Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

There is a picture on the white jade tablet, which depicts a strange person with fluffy hair and bird feathers, a tail like a leopard, and teeth like a tiger.The person on the picture couldn't tell her gender. The reason why Huang Qianshan was sure that she was a woman was because he had seen this picture, and so had many others. The person in the picture was the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West is also known as the Golden Mother, the Golden Mother of Yaochi, and the Queen Mother. She is a strange god in charge of punishment and disasters. Later, she gradually became feminized and gentle during the transmission process, and became an old and kind goddess.According to legend, the Queen Mother lived in Yaochi in Kunlun Mountains. There were flat peaches in the garden, and eating them would make her live forever.Later generations tend to describe the Queen Mother as a kind goddess, but they do not describe her real body.

Gu Changtian has read a lot of poetry and books, so he will recognize the Queen Mother. When he saw the white jade tablet, he clicked his tongue and said, "The king of the ancient Guo State was really bold. Could it be that all the royal tombs in the world have ministers buried around them as companions?" Tomb, but he dared to use the Queen Mother of the West as an accompanying tomb to bury the god, isn't he afraid of being punished by heaven?" Huang Qianshan also couldn't figure out what the king of the ancient Guo State was thinking. Maybe he went crazy and dared to bury the Queen Mother under the mountain as his subjects. Could it be that he claimed to be a higher god?People in ancient times were very superstitious. Everyone wanted to become immortal after death. No one dared to insult the gods casually. The only time was when the famous tyrant King Zhou insulted Nuwa in history.Huang Qianshan looked at the picture of the real body of the Queen Mother of the West, and suddenly thought in his heart that the Queen Mother of the West lived on Kunlun Mountain. If this mountain was occupied by someone, would this person crazy think that the Queen Mother of the West was his subject?According to many ancient books, the Queen Mother of the West once lived on Mount Wangwu, which is the residence of the Queen Mother of the West, and Mount Wangwu may be a transliteration of Mount Wangmu, and Mount Wangwu is the main peak of Kunlun Mountains.

The Kunlun Mountain referred to in ancient times, posterity has never been aware of its location. It is said that there are Qilian Mountain, Khotan Nanshan, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and foreign countries. People have always believed that there is only one Kunlun Mountain.Huang Qianshan has a friend in the archaeological field. He is very obsessed with ancient history. He believes that there is not only one Kunlun Mountain in ancient times. West Kunlun.Due to the custom of changing the names of the ancient clans, the two Kunluns were born in different eras, but they both have the same mountain, water and country names, which are all recorded in one book, so confusion will arise.

Since the era of East Kunlun is older than that of West Kunlun, the descriptions are vague. Only one article in the "Overseas South Classic" really describes East Kunlun. "Overseas Southern Classics" says that Qitong Kingdom is in the west of Kunlun Mountains, and Qitong Kingdom does not appear in history.Among the species, only the snake came out of Xinqi, and the sage who meant it invented the word. Probably that country worshiped snakes, so it was named.Huang Qianshan heard from his friends that there used to be a group of people living on the main peak of Tianshan Mountain. The red snake they raised was extremely strange, and their name was unknown. It was probably after the Tongqi Kingdom, and it may not be a coincidence that "tongue" is connected with "snake". .

Huang Qianshan stared at the real body picture of the Queen Mother of the West, and he remembered that his friend said that except for the Tongqi Kingdom, the rest of the places described West Kunlun. "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Xi Jing" said: "The country of Liu Huang Feng's family is three hundred miles away in China. There are painted in all directions, and there are mountains in the middle. It is buried in Houji to the west. The quicksand comes out of Zhongshan, and goes west and south to Kunlun. Southwest into the sea." Based on this sentence, it can be roughly understood that Kunlun in "Hai Nei Xi Jing" is in the south of Shanxi, the hometown of the former king of Zhou, and Wangwu Mountain is in the south of Shanxi.Hou Ji was the first king of Zhou, and Hou Ji was buried in Jishan County in the south of Shanxi Province. This is the only place in the whole country, and there is no other land.

"Shan Hai Jing Hainei Xi Jing" also said: "West Hu Baiyu Mountain is in the east of Daxia...Kunlun Mountain is in the west of Xihu." It shows that Kunlun Mountain is next to Daxia.Daxia is an ancient country with a long history. It is located in the south of Shanxi, and its location is obvious.Since 1978, after several archaeological excavations, the Taosi site was discovered 7.5 kilometers away in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province. It is the largest Longshan cultural site in the Central Plains of my country.The site is about 1,500 meters wide from north to south and 7,000 meters long from east to west, with a total area of ​​more than 3 million square meters.The earliest tree-ring correction date in the unearthed objects is 4825, and the latest tree-ring correction date is 3620.The age of the site is equivalent to the period of Yao and Shun, which proves that this is the birthplace of Xia culture, and it is by no means accidental that Kunlun appeared here.

The Queen Mother of the West is the famous hostess of Kunlun Mountains. "Wang Mu" should be "Mother King" and "Queen" written backwards. "West Queen Mother" means the Queen of the West.There is a record of "East Queen Mother" in the inscriptions. For example, there are Dongmu and Ximu in Yin Xu's inscriptions, which shows that the East Queen Mother is also the Queen of the East.The East and West Queen Mothers, like the East and West Kunlun, are the products of the two major ethnic groups in ancient China, the East and the West. When human society has entered a patriarchal society from a matrilineal society, the sanctity and some privileges of the former queen (queen mother) will be retained for a long period of time, so that the emperors of various dynasties, such as Dayu and King Mu of Zhou, have to go Meet the Queen Mother of the West.This situation is similar to the constitutional monarchy in some modern countries. It is necessary to implement constitutional government and the real power of the country is in the hands of the prime minister, but it must also retain the hereditary tradition of the king.The royal families of all dynasties in China have come to Wangwu Mountain to worship, so it can be said that they have the same essence.The emperors of all dynasties came here to worship the heavens. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, did not want to suffer long distances, so he built the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and worshiped the sky in Beijing. This changed the rules and stopped coming to Wangwushan to worship the gods.

Gu Changtian was stunned when he heard that, and he asked directly: "Brother Huang, that friend of yours is really amazing, what's his name, and he knows so many things, he has the opportunity to introduce me." Huang Qianshan smiled lightly, and he said: "His surname is Chen, and he used to be an archaeologist, but something happened later, and now he is wandering around alone. Who knows where he is now." Gu Changtian said in admiration: "The people you know are not simple, and you are really knowledgeable. I didn't expect the translator to know so much."

At this time, it was raining at night in the mountains, the grass was shaking and the trees were shaking. Huang Qianshan didn't want to listen to others' praise. He swept away the stone vines on the white jade tablet, carefully looked at the real body picture of Queen Mother of the West, and couldn't understand it.Usually, if an emperor-like person is buried in the mountains, there will be records of that country in the accompanying tomb, and no monarch will miss this unique opportunity to show off his achievements to future generations.Huang Qianshan swept away the white jade stele, on which there was nothing but Queen Mother of the West.The records of the ancient Guo states are almost blank, and later generations can't even figure out how many ancient Guo states there were, let alone their history.

Gu Changtian grabbed the flashlight, wiped the rain from his face, and said loudly, "Brother Huang, let's turn the white jade tablet over, there may be words on the back." Huang Qianshan knocked himself on the head, he thought, how could he become so stupid, the white jade stele is divided into two sides, one side is engraved with Queen Mother of the West, but the other side is not necessarily.Therefore, Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian kicked Shi Teng aside, and then turned the white jade tablet over together.The white jade stele has been placed in the artificial stone for thousands of years, and it has taken root in the artificial stone, so it is very difficult to move it.Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian were trembling from the heavy rain, and when they tried their best to turn the white jade tablet over, they became hot all over again, very unhappy.

The other side of the white jade tablet was covered with dead stone vines, Huang Qianshan endured his nausea and pushed them away. After the rain washed away the filth on the white jade tablet, he and Gu Changtian stretched their heads forward to look at the white jade tablet.Several rows of small ancient inscriptions were engraved on the white jade tablet, and there was also a picture on top of the ancient inscriptions, but it was not the real body of the Queen Mother of the West.This picture depicts two big mountains, but the two big mountains are not sitting flat, but in a strange sloping shape on both sides. Something takes on a vibrating image. Gu Changtian looked at the white jade tablet and asked, "What does this picture mean? Could it be that there are monsters in the mountains?" Huang Qianshan tilted his head, stared at the white jade tablet, and said, "I guess... this white jade tablet is about Yugong Yishan!" Gu Changtian was very surprised, he asked, "How did you see it?" Huang Qianshan was not sure, he hesitated for a while before saying: "Look, these two mountains are standing on the ground at a slant, as if they were thrown away, but there is something shaking on the ground, it is probably caused by the ancient Guo State. After a big earthquake, the Taihangwangwu mountain range in this area was shaken off, and some strange things emerged from the bottom of the mountain. Most of the myths and legends are fabricated, but they all have their origins. Maybe that earthquake is the origin of the myth of moving mountains. .” Gu Changtian wanted to question it, but after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense, so he said: "There are two cracks on both sides of the mountain stream, and the mountain here is also very dangerous. Could it be that what is said on the white jade tablet is true? At the bottom of the mountain What's that thing coming out, is it light or something else?" Huang Qianshan touched the surface of the white jade tablet, and a burst of coldness spread into his fingertips. He said: "The ancient people's thinking is different from today's, and maybe it is not light, but I am afraid that something really came out from the bottom of the mountain during the earthquake. The ancient Guo State happened to find it. So I kept it as my own, and maybe outsiders didn’t know that there were some strange things in that earthquake.” Gu Changtian nodded and said: "It's possible, so I made up a myth to scare others. The king of the ancient Guo State was probably worried that others would snatch that thing, and didn't know what it looked like. By the way, what do you mean by the words on it?" Do you understand?" Huang Qianshan is guilty: "This is hard for me. I am only responsible for translating foreign languages. I can't translate ancient Chinese. I think Miss Laoyue has a lot of knowledge. I will ask her to come over tomorrow and maybe she can read something." Gu Changtian said affirmatively: "That's true. Xiaoyue traveled all over the world with Uncle Lao since she was a child. She has a wide range of knowledge. She knows more than ordinary people. She can read many ancient Chinese." The second night the rain became heavier and heavier, Huang Qianshan shook off the rainwater from his body, and said to Gu Changtian, "Let's go back first, we won't have the energy to climb the mountain tomorrow after being exposed to the rain for too long." Gu Changtian pointed to the inscription on the stone tablet: "What about this tablet, is it safe to put it here?" Huang Qianshan said with a wry smile: "Brother Gu, no one will come here, the white jade tablet won't grow legs and run away by itself. Besides, this tablet is too old, you don't want to sell it, you will kill it capital punishment." Gu Changtian felt distressed and wished he could swallow the white jade tablet, but the white jade tablet was so big and heavy that it was impossible for the two of them alone to drag it, so he reluctantly gave up.Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian came out for half the night. Although it was still raining, the sky was gray and bright, and the outlines of the old trees in the distance could already be seen.Gu Changtian felt strange, he had been thinking about it for so long, why didn't Lao Yue feel worried, didn't even make a phone call, and he deliberately turned on the phone and waited, otherwise he would have turned off the phone to save power.Gu Changtian was about to walk out of the forest with Huang Qianshan, but he found that the phone was gone. After searching carefully, he realized that the phone might have fallen into a hole. The hole is now filled with peeling artificial stone, and it cannot be dug without an excavator. Gu Changtian had to leave with a sigh.Huang Qianshan saw Gu Changtian looking for his phone, he also touched his pants pocket, but the phone was gone, presumably it was swallowed by the hole.Huang Qianshan shrugged his shoulders, thinking that he would give it to the weather station as a funeral object, and ask Lao Yue for reimbursement later, because he was worried that he would have no excuse to extort money. Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian walked down from outside the forest one after the other, and the sound of the surging river penetrated into their ears again, as if the inside of the forest and the outside of the forest were two different worlds.The rain weakened after they walked out of the forest, Huang Qianshan wiped off the rain on his face, but when he saw the situation outside the forest clearly, he immediately stomped his feet and said: "Oh no, Lao Yue and the others are in danger! "