Ji Mo, an assistant professor at the Department of Archeology at Peking University, discovered a crouched skeleton in the No. 137 Bone Pit at the Changping Site. The skeleton has six fingers on its left hand, holding a bamboo slip with seven ancient inscriptions from the Warring States period written in blood -
"Ji Mo, don't come looking for me underground."
DNA identification: This 2,300-year-old skeleton is his direct paternal ancestor. In the same position of Ji Mo's left hand, there is a malformed callus that was broken when he was seven years old.
That night there was a heavy rain and a landslide caused him to fall into a pit. When he woke up, he was surrounded by dead people, and in his ears was the horn of the Qin army to retreat. He became the owner of the skeleton - the Zhao State prisoner "Black Dog" with tattoos on his face. More than ten days later, the tragedy of Bai Qi killing 400,000 Zhao soldiers will occur here.
He wanted to survive, to find the person waiting for him underground, and to see with his own eyes how this war was fought.
But he soon discovered that history was not monolithic - there was a woman named Zhao Yue who had the same dream as him, standing by the pit and reading her name; there was a scribe named Han Fei who had been in the Qin Dynasty for ten years, waiting here for "someone who knew what would happen next"; there was a general named Bai Qi who sat on a pile of skeletons and drank every night and asked him: "Forty thousand people, what do you want me to do?"
He used a Luoyang shovel to bury a mobile phone beside the pit. On the memory card was engraved: "Someone is looking for you."
Two thousand three hundred years later, a wall began to be built with four hundred thousand names engraved on it.
Someone asked: What is the use of remembering these names?
Ji Mo said: If someone remembers them, they are not numbers.
**Chang Ping cried, not the dead, but the living finally remembered. With 400,000 names, someone has to ask: Why is history written like this? **
