I have seen the petroglyphs that Liu Rumei is referring to before, but I don't quite understand what it means.

The petroglyphs depict a towering mountain with a winding path on which a group of people, led by a scepter, holds a scepter in his hand.

The strange thing is that there is something painted on the top of the head of the person in the back, and it is not very clear, it seems to be a person horizontally, and it seems to be a dead wood.

I was wondering, Liu Rumei asked out loud: "Qin Fen, do you think this looks like a funeral procession?" ”

"Funeral?"

I was surprised by this statement and asked, "Why is it a funeral?" ”

"Uh......"

Liu Rumei pondered for a moment, pointed to the pattern on the photo and said: "Intuitively, the painting on it feels like a coffin......"

I frowned and said, "Coffin? Since Zhou Tianzi wrote the funeral scriptures, people have learned to use wood as a coffin, which is a matter of the Yanhuang period, where did the coffin come from. ”

Liu Rumei shook his head: "I just feel like it, and I can't be sure." ”

Hearing her say this, I looked at the photo again and felt that it did look like a funeral procession.

Funeral? To whom is the funeral? And where to send it? Looking at the person at the head who looks like a priest, will this be another sacrificial ceremony? What is the purpose of the sacrifice?

As I thought about it, I couldn't help but pat my swollen forehead, and my brow furrowed.

Liu Rumei saw that I was still thinking and asked, "What did you think of?" ”

I shook my head: "No, just thinking about some questions." ”

"Oh?"

Liu Rumei asked, "What's the problem?" ”

I pointed to the pedestrian in the photo and said, "Now whether this is a funeral or not, do you see that the person at the head is holding a scepter, like a priest in a sacrificial ceremony?" ”

Liu Rumei: "It's quite similar, almost the same as the image of the priest painted in the resurrection ceremony." ”

I nodded, and then said, "Then can this petroglyph be understood as a priest leading a group of people towards the mountain?" ”

Liu Rumei: "Well, you can think so. ”

I continued: "An event involving a priest is at least a sacrificial ceremony, if not a funeral, and an event worth recording, right? ”

Liu Rumei thought for a while and said, "It makes sense, but I still can't be sure what it is." ”

I looked at the next photo and said, "So I'll have to start with the other photos and connect them to see if we can find the answer." ”

Liu Rumei nodded, and then watched it with me.

The two of us compared for a long time, and felt that among the four pictures of this petroglyph, only the one on the right was the most neatly arranged.

And the two petroglyphs seem to be related in content, although the scene is not a mountain, but in it we see the image of the scepter priest, and the thing that Liu Rumei identified as a coffin.

The content of this painting is much simpler than the one just now, at least there are not so many people in it.

There was only one figure of a priest, and at his feet was what appeared to be a coffin, but the coffin-like thing looked slightly different from the one on the mountain, with many small circles drawn underneath, and many moire-like lines were shallow on the screen.

"What's this?"

I looked at the picture in confusion, and I couldn't figure it out at all.

"I don't know."

Liu Rumei shook her head, she looked at it for a long time, but she didn't understand.

The two of us just stared at the petroglyphs in this photograph and didn't say a word.

"This ......"

Wu Xufeng, who was standing behind us, suddenly spoke, and Liu Rumei and I looked at him curiously.

He scratched his head and said, "Boss, I'm also following blind guessing, don't be surprised if you don't guess......"

As soon as I heard it, I understood what Wu Xufeng was thinking, so I said: "Master Wu, if you have anything to say, just say it, what is not strange between us......

Wu Xufeng nodded and said, "My home is on the edge of the Yellow River, and I once saw a coffin crossing the river when I was a child. ”

"Carrying the coffin across the river?"

Liu Rumei and I were both confused, and we didn't know what Wu Xufeng was going to say.

Wu Xufeng continued: "Yes, the coffins of the rich people are transported across the river by boat, and the poor can't afford to make the boat, so they have to coat the sealed coffin with beeswax and put it into the river, and then find a few young adults with good water ability to help the coffin to ski across the river." ”

Liu Rumei and I were dumbfounded, especially me, a child who lives by the Yellow River, and I had never heard of anything else.

Liu Rumei's comprehension is really good, after she heard Wu Xufeng finish speaking, she looked at the photo again, and then turned around and asked Wu Xufeng: "Master Wu, what do you mean is the coffin floating in the river, and the small circle below represents the exposed head of the person holding the coffin, right?" ”

"Uh-huh."

Wu Xufeng nodded.

Hearing Liu Rumei say this, I immediately understood what the two of them were trying to express, and when I looked at the petroglyph again, it really felt like this.

The people who swim in the water, the coffin they are holding, the priest standing on the coffin, then the moire around is not moire but the water ripple representing the river.

When I saw this, I couldn't help but say, "It's kind of interesting......

Liu Rumei had already set her eyes on the adjacent photo at this time, and soon she was surprised: "Look, there is also that priest in the painting here......"

"Oh, I'll see."

Indeed, in the adjacent petroglyphs, there is still the appearance of the priest of the scepter, but there is no coffin on the ground, and at his feet lies a person, who is obviously in a state of separation.

Further on, the petroglyphs depict a scene of a great battle, with one man being cut down to the ground, and the corpse being separated horribly.

"This ......"

I pointed to the photo in front of me and motioned for Liu Rumei to look, Liu Rumei looked at it and said, "It seems that my intuition is correct, it is indeed the funeral procession." ”

I nodded, then continued to look at the other petroglyphs.

"Dingding......

At this moment, my mobile phone rang, and it was the first time I received a call since Qiao Er returned the phone.

Unknown caller, what the hell?

I was curious, but I didn't hesitate and picked up the phone.

"Hey, who's ...... Second Master Qiao...... Can I help you...... Uh-huh...... I've received my photos...... Uh-huh...... I'm working on ...... Uh-huh...... Kind of have some eyebrows...... What the? Are you coming over? Uh-huh...... Ok ......"

Liu Rumei saw that I buttoned up my phone, leaned over and asked, "What?" Is Qiao Er coming here? ”

I nodded: "yes, he said come and see, he didn't say what he was going to do, but I think he should have come for the picture......"