Chapter 54 Lost Records

But those who know too many secrets but cannot tell them will definitely have a hard time. Over time, those secrets will become inner torture and torture for those who are in the inside, so some people will choose some special channels to relieve stress, such as recording things in detail in words. Sun Xuewu is probably such a person. In his work notes, in addition to recording many little-known secrets in detail, many of his personal subjective consciousness also reveal from the lines.

Shirley and Yang carefully read this record. In addition, Professor Chen and Sun Xuewu have been old friends for many years. They used to mention his affairs to us. With some of our speculations, it is easy to understand the contents in the notebook. It turns out that the state secret mentioned by Professor Sun is indeed "state secret", but what he calls "state secret" is not from today and contemporary, but mostly absolute secrets from ancient times.

Ancient documents such as "divination, signs, prophecies, and hints" are not only found in the east, but also in the west, and most of the content and forms are very "mysterious and obscure". Secret documents from ancient China were first seen in the dragon bones of the Shang Dynasty, that is, secret texts and symbols engraved on tortoise shells. Later scholars called these strange and difficult-to-solve mysterious words "the book of heaven, the mystery text."

The "Dragon Bone Heavenly Book" records a large number of contents such as "Wu Bu, Heavenly Sign, Immortality, Immortality, Immortality" and so on. Experts are extremely difficult and boring in solving the "Dragon Bone Heavenly Book". Few people are engaged in this work. Although from the perspective of modern people, most of the contents of those witches are unreliable and are ancient products of science that have not yet been civilized, it is still of great value for studying the "Social, Economic, Military, and Political" activities thousands of years ago.

The content of Sun Xuewu's work is to decipher and interpret ancient secret documents, and is also responsible for collecting and excavating "tortoise shells and animal bones" engraved with various ancient characters and symbols. Although it is easy to collect and organize, there is no reference for interpretation. It is really difficult to crack ancient secret texts with different systems and historical backgrounds. Sometimes a simple symbol takes several months to study and verify. Faced with such difficult and boring work for a long time, Professor Sun's introverted personality has developed, but he is still obsessed with this theory and cannot extricate himself, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "being possessed".

It was not until the "Dragon Bone Mystery Collection" of the Tang Dynasty was unearthed that the research on the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book finally made substantial progress. But what followed was another insurmountable obstacle, that is, "hexagrams, machine numbers."

The "hexagrams" produced by the illuminating candles and turtle divination were popular during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The "hexagrams" produced by illuminating candles and turtles is the highest realm of wizards and divination, and it is also the so-called "shocks". Many people may find it difficult to understand now. Since the ancients had the art of predicting good and bad luck, why should the results be displayed in the hexagrams instead of directly describing the results?

In fact, it is not only a secret of the hexagram, but also various prophecies in Chinese history, such as "tuibei pictures, horse pre-masters, plum blossom poems, and baked cake songs", which are all obscure and difficult to interpret. They are often mysterious and mysterious. They pass on the so-called predictions and secrets by means of suggestion, either pictures or poems, and they can be understood in a variety of ways. They seem to deliberately refuse to tell people the results in advance.

This form is actually a reflection of the traditional ancient concepts. The ancients believed that "the profound and subtle are the functions of heaven; the changes of creation are the principles of heaven. It is possible to deal with the principles of heaven; if the secrets of heaven are used to deceive people, heaven will punish them."

It means that the endless "nature way" can be discussed to let people understand the principle of the corresponding nature of heaven and man, but the "nature secret" cannot be clearly stated, because the subtle secrets of heaven can easily make people confused and delusional. As the saying goes, "nature secrets cannot be revealed", a gentleman should "hide the weapon in his body and wait for the time to move."

The sixteen hexagrams of Zhoutian during the Western Zhou Dynasty, but "enlightened the changes of heaven and earth, and could see all things without any hidden things." According to the "Dragon Bone Heavenly Book", when the Zhoutian hexagrams were born, ghosts cried at night, and then the Yellow River flooded and countless people and animals drowned. They were only vented because of the secrets in the creation, so they were forced to destroy half of them, leaving only the Eight Trigrams to survive in the world.

These lost ancient hexagrams have also become the main bottlenecks that Professor Sun encountered in his research. The number of tortoise shells that recorded the ancient hexagrams was tens of thousands, which was a huge information treasure. However, without the number of Zhoutian hexagrams, it was impossible to interpret them at all. His research results, which he devoted all his life, only lacked the most critical key.

Because Professor Sun has a scheming personality, is not humane and cannot handle interpersonal relationships well, he often does not receive the attention he deserves. However, he is obsessed with the slightest point of view and intends to find out the numbers of the Zhoutian hexagrams and completely crack the ancient hexagrams of the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, he will definitely shock China and the foreign countries, and will not let down the countless efforts he has spent many years.

Most of the secret documents of ancient times were hidden in ruins, ancient tombs, or caves. Because the space deep in the tombs was relatively closed, the burial objects inside were often preserved intact. Professor Sun placed his hopes on this. Whenever the archaeological department discovered the ancient tomb tomb, he always paid special attention to the tomb shells, animal bones and bells and tripods inscriptions in the tombs, hoping to get some inspiration from them.

However, most archaeological excavations after liberation were passive excavations, while those ancient tombs that had not yet been damaged were protected intact according to regulations. Professor Sun worked at the grassroots and archaeological sites all year round. What he saw and heard over the years, most of the ancient tombs in various places were ten tombs and ten empty. I don’t know how many times have been filtered by tomb robbers of all generations.

There were several times when archaeologists discovered that there were fewer holes in ancient tombs and were very happy, thinking that some things could be preserved inside. Unexpectedly, when they went in, they found that the bottom of the tomb had been dug into honeycombs. It turned out that tomb robbers in ancient times could see the mountains and seek hiding, and they could directly hit the underground palace by making holes. They deliberately avoided the tomb tops of thick soil and huge rocks. Compared with the tomb robbers who had been passed down for thousands of years with "experience, equipment, and crafts", the methods of contemporary archaeology seemed particularly "clutty, backward, and slow".

Professor Sun was heartbroken about this and hated tomb robbers. The main reason was that these guys continued to rob tombs from ancient times to the present, and kept robbing tombs for thousands of years, which led to a large number of tombs burying precious cultural relics, leaving only empty pits. If there weren't too many thieves robbing the tombs, the mysterious hexagrams in the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book would have been broken long ago, and Professor Sun's value and research results would have been recognized and respected everywhere he went, but now he can only suffer from exclusion, and he has been resentful all day long and will not be able to make this breath for a while.

This selfishness in academic status is only one of them. In addition, Professor Sun is already fascinated by the contents of the "Dragon Bone Heavenly Book". If he cannot understand the mystery of the ancient hexagram on the tortoise shell, he will be "not willing to eat or sleep" every day and night.

Once, Professor Sun accidentally learned an important clue. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a wealthy family in Sichuan Province, who were almost like sages and evil spirits. He was good at magic and was well-versed in a Feng Shui technique called "Guanshan Zhimi". The man was called "Taibao" and the woman was "Master's Lady". This group of people bewitched people and had great power. The government's ability to rule in the late Ming Dynasty was weak, so he could do nothing about it.

The person headed by "Guanshan Taibao" was a rich man in the local area. He had a surname, and knew the way of fire, refining qi and nourishing his body. He had the ability to be in the sky. The enemy's family received countless disciples and called himself "diixian". This person not only had the habit of robbing tombs, but also had the opportunity to build a lot of ancient tombs in various dynasties at that time, but also had the addiction to building tombs. It took decades to build a "diixian village" in the mountains. Although it was called a village, it was actually a cemetery, that is, a tomb.

The "Mingyi coffins, alchemy cauldrons, scattered pottery figurines" that were stolen, and even the precious and rare building materials, tomb bricks and wooden coffins in other ancient tombs were all stored in their own tomb city. Many tomb chambers with strange styles were built, and various mechanical and plastic instruments were laid out in the tomb chambers. The "silver screen and iron wall" were cast in the Dixian City, and the "Xuanji Tower" was built. The secret instruments and treasures in the mountain tombs of all dynasties were mostly among them.

From a modern perspective, this "Guanshan Taibao" may have some mental abnormalities. He is mostly a madman. He is overly obsessed with "organisms, Feng Shui, and tombs". For some reason, he spent half his life building such an "ancient tomb museum" for himself. There is also legend that this man stole a large ancient tomb in the local area and dug out a dragon bone hexagram, and actually got the secret of heaven from it. Since then, his temperament has changed drastically, so he built the Dixian Village as a place to hide the truth a hundred years later. As for the real reason why he built Guanshan Mausoleum, he probably only knows it himself.

When the bandit Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty, he led his troops to avoid the deep mountains, killing all the men, women, young and old, and all the craftsmen who built and dug mountains in the tombs, activated the mechanism to put down the Broken Dragon Stone, and buried himself alive. The natives also called this mysterious "Dixian Village" the "King's Tomb", and no one knew the location of the "Dixian Village" since then.

There is no clear historical record of this matter. However, when Professor Sun was working in Sichuan, he heard the mountain people mention various legends about "Earth Immortal Shadows". The various statements are not consistent, and it is even difficult to confirm whether these legends are true or false. Moreover, as time goes by, fewer and fewer people know about them.
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