Shao Xuan sits on the modified bus and looks at the rolling hills outside the window. Just after the summer solstice, the mountains are full of lively green. After seeing such a landscape after living in the city for a long time, the mood in the haze is much better because of the bad career. Originally, Shao Xuan planned to invite a few friends to go out to relax, but didn’t want to meet Shi Qi, a fellow fellow and archeologist who studied archeology, and was dragged to together to archeology.
This trip is going to a relatively small village. It is said that something from the Stoneware era was found there. A group of people from already have passed. Now this is the second group.
Shao Xuan listened to this old classmate talking from the cranium of the primitive man to the Stoneware appliance and then to the rock mural, and took out a few pictures to explain it in detail. People who are doing research are like this, it is rare to pull out. Shao Xuan although does not Understood, but still listened to his face.
The papers are all petroglyphs discovered by some archaeological studies. Shao Xuan looked at them and felt that they hadn’t painted well with their nephew and niece who went to kindergarten.
The diagrams are relatively simple. It can be roughly seen that some people are holding tools to hunt, and there are some paintings of various animals. The remaining ones do not know what they are.
“This is a painted sheep? But this sheep is too big.” Shao Xuan points to a picture.
The picture shows a sheep with long and huge curved horns, and there is a person holding a bow and arrow next to it, but the proportion is not normal, and the head of the person is only on the back of the sheep. The following pictures are also the same, the rabbit’s body proportion is like a lion, and the horse riding picture on the left, the horse tail is too short.
Of course, the scale of each picture is not the same. The mural style of rocks found in different periods from different provinces and cities is not the same. There are some proportions that are close to reality. To a group of people hunting with dogs.
Further back, there are a few color printing pictures, you can see more clearly.
“Oh, this picture is even more exaggerated, the antlers are too big, and this person, the person in the picture just now came to the back of the sheep. The person on this picture is only a little taller than the deer leg … And what’s there in the bottom right corner, the eight-legged crocodile? “Shao Xuan couldn’t appreciate the painting style of primitive people.
“Primitive humans may not have paid much attention to this,” Shi Qi explained.
“So you mean that when primitive humans were drawing, there was no ‘realism’ in proportion, but an exaggerated method?” Shao Xuan asked.
“Yes,” Shi Qi scratched his head: “After all, humans in that period were not aesthetically meticulous, and may be purely symbolic, just as a researcher once speculated when studying a rock painting somewhere At that time, humans drew these paintings about hunting on the cave wall or on the rocks. Maybe just let the hunting Warriors look at the tribe before hunting. There is a spectrum in the heart, and maybe there are some we do n’t know. Ceremony. Especially those rock paintings painted by ‘Shaman‘. “
“Shaman …” Shao Xuan brain supplemented an old Zealot image with a very different dress.
“Hey, what expression do you have, I tell you, the status of Shaman in the human community at that time may not be low, on the contrary, it may be quite high.”
“I know, Zealot.” Shao Xuan nodded.
Shi Qi swayed his finger, took a folder, and there were some scanned copies of the pictures, pointing to some of the pictures and text above, said to Shao Xuan: “If Totem consciousness is a person-to-nature personification The transformation, which represents its own collective unity, then the shaman art concept represents the quasi-naturalization of people. The profession of ‘Shaman division’ actually appeared as early as the Stoneware era … “
Shi Qi was there to talk about the research progress of the profession “Shaman” from ancient times to the present. The professional vocabulary was even quoted from the classics. He heard Shao Xuan‘s brain pain.
Shao Xuan doesn’t know much about this and isn’t interested. If there is no such archeologist and old classmate, Shao Xuan would n’t know it at all. In the past, people heard that archeology directly thought of those valuable things. Antiques, but Shi Qi’s research direction is really more antique than antiques, not too many people are interested in old. The other day I listened to the radio and discussed whether the Darwinian Species Theory is correct or the Alien Creation Species Hypothesis is correct? Shao Xuan was just idle and came across and listened to it, put it there after listening, and will not think about it again.
On the contrary, Shao Xuan knows that this young man is very interested in ancient humans. When he was in middle school, he often discussed with people the modern human history of several ancient human remains that were discovered but mysteriously disappeared.
“You do n’t understand professionally, let ’s just say something simple. Hey!” Shi Qi clicked a picture with his finger and pointed to somewhere on the picture: “‘Shaman‘ has been mentioned in the scriptures and inscriptions. Yes, but that’s it. “
Shao Xuan Looking at where Shi Qi is pointing, it is a symbol that looks like two ‘I’ crosses crisscross.
“This duplex symbol has appeared on the heads of some ancient pottery mussels unearthed. Speaking of, Shaman also involves hunting, prayer, rescue, etc., from a certain perspective, ‘ Shaman ‘can be regarded as a scientist at that time. But these are speculations. Even some records in ancient times may not be true. After all, people love to exaggerate. Is there a saying,’ There is no truth in history ‘, Archeology is just excavating some corners and corners. As for the actual situation, who knows. “
“The hole discovered this time is also related to ‘Shaman‘, that is, the last pictures you saw, the petroglyphs passed back by the first batch of people, and the duplex symbol was also found in that hole. So it is speculated that it may be a cave of ‘Shaman‘. Last month, there was a short-term earthquake in the village, and probably because of this, the cave was exposed. No one has heard it before. “
Speaking of this, Shi Qi closed the folder and looked around carefully. Seeing that the instructor and other brothers didn’t pay attention to this, they lowered their voices and said to Shao Xuan mysteriously: That hole was a child, and, according to a message from a master over there, the child who found the cave saw a strange watermelon-like bug crawling out of the stone on the wall of his courtyard, and the child was fat and followed the bug. After walking, the bug disappeared in the cave, and the child went back to tell the adult, so that he found the cave. “
“Watermelon big bug?” Shao Xuan finds it ridiculous. Anyone who hears this for the first time will feel too fake. “That kid lied?”
Shi Qi shook his head. “What’s even stranger is that according to the first group of people in the past, the stones used to build the courtyard over there were ancient creature fossils.” Said here, Shi Qi paused and rubbed After rubbing the goosebumps on his arm, he continued: “The child who found the cave pointed to the stone that showed the big watermelon bug had the fossil of the ancient creature, but it was not complete, it was just a part of it, but, According to the speculation of professionals, if the creature is still alive, it may indeed be the size of a watermelon, and it will not be far behind that child described. “
“… It sounds ridiculous, but only the child saw it, did anyone else see a bug crawl out of his wall?” Shao Xuan was a little interested.
Shi Qi shook her head, “I don’t know, I’ll ask when it’s over, anyway, it’s almost there.”
When the party arrived at their destination, already was 11 o’clock noon, Shao Xuan followed Shi Qi and they had a simple lunch and returned to the bus.
Shi Qi and their already ca n’t wait, they do n’t rest after eating, they plan to start work.
Notes here Qi Qi has already told Shao Xuan long ago, which things can’t be touched, where can’t go, and who can find someone to wait for Shao Xuan.
“I’ll tell you when it’s finished today. You go shopping first, this place has good scenery, blue mountains and blue sky, and you have spent a long time in the haze city to wash your lungs.”
Speaking of Shi Qi, he took a tool and waited for his instructor to leave. Shao Xuan over there cannot follow the past, and there is not much interest in following.
There is only Shao Xuan left in the car, and the door and window are quite quiet as soon as the door is closed. Shao Xuan didn’t sleep well these days, and went to listen to Shi Qi on the road, and now he has sleep.
When I woke up again, already was more than two in the afternoon, Shao Xuan was going to go for a walk, and saw Shi Qi in work clothes came over, got a document on the car, and after he took it, he had to rush over there to continue Work.
However, before getting out of the car, Shi Qi took an egg-sized stone from his pocket and threw it to Shao Xuan: “Pick it in the hole and see if others took it without much attention. It should not be an important thing, ‘Antique “I can’t give it to you. This stone is in the hole anyway, and it looks pretty smooth, probably who threw it there, and I will leave a memorial for you.”
This stone is near the entrance of the cave, and it is still a little distance from the core of the cave. The stony and other excavated items are also significantly different, and there is no mark, so the first people who came here will focus on those Stoneware eras. In the “antique” and petroglyphs, no one cared about the stone near the entrance of the cave. Shi Qi looked at it for fun and picked it up.
Received the thrown stone, Shao Xuan took a closer look in his hand. It feels no different from other stones. It is dark green, egg-shaped, and the surface is still smooth. There is nothing old-fashioned, even if it is not an “antique”, it is good to play with it as an ornament.
Shao Xuan didn’t care. I held it in my hand for a while and felt that the stone was not hot. I shook hands for ten minutes. It was still cold. After thinking about it, Shao Xuan took out the lighter and burned it with fire. Burning a stone, it is reasonable to say that the place that touches the flame should be hot, but the fact is that after burning, it is still as cool as before.
Glancing around, Shao Xuan took a fruit knife on the table, padned a piece of paper, and planned to use the knife to scrape a little piece of stone from the stone and take it to the archeological car for inspection. However, Shao Xuan scratched the stone with a knife, but there was no trace on the stone, and no trace of the drill could be drilled.
The fire is not hot, and the knife does not hurt … it is a strange stone.
Shao Xuan got out of the car with the stone in mind and planned to let Shi Qi take a closer look later.
The parking place is very close to the village already, but the road ahead is not easy.
Some of the villagers in the village went to work, while others went to the newly-discovered cave to see the excitement. Therefore, when Shao Xuan entered the village, only three or two people were seen walking around.
There are stone walls of two meters high outside the village. I heard that they were built to prevent wild beast decades ago. The stones come from the mountains. However, in recent years, no large wild beast has been seen around. Take care of these stone walls.
At a glance, you can see the large piece large piece stone on the stone wall.
Shao Xuan is playing with stones in his hand, eyes fixed on those stones. I heard that ancient creature fossils were found on the stones on the stone walls. Shao Xuan remembered the “watermelon big bug” incident that Shi Qi said.
I was going to look away. Shao Xuan suddenly found that there was a snake-like thing on the stone wall, and it was still creeping. The thickness of the water tank and the scaly pattern glowed cold. Shao Xuan felt a few meters away The creepy coolness made the Shao Xuan almost jump. It was only when Shao Xuan blinked and looked again, but found nothing, the stone soil wall is still the broken weathered stone and soil wall.
Illusion?
Shao Xuan looks elsewhere in the stone and earth wall, and then, his eyes fall on a gap in the stone and earth wall. There is a large stone over there, which was left after the stone and earth wall collapsed. They were picked up by the villagers to build their own walls, while the larger ones remained here. At this moment, Shao Xuan saw a green-green seedling emerging from that stone. The seedling quickly pumped leaves to grow tall, and several vines also spread out around. The original three-meter-long gap was covered by the vines and branches in the blink of an eye, and there seemed to be a fragrance of plants in the nose.
Shao Xuan retreats Take a few steps, take a deep breath, and when you look at it, you can see that the vine branches have disappeared, the stone wall is still there, and the ground is the bare big stone.
I noticed something in my hand, Shao Xuan looked down at the hand holding the stone.
The stone that was originally burned, not scratched by a hot knife, weathered into sand, and fell from the fingers of Shao Xuan.
When the last grain of sand fell, Shao Xuan‘s vision was dark.