It's a long way to go, and get back to the point.

After understanding what an emperor is and what a god is. What is the emperor under the "hundred gods are"? I blurted out the ancestral temple.

Of course, if this word is inaccurate, it should be the important land of the country. It also sacrifices to heaven, mainly for worshipping God. We have a special name called "Mingtang".

There are nine doors on Kunlun, which should be evenly distributed on four sides, with two doors on each side, and one door is the main door, which is located between two small doors on the front.

This pattern is the same as the royal temples of later feudal dynasties.

There are three sides of the two doors, the front facing north and south, that is, the south gate has three doors, two small doors next to them, and one in the middle is the largest, which is the place where worship and entry is only opened at a specific time. It is repaired and maintained during normal times, and cannot be accessed.

In fact, the "capitals" of many dynasties also have a similar pattern.

"The door has an open beast to guard it", which is even more obvious. It is the same as the "tower" decorated on the palace gates of temples and palaces in later generations, or the placement of stone lions in front of the door... which means the gate-suppressing beast.

‘There are nine wells on the surface, with jade as the threshold’, which means that there is a well in front of each door, and jade as the threshold is enclosed.

This is also a decorative style that is consistent. However, now there are rarely "jade sills" that are all stone sills, mainly wooden sills. There are still many wells surrounded by stone sills in the Forbidden City, which is a Feng Shui layout.

‘There are wood on it, five long and five circumferences’… There are also trees planted, huge trees, thick and strong, standing there. It can be said that the Feng Shui layout and the landscape layout are very particular!

This building stands on the 'Eight Corners Rock'. Corner: a square corner.

The Yasuo Rock is a giant rock with eight square corners... This is obviously a base site that is artificially carved.

In other words, this Mingtang is built on an octagonal platform. The foundation is not a simple square, but an octagonal shape formed by two rectangular crosses.

In this way, the pattern of the entire Kunlun Ruins is extremely clear.

It is a Mingtang with a noble status, built on an octagonal platform, with nine wells, nine gates, gate beasts, and giant landscape trees.

You may say, can't it be a "capital city"? A civilization has built a nine-gate capital, which is the center of an ancient country in a large area. All the gods live here, claiming to be the residence of God on earth.

Yes, it makes sense to think so. But first of all, the concept of capital is very late, and even the royal capital of the Shang Dynasty was only called "Da Shangyi".

The concept of "du" should have been used specifically in the residences of "God" and "God" at least before the Zhou Dynasty.

Later, a new meaning was extended: Wherever the Ming Hall for worshiping ancestors was, it was the capital. So it had the meaning of the capital.

Kunlun Ruins’ ‘The Capital of the Emperor’ and ‘The Place of the Gods’, which shows that it is a place dedicated to worshiping the ‘ancestors and Emperors of Heaven’.

What lives inside is not a human, a god, or a spirit of the ancestors... Therefore, it can only be a "Mingtang".

Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in the "Mingtang Yue Ling Theory": "Mingtang is the great temple of the emperor, so he inherits his ancestors and matches God."

"Be careful to inherit the orders of heaven and follow the times, and to the etiquette of the Dezong Temple..."

"The living take advantage of their ability, and the dead talk about their achievements and sacrifice them, so it is the palace of the great religion."

Zong inherited his ancestors and sacrificed his ancestors with God... and said that they were all very clear. They completely correspond to the capital of the emperor and the place where all gods were.

Mingtang is the most solemn building built by ancient emperors. It is used as a place where court meeting princes, issue government orders, enjoy sacrifices to the sky in autumn, and worship ancestors.

Among the emperors of Mount Tai, Mingtang was an important place for emperors to worship. The ancients believed that Mingtang could connect the sky and govern all things. Here, the emperor could not only observe the world, but also publicize politics and religion.

As long as the ancestors who have great achievements and those who live in later generations are under their merits, then future generations will be able to worship the spirits of their ancestors on their merits. This is the "God".

This is the core culture of Chinese civilization and is definitely the top priority.

Therefore, in ancient times, after the concepts of "emperor", "heaven", and "ancestor worship" matured, this kind of sacred place should have existed.

Even if we didn’t even define the modern ‘civilization’, it was still in the Stone Age that our ancestors began to build Mingtang.

This culture has never been cut off and has been circulated. There have been Mingtangs throughout the dynasties, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, and even the Qing dynasties. The last ceremony of worshiping heaven was Yuan Datou...

In other words, we have thousands of years of faith in "Heaven" and the history of "making Kunlun", which is an important feature of Chinese civilization.

"The Book of Zhou Li·Kaogong Ji": "The Zhou people's Mingtang, where they sat down at nine feet of banquet... There are nine chambers outside, and the nine ministers are here."

The "Book of the Great Dai Listoral: Mingtang" in the Western Han Dynasty also wrote, "Mingtang was found in ancient times. There were nine rooms, one room, four households and eight walls... Mingtang was the magnificent and inferior princes, and the outer water was called 'Piyong'."

"Mingtang Monthly Orders" also says that "the number of Mingtang system is the nine chambers to symbolize nine provinces, thirty-six households, seventy-two walls, and four gates and eight walls to multiply the number of nine palaces."

"Huainanzi": "Mingtang, the hall where the king sets up the formation, the upper part is round and the lower part is everywhere..."

These are all descriptions of Mingtang. The shapes of Mingtang are different in dynasties, but they are always in line with their own sects. They are generally corresponding to the descriptions of Kunlun Ruins in Shanhai Jing.

For example, the architectural pattern is the sky and the earth, and the foundation is square and four-story. For example, there is water surrounding the building.

Another one is that Mingtang is a triple-stage staircase, which is consistent with the description of Kunlun in Huainanzi.

Kunlun is divided into three layers. The first layer is called the mountain of Liangfeng, and climbs it without dying. The second layer is called Xuanpu, which is spiritual and can cause wind and rain. The third layer is the heaven, and climbs it is the god, which is called the residence of the Emperor.

In the archaeological Neolithic Age, the Hongshan culture, which dates from 6,000 years ago, had the "Three Ring Altar". The Liangzhu civilization 5,000 years ago also had the three-story Yaoshan Altar.

The Shuanghuaishu Site of the Yangshao culture, also known as the "Ancient Heluo Kingdom", is a large moat with triple structures. There are also the "Nanzuo Site" on the Loess Plateau... In short, there are many, so I won't list them.

The form of building the altar of the ancestral temple into a triple platform has existed since ancient times.

It is a common cultural factor of the entire ancient Chinese cultural circle and various Neolithic cultures, namely, "faith in heaven and earth", "paying ancestors is the spirit", "the sky is the round place" and other elements.

There is another argument, that is, in early classics, the word "Kunlun" sometimes directly refers to "Mingtang".

For example, "Records of the Grand Historian: Book of Fengshan" records that Emperor Wu of Han Fengshan Mountain and descended to the north of the mountain: "The Jinan Ren Gong put on the jade belt on the Mingtang map of the Mingtang during the time of Huangdi. There is a hall in the picture with no walls on all sides. It covers it with a thatch, which opens the water circumference palace walls, which is a road with a tower upwards and enters from the southwest, and is called "Kunlun".

At that time, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to build a Mingtang, and a man named Gong Yudai presented a picture called the Mingtang in the time of Emperor Huangdi, and drew a palace, named Kunlun.

As a Mingtang, Kunlun Ruins depicted in the Shanhai Sutra is basically recognized by the academic community. Many ancient literati also knew that Kunlun Ruins was a Mingtang, but later their imagination was released and developed into an immortal mountain. After all, the "hundred gods are in it", is actually a bunch of ancestral tablets.

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OK, the above is the almost conclusive answer from the mainstream academic community.

Say something I personally think.

"Shangshu Yu Gong" says, "Floating from the accumulation of stones, as for Longmen and Xihe, it meets in Weixian. Weaving the skins of Kunlun, analyzing the branches, searching the canals, and the Western Rong will be discussed."

Translated: (Tribute ships) From the Yellow River near Jishi Mountain to Longmen and Xihe, and joining with the ships that flow upstream from the Weihe River to north of the Weihe River. The people who weaved the Pipe settled in Kunlun, split into branches and searched the three places, and the Western Rong tribes became stable and obedient.

It is simply a direct statement that "Kunlun" is a place name, country name, or "parent name"!

The reason is very simple. "Xizhi" and "Qusou" are both branches of the ancient Western Rong tribe.

The Classic of Shanhai and Shangshu are the earliest and most primitive descriptions of Kunlun. Without adding any myths, they simply record such a place.

Kunlun, I think it should be regarded as an "ancient country" in the western part of ancient times, the "ancient tribe" whose leader was called the Queen Mother of the West.

So in my novel, I say that Kunlun is Kunlun and Kunlunqiu is Kunlunqiu, which is not the same thing. This is not true, I always hold this view.

The so-called Kunlun Mountain refers to the "mountain" of Kunlun Kingdom. The Mountain and Sea Classic also describes "Yu attacks Gonggongguo Mountain".

How can a mountain still be attacked? Because it is most likely to be an "artificial oroe" and may refer to the hill of Gonggong.

Of course, it can also be explained that attack means excavation.

But there were not many words in ancient times, and there was little nonsense. The consciousness of "mountain", "qiu", and "xu" should be different.

I guess the Kunlun Ruins in the Mountain and Sea Classic only describe one of the "Mingtang", which is a clan name.

In ancient China, there were many ancient countries, and there was a clan or country called Kunlun. Their Mingtang was called Kunlunqiu. Later, when it moved away, it was changed to "Kunlun Ruins".

There are other Mingtangs in the book, such as the "Zhurong Ruins", which refer to the location of the Mingtang of the "Zhurong Clan".

Note that strictly speaking, the Ruins do not mean Mingtang.

"Guangya Shijue": "The ruins are the residence."

"Guangya Shuzheng": "The ruins are where they live."

Kunlun Ruins, a literal translation, means "where the Kunlun clan once lived", "the ancient territory of the Kunlun clan", and "the birthplace of the Kunlun clan".

The Zhurong family ruins were the earliest origin of the ancestors of Chu. The ancestral tombs of the Chu people were there, and wherever the ancestral tombs were, it was the root.

Therefore, if ancient people marked their clan's territory on the map, they would draw the most important building of the clan, that is, draw the Mingtang.

It probably means 'where was the ancestral tomb of our clan back then', which is a kind of culture.

At the same time, it can also be reversed. The author of the "mountain and sea chart" is the so-called "Kunlun clan". They focused on marking their "ancestral land" on the mountain and sea chart, so the paintings were very large and detailed, while the Mingtang of other tribes was just a simple sign.

In addition to Kunlun Ruins, Zhurong Ruins... Xuanyuan Platform should also be considered, referring to the altar of the ancient Xuanyuan clan country. It may be the "Shuanghuaishu Site" of the ancient Heluo Kingdom excavated by archaeologically. Of course, this is a scholarly speculation, and I personally object to it. I think Xuanyuan Country is on the Loess Plateau.

In short, all clans that identify with this culture and start to "build Mingtang" are considered to be the predecessors of Chinese civilization, and everyone has the same belief.

After the Liangzhu civilization was discovered, scholars were everywhere looking for Kunlun.

Including the person I want to refute, he was also far-fetched and said that the altar excavated by Liangzhu was Kunlun Ruins.

Indeed, it looks very similar to the triple high platform of the Yaoshan altar in Liangzhu, which looks very much like Kunlun Ruins.

But unfortunately, Kunlun Ruins are definitely not in Liangzhu. That may be the "Some Ruins", but it is definitely not the "Kunlun Ruins".

I just need to say one evidence to refute it, that is, the location of Kunlun Ruins is surrounded by four waters, passing by, one of which is the "river water".

In ancient times, river water strictly referred to the Yellow River, and there was no error, because when the characters were created, the ancients specially created a character for that water system, called "he".

There is a special word for the Yangtze River called "Jiang", the Han River called "Han", and the Wei River called "Wei"...

The word "90%" with three points of water was specifically referred to as a water system in ancient times.

This is common sense. I also said it in the article Galaxy. In addition, I also dispelled a rumor here, that is, Galaxy actually has a special name, it is called "Yuan". However, the academic community cannot be sure whether it is a word specially created for Galaxy.

In short, Kunlun Ruins must not be in Liangzhu, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it must be in the Yellow River Basin.

So where is it? It’s very simple, just locate it from the water system!

Kunlun Ruins are surrounded by four important water systems, two of which enter the sea after passing through Kunlun.

Among them entering the sea is the Yellow River, which specifically describes that "the river water comes out of the northeast corner to travel north and then enters the Bohai Sea in the southwest."
To be continued...