I hurriedly asked where this pattern was found, and the next Feng Cheng told me that it was a long time ago, at that time I had not yet arrived at the Sifang pawnshop, and a group of nephews from the north came to Shuzhong to support the pot, and sent a post to Ye Jiuqing to worship the mountain according to the rules.

The place where the ground was broken was not far from the city, and Ye Jiuqing was not at ease, so he asked the general to bring people to follow, who knew that someone was sent back in a hurry in the evening, and asked Ye Jiuqing and the others to hurry over, and when they arrived, they found that what was dug out was actually a batch of rotten boats.

"Boat?" I was stunned, this was the first time I had heard of a grave digging and digging a boat.

"It's indeed a tomb, but there's nothing valuable in it, and the dug up ship is actually what we call a coffin, commonly known as a ship coffin, and this kind of burial is not a custom in our Central Plains." Ye Jiuqing nodded and said.

"The boat coffin is a burial tool for boat coffin burial, a canoe-shaped coffin burial tool in ancient times." Xue Xinrou said with a serious face. "The burial ship coffin was found in Sichuan in China, the era was from the Warring States period to the early Western Han Dynasty, and it was the burial custom of the Bashu people, and it was normal to find the ship coffin in Chengdu."

"I went to school." Zhao Yan looked at Xue Xinrou and said with a smile. "The ship coffin is a ship coffin, the ship coffin is a ship coffin, the two can not be confused, the batch of ship coffins found in the suburbs is the burial ship coffin, the boat coffin burial is indeed popular in Cuban Shu, but it is not the Bashu aborigines who use the burial ship coffin."

Xue Xinrou has rich experience in archaeology, but the three people standing in this room have dug more tombs in her life than she has read from books, and there are many things that Xue Xinrou can't learn in books.

Feng Cheng continued unhurriedly, and the industry had always thought that digging up the coffin was a bad luck, because the things that had been dug up with great effort were not valuable, and it was full of broken pottery and most of the rotten lacquerware, as well as a small number of scattered bronze fragments.

After the nephew left, the general took Ye Jiuqing and the others to the coffin, and painted a pattern on the side of the canoe, which is the pattern we see on the paper today.

Only then did they realize that the boat coffin burial they found was unusual, Ye Jiuqing re-examined the tomb, the boat coffin tomb was a narrow rectangular pit tomb, the time of burial was the Warring States Period, and the style of the cemetery maintained the characteristics of the Warring States Period, indicating that the tomb owner may have accepted and integrated into the ancient Shu culture.

However, among the burial goods found in the boat coffin tomb, they are different from the ancient Shu culture, indicating that in the core field of spiritual culture, the funeral customs still retain inherent religious beliefs, which can be judged that the tomb owner is not an aboriginal and a non-Shu tomb.

"The ship coffin burial in Shu is generally considered to be the most soul-carrying boat, and the funeral behavior is produced under the influence of the primitive religious concept of the immortality of the soul." Feng Cheng said to us solemnly. "This is very different from the Warring States Period, the ancient Shu funeral, we rubbed the pattern on the ship, and brought back the scattered burial goods in the tomb to check, on some bronzes, we found the symbol between the mind pattern and the text."

"Bashutu?!" Xue Xinrou was taken aback.

When I heard the clouds, when it came to visiting the tomb, there was something I didn't know: "What is the Bashutu language?" ”

Xue Xinrou hurriedly told us that she had seen in the literature that the Bashu Tu language, also known as Bashu symbols or Bashu graphic characters, is mainly distributed on copper weapons, copper musical instruments, copper seals and other utensils. The typical Bashutu language is tiger stripes, palm patterns, and pedicle patterns, among others.

Because its shape is very much like a decorative symbol, it was not initially considered as a text, but as archaeological work progressed, more and more similar symbols were discovered.

The archaeological community gradually discovered that this is a tool, family emblem, totem or religious symbol used by the ancient Bashu people to record language, which is a kind of hieroglyphic script and the prototype of the Bashu script.

It is inferred that the Bashutu language may have been produced in the period of the Enlightened Dynasty of the ancient Shu Kingdom, and more than 200 kinds of Bashutu languages have been discovered, more than ninety percent of which are engraved on bronze weapons, and the age is between the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, and it has lasted for up to 800 years.

"It's a pity that the Bashutu language has never been deciphered, and no one knows what these symbols mean." Xue Xinrou sighed.

I suddenly noticed that the three old things next to me were smiling proudly, I rubbed my chin and asked tentatively, "You can't decipher the Bashutu language, right?" ”

"Later, a lot of ship coffins and Bashu Tu were unearthed in Shuzhong, Zhiqiu came back and asked me, I didn't even say Zhiqiu about this, it was because of the relationship with Lingshan Jincheng, I even kept my own daughter." Ye Jiuqing nodded with a smile, looked at Feng Cheng and said. "You are the only person who deciphers the Bashutu language, and this matter has been held back in my heart for decades, and it is estimated that it has also suffocated you, so say it to them and let them have a long insight."

Feng Cheng actually smiled, he had studied all his life, and he had never seen him proud of his talents, but this time he was really proud, and slowly told us that the Bashutu language and the Xianju tadpole text had not been cracked, and he had only cracked part of the Bashutu language.

The owner of the tomb of the coffin is not the aborigines of ancient Shu, and the Shu land that migrated for some reason was gradually influenced by the ancient Shu culture, and finally did not slowly assimilate and integrate, but in terms of religion, it retained its own ancient culture.

This is an ancient tribe from the deep mountains, the tomb owner is far away from the homeland during his lifetime, he can't go back when he is alive, and he hopes to return to his roots after death, in the inheritance of this ancient tribe, the dead will sleep in the boat and return to his homeland.

"An ancient clan from the deep mountains?" Xue Xinrou lowered her head and thought about it, and said with a hesitant expression. "The formation of the boat coffin burial is an extremely long process, this burial custom is related to living habits, generally speaking, most of them live in the river vertical and horizontal, convenient for boating areas, boats are the indispensable means of transportation for people living there to engage in production and life, people are good at using boats during their lifetimes, and gradually form the burial system of boat burial after death, but since they come from the deep mountains, they have not been in contact with boats at all, how can they use boat coffins?"

"This also made me wonder for a long time, but judging from the Bashutu language on the burial goods brought back, it is indeed recorded that the tomb owner firmly believes that if he is buried in the coffin of the ship, he will be blessed by the gods and thus immortal." Feng Cheng said.

"Wait." I slowly stood up, walked a few steps back and forth in the room without saying a word, and then pointed to the patterns on a few cases. "Yin Die told us that these ornaments mind between the snake pattern and the dragon pattern, there is a place mentioned in the Book of Mountains and Seas, called Wu Xianguo, and the people here in the record handle the green snake with their right hand and the red snake with their left hand, which may be the prototype of this pattern."

"Yes, the Wuxian country mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is in Lingshan, so I speculate that Lingshan Jincheng should refer to this country that worships witchcraft."

Feng Cheng nodded and continued to say to us, in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the description of the Wuxian Kingdom of Lingshan is very special, and the witches of Lingshan are all using the medicine of immortality, which means that the wizards in Lingshan control the method of immortality, and there is a ladder in Lingshan, and the wizards go up and down from the ladder to the sky, proclaim the will of the gods, and reach the meaning of the people's feelings.

And about the Lingshan immortal medicine, there is another record in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, mentioning a divine beast called Tuyao, Tujiao is a snake body and human face, and was later killed, but was finally revived by the group of witches with the medicine of immortality, and the rescued Tujiao became the head of the dragon.

The cave is a snake body and human face, which is in line with the characteristics of the ancient tribe's worship of snakes, and the pattern painted on the coffin is vaguely in the shape of a dragon, which shows that this pattern has been inspired to change in the process of evolution.

"These accounts are not necessarily apocryphal, the person who the caravan met accidentally once said something about Lingshan, the people of Lingshan have a long lifespan, and at the same time a country where a man and a snake coexist, and worship the snake god." I said thoughtfully. "And this snake god is probably not a spiritual belief, the man said that he would rush back to Lingshan to participate in the sacrifice, he was to see the snake god again, it can be seen that this snake god is real."

"What do you mean?" Ye Jiuqing asked seriously.

I thought about it while walking, and finally stopped in front of Ye Jiuqing, in the record of the Book of Mountains and Seas, after the Lingshan group of witches rescued Tuyao, Tujiao became the head of a dragon, let's not talk about whether Tuyao really exists, but I can see the transformation of this ancient tribe's totem worship, from the beginning of the snake to the dragon, indicating that the Lingshan group of witches have seen dragons.

But the dragon is a rumored mythical object in the Central Plains, and the Lingshan Witches are not of the Central Plains race, and it is impossible for them to contact and identify with the culture of a different race.

An ancient tribe living in the mountains, who had never even touched a boat, would sleep in a boat after death, believing that in this way they could be blessed by the gods.

"For the God of their faith rests in the ship!" Gong Jue stood up and his voice was excited.

"Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat!" Tian Ji was also excited.

Right! It is the Moon Palace Nine Dragons Fang, this ship must have appeared in Lingshan, and anchored in Lingshan, so the people of Lingshan will have a long lifespan, and the appearance of the feather dragon directly led to the transformation of the Lingshan totem, from a snake pattern to a dragon pattern.

The people on the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace are worshiped as gods by the witches of Lingshan, and these gods will rest on the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, just like the ice coffin we found in the Golden Gate of Kunlun, so the people of Lingshan imitate the gods and are buried in a boat coffin after death.

The man said that the people of Lingshan used gold to build a palace for the gods, which was actually the dock where the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace was moored, thinking of this, I quickly asked Tian Ji to take out the map and spread it on the table, and there was also the location where we marked the appearance of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace before.

According to the map of the dragon veins of Kyushu found in the Vientiane Shrine, one of the dragon veins extends to the southwest, and the Lingshan may be just above this dragon vein, and if you find the Lingshan, you can find another mooring place in the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace.

"I didn't expect Lingshan to be related to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace." Ye Jiuqing was shocked, and looked up at me after being silent for a long time. "I know where Lingshan is."