Master Archaeologist

Chapter 131 Zenghou Bing and Mr. Sui's live broadcast meeting!
After returning from the Zaoshulin cemetery, Chen Han also took time to go to the Yejiashan cemetery to inquire about the situation.

On the other side of the Yejiashan cemetery, three Zenghou tombs were also unearthed.

And it is the tomb of Marquis Zeng in the early Western Zhou Dynasty!

One is Zeng Houjian, the owner of the tomb in M65. To the east, Yejiashan M2 is his wife’s tomb. title.

Then there is "Bosheng", the owner of tomb M28 in Yejiashan.

Yejiashan M27 in the east is the tomb of his wife, and there is a bronze inscription "Bosheng made Yi" in the tomb.

The private name of the owner of tomb M28 should be "Bosheng", and his tomb is a standard tomb of a monarch.

However, no inscription with the words "Marquis Zeng" was found in the tomb.

Experts speculated that he was very young when he died, and he probably died suddenly within two years of inheriting the throne, so the funeral objects were all buried with the ritual utensils he used before he became Marquis Zeng .

It was a hasty burial, so the name engraved on the inscription was his private name.

In addition, there is also a M111 tomb in the Yejiashan cemetery, which is also a large tomb at the level of a monarch.

The owner of this tomb M111 is Zenghou Yan. In his tomb, there is an inscription "Lie Kao Nan Gong" on the gui, which was made by Yan for his father "Nan Gong".

After the information was sorted out, Chen Han, Professor Li, Professor Zheng Xian, and a group of experts who were partial to academic research in the Yejiashan, Wenfeng Pagoda, and Zaoshulin excavation projects gathered and conducted multiple demonstrations.

After everyone's heated discussion and brainstorming, a conclusion was drawn.

According to the chronological order of the tombs to infer.

Zeng Hou's remonstrance should be the "Nangong" in the inscription of Zeng Hou and Chime Bells, "The king dispatched Nangong to camp and live in Lutu".

He should be the eldest son of Nangong Shi, who was ordered by his father to establish Zeng Guo anywhere.

Nangong Mao, who stayed in the court, was the second son of Nangong Shi, another branch that developed in the court.

And Bosheng and Zeng Houzhen should be brothers.

Bosheng is the elder brother, and Marquis Yan Zeng is the younger brother.

Because there is an inscription "Lie Kao Nan Gong" on the tomb of Zeng Hou Yan, which was made by Yan for his father "Nan Gong".

And Bosheng and Zenghou Yan were both from the Kangzhao period, they could not be father and son, they could only be brothers.

Bo Sheng's "Bo" should be the boss of the ranking, and Yan should be the younger brother of "Bo Sheng"!
Historical research is based on evidence, not reasoning.

Everyone came to this conclusion because of the different ages of the three tombs and the speculation of the tomb owner's inscription.

However, Chen Han and the others dare not be 100% sure whether the lineage of Zeng Guochu was really sorted in this way.

But this Zeng Hou in the early days of Zeng Kingdom must have definitely discovered it.

So far, plus the excavation results of the 80s and [-]s.

The Yejiashan cemetery in the early Western Zhou Dynasty in Zeng Guo, the Guojiamiao cemetery in the two weeks, the Sujialong cemetery in Jingshan in the early Spring and Autumn period, the Zaoshulin cemetery in the middle Spring and Autumn period, and the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery in the late Spring and Autumn period have all been found.

In addition, the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng in the Warring States Period in Leigudun.

As well as four tombs of the Marquis of Zeng level that have not yet been excavated, and some bronze wares of Zeng Guo that have been handed down from generation to generation.

All things added up, the Zeng (Sui) Kingdom is a mysterious vassal state that is only recorded in a few words in the history books, and no Zeng Hou has an official name left behind.

With the efforts of archaeologists, a total of 19 Zenghou were sorted out, and their lineages continued from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Warring States period!
And, the excavation work continues!
Half a month later, the Jingzhou Institute of Archeology promptly published on the Internet the news about the unearthed ancient corpse "Mr. Sui" from Tomb No. 168 in Fenghuang Mountain.

At this time, Chen Han was still in the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery, hurriedly carrying out the latest excavation work on the M18 tomb.

Tomb M18 is also a large tomb of the Marquis Zeng level!

And to the northeast, there is his wife's tomb No. M8.

During the excavation process, a number of ritual vessels with the words "Zeng Hou Bing" were unearthed one after another.

And judging from the shape of the ritual vessel, this Zenghou Bing may be a later Zenghou than Zenghouyi, roughly in the middle of the Warring States Period!

You can also get a glimpse of it from his name.

A, B, C, D, C can be behind B.

However, among the bronze wares that have been unearthed one after another, apart from the inscriptions such as "Marquis Zeng Bing's Journey", there are no other inscriptions that record any major events.

This is a pity.

But Zeng Houbing appeared in the tombs of Zeng Guo in the late Spring and Autumn Period, which surprised Kong Jianwen.

It's not that there are no tombs from the Warring States period on Wenfeng Pagoda, but that the tombs from the Warring States period here are all Chu tombs, and the unearthed ones are all nobles with strong Chu culture and inscriptions of "Chu".

So everyone thought before that the Wenfeng Pagoda should have belonged to Chu State during the Warring States Period.

That's why Zeng Houyi's tomb is at Leigudun further north.

But unexpectedly, there is also a Zeng Hou buried here who reigned later than Zeng Houyi.

It is a little strange that the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng went to Leigudun.

Moreover, there is a large tomb of Zenghou level on the other side of Leigudun, which is protected and prohibited from excavation.

What is the reason that caused the two Zenghou in the early Warring States period to be buried in the Leigudun Tomb further north, while Zenghou Bing moved back to Wenfeng Pagoda?

Perhaps in the early Warring States period, there was a major change in the territory of Zeng State?
This is destined to be a mystery that cannot be solved for the time being.

Chen Han, who followed Kong Jianwen to excavate tomb M18, learned about the Jingzhou Museum and prepared Mr. Sui's publicity work.

He bid farewell to the excavation site for the time being, and bought a train ticket for Suizhou to Jingzhou with Wei Sisi who came to meet him.

Originally, he agreed to the Jingzhou Museum to help make a popular science video of Mr. Sui.

It can be regarded as Internet promotion for Jingzhou Museum.

But then the Jingzhou Museum made another suggestion, hoping that Chen Han, as a "special visitor", would come to conduct a "first meeting" live broadcast before the official opening of Mr. Sui's underground palace.

Leading the netizens, first come to a cloud tour of the underground palace on the Internet.

Chen Han was quite surprised when he received this suggestion.

Generally speaking, museums are reluctant to allow private individuals to conduct live broadcast activities in the museum.

Unexpectedly, the Jingzhou Museum is so advanced that it plans to combine online live broadcast and offline museum tours.

In this regard, Chen Han is very happy to help.

Because he also wanted to see what Mr. Sui's underground palace looked like, and how it was different from Mrs. Xin Zhui's underground palace next door.

Therefore, after receiving that the underground palace had been completed and the glass coffin containing Mr. Sui was in place, Chen Han immediately put down his excavation work.

After consulting Kong Jianwen, he took Wei Sisi and the live broadcast equipment and set off for Suizhou.

This special live broadcast can also gain a lot of popularity and attention for his self-media account!

(End of this chapter)