I didn't step forward immediately, but waited for a while. After the dead tree was completely burned, I slowly stepped forward.
Only then did I realize that there was a person hiding in the heart of the charred tree.
No.
To be more precise, it should be a corpse.
It was the body of a woman. The woman was young, about 20 years old, with fair skin and a handsome face. She was wearing ancient Xiapei.
When it comes to Fengguan Xiapei, I think many people think that it is a normal piece of clothing, but in fact it is not.
As the name suggests, Fengguan Xiapei is composed of Fengguan and Xiapei, and there are many details in it.
For example, a set of phoenix crowns includes: phoenix crown, phoenix hairpin, and gold hairpin.
Among them, the phoenix hairpin is a phoenix-shaped hairpin used to decorate the phoenix crown, and the gold hairpin is used to fix the hairstyle in the phoenix crown. Putting these things together can be considered a complete set of Feng Guan Xia Pei.
Therefore, Fengguanxiapei is not clothes, but accessories.
The phoenix crown is equivalent to the hat on the head, and the xiapei is the shawl on which clothes are hung. If the ancients only wore the phoenix crown and xiapei when they got married, it would be equivalent to running naked... You should understand what I mean.
So, when or who can wear Fengguan Xiapei?
In ancient times, the hierarchy among people was very clear.
Therefore, phoenix crowns and harems were not only worn by the ancients when they got married. Queens, concubines, and wives of officials could wear them on a daily basis. However, no matter how rich civilian women were, they were not qualified to wear them every day. They were only worn at the most important moments in a woman's life - -You are only allowed to wear it once when you get married, and of course you can also wear it when you are buried.
Moreover, this is a marriage privilege that only the main wife has, and concubines are not eligible.
Now I can understand why many female protagonists in period films say they want male protagonists: "Feng Guan Xia Pei is marrying a matchmaker"!
In addition, although empresses, concubines and official wives can all wear it, the materials, patterns, colors, etc. of Fengguanxiapei are different according to their status.
For example, in the following group of phoenix crowns, we see whether they are good-looking or not, but the ancients saw their level.
If you want to see how high their status is, just count the number of dragons and phoenixes on their heads.
The so-called phoenix crowns and harems of ordinary women are just a "borrowed" concept. Almost all the decorations are imitations, not real gold and silver. They are far worse than those of palace concubines and official wives.
The reason why I talked so much about Fengguan Xiapei is because the dress on the female corpse in front of me was actually embroidered with nine phoenixes.
You must know that in ancient times, nine was regarded as the most respected person.
For thousands of years, our ancestors have always believed that "nine" is the highest number and is homophonic with "jiu", so it has been loved by people since ancient times.
In addition to other numerals indicating the quantity and order of things, "Nine" often means "many".
Wang Zhong's "Shu Xue" in the Qing Dynasty. "Explanation of Sanjiu" says: "Anything that cannot be exhausted by one or two, then approximate it by three to see how much it is. If it cannot be fulfilled by three, then approximate it by nine to see how much it is."
"Suwen." It is said in "Three Books on Nine Lords": "The ultimate number of heaven and earth begins with one and ends with nine." It is believed that "nine" is the highest number. If it exceeds nine, it will advance to one place and return to "one". Therefore, since ancient times, "nine" has been commonly used to express "many".
In our country, people regard nine as the "number of heaven" because nine is a totemized character in the shape of a dragon or a snake. Therefore, in order to express that their sacred power was a gift from God, ancient emperors tried their best to associate themselves with "Nine".
In addition, "nine" is the most odd number.
In our country, the character "Nine" is the most mysterious. In the imperial era, the number of city gates, palaces, and door nails were mostly counted in "nine". For example, the Forbidden City was described as having "nine levels of palaces," the Hall of Supreme Harmony used "nine bays," and the number of door nails in the Forbidden City was ninety-nine and eighty-one.
Even the names of palace utensils are named with the word "Nine", such as Nine Dragon Cup, Nine Peach Pot, Nine Dragon Pillar, etc.
There are many words that use "Nine" to express vastness and complexity, such as: Jiutian, Jiuzhou, Jiuzhong, Jiuquan... Numbers derived from multiples of "Nine" are also respected by people, such as Eighteen Arhats and Eighteen Martial Arts; Confucius has seventy-two sages; there are seventy-two corridors built next to the Temple of Heaven and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests; Taoism has thirty-six caves and seventy-two blessed places; the drums in the Drum Tower and the bells in the temples need to be struck one hundred and eight times...
Why did people in ancient times worship "nine" and multiples of "nine" so much?
Wang Zhong, a philologist in the Qing Dynasty, said: "One odd and two even, one or two can be counted. Two plus one is three, so three is the number. When accumulated to ten, it returns to one, and ten cannot be counted. Therefore, nine is the end of the number.”
Since ancient times, odd numbers have been regarded as yang and even numbers as yin. Odd numbers have symbolized heaven and even numbers have symbolized earth.
"Nine" is the extreme number among Yang numbers. No matter how big the number is, its mantissa cannot be larger than "Nine". In this way, "Nine" is regarded as a symbol of heaven; heaven is divided into nine levels, and the birthday of Heaven is the ninth day of the first lunar month; "Nine" is also attached to the emperor, who is called the "Nine-Five Lord"; at the same time, "Nine" is also It symbolizes extremely high (beyond the nine clouds), extremely wide (the radius of Kyushu), extremely deep (under the nine springs), extremely cold (counting the nine cold days)...
The reason why "Nine" is respected by people is, in addition to the reasons mentioned above, "Nine" is a homophonic word for "Jiu" and is also regarded as an auspicious number.
So if we speculate based on this statement, the corpse in front of me is definitely not an ordinary person. You must know that at that time, even if he had ten thousand courages, he would not dare to have nine phoenixes on himself. Once If discovered, one hundred thousand heads would not be enough for the emperor to chop off.
"Why is this woman here? Could this tree be her coffin?" I looked at the corpse in front of me and couldn't help but feel stunned.
But as I was thinking about it, I suddenly realized a question, "Wait... why was there such a big fire just now, but nothing happened to the corpse in the heart of the tree...?"
Perhaps to confirm my idea, a light blue light suddenly appeared all over the body of the female corpse. When I looked carefully, I found that the surface of the corpse seemed to be covered with a light layer of frost.
I was surprised, and when I reached out to touch the corpse, a biting coldness suddenly came from my fingertips. I was startled and quickly retracted my fingers.
I looked at the female corpse and murmured to myself: "It's true... Before this female corpse died, she must have predicted that someone would burn her with fire, so she hid a fire-proof bead or an ice-cold bead on her body after death. Such a treasure...otherwise such a huge fire would probably have burned him to the point where not even the dregs would be left!"
Thinking of this, I no longer calculated anything, but moved my hands up and down together, rummaging back and forth on the female corpse.
After a while, I found a blue-white bead in the arms of the female corpse.
After seeing this bead, I couldn't help but froze, and murmured: "This is... this is the owl-kissed bead? Why is this thing here? It shouldn't be... in... in..."
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