Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

Allow me to say a few words of nonsense here, because I have to explain something so that everyone can understand how shocked I was when I saw the layout of the entire tomb.

As mentioned above, the strict regulation of ancient tombs, what kind of identity lived in what kind of yin house.

According to the funeral treatment that princes can enjoy, among the tombs of Ming Dynasty kings that have been excavated so far, the tomb of Shulu King Zhu Tan is the largest, and it can be called the tomb of the first prince of Ming Dynasty.The mausoleum was built by chiseling stones from Jiulong Mountain. The entire cemetery is 206 meters long and 80 meters wide, while the tomb below is 8.86 meters high with a wall that seals the gate, which is equivalent to the height of a two-story building. There are two courtyards. All are carved with nine vertical and horizontal rows of 81 milky red nails, vermilion lacquer pasted with gold, very bright.Among the funerary objects are the guard of honor figurines, chariots, horses, etc.

This is the content that can be searched on Baidu, why should I be long-winded here?Because the door of the tomb opened by the incense burner just now seems to me to be of this size, and there are nine rows of 81 milky red nails on it, so I believe that the incense burner is right, a prince of the Ming Dynasty was buried here.

There are also groups of terracotta warriors in the tomb, and the number is not large. Compared with the terracotta warriors dug out of the burial pits of Qin Shihuang, it is not worth mentioning.

Of course, this is not the reason for my shock, the following is the key point.

Zhu Yuanzhang's birth determined that he was a frugal person, so the imperial mausoleum was transformed from him, removing the large towers and turrets, and the mausoleum was changed into a circular shape, with a compact but grand layout.

But that is Mausoleum.

It is very rare for a tomb under rammed earth to be built like this. I only know one Tang tomb that is like this, and the coffin chamber of the owner of the tomb in front of me is like this.

The tomb is divided into two circles, the inner ring and the outer ring. There are sunken water tanks in the middle and outer edges, and the water inside is as black as ink.And in the middle is a huge square platform paved with bluestone slabs. I can't tell the east, west, north and south, but half of the square platform is a square array of human figurines. Abominable, the front row is four people carrying stone chariots and catapults, which looks like a battle array.As for the second half of the nine steps, it seems to be paved with black agate, the oil is black and shiny, and the coffin bed is above the steps.

This layout makes me vaguely feel that it symbolizes something, as if everything is done deliberately, which makes the layout of the tomb so weird.The incense burner whispered next to me at this time: "Oops, it really changed!"

I was full of doubts and asked him: "Is there any particularity to the layout here? It looks weird. Is there any metaphor? Do you understand?"

The incense burner frowned slightly, and muttered in a very soft voice: "The sky is round and the earth is round, with 64 hexagrams."

I also saw that the square stone slab in the middle was engraved with symbols similar to those on the Eight Diagrams, and the figurines were arranged according to the symbols.In addition, such hexagrams are also engraved on the floor tiles around the sink.

The outer circle and the inner square, I remember that the 64 hexagrams of Zhouyi really look like this. If we can look down from the zenith, we may be able to see the formation at a glance, but now we are looking from the side, so we don’t realize it all at once.

"The entire tomb forms a 64 hexagram?" I asked in surprise.

"Hmm..." The incense burner nodded slightly.Ever since I saw this man, his expression has been absent-minded, as if he is out of his mind and often distracted.But now, there was a serious look on his face, and his dull eyes became sharper.

What surprised me even more was that he would take the initiative to talk to me, and his breath was very long.

He stretched out his hand and tugged at my sleeve, stared at the phalanx, and said, "Don't move around, just stay here, and you can't move half a step. The 64 hexagrams here form eight patterns, namely dry, exchange, The eight palaces of Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun, these eight palaces form 64 formations, corresponding to 64 hexagrams, auspicious hexagrams are feasible, and ominous hexagrams must die. The formation I broke when I came last time is different from now, let’s go One wrong step and we're all dead."

He said such a long string in one go, I was confused.

The 64 hexagrams were invented by King Wen of Zhou.The meaning shown by the hexagram image can be detailed to the beginning and end of a thing, from existence to non-existence, from birth to death. It is said that it can be used to calculate the process of a thing's development and evolution, and even its end.I don't know anything about this thing. At best, I can memorize concepts and see which of those horizontal lines are Yin lines and which are Yang lines.

Zhou Yi's stuff makes people dizzy, anyway, there are experts here, so I don't need to worry about it, so I simply nodded obediently: "Okay. Then you see how to go, and I will do what you say."

"Yeah." He responded softly again, concentrating on his thoughts.I saw how focused he was, so I didn't want to talk too much, so as not to disturb his thinking. This is related to how long I will have in the rest of my life.

My intuition tells me that listening to the incense burner in the ancient tomb is not wrong. This is also the idea of ​​a dead horse as a living horse doctor, because I have no other choice but to trust him, and it is absolutely impossible for me to find my own way out of here.So the incense burner was studying the formation there, and I looked around to pass the time.

There are a lot of blue and white porcelain on display in the tomb, but they are all fragments and broken tiles. Since someone has visited this tomb, it is estimated that the valuable ones have been taken away long ago.

However, I noticed that there are eight jade platforms on the outer ring of the tomb. The jade platforms are full of piles of gold ingots. Due to the lack of light, the eight jade platforms are all in the dark, and the ones closest to us can only be vaguely seen. Out of a silhouette, the distance is just a black shadow.

But after taking a closer look, I found several people lying beside a pile of gold ingots.

No, that is a rotting corpse!

My nerves were tingling immediately, and I took a deep breath, only to feel a rancid smell in my nostrils.

"The, the corpse over there..." The incense burner was right next to me, I started to tug at him, but suddenly remembered something, I quickly withdrew my hand and turned to stare at him, "...Did I come in with you last time?" the five of them?"

The incense burner kept staring at the phalanx, and said calmly: "That's right, those ingots were all coated with poison, and they all died of poisoning."

If Zhang Rui were to say this, it would seem that it would become "man-made financial death, death is more than justified.".The incense burner didn't make any comments, it felt like he was being merciful.

I swallowed: "Then you..."

The incense burner looked back at me, his eyes were as clear as still water, without waves: "It was too late when I wanted to remind them, and at that time I was only thinking about how to break the formation."

"Oh..." I stared at the eyes of the incense burner. Although his eyes were empty and lifeless, they were black and clear, with a uniform color and no impurities.It looked like he wanted me to believe him, so I nodded, "I see, I won't move around, don't worry."

But after all, this may be my own sentimentality, the incense burner has no expression on his face, and quickly turned his head to stare at the square formation, frowning and thinking.

Although I know I shouldn't bother him at this time, but for the rest of my life, I must find out some things.

So I tentatively said: "I see that you don't like working with them. If so, why do you cooperate again?"

The incense burner gave a very good reason.He said, "Because Boss Zhang has what I want."

Boss Zhang?I was a little puzzled, but I felt that this was not about Zhang Rui.

"He wants you to trade him something from this ancient tomb?"

"Hmm..." Incensing Lever responded softly. I like hearing his muffled answer the most. It makes me feel that he has something to hide. He doesn't want to say it, but he won't pretend to deceive either.

This somewhat reassures me about his behavior. Although it is not so easy to confide in him, I also feel that although the incense burner is full of mysteries, it is not the kind of harmful person.

This is very important to me, the incense burner is very powerful, I seem to feel that his experience in the ancient tomb is much higher than that of Zhang Rui and others.So as long as I follow him and do what he says, my chances of getting out alive will increase a bit, but first you have to confirm whether this person is trustworthy, right?

With that in mind, I had to figure out the situational camp.

I said: "I can't figure out one thing. It seems that you can fight alone without partnering with others... Uh, I heard that some natives work alone. Why do you have to bring them in together?"

He kept Zhang Rui and the others outside, but he didn't stop fighting, which meant that he could go deep into the tomb alone.As for me, I'm already superfluous, and I can't help you with anything, but it might be a disservice to me.

The incense burner said: "I made an oath that I would not bring out any of the bright objects in the fight. The oath is unbreakable, so I want them to take it by themselves."

"Oh..." I nodded, with a flash of inspiration in my heart, and pointed to myself, "So you asked me to follow you, because you want me to help you touch the light and take it out?"

"En." The incense burner's voice was crisp.I can't laugh or cry.

It seems that besides being a tow bottle, I still have other functions.

I sighed in frustration, and looked sideways, only to find that the incense burner beside me was gone!

I looked around again, only to see him bowed, lying on the ground like a cat, tiptoeing towards the sink.He craned his neck and tilted his head to look into the tank, like a cat trying to tease a fish in the water.And he did dip a hand into the black water, pound it, then get up and dry it with his clothes.

???

Is he washing his hands with that water?

"what are you doing?"

The incense burner said: "There is something in the water, stay away for a while."

"..." My legs were sore from standing, I didn't dare to move a step, it was really uncomfortable.So I asked impatiently, "How is it? Can I move?"

The incense burner seems to be talking to itself: "The hexagrams are three. No.18 hexagram, Gu, mountain wind, ups and downs; Zhan Shang; No.20 Qi Gua, Yi Gua, Shan Lei Yi, pure to nourish."

"Please speak more plainly..."

He frowned slightly, and finally seemed to say to me: "Here is a Shangshang hexagram, which corresponds to Taigong's five-element formation... You follow me, remember well, each brick has 1000 steps, a total of [-] steps to the coffin bed." Two hundred steps, neither more nor less."

I swallowed hard, and glanced at the phalanx of human figurines. The floor tiles on the ground were much larger than ordinary floor tiles. One hexagram symbol is one brick, and it should be possible to walk twenty steps.

This is another long sentence from the incense burner. I deeply feel that the socialist youth are under great pressure to survive.

"Go slowly, I'll follow."