Chapter 102: Wadan
The big yellow duck fell short with a wave, and the pipe hit the dry and hard ground, and I shouted like this, I had calmed down a little, and scolded: "You bastard is enough damage." The lazy hand on his waist finally hung down, and said lightly: "I am here to save you, you are not grateful to me, but you do it to me, is it too kind to take revenge?" ”
Hu Ye said loudly: "Okay, don't fight." He then said to the big yellow duck: "If you are not angry, how can you blame others." It's getting late, don't delay here, let's do it. "I can see that Hu Ye seems to be teaching the big yellow duck a lesson, but in fact he is calming things down, and it seems that his grandfather does not approve of continuing to stay in this strange cemetery.
At this time, the lazy man yawned, and looked straight at the center of the cemetery, and there was also a stone tower in the center, as if symbolizing the status of the person, which was much higher than the surrounding stone towers, and even the materials had to be more elegant.
I snapped into the beard.
Obviously, the bearded man is also a soft zongzi, he keeps saying that he is a cultivator, so his status should not be low, this largest stone tower, could it be his failure? The lazy man walked towards the stone tower and said, "Don't you think it's strange that there is a cemetery in the deep mountains? Or is it because your alertness is too low? Don't you want to know, who left these cemeteries? Maybe it has something to do with what we're looking for. ”
Hu Yehu said with a face: "The map is in our hands, and there is still a day to go before the destination, so now is not the time to be more serious." ”
The lazy man asked rhetorically, who can guarantee that the information on the map is true? Didn't even Bai Sanye say that this clue is not certain, let us act on our own? Hu Ye was speechless by these words, so he could only shake his head and motioned for us to follow.
At this time, the tofu was also finished, and he twisted his pants and quickly followed, and when he saw our position, he couldn't help but scream: "I said, how many benefits has Bai Sanye given you, is it worth your toss like this?" The lazy man didn't reply, and said slowly: "Then what benefits did the third master give you two to make you work so hard?" "Tofu choked for a while, and I found that the lazy guy was just too lazy to talk, and he had to be diligent, and he could really choke people to death.
Thirty or forty steps away, we reached the central stone pagoda part, on one side of the stone pagoda there is a fan half a person high stone tablet, embedded in it, carved with dense Tibetan script, for the text on it, it is estimated that except for lazy goods, no one understands. Sure enough, the lazy man squatted down and began to look at the contents of the stele, and after a moment, he said to himself that it was so.
When Tofu heard this, he immediately squatted down and asked, "What is this?" What's written on this? ”
"You guessed right, a long time ago, there were people living in this mountain, a group called 'Wadan', and this is their last cemetery. Tofu looked at the surrounding stone towers and said, "The last cemetery?" If there was once a community here, are these graves too few? Where did the tile single go afterward? ”
The lazy man glanced at the tofu and told us about the contents of the stone tablet.
How many years ago did Wadan exist, there is no clear record on it, but according to the written information and religious information, the Wadan people should also belong to the Tibetan nation, the culture is similar to the Tibetan nation, although it is located in the mountains, but there has been contact with the outside world, the people of Wadan also practice, they also believe in the Buddha, but there are some differences with Tibetan Buddhism, it can be said that it is a separate culture, but unfortunately, this culture has long disappeared, and even if it were not for us to find these stone pagodas, I'm afraid it will never be known.
Wadan people have lived here for generations, but compared with the traditional Tibetans, they are more inclined to sinicization of corpses and reverence, in Wadan, there are only tower burials and cremation, as for water burials, earth burials or sky burials, they are not zài, which is disrespectful to the dead.
Generally, most of the ethnic groups that attach too much importance to the dead have ancestor worship, and Wadan is a typical ancestor worship group. According to the inscriptions on the stele, they originally belonged to the Tibetan people. Historically, the Tibetan people have been in a state of extreme chaos for a long time, and the lives of the Tibetans at the bottom are very difficult, often struggling on the verge of life and death. In order to survive, the Tibetans urgently need to form an alliance, and the objects of the alliance are naturally their own brothers and sisters.
As a result, the Tibetan people derived the polyandry system that has been handed down to this day, of course, this phenomenon has decreased a lot, but it still exists. It is often that several brothers will marry the same woman in order to form an alliance and protect their property and territory, and in ancient times, there was no such thing as a paternity test, so the child was born and did not know whose it was, anyway, it may be his own, so he naturally had to treat it well. This unclear relationship has instead become a bond that binds a large family together, making them tenacious in the vast and sparsely populated altitudes of the mountains.
Otherwise, according to the conditions in ancient Tibet, if everyone was divided into countless small families, life would be extremely difficult.
Wadan is also a Tibetan sub-ethnic group, and because he could not bear the long-term turmoil in Tibet, he moved into this place under the leadership of a 'Bawo'. Bawo, Tibetan means hero, this Bawo is the leader of Wadan, and after his death, he also used the highest standard of tower burial.
Of course, the stone pagoda we see now is actually the product of cremation, and the real tower burial is a cast tower, and the body must be preserved.
Watan retains the traditions of the Tibetan people, so it is normal for polyandry or close relatives to form alliances in Watan, so that due to blood relations, some deformed children will be born, and most of these children will often die young. Many of the small stone towers we see on the periphery are deformed children who have died young.
At this time, I remembered the child I saw last night, and suddenly realized that it was probably a child who died of abnormal brain development, because of its large head, but we didn't pay attention to it last night.
Tofu said: "I know that I will give birth to deformed children, why are they still intermarried?" ”
I said, "The ancients didn't know this, they thought it was 'retribution for iniquity', so their religious beliefs were even more firm, believing that only by atonement for sins in this life can they resolve retribution." The lazy man nodded slightly, yawned and said, "So Wadan is also a group whose religion is higher than one qiē." ”
According to the stele records, the later ethnic groups of Wadan became weaker and weaker, firstly, because of the deformity, and secondly, because most of the energy was spent on religious activities, and naturally there was nothing to produce, so later, the ethnic group once declined to almost extinction.
However, the survival ability of human beings is strong, and they eventually survived tenaciously.
Until an accident occurred that changed the fate of this race.
This change is legendary, so we can't tell if it's true or not. According to the inscription on the stele, the great Depa lord of Wadan, Dadhara, had a premonition that a disaster was coming, so he gave the order for the people to relocate.
In an extreme religious environment, no one would object to such an order, no matter how absurd, so Washan said goodbye to his homeland in tears and prepared to move. However, just a few days later, on the night, without stars and moons, the people of Wadan did not have time to move, and disaster came.
That night, in the darkness of the night, I suddenly remembered a sound like a drum, and then the stars and moon in the sky dimmed. The ground suddenly began to tremble, and then evil spirits crawled out of the ground. These demons slaughtered Watan and turned it into a living hell.
The leader of the demons was a skinless man, and after devouring the living, they continued to devour the dead and headed towards the stupa of Pawo. In order to prevent the evil spirits from offending Bhawo, Pa Zhu Da La followed, and with the power of the Buddha, opened a crack in the earth, pushing the evil spirits back into hell, and he himself was sacrificed.
The remaining Watdans, who had buried the last of the dead, including their patriarch, the owner of the tallest stone tower, moved out of the place.
So, this is the last graveyard of the tile single people.
As for what happened to the Wa Shan after they moved out, no one knows.
The previous record is understandable, but the later record of the evil ghost is too nonsense, and we look at each other and only feel puzzled.
Tofu muttered, "Is that living Buddha so awesome that he can tear a crack in the earth?" Ancient people were very smart, the only bad thing is that they like to exaggerate, and they don't start from reality in everything, which is really bad. ”
I said, "It seems that the cultivator we met last night, Ba Cheng is the last patriarch of Wadan, and that child may be a deformed child who died young, and they didn't hurt us, so I don't think I can care about it." ”
At this moment, the sky was already bright, and as soon as Tofu heard that those were deformed children who died young, his sympathy suddenly flooded, and he nodded busily and said, "Let's go, let's go, don't worry about these dead people." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the lazy man suddenly pulled out the probe shovel from his equipment bag.