Chapter 222: Tomb of the Heavenly Fox God—Puppet
In fact, in ancient China, there were many legends about this kind of puppet puppet, and its degree of authenticity far exceeded that of today's high-tech robots.
Legend has it that 3,000 years ago, during the Zhou Dynasty in China, a skilled craftsman met the king of Zhou and said that he was willing to dedicate his skills to the king of Zhou. King Zhou asked, "What skills do you have?" The craftsman said, "I can do whatever you want." And, I've made something today. You might as well take a look first. King Zhou agreed.
After a while, the skilled craftsman came to see the king of Zhou with a "person". King Zhou asked him, "Who did you bring with you?" He replied, "Your Majesty, this is not a human being, but a puppet I made that can sing and dance." King Zhou looked at the puppet in amazement, walking and pitching, just like a real person. Shaking its head, it sang a song that conformed to the rhythm, held its hand, and danced to the beat. It can do whatever it tells it to do.
King Zhou thought it was a real person, so he called all the concubines in the palace to watch it together. When the performance was about to end, the puppet who could sing and dance actually squeezed his eyebrows and flattered King Zhou's left and right concubines, and beckoned to King Zhou's left and right concubines. King Zhou, who was watching, was immediately jealous and furious, and wanted to kill the skilled craftsman.
The skilled craftsman hurriedly cut open the belly of the doll for King Zhou to see, and it turned out that it was made of leather, wood, paint, red powder, green powder and other materials. King Zhou carefully inspected and found that the liver, gall bladder, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, muscles and bones in the body, skin, hair, teeth, hair, hair, etc., were all fake, but they were the same as real people, lacking nothing, and then assembling these parts, it was exactly the same as the puppet he saw at the beginning.
This kind of legend also appeared in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,200 years ago, which was the legend of a puppet saving Liu Bang.
It is rumored that the Han army led by Liu Bang was surrounded by the Xiongnu Mao Dun Shan Yu in Pingcheng, and Liu Bang's adviser Chen Ping learned that the soldiers under the command of Mao Dun's wife Yan were the most elite and fierce team of the Xiongnu, but the Yan family was jealous.
So Chen Ping spent a lot of money to buy a delicate wooden puppet from an able craftsman, and dressed the puppet in beautiful clothes, dressed up in fancy clothes, and rubbed its face with color and rouge, making it look more handsome. Then put it on the city wall, turn off the engine, and the puppet danced gracefully, gracefully, and attracted people's love.
Yan Shi saw this scene very well outside the city, and mistakenly took this dancing puppet as a real beauty in the world, afraid that after the city was broken, Mao Dun would favor this Central Plains beauty and snub herself, so Yan led her troops to abandon the city. Only then did Liu Bang and his Han army save the day.
There are many legends like this, although some are true and some are false, but it can be seen that in ancient times, especially before the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were indeed people who mastered this technique of making imitation wooden dolls. And the painting of "Divine Technique of Creation" painted on this wall today is supposed to describe the method of making this kind of wooden puppet......
When Chen Zhi thought of this, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, "If this coffin is the creator of the Warring States - Ziqing, then the dried corpse buried on the ground is...".
"Parrot, how many corpses are there on the ground?" , Chen Zhi shouted to the parrot,
"Great!" The parrot agreed, and quickly jumped in front of the coffin, counting the corpses near the coffin and in the corner of the burial chamber from beginning to end.
"Brother Xiaozhi, I checked, there are a total of 88 dried corpses here, all of them are adult male corpses, all of them were smashed and died", the parrot shouted to Chen Zhi.
"Holy! 88 male corpses? Isn't it said that Ziqing happened to have 88 sons? Could it be that these dried corpses are all Ziqing's sons? Ziqing, this old boy is not a psychopath! Killed all his sons for burial? Fat Wei scolded in a low voice to the coffin next to him.
"Murder and burial? Is it possible? Chen Zhi was silent, "If that's the case, then this Ziqing can't be regarded as a person anymore." ”,
"Brother Zhi, what should we do now? Since this is definitely not the Celestial Fox God Tomb, do we still have to continue to move forward? The parrot held the gun, pointed to the ear chamber inside and asked, "In the tomb next to this, there seem to be a lot of things, if this craftsman named Ziqing was really so bullish back then, then he must have accumulated a large amount of gold and silver treasures, don't we go in and open our eyes?" ”。
The parrot's proposal is reasonable, since everyone has worked hard to get here, how can there be any reason not to enter the tomb, not to mention the matter of gold and silver treasures, this Ziqing will be buried in this divine domain is very strange, and in his tomb, it is likely that there will be clues to the tomb of the Heavenly Fox God.
In this way, still led by Fat Wei, the group walked to the ear chamber next to the main tomb, and everyone took a look around these tombs and checked them.
I found that the two ear chambers here are all some ancient bamboo slips and other things, the bamboo slips are broken, and they fall apart immediately when they are picked up, and the records are the design drawings and methods of some utensils, which have nothing to do with the tomb of the Celestial Fox God.
In the back room, there are some iron grinding tools and some handicraft workshop equipment, which are very well-made and have a shadow of modern craftsmanship. In particular, some wooden handmade machinery, in addition to carving and carving, ingenious workmanship. The mechanical gears on it, after more than a thousand years, can still rotate normally, which is really a masterpiece and breathtaking.
But apart from these tools, there is nothing else, it seems that this Ziqing did not bring his property into the ground before his death, and there is no clue to the tomb of the Heavenly Fox God in the tomb, everyone is somewhat disappointed, and a group of people walked in the direction of the main tomb, wanting to leave this underground cemetery from the original entrance.
Fat Wei has always walked at the front of the line, when he walked to the door of the main tomb and just crossed the threshold, Fat Wei suddenly stopped, and in an instant, he opened his arms to block the direction of everyone, so that everyone retreated to the door as quickly as possible.
"Fat Viagra, what's wrong?" , the parrot asked loudly.
"Shh , Fat Wei quickly covered his mouth, motioned for him not to speak, and then pointed to the main burial chamber.
Everyone looked inside, only to see that the lid of the big coffin had been lifted at some point, and the dried corpses scattered next to the coffin just now had disappeared.
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