Chapter 6 The Yin and Yang Coffin of the Southern Dipper and the Big Dipper

After the stone door was pushed open by us, there was no poisonous smoke and black fog inside, and our group quickly entered the tomb, no one said anything, and they quickly closed the stone door together, and did not forget to push it hard to see if it was tightly closed.

Through the light, we took a closer look at the place, this burial chamber is also very spacious, the miner's lamp and flashlight can cast light on the surrounding walls, and we can faintly see the murals on the surrounding walls. This burial chamber is not as plain as it is on the outside, and there are many patterned brick decorations here.

This style of tomb decoration was very common in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the pictures are rich in content, some of which may involve hunting, harvesting, boiling salt, acrobatics and other life scenes.

Countless patterned bricks are inlaid into the walls of the tomb chamber to form decorative bands; This kind of decoration is the most common small pattern brick in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the thickness of the brick is printed on one side, and the pattern belt is naturally formed when the tomb wall is built, and the whole tomb is densely patterned.

There was a huge coffin in the middle of the burial chamber, which made us forget about the dangers outside for a moment, and an indescribable excitement rose from the bottom of my heart, and I couldn't help but wonder if I was born to like this.

At this time, the stallion said to Li An: "Friends from the United States, you can just watch the next thing, and other things that need to be done, please let us do it, okay?" Even if you're invited, if there's any strange mechanism here, it's not good for you to lose people, and I think you're tired, so you'd better rest first, in case that big bug wants to chase in, maybe we'll have to run for our lives! Hey! ”

After saying that, the stallion handed me a bag of beef jerky and a bottle of water, not to mention, I feel very hungry now, I have been here for several hours, I only ate a little barbecue in the evening, I didn't eat a grain of rice, I was too hungry, and politeness was superfluous, so I took it and opened it up.

I said to Li An: "I am also an archaeology graduate of the National University, I also know very well what to do, you have already encountered so many emergencies when you were on it, it is best to take a rest first, by the way, guard this door, if there is any abnormal situation, it is good to report a letter, let's take a look first, figure out everything here, and then we will tell you what we know, and then we will find a way to get out of here together, OK?" ”

The corners of Ang Lee's mouth moved, but in the end he didn't say anything, as for Green and the other person, they were already exhausted, and they didn't have any objections, they sat down and began to rest.

The ancients said: Seventy-two lines, tomb robbery is king. Throughout the ages, there have been many tomb robbers of unknown schools who have hoped to use the inverted bucket to become gods, but they often end up being the burial goods of the ancient tombs.

Honestly, I'm really excited right now, monster? At least not with us now, are you? Although I have never been to this kind of place, but I don't feel timid at all, this is all the work of my grandfather's teaching to me since I was a child, I have to go to the old man to ask a lot of things, I firmly believe that I will be able to escape, swear in the name of grandpa!

The stallion said: "I'm not interested in these ghost painting pottery pots, Master Ma, I'll look at the coffin, you can study those murals and tell us." ”

Of course, I don't have a problem, as long as it doesn't interrupt my train of thought, I prefer to study from a more humanistic place first, plan and then act.

I chewed beef jerky, poured water, and looked at these murals from the left hand side of the stone gate, and all the tomb owners, especially those who were very conceited in their lifetimes, would basically show some of the proud deeds of their lives on the murals in the main burial chamber. If you read these murals, in addition to knowing everything about this ancient tomb, you may be able to find a way to escape.

The mural starts on the left hand side of the stone gate and ends on the right hand side of the stone gate, and is about one meter high. At the beginning of the whole mural is a line of small characters written vertically: "Will be chaotic at the end of the Han Dynasty, let alone cooperate, and avoid the place to come here, and want to cast the famous mountain to cultivate the road." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned, isn't this Ge Xuan, the patriarch of the Taoist Lingbao School, known as Ge Tianshi. Taoism is revered as Ge Xian Weng, also known as Tai Chi Xian Weng. In the Taoist school with Zhang Daoling, Xu Xun, Sa Shoujian as the four heavenly masters, the author of the book "Hug Puzi", the representative of the Jindan faction, the legend has long been dissected into an immortal, this is his tomb? But there's something evil about it here, so it's unlikely.

I shook my head and looked down, a man wearing a long shirt was bowing to a person in the costume of a Taoist priest with fairy wind and bones, the Taoist priest taught the man in a long shirt a book, the man in the long shirt read hard day and night, from the comparison of the appearance before and after the mural, after a long time, the Taoist priest called the man in the long shirt, along with several people, all standing on the side of the man in the long shirt, saying something to the Taoist.

From this point of view, this Taoist priest is most likely Ge Xuan, and the Changsam Man is one of his apprentices, I don't know what his name is, so let's call him the Changsam Man.

Several people talked as if there was an argument, and Ge Xuan waved his hand to let the man in the long shirt leave. The people in the long shirt bid farewell to the master, angrily shook their sleeves, crossed the mountains and mountains, and finally arrived in a deep mountain, looking at the costumes of the characters on the murals, which should be the settlement of the ancient Yi people, and there are many villages.

When the Changsam people came here, there seemed to be an outbreak of plague here, he saved a lot of people with the technique of Jindan, a person who looked like the leader of the Yi tribe and the people in the Changsam talked about wine, the people in the Changsam stood on a mountain peak with the leader, pointed to the place below and said this, and then the leader commanded everyone to build a Taoist temple (that is, the current Niuwang Temple) on the mountain of the village, and the Changsam people have lived here since then, because of the previous act of saving people, the temple is full of incense.

I see, this is the predecessor of Niuwang Temple?

One day, a few people went to the temple to find the Changsam people, and after talking to the Changsam people for a while, the Changsam people followed them to a cottage, which was where the leader was. The leader led the long-shirted people to a mountain stream, pointed to the depths of the mountain stream, and told the long-shirted people what to say.

The man of the long shirt set up an altar, prayed to the heavens, and then asked the leader to order a number of young soldiers and follow him into the mountain stream.

The subsequent picture jumps directly to the flat ground of the cottage, and a huge long worm is placed on the ground, and the long picture does not end.

The rest of the cottage was terrified of the worm and bowed down to the man in the long robe. The man in the long shirt asked everyone to help tie up the insects, and on a bright moon night, they carried them into the place where the temple was located, and the line carrying the insects was endless, and the light of the torches went from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, which showed how long the insects were! Of course, this does not rule out the exaggeration of the ancients to prove how good they are.

The scene jumps again, in a secret room, the leader seems to be sick, lying on the bed, with a lot of herb-like things next to him, the man in the long shirt says something to the leader, and after a while the man in the long shirt leaves.

The man of the long shirt returned to the temple and thought about a sphere, and behind him was the man of the long shirt standing in the big pit on the third floor of the basement where we were, watching a huge worm tail lay eggs in the big pit.

it! In this way, this man in a long shirt doesn't know how to seal the corpse marrow mother worm here, and make it not die, is it the reason for the feng shui bureau? So, in the upper layer and here, it's the same bug, and its head is its tail, and its tail is its head? Is it so magical?

The mural ends here, and there is a sentence at the end: stealing yin and yang, seizing creation, life and death, and living forever.

Seeing this, you can probably know the basic situation of the owner of this ancient tomb.

The Changsam people worshiped Ge Xuanmen under the Tao, and later must have had a serious disagreement with Ge Xuan in the concept of monasticism, so he was expelled from the division, and then he came here, and lived with the local ancient Yi residents, because he would save people with Jindan, so he was very respected by the locals, and built a temple for him.

The Yi village in the deep mountains is estimated to have been ravaged by big insects, and the people in Changsan were invited by the leader to subdue the big insects.

Judging from the murals, the people in the long shirt are not only proficient in alchemy, but also the way of sacrifice, this is the irreconcilable difference between him and Ge Xuan, because Ge Xuan only focused on the Dan Dao all his life, thinking that only Jindan Dacheng can be autopsied into immortals, as evidenced by the "Inner Chapter of Hug Puzi": "The matter of sacrifice and prayer is not beneficial, and I should be inviolable, and I should not be invaded by ghosts and gods." ”

But in the end, the man of Changsam seems to have abandoned the method of Jindan preaching, but found another way, using the theory of yin and yang to obtain immortality, could he use Jindan to combine with the big worm, and then let the corpse marrow larvae produce mutations, and obtain immortality by absorbing the essence of the living?

But I still feel that there are incompleteness, and I always feel that there are things that I haven't figured out. Let's leave it at that, let's see how the stallion studies the coffin.

I finished the last beef jerky, threw away the empty bottle, and walked over to the stallion.

Li Ang They just took a break next to the stone gate, when I first started looking at the murals, they looked at them together, and when I was looking and thinking, they probably couldn't see clearly, so they had already gone to study the coffin with the stallions, too, Taoist things, it's strange that these Americans can understand it.

When the stallion saw me walking over, he gave me a blank look and said, "I'll wait until the flowers are all gone, and you finally finish reading, how is it, what is the catch?" ”

Li An and they also looked at me expectantly, and after I told them my conclusions, the stallion said: "This ancient man just likes to brag, so he makes these pictures false, it is nothing more than telling the story of a traitor, this traitor wants to cultivate, but then he feels that he is more capable than the master, because he was outnumbered and expelled, and then came here to fool the ancient Yi compatriots who have not read for a while, of course, he is still a little capable, otherwise he will not catch the big worm, afraid of loneliness after death, Just kidnap the big bugs and give birth to small bugs to play? Let him die again, he doesn't have to lie here and be upside down by us, hahaha! ”

Green interjected: "Then this traitor, because he was bored to catch bugs, killed my three classmates, he will definitely go to hell." ”

I asked, "Brother stallion, what do you think of this coffin?" ”

The stallion said: "Of course, who is my horse master, this is the Yin Yang Coffin of the Southern Dipper and the Big Dipper!" Check it out! There's got to be something amazing here! ”

"Don't brag, let me see first." I responded.

At first glance, this thing is not simple! The lid of this coffin is carved from the branches of a single red Bodhi tree, and such a large red Bodhi can take at least 500 years to grow.

And the rest of the part I carefully distinguished, this is even more amazing, it is actually carved from the heart of a whole dipterocarp tree, the dipterocarp tree is a plant 200 million years ago, and only the cold zone above 7,000 meters above sea level still remains.

I only read in the newspapers a long time ago that a foreign expedition team found this kind of tree in the Pamirs, and it was far less huge than this coffin.

This coffin, if it is shipped out, it will definitely shock the world, the red linden tree is a fire attribute wood, it feels like a warm temperature to the touch, and the cold feeling of the underground temperature is in stark contrast, the dipterocarp tree is an extremely cold water attribute wood, put the palm of the hand, and suddenly feel a cold air into the palm, even if I have adapted to the temperature of the underground, I still can't help but hit a spirit.

There is also an ancient book that records that the dipterocarp tree is said to be the blooming thing of Hongjun's ancestor to create a jade dish, with the aura of the innate spiritual treasure, which is a divine object of heaven and earth, and is said to be able to help people decompose into immortals! I don't know if it's true or not, because no one has seen it.

The whole coffin is carved from these two different wood materials and put together.

The wall at the end of the coffin chamber is engraved with the six stars of the Southern Dipper composed of Tianfu Star, Tianliang Star, Tianji Star, Tiantong Star, Tianxiang Star, Seven Killing Stars and other stars, and the other end is engraved with the Big Dipper composed of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang and other stars.

The South Dipper is born, the North Dipper is dead, the left side of the coffin is engraved with a group of birthday eight characters, these eight characters are a little peculiar, not only the four pillars are yang, but also the stem hidden in the earth branch is also yang, yo ho! If it is a man of cheongsam buried here, this person's life is so magical, it is actually all yang with four pillars and eight characters, and it is also pure yang!

However, what is strange is that there is also a group of eight characters engraved on the other side, which is actually all yin or pure yin! It is impossible for a person to have pure yin and pure yang at the same time, is this a joint burial tomb?

What is the Southern Dipper and Big Dipper Seven Star Yin and Yang Coffin, most of them are stallions looking at these things and making nonsense about their names! However, all the patterns engraved on it are quite in line with the mural's "stealing yin and yang, seizing creation, life and death, and living together." This sentence.

What is the relationship between these things? Looking at this coffin, which is about 6 meters long, 3 meters wide, and about 1.5 meters high, I fell into deep thought again.

I've been fascinated by these things since I was a child, and I like to think about the connections between them, which is a good habit in normal times, but in this kind of crisis, it's not good to be in a daze like this.

But now there was no time for me to think too much, so he said, "It's useless to talk nonsense, let's open the coffin first!" ”

Seeing that we were about to open the coffin, Li An hurriedly said: "Both, I know that you are definitely not ordinary people, but I was also invited by your cultural department to help inspect the ancient tombs, and I myself have participated in the excavation of many monuments in Central and North America, can I participate?" ”

I looked at the stallion for a moment, and I said, "Captain Li, I said that there are some things in our ancient China that you can't understand, if you don't believe it, you can see if you can open the coffin." Seeing me say this, Ang Lee was a little unconvinced, and beckoned Green and another team member to carry the lid of the coffin.

Seeing this, the stallion immediately stopped in front of them and said, "If you want to destroy the contents directly, just open it directly!" ”