Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 99 Back Hall
  While the fat man heaved a sigh of relief, Lu Jun shone his flashlight on the fat man's face and couldn't help but laugh.

Immediately afterwards, I heard Lu Jun joke: "I said fat man, are you afraid?"

When the fat man heard this, he immediately felt as if he had been insulted and replied: "I'm not afraid. I'm afraid you are the one who is afraid, right?"

Bai Qi also joked at this moment and asked: "Then why did your face look so pale just now?"

The fat man replied harshly: "I put wax on it to protect myself from the cold!"

Hearing this, Bai Jing was also happy. If it was winter, he would be able to say this, but now it is summer, so there is nothing to prevent the cold.

When Lu Jun heard the fat man's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately asked: "Then why are you red now?"

As soon as he said this, the fat man immediately posed, and then replied with a sonorous voice: "Radiant!"

When he said this, even the two girls Jianguo and Hazel couldn't help laughing.

Speaking of which, this fat man is really interesting. He is really good at telling lies with his eyes open.

After laughing for a while, everyone searched carefully to see if there was any mechanism in the tomb. It was possible that there was a mechanism that hid everything.

At this moment, Bai Jing, after walking around the west hall, suddenly noticed something wrong and shined the torch on the ground.

Bai Jing immediately discovered that the Baoxiang pattern on the tomb brick was reversed.

According to the tomb system of the Liao Dynasty, only the emperor and the queen mother had a nine-room underground palace.

It can be seen from the furnishings and decorations in the tomb that the person buried in this Liao tomb is definitely not an emperor.

As for princes, kings or noble ministers below the emperor, they can use underground palaces with at most five or six rooms.

The imperial tombs of the Liao Dynasty had two auxiliary halls each in the front, middle and back halls, totaling nine underground palaces in total.

Although the Queen Mother also used a nine-room underground palace, four of the auxiliary halls were distributed on both sides of the apse to show her difference from the emperor.

When they entered the front hall of the tomb, Bai Jing and the others did not find the existence of the side hall, which also showed that this could not be the tomb of an emperor.

For a time, Bai Jing became more and more interested in the layout of the apse.

Then everyone went to the east hall to check, and found that it was no different from the west hall. There was nothing hidden, and there were more than a dozen corpses of boys and girls hanging above.

After reading this, Bai Jing and the others began to walk towards the back hall.

After spending a lot of effort, everyone successfully opened the tomb door into the apse.

As the door of the back hall was opened, everyone saw that behind the door were nine steps, all carved from a single piece of blue and white stone, with five Buddhas embossed on them: Sakyamuni Buddha in the center, Medicine Buddha in the east, and Amitabha in the west. , the treasure-born Buddha in the south, and the accomplished Buddha in the north.

These five Buddhas are also called the Five Wisdom Buddhas. According to legend, they can transform and purify people's five kinds of troubles: ignorance, anger, pride, greed, and jealousy. Seeing the reliefs of these five Buddhas, Bai Jing He looked at Bai Qi.

It seems that the main hall is down there. As everyone walked up the stairs, they saw three coffins, one large, two small, and three coffins placed in the hall, and there were coffin seats under these three coffins.

Unsurprisingly, the coffin in the center was the largest. The entire coffin was richly painted with red lacquer. It was extraordinary at first glance. Bai Jing walked to the coffin and discovered that the coffin was made of copper and wood. The coffins and coffins are shaped like a huge thing, which is really rare in the world.

This huge coffin has large and thick coffin boards embedded in a gilt copper frame with four horizontal and two vertical sides. Each coffin board is decorated with phoenix and bird patterns, and there are copper tenons and copper buttons between the coffin boards. Reinforcement.

This coffin is about two meters high, two meters wide, and three meters long. The bottom is supported by twelve gilt copper animal feet, and it is placed on a Mount Sumeru coffin base.

Seeing the various metals on this coffin, Bai Jing also understood that there was a big difference between the funeral culture of the northern peoples and the Central Plains.

At least in Han tombs before the Ming Dynasty, so many metal products would never be added to the coffins.

Then, Bai Jing looked at the coffin seat under the giant coffin. There were four goddesses painted around the coffin seat. Each goddess held a different magic weapon in their hands. They were all dressed in red clothes, feathers, and phoenixes. state.

Others couldn't figure it out, but Bai Jing and Bai Qi recognized it. The four goddesses on the coffin were actually the "Four Mother Statues."

What are the four mothers? Which four mothers are they?

The Four Mothers actually refer to the four queens in mythology. They are the wives of the Jade Emperor and are also known as the four queens of heaven.

Each of these queens has their own magic weapon, which is also related to their responsibilities and abilities.

One is Qi Mother, holding a cloth bag in her hand. The bag contains the innate Qi, which is also called the innate Qi. It was formed before the creation of heaven and earth. It is the fundamental matrix of all things in the world, whether it is the vast world or the universe. rotate in it.

The second is the Wind Mother, holding the wind bag in her hand. There are winds from all directions in the wind bag, such as the east wind, the south wind, the west wind, the north cold wind, the southeast wind, the northeast wind, the southwest wind, and the northwest fierce wind. wind.

The third one is mica. There are five-color auspicious clouds on the shoulders. The auspicious clouds are similar to the canopy. The clouds are formed by the energy of the mountains and rivers when chaos first divided. The five-color clouds also correspond to the five elements. Yellow clouds govern abundance, blue clouds govern soldiers, white clouds govern mourning, and black clouds. Mainly water, red cloud mainly drought.

The fourth is the Mist Mother, holding the fog curtain in her hand. When the fog curtain first opens, the mist will evaporate. If it is fully unfolded, it will spread for hundreds of miles and cover the universe. If the fog curtain curls up, the mist will gradually disappear.

These four female statues, together with the phoenix bird decoration on the coffin and the precious flower decoration on the ground, actually indicate the identity of the tomb owner very clearly.

Bai Jing also saw a lot of coffins in Baiyan Cave, but to be honest, there was no coffin that could compare with this one.

Bai Jing and others did not open the coffin immediately, but first lit up the evergreen lamps around the tomb. Now the tomb was much brighter. At this moment, it can also be seen that the layout of the main hall of the Liao tomb is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. Both the floor and the walls are made of tomb bricks decorated with Baoxiang patterns, and the dome is also painted with stars.

On the tomb wall behind the coffin was a huge mural. Bai Jing took one look and knew that this was the "Picture of the Holy Trace".

The so-called "Sacred Trace Picture" is actually a record of the tomb owner's life.

In addition to the "Sacred Trace Picture", there is a tomb chamber connected by a single door at each of the four corners of the main hall, which is consistent with the nine-chamber Xuan Palace layout of the tomb of the Queen Mother of the Liao Dynasty recorded in the records, and the status of the owner of the tomb is now certain.

Immediately, Bai Jing looked at the two relatively small coffins next to the huge coffin.

(End of this chapter)