Master Archaeologist

Chapter 158 How Can You Ser Without a Qin?

A harp is far from the whole of the East Ear Room.

Almost at the same time, Lin Ya also found a set of stone chimes in the left ear room, and beside the chimes, there were also four copper zithers.

This is another harp.

And the copper zither of this harp is different from Chen Han's.

Although they are also gilded, in the shape of Boshan, with cirrus cloud pattern as the seat, but the middle is said to be a tall and steep mountain, and there are 5 other small peaks around the periphery.

The main peak is surrounded by a lion, a bear, a wild boar, and a monkey, in the shape of squatting or jumping, and a tiger is coming out of the cave.

In terms of style, it is indeed very beautiful.

But the specifications of the animals are not as high as the one that Chen Han found.

The one Chen Han found was decorated with two dragons.

By the time of the Western Han Dynasty, the dragon already had the characteristics of representing imperial power.

"Historical Records. Gaozu Benji" records about the origin of the Han royal family, it is said that the dragon and Liu Yu gave birth to Gaozu, and the Liu family has the blood of the dragon.

It is impossible for the Nanyue Kingdom, which had frequent contacts and exchanges with the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty, not to know the meaning of the dragon in the Western Han Dynasty.

What's more, the copper cymbal that Lin Ya found was not as big as the one Chen Han found, and it was a bit smaller, obviously not as high-end as Chen Han's.

"What is Se!"

"Look, I found a bunch of copper pianos here!"

"There are 7 Qin Zhens placed side by side, another 24 Qin Zhens are stacked together, and 6 Qin Zhens are scattered in the south."

"How many guqin are these?"

Zhuang Yunpeng yelled and greeted Chen Han and Lin Ya.

He also found important artifacts.

Qin Zhen, this thing is similar to the use of the violin. It is a small pillar used to support the strings and tune them at the same time.

Generally, a string needs to be paired with a Qin Zhen.

Chen Han walked over quickly, looked at it for a while, and said regretfully: "It's a pity, the rust is a bit serious."

"A five-stringed qin and a ten-stringed qin were unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng."

"A lyre was also unearthed from Mawangdui Tomb No. 3."

"The seven qin pillars here are placed side by side, and they should be from the same lyre."

"This pile of 24 zithers may be four banjos, or two ten-stringed zithers."

"The last pile of 6 zithers may also be a lyre?"

Chen Han guessed with some uncertainty.

Because the preservation of these copper pianos is not good, the corrosion is very serious.

There may have been a small part, completely decayed and gone.

After all, this thing is not big in the first place, only about the length and width of a middle finger.

It is really difficult to guess how many zithers were buried with the surviving bronze zithers only.

The more this happened, the more regret Chen Han felt.

The preservation of this Nanyue king's tomb is really poor.

He has no place to blame.

The ancients did not know that the soil in Xianggang is acidic, and things are easily corroded if buried.

It can only be said that luck is really bad.

Not to mention the lacquered woodware.

Even the floor laid on the ground of the east ear room was almost completely corroded, only a small part of the floor pressed down by large bronze vessels such as the chime bell remained.

It can be seen that originally this ear room should be covered with high-grade wooden floors, and then use wooden shelves to place these funerary objects in different categories.

It's like a modern Bogu shelf.

However, these "bogu racks" and the wooden boards on the ground corroded quickly after staying in an acidic underground for a long time.

This cast a cloud over Kong Jianwen, Professor Li, Chen Han and the others.

The situation in the ear chamber and the front chamber is so bad, what will happen to the owner of the tomb in the main tomb?
Wouldn't it be that the coffins were completely decayed and there were no bones left?

Although there is no record in the history books, after Zhao Hu's death, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty bestowed Huang Chang Ti Cou.

However, given the practice that the Nanyue monarch and his family are used to, I am afraid they will prepare their own yellow intestines.

Huang Chang Ti Cou is a frame structure made of cypress beams.

The so-called "yellow sausage", that is, the cypress wood with yellow heart, is the cypress wood after peeling, because the wood used in the problem is all cypress wood with the bark peeled off, so the wood color is light yellow, so it is named.

The "question together" is a structure.

To put it simply, the inner and outer coffins of the owner of the tomb are covered with layers of cypress wood, stacked to form a back-shaped inner and outer coffin.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Huangchang Ticou, together with Zigong, Bianfang, Waizang coffin, and jade clothes with golden thread, belonged to the emperor's tomb.

And princes and kings can also enjoy these burial systems.

Some meritorious ministers with the special permission of the emperor can also make an exception to use it.

For example, after Huo Guang's death, he was bestowed by Emperor Xuan to use yellow intestines.

Zhao Hu has already called himself Emperor Wen, so can the yellow sausage question be dispensed with in the tomb?

There is no need to disobey the identity of the emperor!
But in such an acidic environment, can the yellow sausage made of countless large woods be preserved?

Chen Han responded negatively to this.

It is estimated that it is unlikely to be preserved.

"Let's go, don't hang around here, keep cleaning!"

"There are still a pile of cultural relics in the east ear room that haven't been cleared out yet."

After looking around the pile of copper pianos found by Zhuang Yunpeng, Professor Li waved away people and asked Chen Han and the others to continue cleaning up.

The boss has spoken, and everyone must obey.

Chen Han also temporarily discarded all the random thoughts in his mind, and re-invested in the excavation and cleaning.

The copper scorpion has been cleaned up, and there are still a few pieces of copper francium next to the original Yongzhong.

Francium (fang) is an ancient wine storage utensil with a square mouth and four curved prisms.

The biggest feature is that the cross-section anywhere on the francium is square, that is, if you take a knife, no matter whether you cut the object horizontally, obliquely, or vertically, it is always square.

This kind of wine container was mainly popular from the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, especially in the Western Han Dynasty.

In 03, archaeologists unearthed a francium with a black liquid in it at NMG.

After testing, it was determined that these liquids came from liquor 2000 years ago!
Now the francium and the wine in it are still in the NMG Wine Culture Museum.

Of course, the francium unearthed by NMG is for civilian use, and it is completely incomparable with the tomb of the Nanyue king.

The few franciums that Chen Han is cleaning up are exquisite, with cloud and thunder pattern and triangle pattern as the base pattern, and coiled beetle pattern as the main pattern.

Moreover, the lines are smooth and embossed, and it looks like it was printed precisely with a mold.

Although the body is not gilded, the lid is gilded, with gold on the top and green on the bottom, which is very beautiful.

Compared with the plain francium unearthed by NMG, it doesn't look like a product of the same era at all!

On the NMG side, in the Western Han Dynasty, it was roughly the two counties of Shuofang and Wuyuan, which were established by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and belonged to the border counties.

Nanyue Kingdom is the southernmost border country of the Western Han Dynasty.

However, the degree of exquisiteness of the francium unearthed from the south to the north is very different.

From this, we can actually get a glimpse of the disparity in life between commoners and nobles in the Han Dynasty several times.

The same utensils used by nobles are so exquisite that they seem to be centuries behind those used by commoners.

"The life of the ancient nobles was extremely luxurious." Chen Han stretched out his hand and gently stroked the gold-plated francium cover, and couldn't help sighing.

Just when he was full of emotion and sentimental about his age.

A scream full of fear and panic broke his nostalgic atmosphere.

"Ahhh!"

Zhuang Yunpeng, who was bent over beside the passageway between the east ear room and the front room, pouted his buttocks to clean the copper pot, suddenly jumped three feet high.

"Fuck!"

"Human bones!"

(End of this chapter)