Master Archaeologist

Chapter 191 The Third Lady

"one two Three!"

"rise!"

With the concerted efforts of Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng and others, a thick capstone was lifted up.

This top cover stone collapsed from the top of the head to the ground, suppressing a part of the room on the east side.

Without removing it, there is no way to clean up the funerary objects below normally.

Although, after being crushed by such a big rock, I am afraid that the preservation of the funerary objects under the pressure is already very worrying, and most of them will be crushed.

But the smashed cultural relics are also cultural relics, and it is impossible to leave them alone!

No matter how bad it is, isn't there a cultural relic restoration department!
Unless it is all broken into slag, it can be restored back to its original state.

It's just a matter of time-consuming.

"I hope no pottery is pressed down." Zhuang Yunpeng did not forget to pray when carrying it.

That is to say, pottery is the most fragile. Other gold, silver and bronze wares, even if they are squeezed by boulders, are generally deformed or broken into several large pieces.

It is not like pottery, once it is hit by a stone, it will usually be smashed to pieces.

Even if you are lucky and your body is not broken into pieces, it will be broken into a pile of pieces, at least it can be broken into more than a dozen pieces.

With a nervous mood, after removing the capstone, Chen Han and Professor Li immediately looked at the area covered by the capstone.

"There is a copper seal!"

A conspicuous copper seal appeared among several pieces of pottery.

Zhuang Yunpeng quickly squatted down and picked up the copper seal.

It is still a gold-plated copper seal, and it is still a tortoise.

Everyone who has already found the seals of the two wives in the east room immediately knew it by heart.

"Look, which lady's seal is this?" Professor Li said hastily.

In the history books, there is no record of who Zhao Hu's wives are.

Only his son is recorded, and it is not even known which wife his son was born to.

Later generations basically know little about Zhao Hu's harem.

Every step of excavation now is supplementing the history of Nanyue Kingdom, so Professor Li can't help but ignore it!
"Forehead"

However, after Zhuang Yunpeng took a few glances at the facets of the copper seal, his expression was very embarrassed.

"Professor Li, the first character on this facet is already broken and unreadable, only the three characters "Madam's seal" on the back are legible."

After all, this is a copper seal that has been pressed underground by the roof stone for an unknown number of years.

The preservation condition is different from the other two copper seals.

Coincidentally, the first word just happened to be blurred.

Professor Li took the copper seal from Zhuang Yunpeng, and waved to Chen Han to identify it together.

This seal is indeed severely corroded, the body of the seal has become powder, and much of the gilt has fallen off.

The first word is also broken.

After the two of them examined it carefully, Professor Li said uncertainly: "The left side of this word looks like a word for "Yi".

Chen Han also said: "The radical on the right is a bit like the word "yin"."

The two looked at each other.

If the prediction is good, the printed text of this word should be the word "Department".

"Mrs. Department?"

This is really a strange title.

Ministry, this word is seen in the Warring States period, and has the meaning of commander, jurisdiction, and subordinate.

Although it did not evolve into the meaning of a certain department in the government office in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it also has the meaning of tribe and tribe.

With the Ministry as the title?
"Maybe, this lady is from a Baiyue tribe that surrendered to Nanyue Kingdom?" Chen Han guessed: "That's why King Wen of Nanyue gave her the title of Mrs. Bu."

"It means that she is the leader of a Baiyue tribe."

"In the national policies of Nanyue Kingdom and Jibaiyue, apart from accepting Vietnamese people to participate in politics, the most important thing is ethnic integration."

"Zhao Tuo strongly encouraged the Qin army and immigrants from the six countries who followed him to intermarry with the local Baiyue tribe, trying to integrate these outsiders with Baiyue through mass intermarriage."

"Zhao Tuo himself set an example by marrying many Baiyue tribes, marrying the daughters of those chieftains, and bringing them into the harem."

"This method of kinship with Dafa can be said to be a time-tested method for the differentiation and integration of other ethnic groups in the Central Plains."

"Then as the commander-in-chief and monarch of a country, Zhao Hu, the King Wen of South Vietnam, must also marry a large number of Baiyue women."

"So this lady of the department must be from the Baiyue tribe, right?"

Professor Li was noncommittal about Chen Han's guess.

There is no way to determine it only by relying on a vague and undetermined word "department".

There is no written record of this thing, and there is no conclusive evidence.

It can only be used as a guesswork direction.

"Let's put this topic on hold for now."

"See if there's anything else buried."

After interrupting the topic, Professor Li led everyone to explore the area buried under the roof stone.

I have to admit that Zhuang Yunpeng's crow's mouth is still very accurate.

It is true that a lot of pottery was smashed by this capstone.

But not only pottery, but also some bronze and jade wares.

It's just that the texture of the jade is not strong, and most of them are split into two or even four pieces.

Most of these buried jade wares are jade pendants or group jade pendants.

Things like jade biscuits would not appear among the funeral objects of the wives.

Jade Bi is an item that symbolizes power.

In a feudal society with strict hierarchy, they can only be buried with the emperor, empress, princes, and queens.

Since the ancient tribal period, jade ritual vessels such as jade bi and jade huang have become exclusive funerary objects that can only be used by the highest-ranking tribe.

Zhao Hu's wife, although her status is equal to that of a prince.

But they are women.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, a society where men were superior to women and women were inferior, and women were not regular wives, jade bi must not be used.

In the west room, the jade pendant is the jade pendant found the most!

There are almost twenty or thirty pieces, all of which are very exquisite in shape.

This is proved again.

The level of jade manufacturing in Nanyue Kingdom is really good.

And at least the royal family of Nanyue Kingdom loves jade very much.

In addition to jade wares, the single type of funerary objects found most often is bronze mirrors.

This is not surprising.

The nature of women to love beauty has not changed since ancient times.

The bronze mirror can see her beautiful face, so she is naturally loved by Mrs. Zhao Hu.

There are a total of 14 bronze mirrors buried with them, and most of them have different patterns, which can be divided into five types.

However, the difference between different types of bronze mirrors lies in the lines carved on them, that is, the mirror paintings are different.

In terms of style, it is still a typical Western Han bronze mirror style.

It is round, with a round button seat at the back, and the common arc patterns, triangular thunder patterns, band patterns, string patterns, etc. that are common in bronze mirrors of the Western Han Dynasty can be seen.

The only difference from the bronze mirrors of the Western Han Dynasty is that there are no inscriptions on these 14 bronze mirrors.

Generally, the bronze mirrors of the Western Han Dynasty will have inscriptions engraved on the back.

For example, the bronze mirrors found in the tombs of the Western Han and Han Dynasties in Fenghuang Mountain.

This may be the difference in style between the bronze mirrors of the Nanyue Kingdom and the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)