Chapter 6: Xianyundu

Xian Hongye's grandfather is called Xian Yundu, and he is over 90 years old if he is alive. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info His main life trajectory was in the early years of the Republic of China and the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Xian's family is a scholarly family, his ancestral home is Shandong, Xianyundu's father was a Confucian merchant in his early years, and he traveled between Yunnan and Sichuan, and then became an official during the Republic of China. When he received the "salt class" in Yunnan, he had his only son, Xianyundu.

Because Xianyundu was born in Guandu Town, Yunnan, his parents were happy, so they named it "Yundu" on the spot, which means Yunnan Guandu was born.

Later, the virtuous family found a monk to tell the fortune for the child, the monk said that the child Xianyundu has a "sharp spirit", and he must be single-minded in life and work, and he must be guided by the force, if the party of education will be able to make great achievements in a knowledge, but he should not be too obsessed with things, otherwise everything will not go well, and even die.

For this reason, Xianyundu's father educated his son according to the instructions of the old monk, let his son concentrate on his work, and deliberately cultivated his interests and hobbies, hoping that he would become a talent as soon as possible.

More than ten years later, Xianyundu really fulfilled the monk's prophecy and became a "specialist talent".

Xianyundu received an orthodox Confucian education in his early years, and later contributed to the study of literature and history, during his invasion of prostitution, regardless of politics, he devoted himself to preserving China's traditional cultural relics and relics in the war of the Republic of China, and was also the first batch of experts in New China to pay attention to "intangible cultural heritage".

Because of Xianyundu's research spirit in literature and history, he later successfully studied and worked under the famous ancient architect Luo Zhewen in China, and was fortunate to have exchanges with Liang Sicheng, a master of literature and history in China, and it can be said that the future is very good.

But at this time, Xianyundu was involved in a "survival and abolition" dispute that shocked the Chinese literary and historical circles, and because of that controversy, Xianyundu's life trajectory was completely distorted and changed.

That controversy is the famous dispute over the existence and abolition of the "Beijing City Wall" in the history of Chinese cultural relics.

In that great debate, China's literary and historical elite was divided into two factions over the demolition and preservation of the Beijing City Wall.

One faction, led by Liang Sicheng and Luo Zhewen, believed that the Beijing city wall was a cultural relic and should be preserved. The other school believes that the city wall is a product of the feudal imperial system, symbolizing conservatism and backwardness, and should be resolutely demolished.

He forgot the teachings of his father and the old monk, and resolutely stood on the side of his teacher Luo Zhewen, shouting to keep the city wall and be willing to be a "horse forefoot".

Because of this, he offended many people.

In this way, these two groups of people argued about this issue for many years, and the final result was that the demolition faction "someone above" finally gained the upper hand, and the retention faction was beaten into the "cold palace".

And in the "Cold Palace", there must be a place for him to be virtuous!

At this time, because Xianyundu was a student of Luo Zhewen, he was very implicated, and he was also suspended for review, and the most important thing was that in the face of the government's "red-headed document", Xianyundu was still not convinced.

Xianyundu is young and vigorous, has no understanding of political ecology, thinks that his teacher and himself are right, and is still holding on to his naïve and lonely position...... Keep the walls without compromise!

In this regard, the leader talked to him specifically, talked bitterly, and took the "red-headed document" of demolishing the city wall to warn him "Don't ruin your future".

Faced with this established fact, Xianyundu sneered, took the red-headed document, tore it to shreds in front of him, and said to those powerful "leaders": "If the Beijing city wall is demolished, it will be fifty years later...... You are all sinners."

Because of this sentence, this virtuous talent was transferred from his research post overnight and left the noisy big city at the youngest age of his life.

Xianyundu was kicked by his boss into the deep mountains and old forests in the southwest to engage in "ethnic historical data investigation", and he stayed for more than ten years.

This kind of arrangement is simply "ruining people".

Anyone who has studied ancient Chinese history understands that there are two "deserts" on the map of Chinese literature and history, and they are "forbidden places" that neither archaeological nor cultural relics researchers are willing to touch.

These two deserts, one is northeast and the other is southwest.

In these two places, the national power alternates frequently, the central power is relatively weak, and the economic development has been backward for a long time, and the most important thing is that the literary and historical records have been missing for a long time, and many cultural relics have been destroyed in the war.

Figuratively speaking, the study of literature and history here is like a mess that cannot be sorted out. When you struggle to find a small "thread", maybe it suddenly breaks, or you have been working backwards for a long time, only to find that the thread is only as long as a thumb, and then ...... You're starting to look for it again.

Doing ancient history work in such a chaotic area may not be able to produce results in seven or eight years. Especially for an "old pedant" like Xianyundu, research results are life, and research for half a day without results is like killing him.

However, what is surprising is that Xianyundu, who is far away from the academic center, not only stayed in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, but also married a wife and had children.

In Yunnan, the place where he was born in the past, Xianyundu came into contact with the cultural relics of the ancient kingdom of Ailao for the first time, and gradually became interested.

…… Hearing this, I have some basic understanding of Xian Hongye's family affairs, especially his grandfather, but I still don't understand why Xianyundu is unknown because of his research on the ancient kingdom of Ailao. What kind of connection and story does he have with the skull-like flower?

Therefore, I asked Momiji, "Why did your grandfather end up with an unknown life and death?" What does it have to do with this 'Miaojiang Goddess Flower'? ”

At this time, Xian Hongye's wine spirit had already woken up for six or seven minutes, and her conversation box had already opened to me.

Therefore, she said to me without vomiting or unpleasantness: "Isn't it because my grandfather discovered a strange 'phenomenon' in the ancient country of Ailao? He is said to like to dig into the roots, but when he goes back and forth, he 'buries' himself ......."

It turned out that when Xianyundu was studying the ancient kingdom of Ailao, he suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon.

At first, he found that the "fire-swallowing and flower-eating" pattern symbolizing the "Su King" of Ailao was mainly concentrated in some areas south of Dianchi Lake to Ailao Mountain. The cultural relics are also mostly Han Dynasty watts, pottery, a small number of bronzes, and altars, which are short-lived, and then disappear in the long river of Chinese history along with the ancient country of Ailao. Like other short-lived dynasties, vanished without a trace.

But a few years after this discovery, Xianyundu's trip to Guizhou completely subverted his thoughts.

Because there, he once again saw this flower-shaped "totem", but the people of Guizhou did not care that it was called "Fire Swallowing Flower", but changed it to "Goddess Flower".

And on that trip to Guizhou, what shocked Xianyundu the most was that he not only found relics about this flower, but also saw "living" flowers.