Master Archaeologist

Remove the silt with caution.

Not only the dzi bead, gradually, many exquisite small utensils revealed their true colors.

It is covered with gold and has a unique shape. It is stacked with the waist ornament, and it should also be an ornament hanging on the waist.

The dzi beads and agate are pierced up and down and connected together. It should have been a clinking accessory hanging on the waist.

Jade scorpion (xi), made of top-quality Hetian white jade, is a kind of object used to unbutton.

This is a kind of slightly curved cone-shaped utensil. It was first seen in the Liangzhu culture in the Neolithic period, and it was popular in the Shang Dynasty. It lasted through the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Han Dynasty, and then gradually disappeared.

Originally it was carried around as a tool for untying knots.

Early Chinese costumes had no buttons and were usually tied with ropes.

Zhou people pay attention to etiquette. In order to prevent the belt from unraveling and causing impoliteness, they usually tie the rope into a dead knot.

Therefore, it has become a small daily necessities that people carry around their waists.

Later, with the development of society, 觽 was endowed with a certain hidden meaning.

The practical function of jade scorpion gradually faded, and it evolved into a kind of jade worn for decoration, which symbolizes adulthood.

Typically worn by adults or married teenagers, the iconic waist adornment signifies the wearer's ability to solve problems.

To put it simply, this is a kind of utensil that is a bit like ivory, with a thick top and a pointed bottom, much like a lancet.

In the Western Han Dynasty, wearing jade shells around the waist was not used for practical purposes, but to symbolize the meaning of adults.

All kinds of ornaments, pendants, and accessories should be Liu He's true love during his lifetime, and they might even be the playthings he often hung around his waist to play with during his lifetime.

Hanging them around their waists and clinking as they walk, this is actually the "noble" beauty pursued by the nobles of the Han Dynasty.

Only inferior people walk quietly without even a jade pendant around their waists.

Therefore, servants and servants are required to walk as quietly as possible.

The nobles, on the other hand, are open and friendly, and the accessories on their waists rattle and clang as they walk, and it is best to hear the sound from a long distance away.

That means, oh, there are nobles coming.

These ornaments around Liu He's waist are exquisite indeed, but they are not that special. As long as they are nobles, they are more or less dressed with such ornaments.

On the contrary, what is incredible is the relatively inconspicuous jade belt hook on Liu He's waist!

Among the three large belt hooks, one of them is very special.

The shape of the upper part of the hook shows the characteristics of the jade wares of the Warring States period, and it can be recognized at a glance. It is a jade belt hook from the Warring States period.

If it's just an antique, it's actually fine.

It is not surprising that people in the Western Han Dynasty collected antiques from the Warring States period.

Commoners may not have the mind to do this kind of thing, but for nobles, collecting antiques is an elegant thing.

but!

What is strange is that the lower part of this jade belt hook, to be precise, is at the upper end of the lower part of the hook. There is a piece with a length of more than one centimeter, which is made of a piece of white and gentle agate!

This section of agate looks very much like jade.

At the beginning, Chen Han mistook him for Yu.

It was later that Professor Li determined that it was a piece of agate after careful judgment.

Amazingly, this piece of agate was installed later!
The hooks and buttons under the agate are really made of Hetian white jade!
In other words.

In fact, this jade belt hook is a combiner!

The upper part is antique, with carvings and decorations full of the style of the Warring States period, obviously a piece of Warring States artifacts.

The lower part was later assembled with Hetian jade and agate that Liu He asked to rebuild.

Perhaps, this jade belt hook was once damaged due to the troubled times of the Warring States period. After several twists and turns, it came to Liu He. Liu He liked this jade belt hook very much, so he asked the craftsman to restore it, and then he couldn't put it down. Wear it on your waist!

Maybe, Liu He, who likes to collect antiques, also has a hobby of transforming antiques!

I like to turn these broken antiques into treasures again!
This is also an elegant thing!
"Hey, there are words!"

Kong Jianwen, who was looking at this jade belt hook, suddenly found out.

On the button with the hook, there are two characters engraved.

These two words are very simple, regardless of the font.

It is a "ten" and a "two". These two characters have been written like this from ancient times to the present, but there is no difficulty in identifying them.

However, what do these two characters mean? Do they read "twelve" or "twenty"?
Kong Jianwen and Chen Han looked at each other, but they couldn't understand it for a while.

It is too difficult to figure out the meaning of just these two words.

These two characters appeared in the half of the period belonging to the Warring States Period.

It was engraved later, or it was engraved during the Warring States Period.

What does it mean, is it Liu He's 12th or 20th collection?

Or something else?
There are too many possibilities and too many uncertainties.

totally inexplicable
This problem can only be put aside for the time being.

After four days of cleaning, this jade belt hook was the last item on Liu He's waist.

After cleaning out, all the small objects around Liu He's waist were extracted and cleaned up.

But Chen Han and the others did not relax.

Physicologists, here you go.

Several experts specially invited from the Capital Institute of Human Physique.

However, before the experts extract the teeth, they, the group of archaeologists, have to clear the obstacles for the experts.

What obstacle?
Of course it was the piece of jade that covered Liu He's teeth.

At that time, because the teeth were discovered, the plan to extract the jade biscuit from Liu He's head was temporarily cancelled.

Now that the experts are in place, it is natural to restart the jade bi extraction.

It is not difficult to extract jade bi, practice makes perfect.

Seven or eight pieces of jade in the inner coffin have already been extracted. Everyone has seen it and extracted it by themselves, so they are all experienced.

According to Kong Jianwen's request, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng quickly extracted the piece of jade covering Liu He's head.

Similarly, because this piece of jade was in the area where the coffin collapsed severely, it was also broken into many fragments.

Otherwise, how could Liu He's teeth be crushed.

After extracting these fragments, Liu He's face, or the condition of his head, was displayed in front of everyone without reservation.

"what"

"This is some silk or hemp-like braided fabric, and the preservation is quite good!"

I saw that a little bit above Liu He's head, there are some dark fabrics. Although they have been buried for more than 2000 years, the weaving relationship is still clearly recognizable.

Well, it looks like instant noodles, and it also looks like the horizontal and vertical traces of the sweaters hand-knitted by grandmas.

More like the weaving style of bamboo baskets.

However, these remaining braids are not many, only a small circle.

"what is this?"

The elites of the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, all came together curiously.

Chen Han stared suspiciously for a few times, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his inspiration suddenly appeared.

"It's a hat!"