Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 15 Where the Body Goes

According to the etiquette system of the Han Dynasty, there are five essential parts in the coffin bed chamber of the royal tomb of the Western Han Dynasty.

These five parts are, from outside to inside: the outer coffin (the collective name for all tombs in the underground palace), the toilet room, Huangchang Tikuo, Zigong (the coffin of the owner of the tomb) and the golden jade clothes.

The large-scale wooden house that Wu Liang and others entered now should be one of the convenience rooms.

Regarding the usefulness of toilets, there have always been two views in the archaeological community:

One view is that the "comfortable room" is a place for the soul of the tomb owner to rest, because some catering, music and dance utensils have been unearthed in the tombs of many princes and kings in the Han Dynasty, so it can be proved that the function of the toilet is to rest and entertain;

Another view is that the "convenient room" is a place for relatives who come to worship the dead to rest.

Wu Liang is more inclined to the latter.

This needs to be connected with the huge tomb door outside that uses "natural stone".

If no one is going to come in after the burial, then there is absolutely no need to set up a "self-made stone" that can be easily opened with a "turning nail key", isn't it? Wouldn't it be safer to seal it directly?

Besides.

Wu Liang remembers that there is also a record of the emperor entering the tomb to pay homage to the late emperor in "Book of the Later Han Etiquette": "The zodiac is opened, and the emperor pays homage to the private room. It is too often to find the Xiandao, remove the staff, and often serve it. In front of the coffin, lay down Crying stops like a ritual. The speech is too often exported, and the car is driven back to the palace."

This record once again confirmed the real purpose of the toilet.

At this moment, the toilet in front of Wu Liang and the others was also magnificently decorated, and most of the furnishings were musical instruments.

The first thing that comes into view is a set of chime chimes with a very exaggerated scale. This chime chime is divided into upper and lower layers.

Wu Liang counted them carefully, and there were as many as 32 chimes on the upper and lower layers!

If chime bells of this scale are placed in the archaeological circle of later generations, they will definitely cause a sensation... Because as far as he knows, the largest chime bells discovered so far are only 32 pieces, and the chimes are all made of stone, which is different from this Compared with the set of jade chimes, it is undoubtedly worse.

Next to this set of chimes, there is another set of chimes of comparable scale.

Jade is not used for chime bells, so the whole body is made of bronze, with only one layer, and from left to right, it changes from big to small, and there are thirteen bronze bell bodies in total.

However, compared with that set of chimes, this set of chime bells is much more mediocre.

Because in 1978, archaeologists discovered a chime bell called "the best" in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng in the Warring States Period. The set of chime bells consisted of 65 bell bodies. No... bah bah bah bah, the entire stage of a modern concert hall can barely be put down.

Emmm...

Thinking of this, Wu Liang secretly repeated the name "Marquis Yi of Zeng" several times in his heart to further deepen his memory.

This tomb was before the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he knew the approximate address. If he had the opportunity, he might visit it to see what other remarkable things were in the tomb of "Marquis Yi of Zeng" besides this set of chime bells, and "protect" it together.

But now, we still need to deal with the matter of the tomb in front of us.

Seeing the chimes and chimes at the same time, Wu Liang was even more sure that the private room was a resting place for the royal relatives who came to pay homage to the dead.

Because these two large musical instruments have little to do with leisure and entertainment, they are usually only used when the royal family holds court music or grand ceremonies.

The chime bells chime together.

"The sound of the bell is bright when it is close, and the sound of the chime is clear when it is far away."

Only in this way can the grand and extraordinary temperament of the royal family be displayed.

In addition, there are some small musical instruments such as Yu, Sheng, Se, Qin, Zheng, etc. in the toilet room, but these instruments can only be regarded as a foil in front of the chime bell.

After investigating the situation here, Wu Liang led the people through the toilet and finally entered the tomb in the back hall.

Where the light of the torch passes, the surrounding ground is formed by the accumulation of yellow-heart cypress wood squares cut to the same length and specifications. The north and south sides are placed vertically, and the east and west sides are placed vertically, forming the shape of the word "mouth". A very neat rectangular tomb was built.

This picture may kill patients with intensive phobia, but it is extremely friendly to patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But this is the origin of "Yellow Sausage Problems".

The so-called "yellow sausage" refers to the material, and it refers to these yellow heart cypress workshops.

The so-called "Tizuo" refers to the arrangement and structure. These cypress squares are tiled layer by layer, and are perpendicular to the same side wall room. Looking from the inside to the outside, only the cypress square can be seen on the four walls. The cross-section of the cross-section, the word "Tizuo" is also appropriate.

Among the tombs surrounded by these "Huangchang Tizuo", Wu Liang and others finally saw the "Calpa Palace" of Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu.

It was a large coffin made of extremely solid materials.

From the purple wood grain on the coffin and the special fragrance that emanates, it can be judged that the material used in this coffin is fragrant nan.

Although this kind of nanmu does not have the appearance of golden nanmu, it has a long-lasting fragrance and is not pungent. It can cover the peculiar smell of some corpses, and at the same time, it can effectively prevent ants and insects from infesting, so it is more suitable for use as a coffin.

But now, the focus of Wu Liang and everyone else is no longer on the material of the coffin.

What they are more concerned about is - why is the lid of this coffin open! ?

"Wu Liang, what's going on here?"

The soldiers suddenly panicked.

From entering the Shimen to the present, there is absolutely no sign of anyone entering the tomb of King Liang Xiao before them, and all the sacrificial objects are intact, but now the tomb owner's coffin lid has been overturned for some reason. Unscientific! ?

"Don't panic, wait for me to see first!"

Wu Liang was also quite puzzled, so he had to stabilize the crowd first, and then carefully approached the coffin with a torch in his hand, and stretched his neck to look inside the coffin.

The first thing that catches the eye is the "Golden Jade Clothes" placed on the yellow lining.

Jade garments with golden thread, also known as "jade scorpions", were special burial garments for the royal family members of the Han Dynasty after their death.

In fact, some ministers and nobles can also use this form of funeral clothing, but they can only use silver and copper wires to fabricate, but it is not called "golden jade clothing", but "silver jade clothing" or "copper strands". Yuyi".

But this is not the point.

The point is that the chest of this pair of gold-threaded jade clothes has a big opening at some point. Through the opening, it can be seen that this pair of golden-threaded jade clothes is just an empty shell, and the corpse that should have been wrapped inside It disappeared without a trace, not even a single dry bone was left!

What about the corpse! ?

Wu Liang felt a chill in his heart.

He knew very well that even after hundreds of years, the corpses in this closed tomb would definitely not disappear completely.

Was it eaten by some creature, such as a scavenger such as a pangolin?

Impossible!

Wu Liang immediately denied this speculation, because judging from the many details on the torn gold-haired jade garment, the jade garment was clearly torn from the inside out, and it was definitely not caused by external force!
(End of this chapter)