Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 387 Dungeon

After blowing on and off for a week, the wind finally stopped.

The sun rises in the east, the sea of ​​sand is golden, and the sand grains sparkle with dazzling light.

The sand ridge is like a dragon, stretching from east to west, endless, empty and silent.

The ancient city is located alone in the desert.

As soon as the wind stopped, the floating sand gradually became compacted, and the road became much easier to walk.

With a "chick", Lu Benzhi fell over and slid down the sandy slope.

Li Ding'an quickly walked around Sha Liang and helped him up.

"You said you have old arms and legs, why are you joining in the fun?"

"You don't blame me if you don't explain yourself clearly? I thought it was the kind of Feng Shui ruins that Lao He mentioned..."

Lu Benzhi sighed, "I have studied antiques and architecture for half my life, but where have I seen this?"

This is true.

Before going to Qinglong Mountain, Li Ding'an had never seen it... Oh no, probably no one had seen it.

At first glance, Li Ding'an discovered another Feng Shui formation, not far from the capital, and the old man ran over without stopping.

Not only did he come, he also brought a large group of people with him: Xiao Jianzhi, director of the Forbidden City Ancient Buildings Repair Center, and Cheng Ming, director of the Ancient Building Engineering Research and Management Office.

These two people are both members of the ancient architecture expert group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the person in charge of ancient architecture-related topics.

There are more researchers who are not responsible for the project, more than ten in total.

Only when the result came did they realize that it had nothing to do with what they thought: it was not a large formation, but an ancient city.

I have already studied this thing and vomited it.

Forget it, it’s here now…

The wind has been blowing for a week, and the sand dunes have gradually flattened and become much larger.

Looking further down, the ancient city ruins seem to be much larger?
Li Ding'an spread out the small horse tie and let Lu Benzhi sit and rest, and the people behind him also came up one after another.

Experts, researchers, photography crews, technology, and scouts.

The leaders are at the back.

The local person in charge of culture and tourism is a female leader, who is an alumnus of Shu Jinghao. She graduated from the Department of Archeology of the Renmin University of China and has a professional background.

She is very beautiful and very weak. She walks for a while and then stops for a while. Panting and sweating.

"Yan... Yan Ting... Teacher Li said it might be Wangcheng... but it doesn't look like... to me?"

"It doesn't matter, even if it's not, it's still good to come and learn!"

"Right!"

The female leader forced a smile.

Then came Wang Yongqian and Zuo Peng, who looked at each other.

To be honest, they don't think it's the same.

But it’s pretty good.

Li Dingan did not carry out inspections and excavations at the same time as he did in Qinglong Mountain, and did not ask the local people to adjust the machines. He was conservative enough...

Thinking about it, a group of leaders also went to Shaping.

Lu Benzhi held up the telescope as if observing the topography of the ancient city.

"The building is quite square, but the royal city...can't you tell?"

The key is that it's too small, it doesn't even look like 10,000 square meters...

Suddenly, Wang Yongqian's heart skipped a beat: Dean Lu couldn't even see it?

Li Ding'an pointed to the north: "Don't just look at the city, look outside first!"

"What are you looking at?"

"Mountains and water?"

Lu Benzhi was stunned for a moment, then thrust the telescope into his arms, "Here, look for it for me!"

Others also opened their eyes wide: the yellow sand is hundreds of miles away, endless... where are the mountains and water?

"Really!"

Li Ding'an vowed: "Have you seen the pit in the northwest? It's the old site of Chagan Lake. There is Baogeda Mountain two kilometers to the east, facing the north of the ancient city. The local herdsmen call it the holy mountain... but it's not high. It’s only thirty or forty meters above the ground!” No wonder I can’t see it… Thirty-four meters high is also called the Holy Mountain?

Lu Benzhi held back his laughter and said, "Okay, let's take it as a mountain. Where's the water?"

"Yes, but before!" Li Ding'an pointed around, "It's the Xihe River. The main trunk is in the south, and then it goes around the city. It merges into three lakes in the southeast, northwest and east of the city. But Jianguo Later, the river was intercepted and the reservoir was built, and then it was done..."

"That's all?"

"Of course there are more... Lu Yuan, can you recall the terrain around the Forbidden City?"

After half a lifetime of research, why do I need to remember?
Sitting on the mountain and looking at the water, the mountain is the mountain, the Forbidden City is directly north, the water is thistles, the Forbidden City is directly south, and there are lakes in the southeast, east, and northwest...

Hmm... Sitting on a mountain and looking at the water?
Look here again...you can't see it. But according to Li Ding'an: the mountains are in the north and the water is in the south...

Lu Benzhi raised the telescope again: The mountain is too short to see. I don’t know if there were three lakes before, but there must have been one in the northwest of the ancient city.

Pretty big?
Comparing it to the Forbidden City, that location happens to be the North Sea, the largest of the three seas in the Forbidden City...

"any left?"

"Look at the side lengths...the length from north to south is 92 meters, and the width from east to west is 74 meters. If converted into Tang rulers, they happen to be thirty feet and twenty-four feet!"

Xiao Jianzhi gradually became suspicious: "If we ignore the difference between the Tang and Ming measurements, and just count the 'foot', this place is...a hundred times smaller than the Forbidden City?"

Lu Benzhi also reacted: the Forbidden City is three hundred feet long from north to south and two hundred and forty feet wide from east to west. If you calculate the area, it would be a hundred times smaller.

"any left?"

"Yes, look at the terrain: Qian (northwest) is high, Kun (southeast) is low... exactly the same as the Forbidden City!"

Li Ding'an pointed to the southeast and northwest corners, "Look at these two corners, are they missing corners?"

Lu Benzhi raised the telescope... Yes, the southeast and northwest are not sharp angles, but oblique angles, as if they were cut with a knife each.

What a coincidence, the Forbidden City was also built like this?

But if one place is a coincidence, can everything else be a coincidence?
Lu Benzhi turned his head in surprise: "How did you tell?"

Li Ding'an smiled: "Isn't this enough?"

Of course not enough.

If we only rely on these three points, they are just like, not exactly the same, at best.

So, after the wind stopped, he sat on the top of Baogada Mountain and watched the stars for two whole nights, and then took a probe to explore the inside and outside of the ancient city and its surroundings.

The two vassals on the left and right have fifteen stars, and the two bows join together to form a wall...

There are 108 vassal stars in it, 30 in the north and 30 in the south, and 24 in the east and west. Together with the 108 stars in the purple sky, the total length of the palace wall is 108 feet.

I also looked through the topography and restored the former site of Xilin River, and then calculated: water comes out of Kun and merges with Qian, Gengzi belongs to earth, water and earth are the same hexagram... The Feng Shui pattern of Mingtang in this ancient city is: Xin Ren gathers and Chen gathers.

The wind happened to be strong enough to blow out the missing corners in the southeast and northwest, and Li Ding'an was even more certain:

"Suwen·Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun": The sky is not enough for the northwest, and the earth is not enough for the southeast...

"Huainanzi Tianwenxun": In the past, Gonggong fought with Zhuanxu to be emperor. In anger, he touched the mountains of Buzhou. The pillars of heaven were broken and the earth was cut off... Therefore, the sky tilted to the northwest and the earth was cut off from the southeast...

At this point, they are all aligned: Ziwei, the southern and northern trap number... Ziwei Zhongyuan of the three major wall bureaus.

It is found in "Burial Sutra" by Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and "Shaking the Dragon Sutra" by Yang Yi of the Tang Dynasty. It is also called "Dragon Water Lianzhu".

But it was first used in the construction of imperial cities in the Ming Dynasty: after Emperor Yongle Zhu Di moved the capital, Yao Guangxiao was the one who designed and supervised the construction...

Therefore, I can’t figure it out: a small dilapidated city from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties used the Feng Shui layout of the imperial capital’s forbidden caves?

The strange thing is that it can not only match the sky, but also match the geography?

What’s even stranger is: since there is a royal city, there must have been important people here, but Li Ding’an searched through the information and couldn’t find it...

While thinking about it, Director Xiao pinched his chin: "It doesn't feel right. There are no three doors and five floors in the south, and there is no central axis?"

He was referring to the Meridian Gate directly south of the Royal City. If compared to the Forbidden City, it should have three gates and five floors, forming the "Ninth Five-Year Plan".

The central axis is the meridian, which must be present in every "city" in ancient times.

"Still have to dig."

"What do you mean?"

Li Ding'an pointed down: "What we see is not the base of the wall, but the head of the city... The rest is buried under the sand!"

What the hell?
This place...is a dungeon?
　Sorry, I looked up too much information and it's a bit short.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)