Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

I felt the concave line.

The lines were carved by humans.

He carefully traced the concave lines with his fingers.

There is a circle at the top, and a short straight line below the circle has three forks.

The forks on the left and right sides first extend horizontally and then droop downwards, like shoulders and arms, while the long arc in the middle is the spine, and downwards it looks like two kneeling legs.

Is it a person sitting on his knees?

I touched it carefully again.

Make sure the lines depict a kneeling figure.

The lines are drawn very simply, like a child's sketch.

I estimate that the carvings on the cave walls appeared very early.

Perhaps it was earlier than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

It would be nice if there was an emergency light, or at least a torch, so I could see the carvings on the wall clearly.

I continued to grope forward.

I touched the kneeling figure carved in lines again.

Walking forward, I came across sixteen or seventeen kneeling figures.

The carving techniques are exactly the same, and the shapes, movements and sizes are also completely similar.

This is not surprising.

I guess the cave wall depicts a group sacrifice pattern. In such a grand scene, most people would maintain the same posture.

Only the wizards and nobles on the altar will have different movements.

Clang.

I don't know what I kicked, but it made a crisp sound.

It sounds like wood.

I was overjoyed and quickly bent down to feel around on the ground.

I actually touched a wooden stick.

The wooden sticks were quite dry and perfect for lighting to make torches.

I quickly took out the oilcloth bag and lit the guncotton with a flint.

Place the burning guncotton under the wooden stick and slowly ignite the stick.

call!

Orange-red flames rose from the wooden stick.

I saw the light again in the darkness.

I raised the torch to look at the carvings on the cave wall.

The carving does show a row of people kneeling in an orderly manner.

Further ahead, figures began to appear, blowing horns and holding flags.

This is the ritual music team in the sacrifice.

The front part depicts the details of the altar.

The tribal leader took the lead and knelt in front of the altar, where a masked wizard was dancing.

The wizard's mask is exactly the same as the mask worn by the water monkey.

He also has sunken eye sockets and bulging eyes, a square mouth that is open as if he is grinning, and two long horns on his head.

A cluster of long feathers is inserted into the round tube between the two horns.

It was only then that I realized.

The round tube on the mask is used to insert pheasant feathers.

This kind of pheasant feather inserted on the head is called a feather crown, which is used to show status and increase majesty.

At the same time, in the eyes of the ancients, birds have the meaning of prophecy, spiritualism, and conveying messages from heaven.

For example, some ancient tribes have left behind bird-man pictures, which represent totemic worship of birds.

When wizards perform sacrifices, they wear feather crowns to help them communicate with spirits better.

Indian tribes that still wear feather crowns today also believe that birds have the magical power to communicate with gods.

In front of the wizard who is dancing and performing the ritual, there is a huge throne carved.

On the throne sat a giant ape.

The giant ape's face looks like a wizard's mask.

It can be seen that this giant ape is a god worshipped by the tribe.

I recall what Professor Zhang said about totem worship. In ancient times, some tribes worshipped the black bird, some worshipped dragons, and some worshipped bears and other ferocious beasts.

It seems that there is no worship of monkeys.

and many more!

Suddenly, a light bulb went off in my head.

I thought of nao.

"Shuowen Jiezi" records that "夒" is the same as "猱", which means a greedy beast. Another said it is a female monkey, which looks like a human.

The word "mother monkey" in Shuowen does not mean the gender of monkey, but a homophone.

One view is that the female monkey refers to a macaque.

Another theory is that it refers to the monkey, also known as the gorilla.

The greedy beast refers to a greedy beast.

In 1935, Guo Moruo expounded in his book "The Development of the Concept of Heaven in the Pre-Qin Period": "In my opinion, Emperor Jun, Emperor Shun, Emperor Ku, and Gaozu Kuo are actually one person. The Yin people called the animal Kuo their great-grandfather, which shows that this animal was originally a totem for the Yin people."

This view is also confirmed by the oracle bone inscriptions of Yinxu.

The character "夒" recorded in oracle bone script as the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty is indeed in the shape of a monkey.

Could it be that the monkey depicted in the pattern is Nuo?

If this is true, this cave may very well be the remains of the Shang Dynasty!

I immediately became excited.

Negative emotions such as fatigue and fear are swept away.

Holding the torch, he looked towards the opposite cave wall.

Usually this engraving is left-right corresponding.

There are indeed carvings on the opposite cave wall, but the content is very different.

I took more than ten steps back and started over from the beginning.

The first engraving shows the tribe crossing the mountains and kneeling before the giant ape to ask for shelter.

The giant ape took them in and let them live in the cave.

They worked hard hunting and sacrificed most of their earnings to the giant apes.

However, the giant ape did not ask for their sacrifice, but instead pointed to their own tribesmen and demanded human sacrifice.

The second engraving depicts a scene of human sacrifice.

The wizard danced with a monkey mask on, and the tribe leader led his men to tie up his fellow tribesmen and sacrifice them in front of the giant ape.

The giant ape smiled as it cut open the sacrificed person, took out his internal organs and ate them.

The third engraving is the scene of bestowal.

The giant ape gave down a clay pot, and the chief distributed the contents of the pot to the strong men in the tribe for consumption.

The young men in the tribe experienced physical changes after taking it.

Some people grow webbed feet and hands, and some people's fingernails and toenails become extremely sharp.

They knelt down to thank the giant ape for its gift.

The fourth picture is a hunting picture.

People with webbed feet and hands go into the water to catch fish, and they always catch something.

People with sharp nails go up the mountain to catch all kinds of prey. They can travel through the mountains and forests without any harm. Tigers, leopards, bears and wolves will avoid them when they see them.

The more I looked at them, the more I thought these people with webbed hands and feet looked like water monkeys.

Could it be that the water monkey just now is a descendant of this ancient tribe?

The fifth picture is a tribal gathering.

With abundant prey, the tribesmen's lives became better and better, and the tribal population became more and more prosperous.

It seems that everyone in the tribe is living a good life.

But at the end of the pattern, a group of tribesmen were tied up.

This was obviously a new sacrifice.

The engraving suddenly stops here, without any subsequent content being depicted.

But based on these contents, it can be roughly inferred that this tribe gained protection by sacrificing living people.

The giant ape gave them the ability to go into the water to catch fish and go up the mountain to hunt.

As for whether this ability can really make people grow webbed hands and feet and sharp nails like in Tokuei, I am not sure yet.

Although the existence of the water monkey can be indirectly confirmed.

But I would rather believe that the content in the engravings was exaggerated by the ancients with the help of their imagination.

After all, turning people into water monkeys...it's creepy just to think about it.

Later, with the advancement of technology, genetic technology was developed, and then I had a sudden idea.

I think it is not impossible that the giant ape turned humans into water monkeys. It may have mastered some kind of genetic technology.

Don't think I'm kidding.

I have been tomb robbing a lot and have seen many strange things, some of which really cannot be explained by science.

For example, the Fuxi and Nuwa picture.

The way Fuxi and Nuwa are entwined is so similar to the structure of human DNA...

Back to when I finished looking at the carvings on the cave wall and was about to move on, I suddenly heard a faint flute sound.

I was shocked. Could it be Taoist Master Zhang playing the flute?