This instant change made everyone curious and looked around the courtyard.
In the light of this stack of neon lights, the golden glazed tiles on the palaces, towers, and palaces continue to refract light, making the roofs of the buildings shine like a bright galaxy with endless rays of light.
Between the lights and shadows, the originally pitch-black sky was now covered by a strange stream of light, as if there were clouds covering the dome. The rainbow in the courtyard reflected the green tiles on the golden roof, making the tomb seem even more unreal.
Yue Guanchao raised his head and looked above his head. There happened to be a cluster of neon light clusters above their heads. Most of the light they saw came from the reflection of these light clusters.
"What is this? Could it be that we have triggered some mechanism again? We didn't do anything just now!"
He recalled that just now, apart from standing in the verandah, the few of them came to the courtyard to look at these burnt dummies, but nothing happened.
Song Siyuan stared at the fly ash, seeing that the fly ash was still flying, and slowly explained: "It should be fly ash."
Then, she looked at everyone cautiously: "Sun Daqiao just said that the ever-burning lamps in the tomb are ignited by using bone phosphorus to be ignited by the air. When the air disappears, these things will go out. Just now, we entered the tomb, It has been fully exposed to the air, and I suspect that the sinkhole light we see is probably the phosphorescence ignited after entering the air, not sunlight coming in."
"Then, what's the light in the dome above us?"
Everyone could clearly see that the dome was round, just enough to completely cover the tomb, as if there was a neon cloud above the head.
Song Siyuan continued to explain: "This is the point I want to say. I suspect that the colored light on the dome is also bone phosphorus soaked in kerosene. When these fly ash floats to the dome, it will ignite them and the light we see will appear. It’s just that the dome probably has some kind of mechanism that allows bone phosphorus to exist for thousands of years and emit light of different colors.”
At this point, everyone looked overhead, and the appearance of the dome was indeed somewhat unexpected.
Sun Daqiao took out his glasses from his pocket and stared at the dome carefully for a long time before he could determine what it was. He suddenly realized it and rubbed his tear-stained eyelids: "This thing, if I guess correctly, is Fire Dance and Golden Rainbow in the Northern Song Dynasty.”
"Fire Dance and Golden Rainbow?"
Everyone looked at Sun Daqiao curiously.
Now that the name has been proposed, he continued to explain: "It is mentioned in the Song Dynasty's "Tokyo Menghua Lu" that Bianjing is a city with a population of more than one million. Trade is developed and commerce is prosperous. Shops are open all night long. Bianjing has three hundred rows. Among them, Caimen belongs to Cai Xing, and his specialty is dancing with fire and golden rainbow!"
What is Fire Dance and Golden Rainbow?
The prosperity of trade in the Northern Song Dynasty brought about the development of handicraft industry, and all walks of life introduced new things. The Fire Dance and Golden Rainbow is the combination of organs and lights.
This kind of lamp is composed of countless colorful silk cloths. These silk cloths are made into a spherical shape with a large bowl mouth in the form of a lantern. The outside is sewn with single-color cloth or color-blocked cloth. An oil lamp that can be lit is placed in the lantern. .
At the same time, the outside of the lanterns is installed with brass sequins and glass sequins, all of which are installed on the bottom runner full of small glass lamps, and all lanterns are protected with glass lampshades.
As long as the rocker arm is turned, these wheels will drive the lanterns on them to rotate together. The lanterns are lit, and the color of the cloth is directly reflected on the colored glass lamp. In the form of colored light, the colored glass lampshade is reflected as brightly as clouds. If the sequins beat frequently during the rotation, it will look like a rainbow dancing and rotating in the firelight, hence the name Fire Dance Golden Rainbow.
This kind of fire dancing golden rainbow lantern is mostly used in magic temple fairs. Some craftsmen will also hang a video film in front of the lamp. When the lamp starts to rotate, it will look like a person is moving and the horse is running. Every time the golden rainbow lantern is lit, it is bound to attract onlookers. When children go to watch, it can be considered as soliciting business for them. Mr. Caimen, who travels around the world, is more or less capable of such skills.
It is rumored that Song Renzong listened to the words of his uncle Duan Wang and suspected that the past story of Empress Dowager Liu's "civet cat for prince" was true. He believed that she had robbed his biological mother Li Niangniang's child. He became furious and his relationship with Empress Dowager Liu became worse and worse.
Little did he know that Empress Dowager Liu's civet cat exchange for the prince had a hidden agenda. Back then, Empress Dowager Li was just a maid in Empress Dowager Liu's palace. It was the Zhenzong who pitied her for having no children, so he wanted to favor Mrs. Li. As long as she gave birth to a child, she could pretend to be a maid. To educate Queen Liu's children.
Afterwards, Empress Li gave birth to Zhao Zhen, who was successively named the county prince, Cai Ren, Wanyi, and Chen concubine. This matter involved the secret of Empress Liu's childlessness and the life experience of the prince. Its nature was too secret, and Zhenzong did not want to do so. Let the harem and foreign ministers know, so everyone kept silent, and ordered that from now on, no one could mention the origin of Renzong Zhao Zhen and Concubine Li Chen.
It could be said that it wasn't that Queen Mother Liu E didn't want to tell him, it was just that as long as she opened her mouth, she would be disobeying the late emperor's will, and she would have to suffer the consequences of being mute.
Seeing that the rumor of the civet cat replacing the prince became more and more intense, in the end, Empress Dowager Liu had no choice but to use the golden rainbow lantern to make shadow puppets of the events between Li Empress and Zhenzong during her lifetime and put them in the golden rainbow lantern for Zhao Zhen to see. In this way, without saying a word, he could know what was going on with his biological mother, Li Niangniang.
After Song Renzong watched Concubine Li's shadow play, he immediately knew that he had wrongly blamed Empress Dowager Liu. If Empress Dowager Liu hadn't interceded, Concubine Li would not even have been given the title of Concubine Chen.
After that, Renzong finally found out that Li Niangniang was his biological mother. Empress Dowager Liu loved her son so much that in order to take care of his face, she also posthumously named Li Niangniang the queen and specially ennobled her relatives and relatives. However, Empress Dowager Liu Although it was proven that the civet cat's exchange for the prince was a rumor, by the time the truth was clarified, these rumors had already spread widely in the market and could no longer be contained.
Thanks to the record of this incident, something that existed in history such as the Golden Rainbow Lantern was also recorded in historical books, so that future generations will know that the Golden Rainbow Lantern once visited the imperial palace in the past.
Sun Daqiao coughed a few times and continued: "In the Song Dynasty, the development of handicraft industry brought about the innovation of technology. There are many things like Fire Dance and Golden Rainbow recorded in Tokyo Menghualu. It can be said that it is colorful and has many skills. But with the golden age, When the Chinese invaded Bianjing, many techniques were lost as the barbarians trampled them, and by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, nothing was left."
"When I was doing fortune-telling in the world, I also saw such a craftsman. His tricks were the same as those of the popular dioramas nowadays. He used a box made of wood, with three round holes as big as bowls dug in the front, just enough to Put the person's face inside, and when the spectators are ready, the golden rainbow light inside will be lit, making it look like a rainbow dancing with the golden light of the glass."
"As for now."
Sun Daqiao said: "With the introduction of peepshows, these things are also advancing with the times. I heard that you can put a peepshow in the box, just like watching a foreign show in a cinema. You can watch it for only two cents, which is comparable to watching a peepshow in a box." Foreign opera must be affordable. Whenever a craftsman walks through the streets, there will definitely be children running over and surrounding the wooden boxes, refusing to leave."
"If you think about it, this technology has been lost. It's amazing that it can be done so well. If it were passed down from the Song Dynasty, it would be considered an ingenuity."
He coughed a few times, pointed to the fire dancing golden rainbow above his head and said: "This thing was built in the Song Dynasty. The technology was not lost at that time. In order to build their Shangjing, the Jin people paid more attention to retaining technical books."
"I think!"
Sun Daqiao looked at everyone: "The people of the Jin Kingdom have a way to make a golden rainbow lantern. The entire dome is probably the glass cover I mentioned. The light is actually the light reflected by the shaking of the silk and the lamp. If there is tung oil and bone phosphorus in it, of course You can also achieve your own burning.”
"If you add rotation, I guess some kind of mechanism is used. The Chao family is proficient in mechanism skills. I think they can use the golden rainbow lantern to create such a golden rainbow dome."
"But why do they make these things? Is it just to look good?"
Xu Xiake looked at the dome. The golden rainbow shone brightly like clouds, and it was nothing but beautiful.
"It should be for auspiciousness."
Yue Qingshan explained: "There is a golden rainbow in the tomb, which represents the person receiving God's care. This imperial concubine is a concubine of Qin Zong, and one of the few concubines who returned to the north. The purpose is just to receive auspiciousness, which is equivalent to the colorful painting on the ceiling of the tomb."
Yue Guanchao looked at the rainbow dome on the top and said: "No matter whether it was made by the Jin Kingdom or the Southern Song Dynasty, the rainbow dome probably had more than one purpose. If the golden dome of the Southern Song Dynasty was better, then the Jin Dynasty's Fengtian official is very familiar with the tombs, and he will probably add some other tomb-protecting mechanisms, and we will be in trouble."
Yue Guanchao had already experienced this deeply in the Haidong Imperial Tomb. The brutal chain hammer that appeared in the urn city could beat people into pieces in two or three strokes. He still feels numb in his back when he thinks about it. This mechanism If it was really done by Chao Fengtianguan, it would definitely not be that simple.
"Anyway, go to the corridor first so that you can be prepared if something happens."
Before they finished speaking, there was a clicking phenomenon above their heads. The sinkhole kept making rustling sounds as it lit up and disappeared, and countless black things were seen falling downwards.
With a click, the black sphere fell to the ground. It was a thorny ball larger than a fist, made of brass, and covered with three-inch spikes. The stone slab was cracked and full of cracks.
"Walk!"
Yue Guanchao had quick eyesight and quick hands. He led Song Siyuan and the others to avoid the attack of the spiked balls and hid in the nearest corridor. Soon after they fell into the corridor, the spiked balls were like raindrops, and they fell downwards with a tremor, making the top of the verandah make frequent noises.
If they leave a little later, they will definitely become hedgehogs!
Listening to the rumbling sound at the top of the corridor, everyone felt that they were still recovering from the disaster. In just a breath, the thorny balls had already fallen all over the courtyard. Countless thorny balls smashed the ground into ugly spots, and it no longer looked as impressive as before.
"What is this thing? It is so powerful that it can smash the stone slabs like this."
Some people died, but not completely...
