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Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala's song and dance drama "Splendid Embroidery" made a stunning appearance, arousing the interest and attention of many netizens. The dance "Splendid Embroidery" comes from the Wenhua Award-winning dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", drawing inspiration from the country's treasure "Five Stars Out of the East for China" brocade guard. How was this brocade guard, known as the national treasure, discovered, and what is its meaning?

In 1995, the Sino-Japanese joint academic expedition team excavated a tomb (No. 95MN1) at the site of Nya in Minfeng County, Xinjiang, in which the eight Chinese characters on the five-color brocade arm guard seemed to be prophetic: it just so happens that our country is referred to as China, also known as the Eastern Country, and there are exactly five stars on the national flag, and what is more legendary is that the captain of the expedition team at that time was also called Qi Dongfang!

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

(1) Excavator Qi Dongfang

In fact, before the founding of New China, the imperialist powers used to plunder in the name of investigation, first the Russian Geographical Society first entered the Nya region, and then the notorious British Stein visited the site four times, from which many precious Balu documents and Han Jian were unearthed.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first official scientific expedition was the work of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Nya Ruins Academic Expedition" jointly organized by China and Japan in 1988 and 1990-1997 on the Nya ruins in Minfeng County. Tomb No. 95MN1 was discovered by accident by personnel of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology on their way to the N13 and N14 settlements.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

At that time, some of its coffins had been blown away by wind and sand, exposed to the wild, so rescue cleaning and excavation work had to be carried out, who could have predicted that when the M8 wooden coffin was opened, it would become a shocking archaeological discovery. There were two dried corpses in M8, a man and a woman, and a brightly colored gauntlet on the right arm of the male corpse came into view, and the archaeologists carefully extracted it and unfolded it.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

I saw that this brocade is made of five groups of colors, royal blue, grass green, crimson, bright yellow and white, according to the pattern, so as to weave nebula patterns and peacocks, cranes, evil spirits, white tigers and other rare birds and beasts, in addition. What is even more surprising is that there are eight extremely rare Chinese characters on it, written in Hanji.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

When the Chinese experts interpreted these words word by word: "Five stars out of the East to benefit China", everyone felt a burst of dizziness and surprise, especially Qi Dongfang, the head of the Chinese archaeological team at that time. He recalled:

"Maybe that's the luck I brings. You can see that the brocade has the words "five-star out of the east to benefit China", which is obviously an auspicious saying, and the "Oriental" in it is my name, and it happens that I brought a "five-star" red flag when I entered the desert. As soon as I arrived at the camp, Liu Yusheng and I raised this flag, and my name, my arrival, the national flag I brought with me and the reason why I raised the flag were discovered, which was like a proverb that the Chinese archaeological team found that "five stars out of the East benefits China". Perhaps this is my proudest archaeological experience. ”

And archaeologist Qi Dongfang, because this excavation of the "five-star out of the east to benefit China" brocade arm, is also known as a beautiful story in the history of archaeological excavations, all this seems to be in the underworld, from the arrangement of heaven.

(2) What are the five-star appearances

In addition to the "Oriental" in the name of the excavator Qi Dongfang, the "five-star" also makes us involuntarily think of today's national flag - the five-star red flag. Could it be that the ancients had a prophetic foresight and had long since secretly coincided with today's national flag? Of course not, so what did the five stars gather in the East that year portend?

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

In fact, in the ancient astrology system, the astrology of the five planets is the most important part of it, just as the so-called: "the movement of change, not in the five stars", in addition, because the five planets periodically orbit in the background of the stars, people can observe their operation laws, and connect them with human events, forming the so-called astrology.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

So, what did this five-star link, that is, the five planets visually appear to converge in the east, mean at that time? Generally speaking, this unique astrological sign is given the most important significance, and it is often related to the decision-making of military affairs. For example, it is said in the "Shiji Tianguan Shu": "The five stars are gathered together from Taibai, and the country below them can be from the world."

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

In fact, after the discovery of this gauntlet, people also felt strange, if it is an astrological word, it is obvious that this is only the first half of the sentence, and the meaning is not complete. Sure enough, then the archaeology team members found the same brocade fragment, which was cut from this "five-star" brocade, and the words "Southern Qiang" were proudly written on it.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

At this point, these tapestries were pieced together, and a mystery was finally solved: in 61 BC (the first year of the Western Han Xuan Emperor Shenjue), Zhao Chongguo went through the Western Qiang military, but this person was cautious and refused to take the initiative to attack, which made Emperor Xuan of Han anxious, so he sent someone to send a holy decree:

"Today, five stars out of the east, China is great, and barbarians are defeated. Taibai is high, and the army is used to penetrate the dare to fight, and the brave are fierce. The general attacked in a hurry, because when the time of heaven is unrighteous, everything will be complete, and there will be no doubt. ”

Say yes, General, you can rest assured to boldly send troops to fight, the five stars in the sky gathered, from the east, it is a good omen, this will not have any more hesitation and doubt, just do it, God will bless you!

(3) The earliest China

The last coincidence is related to our country name "China". In fact, this is not the first time that the word "China" has appeared on cultural relics, the earliest word "China" is on a bronze heavy weapon from the Western Zhou Dynasty, He Zun.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

As we all know, the concept of "China" at that time was different from today's concept of China. Mr. Yu Shengwu, a well-known paleographer, wrote an academic paper entitled "Shi China", which thoroughly studied the word "China" from the origin and evolution of ancient characters.

According to Mr. Yu Shengwu, the "Book of Poetry and Minlao" "benefits this China, to sui the four directions", which is the earliest Chinese word in the literature, which means "Jingshi and the city". The earliest word "China" in archaeological finds appears in the inscription of the bronze "He Zun" unearthed in Jia Village, Baoji County, Shaanxi, which reads:

"King Wei first moved to Chengzhou... King Wu was a merchant of Dayi, and the court sued in Tianri, and Yu Qi's mansion was in the middle or (state). ”

The meaning of the inscription is that King Cheng of Zhou moved to the place of Chengzhou, and then recounted that after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the merchants, he said when he was sacrificed to the heavens at the imperial court, I will live in China from now on. Therefore, the term "China" originated in the period of King Wu of Zhou, and the Western Zhou period more clearly referred to the Central Plains of the Yellow River Valley.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

Traditional Chinese culture regards the world as one family, and since the Xia Shang and Zhou Dynasty, there has been "Xia has ten thousand states", that is, recognizing an uncertain center and forming a loose alliance type of "China"; And to Zhou Tianzi's "under the whole world, it is not the royal land", it is the ideal world.

Judging from the silk fabrics unearthed in Nya in Minfeng County, Xinjiang, "five-star out of the East to benefit China, and wooing Southern Qiang", combined with the entire cemetery, "Wang Hou Hedu Long Live Yi Descendants" brocade, "Shi Wuji Jinyi Second Relatives and Descendants" brocade and other silk fabrics, these brocades undoubtedly come from the Central Plains, so many experts believe that they should belong to the reward of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Niya's five-star Oriental Lee Chinese brocade, there are actually three coincidences: experts, national flag, China!

I have to say that even though the unearthing and interpretation of this brocade gauntlet is full of mysticism, we are still willing to believe these eight words: "Five stars out of the East benefits China".

This is the most auspicious wish for the motherland, and I hope that one day, our great motherland can return to the top of the world nation!

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