011 Oracle Bone Mystery (1)
Last time, it was said that Colonel Zhang told Liu Wensheng that he didn't have to know about the Linglong Box. Liu Wensheng snorted, looking very dissatisfied. He gave everything he knew, but Gu Zhenting and Colonel Zhang deliberately hid something from him. This distrust made him resentful.
About the Linglong box, Gu Zhenting also kept silent, recorded in the ancient books, it is said that Biluo Lingzhi was born in the spring of weeping blood spring, and the ancients in addition to using gold wire mesh salvage, there is also a Linglong box made of white jade to store, in order to make it immortal. Before leaving, Bureau W had carefully selected the finest white jade and carved a jade box to replace the legendary Zhonglinglong box. After the white thing was taken up, it was found that it was a square piece of white jade, and it was not possible to determine that even if it was the so-called Linglong box, but no one knew what the Linglong box looked like, so it could not be denied that it was not, so we could only wait for the next judgment. What is amazing is that the white jade has been soaked in blood for many years, and there is no color at all, and it is as smooth as silk, which completely subverts the traditional knowledge of ancient jade identification.
After this piece of jade was measured, it was found that it was a whole piece of mutton fat white jade, and there was no trace of cutting, that is, this is a natural uncut jade, but its surface is neat and cut, which is really puzzling. And what made Gu Zhenting really headache was that there was a pattern on this piece of white jade that could be judged to have artificial traces, and the pattern was very simple, but it was clear at a glance: that one was a simplified Taiji diagram. As we all know, although the gossip theory appeared relatively early, it is said that Fuxi looked up at astronomy, looked down on geography, and created Bagua, and later after countless evolutions, a complete system was formed, with a total of 64 hexagrams and a total of 384 trigrams, and later in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the "Ten Wings" that appeared one after another to explain it constituted the "Zhou Yi" that has been handed down to this day. However, the Taiji diagram appeared relatively late, and it is said that it evolved from the Wuji diagram drawn by Chen Tuan, who lived from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty. Therefore, the Taiji diagram on this piece of white jade gave Gu Zhenting a headache: Could it be that the ancients knew this theory of yin and yang as early as thousands of years ago? In addition, on the back of the white jade, there are three small holes about five centimeters concave, which also looks like it was artificial, but I don't know what it does.
From the very beginning, this No. 7 pit has revealed a strange and demonic atmosphere everywhere, first dug up the bronze artifacts in the Sanxingdui civilization system of Bashu, and then a large blood pool appeared, and the blood pool also had corpses and blood snakes demonized by the monks during the Warring States Period; Immediately afterwards, there was another piece of Taiji diagram engraved with a piece that was N years later than the Yin Shang period. A hodgepodge of different civilizations, which appeared at the same time at different times, is easy to explain if this is a tomb after the Song Dynasty, but according to the evidence of archaeological excavations, this is an indisputable tomb pit from the Yin Shang period. An indisputable fact.
Later, Pit No. 7 was dug almost ten meters deeper, digging dozens of meters to the four walls, and the entire Pit No. 7 became unrecognizable, and nothing else was found. Bloodstains, corpses, all gone, what's going on? Gu Zhenting had a headache when he thought of this question, and he really didn't know how to write it in the report.
Gu Zhenting's eyes gradually returned to normal after three days, but he still shed tears when the wind blows. During the period, Wu Haode was presiding over the work, and when his eyes were better, the archaeological work had been basically completed, and all kinds of experts had been withdrawn in advance, and the encounter that night Colonel Zhang ordered to block the news, and the injured A guards were transferred by helicopter that night and sent back to the headquarters for treatment, only Colonel Zhang stayed and insisted on leaving after the whole event, but he also stayed in his tent all day to heal, so the command of the A guards fell on Ye Ya. The worst is Liu Wensheng, because he knew what happened that night, and at the same time he was a supernumerary member of the archaeological team, in order to prevent him from leaking secrets, Colonel Zhang reported the situation to the headquarters, and at the same time temporarily detained him in the camp, and there were two or three A guards guarding the entrances and exits. This kind of inhuman treatment made him even more aggrieved, and he wanted to protest to Colonel Zhang every day, but after thinking about it, the headquarters also acquiesced to Colonel Zhang's approach.
As for Chen Wenming's body, in accordance with his last wishes, Colonel Zhang transferred a helicopter early the next morning to transport it back to Chen Wenming's relatives. Originally, according to the procedures, Chen Wenming's body could only be returned after an expert autopsy and then submitting an autopsy report, but Colonel Zhang couldn't bear to let his body be ruined like this, and failing to protect Chen Wenming was already heartbroken enough. In doing so, it can be regarded as a kind of compensation for Chen Wenming.
After more than a week, the archaeological team finally cleaned everything up, and it was time to go home. At this time, the cultural relics report presented to Gu Zhenting was more than 30,000 pages. Inside, there are photographs and descriptions of the excavations of each grave, as well as a detailed account of all the items found.
When he returned to Bureau W, the first thing he would do was to compile these things into a report and submit it.
Although this archaeological activity harvested a lot of cultural relics, in the eyes of Gu Zhenting, it was a very unsuccessful operation. Not only did he lose his troops and lose his generals, but even the weeping blood fountain could not accurately determine whether it really existed. Every step in the future will be difficult. Gu Zhenting thought of this, smiled bitterly and looked through the information, he first looked at the list of unearthed cultural relics, each cultural relics are accompanied by photos, which is very intuitive.
Gu Zhenting was most concerned about the oracle bones engraved with words. At first, he also deliberately took care of the text experts to quickly interpret this batch of texts, so as to know the exact identity of the owners of these ancient tombs, whether as Liu Wensheng said, the six skeletons were just burial objects from Pit 7. And in the No. 7 pit, except for the corpse blood in the blood pool and the piece of white jade, there was no other thing to be found.
Thinking back to Liu Wensheng's words, the Tianshu Town Demon Feng Shui Bureau is used to suppress evil spirits and demons, and the corpse blood is so demonic, it makes sense, but this piece of white jade, except for the sudden appearance of the Taiji diagram, where does its monster start? Gu Zhenting believes that the existence of the corpse blood may be to protect this piece of white jade, and to investigate the secret of the white jade, it may be able to answer all this. Therefore, the text about the excavation of this ancient tomb group has become particularly important.
The text experts in the W bureau worked day and night to decipher a large number of texts, but almost all of them were inconsequential records, except for the results of a large number of divinations, which did not involve the identities of the six tomb owners at all, and there were more than 100 pieces of text that could not be deciphered. These words are completely irregular, and they have never appeared, a phenomenon that aroused Gu Zhenting's great interest. Experts judged that the age of these oracle bones should belong to the pre-Shang Wu Ding king. Because calligraphy fits the main characteristics of that time period.
Originally, the Yin Shang Dynasty from Pangeng moved the capital to the Wuding period is the heyday of the Yin Shang Dynasty, this prosperity is also reflected in the text, the calligraphy style of the oracle bone inscription in this period is mostly the pen is round, the pen is more pointed, all open and close generously, extremely strong. After Wu Ding, the oracle bone inscription gradually declined in engraving and became dull. Therefore, judging the calligraphy on the oracle bone, it is almost possible to determine the approximate period of the oracle bone's existence.
Gu Zhenting carefully searched for clues in the translated words. But in the intermittent divination, it is very difficult to find useful information. Almost all of these divinations talk about the trivial matters of ancestor worship and hunting. Gu Zhenting knew that the Yin people were very superstitious, almost "divination in case of trouble", and it was estimated that the number of meals a day was not as much as divination. Even so, Gu Zhenting also knew that these oracle bones also recorded some activities of the tomb owner during his lifetime, otherwise he would never have appeared here.