The above story took place between March and April 1979, which was the prelude and cause of the Yunnan expedition thirty years ago. According to Duan Yuwen's account, after Qin Guiren and the other three people witnessed a young woman walking out of the bronze coffin, because they could not get a reasonable explanation, the three of them quietly left the Miao ancient village in a panic and surprise.

Qin Guiren knew in his heart that this series of things was definitely not trivial, and if it was not done well, it might become a major discovery in the country, so when they were evacuating from the mountains and forests, the three of them secretly made detailed marks.

Later, the three of them went north along the Lancang River and soon found their way home. Back in the army, they went through an interrogation investigation, because the military wanted to make sure that they did not become deserters during the war, and after a series of complicated interrogations, Qin Guiren and they were awarded different ranks of medals.

After that, another year passed, and the three of them were discharged from the army and demobilized one after another, and began their own lives, but the three of them never forgot the strange experiences that happened on the border of Yunnan.

Qin Guiren has tried to tell these things to relevant professionals, but because many of the plots in the story seem too bizarre, many people do not believe their experiences. However, there is one thing that can be used as evidence of this series of strange experiences - that is, the bronze bottle that Qin Guiren secretly took out of the village.

He tried to send photographs of the bronze bottles to some of the most famous historians of the time, but all the photographs and letters sent were lost. Until one day, a man named Wang Chengbao wrote a long letter to him.

Wang Chengbao first expressed his attitude in the letter - he fully believed in the various experiences of Qin Guiren and others in Yunnan, and hoped that Qin Guiren could take him to the ancient Miao village to do a detailed investigation.

In this narrative, Duan Yuwen was a little vague, because, according to Qin Guiren's own recollections, he did not remember that he had sent a letter to a person named Wang Chengbao. So, how did Wang Chengbao learn about Qin Guiren's experience? This is also something that my father and Duan Yuwen are very confused about, but I don't care about it, I just want to know what happened during the Yunnan expedition, so Duan Yuwen continued to tell the story that happened next:

Without further ado, under Wang Chengbao's planning, a five-person investigation team completed the first meeting in a short time.

It was in a teahouse in Chengdu, Sichuan, and the Qin brothers showed the bronze bottle to Wang Chengbao to see.

Wang Chengbao picked up the bronze bottle and put it in his hand, first checked it, tried the weight, and then looked at the pattern carved on the bottle, and passed it to my father, saying, "Brother Fan, take a look." ”

Although Wang Chengbao specializes in history, he also has a certain understanding of archaeology and cultural relics identification, which is very similar to my father.

My father picked up the bronze bottle, he looked at it much more carefully than Wang Chengbao, and nodded and said, "Old Wang, you are right, this bronze is indeed some years old, at least two thousand years old. ”

When the Qin brothers on the side heard this, their eyes lit up and asked: "Two, you are both professionals, and we brothers are both rough people who don't understand anything, you see, how much can this thing be worth?" ”

When Wang Chengbao and my father heard this, they looked at each other and smiled, and replied: "Although this thing is old, the shape of the vessel is mediocre, and there is nothing unique, and today's domestic archaeological activities are in full swing, and bronzes like this are actually very common, if you sell them, you can naturally sell them, but they are not worth much." ”

When the Qin brothers heard this, they seemed a little lost. Although their questioning may seem a bit mundane, it is the reaction that a normal person should have.

My father returned the bronze bottle to Qin Guiren and said, "Extrapolating from the age, it should be something from the ancient Dian Kingdom." ”

When the Qin brothers heard this, they looked at each other, they could recite the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties that had unified the Central Plains of China, but they did not have a clear understanding of what the ancient Dian Kingdom was.

So, my father gave them a detailed explanation:

More than 2,000 years ago, along the banks of Dianchi Lake, there was an ancient slave kingdom formed by many ethnic minorities in Yunnan, which Sima Qian called "Yunnan" in the "Historical Records".

Although the territory of the ancient Dian Kingdom was not as large as that of the Western Han Dynasty at that time, it was also a vast kingdom at that time, and its territory roughly included all of present-day Kunming City, most of Qujing, Yuxi, Honghe Prefecture, Chuxiong Prefecture and part of Wenshan Prefecture.

The history of the ancient Dian Kingdom was born in the early Warring States period and disappeared in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The reason why the ancient Dian Kingdom disappeared in the early Eastern Han Dynasty is because from the first century AD, the mysterious and ancient Dian Kingdom disappeared, and people do not know why it disappeared, let alone where the people of the ancient Dian Kingdom went, in short, the entire Dian Kingdom disappeared in the long river of history.

It is worth mentioning that in the entire history of the ancient Dian Kingdom, the first unified dynasty was actually established by a Han Chinese. Between 300 BC and 280 BC, Zhuang Ji, a general of Chu, was ordered by the king of Chu to lead his troops to attack the Dianchi region. Unexpectedly, Sima Cuo, the general of the Qin State at that time, seized the Qianzhong County of the Chu State, cutting off Zhuang Ji's retreat, causing Zhuang Ji to lose contact with the Chu State. After the angry Zhuang Ji led his troops to repel Sima Cuo's troops, he simply changed his system and spread the Central Plains culture to the central Yunnan region on a large scale.

Of course, it is a bit far-fetched to draw such a conclusion from the age of a bronze bottle alone. However, there is another historical fact that can also be used as a powerful evidence, that is, the bronze culture in the southwest region has almost become the historical card of the ancient Dian Kingdom. The worship of bronze by the people of the ancient Dian Kingdom is almost crazy, they not only make the bronze tripod that is obviously rich in the Central Plains culture, and some other bronze utensils and bronze weapons, many of their handicrafts are also cast by bronze, such as the production skills of copper drums and copper cases are also perfect and cannot be underestimated.

Many people believe that it was Zhuang Ji's entry into Yunnan that brought the Central Plains culture into southern Yunnan that enabled the rapid prosperity of Yunnan, but the actual situation is that long before Zhuang Ji entered Yunnan, the ethnic minorities in central Yunnan had already entered the bronze civilization. In 1955, there was an unexpected archaeological activity in China to bring the ancient Dian Kingdom back to light, and even found the famous "Seal of the Dian King".

However, the "Seal of the Dian King" was not something to be proud of for the subjects of the ancient Dian Kingdom, because it was a sign that they were subservient to Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty at that time.

The Qin brothers listened to my father and Wang Chengbao talk about the history of the Dian Kingdom, and for a while they were dumbfounded. After the last moment, Qin Guiren interrupted: "Both of you, you are both experts, you don't need to tell me anything too detailed, I just want to know who those villagers are, that's all." ”

Of course, neither my father nor Wang Chengbao were the kind of people who liked to flaunt their knowledge, and there was a reason why they told the history of the Dian Kingdom. Neither of them was disdainful of studying established historical events, especially Wang Chengbao, who had an unusually strong passion for the mysteries of history, and when he persuaded my father to come with him to Yunnan, he made a bold speculation in front of my father.

My father said: "Just now we both said that the ancient Dian Kingdom was originally a slave kingdom composed of different ethnic groups, and the first king of this was a foreign Han Chinese, although Zhuang Ji was later elected as the king of the Dian Kingdom, but it cannot be ruled out that there are still some other ethnic minorities in the central Yunnan region who do not obey Zhuang Ji's orders. ”

Wang Chengbao continued with my father's words: "Therefore, at the time of the founding of the Dian State, it is very likely that a group of Dian people left the central Yunnan region due to dissatisfaction. ”

Qin Guiren took a sip of tea, and still didn't seem to understand what Wang Chengbao meant.

Wang Chengbao has a ruffian aura on weekdays, and he couldn't help but get impatient at the moment, and said: "Oh, it's really an elm head to be a soldier, and I've said it all here, why don't you understand?" In short, Brother Fan and I agreed that the village you found was most likely the remnants of the ancient Dian Kingdom. ”