhao Kuangyin, inherited the Great Song Dynasty, and occupied his sister-in-law Xiao Zhouhou.

After Zhao Guangyi inherited the throne, Zhao Guangyi was not as merciful as his brother, he had long coveted Xiao Zhouhou's beauty, and often summoned her into the palace to satisfy his desires.

There are records: Xiao Zhou was released from the palace from the Lantern Festival to the end of the first month.

For more than half a month, Zhao Guangyi has been pestering Xiao Zhouhou, forcibly pampering Xiao Zhou in front of everyone, and even frantically found a court painter to draw down the scene of the scene.

Of course, there is not only an outsider in the whole scene, but also a large number of palace maids, eunuchs, etc. After Xiao Zhou left the palace, he scolded Li Yu, after Li Yu learned about it, he was also helpless, he really had no way to stop it, he could only sigh and miss his homeland even more. In the midst of sadness and pain, Li Yu wrote famous songs such as "Wangjiangnan" and "Midnight Song".

The court painter painted the picture of Zhao Guangyi playing with Xiao Zhouhou, which is the later "Xiling Xingxiao Zhou Hou Picture". "Xiling" refers to Zhao Guangyi, because Zhao Guangyi was buried in Yongxi Mausoleum in Gong County, Henan Province after his death, so it has this name.

This period of history is mostly regarded as a joke on the wine table by the so-called cultural class, which can be regarded as a relatively elegant meat joke!

I didn't expect that almost exactly the same thing happened once as early as 4,000 years ago.

What is even worse than Zhao Kuangyin is that although Zhao Kuangyin is dead, this incident has not been erased in history, and even his son and grandson are still named princes and live a life of fine clothes and food.

The dragon did not leave a trace in history, and later generations did not even know his name, and after death, his soul was still trapped in the thirteen ghost caves of the Yellow River.

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I was led deeper into the cave, about three or four hundred meters, and suddenly my eyes opened up. Reading the Book House

This is a large stone room of 200 square meters, surrounded by hundreds of bronzes, and unlike the stone room of Chilong, most of the bronzes here are strangely shaped vessels.

One of them is particularly large, Chiyou is a full 1.9 meters tall, and this huge strange bronze is a little taller than him. The lower half is a three-legged shelf, and the upper half is a huge pot-like thing, and there is a lid on it, engraved with nine dragons, and all the dragon's heads are gathered in the middle, and there is a bead in the middle of the lid, which shines in the light of the fire, and should be jade.

The pearl of the night?

Could this be the legendary Nine Dragons Pearl?

Night pearl is a rare gemstone, known as pearl, hanging pearl, weeping thorn, bright moon pearl and so on. Normally, the night pearl refers to fluorescent stone and luminous stone, which is a natural and self-luminous jewelry that can be seen by the human eye in the dark.

However, as far as I know, the real night pearls, throughout the entire thousands of years of dynasties, are only a few dozen, as for most of the so-called night pearls, they are actually fake, the most common of which is a kind of jade similar to the night pearl, called fisheye stone.

This is where the "fish-eye mixed pearls" comes from.

Speaking of "Double Dragon Playing Pearl", I happen to know the origin.

According to historical records, the origin time of Shuanglong Pearl Play is the pre-Qin period, with a history of 3,000 years.

The dragon is an amphibian in ancient legends, it was born in the Chinese totem culture, and the ancient three emperors and five emperors all used the dragon as a totem. Pearls, i.e. pearls, night pearls, dragon balls can avoid water and fire, is a symbol of good luck, and people like to hold dragon dance performances during festivals to celebrate.

During the dance, one person holds the color beads (also called the color ball) and dances with the double dragon, which is called the two dragons playing with the pearls or the double dragon playing with the pearls. This form of dragon dance and the dragon dance pictorial patterns that appeared later are all derived from a folklore story.

According to legend, there is a deep pool in Tianchi Mountain, there are two green dragons cultivating here, they care about the suffering of the people nearby, often sow wind and rain, so that the people live a peaceful life without worrying about food and clothing, and the two dragons are also loved by people.

Tianchi Lake is also a place for the fairies of the Heavenly Palace to bathe, whenever the moon is clean and the wind is clear, the fairies come here to bathe and play. Once, while the fairies were bathing in the pool, a furry monster pounced on the naked fairies, shouting for help. The two green dragons heard the cry for help, and immediately put on armor and ran to Tianchi Pond with weapons, and saw that it was a bear monster that was scattering wild, and the two dragons fought bravely together, and the bear monster was defeated and captured.

The fairies told the queen mother about the rescue of the green dragon.

The Queen Mother was kind-hearted for a while, took out a golden bead from the treasure gourd, and sent it to the green dragons, so that they could succeed in cultivation as soon as possible. There is only one gold bead, none of them want to swallow it alone, you give it to me, I will push it to you. Pushing back and forth, a golden bead jumped up and down between the two dragons, shining with golden light. After a long time, this matter alarmed the Jade Emperor, and he hurriedly sent Tai Bai Xing down to investigate.

After Tai Bai Xing's inspection, he reported to the Jade Emperor the two green dragons who had devoted themselves to cultivation, were kind-hearted, and had a righteous character. The Jade Emperor was also moved, so he took out another golden bead and sent it to Qinglong.

So, each of them took a golden bead, and they all became gods who controlled the fate of the people.

The common people did not forget that the green dragon benefited the people, and admired their virtues, so they built the temple to worship at four o'clock. After a long time, from sacrificing the dragon to entertaining the dragon dance, it has been transformed into a festive and auspicious painted dragon.

The dragon dance and painting patterns of the double dragon play pearl are mostly in the posture of the dragon, showing the form of the double dragon lifting and pushing the golden beads, and the gold beads are dancing between the two dragons. The pattern of double dragon play with pearls mostly appears on murals, dyeing and weaving, embroidery, carving and casting and other craft decorations, and can be seen almost everywhere in daily life.

What I never expected was that in the primitive tribal period more than 2,000 years earlier than the Qin and Han dynasties, there had been "Double Dragon Playing Pearls", which shows that this totem and this title actually came from another more ancient civilization.