Chapter 169: Huangquan Palace
Although we don't have much information, the actual situation and the field survey of the relocated village tell us that this area will definitely not be inhabited. Nearly 30 years after the relocation of the village, the fields have been abandoned. Irrigation and drinking water systems are also unlikely to be intact.
This is a rocky landform, the depth below may be lower than the average elevation here, it is all bare rock, there is no way to drill wells, and decades of soil and water changes have long since made it impossible to continue cultivating the cultivated land here, not to mention weeds, it is said that it has long since lost much plantable soil.
After the relocation of the village in 90, the whole village was moved out in the records, no one was left behind, and the population registration form was not missing, so why is there still people living here?
At that time, on the beam outside the mountain, Lao Zhuang said that this village must be chaotic to a new height, and at this time we saw some broken bricks and tiles, and we already knew most of them.
Lao Zhuang's so-called chaos is not the sophistication of the mother-in-law, in fact, you can know at a glance that Lao Zhuang is talking about architectural style and planning pattern. This Yan Wudi is a veritable millennium village,
According to the archaeological research institute where the accident occurred, this village can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, but this is not an exaggeration, and there are many such precedents around the world, such as the story in the Peach Blossom Spring, in order to escape the lack of taxes, so some people had to leave their homes and hide in the mountains, living a self-sufficient life.
But Yan Wucheng is different, Lao Zhuang said that this village is not similar to what is recorded in the research institute's log. Although I don't know if Lao Zhuang's statement is reliable, we have all seen that strange and strange scene, so it is not objectionable to think that there is indeed an ancient tomb in it for the time being. The latter words are a little unbelievable, and the statement that the entire village is a mausoleum guard is indeed an exaggeration.
For more than 3,000 years, how can you have such willpower, and have been guarding other people's ambitions in these mountains for 3,000 years, I am afraid that this kind of agreement will not be able to stick to the third generation.
No one knew about this village, and the reason for its emergence was also very coincidental, there were young people in the village who couldn't stand the loneliness, and the mountain road couldn't stop their curiosity, and some people finally managed to escape. As a sheep herder in the mountains, someone found something that could be exchanged for a lot of money, and this kind of thing they could simply use as a night pot in their own village.
Of course, they don't know the true value of these things, they only know that they can exchange them for a large amount of equivalent in the world.
After tossing these people back to the village, they took a large number of clay pots, but how did these people know the rules of the antique and spiritual weapons shop, and they found a market to sell without knowing what they knew.
In the 80s, when the antiques trade was at its most rampant, many large tombs were dug up by tomb robbers during those years, and many of them were resold to China.
Therefore, there are a large number of plainclothes squatting in the major markets, and most of the stall owners in the market know the goods, this thing, the objects before the Qin and Han dynasties cannot be picked up on the ground, and they themselves know that there are plainclothes next to them, and they dare not accept this thing, and they will cause trouble.
A few people carried the clay pot around, no one wanted it, and just as they were wondering, they pressed down on a few people who rushed up, and the stall owners at the bottom understood that these plainclothes people didn't know the goods, so they suddenly arrested someone must have secretly lit a cannon.
These people were arrested, and finally explained the situation, but at that time, the law had come out, and antiques could be traded in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they could not be destroyed. If anything goes further, no matter who owns it, it can't be bought or sold as a commodity, and it can't be taken home and collected. What's more, these people are still holding a cloud and thunder pattern yellow clay pot from the Shang Dynasty.
The situation is the situation, but the law cannot be violated, several people were detained, and the things were handed over to the local museum, and the museum sent people to study them.
After descending the cliff and entering the forest under the stone forest, the temperature began to rise a little, and our coat was not breathable, and it was already full of water after a while. After a few steps down, we already saw the ridges of the stones, but as we guessed, the soil would never have been left for long without people, and the ground was full of rocks, and after a few years of heavy rains, only the exposed rocks remained.
The roots of the dense forest enveloped a large number of stone walls, and the roots spread to the ground and burrowed into the crevices of the rocks. Tear away the entire area of trees and vegetation, and what we see must be a large field of bare rock with white flowers.
There are a lot of wreckage of buildings here, so we found a large one at random, and someone specialized helped us clean up the vines and roots. The stones and bricks are visible to us.
This is not a wall, but a pillar, the pillar is very wide, it is square, and the whole is made of local stones, and the stones are precisely connected with each other, but the corners are very weathered, otherwise we must see an extremely smooth square column. There was no wall behind the pillar, and Lao Zhuang glanced at it a few times, then left us and walked in the opposite direction.
We didn't know what to do, so we followed, and soon a huge tree was cleared. After a few people were busy, we realized that the trunk of the tree was no thicker than an arm, and it was only because of these arm-thick branches that the stone pillar was firmly wrapped inside, so now it looked like an incomparably huge tree.
This pillar was almost the same thickness as the previous one, and the interval between them was only thirty meters, and I looked up at the column, which was about seventeen or eighteen meters high, and became smaller and smaller as it went up, so as to ensure that the whole column did not collapse.
Lao Zhuang only looked at it a few times, picked up the stone and knocked it again, and then saw him move again and continue to walk out towards the opposite side. We were all a little puzzled as to what he was trying to do, so we hurriedly followed. At this time, I was not polite, and opened my mouth to ask: "Lao Zhuang, where are you taking us to." ”
"Verify something." Lao Zhuang didn't look back, he pushed away the miscellaneous branches, and walked a few steps before hearing Lao Zhuang's response.
I was a little upset, and wanted to continue to ask, but before I could speak, Tahara, who had been following me all the time, whispered to me, "He's looking for these pillars." ”
In fact, when I saw the second pillar, I already knew the point of his search, but I didn't understand what he was looking for, so Tahara's answer was useless.
But when I looked back at the pillars, she continued: "These pillars are not just individual buildings, they were all complete wooden buildings thousands of years ago, and these pillars were wooden foundations, and the wood rotted away, so they remained. ”
As soon as I heard it, I thought about it again, this little girl seemed to have learned this aspect, and my father was not a nameless person at that time. I don't have the existing resources, I have to mess with that fat old man who has no shape.
He immediately asked her, "Do you already have any ideas?" ”
The little girl showed a smile on her face, and it took a long time to put her ear close to my ear and say, "Teacher Zhuang is right, this is an ancient tomb, the ancient tomb of the Shang Dynasty, and we are now on the outermost layer of the Sansheng Palace." ”
"Ahh I was surprised, immediately turned my head to look at her, and then turned around to look at the stone pillar, at this time left the original blind spot, only to find that at the top of the stone pillar, there seems to be a hole, but now it is dilapidated, and some places are broken irregularly, so it is impossible to judge whether it is used to place wooden beams or collapsed.
The three-life hall that the little girl said is the reference to the three thousand worlds in the six reincarnations of the three thousand worlds, and the three thousand worlds are the small thousand worlds, the middle thousand worlds, and the big thousand worlds. The six realms of reincarnation have humanity, the way of heaven, the path of animals, the path of evil ghosts, the path of asura, and the path of hell.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, a large number of original records of the funeral scriptures had been opened, and only then did Guo Pu compile the funeral scriptures after several years. The so-called burial is also hidden, and death is like life, which has existed since then.
Because this kind of project in the back room is almost a phenomenal product of labor and money, even if it is in a high position, it must be restricted, and it can only be reduced according to the original scope to obtain the current tomb that is not very spectacular after the Han Dynasty.
But the Shang and Zhou dynasties or earlier were different, it was a period of time when almost coexisted with mythology, and the chaos that could be seen and not seen was out of this range, so the people in power still attached great importance to death, and death was actually for them, just a change of place to continue to enjoy the wealth of the world.
So the scale we see now is nothing, and it is really possible to catch up, and it is possible for the Shang kings of the current dynasty to build an ancient tomb comparable to the city at that time. Speaking of the stone pillar here, the six reincarnations of the three thousand worlds refer to the nine archways outside the emperor's mausoleum.
The funeral scriptures say that the method of feng shui is that the water is the first, and the Tibetan wind is secondary. So this setting is very necessary, in fact, in detail, it is not exactly the same nine archways, the first three are the hall, and the last six are the doors. After passing through these nine doorways in a row, the difference between the underworld and the yang world is also the difference.
These three halls and six doors are also called the guillotine gate, before and after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was the most rampant and cruel time for the burial of the living, as long as it was alive, it could not get out of the emperor's tomb, whether it was a craftsman or a burial slave, they had to die here. However, they are afraid that they will destroy the facilities in the interior of the mausoleum, so there are generally dead people who follow behind the dying people as sacrifices, and these people cannot turn back, as long as they turn back, they will be cut off by the dead people, until after passing through the three halls and six gates, the sacrifice will die, and the dead will also kill themselves to be buried.
This road is not auspicious, and in my later research, there is a saying that whenever there is a large tomb with such a setting, the tomb robbers cannot walk upright, but must turn their backs to the front and retreat into the six gates of the three thousand halls. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a living mouth that could cross this road with a head. But rumors are just rumors, after all, those with these settings must be big tombs, and the industry is very mysterious, but it is basically impossible to actually encounter this kind of mausoleum that eats for a lifetime.