Chapter 18: Give a thumbs up
Outside the cave, there was still heavy snow, and there was already a thick layer of ice on the river, and few people from the tribe went out now, and if you stood outside and looked at it, it was all white.
The cave is on fire, and the atmosphere is different from what it used to be.
After installing the ice cubes, the cave is much brighter, and there is no need to blow cold wind, this feeling makes the children in the cave very novel, and they are in an abnormal state of excitement for two days in a row, around the fire, look at the words on the stone wall, and discuss with each other.
Shao Xuan wrote all the words on the animal skin scroll left by the old hunter who was in charge of teaching on the stone wall, and there was light that penetrated during the day, and the words on the stone wall could be clearly seen without lighting a fire. After learning this, the old hunter won't have to teach from scratch every time he comes.
Unlike others, Shao Xuan has been staying in that stone room for the past two days, except for when he was eating, carefully wiping off the stone powder on the stone room wall.
The sundries in the stone room have been transferred to other places by Shao Xuan, and the paintings painted on the stone walls occupy a fairly large area.
Finally cleaned up the last corner, Shao Xuan straightened up and took a deep breath, moved his sore hands and feet, took a few steps back, and looked at the paintings on the stone wall with the light that came in.
The light is not bright, and the paintings in some places are not very clear, so Shao Xuan still has to use torches to see clearly.
In addition to the paintings in the two places that Shao Xuan saw at the beginning, there were some paintings that surprised Shao Xuan even more.
The painting also deals with farmland and animal husbandry, the people who work in the fields, the people who drive the sheep with whips......
Men in fur coats holding small, fancy wine glasses, and groups of women picking in baskets......
There were even people on horseback. There is a picture of an adult running on a horse with a child.
There is also a painting of battle or hunting next to it, which is longer than the other paintings, taking up almost half of the left wall, and in front of the painting there is a tall horse, and immediately there is a warrior wearing a long feather ornament and a physique that is obviously stronger than the other mounts, with a high chest and a very imposing appearance, which should be the leader of these people.
Behind the strong warrior there were several horsemen galloping behind. There are some ...... next to it Wolf?
No, that's not a wolf.
Compared to Caesar's, the animals depicted have long and warped tails, with several of them curling upwards. It's a hound, right?
Some of the hounds had their mouths bared and seemed to be panting, while two of them were tilting their heads sideways towards their riders, as if listening to someone.
The background of these paintings also painted some buildings, and those buildings are higher and bigger than what Shao Xuan saw in the tribe, although I heard that the houses where people live in the mountains are much better than those near the foot of the mountains, but Shao Xuan simulated in his mind according to the information he heard, even the houses where those people live on the mountains are probably not as good as painting these mansions.
Looking back at the painting I saw at the beginning, the woman wearing an ornament on her head, not in the same simple and crude style as the ornaments worn by the women of the tribe today, but more elaborate and exquisite, as for the jar that the woman was holding......
Those jars with complicated patterns and styles, if they were not stone jars, Shao Xuan thought of a possibility - pottery.
How long have these paintings been there?
If it is about the same time as the age of the excavation of this stone chamber, how can it be hundreds of thousands of years?
Thousands of years ago, there was animal husbandry, breeding and other agriculture, as well as pottery, hunting tools were more than now, and even brought hunting dogs, which were real hunting dogs, not bitter wolves like Caesar who were brought back by chance!
Shao Xuan suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to watch.
The paintings on the left wall are markedly different from the ones on the right. In the middle of the place separating the left and right, Shao Xuan couldn't understand what was being painted, it was too abstract, it looked a little messy at first glance, and Shao Xuan couldn't guess from the front and back paintings. However, it is obvious that after this period of painting, the style of the painting seems to have suddenly dropped from the previous vigorous and confident to a state of depression, and many of the paintings have a sense of desolation.
The woman who knelt on the ground and cried, the child who stood on the ground and didn't know what to look at, seemed to be infinitely dazed, and the background picture was not those big mansions, but the hole where Shao Xuan was now.
There was no more agriculture and livestock, no more herds of women carrying baskets to collect, no more riding archery, no more hounds, no more pottery that was much more elaborate than stone......
Whether it is on the left stone wall or the right stone wall, there is a sign above the carved painting - the totem of the tribe.
The totems of the Flamehorn tribe look like the two horns of a two-horned rhinoceros, except that the horns are longer and have flames, just like the name of the tribe.
So, what is depicted on this is the Flame Horn Tribe?
Shao Xuan recalled what the classmate who studied archaeology in his previous life said: murals and rock paintings are generally used to depict the life of people in that era, or the things that people fantasized about and hoped for at that time, and they were also a kind of spiritual sustenance for human beings at that time.
The paintings carved on this stone room are certainly not imaginary things, and the feelings revealed in the carved paintings are too strong, and the real experiences and things will arouse people's deeper and deeper, richer, and heavier emotions.
What did the tribe encounter?
Act of God?
**?
Or both?
At the end of the stone wall on the right, there are many palm-sized patterns drawn, and these patterns are very different in style, such as the one on the upper left, which looks like a spider resting on the web, and the one on the right that is a bamboo or something plant, and there is only one thing like a mask, looking at that crazy ......
These patterns have plants, animals, and all kinds of things that Shao Xuan can't imagine what they are.
When Shao Xuan was studying these murals, someone outside called him.
"Ah Xuan, Uncle Ge is here! Ah Xuan come here!"
The other children in the cave have little interest in the depths of the cave, in the years they have lived in the cave, except for going to a special place in the cave to pee and, they will not go deeper to study, they have seen those places once and are not interested, so the child who shouted Shao Xuan did not go this way, but shouted directly.
After coming back to his senses, Shao Xuan realized that today seemed to be the day when he delivered food.
Ge also sent food for three days at one time this time, when Shao Xuan saw him, there was still a lot of snow on the fur that Ge was wearing that had not melted, but Ge didn't care at all, his eyes were staring at the vents filled with ice, and he was still fiddling with those stone plates in his hands, obviously he didn't expect that there was still this thing in the cave, since he was in charge of delivering food, the cave has been dark in winter. He had heard people mention that there was something like this in the cave before, but he never saw the children in the cave use it, and coupled with the situation in the cave before, he didn't have much to do, and he didn't expect to be able to see it now.
Let the other children in the cave help "unload", now that the food is sufficient, the children in the cave did not compete when they saw it as they once did, after hearing Shao Xuan's words, they all went over to help, and then Shao Xuan distributed it according to the group, as for how to divide each group, he didn't have to worry about it.
Today, Shao Xuan didn't let Ge leave immediately, but pulled Ge and asked him to tell the children in the cave about the tribe, anyway, there was nothing else to do after Ge sent food.
Shao Xuan just wanted to learn more from Ge to see if he could connect it with the paintings on the stone wall, but unfortunately, what Ge talked about was similar to what Shao Xuan had heard from Lang Ga and them, and there was nothing he wanted to know.
Holding the charred branch and drawing a pattern on the ground, Shao Xuan knew that Ge glanced here a few times, and it was obvious that he saw what he was drawing, but there was nothing abnormal, obviously Ge didn't recognize this pattern.
Shao Xuan painted one of the last patterns of different styles on the stone wall on the right side of the stone room, Ge can be regarded as an old qualified warrior in the tribe, he doesn't know this pattern, Shao Xuan sighed in his heart, it seems that he wants to know more about the things painted on the stone wall, it is a little difficult.
In fact, at the end of the painting on the stone wall on the right side of the stone room, under those patterns with different styles, there is another sentence, but Shao Xuan has a few words that he doesn't know, and he can't connect a sentence.
Although Shao Xuan can say that the words here can be said smoothly, many words are still relatively unfamiliar. Counting the time when the old hunter came over next time, Shao Xuan learned those words and asked again when he had the opportunity.
After another ten days, the old hunter finally came down the mountain again and came to the cave.
Surprised to see the changes in the cave, and to check that the children in the cave had indeed understood a lot, the old hunter was very happy, and took out a skin roll again to teach something new.
In the free time of teaching, Shao Xuan asked him for a few words, not all of which were on the stone wall, but mixed with other words, Shao Xuan just didn't want the old hunter to suspect him.
However, it turned out that Shao Xuan thought too much, and the old hunter was very interested in teaching people, but the others didn't think much about it, just thinking that Shao Xuan had seen these words from others, so he was quite interested in teaching Shao Xuan to identify them one by one.
After the teaching, the old hunter also praised Shao Xuan with appreciation: "These words are well written and have momentum!
Shao Xuan just smiled and didn't speak. The words that were praised were written by him in imitation of the words on the stone wall, and they were not completely copied as they were, but because they were written according to them, they also brought some of the charm and momentum of the original work.
In this way, the person who paints and writes in the stone chamber should also be a warrior, and may also be very capable.
When the old hunter left, Shao Xuan wrote all the words in the animal skin scroll left by the old hunter on the stone wall for the children in the cave to review, and he came to the stone room again.
After recognizing the words, Shao Xuan finally knew what was written in that sentence.
"One day, we will return to where we were. The glory remains, and the flame of the horn will never be extinguished. ”
There is also a "like" character behind these words, which is probably the name of the owner of the stone chamber and the person who carved and wrote this sentence on the stone wall.
The last sentence is engraved very deeply, deeper than other paintings, especially the last few words, which shows how strong the other party's feelings are when he writes this sentence.
Although I don't know why the murals here were later painted with stone stucco, Shao Xuan is still very grateful and admired for the paintings here and the people who wrote these words.
From that sentence, it can be seen that the situation of the other party, or the situation of the entire tribe, is not good, and even desperate, but the other party has not given up.
No matter how desperate the situation is, as long as you live, as long as the tribe is still there, it means that there is still hope.
Shao Xuan took the charred branch and drew a thumbs-up stick figure behind the word "like".
One more thumbs up to you.
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Tomorrow's double shift, I'll sleep first today.
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