Master Archaeologist

Chapter 119 Great-grandson Shao's Tomb (please subscribe!!)

"Brother, how is the excavation work going? Are there any earth-shattering discoveries?"

With a playful smile, Chen Han went down to the No. M22 tomb, and found his senior brother.

After returning from the Yejiashan cemetery, Chen Han did not take part in the excavation work at the site. He was cooperating with Professor Li in identifying the inscriptions on the excavated cultural relics and writing papers.

This was approved by Kong Jianwen.

This also made Zhuang Yunpeng in the same dormitory very envious.

But it's useless for him to be envious.

Who told him not to understand Zhong Dingwen?
"Junior brother, don't come to amuse me." Zhuang Yunpeng straightened up from the pit, stretched out his hands and hammered his waist, and complained: "You are better, you can sit in the office first in the cultural relics storage room."

"Brother, I still have to go down to the grave in this freezing weather."

"Do you know how hard it is to dig the dirt in winter?"

"It's okay if the temperature is low, and the soil is still very hard. My hands are going to be stiff."

Zhuang Yunpeng stretched out his hand in front of Chen Han's eyes in mourning.

His hands were flushed red, not a healthy rosy color, but a congested rose red.

Although it is already February, the temperature in Hubei has not risen at all, and it is still in the depths of winter.

Generally, winter is not the season for archaeological excavations. Zhuang Yunpeng has been in university for four years and has a doctorate degree for four years. He has never participated in an excavation project in winter.

This time it can be regarded as being severely educated by Dongdong.

I also understand why archaeological work is not carried out in winter.

The difficulty of excavation in winter is more than twice as difficult as in summer!

And the damage to the body is even greater.

Suizhou is better, at least not in the north, it rarely snows, let alone covered in snow.

Zhuang Yunpeng couldn't even imagine how hard it would be if the excavation was done in winter in the north.

"Brother, I really didn't come to amuse you." Chen Han put his hand on Zhuang Yunpeng's shoulder, and said seriously:

"I've already finished one of my thesis."

"The inscriptions on the bronzes unearthed from Tomb M1 are almost all completed, and the remaining characters are really unrecognizable, so those ancient writing experts have to study slowly."

"So I'm going back to work!"

"How is the situation in your tomb, do you need my help?"

"No need." Zhuang Yunpeng rolled his eyes: "This is a small earthen tomb, only two or three meters long and wide, and there are only some pottery and a small amount of bronze wares in the burial objects. How can I need more than one person."

"If you're free, go to pit M21 next door and help."

"It's a medium-sized tomb over there."

Speaking of this, Zhuang Yunpeng suddenly smiled ambiguously, leaned closer to Chen Han's ear, and said meanly: "The next door is full of girls~"

Chen Han was stunned, and asked in surprise: "Sister, what sister, the owner of the tomb is a woman?"

"Hetui!" Zhuang Yunpeng snorted, completely speechless: "I don't need to talk to you, a straight man of steel, about this."

"You and the archaeologist will spend the rest of your life!"

The corners of Chen Han's mouth curled up, put away that surprised expression, and said cheerfully, "I'm kidding you, brother."

"However, thanks to your good words, I really want to spend my whole life with archeology."

"Let's go, I went to the next door to help."

Patting his ass and waving his hands, Chen Han left Pit 22 without looking back.

Zhuang Yunpeng had black lines on his face, he raised his middle finger and cursed: "If you are capable, don't get married for the rest of your life."

"At that time, I will be soft on accepting your red envelopes for engagement banquets, wedding banquets, children's full moon wine, and birthday banquets, so I don't have to return them!"

Ignoring Senior Brother Zhuang's angry words, Chen Han turned his head and walked towards pit M21 after climbing up.

The so-called large tomb, medium tomb, and small tomb are relative terms.

Take the situation at the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery as an example.

If the length and width of the bottom of the tomb exceed 7 meters, it belongs to the scope of large tombs.

A cemetery with a length and width of about 5 meters is a medium-sized tomb.

The cemetery is only 2-3 meters long and wide, which is a small tomb.

According to the existing excavation situation, the owner of the small tomb should be a low-level nobleman of Zeng State, that is, the scholar class.

The occupants of the medium-sized tombs are mid-to-high-ranking nobles from the doctor to the Qing level.

Large tombs are only eligible to be used by Marquis Zeng and his wife.

According to this tomb system, although the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery has not been completely excavated, Chen Han can roughly infer that at least three Zenghou were buried in this tomb group.

Because there are five large-scale tombs, and two groups of them can clearly see the master and servant, it should be the tombs of Marquis Zeng and his wife in different caves.

There is only one tomb No. M4, which is a large solitary tomb.

It is also because the M4 tomb is lonely, so Kong Jianwen decided to excavate this tomb first.

Just now Chen Han also took a look.

The excavation of tomb M4 went smoothly, with plenty of staff and preparations, and everyone was full of energy.

It's just that the filling has not been cleared, and the tomb has not been dug for the time being, so there should be no cultural relics unearthed within a few days.

After walking for about 21 meters, Chen Han came to tomb No. M[-].

As a medium-sized tomb, the entrance of tomb M21 is 3.5 meters wide and more than five meters long.

The "stairs" dug out by hand lead from the entrance of the tomb to the bottom of the tomb.

Walking down the tomb passage, Chen Han saw Lin Ya and Su Sa.

The two of them, led by Zhuo Jiani, a researcher at the Institute's Qin and Han Research Office, are cleaning up the tomb.

The condition of the tomb that came into view was not bad.

Although the inner and outer coffins of the owner of the tomb have decayed, judging from the coffin lid and decayed objects that have not yet completely decayed, we can vaguely discern the waste curtains and golden shrouds on the coffin lid.

It can be seen at a glance that the identity and status of the owner of the tomb was prominent during his lifetime.

More importantly, the tomb does not seem to have been stolen.

It's not easy.

Tombs from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were looted in large numbers during the Han Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, especially during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Basically one out of ten.

Especially for this kind of tomb group with the meaning of centralized cemetery, usually once one of the tombs is discovered, the remaining tombs are basically hard to escape.

Therefore, the high-level burial areas of the princes in the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties were basically stolen.

And most of them were stolen in ancient times, and it was too late to recover the cultural relics.

Like the three cemeteries of Zeng Guo in Suizhou, they were all discovered and confirmed just this year.

However, according to the current archaeological situation, these three cemeteries have already been visited by ancient tomb robbers round after round.

Now the tomb No. M21 of Wenfeng Pagoda has survived, it is really lucky
If it weren't for the massive construction work that would have to take place in the Wenfengta community to transform it into the Wenfengta community, the tomb might still be able to stay quietly underground.

"Junior Brother Chen, you came just in time." Seeing Chen Han's arrival, Su Sa smiled and waved at him: "This tomb is buried with a set of bronze sacrificial vessels, and we are cleaning them up!"

"There are five-piece sets of bronze tripods, copper bowls, copper pots, copper pans, and copper pots. Some inscriptions can be vaguely seen on these bronze ritual vessels, but we can't understand them."

"Junior Brother Chen, take a look, what is written here, is there any record of the identity information of the owner of the tomb?"

Hearing this, Chen Han walked to Su Sa's side with his hands behind his back, and stretched his head to look at the pile of bronze wares placed in the corner of the tomb.

"Great-grandson Shao Zhixing Ding"

"Great-grandson Shao's Journey to Fou"

"Great-grandson Shaozhi Daxing Pot"

"Well, the owner of this tomb should be the grandson of a certain Marquis Zeng, named Shao."

"That's right, he's a high-ranking noble from the Zeng Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)