Chapter 46: Xia Seal
Teng Lao Wu hugged the pile of bronze artifacts, "Mr. Lan, what about these things?" ”
"You can keep it."
Lan Yucheng didn't pay attention to it at all, but eagerly wanted to continue walking inside. Hu Lao glanced at Teng Lao Wu contemptuously and said, "Dogs can't change eating." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he coughed violently twice.
Teng Lao Wu pretended not to hear Hu Lao's words, and put them in his bag with a happy face.
"Brother Chu, those things have become like this, are they worth anything?" Jiang Yun saw Teng Lao Wu's face and asked curiously.
"I don't know, it seems that this thing also has a judgment of quality, shape, and survival, but as long as it is old, it should be worth a lot of money."
Chu Ye regretted that his intestines were green now, he knew that Lan Yucheng didn't care, so he went to look for it, but at this moment, after Teng Lao Wu's search, I am afraid that there is not even a single hair left. Chu Ye thought about taking away some stone tools and pottery, but it was too heavy, and it was said that the value of those cultural relics was far greater than the economic value, and it was afraid that it would be worth the loss to take them out.
After Teng Lao Wu finished cleaning up, everyone continued to walk along the Yongdao, the Yongdao is not long, out of the Yongdao is a stone platform, there is a cliff across the edge, and there is no road in front.
"Flares." Lan Yucheng commanded.
Cheng Youmin hurriedly sent it out, and under the light, the cliff was nearly ten meters high, and the area of the cavity below exceeded everyone's expectations. In the middle of the cave stands a neatly cut square rock, on which is a stone statue.
"Mr. Lan, do you need to go down?" Cheng Youmin asked.
"Definitely going on." Lan Yucheng's eyes did not dissipate, and he said: "This cliff is not high, it is enough to go down with a soft ladder." ”
After getting the reply, Cheng Youmin set up the soft ladder with the help of Teng Laowu and Xiao Jing, first went down to find the fixed point of the safety rope on the cliff, and shouted at the bottom: "You can come down now." ”
The cave space under this may have exceeded the size of the ordinary sports field, empty and silent, there are some rectangular stones scattered on the ground, and I don't know what to do, in front of the boulder in the middle, there is a row of tortoiseshell beast bones on both sides of the stone tripod, Chu Ye roughly counted, up to twenty pieces. Each bone is engraved with words.
Oracle? Everyone was stunned, Chu Ye looked at these words, which were similar to the oracle bone inscriptions he had seen in books before, but he faintly felt that there was something different. Seeing the words on the skeleton, Lan Yucheng suddenly lost his calm, just like an explorer who saw a rare treasure, his whole body trembled slightly because of excitement.
"This, this is not an oracle bone, this is Xia Seal." Lan Yucheng's voice had a deep trill, as if he was a little overexcited.
But his words were exciting enough, even if Hu Lao was moved, no one could stop discovering the charm of Xia Seal.
As we all know, China's written records first came from the Shang Dynasty, but at present, most scholars believe that there was an official script in the Xia Dynasty, known as the Xia seal, because the writing system of the Shang Dynasty was in fact very mature, and this kind of writing civilization could not appear rashly, and there must be a process of evolution and perfection, so the Xia Dynasty did not have a written but unreasonable, unfortunately no written evidence of the Xia Dynasty has been found, and it has also become a controversial point in the archaeological community.
According to legend, the Xia Dynasty has a mellow penmanship and pays attention to symmetry, and the words of these bone armors in front of you also corroborate this rumor, and also explain why in the cave in front, stone tools and bronze tools will appear at the same time, the Xia Dynasty is still the early era of bronze civilization, and it is not uncommon to coexist with stone tools.
Chu Ye still found it unimaginable that if he came in along the lair of the white snake, there would be such an earth-shattering discovery, if he let the scholars in the cultural and archaeological circles know, I am afraid they would all go crazy.
Lan Yucheng carefully looked at the words on each pair of bone armor, and the emotions on his face that had finally calmed down became excited again, Chu Ye's face was full of surprise, and he couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Lan, do you know these words?" ”
But Lan Yucheng turned a deaf ear, as if immersed in the world of words, the ghost three made a boo gesture towards Chu Ye, and waited with everyone for Lan Yucheng to finish reading.
"Wonderful, wonderful, haha."
After reading it, Lan Yucheng clapped his hands and said loudly, his excited echo was transmitted in the empty cave, and everyone didn't seem to expect Lan Yucheng to be happy like this.
"Uncle Lan, what is written on this?" Xiao Jing asked suspiciously.
"I wrote the origin of these people in the cave, and I roughly understood it, so I will tell you about it. The person who left these words was a clan tribe in the middle of the Xia Dynasty, because of the defeat, the entire clan was scattered, and some people fled to this place with the clan Yigeri. ”
"At that time, this was still a primeval jungle with few people, and they accidentally discovered this cave from the lake, and hid in it to avoid being pursued. At that time, there were more than 2,000 people who fled here, and they did not want to become slaves of the Xia Dynasty, so they lived in this cave for a long time, until they were sure that no one was chasing them, and then slowly returned to live on the surface. ”
However, the blood in their bodies was cursed by the shamans of the Xia Dynasty, and in more than ten years, the clansmen began to die in large numbers, and before they died, they were extremely painful, as if there was something in their bodies to drill out, which also made them unable to return to their original tribe, so they could only bury here. By the way, there are still a few paragraphs in the stone ding, which are the most noble part of their clan, and the prophecy made by them, Ghost Three, you go and take it down. ”
This stone tripod is two meters high, carved on the tripod with a kind of long ears and tips, feet like a deer, neck like a snake, similar to the unicorn animal, the ghost three step by step, grasp the tripod along the hands to the tripod inside, hear a muffled sound, and soon jump out of the inside.
In his hands he held three black pyramid-shaped palm-thick bronze plates, on which were engraved the inscriptions of Xia Seal.
Lan Yucheng held the bronze inscription in his hand, different from the joy when he read the words on the bone armor, and at this time, the brows on both sides were tightly pressed together as if they had not been breached for a long time. Seeing him like this, Chu Ye couldn't understand that thousands of years of prophecy could make him feel like this.
Soon, his expression relaxed again, and he threw the thing to Oni San and said, "I thought it was a great prophecy, but it was just to appease everyone and some of his own fantasies." ”
Chu Ye couldn't believe it, because his appearance just now was not as easy as he said. But the others didn't seem to notice the change in his expression, and then Xiao Jing pointed to the bone armor and said, "Uncle Lan, just now you said that the person who left these words entered here from the cave in the lake?" ”
"Yes, this is indeed ......" Lan Yucheng's face changed suddenly, and Chu Ye immediately reacted.