Chapter 20: Eternal Time
"Ding Ding Ding, Ding Ding Ding", at 7:30 in the morning, the mobile phone next to the pillow rang on time.
"Meow... Meow... Meow..."The cat Xiaoqi heard the alarm bell and came to the bedroom door and called me gently.
Everything was still so familiar, and it was only when I saw the white T-shirt on the bedside table that I realized that I was in another parallel world.
"The Perseid meteor shower arrived as scheduled in the early hours of this morning, and many astronomy enthusiasts came to the Fangcun Mountain on the outskirts of the city to watch the meteor shower, so let's enjoy the beautiful meteor shower." I was sitting on the subway, listening to the familiar news, next to the unfamiliar Chen Xianglian, and I didn't talk to her again.
I was at a loss for the purple meteor, and I couldn't find any breakthrough, and I seemed a little helpless and frustrated.
"The People's Square station has arrived, please pay attention to the safety of the passengers who get off the train, and do not crowd when getting off the train."
Chen Xianglian stood up and was about to get off the bus. Seeing this, I also stood up, wanting to follow her to see what she did, and if I was lucky, I might be able to find any clues.
I followed her, because there were so many people in People's Square, and she couldn't detect me at all. In this way, I followed her out of the subway station and to the People's Square. She suddenly started running in small steps, probably about to be late.
I saw her walk quickly into a tall and majestic one-piece glass building, which turned out to be the C City Museum. Although it was only 9 o'clock and the museum had not even officially opened, there was a long queue at the entrance, a full 100 meters long.
Today is Wednesday, why are so many people queuing up to go to the museum, why did Chen Xianglian run in without even lining up, is she a staff member of the museum. With questions, I came to the front door of the museum.
I saw a tall electronic display standing at the entrance of the museum, which read: "The large-scale international touring exhibition "Eternal Time" is underway, and the public is welcome to visit it." This is followed by a description of the exhibition:
30,000 years ago, humans recorded time with scratches on wolf bones, 5,000 years ago the Sumerians used cuneiform to depict the circle of the moon, 3,000 years ago the Chinese recorded the transformation of the starry sky on oracle bones, 2,000 years ago the ancient Greeks used bronze tools to simulate the movement of time and space, 1,000 years ago the Arabs used astrology to predict tomorrow, 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci drew the true meaning of the universe, 300 years ago Newton used mathematics to calculate the trajectory of the stars, 100 years ago Einstein answered the question of time and space...
Here are the eternal pharaohs of ancient Egypt, here are the relics of the Buddha's nirvana, here are the underground legions of Qin Shi Huang, here are the resurrected crosses, here are the reborn Qurans, here are the strange sacrifices of the Sanxingdui people, the jade necklace of the Mayans sealed with time, the Mongolian belief in immortality, the universe behind Euler mathematics, the eternal heart of eternal glory...
This is an exhibition about eternity and time, bringing together many of the world's best, the intersection of civilization and the unknown, and the perception of time and space by human beings. Organized by UNESCO, the exhibition brings together the best cultural relics from famous museums around the world for a three-year world tour in major cities around the world.
The following are organized by a series of famous museums: the National Museum of Egypt, the National Museum of Iraq, the National Museum of India, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico, the Vatican Museums, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the British Museum, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Tokyo National Museum...
Finally, there is a series of museum names of Chinese organizers: Palace Museum, National Museum of China, Shaanxi History Museum, Sanxingdui Museum, Yinxu Museum, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museum, Dunhuang Museum, Jinsha Museum, Famen Temple Museum, Nanjing Museum, Hubei Provincial Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum...
I was stunned as I looked at the bizarre combination of museums on the screen, and the magical exhibition introduction. What kind of exhibition is this, this kind of exhibition will probably not be able to be held in my world in a hundred years, what kind of exhibition is this, it is completely the essence of human civilization. I was shocked that such a great exhibition would come to City C.
It seems that this parallel world is very harmonious, there can be such an exhibition, I can't help but run to the back to line up, Chen Xianglian can actually work in such an exhibition, it really makes me curious.
"Welcome to the large-scale international touring exhibition of "Eternal Time", this great exhibition will be on display in City C for a month, which is one of the only three exhibitions in the country, the reason why we came to City C is because City C is an important source of Chinese civilization, and has also witnessed the rise and fall of Chinese civilization for more than 3,000 years." A familiar voice reached my ears.
When I saw it, Chen Xianglian had turned into a museum docent, what a miraculous transformation. I hurried up and followed Chen Xianglian's team into the exhibition hall.
"Now in front of you is a Paleolithic wolf bone, you look carefully, the wolf bone is densely packed with a lot of small scratches, this is the ancient human method of recording the passage of time, but also the earliest human mathematics." The exhibition begins in the Stone Age, and the dim lighting makes the exhibition even more mysterious.
"What is presented in front of you now is the ancient Sumerian clay tablets that recorded the waxing of the moon and the change of the starry sky in cuneiform writing, the Sumerian civilization is the dawn of human civilization, the earliest human civilization, they used their wisdom to create the lunar calendar, the earliest writing cuneiform, this kind of writing is also the originator of modern Western writing." Chen Xianglian explained each exhibit with a voice.
"What you see now is the golden mask of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, which was worn by the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun after his death in the 14th century BC, made of 11 kilograms of pure gold, inlaid with precious stones and stained glass, and the forehead part is decorated with the god eagle and the cobra god, symbolizing upper and lower Egypt, and the beard hanging down below, symbolizing the god Osiris. The ancient Egyptians believed that people could be resurrected in another world and be resurrected in the other world by mummifying them after death. ”
Wow! This is the legendary Golden Mask of Tutankhamun! I was speechless.
Sanxingdui is the source of the Yangtze River civilization, one of the two major sources of Chinese civilization, and the most mysterious, peculiar and legendary civilization of Chinese civilization. Judging from the current archaeological evidence, the Sanxingdui civilization may have a special connection with the ancient Egyptian civilization at that time. "I looked at the exaggerated bronze and gold masks, although they were far less luxurious and detailed than the ancient Egyptian gold masks, but they also had a sense of déjà vu.
"Now what you see is the tortoise shell bone unearthed in Yinxu, Henan, there is the oldest written oracle bone inscription found in China today, and now we see this oracle bone records a magical meteor shower, 'Emperor Gui fifteen years, the stars are wrong, and the stars fall like rain at night' This is the earliest written record of meteor showers in our country." This reminds me of the purple meteor that trapped me in the cage of time and space, and I wish I could find the answer I was looking for in the long river of history.
"Now in front of everyone is the famous Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang, a soldier in armor ready to fight. Next to this is the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum unearthed Qin Shi Huang bronze chariot horse, the whole copper chariot and horse and the proportion of the real person is consistent, this is the earliest and most precise bronze chariot and horse unearthed, everyone should pay attention to the chain of driving the horse is made of gold and silver, can be called an artistic treasure. Qin Shi Huang pursued the art of immortality all his life, but finally died in a carriage on the way to find it. Qin Shi Huang created the greatest underground army to guard his eternal life underground. ”
"Now you see the sculpture of ancient Greece, the goddess Athena in ancient Greek mythology, she is the goddess of wisdom, but also the goddess of law and order, she taught weaving, painting, carving, pottery, animal husbandry and other skills to mankind. The eternal gods of ancient Greece have been passed down together with the ancient Greek civilization for more than 2,000 years, and finally achieved the glory of today's human civilization. ”
The exhibition hall is full of treasures of major museums, bringing together the essence of human civilization, and I can't help but feel the glorious civilization of mankind, as well as the supreme pursuit of the unknown and eternity from beginning to end. In this parallel world, the trajectory of human development has not changed at all, and it seems that this world has not been separated from my world for a long time.
After the Ancient and Classical Pavilion was a pavilion called "Spiritual Immortality", which seemed to be related to philosophy and religion, and I followed Chen Xianglian into it.