President's Legendary Master

"What's this word?" Professor Wang Yishui looked at it with a magnifying glass for a long time: "I don't know it."

The little celestial master squeezed over and took a look: "Yu."

"Is this Yu character?" Professor Wang Yishui almost stared out his old eyes: "It's different from the inscription on the jade tablet!"

"I thought it was a crab!" Dugu Haoyan also opened his mouth, and he told the truth.

That character looks like a crab holding up its pincers, but it doesn't have so many legs. The one on the jade tablet looks more like a scorpion.

"Actually, the later interpretation of this word is also quite good, and the rice utensils are also. The sound of the dish is bad. The feathers are all cut." The little celestial master said: "This general must have been very favored at the time. The jade stele uses Shang Wen, this is Shangwen, two kinds of writing."

"It must be favored, these are the people who wiped out a tribe."

A pair of spears rests on top of this second tier.

The wooden handle of the spear had rotted away, leaving the bronze spear head, which was in the shape of a phoenix bird's beak. It looked like a ceremonial item, not something used to kill the enemy in battle.

Then there were still two-color silk and gold nails. This time, the little celestial master didn't need to say anything. Professor Wang Yishui told him: "You will have another nail for your descendants."

The little celestial master happily pulled out those gold pins.

Got another golden descendant nail, and showed off to Dugu Haoyan: "Look! Baby!"

"Are you calling it, or are you calling me?" Dugu Haoyan pulled the man over: "Tell me clearly."

The little celestial master was listless, and he refused to answer.

Then it was "done" that night. The next day, my back was sore and I couldn't go to the tomb. Professor Wang Yishui and the others threw things out like groundhogs. They were all treasures. The old professor was very stubborn and busy again in the ancient tomb. one day.

The next day I was invited to go down to the tomb again, and I saw the throne. Everything that had been placed on the throne was gone, and only the bare throne remained, with the table still intact.

"Well, what should we do? We haven't seen the coffin of the owner of the tomb. Your guess is correct. There should indeed be a main tomb behind it, but... how to get in?" Professor Wang Yishui looked at the little celestial master anxiously.

His students imitated him, and all looked at the little celestial master eagerly.

Dugu Haoyan rubbed his chin, this scene is getting more and more familiar, this scene... tsk tsk tsk!

"This is easy." Little Heavenly Master came down this time with a lot of things, two big suitcases, which can contain a lot, Dugu Haoyan has never seen him so troublesome, and brought so many things.

Just listen to the little celestial master saying: "Prepare a cow and slaughter it 20 meters away from the ten-thousand-person altar in front. All the blood of the cow is scattered around the altar; chop off the tail of the cow and put it on the lintel of the entrance. Come up; bring me another live yearling, a white goat, and I'll kill it."

"So troublesome?" Professor Wang Yishui frowned. He thought he would be done with a few handfuls of beans, or play Mingle again?

"We are imitating sacrifices, but we are not descendants of Emperor Zhou, so we can only imitate and cannot follow the full set of etiquette." The little celestial master said: "You know how troublesome the rituals of Zhou are, especially when the emperor Zhou worships ancestors. Generally speaking, the official sacrificial process of the Son of Heaven’s ancestor worship ceremony can be clearly divided into four links. The first link is naked offering; The third link is to offer cooked food. There are five offerings and six offerings in this section; the fourth link is the offering of corpses after fifteen meals. Offer wine to "enjoy food". There are seven, eight, and nine three offerings in this section. I have simplified it to three offerings. Because of the long history here, the owner of the tomb estimates that he has reincarnated countless times, so this is the case. Otherwise, hehehe... walking down the whole journey will exhaust you to death!"

The etiquette established by the Zhou Dynasty also included the sacrificial ceremony. Although there was no saying at that time that "the important affairs of the country, only the sacrifices and the soldiers", but in terms of etiquette, the Zhou Dynasty definitely followed, so the sacrificial ceremony also followed its own regulations.

The cumbersome and complicated ones are beyond counting.

Even ten days before the sacrifice, Dazai Commander-in-Chief Da Zongbo and Taibu Bu Day, Si Shi assisted.Divination means obtaining auspicious dates through divination.

In the future, Dazai ordered all the officials to make preparations for the sacrifice, including cleaning the ancestral temple, preparing utensils to be used, and so on.

After the divination day, the emperor needs to fast for ten days, of which seven days are scattered and three days are spent.

During the Sanzhai period, you can go out, but you don't go out, don't have fun, and don't mourn.

Zhizhai can only do activities indoors.

It's not respectful enough for them to make temporary sacrifices like this. It's very simple. If the offerings are not up to the grade, it will be really shameful.

"Okay!" Professor Wang Yishui wiped his face: "Come on, come on, you can do whatever you want, and you must open the main tomb for me."

Professor Wang Yishui also went all out.

The little celestial master grinned.

He chose a place, just in front of the throne, on the huge stone table, and in front of the stone table, there were three wine cups. Although they were made of blue and white porcelain, they looked like modern handicrafts, brand new things.

Three large bowls were placed, and this time I used ceramic bowls, but they were purchased locally.

One bowl was filled with millet, one bowl was filled with soybeans, and the other bowl was filled with rice.

There are also two plates, one plate is filled with five fresh peaches, and the other plate is filled with red jujubes.

Further forward is an enamel basin made of modern technology.

To be honest, few people use this kind of thing now, but the little Tianshi has prepared such a basin here.

There are nine kinds of spices in the basin, such as Gansong, Angelica dahurica, Cangzhu, Duhuo, Cymbidium, Pihanxiang, Yuelinxiang, Qianbuxiang, Longwenxiang, etc. The little heavenly master calls this "Jiuhe Tianxiang".

The two sides are not suet candles, but small suet lamps, just like those shown on TV, a black lamp with a bundle of incense ropes as the wick, which is soaked in suet. A small dim light came into being. In the lighting of cold light lamps everywhere, the brightness of these two small lights can be ignored.

After seeing these, Dugu Haoyan searched for a long time.

"What are you looking for?" the little celestial master asked him suspiciously.

"No, where's the incense burner?" Dugu Haoyan looked at him and asked, "Isn't it incense?"

"In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was no concept of incense." Little Tianshi said: "But there is the concept of burning incense. Spices have a long history, dating back to the Emperor Shennong's time 5000 years ago. Plants were collected as medicinal products to drive away epidemics. To avoid pollution. At that time, human beings paid much attention to the aroma volatilized from plants. When they smelled the fragrance of flowers in full bloom, they felt the beauty and aroma pleasure at the same time; The perfect religious realm. Therefore, in ancient times, these fragrant substances were used for worshiping the gods, offering sacrifices, purifying the body and mind, and funerals. Later, they were gradually used for food, decoration, and beauty. The history of burning incense can be roughly divided into three periods. The first two periods were regarded as spices and perfumes, and the later period was used for religious worship and worship of Buddha. The following types of incense were burned during the initial period: firewood, jade silk, animal body, fragrant wormwood, millet, fat, etc. Burning incense The function is unique, and it is used for sacrifice. And this period is the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty, and the Early Han Period."

"Then why did you put the Jiuhe Tianxiang here?" Dugu Haoyan didn't understand: "Instead of an incense burner, use a brazier instead?"

"People in the Zhou Dynasty raised smoke to sacrifice to heaven, which is called "禋" or "禋祭". "Book of Songs Zhou Song Weiqing": "Weiqing Jixi, King Wen's Code, Zhaoyu". There is a record on the paper: "Wen Wang He was ordered to sacrifice to heaven. "That is to say, this kind of sacrificial system began with King Wen of Zhou." Daomiao touched these things: "I also try my best to restore the sacrifices of the Zhou Dynasty, so as to comfort the ancestors."

"Is this just a simple recovery?" Dugu Haoyan was surprised: "You put so many things!"

"During the Zhou Dynasty, people's way of offering sacrifices was to place the sacrificial animals and treasures on the firewood, and burn the firewood to raise smoke, which means to pray to heaven." The little celestial master pointed to the ancient tomb: "Such a closed place, we Dare to light a fire?"

"Zhou Li, Chunguan, Da Zongbo": "Sacrifice to the God of Haotian, use real firewood to worship the sun, moon and stars, and use firewood to worship Sizhong Siming. The wind is the master of the rain."

"Thirteen Classics Notes" note: "The words of the smoke." "The three sacrifices all accumulate firewood and solid animals, or have jade and silk, burnt and smoke, so they report to the sun."

There is also a record of jade memorials: "禋, the sacrifice of fragrance".

The little celestial master gave him a book bag: "It can be seen that the so-called sacrifices, one is to light a fire to raise smoke, and the other is to use the smoke as a fragrance. To use cigarettes to worship gods, then this is the so-called "burning incense" in later generations. Incense has the following characteristics: The incense is primitive; the second is to raise the fire naturally without utensils; the third is to use it exclusively for sacrifices, that is, burning incense has not yet become a living thing."

"It wasn't until the Han Dynasty that there was a saying about offering incense. It was because Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains that there was such a thing as burning incense in front of the Buddha. Later, everyone offered incense to their ancestors."

Dugu Haoyan nodded upon hearing this: "I've learned a lot."

There are so many sayings about burning incense.

Fortunately, the ventilation system here is good, as long as the little Tianshi does not open a barbecue stall, it is estimated that there will be no difficulty.

Sure enough, after the cow was killed outside, a pure white lamb was sent to him. This lamb should have been specially prepared. The wool all over the body is as white as snow, and there are a pair of small horns on its head. This is a standard goat, white. goats, annual young rams.

The whole body is clean and fat.

The little celestial master used a small dagger very neatly to slaughter the kid. After the goat blood was collected in a horn cup, it was placed on both sides of the throne, and then the whole goat was placed on the altar.

Then the bull's head was burned in a brazier, and various materials in the brazier were ignited, and a strange aroma lingered in the entire ancient tomb.

The little celestial master led everyone, kneeling three times and knocking nine times.

Strange to say, after they sacrificed and bowed down, the throne moved!

The movement was abrupt, because the throne turned over suddenly, revealing the dark entrance.

A dull breath wafted out. Fortunately, because of their deepening relationship, the air replacement system was set up very high-end, so there was no need to worry about stuffiness.

Soon, it didn't take much time to replace the air. It turned out that the throne was reversed, and it was a small step, not upward, but downward.

Entering with a cold light, after going down nine steps, there is an underground tomb.

This tomb is circular, surrounded by nine stone pillars, on which a dragon shape is cast in bronze and coiled around it.

There are two light trees on both sides.

It looks like a big tree made up of lamps, it seems to be used for lighting, but it is not lit now, the black lamp has a wick that has been used for so many years, but it is suet white.

This place is the best closed, with the least amount of dust. Everyone quickly cleaned up the dust.

There is only a large coffin placed on nine pieces of jade the size of a computer desk, the ground is covered with bluestone slabs, and several funerary objects are placed on it.

Although there are only a few of them, they are amazing.

A large bronze tripod, as tall as a person, is very large, filled with gold, silver and jewels. The tripod is simple in shape, with inscriptions and lettering on it.

There is also a bronze chariot and horse, which is almost exactly the same as the "Six Chariots of the Son of Heaven" outside.

It's just shrunk down a bit, made of bronze, it looks delicate and small, very cute.

What's left is even more remarkable.

Bronze utensils, brass turtles, gold fish, and a set of ritual vessels carved from jade.

"This, this, this is a ritual vessel?" Professor Wang Yishui looked at so many exquisite funeral objects, his whole body was in a bad mood.

"This is a food vessel." The little celestial master pointed to a pile of things and said, "Ding, gui, 甗, 鬲, zu, bean, 簠."

Then he pointed to a pile of jade wares and said: "This is jade wares, Bi, Zhang, Hu, Cong, Gui, Huang."