Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 97 Liao Cemetery Palace (recommended vote plus 1 update)

Hearing the fat man's sigh, Bai Jing shook his head and said: "No, this is not the emperor's tomb. Although the Feng Shui pattern here is the supreme situation of Jiulong carrying jade and chasing away jade, but judging from the Baoxiang patterns on the tomb bricks, It should be a woman buried here."

When Hazel heard this, she immediately asked curiously: "Does the emperor also have a woman?"

As soon as he said this, the fat man immediately shouted: "There must be some, such as that old lady Cixi."

Hearing this, Bai Qi said speechlessly: "Cixi has never been an emperor. Of course, although she is not an emperor, her status is definitely not lower than that of the emperor."

Bai Jing nodded, and then said: "My brother is right. There are many women with very high status in the history of our country. Although they are not emperors, they are no worse than emperors. Naturally, their tomb regulations are not as good as those of emperors." The average emperor is poor.

As far as I know, the Liao Dynasty was a relatively interesting dynasty. In this dynasty, in addition to the Yelu family of the emperor's lineage, there was also the Xiao family.

The establishment of the Liao Dynasty can be said to be inseparable from the Xiao family. The queen of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji was a member of the Xiao family, and many of his civil servants and generals were also from the Xiao family.

In the following hundreds of years, almost all queens and concubines in the Liao Dynasty were women of the Xiao family.

In addition, almost all the prime ministers of the Liao Dynasty were from the Xiao family.

After all the superpositions, it can be said that the Xiao family is the largest nobleman outside the royal family in the Liao Dynasty. Therefore, many of the tombs of the Queen Mother or Queens in the Liao Dynasty have very high regulations. If it is not bad as I expected, If so, this should be the tomb of one of the Queen Mother Xiao. "

As soon as he said this, Bai Qi nodded in agreement.

The others all had learned expressions.

Seeing that everyone was mentally prepared, Bai Jing immediately said: "Let's go then. The previous senior inversion probably didn't enter here. Let's take a look."

As he spoke, Bai Jing walked at the front.

Others quickly followed suit.

Who knows if there are monsters like the golden-headed centipede here. It’s better to be careful and follow the team closely.

Several people held torches and walked cautiously in the underground palace.

The Liao tombs imitated the mausoleum system of the Tang Dynasty. The Xuan Palace was carved into the mountain, and there were only three layouts. Whether it was in Bai Qi's "Measuring Gold Ruler" or Bai Jing's "Mausoleum Genealogy", both There are records of these three layouts.

If the three tomb layouts are compared to three characters, one is the character "A", the second is the character "中", and the third is the character "十".

As the name suggests, the character "A" indicates the structure of a single tomb passage, the character "中" indicates the structure of the double tomb passages in the north and south, and the last character "十" indicates the structure of the four tomb passages in the east, west, south, and north. No matter which pattern the main tomb passages run in the north-south direction.

The passage through which Bai Jing and the others got in from under the King Kong Wall is called the "幹道", and its direction should be facing the gate of Xuan Palace.

The entire tomb passage was sloping downwards. Bai Jing and the others groped their way, and after walking for about a hundred steps, they passed through two 'passing holes', and each section of the passing hole was carved with a pair of niches, one on the left and the other on the right. And Zhi respectively occupies the four directions of southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest.

Each niche is more than a foot high. The top is imitating the roof of a palace. On the outside, there are ridge tiles, dripping water and tiles. Inside, there is a dome roof made of bricks and stones. Inside the niche, there are Reliefs of the Four Heavenly Kings, all with ever-burning lamps and candles.

As expected, the tomb passage is in a north-south direction. The four heavenly kings in the niches are all wearing dragon scale armor. In the south of the east wall is the snake-wielding King Guangmu of the West, in the north of the east wall is the umbrella-holding King of Northern Duowen, and in the north of the east wall are the umbrella-holding King Duowen. On the south side of the wall is the Southern King of Growth who wields a sword, and on the north side of the west wall is the King of Dongzhiguo who wields the pipa. Except for Bai Jing, everyone else experienced this for the first time. Most of them were ignorant and did not understand the meaning of it at all.

Bai Jing also explained while walking.

The "sword, pipa, umbrella, and water snake" held in the hands of these four heavenly kings actually symbolize "wind, harmony, rain, and smoothness" respectively.

When the visitor walked through the two sections of the cave, he saw a gate in the middle of the tomb passage. There were patterns of "sea beasts" on each of the two stone doors. At the same time, he saw the sea beast on the door holding a stone ring in its mouth.

This sea beast is actually the fifth of the legendary nine sons of the dragon, named "Suanni". "Suanni" feeds on tigers and leopards, and is the mount of Manjushri Bodhisattva in Buddhist legend.

Around the son's gate are embossed "miracles, pipas, incense sticks, melons and fruits, and heavenly clothes". These five things respectively symbolize the five desires of the world: "color, sound, fragrance, taste and touch", and they also have very interesting meanings. Simple, that is "get rid of the five desires and achieve the right fruit".

There is another ring on the outside of the relief, with twenty-four petals, and the decoration is extremely gorgeous.

Seeing this, everyone was amazed.

Then without any delay, everyone stepped forward to push the stone door. With a dull sound, the sea beast stone door slowly opened.

This stone door is very heavy. If Bai Jing hadn't been here, it would have taken a lot of effort for the others to push the stone door open, even if they came together.

Ordinarily, after passing through the two stone gates, you should have entered the main tomb chamber.

But as the stone door was opened, Bai Jing saw clearly the scene behind the stone door, but he knew that he had guessed wrong again.

This is a cave dug into the heart of the mountain. It is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. There are niches on both sides similar to the previous ones, but they are dedicated to the four great Bodhisattvas, namely Bodhisattva Remover of Obstacles, Bodhisattva of the Void Treasure, and Bodhisattva of Freedom. , Malaka Bodhisattva.

There is an arched doorway between every two niches. Bai Jing knew that all the arched doorways in ancient tombs were collectively called "Quan Cave".

The so-called "Quan Cave" is actually a place where books are stored.

Such a place must be a great treasure for archaeologists.

But for tomb robbers, it's a matter of opinion.

Bai Jing took a closer look at the tomb chamber. It now seemed that the Xuan Palace of the Liao Tomb was composed of five halls: the front hall, the middle hall, the back hall, the left side hall, and the right side hall.

The cave of the Four Heavenly Kings behind the Vajra Wall is the front hall, and the cave of the Four Bodhisattvas behind the Sea Beast Stone Gate is the middle hall. Both the front hall and the middle hall are in a long and narrow north-south direction, and there are left and right side halls on the east and west sides of the middle hall.

The side hall only has a gate, and there is no stone door to block it. At the end of the middle hall, there is another gate, with two beasts carrying treasures embossed on it, which obviously leads to the apse, which is the cemetery palace of the Liao Dynasty. The main hall is called the "Eternal Life Hall" according to the burial system.

After walking for so long, I still haven't seen the most important coffin. To be honest, the fat man was a little impatient. He immediately complained: "Why are there holes after holes in this Liao tomb? If we keep going like this, how long will it take to arrive?" Did you win?"

(End of this chapter)