Master Archaeologist

Chapter 227 The main tomb was stolen?
The Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences moved quickly.

However, just after the rescue excavation of this Nanchang tomb was confirmed, the archaeological team composed of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Research Office and the Qin and Han Research Office of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences set off immediately.

Chen Han, who belongs to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Research Office, is naturally on the list of members of the archaeological team.

It's not that only Xia Shangzhou and Qin Han Research Offices of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences go out to work every day, and Chen Han can get a job opportunity as soon as there is a project.

It was the projects of several other research laboratories, the Tang and Song Research Laboratories, and the Ming and Qing Research Laboratories, which could not be found in Chen Han's head.

In fact, archaeologists from other laboratories of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences spend more than half of the year participating in archaeological projects outside.

It's just that the projects they participated in have nothing to do with Chen Han.

He only studied archaeology in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and at most he also studied archaeology in Qin and Han Dynasties. How could he engage in archaeology in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties?

The Tuyuhun tomb in Qinghai last time was due to the shortage of manpower in the Tang and Song archaeological rooms at that time, and several Tang and Song tombs were involved in the excavation at the same time.

It was really short of manpower, so we borrowed people from Qin Han and Xia, Shang and Zhou research offices.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Han would only participate in archaeological work during the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin and Han dynasties.

For example, this Nanchang Han Dynasty tomb!
4 month 15 number.

Chen Han, who had just returned to the capital for a few days, followed Kong Jianwen and Professor Li to Nanchang.

Jiangxi is next door to his hometown, and the temperature and climate are quite similar.

And there are many mountains in Jiangxi.

After arriving here, Chen Han felt like returning to his hometown.

The food culture here in Jiangxi is quite different from that in Fujian, which is near the sea.

After getting out of the Nanchang high-speed railway station, the first thing you see is a variety of shops selling fans.

Mixed noodles, snail noodles, fried noodles, soaked noodles, soup noodles...

All kinds of rice noodle restaurants are lined up on the side of the road.

Although Fujian is also famous for Xinghua rice noodles, Xinghua rice noodles are completely different from Nanchang rice noodles.

Chen Han curiously packed a portion of mixed powder.

The snow-white round powder looks like white spaghetti.

However, the taste is not the same as pasta at all, the QQ is bouncy, which is quite good.

At least for Chen Han, who grew up eating rice, the taste of rice noodles made with rice milk is still very popular with him.

After simply tasting the local delicacies, a group of people from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, went directly to Dundun Mountain in Xinjian District, Nanchang, where the tomb was discovered.

On Mt. Dundun, the archaeological team formed by the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology and the Nanchang Institute of Archaeology are already busy exploring the tomb.

When Kong Jianwen and the others arrived, several archaeologists from the Nanchang Archaeological Institute just crawled out of the 15-meter-deep robbery hole.

Before Kong Jianwen and the others exchanged pleasantries with the leaders of the Jiangxi Archaeological Institute, the archaeologists who climbed out of the robbery cave sighed and said, "These tomb robbers are indeed very professional."

"This robbery hole went directly into the main tomb."

"The scene was a mess, with some wooden boards scattered on the ground, even the coffin was sawed open, and all the funerary objects inside were gone."

"The most important main tomb, all cultural relics have been stolen."

"Have you caught all those tomb robbers?"

Wen Yuangen, director of the Jiangxi Archaeological Institute, also sighed: "Still investigating."

"In a local Wenwan market in Nanchang, someone was holding a big golden dragon and wanted to sell it. Most likely it was from this group of tomb robbers."

"The local police are investigating along this line."

"I hope some cultural relics can be recovered."

If you want to say which dynasty has the most treasures in tombs, it must be the Han Dynasty.

It's not just because the nobles of the Han Dynasty liked to wear jade clothes with golden thread and jade burials.

The more important reason is the rich burial system advocated by the Han Dynasty.

This caused people in the Han Dynasty, whether they were civilians or nobles, to bury the things they used during their lifetime, and their descendants would go bankrupt and prepare some gold and silverware for them.

In fact, the most valuable things are not these gold and silverware, but the things used by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime.

If the owner of the tomb is an official, there is a high probability that the documents and attachments he has reviewed, the books he read, etc. will be buried together.

At present, among the bamboo slips unearthed in the Chinese archaeological circle, the largest source is the Han bamboo slips!

This is not only because the Han Dynasty was the last glorious period of bamboo slips.

It is also because it was not until the Han Dynasty that bamboo slips began to be widely used as funerary objects.

Before the Han Dynasty, the "knowledge" recorded on the bamboo slips needed to be passed down from generation to generation.

Each bamboo slip is the most precious treasure, it is impossible to bring it underground.

Therefore, although the number of unearthed Chu bamboo slips in the Warring States period is also very large, compared to the existing amount, the bamboo slips of the Warring States period are definitely not as good as the bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that most of the modern archeology of texts in the pre-Qin period relies on the bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty.

The discovery of countless bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty not only revised the history of the pre-Qin period, but also saved countless Chinese cultures that had been broken.

All kinds of isolated copies, and out-of-print articles whose titles are only seen in historical books but not their contents, all came to light through the unearthed bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty.

After the death of a person in the Han Dynasty, if he had many favorite books during his lifetime, these books will usually be buried with him.

As for whether these books will lose their inheritance after they are buried with them.

of course not!

Before being buried with the burial, it is not enough to take the bamboo slips and make a copy of the content at home to continue to pass on.

In the previous Zong Zhou period, people did not have the habit of burying the bamboo slips they had read during their lifetime, so naturally there was no need to do this, which does not mean that it cannot be done.

It can be said that apart from the students of various schools of thought transcribing the surviving documents of the Han Dynasty, one of the biggest reasons for transcribing was to make a new copy for the burial of the dead ancestors.

In other words, among the tombs of various dynasties currently buried underground, only the tombs of the Han Dynasty are the most important in tracing the origin of Chinese culture!
Countless solitary, rare, and out-of-print works of sages may lie quietly in a tomb of the Han Dynasty, waiting for the discovery of archaeologists and the day when they will be seen again.

Therefore, although all the gold and silver treasures in the main tomb were stolen, Wen Yuangen was still full of expectations for this tomb.

He asked nervously, "What about the bamboo slips? Have you found any bamboo slips in the main tomb?"

However, in the face of the chief director's question, the archaeological staff who went down to the tomb looked a little embarrassed.

"Director, no bamboo slips were found."

Wen Yuangen's face immediately became heavy, he waved his hand, and said to himself comfortingly: "Maybe it's been too long, and the bamboo slips buried with him may have been mixed with the soil."

"You still have to go down to the tomb and check carefully to find out."

"As a lieutenant, no matter how many Haihunhou this is, he must have read a lot of bamboo slips during his lifetime. It is impossible to be buried without bamboo slips."

"Get ready, let's start a formal excavation!"

Wen Yuangen is definitely not willing to accept the fact that there are no bamboo slips.

It's just that other archaeologists have mixed feelings.

All the cultural relics in the main tomb have been stolen. If there are no bamboo slips, then this once-in-a-century tomb in Nanchang may be anticlimactic.

This is a great pity for the archaeological and historical circles!

(End of this chapter)