History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 61 Rereading "Da Liang Yu Fang Ji" Continuation
Although according to the current credible records, it is generally believed that Lie Yukou, the author of "Liezi", died 44 years before the gathering that caused a sensation in Daliang was held.But we know that there has always been a debate in the academic circles. Whether the author of the current version of "Liezi" was born in 450 BC and died in 375 BC, representing Laozi Li Er and Zhuangzi Zhuangzhou. Liezi, an important transitional figure between the second and third stages of Taoism, or, is the text of Liezi handed down to the world all from Liezi?

From the Song Dynasty to the 20th century, scholars from the Southern Song Dynasty Zhu Xi, Gao Sisun, Huang Zhen, and Ye Daqing, scholars from the Qing Dynasty Qian Daxin, Yao Nai, He Zhiyun, Yu Zhengxie, Wu Dexuan, Wang Jipei, Niu Shuyu, scholars from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and modern times Zhang Binglin, Chen Sanli, Liang Qichao, Ji Xianlin, Qian Zhongshu, these master-level scholars with profound skills and world-renowned names all believe that the existing "Liezi", including the "Sikuquanshu" edition, should be from the Jin Dynasty.This should be a fake work written by Tuogu, which is a mixture of later Taoist thoughts and some Buddhist thoughts, as well as the possible incomplete original "Liezi".The second volume of "Bamboo Book Chronicles" published in 2031 and unearthed in 2029 contains many works of various schools of thought, which are more or less different from the versions we see today.However, there is a huge difference between the quotation of "Liezi Huangdi" and the current version of "Siku Quanshu".

In the "Liezi·Huangdi" chapter of the "Siku Quanshu" edition, when referring to the location of "Huaxu country", the original text used "Huaxu's country is in the west of Yanzhou and north of Taizhou. I don't know Siqi country." Tens of millions of miles, it is beyond the reach of a boat and a car, it is just a mind wandering." The description.In the quotation under "Bamboo Book Chronicles", this sentence becomes "The country of the Huaxu family is in the west of Yanzhou and the north of Taizhou, [-] miles away from Qi State. As far as it goes, it's just a fugue."

The biggest difference between the two sentences is, of course, the description of the distance between "Huaxu Kingdom" and Qi Kingdom. One is a virtual reference like "tens of millions of miles", while the other has a clear "eighteen thousand and seven hundred miles". "Such a description.If we convert 18700 miles into metric kilometers according to the historical research results from Shang, Zhou to Qin and Han Dynasties in ancient China 1:0.4, the result is 7500 kilometers.Starting from Linzi, the capital of Qi State, and extending this distance from top to bottom, left, and right, we will get the ancient Dead Sea in Jordan, the Yukon in ancient Canada, the central Pacific Ocean with all sea water, and ancient Australia. of the Western Region.

If we exclude the unconscious performance of the old man Huangdi in the process of fugue or sleepwalking, such as "no pain in the touch, no itching in the fingertips, flying in the air as if it were real, and sleeping in a void like a bed", we can only look at the "huahua" "Xu Country"'s "do not drown in water, do not get hot in fire", combined with the above four places 7500 kilometers away from Linzi, then the location of "Huaxu Country" is ready to come out.

Yes, "Huaxu Country" is very likely to be the Middle East on Earth.Not drowning in the water may describe the Dead Sea, but not hot in the fire may refer to the low combustion temperature when the oil crude oil abounds in the Middle East is burned.Here comes the problem again. If it is generally believed that Zhang Zhantuogu, a man of the Jin Dynasty in ancient China, wrote or compiled Liezi, and the Jin Dynasty had already "cut through the Western Regions" and opened the Silk Road. In the era after traveling eastward to spread the Fa, it was normal for people at that time to know about things in the Middle East.

Here it is believed that the location of Huaxu Kingdom is near the Dead Sea. Apart from the distance from Linzi as evidence, according to the average density of human bodies, there are only a handful of natural water bodies with enough salinity to allow the human body to float freely on the surface.Judging from the 21st century when the lower part of "Bamboo Book Chronicles" was discovered, these possible water bodies are nothing more than the Dead Sea, the fifth largest saltwater lake in the world, the fourth largest Lake Assal in Djibouti, and the third largest Kara Bogazgor in Turkmenistan. Bay, the second largest Don Juan Pool in Antarctica, and the largest Gat Pool in Ethiopia.And if the actual traffic levels in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are added, the first, second and fourth largest saltwater lakes located in Antarctica, Ethiopia and Djibouti can almost be ruled out.If the factor of oil is added, the ancient Turkmenistan can basically be ruled out.

Liezi lived from 450 BC to 375 BC, in the Dead Sea region of the Middle East, which coincided with the reign of the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. The empire of 550 square kilometers naturally made its due contribution to the exchange of human beings between the East and the West during that period.After Darius the Great died on the eve of the Persian War, his successor Xerxes I completely withdrew the Persian Empire from Europe after the complete failure of the war, and Xerxes I also died in an assassination.

After Xerxes I, during the reign of his eldest son Artaxerxes I, the solar calendar was established as the Persian national calendar, Zoroastrianism became the state religion of the Persian Empire, and Aramaic replaced Elamite as the more important language of the empire. .I don't know whether the record about "not hot when entering the fire" in "Liezi" has something to do with some sacrificial rituals of Zoroastrianism.Liezi's contemporary, in the Middle East, was Artasis II, the longest reigning Achaemenid dynasty, who ruled for 404 years between 359 BC and 45 BC.It can be believed that during the stable period of the Persian Empire across Eurasia, although it suffered military setbacks in the Mediterranean region, its influence was still sufficient to make its culture known to distant civilizations. Perhaps Liezi was the ancient who knew this information. One of the Chinese.

In the lower part of "Bamboo Book Chronicles", the writing date of the bamboo slips such as "Daliang Yufang Ji", according to the chronological sequencing method, should not be later than the time of Qin Shihuang.If so, maybe it all makes sense.

Perhaps, there was a traverser who did not know how to travel to Daliang during the reign of King Wei Hui. Among the belongings he brought, there should be something similar to a globe.In front of King Hui of Wei Wei Wei, the traveler probably spent a month or two successfully convincing King Hui who was still as curious about things as he was when he was young.With King Hui's consent and auspices, all living people of insight and many princes and nobles from all over the world gathered in Daliang to conduct several months of "discussion" on the items and knowledge brought by the traveler.

"Daliang Yufang Ji" is a bamboo slip recorded in the second volume of "Bamboo Book Chronicles" in the early Han Dynasty. It should be a "diary" left by a well-known or unknown scholar who participated in the Daliang event at that time.Based on the transportation capacity and actual needs at that time, people in the ancient China area naturally did not have the need to go to the Middle East, and of course they would not have written records about that place.And this traveler, when introducing the map made into a sphere in his hand, probably vividly introduced the Dead Sea that can make people float on the surface, and the Dead Sea, which was also produced in the Middle East, during the period from the 21th to the beginning of the [-]st century. Time has become the oil that is the main fuel of mankind.

It may be adhering to the habit of scholars at that time who liked to simplify things when recording things. The description of the geography of the traveler at that time is based on the second volume of "Bamboo Book Chronicles" that we see now, "the original "Liezi "" or in the ancient book "Shan Hai Jing" such a way was recorded.Later scholars and people may not be able to fully understand, and it is also difficult to understand the description of the traverser at the Daliang Grand Meeting in essence, so it is understandable to make some revisions and interpretations of these texts.

The above-mentioned full text is excerpted from Chapter 53, Volume [-], Volume [-], Volume [-] of "History of Human Universe Exploitation", related commentary works under "Bamboo Book Chronicles" and related entries in "Daliang Yufang Ji".

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