When it comes to the movie "White Haired Girl", most Chinese should not feel strange, although it has been released for more than fifty years, but the screen images of Yang Bailao, Xi'er and Huang Shiren have deeply affected generations of Chinese people, and it is wonderful that there is a pair of stone sculptures in the distant Egyptian Museum, and the carved image really seems to be Yang Bailao and Xi'er, what is the situation? Let me reveal the secrets to you.
Industrious farmers, the most industrious cultivators, they plant spring and autumn harvest, and the fruits of the harvest are shared with all mankind, in ancient times, the origin of regional human civilization, mostly from the beginning of agricultural civilization, but crops to grow indispensable water irrigation, this is why the origin of civilization are centered on rivers, ancient Egyptian civilization is the earliest and most typical example.
"Egypt is a gift from the Nile." The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said very brilliantly, as the birthplace of the world's earliest human civilization, ancient Egyptian civilization is the glory of mankind. But without regular irrigation by the Nile, leaving fertile black soil behind, how could humans grow crops? Without food, the survival and reproduction of the ancient Egyptians was extremely difficult, let alone the establishment of the oldest kingdom.
In 1858, the French archaeologist Mariette came to Egypt, and he subsequently presided over the construction of the Egyptian Museum in Brah, north of Cairo. Today, the museum houses more than 300,000 artifacts, mostly funerary objects of pharaohs, shining brightly to show visitors the splendor of the ancient Egyptian kingdom.
There are also many stone sculptures in the Egyptian Museum, most of which are artifacts from the Old Kingdom period (2686 BC - 2181 BC). Imagine how incredible it is that more than 5,000 years ago, people have learned to use carving techniques and carved pieces of hard boulders into the faces of their hearts! One of the most famous is the seated statue of King Kavle, as the oldest stone sculpture of the pharaoh, it depicts King Kafleur sitting precariously, not angry, very spirited, lifelike.
In addition to this statue, there are two more valuable stone sculptures in the museum, they are the statues of King Lakhtipu and Princess Ferret, they are both limestone stone carvings, which have undergone late coloring, but even after a thousand years of time, the colors on them are still very bright, and they are not felt at all.
There are more than 60,000 objects on display in the Egyptian Museum, including a pair of very interesting stone sculptures, they are tall and short, old and young, they look like a father and daughter, in addition, they are simply dressed, and can even be described as broken. The father and daughter held hands and looked up at the distance together, the daughter's expression was not very clear, but from the father's expression, it could be seen that they were very sad. People think of "White Haired Girl" for the first time.
In the movie "White Haired Girl", the sharecropper Yang Bailao and his daughter Xi'er are miserable people, they were exploited by the landlord Huang Shiren, Xi'er hid in the mountains and became a "white-haired girl", and finally the landlord was suppressed, and Yang Bailao and Xi'er were revenge. The picture depicted in this stone artifact stored in ancient Egypt is very similar to the scene of the father and daughter fleeing the wilderness hand in hand in the movie, which makes people feel like "crossing".
The stone sculpture is naturally not the picture of "The White Haired Woman", but it is indeed the image of the ancient Egyptian peasant. It can be seen that in the ancient Egyptian period, the peasants' life was very difficult, as a slave society, the peasants in ancient Egypt were actually slaves engaged in production and labor, and most of them were miserable, not only had no status, no salary, but also had no freedom and no dignity. It can be said that tragedies such as "The White-Haired Girl" are staged in ancient Egypt all the time, and even more so.
Discovering ancient cultural relics, which in itself is indeed a very valuable thing, but what we have to do is not only to appreciate the cultural relics, but we should try to reproduce the ancient society, this pair of ancient Egyptian sculptures depicting the lowest level of society, it provides us with an example of research, its value has long exceeded the stone carving itself, its existence, it can be said that its significance is very significant.
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. "History of Ancient Egypt" by Liu Wenpeng: Published by the Commercial Press
2. "World Museum" by Xu Zhongrong: published by Fairview Publishing House