There was still heavy snow outside the cave, and a thick layer of ice had formed on the riverside. Few people from the tribe go out now. If you stand outside and look around, you will see nothing but white.
There was a fire in the cave, and the atmosphere was different from the previous enthusiasm.
After the ice cubes were installed, the inside of the cave was much brighter, and there was no need to blow the cold wind. This feeling made the children in the cave very novel. For two consecutive days, they were in an abnormal state of excitement. words, discuss each other.
Shao Xuan wrote all the words on the animal skin scroll left by the old hunter in charge of teaching on the stone wall. With the light that penetrates during the day, the words on the stone wall can be clearly seen without burning the pile. After learning these, the old hunter doesn't need to teach from scratch every time he comes over.
Unlike the others, Shao Xuan stayed in the stone room for the past two days except when he was eating, carefully wiping off the stone powder on the wall of the stone room.
The debris in the stone room had been moved by Shao Xuan to other places, and the paintings on the stone walls took up quite a large area.
After finally cleaning up the last corner, Shao Xuan straightened up and took a deep breath, moved his sore hands and feet, took a few steps back, and looked at the paintings on the stone wall by the light that penetrated.
The light is not bright, and the paintings in some places are not very clear. Shao Xuan still has to use a torch to see it clearly.
In addition to the paintings in the two places that Shao Xuan saw at the beginning, there were some paintings that surprised Shao Xuan even more.
The above painting also refers to farmland and animal husbandry, those who work in the fields, those who drive sheep with whips...
People in furs holding small and fancy wine glasses, people standing on boats casting nets to catch fish, and women in groups of three or five picking baskets...
There are even people on horses. There is a picture of an adult and a child running on horseback.
Next to it is a painting of battle or hunting. Compared with other paintings, this painting is longer and occupies almost half of the left wall. In front of the painting is a tall horse. The fighters with feathers and physiques are obviously stronger than other mounts, with their heads held high and imposing appearances, they should be the leaders of these people.
There were several galloping horses following behind the strong warrior. There are some... wolves next to you
No, that's not a wolf.
Compared with Caesar, the animals in the painting have long and upturned tails, and some of them have their tails curled upwards. Is it a hound
Some of the hounds opened their mouths and seemed to be panting, while the other two turned their heads to the side of the rider, as if listening to someone.
There are also some buildings in the background of these paintings, and those buildings are taller and bigger than what Shao Xuan saw in the tribe. Although it is said that people living in the upper mountains now live in much better houses than those near the foot of the mountain, but Shao Xuan simulated it in his mind based on the information he had heard. Even the houses where those people lived on the mountain might not be as good as painting these big houses.
The line of sight returns to the painting that I saw at the beginning. The woman in the painting is wearing an ornament on her head. It is not as simple and crude as the ornaments worn by the women of the tribe today, but is more delicate and exquisite. The jars…
Those jars with complicated patterns, if not for stone jars, Shao Xuan thought of a possibility - pottery.
How long have these paintings been around
If it is almost as old as the time when this stone room was excavated, how could it be hundreds or thousands of years
Thousands of years ago, there were farming, fishing, and pottery, such as animal husbandry and breeding, and there were more hunting tools than today. They even brought hounds. Those were real hounds, not Caesar, who was brought back by chance. A hard-working wolf!
Shao Xuan suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to watch.
The paintings on the stone wall on the left are obviously different from those on the stone wall on the right. In the middle that separates the left and the right, Shao Xuan couldn't understand what the painting was. It was too abstract and looked a little messy at first glance, and Shao Xuan couldn't speculate based on the front and back paintings. However, it is obvious that after this period of painting, the style of painting seems to have suddenly dropped from the vigorous and confident before to a sluggish state, and many paintings have a desolate feeling of desolation.
The woman kneeling and crying, the child who stood on the ground stunned and didn't know what to look at, seemed to be infinitely dazed. The background picture was not those big houses, but the hole where Shao Xuan was now.
There is no more agriculture and livestock raising, no more pictures of women in groups of three or five carrying baskets to collect, no more horseback riding, no more hunting dogs, no more pottery that is much more refined than stone tools...
Whether it is on the left stone wall or the right stone wall, there is a logo picture above the engraved painting - the totem of the tribe.
The totem of the Flaming Horn Tribe looks like the two horns of a two-horned rhinoceros, but the horns are longer and carry flames, just like the tribe's name.
So, what is depicted on this is the Flaming Horn Tribe
Shao Xuan recalled what a classmate who studied archaeology said in his previous life: murals and petroglyphs were generally used to describe the life of people in that era, or what people imagined and hoped for at that time, and it was also a kind of human being at that time. Spiritual sustenance.
The paintings engraved on this stone room are definitely not imaginary things. The emotions in the engraved paintings are too strong. Only real experiences and things can arouse people's deeper, richer and heavier emotions.
What happened to the tribe
natural disaster
Man-made disaster
Or both
At the end of the stone wall on the right, there are many palm-sized patterns. These patterns have different styles. For example, the pattern on the upper left is like a spider resting on a web. Another example is the one on the right. Bamboo Or what kind of plant, and there is only one thing like a mask, looking at that creepy...
There are plants, animals, and all kinds of things that Shao Xuan can't imagine on these patterns.
When Shao Xuan was studying these murals, someone called him outside.
"A Xuan, Uncle Ge is here! A Xuan, come here!"
The other children in the cave have little interest in the depths of the cave. During the years they lived in the cave, they would not go deeper into the cave, except to pee and poop in the special place in the cave. They had no interest in those places they had seen once. So, the kid who called Shao Xuan did not go this way, but shouted directly.
When he came back to his senses, Shao Xuan realized that today seemed to be the day to deliver food.
Ge also sent three days' worth of food at once this time. When Shao Xuan saw him, there was still a lot of snow on the fur that Ge was wearing, but Ge didn't care at all, staring at the ice cubes. He was still playing with those stone plates in the air vent. Obviously, he didn't expect that there were such things in the cave. Ever since he was in charge of delivering food, the cave has been dark in winter. He had heard people mention something similar in the cave before, but he had never seen it used by the children in the cave. In addition to the situation in the cave before, he didn't have much to do, but he didn't expect to see it now.
Let the other children in the cave help to "unload" the food. Now that there is enough food, the children in the cave are not scrambling to see it as they used to. After hearing Shao Xuan's words, they all went to help, and then Shao Xuan distributed them according to the group. There is no need for him to worry about how the group is divided.
Today, Shao Xuan didn't ask Ge to leave immediately, but pulled Ge to tell him about the tribe to the children in the cave. Anyway, there was nothing else to do after Ge delivered the food.
Shao Xuan just wanted to learn more information from Ge, and see if he could relate to the paintings on the stone wall. Unfortunately, what Ge said was similar to what Shao Xuan heard from Lang Ga and the others, and he didn't want to. understand something.
Taking the carbonized branch and drawing a pattern on the ground, Shao Xuan knew that Ge glanced over here, and obviously saw what he was drawing, but there was nothing unusual. Obviously, Ge did not know the pattern.
Shao Xuan painted one of the last patterns of different styles on the stone wall on the right side of the stone room. Ge can be regarded as a veteran warrior in the tribe. He didn't even know this pattern. Shao Xuan sighed in his heart. It seemed that he wanted to know more. The things painted on the stone walls are a bit difficult.
In fact, at the end of the painting on the stone wall on the right side of the stone room, there is a sentence below those patterns with different styles, but Shao Xuan did not know a few words, and the words could not be connected.
Although Shao Xuan can speak the words here smoothly, many words are still relatively unfamiliar. Counting the time when the old hunter will come next time, Shao Xuan will learn the words and ask again when he has a chance.
After another ten days, the old hunter finally came down the mountain again and came to the cave.
I was surprised to see the changes in the cave, and then checked and found that the children in the cave really understood a lot. The old hunter was very happy and took out a skin scroll again to teach new things.
In the spare time of teaching, Shao Xuan asked him for a few words. Not all of these words were on the stone wall, but mixed with other words. Shao Xuan just didn't want the old hunter to suspect.
However, it turns out that Shao Xuan thinks a lot. The old hunter is very interested in teaching people, but he doesn't think much about others. He just thought that Shao Xuan had seen these words from others, so he taught Shao Xuan one by one with great interest. identify.
After the teaching, the old hunter also praised Shao Xuan with admiration: "These words are well written and imposing! I will definitely be a heroic warrior in the future!"
Shao Xuan just smiled and said nothing. The words that were praised were written by him imitating the words on the stone wall. He did not copy them exactly as they were, but because they were written as they were, he also brought some of the charm and momentum of the original work.
From this point of view, the person who painted and wrote in the stone room should also be a warrior, and he may also be very powerful.
When the old hunter left, Shao Xuan wrote all the words in the animal skin scroll left by the old hunter on the stone wall for the children in the cave to review, and he came to the stone room again.
After recognizing the words, Shao Xuan finally knew what was written in that sentence.
"One day, we will return to our homeland. The glory is still there, and the fire of the horns will never be extinguished."
There is also a word "like" after this sentence, which is probably the name of the owner of the stone room here, who carved and wrote this sentence on the stone wall.
The last sentence is carved very deeply, deeper than other paintings, especially the last few words, which shows how strong the other party's feelings are when writing this sentence.
Although I don't know why the murals here were later painted with stone, Shao Xuan is still very grateful and admired for the paintings here and the people who wrote these words.
It can be seen from that sentence that the situation of the other party, or the situation of the entire tribe, is not good, and even makes people desperate, but the other party has not given up.
No matter how desperate the situation is, as long as you live, as long as the tribe is still there, it means that there is still hope.
Shao Xuan took the carbonized branch and drew a thumbs-up stick figure behind the word "Like".
Another thumbs up for you.