Some time ago, the archaeology of the Sanxingdui site, almost into the hegemonic trend, especially the strange and majestic bronze longitudinal mask, but also with its human-like non-human, non-beast-like, non-god-like postmodern style, attracted the attention of countless people, and even once appeared to be alien conjecture, in fact, a more reliable interpretation is that this bronze longitudinal image is the sacrificial idol of the ancient Shu monarch Silkworm Bush.
According to the Huayang Guozhi:
There are Silkworm Bushes of the Marquis of Shu, whose eyes are longitudinal, and who are called kings at the beginning.
This longitudinal eye, that is, the eyes are prominent, such as crab eyes, in our eyes today, is not very beautiful, even a little scary, some people think that it is caused by iodine deficiency, but the ancients think that this is a natural anomaly, this pair of prominent eyes, like a symbol of wisdom, can look up at the heavenly river, peep down the spring, omniscient.
01 Silkworm bush
As the original ruler of the ancient Shu state, silkworm bush, as his name indicates, the greatest contribution to the Shu people was to teach the people to raise silkworms.
This silkworm tribe originally lived in the stone chamber, that is, in the stone cave carved out between the cliffs, which is somewhat similar to the cave kilns in northern Shaanxi.
They have no writing and no liturgical music, which echoes the archaeological excavations at Sanxingdui and the failure to dig up a single artifact with writing.
Later, because of living in the mountains and the conditions were difficult, the silkworm bush led the clan to migrate from the Minshan area to the Chengdu Plain, and since then, in this endless and fertile area of Guanghan Sanxingdui, the ethnic groups have lived together and lived and worked in peace and contentment.
Because the people were taught to raise silkworms and rejuvenate the state with nongsang, the initial economic foundation of the Kingdom of Tianfu was laid by silkworm bushes.
After silkworm bush died, because he never forgot the cliff stone chamber where he had lived for many years, people made his coffin and tomb pit into stone according to his last wishes:
Death, as a sarcophagus sarcophagus, the people of the country follow it, so it is customary to use the sarcophagus as a vertical eye of the people Tsukasa also.
02 Cypress Irrigation
After fighting the Shang Dynasty many times and being defeated by the Shang king Liu Xin, this silkworm tribe entered the Sichuan Basin and settled down in a place with cypress trees in present-day Pengzhou.
There are mountains and waters here, as well as abundant copper ore, jade, and white cranes flying in the forest, like a paradise on earth.
Because there are many cypress trees, the name of the tribe is changed from silkworm bush to cypress.
On the bronze and jade tools excavated from Sanxingdui, the pattern of the white crane shape appears, which should be an artistic reflection of the living conditions of the ancestors of the ancient Shu state during this period.
Due to the lack of historical data, people know very little about the ancient Shu state of this period, and it is speculated that this tribe lasted for 550 years.
03 Fish
After the cypress irrigation, it is the fish.
During the reign of King Yu, the ancient Shu state had shifted from a clan system to a slave system.
The Yu king led the people to continue to migrate eastward, reaching the area of Wanchun and Liucheng in today's Wenjiang District.
The original meaning of the fish is the fish old bird, refers to a kind of water bird that can fish, so as the name suggests, this fish king teaches the people the art of fishing.
The king of Yuyi also ordered the construction of the capital city, because the willow trees were easy to live, so he ordered the people to plant willow trees widely, which was the boundary of the capital, so the Wanchun area, spring came everywhere Willow Yiyi, the people still call Wanchun County as Liucheng.
Among the artifacts unearthed in Sanxingdui, the utensils decorated with fish patterns appear, which is a true reflection of people's daily lives during the reign of the Yu King.
Regarding the death of King Yu, the records of the ancients, which deified him, according to the "Huayang Guozhi":
Yu Kai Wang Tian yu Yu Shan, suddenly got the Immortal Dao. The Shu people think of it, and set up a shrine in Yu Yu.
Going to the mountains to hunt, and then encountering the immortals, getting the immortals, and becoming immortals, the Fish King, feels more like going hunting in the mountains, encountering an accident and dying, but this deified record also allows us to know that in addition to teaching the people to fish, this fish king must also teach the people the art of hunting.
04 Du Yu
After the Yu Wei King, the fourth generation of Shu kings recorded was Du Yu.
Among the four generations of Shu kings who left their names, this Du Yu King is probably the most famous, and his story is the most detailed and the most tortuous and moving.
His origin was deified at the beginning, saying that he had descended from heaven, and then her wife, again, came out of the well:
After that, there was a man, named Du Yu, who fell from heaven and stopped Zhu Ti.
There is a woman, Fame and Fortune, who came out of Jiangyuan Well and is Du Yu's wife.
Let's look at his performance.
He led the army and participated in the battle of King Wu and was an important force in overthrowing the brutal rule of King Wu.
Later, proficient in the art of harvesting, he also taught the people to farm, and began the earliest rice cultivation, so that the Shu kingdom embarked on the road of abundant food and clothing.
In his later years, he also managed floods for the people and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.
He was also the first King of Shu to claim the title of Emperor, Emperor Wang.
During Du Yu's reign, the ancient Shu state was in the area of the present-day Sichuan Basin, because there were Minjiang and Fujiang rivers flowing through this area, and floods often raged in the basin.
In order to control the flood, this Emperor Wang later appointed a person named Turtle Spirit as a minister, and put him in charge of controlling the flood.
The origin of this turtle spirit is also peculiar, legend has it that he died, and then the body went up the river and came to the ancient Shu kingdom, was found by people, salvaged ashore, and was resurrected, the Shu people thought that this person was amazing, so they recommended him to Emperor Wang, and then Emperor Wang appointed him to deal with the flood that caused him a headache in Shu.
This turtle spirit to control the water, and Wangdi's construction of embankments to block the water, he used the method of evacuation, led the people, in the Area of Wushan Mountain, excavated stone walls, diverted the raging river water, and poured thousands of miles from the Wuxia Gorge, and finally formed the yangtze River that ran endlessly.
Who knows, here, the turtle spirit leads the people, away from the house, single-mindedly to cure the water; over there, The Emperor Wang actually has an affair with the wife of the turtle spirit who is alone in the empty house.
When The Turtle Spirit returned from the water, Emperor Wang, ashamed and embarrassed, ceded the throne to the Turtle Spirit and lived in seclusion in Min Mountain.
After emperor Wang's death, his soul turned into a cuckoo bird, and every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, he cried with blood with a vocal cord, reminding the people of Shudi not to miss the best time to sow seeds.
It turned out that whether in the dynasty or in the opposition, before and after death, what he had in mind was the world and the people of this Shu country.
There is also a saying that turtle spirit later launched a coup d'état and overthrew emperor Wangdi's regime, and emperor Wangdi failed to restore the throne, died unjustly, and after death, his soul turned into a cuckoo bird, crying with sorrow, dotting blood and tears, causing people to mourn, and cutting off people's intestines.
Li Shangyin's famous sentence "Wangdi Chunxin trusts the cuckoo", which is the tragic story of Du Yu, the king of Shu.
After the turtle spirit ascended the throne, he was called Emperor Cong, also known as the Enlightened Emperor.
After the death of Turtle Ling, his son succeeded to the throne, also known as the Enlightened Emperor. This enlightened dynasty, after the turtle spirit, was passed down for twelve generations.
Later, until 316 BC, King Huiwen of Qin took advantage of the war between the Shu state and the state of Ba and Tho, and sent Zhang Yi, Sima Cuo and others to cut down Shu along the Shiniu Road, the last king of Shu, and finally defeated and killed.
At this point, this ancient Shu kingdom, which was surrounded by lofty mountains and mountains, was rich and peaceful like a paradise, and finally perished.
And this highly developed and splendid ancient Shu civilization, which has lasted for two thousand years, has gradually disappeared without a trace in the long river of history.
In the "Huayang Guozhi" of the Jin Dynasty, there is also her slimy figure like a claw, and by the pen of the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, she has silently become a mysterious existence like "silkworm bushes and fish, and the founding of the country is dazed".
In the most prosperous period of the ancient Shu kingdom, their silk trade even reached the distant Burma, where the Burmese exchanged ivory and gold for the soft and luxurious exquisite silk fabrics they had longed for.
Unfortunately, such a prosperous and grand scene, posterity can only be touched and felt by imagination.
Some people speculate that the demise of the ancient Shu civilization is because of a flood or a major earthquake, and some people think that her demise is because she did not invent writing, fortunately, since the 1930s, the Sanxingdui site was discovered, and now the sacrifice pit has been continuously excavated and studied, a large number of exquisite cultural relics have been unearthed, and the bronze civilization represented by the ancient Shu kingdom five thousand years ago will eventually unveil her mysterious veil in front of future generations.
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