Master Archaeologist

Chapter 245 The Bronze Mirror of the Holy Trinity
Bending down, walking in the corridor aisle of Haihunhou's tomb, Chen Han was a little uncomfortable.

The aisle of Haihunhou's tomb is not very high, and the actual height is only a little over 1.8 meters.

Since the aisle has not been cleaned, the roof boards on the aisle have not been lifted.

In order not to bump his head, Chen Han had to walk in the aisle with his waist slightly bent.

The actual area of ​​Haihunhou's tomb is almost 400 square meters.

If this is a house, the area is almost as large as a large flat.

This scale must be second to none among the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the aisle is also relatively wide.

Since the aisle and aisle are for "souls", naturally nothing will be placed there.

However, due to the long-term water ingress in the past, the aisle is full of silt deposited at the bottom of Poyang Lake, and one foot is deep and the other is shallow.

The reason why Chen Han walked through the aisle was because he was going to the west room, where the cleaning work of the bamboo slips and wooden tablets was coming to an end.

Basically, most of the bamboo slips and wooden tablets have been sorted out.

Chen Han is representing the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, to see if there are any new discoveries.

However, before reaching the west room, Chen Han found something special in the west corridor.

In the corner of the west corridor near the wall, there was an oval object half-sinked in the mud, which caught Chen Han's attention.

Adhering to the professionalism of an archaeologist, Chen Han quickly stopped, reached out and gently pulled the oval object out of the wet mud.

When he pulled it halfway, he had already observed what it was.

It is a bronze mirror!
Bronze mirror, which is among the items unearthed in the Han Dynasty, except for the bronze sacrificial vessel, is the most preserved cultural relic.

People in the Western Han Dynasty love bronze mirrors, which is consistent from top to bottom.

Even if it is a slave who was sacrificed, he will be buried with a bronze mirror when he is buried.

It can be seen that the importance of bronze mirrors in the funeral culture of the Western Han Dynasty.

However, this bronze mirror did not appear in the main coffin chamber of the owner of the tomb, but was scattered scattered on the ground of the west corridor.

This can't help but feel a little strange.

Could it be that on the west corridor, there is a martyr who died?

Chen Han stomped his feet.

The mud under the feet is not deep, and it seems that it is impossible to bury a coffin or bones without being discovered.

Many archaeologists passed by the west corridor back and forth.

If there was a dead body, it should have been discovered long ago, right?

Or is it all rotten?Only bits and pieces left?
Before waiting for the doubts in Chen Han's heart to be answered, when he picked up the bronze mirror and saw the inscriptions on the back, the doubts in his heart immediately dissipated.

Because he saw the words "絜 (clean) innocent".

Obviously, this is a very common "innocent mirror" in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty!
And the purpose of the "white mirror" is obviously not for people to be buried with others.

This kind of mirror was unearthed when excavating the Fenghuangshan Han Tombs before.

This is usually a mirror given by the wife to her husband who died young, expressing her condolences to her husband.

And that's not all.

This bronze mirror is very exquisite, not only is it exquisite in workmanship, but also has inscriptions on the inner and outer rings.

Because there was too much silt on the bronze mirror, the complete inscription could not be seen clearly at the first time.

However, judging from the appearance of the bronze mirror, the appearance of this mirror is more inclined to the Zhaoming mirror, which is not only a daily necessities, but also a symbol of the identity of the owner.

However, the inscription on the bronze mirror is not the inscription on the Zhaoming Mirror.

The inscription on this bronze mirror is a variant of seal script.

That is to say, it has both the characteristics of seal script writing and the style of official script, which can be regarded as a fusion font.

On the inner circle, Chen Han saw eight words, which are "Seeing the light of the sun, forgetting the appearance."

This is a common inscription on the "sunlight mirror" popular in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty.

The inscription on the back of this bronze mirror has the word "sunlight", hence the name "sunlight mirror", also known as "sunlight continuous arc pattern mirror"!
Most of the inscriptions are "seeing the light of the sun, the world will be bright" or "seeing the light of the sun will last forever" and so on.

However, it is worth mentioning that the diameter of the heliotrope mirror is generally smaller. In other words, this mirror is one size smaller than other types of bronze mirrors.

But the bronze mirror in Chen Han's hand is not small at all, otherwise he wouldn't think that it is biased towards the Zhaoming mirror in style!
However, on the outer circle of the inscription on the bronze mirror, there is an inscription at the beginning of the word "絜清白".

This shows that this mirror has the characteristics of a clean mirror at the same time.

One side looks like a bright mirror, the inscription on the outer circle is the inscription on the clean mirror, and the inscription on the inner circle is the daylight mirror. A unique bronze mirror that combines the characteristics of three kinds of bronze mirrors appeared in front of Chen Han.

This is simply amazing.

"Bronze mirrors of the Han Dynasty, the inscriptions on the outer circle are the most important."

Chen Han murmured.

Since the inscription on the outer ring is related to the Qingbai mirror, it is more likely that this bronze mirror is a mourning gift given to her husband by Mrs. Haihunhou.

Although the history books did not record the time of Mrs. Haihunhou's death.

But Haihunhou died very early, at the age of 33. His wife may have been alive and well at the time, so naturally there was a need to send a mourning mirror to his deceased husband.

Of course, there is a high probability that Mrs. Haihunhou will not remarry.

Although it is said that the aristocratic women in the Western Han Dynasty were indeed quite popular to remarry.

From the princess to the Weng Lord to Liehou, Guanneihou, and the daughters of ministers, there are no fewer second marriages. Some husbands are not dead yet, and some remarry after remarriage.

But as Mrs. Haihunhou who is married to a nobleman of the Liu family, there is a high probability that she will not remarry again.

Even if she remarried, no one would dare to marry her.

Because theoretically, no one has the same status as Haihunhou.

Although Liu He was the Marquis of Haihun when he died, he had been the emperor for 27 days after all. In ancient times, when the imperial power was supreme, the emperor for one day was also the emperor.

Even his identity is more sensitive than ordinary princes and kings.

If something happened to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, theoretically Liu He would have the possibility of competing for the throne again.

So as Liu He, the wife of a nobleman with a sensitive identity, even if she wanted to remarry, she couldn't find a suitable person.

Well, except Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

But is it possible for Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to recruit Haihunhou's widow into the harem?
Of course, this is an afterthought.

Mrs. Liu He's tomb is next door to Tomb M2, and it has been visited by tomb robbers.

It's just not clear when Liu He's wife died.

But this bronze mirror, it is [-]% certain that it is the mourning mirror given to him by Mrs. Liu He.

It’s just that somehow, it actually appeared in the mud of the West Corridor.

There is a high probability that the groundwater backflow caused by the earthquake that year caused this bronze mirror to be washed out from a certain storage room, possibly the main tomb, and then drifted with the tide and sank on the ground of the west corridor.

Later, the groundwater receded again, leaving silt to cover the bronze mirror on the ground.

(End of this chapter)