Chapter 73 Ancestor Worship and Live Streaming
On September 25, 1995, the ninth day of the eighth lunar month, it is advisable to sacrifice, pray for blessings, bathe, build and build soil, shepherd, collect animals, break the soil, bury, seek heirs, get married, and ask for names.
Today is a very important day for rice surrounds. There are more than 7,000 people in the two villages of Dajiwei East and West Tinghe, and they bring men, women, young and old to worship their ancestors together at sunrise.
The whole village, led by the patriarch, carried pigs, cows, sheep and other three animals, at 9:00 this morning, the opening ceremony of the Royal Tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyue, will be held.
Mr. Guan and Mr. Zhang were in front of him and led their tribe members to set up altars and incense tables at the entrance of the excavation site of the Wang Mausoleum.
At this time, the mound of the royal tomb had been hollowed out and surrounded by tall walls. Because the national archaeological team had long reported the level of the excavation, Lingnan Province was also very pleased and attached great importance to it. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the excavation work, the province sent armed police to stand guard for 24 hours a day.
Before dawn, the armed police soldiers on duty were surprised to see the crowd of black people standing at the entrance of the excavation site in an orderly manner. They hurriedly reported to the superiors to verify. The information they were quickly fed back was that the village had reported the normal ritual activities to worship ancestors to the city.
Thousands of people stood quietly waiting. When the fish belly turned pale in the east, they said, "The auspicious time has come, I will salute you!"
"The top three animals!" I saw four people in groups, carrying three animals, including pigs, sheep, and cattle, and suddenly filled the altar.
"Please in incense!" Mr. Guan and Mr. Zhang were in front of him, and no one was holding a bouquet of lit sandalwood in his hand and respectfully inserted it into the incense burner. The elders in the village behind him also burned incense at one time. As the eldest grandson of the eldest family, Guan Hao naturally had to burn incense to his ancestors.
"Kowtow!"
Under the leadership of the patriarch, the group carried out the "three bows and nine bows" ceremony.
After kowtowing, everyone stood up.
"After the ceremony!"
At this time, thousands of firecrackers sounded. The sun was about to rise.
The sacrifice ends before sunrise.
After sunrise, these two royal tombs will show the world her history and stories from thousands of years ago.
The historical mission of the East and West Pavilion for a thousand years will continue in another form.
The two old men looked at the two ancestral tombs in front of them with a hint of reluctance.
"Go back, if the government helps us guard it, it is safer than anyone else, we should be relieved!" After saying that, Mr. Guan and his old friend Mr. Zhang strode forward and left without looking back.
Guan Hao followed the steps of the two old men, and left with determination and courage, and the other villagers also followed the old patriarch.
This scene has actually been photographed by the live broadcast car of the state TV station next to it. After editing, the entire sacrifice process will be broadcast to people across the country and even the world before excavating the live broadcast.
What is the culture of a nation? It is inherited, what is inherited? It is inherited with good and fine traditions.
What is the culture of a nation? What is innovation? What is innovation? Innovation is advanced ideas that keep up with the context of the times.
Rice surrounded the things left by our ancestors for thousands of years, and even used the lives of generations of ancestors to continue the mission of this family. In feudal society, the power of a family was used to fight against all pretenders, even if the power was weak, it was spared. This was the old belief in the rice family.
Now Damiwei handed over the things left by his ancestors to the government serving others, and let the new government help Damiwei complete the historical mission of the family. Damiwei will protect the things left by his ancestors in a brand new identity. In fact, isn’t this a kind of faith?
It was 8:30, and it was more than an hour before the end of the sacrificial activity.
The state TV station has started live broadcasting. Before the live broadcast, a edited rice sacrificial activity was played. Once it was broadcast, it attracted constant praise and heated discussion among viewers across the country. The little-known ancient village of Lingnan attracted the attention of the whole country.
Today, when reform and development have entered a deep promotion, under the idea of economic development as the center, it is so rare that it is a village that can protect traditions and inherit traditions!
At this time, an old man with eyes was sitting on the living room sofa in Building 1, Building 1, No. 28, Hequn Road, Suicheng, Lingnan Province, staring at the TV intently. The TV was officially a shocking scene of rice ceremonies this morning, taken by the live broadcast car of the state TV station.
Today is the weekend, and the old man has a rare rest and watches TV. Seeing the scenes of sacrifices moved the old man.
"Hua Zhi, please find out the situation of the rice surround immediately." The old man said to the secretary beside him.
It was just 9:00, and the first program of the State TV station began to broadcast live on the King of Damiwei in the Nanyue District of Suicheng, Lingnan Province.
Because this excavation is different from previous archaeological excavations, this time, two adjacent royal tombs were excavated at the same time, and the cemetery that had been buried for thousands of years was opened at the same time. It was the only time in the entire C country, and it was also the place known as the "cultural desert".
In order to better demonstrate the excavation of the two tombs, the State Television will broadcast live to audiences across the country through live broadcasts on the ground and in the air for the first time. For this reason, it also specifically asked the Guangzhou garrison for help. The garrison attached great importance to and cooperated, and specially sent a military helicopter and a crew of two teams to cooperate with the live broadcast of two shifts.
Because the two royal tombs of the Western Han Dynasty and Nanyue surrounded by Daji have applied to the State Administration of Cultural Relics and Lingnan Province to build a museum on its original site, and have been approved by relevant competent authorities.
After the early comprehensive exploration, the two tombs in Damien were all built with stone arch structures. The entire tomb was extremely strong and could even withstand high-intensity earthquakes.
All the excavation work of the entire royal tomb adopts the overall excavation commonly known as "removing the lid". This work flow is to first remove the vegetation on the sealing soil, then remove the sealing soil, expose the entire underground palace of the royal tomb, then uncover the underground palace of the voucher structure, expose the tomb chamber, and then excavate one by one according to the functions of each tomb chamber.
The main content of this live broadcast is to open the coffin of the owner of the tomb, which is also the most attractive place, and of course it is also the place where archaeology is most worth looking forward to and testing the staff.
From the perspective of helicopter aerial photography, the seal of the entire No. 1 mausoleum is hemispherical. According to the on-site measurement data, it is about 30 meters high and has a diameter of more than 90 meters.
After the early construction, a 15-meter-thick sealing mound was dug up 24 hours a day with small machinery. Now the bluestone arch has been exposed. At this time, three cranes have been transferred around the tomb. The staff are carefully preparing to lift the bluestone arch. Through aerial photography by helicopters, the audience can clearly see on the TV that there is a round hole in the middle of the bluestone arch directly north of the bluestone arch. Obviously, this is a robbery hole opened by tomb robbers.
Seeing the hole stolen footage at the scene, all the viewers in front of the TV were disappointed.
Fortunately, there was a live host explaining that after experts have been inferring that this thief hole has a history of hundreds of years and the damage to the tomb is very limited. This archaeological excavation will rewrite the new history of Lingnan archaeology.
With the guidance of tomb robbers, the work of uncovering the cover is actually relatively simple. Without destroying the structure of the real tomb chamber, the lifting work starts with the bluestone with the robbery hole.
The crane slowly began to lift the bluestone with a stolen hole, and everyone's heart felt like it was hanging to their throats. Even the abbot who was explaining the side held his breath, and the crane slowly lifted the bluestone with a stolen hole.
The tomb that had been covered with thousands of years finally unveiled a corner of her mysterious veil with the help of modern machinery.
In order to prevent the entire vault from collapsed, the staff risked their lives and used cables to drop a young archaeologist into the open "skylight".
Whether the No. 1 royal tomb of the South Yue Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty was completely robbed and opened can only be revealed after archaeologists go down to the tomb to find out.
Chapter completed!