Everyone's eyes were attracted, and they all looked at the green altar!
This altar exudes a cold luster and has an extremely weird shape. It does not look like the architectural style of the Central Plains at all, but more like the exotic beauty of the ancient Egyptian civilization or the Sumerian civilization.
It is in the shape of a huge trapezoid, with a platform at the top.
There is actually a tree growing in the middle of the platform. The tree towers into the sky, giving rise to a feeling of being extremely cold at high places.
No, that tree is not alive. It is actually made of bronze. It is a bronze tree!
"Oh my god, I've seen bronze statues, bronze tripods, and bronze swords. This is the first time I've seen a bronze tree, and it's such a tall bronze tree!"
I couldn't help but let out an exclamation of admiration when I discovered that there was a white jade ladder pointing upward, leading to the bronze tree along the altar, just like a ladder to worship the gods in the sky, connecting the earth and the sky!
When the light of the flashlight shone on the bronze tree along the ladder, the faint light was swallowed up instantly, as if this disrespectful behavior offended the gods, making me feel frightened for a moment...
The Western Zhou Dynasty was blurry, and only the outline of the real altar could be vaguely seen, which could not help but deepen our fear!
Lao Jiang was no longer stingy and threw a flare first, and then we saw an extremely weird scene!
It turns out that there are nine branches growing on this bronze tree, and the branches of each branch are tilted upward, like a hand raised high, holding something carefully.
At a glance, the thing looked like a bronze bird.
The strangest thing is that each bronze bird has a long and thin bronze chain in its mouth, nine in total.
At a glance, the nine bronze chains were like shackles that imprisoned prisoners, hanging down from the top of the altar, with the other ends tied in the distance.
It's just that there is darkness at the end of the bronze chain, and I don't know what is tied to it?
Ge Weihan carried a pocket monocular telescope with him. He first picked up the foreign thing and observed it. Suddenly, he shouted excitedly: "The birds parked on every branch have three legs. This is a Chinese myth." The golden crow in the middle!”
Golden Crow?
I immediately thought of the three-legged golden crow on the sun bird ring. I grabbed the telescope without hesitation and stared at the bronze tree.
Sure enough, the three-legged bird parked on the branch was almost exactly the same shape as the three-legged golden crow on the sun bird ring!
"But what was the purpose of the ancient Shu people in building such a majestic altar under the ground and casting a bronze tree seven to eight meters high?"
What's more, this place is located in Xichuan. We have already calculated before that the ancient Shu Kingdom should belong to the same era as the Yin Shang Dynasty.
In that era, even the Great Shang Dynasty, which was proud of its bronze civilization, might not have the ability to cast such a tall bronze tree, let alone a small and remote country?
The difficulties and dangers to be overcome are simply beyond the capabilities of human power.
Lao Jiang stared at the bronze tree and murmured: "No, there is a way! They are very smart. They used the 'segmented casting method'! That is, the craftsmen cast the upper and middle parts of the bronze tree separately. Cut out the three parts and then assemble them into a complete bronze tree.”
On the way here, I was thinking about whether the ancient Shu people really existed? After all, there were very few books recording them for five thousand years.
But now I'm shaken...
I saw several bronze statues under the towering bronze tree. They worshiped the tree as if they were performing a mysterious sacrifice.
Yin Ling'er looked at the high white jade staircase and was lost in thought: "This ladder is so beautiful. Can you pick the stars by walking up it?"
I was just about to say no, when Ge Weihan suddenly had an idea and said: "Yes, the end of this ladder is heaven."
We all looked at him, thinking that Ge Weihan might be too excited, but Ge Weihan pointed to the altar firmly and said: "Look carefully, that tree is not an ordinary bronze tree. It’s a bronze sacred tree! Its name is: Fusang.”
“Fuso?”
This name seemed familiar to me, but I couldn't place it in my mind.
Ge Weihan talked eloquently: "In ancient China, there is a sacred book called "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that there is a sacred hibiscus tree between heaven and earth, which is thousands of feet high."
"There were ten suns in the sky at that time. They usually turned into golden crows and slept on the sacred Fusang tree!"
"Nine of the birds live on the nine branches of the hibiscus tree, and the last bird lives on the top of the tree. These ten birds take turns turning into the sun to illuminate the world every day. When one comes back, the other one reports. The person responsible for transporting them is their mother Xihe.”
Speaking of this, Ge Weihan couldn't help stroking his beard: "I have a great poet I particularly like, called Li Bai. I remember that he had this sentence in "The Road to Shu is Difficult": There are six dragons above the sun. The "Six Dragons Returning to the Sun" refers to Xi He driving a car pulled by six dragons to send the sun home. "
You must know that Li Bai is my idol. Although the poem "The Road to Shu is Difficult" is a bit difficult to memorize, I can recite it backwards and forwards. What's more, Lao Jiang mentioned this poem several times before setting off.
Seeing Ge Weihan's appearance of cherishing his family treasures, Lao Jiang and I couldn't help but sigh. We didn't expect that as early as the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai had indirectly proved the existence of the ancient Shu Kingdom to us, but we descendants never believed it...
Although Ge Weihan is a foreigner, he has a deep love for Xichuan and a full appreciation for Chinese culture. He can combine the myths of the Classic of Mountains and Seas with Li Bai's poems and quote from the classics. I don't know how many classics he has read behind the scenes!
But some of our countrymen regard the splendid culture left by our ancestors as a feudal cancer and superstition, which is really shameful.
At this time, Lao Jiang suddenly turned on a flashlight and asked me to follow him, and asked Yin Ling'er and Ge Weihan to go to the other side to observe.
It turned out that he wanted to follow the nine slender bronze chains to find the source. To be honest, I always had an ominous premonition when looking at those long and slender bronze chains. I always felt like they were locking up some kind of monster. .
And this altar seems to use the Fuso Sacred Tree and the Golden Crow to suppress them with the power of the sun!
Sure enough, when Lao Jiang and I walked about twenty or thirty meters away, we saw that at the end of the chain was a ferocious bronze warrior statue!
This bronze warrior statue is two meters tall, huge in stature, with forearms thicker than my waist, and wearing a mask, it is intimidating!
He also held a bronze torch in his hand, pointing it at the large pit in front of him, as if he wanted to burn everything in the pit.
That pit seemed to be a huge sacrificial pit. This sacrificial pit was very similar to the sacrificial pit we saw in Yin Ruins. It was densely packed with human bones, and among these bones were scattered scattered jade articles.
Among them there are many jade toads that once made me feel like dying!
