Master Archaeologist

Chapter 221 Only concubines deserve a side room
Chen Han looked at the gold vessel in front of him with a protruding front, and the center was composed of the sun, the moon and Baoxianghua, and said uncertainly: "This, should it be a plaque?"

The so-called card decoration is not the name of a certain kind of decoration.

In fact, this title is not found in historical documents.

It is a general term for decorative plaques with a certain thickness in the modern archaeological circle.

To put it simply, it looks like a card, and it should be used as a decoration on the body or on the horse. It can be called a card decoration.

"But, it looks like a forehead wipe?" Zhuang Yunpeng scratched his head and said in disapproval.

This piece of gold was about the size of a palm, and it was in the shape of a sheet. The two sides were drawn inward, and the middle was raised. It felt just right to be worn on the forehead.

"Wipe forehead?"

Chen Han touched his chin, not sure: "Although the forehead was originally created by the northern minority, the birth of the forehead is to keep out the cold."

"Moreover, most of the wiped foreheads in the Tang Dynasty were worn by men. According to the "New Book of Tang: The Biography of Lou Shide", "Lou Shide was self-sufficient, and he wore red wiped foreheads to respond to the imperial edict."

"The murals of Tang tombs show that although there were women wearing forehead wipes at that time, they were mainly maids or musicians disguised as men."

"The most important point is that wiping the forehead is made of cloth, which is a kind of first dress that folds or cuts the cloth into strips and wraps it around the forehead."

"In TV dramas, there are indeed many costume dramas, and the heroine will get a piece of gold decoration on her forehead, or tie something like tassels."

"But this is actually evolved from "Huasheng", not the reality."

Huasheng is a kind of ancient women's jewelry. Ancient women usually put it on the hair bun or decorate it on the forehead, and it will not be so big that it will cover the entire forehead.

No wonder Zhuang Yunpeng misunderstood.

This card decoration looks really super suitable to be worn on the forehead.

It's like the decorations on the forehead of those well-dressed heroines in modern costume TV dramas.

It's easy to think of.

However, in Chen Han's opinion, there should be no such things in the Tang Dynasty.

Women in the Tang Dynasty usually put yellow flowers and tinsel on their foreheads.

Flower yellow, that is, the flower yellow in the phrase "applied yellow to the mirror" in Mulan Ci, is painted with yellow powder or cut out of golden yellow paper into the shape of stars, moon, flowers and birds, pasted on the forehead, or painted with yellow on the forehead.

Huadian is a kind of jewelry made of gold and silver in the shape of flowers and covered in hair. It was more popular in the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to the common plum blossom shape, there are also various small birds, small fish, ducklings, etc., which are very beautiful and novel.

There are many kinds of materials for cutting flower tin, such as gold foil, paper, fish cheek bones, shad scales, camellia flower cakes, etc.

Cut it out and paste it in the middle of the forehead with fish-maw glue or glue.

In various murals of the Tang Dynasty, you can see maids with flowers on their foreheads. Many more sophisticated Tang Dynasty-themed movies also show a large number of flowers.

This kind of behavior of directly making a palm-sized gold utensil and then tying it to the forehead with something like a rope can only be seen in modern TV dramas.

There was no such thing in the Tang Dynasty.

At most, it is Huasheng tied in hair, which will hang down to his forehead.

"This should be a plaque, used to hang around the waist as an ornament."

After explaining it to Zhuang Yunpeng, Chen Han picked up the plaque and looked at it carefully.

This plaque is indeed a big treasure.

Very beautifully made!
The entire plaque is composed of two lions on the left and right, and the sun, moon and Baoxiang flower in the center.

The sun and moon patterns are filled with turquoise in the fine golden millet frame, and the treasure phase flower is in the thin golden millet frame, which is composed of an oval amethyst in the center and turquoise around the periphery, and the upward-stretching branches are inlaid with green. Three pine stones, surrounded by a thin gold millet frame.

On both sides of the central pattern are reliefs of squatting lions with wings. The two lions face each other, with their heads up and their mouths divided into the sun and the moon. The four hooves are thick and exaggerated, and the tail is curled and ringed.

The body of the lion is inlaid with an amethyst, which is very beautiful and dazzling!
Most importantly, after careful inspection, Chen Han quickly found a ring-shaped perforation for tying the belt on the back of the plaque.

"Look, the piercing is obviously for the lace, which is then tied around the waist."

Chen Han pointed to the piercing and showed it to Zhuang Yunpeng.

After seeing the piercing, Zhuang Yunpeng was finally sure that this was indeed a decoration for decoration.

"Come and see, I found a fragment of a gold cladding inlaid with turquoise!"

Lin Ya's voice sounded from the wooden coffin bed.

Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng, who were admiring the exquisite plaque, had no choice but to temporarily save the plaque and walk towards Lin Yana.

I saw that Lin Ya was holding a fragment of a mask in both hands, and was smiling at them both.

The fragment of the mask in her hand is only the nose and the mouth.

The remaining parts are first cast into nose and mouth frames with gold sheets, separated into different spaces according to the shape with gold wires, and then inlaid with square, round or irregular turquoise in the spaces to form a complete nose shape , Mouth shape.

How should I put it, it looks like a geoduck, or it looks like Squidward's face in "SpongeBob SquarePants".

If Lin Ya hadn't mentioned that it was a gold-covered remnant, Chen Han's first thought was that it was an object used to cover private parts.

No way, whoever called this gold-covered mask, by coincidence, only the nose and mouth remained intact, and the other eyes and forehead were gone.

"In addition to this gold-covered fragment, I also found two golden apricot leaves next to it."

"The two golden apricot leaves are made of pure gold, and the edges are multi-curved flower leaves, and the leaves are hammered to create petal patterns."

"Moreover, there is leather pasted on the north side of the leaves. I think these two pieces of golden apricot leaves should also be part of the gold cladding. They should have been used to cover the eyes of the owner of the tomb in the room on the second north side."

"My guess is that the one buried in the room on the north side may be the concubine's room of the owner of the tomb."

"Since the bones of the tomb owner and his wife were found in the main tomb, they should be buried together in this tomb."

"As the main wife, the queen of the owner of the tomb cannot be buried in the side room, but can only be buried in the main tomb with the owner of the tomb, perhaps in a different coffin, or in the same coffin."

"So since there is a wooden coffin bed in the north 2 side room, there should be a concubine room where a tomb owner is buried."

"The two of you found the hairpin and gold medal decoration, which also shows that there is a high probability that a woman is buried in this side room."

Lin Ya talked to Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng for a while.

Her guess was very reasonable, and Chen Han kept nodding in agreement.

In the case of joint burial of husband and wife, the wife will generally not be buried in the side chamber, but will only be buried in the main chamber with her husband.

As for whether it should be combined into one coffin or divided into two coffins, it depends on the specific situation.

Sometimes the coffin will be opened and buried together, and sometimes one party will die first, and the other party will not open the coffin and be buried together, but prepare another coffin next to it.

But it is absolutely impossible to go to the side room.

Under the Chinese monogamous system, husband and wife are equal!

This point has been confirmed since the Zong Zhou period!

Any regular wife would not allow herself to be buried in a side room after her death!
Because she is also the master of this family, how can she be partial to the side room!

Only a concubine's room deserves a concubine!

(End of this chapter)