manynovel Chapter 263
Chapter 263
As time passed, people gradually noticed that in websites, forums and short video apps such as Zalang, Zhuyi, Goose Xun, Pendu, Pocket, and First Article, some people have successively forwarded some strange videos.
In the original video, a large number of modern urban buildings are shown, at first glance, there is nothing special, but if you look closely, you will find that these buildings generally have a characteristic, that is, magnificent, exaggerated, gorgeous, magnificent!
These urban buildings vary in style, some are the high-rise buildings often seen in cities, but they are taller, larger and more ornate.
For example, there is a video that captures the shape of a glass curtain wall, especially like the headquarters building of Longguo Central TV Station, in the middle of the two buildings, each sticking out a steel structure, large cantilever structure, intersecting and docking in the air, just like the real building, the bottom is suspended in the air, and there is no support.
However, this building is even more exaggerated than the real building, taller, larger, and not to mention, the large cantilever that sticks out in the air, protrudes farther, so it appears more magnificent.
Netizens who have seen this video have left messages in the comment area to guess which city's new landmark building is this, which is a bit too exaggerated and bold, and dares to be more arrogant than the headquarters building of the central TV station. There are also many people who see this video and disdain, thinking that the building in the video is pure fiction, and they don't know which studio made the special effects, which is not surprising.
There are also many videos showing ancient buildings, such as an aerial video of an ancient pagoda filmed, from the title at the bottom of the video, this is the legendary Jinling Dabaoen Temple Glazed Pagoda!
As you can see from the video, this legendary pagoda, resplendent throughout, full of light, dazzling, its unique shape and unparalleled beauty, conquered and shocked every netizen who watched the video!
With the popularization of science among some netizens, more people know the history of this pagoda, and know that the ancestors of China built such a beautiful, world-saving, unparalleled and world-renowned great building as early as 600 years ago!
The glazed pagoda of Jinling Dabao'en Temple in the video not only once existed, but also became famous!
The historical pagoda is 78.2 meters tall, equivalent to the height of a 26-story building, shining and pearlescent in the sun. Some European merchants, tourists and missionaries who came to Jinling listed this pagoda as a must-visit place in the Dragon Kingdom, figuratively calling it "Jinling Porcelain Pagoda"!
The reason why it is called "porcelain tower" is because the exterior parts of this tower, the whole body is built and decorated with glazed tiles, glazed components and white tiles, that is to say, the entire tower is "fired", which can be said to be the most advanced ceramic art and construction technology in China at that time!
According to historical records:
"The glazed pagoda of Jinling Dabao'en Temple, the top of the tower suppressed the night pearl, fire bead, water bead, wind bead, dust bead, gold ingot weighed 4,000 taels, tea leaf 1,000 taels, silver 1,000 taels, male yellow one weighs 100 catties, gem beads, Yongle money 1,000 strings, yellow satin 2 horses, "Jizo Sutra", "Amitabha Sutra", "Shakya Buddha Sutra Introduction to Buddhist Sutra". At the top of the tower, there are nine circumferences of iron rings (phase wheels), weighing a total of 3,600 catties. Two copper plates at the top of the tower, cast with wind-ground copper, each weighing 900 catties, and one jewel heavenly plate, weighing 430 catties (cast in iron, according to legend, wrapped in gold inches). The tower has eight iron cables, 72 weeping bells, 80 weeping iron bells, 128 lamps outside the tower, 12 glazed lamps, and the tower windows are made of mussel shell polished, and a total of 60 pounds of lamp oil is lit every night. "
The reason why this pagoda is called a Chinese architectural miracle is mainly due to two reasons: First, this pagoda
is worthy of the name of "pagoda", which can be said to be resplendent and luxurious!
For example, at the top of the glazed pagoda there is a jewel made of pure gold, about 4 meters in diameter, said to weigh more than 2,000 taels, and copper wind chimes are hung under the cornices of each floor, a total of 152 from top to bottom, even in the light wind, the crisp ringing can be heard for miles.
On each wall of the nine-story glazed tower, there are 2 windows, for a total of 144. These windows are all closed with extremely thin mussel shells, and 144 oil lamps are placed inside the windows to prevent them from being blown out by the wind. These mussel shell made of window covers are called "mingwa", which is the world's best lighting building material before the emergence of glass, and there was a poem cloud: "fish scale clouds break the sky and condense, and the shell window is thin moon and shuttle", which is the artistic conception in this mingwa room.
It is said that at that time, whether at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain or on the river, people could see the never-extinguishing lights on this high tower, which can be described as "the Buddha lamp is forever bright, and it never goes out all night".
Second, this tower is worthy of the name of "porcelain tower", is an unprecedented all-over glass building in human history, even in today's rapid technological changes, there is no similar building, can be described as unique, unique in ancient and modern!
The main body of the glazed pagoda is brick, except for a "tube wood" at the top of the tower, the entire building is "not an inch of wood". The inner and outer surface layers are all made of various shapes and colors of glazed components. It is this kind of ingenuity that makes the glazed pagoda of Da Bao'en Temple win the reputation of "the great antiques of China, the great kiln of Yongle".
The various glazed components used in the glazed tower, almost every piece has different sizes, shapes, colors, patterns and styles, and is specially designed and customized. 600 years ago without CAD drawings, you can imagine how difficult it was to make this pagoda, or "fire".
And according to records, because this component is not easy to fire, in order to facilitate maintenance, each glass piece was fired three sets, one set was installed at that time, and the other two sets were hidden underground for easy maintenance and replacement. After the founding of the Dragon Kingdom, a large number of glazed components related to the pagoda were unearthed in the area of Yaogang Village and Eye Xiang Temple in Jinling, and most of them had the number and mark of the ink book on the back, proving the reliability of historical records.
Let's just say that since its completion until its destruction, the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple has always been the tallest and most gorgeous building in the Dragon Kingdom, and it is also a miracle in the history of world architecture, ranking one of the seven wonders of the world in the Middle Ages, and was regarded by Westerners at that time as a landmark building representing China, known as "the great antiques of China, the great kiln of Yongle", and "the first tower under the world".
Unfortunately, this crystalline pagoda, which has shone for 400 years and is world-renowned, once representing the top ceramic art and architectural aesthetics in China, was destroyed in 1856 in the Taiping Heavenly Civil War...
However, in the video, this pagoda that has fallen for more than 160 years has been resurrected again, and it is so vividly presented in front of people, so that people can finally glimpse this "Chinese miracle" that has been praised by the world for more than 600 years!
Rendering of the glazed pagoda of the Great Baoen Temple hand-drawn by later generations based on the travels of the Dutchman John Niehoff
Amazingly, this video perfectly restores the glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple, but also makes people not see the slightest trace of special effects modification, as if there is really such a boring person, using a drone to shoot a video of ancient buildings, sent out for people to see! Many netizens replied in the comment area, if not for reason telling him that the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple has been damaged, he would never doubt the authenticity of this video!
With the video of the glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple being retweeted in large numbers, countless netizens were gradually conquered by the beauty of the ancient Chinese architecture, and at the same time, they became more and more interested in this video maker!
As a result, an ID called "Dragon Totem" was gradually known to everyone, and the number of fans in Douyin also began to show explosive growth, from several thousand to tens of thousands, and in less than five days, the number of its fans has reached more than 200,000.
Looking at the works of "Dragon Totem", there are all kinds of architectural and urban street scene videos. Of course, the most eye-catching thing is a variety of videos about ancient buildings, for example, long before the video of the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple, this author released videos of Tengwang Pavilion, Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower and Penglai Pavilion, as well as Songyue Temple Pagoda, Tiger Hill Pagoda, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Liuhe Pagoda, Kaifeng Iron Tower, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, Leifeng Pagoda, Imperial Capital White Pagoda and so on. The main reason why these videos did not cause as much sensation as the video of the glazed pagoda of Daibaoenji Temple is that these buildings are still there and have not aroused people's interest.
However, netizens quickly discovered the strange aspects of these videos:
first of all, some buildings are obviously different from what they see in reality, such as the Yellow Crane Tower, the real Yellow Crane Tower, a magnificent four-sided octagonal, reinforced concrete frame imitation wood structure of the nine-story tower building, while the Yellow Crane Tower in the video is a two-story cornice-style building, far less majestic than it looks like now. In addition, netizens also found a video of Leifeng Tower in many tower buildings, and after careful study, there are many differences from the Leifeng Pagoda that is now reconstructed.
Secondly, there is no one in these videos, all are lonely buildings, so netizens sit down that these videos are made by some kind of special effect.
Third, this author is particularly diligent, in just five days, no less than 100 videos have been released, almost one every hour, the speed of this production of special effects, a little scary!
Many netizens are very curious about what software "Dragon Totem" uses to produce such realistic special effects, and have left messages in the comment area to ask, but this mysterious author never responds, just silently releases a video every hour or so....
Gradually, the buildings that appear in the video are no longer separate, but complex of houses, or palaces.
Then, slowly began to appear one by one brilliant names:
Tang Dynasty Taiji Palace, Daming Palace, Han Dynasty Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace, Jinling Imperial Palace, Luoyang Ziwei Palace, etc., each video looks real can not be more real, immersed in these videos for a long time, you will subconsciously feel that these buildings must exist somewhere, making the audience want to see it in person!
By the seventh day, as these videos were continuously forwarded to various websites and apps, the number of "Dragon Totem" fans officially exceeded one million, and the speed of fan growth showed signs of getting faster and faster.
At nine o'clock in the morning of the eighth day, a video called "Qin Afang Palace" completely caused a sensation on the Internet!
Chinese people know about Afang Palace, mostly starting from the Tang Dynasty great poet Du Mu's
"A Fang Palace Fu": "Six kings Bi, four seas and one, Shushan Wu, A Fang out." Covering more than 300 miles, isolated every day. "
The two rivers dissolved and flowed into the palace walls. Five steps on the first floor, ten steps and one cabinet; The waist of the gallery is back, and the eaves teeth are pecked high; Each hugs the terrain and fights the corner. "
The song stage is warm, and the spring light is melting; The dance hall is cold sleeved, and the wind and rain are miserable. Within a day, between one house, and the climate is uneven.
"Chao Ge Night String, for the people of the Qin Palace." Star screen, open makeup mirror also; Green cloud disturbance, comb Xiao Tao also; The stream is greasy, and the fat water is also abandoned; The smoke is oblique, and the pepper orchid is also burned. Thunder was startled, and the palace car passed; I listened to it from afar, but I didn't know what to do. "
Yan Zhaozhi's collection, Han Weizhi's management, Qi Chu's elite, for several lifetimes, plundered its people, leaning on the mountain. Dingding jade, gold nuggets and beads, abandoning it, Qin people regard it, and do not hesitate. "
How magnificent this is, how imposing this is!
The Afang Palace, which has aroused people's infinite reverie for two thousand years, is now re-presented in front of people in the form of
a video: from the video, the Afang Palace extends from the north of Lishan Mountain to Xianyang all the way to Xianyang, stretching for more than 300 li, like a giant city, up to Lishan Mountain, down to Weishui, under the background of large black buildings, the huge palace complex is almost blocking the sun.
Inside the palace walls, there are palaces and pavilions high in the sky, which can be said to be curved cloisters, cornices and walls, pavilions and halls, one after another! Thousands or tens of thousands of buildings of all kinds, like beehives, neatly arranged, of different sizes, countless pavilions and water pavilions, inserted everywhere, bridges like dragons lying on the water, auxiliary roads like rainbows hanging in the air....
This nearly half-hour video of "Qin Afang Palace" brings countless Chinese people back to the legendary canopy city, allowing people to feel the ambition and pride of the Great Qin Empire after the unification of the six unions from the illusory reality!
In less than an hour, the number of views of this video has reached a terrifying 1 million times, and the number of retweets has exceeded 100,000, and the number of fans of "Dragon Totem" has also climbed to 3 million, and its rapid increase in fans is amazing!
Just when netizens were wandering in the brilliance of "Qin A Fang Palace", many people also had such questions, that is, who is the "Dragon Totem"? Why post so many videos of legendary historic buildings? How are these videos made? Why does it seem that real?
Countless fans left messages asking questions in the comment area of "Dragon Totem", but they never received any reply from the author.
Moreover, since the release of the video of "Qin Afang Palace", the "Dragon Totem" has stopped updating, which has made netizens scratch their hearts and livers, and their curiosity has been hanged.
The more you wait, the more anxious you are, and the questions of netizens cannot be answered, all kinds of speculations are raging, there are everything, and there are even more tricks and strange speculations about the mysterious identity of the "dragon totem", even on the sticker bar and the neck, which has triggered several large-scale controversies!
People are like this, the more puzzled and unaware of things, the more they pay close attention to it, hoping to get answers, and it is precisely because of this curiosity that these videos are constantly spread on the Internet, so that the "Dragon Totem" in one day, the number of fans has broken through several entire millions of marks one after another, straight to the tens of millions of levels.
Finally, on the afternoon of September 9th, the mystery was gently revealed
: "Dragon Totem", and another video was released announcing a series of shocking news:
those videos were not created by special effects, but recorded during the internal testing of a game!
This game is based on virtual reality technology and allows players to experience a super real game world with the help of various wearable devices!
Immersed in it, people can experience this wonderful virtual world from a first-person perspective like in the video!
At the end of the video, the name of the game finally appears in front of people:
"Dragon Totem"!