Chapter 22 blue blood yellow sand

From early morning to late night yesterday, the seven provinces I traveled through under the protection of armored vehicles are all rural areas. I only saw one cement factory, and there were very few shops. It is really a thousand miles of earth, and it is so pure that it is rare in the rural areas of Northwest China. arrive. Of course, it goes without saying that there is undisguised poverty along the way.Early this morning, my wife was awakened by a sound. After listening carefully, she judged that it was a horseshoe walking on the stone road. , a little scary. The streets of Luxor are gradually bustling.We are on the east bank of the Nile River, which was regarded as a living area in ancient times, while the west bank is a world of gods and undead, and even the living people maintain a simple ecology.Of course we preferred the West Bank, so we crossed the river.

First go to the Shrine of Queen Hatshepsot.It sits at the bottom of a semi-crater facing the Nile Valley.The mountain ao and it are all wheat-yellow, while the Nile Valley in the distance is hazy with blue mist. Looking at it from a Chinese perspective, Fengshui is excellent. The queen is a rare beauty, which can be seen at a glance in the embossed murals in the temple. However, in order to show her mighty power, the murals try to make her as close as possible to men in form. The whole building is divided into three floors, and one floor is advanced one by one, and the third floor has been dug into the mountain wall.Each floor is lined up horizontally with twenty-nine square stone pillars, connected up and down by a wide ramp in the middle, which is clean and magnificent. From a distance, it looks like a modern building with novel ideas.In fact, it has been standing here for more than 3,300 years. The chief architect at that time was called Senmut. It is said that he was deeply in love with the queen and poured all his love into the design.The Queen's reward for him was to allow him to enter the Valley of the Kings after his death, which was an extremely high treatment at the time.In today's view, whatever the reason, the architect has a reason to be immortalized, because it is not the queen, but he who really makes this place full of tourists.

The square at the entrance of the Queen's Palace is the place where terrorists shot and killed a large number of tourists in November 1997.The gangsters rushed down from the hillside on the left side of the hall, their weapons were hidden under their white Arab robes, and they fired as soon as they lifted them up.Our five jeeps were specially arranged neatly at the place where the most tourists fell that year, as a memorial. We looked up at the hillside to the left of the hall, looking for places where the gangsters might be hiding, and saw a small figure climbing quickly in the middle of the mountain. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be his wife.I hurriedly climbed up, and out of breath, I saw several caves halfway up the mountain, now surrounded by barbed wire.Turning around and looking down, the flow of tourists on the square is really clear.

By the way, Xu Gehui asked the owner of a street vendor by the square how the business was, and the owner complained: Since that incident, the business has not been good. You Japanese have money, so buy some.Xu Gehui quickly corrected it, and bought a big turban without any bargaining, wrapped it around his head and floated away. The next step is to go to the Valley of the Kings, drill into the holes to see the tombs of the emperors of all dynasties.The carved murals in the mausoleum are worth seeing.In the mural, an emperor imagined that after his death, he would take off any crown, wear sandals, pay homage to the falcon-headed god, and hand over his scepter to the falcon-headed god.The next one is that God accepted him, so he can be barefoot without sandals like God.Without a scepter and without shoes, he immediately seemed so at ease.I laughed when I saw this. Isn’t this close to the Chinese philosophy of Lao and Zhuang, but it is more naive than Lao and Zhuang.

I remember a historian once asserted that the Luxor area was once the most luxurious capital on earth.It is possible.If the history of Egypt is divided into 5,000 years, then the first 3,000 years can be said to be the era of the pharaohs, with the center first in Memphis, then in Thebes, which is now Luxor; It is said to be the Greco-Roman era, with its center in Alexandria; the last millennium can be said to be the Arab era, with its center in Cairo. The transfer of the center is mostly related to the invasion of foreign races, and the biggest result of each invasion is often mixed blood.As a result, different cities were inhabited by different groups of mixed blood, and pure ancient Egyptian blood is hard to find anymore.Today's Egyptians, as long as they ask him where he comes from, can roughly guess his blood origin.

Luxor has continued the pharaoh civilization for more than 3,000 years. The pharaoh was born and bred and powerful, and created an amazing civilization far surpassing the period of Europeanization and Arabization. However, what we see now is only a sporadic remnant.Remains outside the lineage, left among the rocks. The ancient civilization of Egypt has basically been lost. On October 13, 1999, overnight at the Emilio Hotel in Luxor