"The date of the "Book of Mountains and Seas" cannot be verified, but it has already been mentioned in the "Historical Records". There is a saying that it was written by the people of Chu or Bashu in the middle and late Warring States Period to the early and middle Han Dynasty. Earlier, it was made by Yu or Boyi." Shao Lingdao, "In the Song Dynasty, epigraphy rose, retro style prevailed, and there were many artifacts made of antiques or imitations. So I mean, we may be able to learn from it. It is possible to delineate the origin of the whole thing, at least from the Warring States period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, but we may focus on the Warring States Period, the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty."
"The analysis makes sense," Ke Xun said, "but I still can't explain why the inexplicable power generated during that period wanted to get the "Shan Hai Jing" onto our bones. This is to let us help to pass on this wonderful book to the world. down?"
Everyone: "… "
"I don't think so," Shao Ling said. "In the next few days, let's take the time to search for historical materials related to the "Shan Hai Jing", as well as bizarre events that happened during the Warring States, Han and Song Dynasties - although we may find There is little hope of a clue, but always try."
Everyone had no objection, said goodbye to the grandmother, and went to the hotel where they were staying, and took all the time to check online.
The time for the next painting to be painted is just in time for the first day of the new year. There are still a few days before that day. After discussing it, everyone decided not to go back to the city where they live, so as not to waste time coming and going. On the way, I simply flew to Ke Xun’s house in a group, and stayed there for two or three days before I entered the painting. Then I flew to K City, where the next art museum was located. Then I stepped on the spot, prepared all the materials for investigation, and then entered the painting on time.
Of course, it would be great if the behind-the-scenes driving force of the entire painting incident could be deciphered before that, and this horrific incident could be terminated in time.
The plane to Z City took off in the afternoon. When everyone arrived in Z City, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening. First, Ke Xun took them to the restaurant for dinner, and then sent the girls to the hotel that Ke Xun had booked. The next group of men went to Ke Xun and Mu Yiran's house in a mighty way.
Both Shao Ling and Zhu Haowen brought their own laptops. Luo Yu's laptop was bought right before boarding the plane. Mu Yiran gave Qin Ciyong his laptop, and Ke Xun used the computer. Channels and online platforms collect information about the "Shan Hai Jing" and bizarre events that happened in the Warring States, Han and Song Dynasties.
Mu Yiran assisted Wei Dong to draw the picture of the bones taken on the mobile phone on the paper.
Wei Dong continued to paint until midnight, and when he finally finished, everyone temporarily stopped what they were doing and came together to watch it together.
"Now that I can see the pictures on these bones intuitively, I am even more certain that the style of these pictures is absolutely different from the ancient version of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" circulating on the market," Shao Ling said, "The ancient version of pictures we can see so far. , is a picture book circulated in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Earlier, painters Zhang Sengyao of the Southern Dynasty and Shu Ya of the Song Dynasty painted a ten-volume "Book of Mountains and Seas", but unfortunately, the versions drawn by these two did not work. pass down.
"And if you go back further, it should be the oldest version of "Shan Hai Jing Tu". Lu Xun once pointed out in "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction" that "Shan Hai Jing" is an ancient sorcery book, and sorcery books are The book of prayers used by shamans, so its author is shaman. This edition of "Shanhaijingtu" written by shaman should be the most original and earliest edition, but it has long been lost.
"Looking at the style of these pictures on our bones, the lines are simpler and more simple than the Ming and Qing versions, and there is a sense of extreme esoteric and mysterious because of the extreme simplicity. So I think that we The pattern on the bone phase should be older, at least it must be the version of Nanliang or Song Dynasty, and it may even be... the original version."
"What do you mean by praying?" Ke Xun asked.
"Literally speaking, it is to pray and resolve disasters, which is a kind of Taoist magic," Shao Ling said. "The content of prayer includes praying for sunshine, praying for rain, driving locusts, curing diseases, and eliminating plagues, etc. The content of disasters includes resolving disasters. Fires, floods, droughts, winds, earthquakes, unfavorable years, etc.”
"Wait a minute..." Wei Dong said, "Isn't the "Shan Hai Jing" all about mountains, rivers and rivers, rare and exotic animals, and Taoist magic?"
"It is more appropriate to say that it is witchcraft rather than Taoist magic." Shao Lingdao, "There is a considerable part of the "Shan Hai Jing", which is said to be based on ancient wizards worshiping ancestors, summoning souls, sending souls, and reaching the sky and the earth. It is written in the shamanistic pictures or shamanistic words used in rituals such as sacrifices.
"The original version of the Classic of Mountains and Seas was actually just a map. At that time, there was no written text, and the sorcerer's words were only passed down orally.
"The later text versions are all based on the map into text descriptions, just like sentences such as 'two hands with one fish' are all describing the content of the map."
"I always thought that The Classic of Mountains and Seas had the text first and the pictures later," Ke Xun said with a new look on his face, "It turned out that the pictures came first, so the original version If it is truly genuine, that is to say, the "Book of Mountains and Seas" should actually be... a painting?"
The three words "a painting" were as straight as a daigo, and everyone was shocked.
Just now, I was only focusing on analyzing the origin and content of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and everyone couldn't think about it for a while. Now, listening to Ke Xun's words, the thinking in front of me seems to have been broadened all of a sudden.
"So is the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" the source of the entire painting incident?" Zhu Haowen looked at the drawings, "If it is also a painting, then are all the landscapes, mythical beasts, and monsters recorded here... "
"It's all the picture of the world in the painting expanded by the painting "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"?" Qin Ci took his words, and the two looked at each other and saw the indescribable emotions in each other's eyes.
Luo Xun even shivered firmly and squeezed towards Ke Xun's side.
"A painting that appeared in ancient times can expand into a world in the painting, in which there are more than 40 strange countries, more than 500 mountains, more than 300 waterways, more than 400 It also includes geography, astronomy, meteorology, plants, animals, geology, oceans, minerals, properties, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folklore, economics... and even science, philosophy, and anthropology. Organizational structure," Shao Ling looked up at everyone, with the same indescribable emotion in his eyes as Qin Ci Zhu Haowen, "This is simply... This is simply another big world like the one we are in now, different. Compared with any painting we have entered before, it has a larger volume and a more grand and rigorous world view. It has a logical and rigorous coordinate axis. Whether it is viewed from the horizontal or vertical, it is mature and perfect. The set world is almost boundless, with no end."
"In other words, it's like another universe in the multiverse theory," Zhu Haowen said, "and the picture frame, or the scroll, is the gateway to this other universe in time and space."
"I have a chilling thought." Ke Xun said.
"You said, which one is the real world in the world we live in and the world in the "Book of Mountains and Seas"?"
Ke Xun's words made everyone gasp in a cold breath.
"If the coordinates of all art museums are linked together to form a signature, does that mean that the world we live in is actually... a painting?" Ke Xun didn't mean to take care of everyone's fearful emotions, and licked some Dry lips, continue to drop more conjecture bombs on everyone's nerves, "If our world is a picture, then what are we? The 'real' world beyond this picture What is it like
"What about the 'human beings' who lived in the 'real world' and created us
"We have always thought that we are the spirit of all things, the top of the biological chain, and the master of the world, but in fact, maybe we are just a bunch of... a bunch of symbols created by the real 'spirit of all things'
"Then according to the destiny and life trajectory they set for us, from birth to death, no matter how much you struggle and think, you will always be in their routine, always on this track, and you will never be able to derail and escape from this. Dimensional…”
Luo Yan's eyes were red, but not because of fear, but an inexplicable sadness that rose from his heart and swept his whole body.
— Turns out we were just a bunch of symbols.
In that "real world" we are not even the lowest creatures...
Our joys and sorrows, our memories and longings, all of us who have done our best to say goodbye to our hearts... are just a bunch of symbols, a ridiculously sad and humble bunch of symbols.
Luo Yan buried his head in his knees and cried bitterly.
"You, don't scare the child..." Wei Dong turned pale and patted Luo Yu's shoulder with a trembling hand.
"So," Zhu Haowen's voice was also slightly dry, "is the painting 'Schrödinger's Cat' a hint to us that one of the two competing forces we speculated before
"It implies that there is a consciousness outside our world that is higher than our material world, so for us, consciousness creates matter.
"And to that kind of advanced consciousness, we are equivalent to two-dimensional creatures to three-dimensional creatures. In our two-dimensional world, we can't see three-dimensional creatures, we can only feel their projections...
"It's like a certain statement in the scientific community - high-dimensional creatures are like gods to low-dimensional creatures, and the force they exert on the low-dimensional world is very incredible and impossible for low-dimensional creatures. Imagination is something that only God can do, because low-dimensional creatures can never imagine the appearance of high-dimensional creatures, and their attributes, or abilities, just as we can never imagine four-dimensional space, eleven The dimensional space looks normal."
"If our destiny has already been set by that high-level consciousness, then what's the use of all our efforts? Anyway, the result is doomed, the damned will die, what else do we have to struggle? ?" Wei Dong said in despair.
Ke Xun rubbed his face with both hands and smiled: "I was wrong, blame me, spread pessimistic thoughts. Brothers, this is just a conjecture, there may be thousands of possibilities for the event, this is just one of them. .
"Get up, my family said, the conscious body is also a kind of spiritual power. This kind of spiritual power is different from the material. It has no upper limit. No one knows how strong their spiritual power can be. If we compare mentally, we don't necessarily lose.
"Let's pause for a while, all relax, then what, why don't we watch the movie together? It happens that the female compatriots are not there, I have the latest European and American slut sex blockbuster, just the kind with the FBI warning at the beginning. …”
Everyone: "… "
Wei Dong: "Go away! Hao'er's sadness has ruined you!"
Ke Xun got up and said, "Take a break, I'll give you some late-night snacks. Ke's is delicious. The cliffs will let you eat all night and sleep well, and the spring dreams will come again and again."
Everyone: "… "
Ke's Delicious Supper is a hot, golden and fragrant mutton and millet porridge, sprinkled with diced carrots and shallots, and decorated with a few bright red wolfberries.
The golden orange, green and red, the bright colors and the white steaming heat immediately dilute the sadness and depression that shrouded everyone's hearts. Even Mu Yiran, Qin Ci and Shao Ling, who have always been quite self-disciplined in their living habits, couldn't help but pick them up. Spoon, breaking the habit of not eating after 8 o'clock in the evening.
"Is there any dry food?" Wei Dong may have been frightened, and he suddenly had an appetite and ordered food on the spot.
Ke Xun went into the kitchen and heated more than a dozen small milk steamed buns the size of pigeon eggs.
Luo Xun sucked his snot and his tongue that was scalded by the porridge. Ke Xun sat next to him and tilted his head to look at him: "Look at your talent, a few words can make you cry - oh shit! Your snot It's about to fall into the porridge! Can you blow it first?!"
"What are you afraid of? I..." Luo Yao raised his head and sniffed again, "Anyway, I'm a symbol, and my snot is also a symbol. If you drop it in the porridge, just treat it as a symbol."
Ke Xun: "..."
A hot porridge meal in the middle of the winter night made everyone relax a lot physically and psychologically. After eating, they all sat on the thick carpet on the living room floor and continued to sort out the clues about "Shan Hai Jing".
"I think we can put aside the ideas of 'advanced consciousness' and 'painting outside the painting'," Mu Yiran said, "otherwise our thinking will easily be bound here. No matter whether we are just in a painting of a higher world" Symbols', we should all struggle to survive in our own world, looking for ways to crack."
"Yi Ran is right!" Ke Xun said.
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Before, Baoyue had some inaccurate replies to the perspective of this article in the comment area - I didn't expect the perspective to be a serious problem... [You newcomers (authors) are really annoying and troublesome! —Liu Yufei with little braid.]
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