Chapter 233: Mysterious Text
If there is really a twelve-bronze statue in the ancestral hall that Norma said, it is the third one-this is an ancient artifact, how can it be easy to get three statues!
Confused, I followed Norma to another particularly tall stilt building.
This stilt building is very similar to the one where the Miao master is located, both are twice as tall as the others, and the location is also very special, just centered on the empty field in the center of the village, and the stilt building where the Miao master is symmetrical.
During this time, I have mastered a lot of knowledge in the "Secret Art of Yin and Yang".
According to the description of the "Five Elements of Yin and Yang" in the "Secret Art of Yin and Yang", the houses of the entire village are not built at random, and it seems that the principle of gossip is implied in them, and the two raised stilt buildings happen to be a "yin" and a "yang".
I took a deep breath, knowing that it was all hard to understand, but it shouldn't be a coincidence.
The staircase of the stilt building is very old and covered with dust, which shows that it is rarely visited.
The three of them went upstairs, and I saw first a rusty bronze door, and then a bronze lock hanging from the door's nose.
Bronze doors?
I was shocked.
It must have been a few years since I looked at this bronze door, and the green rust was faintly carved with dark patterns of strange patterns.
When I saw the dark lines on it, I was shocked again.
These graphics are so familiar! After thinking about it again, I remembered it all at once - it was exactly the same as the dark pattern on the bronze door in the ancient tomb in the western outskirts of the ancient burial village.
Coincidental? No way!
This thought suddenly appeared in my mind: Four girls village? Kofun Village? Yin Tomb? Could it be that these three places are closely linked?
After analyzing the order of appearance of these three places, Siguniang Village appeared at the earliest, followed by Yin Tomb Village, and finally Gukou Village.
According to the clues I have, it may be like this: two or three thousand years ago, the mysterious Miao people of Siguniang Village came to Shandong, thousands of miles away, met King Luyin, and persuaded him to build an ancient tomb in Longyin Valley where he could be resurrected from the dead.
Some of the mausoleum keepers later came to the Yin Valley where the ancient tomb village was located, and then settled down and merged with another group of tomb guards in this valley, so there was the Yin Tomb Village.
According to Lao Huang and Uncle Wang, the owner of the ancient tomb in the western suburbs of Gugu Village was the last hiding place of Zhang Qiling, the eldest apprentice of Guiguzi, and he lived in seclusion in the Yin Valley with a huge secret according to the master's instructions.
According to the description on the stone tablet of the Yin Cave under the valley, this secret is related to immortality, and it should be some kind of immortal Gu technique in ancient times......
Thinking of this, I heard a "squeak" and the door opened.
It was a very large hall, and when I stepped through the door, I first saw a few huge stone statues, and then dozens of broken stone tablets inlaid on the walls on either side.
The hall was very old, the floor was full of dust, and it looked like no one had been in for a long, long time.
"This is the forbidden place of the village, and the Miao village has the rules of the Miao village, and no Miao person can step into the temple."
Temple? I looked around again and realized that the temple Norma was referring to was the hall.
"So, only you can come in?"
Momo asked casually.
"Although I have lived in Miao Village for 70 years, I am not a Miao person – I have only been in seven times, and it is out of curiosity."
As he spoke, he walked behind a tall stone statue, and Momo and I hurriedly followed, and saw a strangely shaped shrine behind the stone statue, and a bronze statue was placed in it.
Sure enough, it's the third stone statue! I was shocked.
The bronze statue in the shrine is exactly the same as the two on my body, and it should be one of the twelve bronze men of antiquity.
"That's it, isn't it the same as yours!"
I hurriedly took the bronze statue with both hands and asked Norma, "Always...... Has it been like this? ”
Norma nodded, "I remember the first time I stepped into this temple, when I was eighteen years old, it was already here, and the master said that no one had come in for ten years before I came. ”
Decade? I often exhale, it's another decade, why is it always in ten years?
Norma seemed to see the strange look on my face and whined a few times.
"Come in and sweep the floor every ten years, which is also a family rule handed down by the Miao people for generations."
I knew that the ancient Miao people had many rules, and I didn't think much about it, so I turned my eyes and swept to a stone statue.
In my impression, all stone statues are either Bodhisattvas and Arhats of the Demon Sect, or the true monarchs of Taoism, but the appearance of this stone statue is very strange, the eyes and ears are huge, this appearance is ......
I then turned my gaze to the bronze figure in my hand, and suddenly it dawned on me.
The huge stone statue is eight or nine points similar to the bronze man - could it be that this "gold" and "stone" two "strange statues" are carved by a kind of person?
"Little evil, look at the text above, isn't it ......?"
Momo stood in front of a wall and wondered.
Only then did I notice that the broken stele was faintly visible with words the size of a walnut.
This is Miao Village, which has been the territory of seedlings since ancient times, and I thought that even if there was writing, it must be Miao Wen.
After taking a few steps closer, I realized that the shape of these words was very strange.
There are many strokes of each word, and the strokes of each word are curved, and looking at any word alone is not so much a text as a figure.
I have seen Miao script, there is a clear difference between Miao script and Chinese characters, the strange text on this stone tablet is 100% hieroglyphic, relatively speaking, it is more like Chinese characters. Chinese character? How can there be an ancient stone tablet engraved with Chinese characters here?
Looking at the petrified appearance of the stele, it is obvious that it has been some years.
I carefully recognized the words on the nearest stone tablet, which were all familiar, but I recognized seven or eight of them next to each other, and I didn't recognize any of them.
Because I like history, I am very familiar with the history of the evolution of Chinese writing.
According to legend, Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie, but in fact, anyone who knows a little bit about history knows that this is nonsense.
The real Chinese character was invented in the middle of the primitive society, by the great working people in the hard daily life, because of the need.
Broadly speaking, the earliest Chinese characters were not words or graphics, but rope lumps, which is what some historians have called the "knotted rope chronicle".
Later, there were "Cangjie Characters", "Fuxi Characters", "Bagua Theory", "Hetuluo Book Theory", etc., all of which are mythical. Among the historical sources that have been recorded, the earliest writings are oracle bone inscriptions, followed by inscriptions and gold inscriptions – of course, very few of these have been excavated.
Later, it was the big seal and the small seal, and in the Western Han Dynasty, the invention of papermaking allowed the text to be widely disseminated.
I looked at the words on the stone tablet, which looked very much like the big seal before the Qin Dynasty, but if I looked closely, these words were more cumbersome than the big seal, but they were not as "horizontal and vertical" as the golden inscription.
Could it be that this is a kind of writing that is somewhere between the golden script and the great seal?