From the Island Owner to the King

The beauty of this world and the beauty of natural scenery, on the vast land of Guatemala, Lake Atitlan is like an eye, baptizing the vicissitudes of the years, and the three volcanoes surrounding Lake Atitlan appear looming in the clouds. In the middle, like a shoulder, it carries the legend of the years, the majestic mountains, lakes, clouds, forming a beautiful picture.

The beauty of this world also has the beauty of the vicissitudes of its history. Guatemala is one of the ancient Indian Mayan cultural centers. The Mayans from AD 200 to AD 850 prayed, sacrificed, divination, and lived on the land. The Mayans used their own wisdom. Created a civilization that has never been guessed by human beings,

Chen Rui entered the country of Guatemala.

This country is very unfamiliar to Chen Rui.

Much of what is known about the country is obtained through online research.

In this magical land of Guatemala, there is a mysterious civilization, the Mayan civilization.

Chen Rui is going to spend some time feeling the country and the mystery of the Mayan civilization.

As soon as he entered Antigua, Chen Rui felt a strong Spanish atmosphere, like a checkerboard-shaped road, many beautifully carved Baroque buildings, churches, monasteries, and seminaries everywhere.

Those who didn't know thought that they had come to Spain.

In fact, during the Spanish colonial period, Antigua and Mexico City and Lima were the three major centers of colonial rule in the entire New World.

It was the Spanish who built the city on the original foundation.

Chen Rui wandered around the colonial town of Antigua like a tourist.

This town gave Chen Rui the most profound impression. The streets of this town and the residents of the town are very quiet and peaceful.

Maybe it's because of the frequent earthquakes here. All buildings are very low.

at last. There are many churches. According to local people, this town with an area of ​​only 50 hectares has more than 50 churches, which may be more than the Vatican, but you don't have the Pope.

Chen Rui tasted local delicacies, beef crispy and Mayan grilled sausages.

Feast your eyes on. After eating the food, Chen Rui rented a local hotel——

the next day,

Chen Rui hired a local guide.

Under the guidance of the guide, Chen Rui visited the beautiful Lake Atitlan, the archaeological park and Mayan cultural sites of the former Maya capital in the early classical period, and the Tikal National Park, the urban center of the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization.

Feeling the mystery of the Mayan civilization and the glorious civilization created by the Mayans made Chen Rui feel that his actions were not in vain.

On December 24, the guide took Chen Rui to Lake Isabal. The largest lake in Guatemala.

The lake covers an area of ​​590 square kilometers, which is more than three times the size of Tortuga Island.

The lake is famous for crocodiles.

The guide, Polochik Isafi, was a Mayan. The family lives in a Mayan tribe on the shores of Lake Izabal.

Unlike most other primitive indigenous tribes in the world who live in deep jungles or desert islands, isolated from the world, never interact with outsiders, and even attack outsiders, the Mayans may have been conquered by the Spaniards and integrated with foreigners. Open culture, the Mayans are very open, they will also live in towns, wear modern clothes, live a modern life, and they will make a living like modern people, although the means of making a living are very limited.

They usually sell some handicrafts to tourists, scarves woven with Mayan patterns, blankets, flutes with Mayan faces painted on them, and so on.

The guide, Poloczyk Issafi, is fluent in English.

Maybe it's the reason for being a tour guide for a long time, and he is very talkative.

When Poloczyk Issafi introduced Chen Rui about Lake Issabal, he talked about something that interest Chen Rui very much.

An ancient legend has been passed down from generation to generation in their tribe.

"It is said that before the formation of Lake Izabal, there was no lake at that time, and it was a lowland plain. On the plain lived people from the opposite side of the sea. They were very mysterious. They were able to smelt the ore from the nearby mountains. Sharp weapons, they made exquisite objects, they sacrificed their gods and ancestors with various objects made of white stone dug from the mountains, they were warlike, they conquered the land with sharp weapons Countless tribes, they enslaved countless people to build tall cities and palaces for them, they put countless treasures plundered in their conquests into their palaces, and finally one day, their actions angered the gods, and the gods were angry , an overwhelming tide drowned them in an ocean."

I overheard this legend from Poloczyk Issafi's mouth.

Suddenly, the mysterious disappearing Yin civilization appeared in Chen Rui's mind.

It seems that many things about the Yin people can be linked to the ancient legends of the Mayan tribes.

The people who came from the opposite side of the sea may be talking about the Yin people who crossed the sea.

At the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Di Xin devoted himself to the development of Dongdongyi, Huaiyi and Huyi. In about 1045 BC, during the first month of the Yin calendar, Di Xin returned from Shandong to the capital of Yin to celebrate the New Year. On the Jiazi day, King Wu of Zhou led his army to cross Mengjin, and Emperor Xincang sent 700,000 slave soldiers to fight at Muye. The slave soldiers defected, King Zhou was defeated, and Lutai set himself on fire. At that time, Di Xin's elite troops stayed in Dongyi because of the conquest of Lin Fang, so Chaoge was empty and was destroyed by King Wu.

After Shang and Yin destroyed the country, the more than 100,000 elite soldiers who stayed in Dongyi were led by You Houxi, a general who was able to conquer and used to fight.

The Yin people who crossed the sea may refer to this part of the army and some Yin people who did not want to be slaves of the subjugated country.

You must know that Yin and Shang were still in the era of slavery. The defeated captives and the subjects of the subjugated country were all treated as slaves by the victorious country. Most of them lost their territory and lost their noble status. Fortunately, they were forced to leave the land in order to make a living. , to do some small business of trafficking in goods, which is the origin of 'merchant'.

The most unfortunate was to be a slave to accompany the master to be buried.

'The ore from the nearby mountains is smelted into sharp weapons! ! ’ The ore may be bronze, and the sharp weapons are bronze weapons, as exemplified by the 12 bronze weapons found in the Panama jungle. (To be continued.)