Master Archaeologist

Chapter 259 The Artisan's Ingenuity 2000 Years Ago!
After the weight of the first gold cake and horseshoe gold was weighed, the weight of these three boxes of gold is a very simple arithmetic method.

In the three boxes of gold, there are a total of 68 gold cakes and 16 horseshoe gold pieces.

Based on an average of 250 grams, these three boxes of gold add up to 21000 grams, 21 kilograms of gold!
What is the concept of 21 kilograms?
Calculated on the basis of the gold price of 385.7 yuan/gram when Chen Han and the others unearthed the gold that day.

These golds are worth 8099700 yuan!
Just at the price of gold itself, without any cultural relic value attached, these golds are worth more than 800 million!
Gold, whether it was 2000 years ago or after 2000 years, is a precious metal among precious metals!
Being able to be buried with 21 kilograms of gold is enough to make Haihunhou not only a rich man on the ground, but also able to maintain his luxurious life after he goes underground!
In the Han Dynasty, the idea that death is as life as life is, is vividly reflected in this tomb of Marquis Haihun!

And this is just the beginning.

Bigger surprises are yet to come!

After the excavation of the main tomb, the most striking thing is the coffin in the east chamber of the main tomb.

Haihunhou's coffin is very large, but the main coffin chamber of Haihunhou's tomb has collapsed many times due to geological movements, so the preservation of the coffin is not as good as expected.

Judging from the appearance alone, it can only be seen that Haihunhou really used a heavy coffin.

However, it is impossible to know how many coffins there are until they are opened.

It was also possible to confirm that Haihunhou had used a heavy coffin, so the heads of several archaeological institutes at the scene had a meeting and discussed it, and decided that a coffin could be opened first.

The opening of the coffin here is not actually the opening of the main coffin. To be precise, it should be the opening of the outer coffin.

Only after opening the coffin cover, can we see the situation inside the coffin, the condition of the main coffin, and the condition of the heavy coffin.

And opening the coffin cover will not affect the main coffin of Haihunhou and the remains of Haihunhou in the main coffin.

Simply put, this is like a suite, with the door open to the outside, and it will not affect the owner who is sleeping in the bedroom.

After all, the door of the bedroom was still open.

The main coffin is the bedroom.

Even this bedroom can be moved away from the whole house.

Just like nesting dolls.

Of course, before opening the coffin cover, it is necessary to clean up the cultural relics in the west room, which is the inner coffin room, near the coffin.

It is necessary to clear out an open space, and then carry out the opening work of the coffin cover.

And this work was handed over to the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences.

For the time being, Chen Han and the others put down the clean-up work of the West Chamber, and handed over the work at hand to the staff of archaeological institutes in Shaanxi and Henan who came to support them.

And they came to the inner coffin chamber, centered on the coffin, and extracted the cultural relics in the coffin chamber from far to near.

At this time, the number of cultural relic marks in the coffin chamber has reached 1700+.

With a toolbox, Chen Han first got busy at the southern end of the inner coffin chamber.

Because, as soon as he entered the inner coffin chamber, he saw a collapsed bronze "monster" on the ground at the southern end.

This bronze monster was half covered in mud, with only its head sticking out.

As far as looking at the head, I really want to be a dragon head, but there are also some auspicious beasts like unicorns, so I can't be sure yet.

Next to this bronze "dragon head", there are a pile of agate and jade pieces scattered.

It can be seen that these agates and jade pieces should have been inlaid on the bronze body. For example, some agates may be the eyeballs of this bronze dragon.

Because the dragon head collapsed in the mud, the eyes are empty, and there is nothing.

It was also because the agate and jade pieces were scattered too badly, and the bronze dragon was half buried in the mud.

So after looking at it for a while, Chen Han did not choose to extract one by one separately, but planned to continue to extract as a whole.

It's still a plastic tray.

After digging about five or six centimeters around the bronze dragon, Chen Han took the pallet and carefully inserted it into the bottom of the scattered bronze dragon.

When it was almost ready to be lifted, he exerted all his strength, holding the pallet with both hands, and lifted up the whole piece of mud.

"It's pretty heavy."

With a flushed face, Chen Han gestured for Zhuang Yunpeng to help him.

The two of them worked together to lift the bronze beast together with the accessories scattered around, and sent it to the box next to it for packing.

"This artifact is quite beautiful!" Kong Jianwen, who was on the sidelines as an on-site supervisor, said with some surprise: "I don't know if it is a dragon or a unicorn after it is repaired?"

"It feels like a dragon." Chen Han pointed to the body of the vessel that was covered with mud due to moving, exposing more of his body, and said, "Teacher, look, this is the mouth of a dragon, and jade is inlaid on this lacquer."

"The paint is set on the copper again. This should be a paint covering the copper bottom."

"Not a pure viewer."

"It should have been a practical vessel originally, perhaps a wine vessel, or perhaps a container, with just a faucet as the bottom decoration!"

At first, Chen Han thought it was just a viewing device.

However, when the whole was extracted and unearthed, judging from the size and the lacquered wood found in the details, it should be a practical tool.

In the Han Dynasty, lacquered woodware was manufactured for practical use, not just for viewing.

Such as plates, saucers, cups and the like.

For high-end practical utensils, bronze will be used as the base trim, and lacquered wood will be used as the cover for painting.

Obviously, this is one such artifact.

Facts have proved that Chen Han's guess is also correct.

When the overall extracted bronze was sent to the preservation room in the archaeological base next to the tomb for simple cleaning, the whole picture of the artifact was presented.

There is no need to repair it, just put it together and you can be sure that this is a yi (yi)!
Yi is a watering tool used by ancient Chinese nobles to hold ceremonial activities. It appeared in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

It is oval in shape, with a flow in the front and a scorpion in the back, and most of them have four legs.

Early Yi was made of bronze, and after the Han Dynasty, Yi gold and silver wares, Yi lacquer wares, and Yi jade wares appeared.

"Zuo Zhuan.In the 23rd year of Duke Xi, there is a record of "Fengyi Wowash". Wo means to water, and wash means to wash hands and face. Fengyi Wowash is an important etiquette before sacrificial ceremonies in ancient China.

Yi is a kind of washing utensil cast in bronze during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is equivalent to a modern scoop or ladle.

Surprisingly, even after more than 2000 years of burial, the dragon head and lower jaw of this statue can still move freely.

The faucet of this cultural relic actually serves as a handle.

The ancients at that time held the faucet and poured water, similar to the handle of a teapot.

And the design of this faucet handle is very ingenious.

When in use, you only need to squeeze it lightly, and the faucet will open, and you can hold the handle inside.

If it is not in use, he will naturally return to the viewing state of a leader!
This ingenious design not only takes into account the practicality, but also takes into account the ornamental.

It is simply a work of ingenuity!

The ingenuity of craftsmen 2000 years ago is simply amazing!
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