#精品长文创作季#
In 1929, in Nanxing Moon Bay, Guanghan City, Sichuan, Yan Daocheng, a villager, pondered that it would be convenient to dig a ditch to irrigate rice, so he began to dig not far from the house.
Digging and digging, you will dig up treasures, all of which are good jade. Yan Daocheng understands that there are often some treasures here in them, but they don't come out so many at once.
So he called his family and hid the treasures in several parts, and even one in the pigsty. In those turbulent times, it was undoubtedly very wise to do so.
In order to make a living, Yan Daocheng began to sell these treasures one after another, and was suddenly seen by the director of the museum of West China Union University, so there was the first excavation of Sanxingdui.
I won't go into detail about the rest of the story, in one sentence, it's amazing! It's great! People have speculated about the origin of these cultural relics in Sanxingdui, and many people guess that this is a prehistoric civilization.
Is that really the case?
I recently read a book and saw a good story, and I was inspired to come up with a bold idea: Sanxingdui cultural relics may be just a parody show.
01
Let me start by sharing the story of Vanuatu.
There is such a small country, Vanuatu, located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, a country of archipelagos. Many of us have never heard of it, and it almost never appears in the news, after all, this small country is too isolated from the world (mainly referring to indigenous people, primitive tribes).
But no one expected that something strange would happen in this small island country.
Some scholars have found that on special days, the indigenous people of Vanuatu behave abnormally. They wrote the red "USA" on their bodies, and then carried wooden sticks like guns, and marched in a serious and serious procession.
Not only that, but they also made glasses out of wood and turned them around with leaves.
To the scholar's surprise, the aborigines built a model of an airplane out of branches and hay, and then they completed a totemic ritual around the "airplane" with a few words.
That's right, from the beginning of applying paint to the body, to the end of the recitation of the word "airplane", it is a ritual.
In fact, scholars don't understand at first, what is the purpose of wearing wood on the face, and what is the purpose of turning the leaves in the hand?
After a visit, scholars slowly learned that such a ceremony has something to do with the United States.
It turned out that during World War II, the United States once sent troops to be stationed here. After the end of the war, the American army left. When American soldiers were stationed on the island, the locals saw them as monsters or visitors, just as in "God is Crazy", the natives were very curious about the bottle as a gift from God.
The Vanuatus looked at this group of Americans and wondered: why don't they have to hunt, so what do they eat? With this question in mind, the natives took a closer look and finally saw the answer. They found:
The U.S. military will put an object (glasses) on the face, and then turn over the white thing (battle documents), and it will not be long before a huge iron bird (airplane) will appear in the sky, or a huge house (cargo ship) will appear on the sea, and finally the American military will get the items they need, most of which are not available on the island.
Regarding this operation of the U.S. military, the indigenous people believe that the U.S. military is praying that God will give them goods, and God will hear the prayer and will fulfill this wish.
As a result, Vanuatuns also began to learn to imitate this "prayer". This imitation is more than 70 years. Obviously, they didn't succeed once.
02
If you don't know the U.S. Consulate in Vanuatu and the operation of the local indigenous population, I believe it will be a permanent mystery. It's hard to imagine that those glasses-like wood worn on the face are really glasses. It is even more unlikely that the tossed leaves turned out to be combat documents.
Friends who are familiar with Sanxingdui should remember that there is a cultural relic "eye longitudinal", the eyes are protruding, and the two columns seem to extend from the eyes.
From Vanuatu's point of view, can we boldly imagine that they saw such people wearing telescopes, or even robots, with self-retractable telescopes.
When the ancients saw it, they thought they were too powerful, and they also hoped that they had such divine powers, so they created the eye.
There is also a cultural relic in Sanxingdui, which is amazing to the world, that is, the sun wheel. Let's boldly imagine that the main means of transportation of the ancients at that time was horses, carriages, and horses had to be fed, but when they saw a strange object, they didn't need to feed grass, as long as they turned the disc, they could go wherever they wanted, and the speed was amazing, which was simply wonderful. So they built the steering wheel.
And all of this is used for sacrifice, for prayer.
The ancients, like the isolated Vanuatu, were curious, envious, and eager to have a strange civilization that was far beyond their own abilities and far beyond their existing knowledge.
What they did, from that point of view, seemed to be a high-level civilization parody show.
03
This kind of imitation, no matter how advanced it is, still can't get what it wants, and it has become a ritual after all.
The Vanuatus have been doing this ritual for more than 70 years, don't they know that it's in vain?
In fact, there is a very important basis for understanding here, which has something to do with you and me.
We all know that if you get sick and catch a cold, under normal circumstances, you can catch a cold in about seven days without taking medicine. However, some people still take medicine, some get better immediately, and some still get better after a few days.
The medicine came first, and the recovery came later, so some people said, "I took medicine and cured the cold." Excuse me, are you sure that you took medicine to cure the cold?
For another example, in a football match, Messi did not play and Argentina lost. Messi didn't play, in front, Argentina lost behind, so some people said that Messi didn't play, so he lost the game. Excuse me, will Argentina win when Messi plays?
These two examples are to tell you that many things that occur before and after in life are not necessarily cause and effect. To understand the world, we need to see cause and effect.
If you can't see this layer, it's easy to imitate the form and won't get the results you want.
For example, if you see the baby next door studying for 12 hours a day and being the first in the grade, you let your child study for 12 hours, but the results are still not good.
As everyone knows, whether it is studying for 12 hours or making up classes after class, it is just a formality, and the real reason is that the baby next door will do those questions. As for why he did it, there are many reasons, maybe he is willing to learn, maybe he has done these problems, or maybe he is naturally smart.
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From this, I am reminded of what people often say, hard work and prosperity. In ancient times, there were very few people who traveled thousands of miles, and even fewer people read thousands of books, which also blocked people's way of understanding the world.
As a result, most people's thinking and cognition are similar, in this case, getting rich is not to fight thinking, but to see who is hard-working, to see who is willing to endure hardship.
With the advent of chariots and horses, and the advent of printing, people can travel thousands of miles more quickly and read thousands of books more conveniently, and the concentration of information that people receive has been different, and in modern times, it is even more different.
Therefore, under such conditions, if we blindly emphasize hard work and do not see the real reason for getting rich, it is easy to only learn from the diligence of others, but not see the wisdom of others to get rich, and hard work has become a ritual day after day, a placebo for self-redemption, and many people have become modern Vanuatu.