Chapter 447: Bronze Ding
Looking at the dreamlike scene in front of him, Hu Bayi was the first to wake up.
Glancing at Song Xing, seeing that he indifferently turned the Qingyang Sword in his hand into a sword pill and put it away, Hu Bayi couldn't help but sigh: "Master Song, are you really not a zongzi?" ”
was impressed by Song Xing's miraculous methods again and again, and Hu Bayi was no longer calm.
Song Xing glanced at Hu Bayi a little strangely, smiled, and said, "Zi Bu is silent, and his power is confused." ”
Hu Bayi smiled bitterly: "But since you came to Yunnan, everything you have shown is about to subvert my perception of the world." ”
Hundreds of monsters were wiped out with a single sword by an ordinary-looking ancient long sword.
Why can normal human beings do such almost godlike deeds?
Wang Fatzi woke up from his stunned state and wiped his eyes vigorously, wondering if he had seen it wrong.
"Do you recognize that strange insect just now?" Song Xing asked Hu Bayi.
Hu Bayi recalled the appearance of the strange insect and said: "The appearance of this insect is very similar to the long worm, also known as the Huo's undead worm, this insect is between the invertebrate and the semivertebrae, and has a protective shell similar to the "Sun Goddess Snail", no wonder the bullet couldn't penetrate it before. ”
"In nature, there are no natural predators, unless it can be eaten whole and completely digested with gastric juices, as long as a part of the neural network is left, it can still survive. But this ancient insect should have become extinct due to the jump in the oxygen content of the atmosphere. ”
Song Xing looked at the surrounding environment and said, "Maybe it's because of the closed environment here, but this insect survived and grew so big." ”
Seeing that there was no obstacle ahead, Song Xing got up and walked forward: "Hurry up and keep up, it should not be far from the main tomb of the king." ”
Crossing the river, they came to the edge of a cliff, and there was an ancient plank road hanging alone on the cliff wall, and the rest of it was submerged in the fog in the distance.
Walking through this plank road with some trepidation, Wang Fatzi walked through the fog, and the scene in front of him shocked him again.
Above the clouds in the distance, there is a palace inlaid in the cliff of the mountain, look at it again, not only the palace is splendid, even the shape is similar to the town mausoleum map, on the cliff around the palace, countless plank roads are built around the mountain.
"When a palace was built above the clouds, how many people died in order to complete the tomb of the king?"
Looking at the splendid palace in front of her, Shirley Yang felt a relative, and she could imagine how many bones had been buried under this palace.
The four of them climbed along the stone wall plank road to the gate of the Heavenly Palace, and after climbing the steep steps, a palace with layers of Qin bricks and Han tiles, and purple and golden beams of the road was impressively presented in front of the three of them.
Outside the palace, it is splendid, carved and painted, delicate and meticulous, magnificent, and extravagant.
The rumored Lingyun Heavenly Palace, its luxury is indeed jaw-dropping, no matter from all angles, it is implicit in the isolated Feng Shui secret realm, it is really hard to imagine that this place will be the mausoleum of the border king.
"Good fellow, how much money and manpower does it cost to build such a majestic palace." Wang Fatzi was dumbfounded.
The four of them came to the main gate of the palace, and a huge stone gate blocked the gate to enter the palace.
Wang Fatzi looked at Song Xing hopefully: "Master Song, can you still open this stone door?" ”
Song Xing pointed to Hu Bayi's backpack and said, "The dragon knotweed found in the blood jade coffin before, take it out and try it." ”
Hu Bayi took out the dragon and tiger short staff, studied it carefully, divided it into two, looked at the stone door again, found two holes, inserted the short staff into the stone keyhole for a while, and the heavy stone door actually opened on its own.
Several people came to the main hall of the Heavenly Palace, and there were huge stone statues on both sides, with strange shapes, very similar to the ancient gods.
The temperature in the main hall dropped significantly, and the more you walked inside, the more you could feel the cold, and a bronze tripod was placed in the center, which aroused Song Xing's interest.
This bronze tripod is made of metals such as red copper and tin, and it is not the turquoise color that has been buried in the ground for a long time, but its original golden color, which shines in this hall.
As a symbol of the political and economic power of the ancient ritual society, the tripods and guis made by the kings and marquis are also regarded as the source of the legitimacy of state power.
Legend Dayu "collect the gold of nine herds, cast nine tripods, cast tripods under Jing Mountain, each like Kyushu things" is a sign of the founding of the Xia Dynasty that ruled the Central Plains of the princes of Kuang.
And "the Xia Hou clan lost, and the Yin people suffered it; Yin people lose it, and Zhou people suffer it. It shows that every time the dynasty is revived, "Jiuding" will change hands.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Chu Zhuang "asked the envoy of King Zhou Ding to "win the size and weight of the crown", making the word "win" a classic saying for coveting state power or generally referring to trying to gain dominance.
The transfer of bronze ritual vessels placed in the royal family or the temple is essentially the transfer of power brought about by the redistribution of power and wealth, and the "Jiuding" as a symbol of the central power, whoever occupies the "Jiuding" will hold the highest political power in the country.
Nobles at all levels have strict regulations on the types and quantities of ritual utensils used, and the types and quantities directly represent the level of the nobility.
The so-called "Zhong Ming Ding Food" means that the huge scene of the prosperity of the family and the large number of servants, and has become a symbol of the nobility of the nobles to show their status.
The bronze tripod in front of Song Xing is tall and straight, the whole body is thick and heavy, its shape is round belly, the bottom is slightly round, the mouth is introverted, folded along the square lip, slightly inclined inward, the abdomen is bulging outside, and there is a pair of standing ears that are slightly open outward on the edge of the mouth.
The lower part of the ear extends into the abdomen of the instrument, the lower part of the three-column foot is slightly inward, there are three deep holes in the inner bottom corresponding to the foot, the outside of the ear is decorated with two grooves, the neck has six short ridges, and there are six groups of animal face patterns, each group has two kinds, one has a body, one has no body, the upper part of the foot is decorated with a sheep's horn animal face, and the animal horn is warped out of the table, all of which are filled with cloud and thunder patterns.
Song Xing guessed that this bronze tripod should be a big tripod created by the king to imitate the heart of the emperor of the Central Plains to dominate the world, and it was used to cook the corpse and sacrifice to the sky during the sacrificial ceremony.
Looking beyond the Great Ding, there are some murals carved on the walls of the palace.
Through the murals, you can deduce the deeds that happened in the ancient Dian Kingdom, and there are many rituals related to divination and witchcraft.
On the left and right of the throne of the main hall, there are murals of offering the king, and as for the general meaning of the ancient seal inscription carved on the mural, it is to introduce the origin of the dust beads.
Looking at the red stone on the top of the crown in the mural, Hu Bayi was a little excited: "Great, it seems that this is the dust bead, and the dust bead is really in the tomb of the king." ”
Wang Fatzi turned his head to look at the splendid palace, and his heart was also excited: "Could it be that this is the tomb of the king?" ”
Song Xing shook his head and said: "There is a bronze tripod, which means that this is a place to sacrifice the king to the gods, and it is estimated that it is built on the cliff to be closer to the gods, and this should not be the tomb of the king." ”
Shirley Yang and Hu Bayi also thought that what Song Xing said made sense, but Wang Fatzi still searched in the palace.
Song Xing stretched out his hand again and threw out a few copper coins, which fell to the ground and rolled over, and finally stayed in five directions, east, west, north and south.
(End of chapter)