In summer, the grass in the grasslands grows luxuriantly, like a thick green blanket covering the earth.

The horse's hooves step on the grass, and you can feel the softness even when sitting on the horse's back! The sky is high in the distance, and the clouds are clear. Occasionally, a strong wind blows across your face, bringing with it bursts of fragrance of green grass, which makes people feel relaxed and happy!

As the saying goes, if you run up the mountain, you will break your legs. The four of us jogged all the way on horseback, walking in a meandering way, stopping and walking for three or four hours. The snow-capped mountains ahead were still out of reach.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, we stopped in front of a hill and prepared to camp for the night.

At night on the grassland, the temperature is much lower than during the day. The four of us sat together, eating self-heating rice and chatting about the route into the mountains.

"Brothers! I am going to say that this Qilian Mountain is Kunlunxu. Do you believe it or not?" Gerile said while eating.

Menghu Wang Haiyang, who rarely spoke along the way, seemed to be very interested when he heard what Gerile said, and asked: "Oh?! Why do you say that?"

Seeing Wang Haiyang ask this, Gerile suddenly became interested and said:

"Brother, I haven't been fighting for many years. When I was bored, I studied antiques and antiques in the store. I remember seeing it on a batch of collected bamboo slips: Jiuquan Nanshan, which is the body of Kunlun. When King Zhou Mu met the Queen Mother of the West,

If you are happy and forget to return, this is the mountain.”

I said that Jiuquan Nanshan is today’s Qilian Mountains. Why?

It is said that the name Qilian Mountain was given by the Huns. Qilian means heaven. As far as I know, this name did not appear until after the Han Dynasty. But the strange thing is that the name of Qilian Mountain before the Han Dynasty is not found in any historical materials.

The Qilian Mountains are located in a place where many ethnic groups and cultures blend together, so it is impossible that it would not be known to the ancients."

I nodded, feeling that what Gerile said made sense. I was about to ask him, when Wang Haiyang asked from the side:

"I have seen records in Linqiang County of Jincheng County in "Hanshu Geography": From the northwest to the outside of the Great Wall, there is the Stone Chamber of the Queen Mother of the West, the Immortal Sea, and the Salt Pond. The Huangshui River comes out of the north, and Yunwu enters the river in the east. There is Weak Water in the west.

,Kunlun Mountain Temple.

According to research, Linqiang County in Jincheng County is the area around the southern ancient city of Huangyuan County in Qinghai Province today. Jiuquan Nanshan is in Gansu, and Linqiang County is in Qinghai. How can they be related to each other?"

I was very surprised when I heard Wang Haiyang ask such a professional question, so I quietly asked Zhang Jiande who was sitting next to me: "Is your cousin a shooting coach or an archaeologist?"

Zhang Jiande seemed quite surprised and said to me with a smile: He has always been obsessed with archeology, otherwise he wouldn’t have come here this time!

Gerile burst out laughing and said proudly: Brother Ocean! This is my major discovery! This is actually a matter of conceptual misunderstanding. The specific location of Kunlun Mountain has never been determined, because we always thought that Kunlun was a mountain. But

In fact, the term Kunlun Mountain does not appear in the historical materials of the pre-Qin Dynasty. What appears is the Ruins of Kunlun, the Hill of Kunlun or Kunlun. However, the terms Kunlun Mountain and Kunlun Mountain are all misinformation after the Han Dynasty.

Seeing that we were all listening with great interest, Gerile swallowed his saliva and continued: I am not talking nonsense, I have basis, for example

"Chu Ci·Tianwen" records: "Kunlun Hanging Garden, where is it?"

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Western Classic of the Great Wilderness" contains: "The Queen Mother's Cave of the West is located on the hill of Kunlun."

"The River Map Kuo Geographical Symbol" contains: "The ruins of Kunlun have five cities and twelve floors, the river flows out, and there are many jade in the four dimensions."

"Zhuangzi: Heaven and Earth" states: "The Yellow Emperor swam to the north of Chishui River, climbed to the hills of Kunlun and looked south."

There are many such examples. "Xu" means "Xu". For example, Yin Ruins refers to a range or area. Kunlun Zixu actually means the area of ​​Kunlun, not a single mountain.

Hearing this, I was impressed by Gerile and couldn't help but ask:

"Then how big is the area that Kunlun refers to?"

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Hai Nei Xi Jing" states: "The void of Kunlun is 800 miles square and 10,000 ren high." From this we can see that the so-called ruins of Kunlun refer to the entire Qilian Mountains. The reason why they are called ruins is because of the Qilian Mountains.

Determined by the unique characteristics of the Qilian Mountains, the Qilian Mountains are different from other mountain ranges. It is a large and continuous area, so it is said to be "eight hundred miles square".

"I'll go! Then according to what you said, the tomb we are going to this time will be the tomb of the Queen Mother of the West! Isn't the tomb of the Queen Mother of the West located in the ruins of Kunlun?" Zhang Jiande was so entranced that he stopped eating!

asked while holding a small aluminum bowl.

Wang Haiyang snorted coldly: "It is said that the Queen Mother of the West has the head of a tiger and has the body of a tiger. If Wang Guangzhi really encountered her, it wouldn't be surprising if she would be scared crazy!"

The shock in my heart at this moment is beyond words, because what was cast on the back of the bronze mirror was a monster with the head of an animal and the body of a human body. After getting to know Ye Lingwen and his daughter, I learned a lot of archaeological knowledge from them, and I also learned a lot about it.

What Le said is so reasonable and well-founded that people have to believe it!

If the Qilian Mountains are really the ruins of Kunlun, then is the tomb discovered by Zhang Jiande and others really the tomb of the Queen Mother of the West?

But what is the relationship between the Queen Mother of the West and Ye Lingwen’s father and daughter? The remaining ancient books and the characters on the bamboo slips are all written in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and they are not from the same period as the Queen Mother of the West!

I once heard Ye Guangci say in a casual conversation that it is recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness Western Classic": "South of the West Sea, on the shore of the quicksand, there is a big mountain called Kunlun Hill. There is a god with a tiger face and a human body, named the Queen Mother of the West.

.”

In other words, the Queen Mother of the West is in the Ruins of Kunlun, which coincides with Gerile’s inference. If there really was a Queen Mother of the West in history, she was probably a tribal leader or queen in ancient times! You need to know

Human society has evolved from matrilineal clans to patrilineal clans! The scope of activities of a tribe or a kingdom cannot be just a mountain, but only a region! So Gerile said that Kunlun refers to a region and not a mountain. There is no doubt that

is correct!

According to reliable documents such as "The Biography of Emperor Mu", "Huainanzi", "Historical Records", and "Hanshu", from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the image of the Queen Mother of the West changed from the ancient evil god to the goddess who holds the elixir of immortality.

Ye Lingwen and his daughter are immortals. In the mysterious ancient tomb in the Qilian Mountains, a jade pendant exactly like Ye Guangci's was found. Are these just coincidences?

Thinking of this, I am extremely excited and confused. I always feel that as long as I work harder, I can get through the layers of fog in front of me and solve the mystery of Ye Lingwen's father and daughter's life experience!

"Mr. Shen!! Get some rest! We have to be on our way early tomorrow morning!" Zhang Jiande's shout from a distance interrupted my thoughts.

I then got into my sleeping bag and couldn't sleep for a while, so I took out the jade pendant that Ye Lingwen gave me and looked at it carefully. I don't know when I fell asleep!

The night was spent peacefully. Before dawn the next day, Wang Haiyang, who had always been taciturn, got up early and urged everyone to hit the road. After riding horseback for another day, as he got closer to the mountainous area, the surrounding area became more and more crowded.

It's so desolate. When you look up, there's not a single tree on the bare mountain. It's lifeless!

In the afternoon, even the horses finally had nowhere to go. The terrain ahead was getting steeper and steeper, and towering peaks were right next to me. So we abandoned the horses, each picked up a large backpack, and followed Zhang Jiande to the
Chapter completed!