Not long ago, there was a wave of TV dramas on the Internet, first of all, "Sweeping Black Storm" saw everyone's blood surging blood, followed by the "Yunnan Worm Valley" that triggered a new round of discussion, in fact, everyone knows that this drama is adapted from the novel of the same name, which belongs to one of the "Ghost Blowing Lights".
In various discussions, some friends think that the scene is grand and domineering, and the plot is ups and downs, which is very good; some friends think that the storyline and character settings are too far from the original.
However, Dahui believes that for the vast majority of people who have not seen the original novel of "Ghost Blowing Lights", "Yunnan Worm Valley" is full of all kinds of strange and strange stories, visual effects and sense of substitution, and is a very successful short drama.
If you want to ask you what is the most puzzling thing in "Yunnan Worm Valley"? I believe that many people will say that it is the "Tomb of the Dedicated King", and the ancient Dian Kingdom where the tomb is located.
From the perspective of the content setting of the TV series, this ancient country existed in history, in other words, there should also be a corresponding "historical prototype", so what kind of existence did the ancient Dian state exist?
Photo: Stills of "Tomb of the Dedicated King" in "Yunnan Worm Valley"
First, strange celestial phenomena have led to the appearance of a large number of cultural relics
1. Frightening thunder and lightning
Speaking of the ancient Dian Kingdom, we have to start from a strange incident in Fuxian Lake in the 1960s, when the rainy season came in 1966, Fuxian Lake in Yunnan was raining heavily every day, and finally one day the rain stopped.
It is reasonable to say that it should be the wind and the sun, the weather is clear and clear, but strange things have happened in Lijiashan and Morning Street Village near Fuxian Lake, and Lijiashan, which has the lowest altitude, has frequently suffered from thunder and lightning weather, and it looks like there are immortals in Xiu xian novels, which is prohibitive.
For villagers living in this area, the weather of lightning is not unfamiliar, but according to the custom, shouldn't lightning often patronize higher peaks or buildings? Why is there a "big move" for Li Jiashan this time? Could it be that someone in Li Jiashan did something wrong and was condemned by God?
The weather in Lijiashan is getting worse and worse, the thunder is deafening, and the simple villagers have no one who dares to go into the mountain to find out, and can only stay in the village far away to guess, and all kinds of gossip and gossip will continue to be heard, causing people to panic.
After several days of lightning strikes, it finally began to stop gradually, and the weather looked like it was about to clear, in order to find out the truth, so that the fathers and fellow villagers could cultivate and live in peace, a few bold villagers planned to form a team to join forces and enter the mountain to see how this strange thunder and lightning weather came from.
Image: Thunder and lightning weather stills
2. Cultural relics appear
Relying on various handmade tools, the villagers slowly climbed up the terraces and highlands, and looked at the dirt roads that had been bathed by rain for many days and had become very loose, and everyone could only go forward with their scalps.
The speed of the group into the mountain is not fast, when they reached the middle of the mountainside, someone actually found that there were many things similar to bronzes in the washed soil, and driven by curiosity, the villagers randomly chose several places to excavate, and the result was that they did not make much effort, and they continued to find various bronzes and ancient weapons.
This news did not go away, and soon caused a sensation in the entire village near Lijiashan Mountain, of course, this also attracted the attention of the cultural relics protection unit.
Photo: Villagers digging stills
Second, the strange ancient civilization
1. Splendid bronze culture
After excavation and research by archaeologists, it has been determined that a large number of bronzes found in Lijiashan are mainly from before the Western Han Dynasty, that is to say, it was thousands of years ago the location of an ancient civilization far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains, but due to various factors, it was "dusted" by history.
In the following ten years, the archaeological excavation work around Lijiashan has been intermittent and has not stopped, and finally there was a major breakthrough in the large-scale excavation in 1972, which is the "Lijiashan bronze culture" in the famous earthquake sea.
According to the statistics of archaeological excavations at the Lijiashan site in the past, most of the excavated cultural relics are mainly bronze, and there are many kinds of gold, silver, jade, stone tools, etc. Similar ancient sites in China are located in Henan Yin Ruins, but the problem is that the bronzes of Lijiashan are different from the Yin Ruins in terms of shape and smelting technology.
Although the scale of the Lijiashan site cannot be compared with the Yin Ruins, the bronze culture is brilliant enough to be shocking, and archaeologists have boldly made an inference when studying the excavated cultural relics, combined with a large number of historical materials such as the "History", that is, this batch of cultural relics is likely to be related to the 2,000-year-old ancient Dian state recorded in the history books.
However, in various historical materials, the records of this mysterious country are only a few words, and even some of them are directly reproduced in the "History".
Image: Screenshot of excavated bronze data
2, a large number of strange cultural relics
Here we must also mention the site of the large tomb group of ancient Dian kings found in the Jinning area of Yunnan in 1956, and in this archaeological work, experts actually found the "Seal of the Dian King".
Combined with the historical data to roughly restore this history, in 109 BC, the ruler of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, directly used troops against the Yunnan region, and the State of Dian was defeated and directly chose to surrender, after which Emperor Wu of Han gave special favors and gave the king of Dian at that time a golden seal, that is, the "Seal of the King of Dian", to show the dominance of the Han Dynasty over the State of Dian, as well as the absolute rule of the King of Dian over the territory.
After the joint research and approval of experts, it was basically determined that the two sites of Jinning and Lijiashan belonged to the same civilization - the "Ancient Dian State Civilization", yes, this is actually the real historical background of "Yunnan Worm Valley".
Image: Screenshot of the "Seal of the King of Dian" data
For example, the devious designs such as "human sacrifice" and "hanging figurines" in TV dramas can find relevant elements in the cultural relics excavated by Lijiashan archaeology, such as the bronze sword unearthed in the Lijiashan site, which has a shape similar to the superimposed human skeleton at the sword body and sword handle, which looks very strange and eerie.
Another example is a bronze disc, which is carved with many people, their faces are facing the center, which obviously represents some kind of sacrifice ceremony in the ancient Dian Kingdom, which is very similar to the hanging figurine in "Yunnan Worm Valley", and on the unearthed bronze spear, there are two children hanging with their hands hanging, which can be said to be very consistent with the "human lamp" design of the tomb of the king in the play.
Image: Screenshot of the villain's profile carved on a bronze disc
So does the King himself really exist? Judging from the information currently available, he should have a prototype to examine, and it is most likely that he is the King of Dian in the ancient Dian Kingdom, or the tribal leader of a certain civilization in the southwest at the same time, and the specific needs further exploration by experts.
Article author: Dahui
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