A speck of dust hangs from the west to the nine tripods of earth in the world.
The story begins with a myth: Zhuanxu's granddaughter Nuxiu swallowed the egg of a black bird and gave birth to the ancestor of the Qin people. Hundreds of years later, a horse breeder named Feizi was rewarded by King Xiao of Zhou with a piece of land named "Qin" because he raised horses well.
For more than a hundred years after that, the Qin people only did one thing: fight with Xirong, killing several kings, and conquering the territory inch by inch.
Qin Xianggong escorted King Zhou Ping to move eastward in exchange for an empty promise: "The land in the west will be taken back to you." He fought for twelve years and died on that land.
Qin Mugong exchanged five sheepskins for Baili Xi, and was rescued from the battlefield by three hundred horse thieves. He built a tomb at the foot of Mount Laoshan to mourn the soldiers who had been wiped out, and took away 177 people when he died.
There is also the double-eyed Prince Chong'er of the Jin Kingdom. He was in exile for nineteen years, and was thrown into the country when he was begging for food. He made a promise to "retreat from home" in the Chu Kingdom, and only returned to his country to dominate at the age of sixty-two.
This is their story. It is also the story of Qin Tu.
Today in the Shaanxi History Museum there is a 1.6 Cm golden woodpecker unearthed from Qin Gong Tomb. More than two thousand years ago, when it was buried underground, the people of Qin knew what it was - the egg swallowed by the female cultivator, the first fetal movement of the empire.
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It feels like listening to history like watching a movie. Very interesting [like]
It feels like listening to history like watching a movie. Very interesting [like]