Chapter 65: Murals
In ancient times, the ancestors of various parts of China were still in the tribal era, and there were constant disputes between tribes, and a war between tribes may be because of a prey.
At that time, the wisdom of the ancestors was still very low, and they could simply use some tools, and the big tribe "Shang" living by the Yellow River was the first to understand the bronze smelting technology.
Metal tools gradually replaced stone tools, and the overall strength of the "Shang" tribe certainly greatly exceeded that of some surrounding tribes, so an expansion war inevitably occurred.
The bronze arrowheads used by the "Shang" tribe, as well as the bronze made of Yue, are powerful forces.
The surrounding tribes soon fell, and of course, except for some who were exterminated, everything else was basically automatically attached.
The expansion of the "Shang" tribe was very fast, and it expanded to all parts of the Central Plains in less than a hundred years, so the "Shang" kingdom, which had not appeared at this point in time in the original time and space, appeared in this parallel time and space.
Perhaps the ancestor who invented bronze smelting did not know it, because his invention took history to another line.
As soon as he entered the apse of the Xuanmen, Wang Donghua got the answer he wanted to explore - one of the nodes that changed this time and space.
The answers are not in the form of words, but are depicted in vivid and realistic frescoes, like caricatures, on the walls leading to the apse.
This Xuanmen is worthy of being the first major sect of the Han Dynasty, not only the cultivation of true exercises is the best in the world, but also the study of history and culture and art is even more thorough, otherwise there is no way to depict such a detailed and accurate realistic mural in this era.
Seeing that Wang Donghua was so obsessed with these historical murals, the head of Buping was not impatient, although he had something to say to Wang Donghua in his heart, but he was not in a hurry, so he smiled and explained a little to some of Wang Donghua's incomprehensible murals.
In fact, Bu Ping's patience also has his purpose, so that Wang Donghua can better understand these historical knowledge, and it will be more convenient to communicate with Wang Donghua after a while.
Soon in the frescoes, the kingdom of "Shang" soon declined, and the reason for its decline was not because of the debauchery of the rulers.
Although the "Shang" kingdom has its leaders, the period when the "Shang" kingdom appeared was actually still in a clan society, that is to say, although the "Shang" kingdom invented metal tools, human living habits have entered the agricultural civilization from the picking civilization, but they are still used to living under the leadership of motherhood.
Perhaps it was the inevitable development of history, and this kind of rule was also the reason for the rapid demise of the "Shang" kingdom.
In the agrarian society, the importance of men is naturally increasing, which also makes the men in the "Shang" kingdom have huge ambitions, and the nobles in power are of course impossible to obey, so the **** of the "Shang" dynasty inevitably happened.
At first, the rebels had little hope of success, but after one of the rebels' defeats, a rebel leader led his men to get lost in a valley.
There was a blank space here in the mural, and the text appeared for the first time, of course, Wang Donghua couldn't understand these words, but Bu Ping next to him immediately gave the answer.
It turns out that the disappearance of these people is the beginning of the Xiuzhen era, but where did these people go? What happened in between? There is no record in history.
But in any case, this is another inflection point in this time and space, after listening to Bu Ping's explanation, Wang Donghua continued to read.
These first cultivators, who overthrew the Shang dynasty, quickly established a very powerful state.
Because they are cultivators, their abilities are even more extraordinary, and the territory they rule has also greatly increased, in the same period of the original time and space, in fact, the Han ancestors ruled the area of the Yellow River alluvial plain.
And in this time and space, after the establishment of this new dynasty called "Xia", the "Xia" dynasty actually expanded its territory to the entire Asian plate with its strong combat power.
If it weren't for the fact that the cultivation of these cultivators was not very high at the beginning, and they were unable to overcome the severe cold and the supply problem of no man's land, it is estimated that the entire Eurasian plate would be under the rule of these cultivators.
The timeline of the mural turned over more than 1,000 years, and Bu Ping explained that in these 1,000 years, those cultivators gradually cultivated to the realm of "detachment", and at the same time experienced the conflict between the secular and the cultivation, after all, after cultivating to a certain realm, secular things will become a kind of fetters of cultivation, so those masters of cultivation collectively made a decision, and since then the cultivation and the secular world have been separated.
So the rule of mankind returned to the hands of mortals, and in the following murals, Wang Donghua seemed to see that history was inertia back.
The rulers of the Xia Dynasty handed over the power in their hands to a person named Dayu, and Wang Donghua didn't know if this Dayu was the one in the original time and space.
The Dayu described in the mural was a very capable person among the nobles at that time.
Although he didn't have any magic power, he was involved in architecture, commerce, farming, medical care, etc., and he was a very versatile person, so those cultivators who handed over power naturally handed over the kingdom to him.
In this time and space, Dayu did not govern the water, but he was very good at governing the country, the Xia Dynasty developed rapidly under his leadership, and there were earth-shaking changes in less than fifty years.
However, Dayu is a mortal after all, and the biggest drawback of mortals is that the life span is very short, fifty years of time have passed in a blink of an eye, when Dayu is old, a vice of human beings has not changed through the ages in Dayu.
Dayu did not cede his power to the capable people like those cultivators, but handed over the ruling power of the dynasty to his children and grandchildren.
There are many descendants of Dayu, although the glorious period of fifty years is said to be strong, but people's ambitions have also swelled, the people who inherit the power of the "Xia" dynasty, the ability is not very outstanding, so these descendants of Dayu began to split, and the "Xia" dynasty that unified the Asian plate was divided into hundreds of large and small countries.
In the following few hundred years, these countries continued to fight and annex each other, and the entire Asian plate gradually formed a pattern of three major countries and dozens of small countries attached to the big countries.
Due to estrangement and strife, as well as the climatic and geographical conditions of each country, the three countries have formed different styles.
In the east, the "Chu" kingdom represented by the agricultural civilization is also the strongest among the three kingdoms, because most of the Xiuzhen sects are established in the territory of the "Chu" kingdom, and this is where the "Xia" dynasty is located, so both economy and strength are the first of the three kingdoms.
The other is the "Qin" kingdom standing in the northwest, where the people are fierce, mostly nomadic, because the climatic conditions are relatively harsh, so the economic strength is weak, but the "Qin" kingdom dares to fight, but it is not too much.
Finally, there is the "Ba" kingdom in the southwest, which has the most vast territory and occupies the most extensive land area, but it is sparsely populated and inhabited by different races, although the "Xia" people are nominal rulers here, but they cannot rule completely, so it is the most chaotic here.
Although the "Chu" kingdom wants to do so very much, and has the ability to capture the "Ba" kingdom, due to the barrier of the plateau, the "Chu" kingdom can only think about it.
If this stalemate continues, the "Xia" dynasty will only exist in name only, and the Xia people will still be the rulers of that era.
But seeing the style of the murals here changed suddenly, the original realistic style became very abstract murals, and there was only a single kind of blood red.
"The twilight ...... of the Xia people" Bu Ping said in summary before Wang Donghua could ask questions.