Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 202 Brass Plaque
Oracle bone inscriptions are among the ancient characters discovered in China, the earliest and with a relatively complete system.

Oracle bone inscriptions mainly refer to oracle bone inscriptions in Yin Ruins, also known as "Yin Ruins characters" and "Yin Qi", which are characters carved on tortoise shells and animal bones in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Due to superstition, the emperors of the Shang and Zhou dynasties used tortoise shells (the most common tortoise plastron) or animal bones (the most common tortoise scapula) for divination, and then related matters related to the divination, such as the time of divination, the content of the divination, and the results of omens. , verification, etc. are engraved on oracle bones, and are kept by the royal historian as archival materials.In addition to divination and inscriptions, oracle bone documents also involve astronomy, calendar, geography, family, conquest, agriculture, sacrifice, humanities, disasters, etc., which are extremely precious for the study of social history, culture, and language in ancient China, especially in the Shang Dynasty. first-hand information.

So far, about 15 pieces of oracle bones and more than 4500 individual characters have been discovered. Judging from the recognized about 2500 individual characters, it already has the character-making methods of "pictographic, knowing, pictophonic, referring to things, transcribing, and borrowing", showing the The unique charm of Chinese characters.

The oracle bone inscriptions were once popular in the antique market and became a gold bump in the eyes of tomb robbers. A considerable part of the oracle bone inscriptions was handed down to criminals abroad.

Although I can't translate oracle bone inscriptions, I still have a deep understanding of the structure of oracle bone inscriptions, so I can say with certainty that the words on the brass pendant are oracle bone inscriptions.In this way, this brass plaque is most likely a product of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.Looking at this brass plaque, it also looks like a noble thing. I don't know what its function is?

"Apart from this wearing plate, are there any other discoveries?" I asked Lao Yang.

Lao Yang shook his head: "Not yet, I only found this thing in the centipede corpse!"

How could there be a brass plaque buried in the centipede's body for no reason?

Something is wrong!
Absolutely not right!
This brass plaque must have its purpose!

While thinking hard, I walked to the front of the rock wall, looked at the charred centipede corpse, and went around to the front of the bronze pillar. The densely packed spell patterns on the pillar made people's eyes swell.

Just when I looked back, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange pattern out of the corner of my eye.

I concentrated my eyes and found that strange pattern among hundreds of patterns, and then stared at that pattern for a long while, my heart couldn't help beating wildly.That pattern is actually in the shape of a slap, but it is sunken, unlike other patterns that come out abruptly, because there are too many weird patterns on the column body, so even if you walk very close, if you don't observe carefully carefully, it will be very difficult. It's hard to find this slap pattern.I was lucky just now, and saw this pattern at a glance.

Slap pattern? !
Another slap pattern? !
My heart was beating wildly, I raised the brass badge in my hand and looked at it, this brass badge is also in the shape of a slap, could it be...

A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I held back my excitement, took a step forward, compared it, and inserted the brass badge in my hand into the slap pattern on the bronze pillar, the size was exactly the same, and the edges were seamlessly connected.

The brass pendant gradually glowed with a layer of golden light, and then with the brass pendant as the center point, the spell patterns on the entire bronze pillar glowed with golden light one after another, illuminating the bronze pillar and the entire cave.The golden light is flowing, the splendor is shining, and those relief patterns seem to be flying out faintly, both illusion and reality.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at this miraculous scene, and even forgot where they were for a moment.

What kind of ingenuity is required to build such an ingenious and amazing mechanism!

Just when we were in a daze, we only heard the dull rumbling sound, the ground trembled, and the soles of our feet felt slightly numb.We widened our eyes, and were surprised to find that there was a crack on the top of the bottom of the bronze pillar. The crack spread and soon became a door frame shape, and then the hidden door moved sideways by itself. A dark hole was revealed.

Everyone almost held their breath, looking at the scene in front of them in disbelief, their brains hadn't recovered at all.

After a long while, the old bird was the first one to come up with wolf eyes up, looked at the dark hole, turned around and shouted at us in amazement: "Everyone, come and see, it turns out that the inside of the bronze pillar is hollow!"

There is a secret door on the top of the bronze pillar. This exquisite mechanism is far beyond our imagination.But questions soon filled our minds, what's inside the bronze pillar?Why is there a secret door built here?
If you think about it carefully, this is actually a chain organization.The brass pendant that opens the hidden door is in the body of the centipede who has been hit by herniation. If you want to get the pendant, you must kill the centipede.I am almost certain now that this bloody centipede is definitely a tomb guarding monster.

At this time, Fang Weiran, who had been in a coma before, also woke up. Knowing what happened to him just now, Fang Weiran was very grateful to me and kept thanking me.

"We are all in the same boat, so don't be so polite!" I said.

With anxiety and excitement, we raised our wolf eyes and tiptoed into the secret door and entered the inside of the bronze pillar.

The inside of the bronze pillar is indeed hollow, like a closed dark space.

Generally speaking, in such an exquisite mechanism, there are probably some precious things hidden in such an exquisite mechanism, such as treasures, treasures and the like.But to our slight disappointment, the inside of the column was empty, with nothing in it.

After working so hard to kill the demon blood centipede, there is nothing?Is this too unreasonable?

Just when I was suspicious, the old bird howled suddenly, and the sound echoed in the column, which shocked us a lot.

"What's your ghost name?" Cao Yi scolded angrily.

The old bird's voice was trembling with excitement: "Here...there is a door here!"

And the door? !

We were taken aback by that, and hurriedly gathered around, only to see a secret door behind the big bronze pillar.The secret door has been opened, but it is still dark inside. I don't know where the secret door will lead.But at least one thing is worthy of our joy, there is still a way behind the secret door, and this is not a dead end.

The bronze pillar was originally embedded in the rock wall, so this secret door was also cut on the rock wall, which means that we have passed through the entire pillar and entered the mountain behind the bronze pillar.

After entering the mountain, it is not a rough cave, the entire cave has traces of human repair.

The ground is covered with blue bricks and large stone slabs, and various reliefs are depicted on the left and right stone walls. The roof of the cave is also reinforced with blue stones, and it is built into an arc shape with the strongest bearing capacity.The top of the arc is inlaid with a night pearl the size of a porcelain bowl at intervals, like a corridor lamp, glowing faintly.

I am very familiar with such a layout structure, because this is a typical tomb passage structure.

In other words, we have now entered a tomb passage.

Needless to say, everyone knows the back of the tomb passage, it must be a mausoleum!
I have been thinking about this question before, if the bloody centipede is a monster guarding the tomb, then where is the tomb?It turns out that the ancients were so ingenious that they hid the tomb in the mountain. If you can't kill the monster guarding the tomb, you can't enter the tomb at all.

My breathing started to become faster and my heart beat faster and faster.Although I haven't worked in the archaeological team for more than a year, my professional habits still make me have a strong curiosity, eager to know who the owner of this tomb is.

After hearing me say that this is the tomb passage, Lao Yang and the others looked very surprised.

"People have searched for him thousands of times, but I didn't expect that the tomb is deep in the mountain!" The old bird exclaimed.

Lao Yang frowned: "Fuck! Don't quote poems and songs if you are uneducated, what a mess!"

Cao Yi said: "I'm really curious about who built this mausoleum!"

"If nothing unexpected, it might be an ancient tomb from the Shang and Zhou dynasties!" I murmured.

"How do you even know the dynasty of the ancient tomb?" Cao Yi looked at me with admiration.

I said: "Just now I carefully observed the brass pendant, and found that the engraved patterns on the pendant turned out to be oracle bone inscriptions. It is known that the oracle bone inscriptions originated in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and developed greatly in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. So I preliminarily concluded that this ancient tomb is a big fight in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. And judging from the tomb guard monsters and bronze pillars outside, the owner of the ancient tomb is not shallow, he must be someone with a big background!"

Cao Yi clasped his chest with both hands: "Wow! Tuobagu, you are amazing, you are so knowledgeable, a man with knowledge and connotation is the most handsome!"

I didn't dare to meet Cao Yi's fiery eyes, so I had to laugh dryly, and quickly turned my head away.

I turned my attention to the bas-reliefs on both sides, and those bas-reliefs were all large-scale reliefs, one after another, each five-meter-long, connected to each other to form a huge picture scroll.The content expressed in this picture scroll is all-encompassing, including images of farmland farming, battles on the battlefield, prosperous city alleys, and sacrifices in the palace.

Among them, two reliefs attracted our attention, and the content on the screen was very strange and creepy.

One of the reliefs shows a strange beast. At first I thought it was a dragon, but upon closer inspection, the monster was even more slender, without a dragon tail and claws, it actually looked like a snake.What is strange and frightening is that there are sarcoid tumors in the shape of cockscombs on the snake's head.The craftsmen's carving skills are exquisite, and the strange snake with the cockscomb on its head seems to fly out of the wall, which is very frightening.

There is also a relief picture that is even more terrifying. A big snake with a cockscomb on its head is entrenched in a place similar to an altar, with its head raised high, like a king who rules the world.And under the altar, there were hundreds of small cockscomb snakes, densely packed, all of them stood upright, spitting out letters in the air, as if they were bowing their heads to the big snake.

The content of this relief is too weird, I just glanced at it, and I felt my scalp go numb, and a cold chill rose in my heart.

(End of this chapter)