Back then, the scope of activities of Wuluohou Country should be centered on the Da Guli River Basin, scattered in the Daxinganling Mountains south of Yilahuli Mountain.
With Longshan as the center, they built sacrificial crypts spread over dozens of kilometers, and the one we dug out by chance is one of them.
Originally, we were not very interested in the content of the wall engraving, and after reading it roughly, we didn't pay any more attention. After discovering the connection between the cave and Longshan, several people picked up their flashlights and went up to look at the wall carvings.
"This wall carving..." Chongyang reached out and touched it: "It doesn't seem to be meaningless."
At first we thought it was primitive and rough wall carvings, recording the production routines of some hunting and hunting members of the fishing and hunting department, but after a closer look, we found that all the wall carvings are connected.
That is their eyes.
Everyone's body movements are different, but their eyes are surprisingly consistent.
After careful observation, they will find that their eyes are incompatible with the wall carvings as a whole, which is the difference in the overall painting style. The torso and body costumes are all very rough and simple lines, with the rough and abstract painting style of semi-primitive people, and they don't care about the details.
But their eyes are in a different style, which is described by two terms in the traditional lettering art, one is inscribed and the other is inscribed.
Yin engraving means that the lines are below the plane and are recessed, which is the engraving method used in the torso costumes in cave paintings. The sun carving is the line above the plane, in order to highlight, in the cave paintings, only the eyes have adopted this carving method.
In other words, the body lines of these murals are sunken into the stone wall, while the eyes protrude from the stone wall. In a primitive and rough mural, reliefs appeared.
Chongyang touched the eyes protruding from the stone wall, "These wall carvings are not as simple as they seem."
I nodded: "The process of making them is far from as simple as it seems. First, you need to carve down the entire stone wall, leaving the protruding part of the eyes, and then match each pair of eyes with body and clothing."
Yuan Zhi said: "Then why, do the eyes have any important meaning to them?" He pointed to the eyeballs: "Look at the big eyeballs, they are very finely carved, and they are still carved like the eyes of a writing wheel. It’s threaded."
Li Yuan nodded: "There are two possibilities, one is realism and the other is fiction."
"To be realistic, are they all suffering from hyperthyroidism, with prominent eyeballs, and the second phase is all about writing round eyes?"
"No." I shook my head: "These eyeballs are drawn very finely, and they are incompatible with the style of the body. The only possibility is that they are fictitious."
They want to highlight the eyes. Even deliberately simplify the body torso, just to highlight the eyes.
"Then what's special about their eyes, should they be highlighted on the wall carvings?" Yuan Zhi asked.
"This is likely to be the performance of Wuluo Hou’s sacred worship. Out of respect for the gods in heaven, earth and nature, the northern peoples formed the primitive religious shamanism. In the process of primitive art creation, they will uphold primitive simplicity. Longing, to highlight the gods or miracles to the maximum, and deliberately make people short and rough to highlight the sacredness of the gods."
Yuan Zhi said: "It's the same reason that the emperor was painted very large in ancient times, and the eunuch next to him was painted very small."
"That's right." I nodded, "These walls deliberately protruding eyes may be for similar reasons. But the strange thing is..."
"Why do they respect their own eyes?" Li Yuanyi continued.
Yes, there are many kinds of worship. Respect to the Heavenly Father is the most common. There are also sun, moon and stars, mountains and rivers, plants, trees, insects, beasts, water, fire, wind and rain, and so on. But this is the first time I have heard of someone who worships a certain part of his body.
I looked at them one by one, each pair of eyes protruded from the mural, and they were very detailed, and they occupied a lot of space on the character's face. It seemed that the whole character existed to support the eyes.
"Look carefully at the position of their pupils in their eye sockets." Li Yuan joined.
After he reminded me, I paid attention, and soon discovered that the pupils were not located in the middle of the eye sockets, but slightly offset, and they all moved in the same direction.
All the carved figures, no matter what they are doing, hunting, gathering, or fighting, all their eyes are looking in the same direction in the cave, which is the deepest part of the cave, and the painting is on the ground. Character illustration.
"The picture of the figure on the ground should be the giant peek, because the peep is buried in the ground, so this picture was carved on the ground."
This is the first time that we have the most direct contact with the earth. Everything before is in the narration of others, or in the narration of others. A lot of side information has been talking about his existence. If our experience is made into a movie, then the previous experience is to pave the way for the appearance of a glimpse.
This is the first time. Thousands of years ago, the sacrificial site of Wuluo Hou was right in front of our eyes. For the first time, the image of Di Jing appeared in front of us so intuitively.
It is so abstract and simple, it can be guessed that the people of Wuluohou country have not even seen the ground glimpse, and the statues on the ground are just speculations of the people of this country.
But they must have something to do with the ground peeping.
Eyes, eyes.
The underground was very cold and gloomy. At this time, the sound of the wind had been blowing for quite a while, and the snow had blocked the exit. I sniffed, "No, I guess I can't see any more, please set up your tent and evacuate quickly. "
It will be a long night.
Chongyang even brought a warm baby, which is better than nothing, and put a piece under his feet. The four people lined up in a sleeping bag, the sleeping bag in the tent, and the tent in the hole. "You won't be suffocated?" I said.
"The snow is very fluffy and breathable." Chongyang said.
I can't sleep at all, I can only stay awake. After listening to the wind and snow outside, I stayed up in the middle of the night and felt that I was already frozen in my sleeping bag. When the snow stopped and went out for activities, I felt my bones would crack.
I originally thought that I was the only one who didn't fall asleep, but the rustling Chongyang turned over next to him: "Did Liu Cixin write any other books?"
I'm happy, you still remember the storytelling, "I don't have a big tome, I will go back to Chongqing to buy a few copies."
"to make."
"You still watch science fiction." Yuan Zhi said.
"Curious, it's not really understandable."
Li Yuanyi said suddenly: "Then you think the things we are experiencing now are science fiction or supernatural."
"Where is science fiction? It's just a country with a strong sense of spirituality." Yuan Zhi said.
I know what Li Yuanyi wanted to ask. He wanted to ask what the giant had glimpsed. Is there really a giant's body buried deep in the younger brother of Daxinganling? If it can be explained by science, it is science fiction, if it can only be explained by ghosts, it is supernatural. (End of this chapter)