Chapter 59 The Lost Records
But people who know too many secrets and can’t tell them must not have a good time, after a long time, those secrets become an inner torment and torture for those who know, so some people choose some special channels to decompress themselves, such as recording things in detail in writing, Sun Xuewu is probably this kind of person, his work notes, in addition to detailing many little-known secrets, but also from the In his working notes, besides detailing many little-known secrets, he also revealed his personal subjective consciousness between the lines.
Shirley Yang and I carefully read this record, coupled with the fact that Prof. Chen and Sun Xuewu were old friends for many years, and had often mentioned his things to us before, together with some of our speculations, we could easily understand the contents of the note book, so it turned out that the state secrets mentioned by Prof. Sun were indeed “state secrets”, but his so-called “state secrets” were also “state secrets”. “state secrets”, not the present contemporary, but mostly the absolute secrets of ancient times.
“Divination, signs, prophecies, hints” and other ancient literature, not only in the East, the West also have, the content and form of most of the very “mysterious, obscure,” the ancient Chinese secret documents, the earliest in the Yin and Shang period of the Dragon Bone, that is, engraved on the tortoise shell The secret text and symbols, later scholars will be these strange and difficult to understand the mysterious text, known as the “Book of Heaven, mystery text”.
“Dragon bone heavenly book” recorded in a large number of “witch divination, heavenly omen, immortality, longevity” and so on, experts for the “heavenly book” to crack the work, it is extremely difficult and boring, engaged in this Few people engaged in this work, although in the eyes of modern people, those witch divination content is mostly unbelievable, is an ancient product of science has not yet been enlightened, but for the study of thousands of years ago, “social, economic, military, political” activities, “Dragon Bone Book of Heaven” still has a very important value.
Sun Xuewu’s work is to decipher and interpret the ancient secret documents, but also specializes in collecting and excavating from all over the world, engraved with a variety of ancient writing symbols of “tortoise shells, animal bones”, although it is easy to collect and organize, but there is no reference to deciphering up to the information available to decipher those systems and historical backgrounds of the ancient secret documents, is really more difficult than ever, sometimes a simple symbol, it takes a lot of time to decipher the system. Sometimes a simple symbol, we must use up months of time to study the evidence, long-term face of this difficult and boring work, developed Professor Sun’s withdrawn character, but he is still obsessed with the road can not be extricated, and even with the “obsessed” to describe it is not too far off the mark.
Until later unearthed in the Tang Dynasty, “Dragon Bone Puzzle Spectrum”, the study of the Dragon Bone Book of Heaven has finally made substantial progress, but then, is another insurmountable obstacle, that is, “trigrams, the number of machines”.
Western Zhou period prevailed in the performance of the trigrams, candles and tortoises produced by the divination of the “trigrams”, is the highest level of witch divination, is also known as the “heavenly opportunity”, there are many people may now be difficult to understand, since the ancients have predicted the art of good luck and bad luck, why the results of the trigrams show that, and do not directly describe the results?
In fact, not only is the performance of the trigrams to obtain the opportunity of heaven, including the history of China, including a variety of later prophecies, such as “push the back of the map, the horse before the class, the plum blossom poem, the song of the burning cake,” and so on, are not obscure and difficult to understand, and more than the intention of the so-called predictions and secrets, are passed down in a suggestive way, or drawings, or poems, a variety of kinds of things, and afterward to understand the meaning of the party! It seems that they deliberately refused to tell people the result in advance.
This form, in fact, is an embodiment of the ancient traditional concepts, the ancients believe that “deep and subtle, the sky’s chance; creation and change, the sky’s reason. On the theory of heaven should be people, can also; Leak heaven to confuse people, the sky will be punished.”
The meaning is that the endless “heavenly way” can be talked about, so that people know the reasoning of heaven and man, but the “heavenly opportunity” can not be explicitly said, because the heavenly opportunity is subtle, easy to confuse people demonic delusion, just as the saying goes, “the heavenly opportunity can not be leaked”, the gentleman should be a good person. As the common saying goes, “Heaven’s secrets cannot be divulged”, and a gentleman should “hide his weapon in his body and wait for the time to move”.
Western Zhou period of sixteen hexagrams, but “poor through the changes in heaven and earth, candle everything and nothing hidden”, according to the “Dragon Bone Tianshu” on the record, the number of hexagrams of the Zhou Dynasty when the world, the night of ghosts cry, followed by the Yellow River flood, drowning countless people and animals, only because of the secret of the creation, from now on, give out! All, so was forced to destroy one-half, leaving only the eight trigrams survive.
These lost ancient trigrams, also became Professor Sun in the main bottleneck encountered in the research, recorded ancient trigrams of the tortoise shell number has been tens of thousands of counts, is a huge incomparable treasure of information, but there is no ZhouTian trigrams, it is simply impossible to decipher, his whole life dedication to the research results, only the lack of the most critical a key.
And because of Professor Sun character of old-fashioned, do not understand human feelings, not good interpersonal relations, so often do not get the attention it deserves, but he died drilling the bull’s-eye, intends to find out the number of trigrams of the Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou’s ancient trigrams of the keel completely cracked, then must shock China and abroad, but also not to live up to this many years of countless efforts spent.
Ancient secret documents, mostly hidden in the ruins, tombs, or caves, because the ancient tombs deep underground, the space is relatively closed, inside the burial goods, often well preserved, Prof. Sun hopes that whenever the archaeological department found the ancient tombs and mausoleums, he is always extra attention to the tomb of the tortoise shells, animal bones and bells and tripods inscriptions, counting on it to get some enlightenment.
But after the liberation of the archaeological excavation, most of the passive excavation, and those who have not yet been damaged by the tomb, is in accordance with the provisions of the original protection, Prof. Sun perennial at the grass-roots level and archaeological site work, over the years what I have seen and heard, most of the ancient tombs around the ten tombs are ten empty, I do not know was filtered by the successive generations of grave robbers how many times the pit.
A few times archaeologists found fewer holes in ancient tombs, but also full of joy, thinking that more or less can be preserved inside some things, who knows to go in and take a look, the bottom of the tomb were dug into a beehive, the original ancient grave robbers can look at the mountain to find Tibet, playing a hole can be directly into the underground palace, deliberately avoided the top of the tomb of the thick soil and boulders, and the “experience, equipment, craft” inherited for thousands of years, and the “experience, equipment, and handicraft”. Compared with those “experience, equipment, craftsmanship” inherited for thousands of years of grave robbers, contemporary archaeological methods seem particularly “clumsy, backward, slow”.
Professor Sun pained, hate grave robbers to the bone, mainly because these guys from ancient times to the present day before and after, non-stop grave robbing thousands of years, leading to a large number of buried precious relics of the mausoleums, are left with an empty pit, if not too many thieves tomb robbers, that the Dragon Bone Book of all the mysterious hexagrams have long been cracked, and his Professor Sun’s value and research results will be recognized, wherever he goes, respected, but now can only be subjected to a lot of people, but now the only way to get to the bottom is to be a good person, but now the only way to get to the bottom is to get to the bottom. People respect, but now can only be ostracized, the whole day complains of life bitter to suffer, a moment and a half to earn this breath.
In the academic status of this selfishness is only one, in addition, Professor Sun has been on the “Dragon Bone Book of Heaven” in the content of the fascination, if he could not understand the tortoise shell on the ancient trigrams of the mystery of heaven, will be every day and every night is “food is not willing to eat, sleep is not”.
Once, Professor Sun accidentally learned of an important clue, in the Ming Dynasty, Sichuan Province, there is a powerful family, similar to the evil of the generation of magicians, specializing in sorcery, know a kind of feng shui known as the “view of the mountain refers to the fan”, the male called “Taibao”, the female for the “Shifu Niang”. “Shimiang”, this group of people to confuse the people, the power is very great, the late Ming government’s weak ability to rule, there is nothing they can do about it.
“Guanshan Taibao” is the leader of the local rich, surnamed Feng, know the way of fire, refining gas to raise the shape of the sky, the enemy of the family’s wealth, collected countless disciples, self-appointed “Immortal”, this person not only has a penchant for robbing the tombs, at the time of the theft of a lot of ancient tombs of various dynasties, but also the creation of the ancient tombs, and the ancient tombs of the Ming Dynasty. This person not only has the addiction of grave robbing, at that time robbed and sent a lot of ancient tombs of various dynasties, but also has the addiction of mausoleum making, spent several decades in the mountains to make a “village of the Earth Immortal”, although called a village, but actually for the Yin residence, that is, the tomb.
Will also be poached to the “coffins and coffins, Dan Ding pottery figurines”, and even other ancient tombs in the valuable and rare building materials, tomb bricks and wooden coffins, all collected in their own tomb city, built a number of bizarre style of the crypt, but also in the crypt in the installation of a variety of machines and pins, the ground in the city of immortals cast a “silver screen, iron wall The city of the earth immortal cast “silver screen iron wall”, built-in “xuan gui building”, the secret treasures in the tombs of the past dynasties, many of them.
Taking a modern perspective, this “Guanshan Taibao” may have some kind of mental anomaly symptoms, most likely a lunatic, “organs, feng shui, tombs” overly obsessed, I do not know what motivation, even spent half a lifetime, for himself to build such a “Tomb Museum”, there is also a legend that this person in the local excavation of a large ancient mound, unearthed the Dragon Bone trigrams, and even peeped out of the sky, and since then the temperament has changed, so it made the village of Dixian for a hundred years to hide the real place, as for the real reason that he built the Guanshan mausoleum, probably only he himself knows.
Waiting for the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong with troops into Sichuan, he led the crowd into the mountains, will raise the family men, women and children and all the mausoleum digging craftsmen, were killed in the tomb, start the mechanism to put down the broken dragon stone, buried himself alive in which, the soil people also called this mysterious “village of the ground fairy” as “the king of the sealing Tomb”, and since then no one knows the location of the “village of the earth immortal”.
There is no clear historical record of this matter, only Professor Sun in Sichuan when he worked, listening to the mountain people mentioned the “ground fairy yin house” of various legends, a variety of sayings are not consistent, and even difficult to be sure that these legends are true or false, and with the passage of time, know less and less people.
However, Professor Sun in the course of his work, contact with more and more information, so that he is convinced that in the Ming Dynasty there was indeed “Guanshan Taibao” and “ground immortal village”, when Zhang Xianzhong’s roving bandit troops, after entering the Sichuan River had a large-scale excavation of the mountains and graves, the history of the book recorded that “The bandits entered the mountain cave, in order to seek the gold book and jade incantation hidden by the Earth Immortal, the Dragon Bone Tianji, did not succeed, butchered 10,000 people, fill in the body of the gully”, which is likely to mean that “the farmers intended to excavate the ancient mound of Guanshan, but did not find the location, and then killed many local people to vent their anger, the grave robbers when digging the mountain excavation of the gully filled up! “.