and so on,

Speechless,

After the great overness of this place,

I pinched my nose,

Follow him into the next room.

Surprisingly,

This room is brilliantly lit,

Two huge stone statues stand right in the center of the room.

We cautiously walked around to the front of the two statues.

Looking up,

Obediently,

It's huge,

Each one is as tall as three floors,

Just stood straight on the ground.

I stared for a while,

Suddenly I felt that this thing seemed to be a little familiar,

Take a second look,

No way

Isn't this the one I saw when I accompanied Manman to visit the museum last year......

Tomb Beast?!

The so-called tomb beast,

Refers to a kind of spiritual weapon.

The ancients believed that there were all kinds of wild ghosts and evil spirits in the underworld that would endanger the ghosts of the dead.

Therefore, the purpose of setting up the tomb beast is first of all to ward off evil spirits and protect the peace of the souls of the deceased.

According to the official version, the tomb beast has a beast face, a human face, and antlers, and is a kind of dark weapon set up to suppress ghosts and monsters and protect the souls of the dead from intrusion.

"Zhou Li" records that there is a monster called the elephant, which eats the liver and brain of the dead; There is another divine beast called Fang Xiangshi, which has the ability to expel elephants.

Therefore, the family often ordered Fang Xiang's family to stand on the side of the tomb to prevent the intrusion of monsters.

It is also said that this kind of Fang Xiang's family has four gold-colored clothes, covered with bear skin, wearing red clothes and black pants, riding a horseyango, and hitting the four corners with Ge in the tomb to drive Fang Liang and the elephant.

Fang Liang is also a demon that endangers the dead, and people use the power of Fang Xiang's clan to drive them away, so some scholars believe that the custom of using tomb beasts evolved from the legend of "Fang Xiang's clan".

Some people also speculate based on the double horns on the head of the early tomb beast that the tomb beast should be related to "warding off evil spirits", "spirit gods", "Shibo" and so on.

According to the investigation of archaeological discoveries, the tomb beast was first seen in the Chu tomb of the Warring States period, which was popular from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and gradually disappeared after five dynasties.

The production of the tomb beast was wooden, bone, and pottery very little in the early days, and later it was mainly pottery and Tang Sancai. Metal and stone objects are extremely rare.

In the tombs of the Chu State, hundreds of wood carving tomb beasts used to ward off evil spirits have been found. The period ranges from the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period to the middle and late Warring States period.

From the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States period, most of them were single-headed singles, and the styles and numbers in the middle of the Warring States Period were the largest, with two categories: single-headed singles and double-headed doubles.

The most famous is a double-headed "tomb beast" unearthed from the No. 1 tomb of Gangneung Tianxingguan,

The back-facing double-headed curved necks are connected, and the two beast heads are carved into a deformed dragon face, with huge eyes and long tongues to the neck.

A pair of giant antlers are inserted at each end, and the four antlers are full of weight, and the imagery is extremely strange and vivid.

After the whole body is painted with black paint, it is painted with red, yellow and gold animal face patterns and cloud patterns.

The square seat is embossed with some geometric squares and decorated with diamond-shaped patterns, cloud patterns, and animal face patterns.

The giant curled antlers, symmetrical body and steady square base create a mysterious atmosphere.

The tomb beast is actually very mysterious, although there are many unearthed, but there are still many incomprehensions about the tomb beast in the academic community.

Not only are there different theories about the origin, but there is no consensus on what the meaning of the tomb beast in the tomb of Chu is, but generally speaking, there are three views in the academic community.

First, the tomb beast of Chu Tomb Town is a statue of the mountain god, which has the function of suppressing evil worship and driving away demons and ghosts.

The representative scholar on this point is the Japanese researcher Seiichi Mizuno, and there are some scholars in Japan who agree, but it is not the mainstream view.

Second, the tomb beast of Chu Tomb Town is a kind of transforming dragon, which is the caretaker of the soul of the deceased, responsible for "attracting the soul to ascend to heaven", or "guiding the soul into the yin".

Third, the tomb beast of Chu Tomb Town is a statue of the earth god Tubo, which is intended to soothe the earth god and not to invade the soul of the dead.

Regarding this third point, it is really very saying, Chen Yuejun, an expert in the study of Chu tombs, has explained what "Dibo" is.

"Chu Ci: Conjuring the Soul" records: "The soul returns! You have no place in this secluded capital. Tubo nine covenants, its horns are a little more striking.

Bloody thumbs, one by one. The head of the tiger is like a cow. This is all a happy person, return"

Zhu Xi has a note, "The secluded capital, the underground and the soil are also governed." Tubo, the Hou Bo of the Later Earth. ”

What does that mean? Tubo, the king of the underworld, is a beast with a sharp horn in the head of a tiger,

Chasing all kinds of evil cults devouring in the underworld, this image is very similar to the tomb beasts unearthed from many Chu tombs.

In general, the tomb beast of the Chu tomb has the role of driving away demons and warding off evil spirits and protecting the dead.

It is the consciousness embodiment of the Chu people's attempt to use the power of the tomb beast to expel the ghosts and ghosts of the underworld.

These are the scientific interpretations of the official tomb beasts,

And in the folk,

This thing has some more expansive magical story.

It adds a bit of mystery.

The people who are fighting from the older generation say,

There are three kinds of hoodoo in the ancient tombs, not to mention archaeologists, even tomb robbers like them who are inverted by profession can't avoid them,

Since ancient times, thieves have not gone empty, especially the industry of tomb robbers, who have wasted a lot of effort to enter the ancient tombs.

It is absolutely impossible to return empty-handed, even if the tomb has been emptied by the previous tomb robber, they will try to bring back something.

But there are three things that tomb robbers will never touch.

Let's briefly introduce it here.

The first is the tomb pillow, and those who have been to the museum should know that the tomb pillow is rarely exhibited in the museum.

And very few tomb robbers are willing to take this tomb pillow, because in ancient superstitious legends, the tomb pillow is the place where the soul of the tomb owner rests after death.

If the tomb robber takes the tomb pillow, he disturbs the sleeping soul of the deceased, and will be haunted by the resentment of the deceased, and die because of the curse.

Tomb robbing is an industry that deals with the dead, so tomb robbers are more superstitious, and tomb robbers can avoid this kind of thing.

The second is the Bloody Jade.

There is a folk saying that after the deceased dies, a piece of jade will be placed in his throat to prevent the deceased's body from decomposing.

Over time, this piece of jade will absorb the blood of the deceased and turn blood red.

In the last century, there were still many people who liked to collect these blood-soaked jades.

But with the occurrence of several strange things, no one dares to fight the idea of this thing anymore, and there is no market.

And there is danger, and the tomb robbers will naturally not take risks again.

And this third one, which is the protagonist we are going to talk about today, is the Tomb Beast.

The tomb beast is usually placed at the door of the tomb, and the material is stone or bronze.

The tomb beast has the effect of warding off evil spirits and protecting the souls of the deceased to be peaceful, and there is also witchcraft behind it.

The Tomb Beast is also the most evil of the three objects,

The most powerful,

I heard that the people who fought back before saw this thing,

Don't talk about holding it with your hands,

will walk around.

Because this guy is not something that mortals can do anything about it.

At this moment, I think of this,

Look at the victory that is as stunned as I am at this towering ancient beast,

Said:

"Well, do you know what this is?"

Listen to me,

Victory did not look at me,

but still looking at it,

After a long time, he sighed to me:

"Good boy, old Wang...... What is this, you say? It's the first time I've seen ...... so big."

I heard him say this, and his face was full of disdain,

Hey hey smile,

After patting him on the shoulder, he said:

"Hehe, when I look at you, you don't usually read books, so you haven't seen it~"

Then he pointed to the stone statue and continued:

"This thing is called the tomb beast, it is generally placed at the door of the tomb, and the owner of the tomb uses it to ward off evil spirits, and he doesn't even know this, so he will go to the museum more in the future~"

Victory hear me say so,

It's also a little unhappy,

He snorted coldly and said to me:

"Gotta get it, you know a lot, okay? You're well-informed! Scholar Wang! ”

Seeing this guy mocking me,

I didn't continue to care,

accepted the ridiculous expression, and said to him seriously:

"Victory, this town tomb beast has appeared, which means that the master's tomb is near here, be careful."

When Victory saw me say this, he was also clever and understood the danger of this place.

The two of us bent our waists and stretched out our heads to circle around these two tall tomb beasts.

Thinking of finding some mechanism or a way to see the owner's grave.

But we went around for a long time,

Nothing happened,

It's still surprisingly quiet,

Those two stone piers,

Still staring at us with a majestic face,

It's like two sturdy bodyguards.