Chapter 270: Loulan Ancient Coffin
According to Shichima's speculation, the light condensed after the light source used in the "Twelve Heavenly Gate Array" will disrupt and reorganize the material structure of all living organisms illuminated, dividing them into fine particles and scattering them in the air.
When the Great Array is broken and all decomposition is reversible, the scattered tissue structure will be reorganized, the object will be restored, and the broken tissue structure will be repaired at the same time.
"So, I'm okay with this hand?" He touched his hands lovingly, revealing an innocent smile.
The flickering lights continued to flicker, and now they had lost their purpose.
At present, they are only tools of illumination, and before that they were tools of murder with complex and profound mechanisms, destroying the flesh from invisible lamps.
The fat man said fearfully: "I'll go and destroy all these lights, lest one accidentally become invisible again." ”
Han Qingxin frowned: "Don't make trouble anymore, who knows what will happen when the lights go out." ”
"Yes, fat man, you should be honest." Zhu Beichen said.
Following the passage in the center of the lamp, the four of them passed cautiously one by one, for fear that the corners of their clothes would affect the lamp under their feet.
The inside of the dormitory was illuminated by the light, but even so, you had to be careful of the other mechanisms in the tomb.
Stop for a moment in front of the central white marble platform and take a closer look at this ancient Loulan sarcophagus.
The coffin is carved with animals of different shapes, which look like dogs in detail, with limbs on the ground and a pointed nose and mouth.
"It's a dog?" The stone carvings have no color, making it difficult to distinguish the specific animal species at a glance, Zhu Beichen asked suspiciously.
"I look like a fox." Han Qingxin also made a comment at the same time, about the ability to distinguish between figures, and she relied on a woman's intuition to bite this kind of species.
Common sense inferences that the general pattern of the coffin carving of the Han tomb is based on the identity of the owner of the coffin, there are carved flowers, birds, fish and insects, there are carved turtles and cranes and other auspicious rui, and most of the coffins of the emperor's tombs are mainly painted with dragons.
Due to the influence of Han culture, the nobles with status generally carved tribal totems and other patterns on the coffins after death.
Zhu Beichen understood this carving culture, and then asked: "Guloulan should be a country that advocates light, and the coffin carving should be the sun, how can a fox be carved?" ”
The fat man moved forward, wanting to get a closer look.
At this moment, the ground in front of the coffin "rumbled" and trembled, and a stone tablet as high as a human body suddenly broke out from under a crack in the ground, startling the fat man to hurriedly take a few steps back.
Everyone was surprised for a while, the dust in the dormitory was flying, and the stone inscription stood in front of the sarcophagus.
"You stand back, you fuse, what mechanism will hit you." Zhu Beichen pulled the fat man back a few more steps, this person's ability to find organs is really first-class, and he can touch the movement inadvertently.
"Hey, this is an ancient Chinese character!" Seven rooms touched the inscription on the stone tablet, and the handwriting was somewhat different from the simplified characters in the modern world, and it was much more complicated than the traditional Chinese characters in the Republic of China.
In general, as long as you read it carefully and then interpret it in context, you can basically interpret the general meaning.
Seven rooms read the stone carving from the right, read it line by line, frowned and looked slightly uneasy, and said: "The owner of this coffin is not a Loulan person, but a Han person, and his identity is unparalleled. ”
"Princess of the Han Dynasty!" Zhu Beichen has a deep foundation in Chinese studies, so he naturally does not need to explain seven times, and observes the inscription by himself, and he also roughly understands who owns this coffin.
The geographical location of Guloulan is relatively awkward in history, and it was sandwiched between the powerful Xiongnu and Han dynasties 2,000 years ago.
Therefore, its founding policy was sometimes capricious, when the Xiongnu were strong, it fell to the side of the Xiongnu, and when the Han Dynasty turned from weak to strong, it began to fall to the side of the Han family.
A small country is among the big countries, and there is no way to be at ease without two belongings, which is a true portrayal of the situation in Loulan at that time.
In the fourth year of Yuan Feng, 107 BC.
After King Loulan was defeated and captured, he was released by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, he changed the national policy, paid tribute to the Han Dynasty, and the envoy selected 100 Loulan beauties to enter Chang'an, asked for a thing and made a promise to be friendly with the Han family.
Emperor Wu agreed, and chose the princess to marry the king of Loulan. Therefore, the princess of the Han Dynasty went to Loulan with heavy treasures.
"This should be an epitaph, telling the life of this princess named Han."
Qijian read it word by word, and while explaining, he paused and continued: "However, what is the matter with the carving of a fox on the coffin, the Han Dynasty or Loulan has never had this kind of totem worship." ”
The fat man's eyes lit up when he heard it, especially when he heard the word "heavy treasure", he interjected: "Heavy treasure? After the dormitory, according to the layout, it is the side hall of the treasure, is there any written thing? ”
Han Qingxin said: "You are careful to take the lifeless flower, what matters now is how to get out." ”
"The identity of this princess seems to be a bit special, she ...... Not ordinary people. Shichima began to read the next inscription, the stone inscription engraved in small print, and the length of the content was staggering.
The princess is not an ordinary person, and her words aroused Zhu Beichen's interest, and any ancient history and culture is her own point of interest.
Although the number of princesses in the Han Dynasty was large, there were also names and surnames that were recorded in history, but there was no historical record of this princess named "Han", who was she?
"The mother is a Shuofang girl, with the art of fox, and the witch of time."
One sentence once again reveals the identity of this princess, her mother is a concubine from Shuofang, the princess was born with a bewitching and abnormal, and later practiced witchcraft.
"So the coffin is engraved with a fox, and it has something to do with this princess's foxy appearance?" The fat man asked.
"Perhaps, the word fox actually means that this woman is very beautiful, otherwise there would be no such sun tomb." Zhu Beichen guessed that this princess of the Han Dynasty was obviously favored by King Loulan, so she enjoyed this huge sun tomb after her death.
Shichima said: "Not necessarily, the construction structure of the Sun Tomb is huge, even if it is in the most prosperous period of Loulan, it is obviously unrealistic to spend the whole country to build such a mausoleum for a queen, and it should still have other uses." ”
"Just open the coffin and take a look, I'll also see how this 'Liu Han' looks." The fat man rubbed his palms, and he couldn't hold back his eagerness to try.
The three of them immediately became alert, and they all stared at the fat man, and Han Qingxin said, "Don't." As long as you have a lot to do, if you want to trigger any more traps, I'll be the first to cut off your groping hands. ”
The fat man glanced at him disdainfully, and said stupidly: "I'm also kind, this place is so big, and there is no door." Maybe there is a reward for opening the coffin, do you still expect to go back? ”
"Read on and see what this princess has done since she arrived in Loulan." Han Qingxin is meticulous, and he will never do rash actions before he knows the stone inscriptions.
Shichima nodded, and continued to immerse himself in translating the words, some of which had gradually become blurry due to their age.
Some passages cannot be translated in full due to unclear interpretations, differences in font proximity, etc.
In 108 BC, a major plague broke out in Loulan, causing the population of the Gobi to plummet and make it unable to resist the invasion of the Xiongnu.
At that time, the Han Dynasty was gradually becoming stronger, and several wars between the Han army and the Xiongnu were all victorious, so the king of Loulan took the initiative to befriend the Han Dynasty.
And I heard that there was a princess in the Han family who had Shuofang blood, who studied medicine and Taoism since she was a child, and was born with a natural and national color, so she asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to marry this princess.
That year in history coincided with the worsening of the witchcraft in the Han Palace, and the elderly Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suspected that someone was secretly plotting to kill him.
No matter who is close to each other, as long as they are involved with witches, they will all be imprisoned for questioning, especially for this princess named "Han", who is quite disgusted.
Just took the opportunity of Loulan's courtship, Liu Hanyuan married the king of Loulan, and the tombstone was engraved with resentful words: born in the emperor's family, disgusted by the supreme, the spring breeze tears wet sideburns drooping, and I knew that I would not return.
"The tombstone shows that the princess was a witch, so she was ostracized by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. No wonder she has not been recorded in the history books of later generations, it's really pitiful. ”
Han Qingxin sighed with regret, in ancient times, women were in a disadvantaged position in society, and their marriage was not up to them, and they even had to marry someone else.
"In 108 BC, the plague of Loulan?" Zhu Beichen was shocked and asked rhetorically.
Around the fifth century B.C., the ancient kingdom of Loulan suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from history, and there is no record between any historical materials and texts.
There is a saying that Loulan disappeared in the war, and when the kingdom of Loulan began to weaken, the northern powers invaded, and the city of Loulan was broken, and it was later abandoned.
It is also said that the ecological deterioration of Loulan such as decay and drought and water shortage, the upstream river was cut off and diverted, and people had to leave Loulan.
According to Sven Heding, who discovered the Loulan site that year, the cycle of Lop Nur migration from north to south is about 1500 years, more than 3000 years ago, there was a European tribe living in the Loulan area, and more than 1500 years ago, Loulan entered the era of prosperity again, which is directly related to the migration of Lop Nur.
The last statement, combined with what is recorded in this inscription, is extremely credible.
Loulan died of plague and disease!
The source of the plague came from 108 B.C., and Zhu Beichen pointed to the rest of the text after the seven chapters of the narrative and explained: "The princess was not optimistic about the growing plague situation, so she cruelly ordered the troops to burn the bodies of the dead and bury the sick and the living, but this did not stop the further spread of the plague." Later, the princess contracted the disease and died of this unknown epidemic. ”
After the death of the princess, the king of Loulan was saddened and ordered to bury the princess and put her in the mausoleum of the kings of Loulan in the past, so as to show the princess's merits to the people.
Of course, the princess's decades of efforts during the Loulan period were not without effect, and the spread of the epidemic was slowed.
In the following hundreds of years, the epidemic gradually spread to the cities of Loulan, and finally around the fifth century AD, Loulan was wiped out.
The arrival of the princess of the Han Dynasty has lasted for 500 years for Loulan!