Master Archaeologist

Chapter 292

"hat?"

"hat!"

From doubt to enlightenment.

The archaeologists at the scene all had such expressions on their faces.

On the head, it's knit again.

Think about it, there is indeed only one possibility, the hat!
In other words, when Liu He was buried, he was still buried wearing a hat.

This is also really normal.

For the ancients, tidy clothes were very important.

During burial, the dead body is treated the same as the living.

Shoes, socks, clothes, pants, hats, they all need to be put on.

In fact, it includes modern people, but it’s not the same.

Even though the cremation system is in modern times, before the cremation of the deceased, a special mortician must be invited to make up and put on a shroud before being cremated.

It is a matter of maintaining dignity behind the dead.

"Documents record that the hat worn by Haihunhou Liu He is Hui Wenguan."

Kong Jianwen stroked his chin and said, "Could this be a Huiwen Crown?"

Huiwenguan is actually a kind of official hat. According to legend, it was created by Zhao Huiwenwang, so it is called Huiwenguan.

In the Han Dynasty, it was called Wubian, also known as the Great Crown, which was crowned by military officials.

The Servant and the Chang Servant add a golden pen, with a cicada as a text and a mink tail as a decoration.The waiter inserts the left mink, and the constant attendant inserts the right mink.

Because it is also called "Diao Pen" and "Diao Chan".

"Han Shu Changyi King Liu He Biography": "The year of the king was 26 and seven, he was green and black, with small eyes...short clothes and big dudes, crowned with a crown."

In the "Hanshu", it is accurately recorded that Liu He wore a Hui Wenguan.

Although it is impossible for Liu He to only wear such a crown in his life.

However, when he meets important people, he likes to wear Hui Wenguan, which shows that he likes to use Hui Wenguan.

Then when he died, he was likely to be buried wearing a Huiwen crown.

It's just that there are not many of these weaving remnants left on Liu He's head, and they don't have the shape of a "crown" at all.

What kind of crown is this? We can only send this part of the well-preserved woven fabric to the cultural relics restoration personnel to try to repair it, and see if it can be restored to a rough shape.

After spending more than an hour, these braided fabrics, which were as soft as noodles, were extracted as a whole, put into a cultural relic box, and sent to the cultural relic restoration personnel for research.

Continue to extract the jade disc covering Liu He's face.

After successive extractions, most of the jade bi fragments have been extracted, leaving only a few fragments.

Cleaning up, cleaning up.

Soon, Chen Han discovered something new.

"Why is there something that looks like an agate bead on the tooth?"

While reporting, Chen Han kept moving his hands, and very lightly picked up a dark red agate bead, which was about the size of a soybean.

"The location of this bead is probably above the gums and below the nostrils?"

Chen Han tasted it, and said pleasantly: "Could it be a stuffy nose?!"

Isn't the unearthed location on the nose side?

The shape is slightly larger than soybeans, and it is also very suitable for plugging the nostrils!

Although it is said that the jade nine orifices unearthed before, except for the jade pieces covering the eyes, which are flaky, the others, whether they are plugging the nose or ears, are short cylindrical jade objects.

But there is no rule that round agates cannot be used to plug noses.

The core of the so-called jade nine-orifice system in the Han Dynasty is not the shape of the vessel, but its function.

That is to use jade objects to block several holes in the human body that allow the soul to sneak out.

This keeps the soul of the deceased in the body.

Then add the use of jade to keep the corpse from decaying, and at some point in the future, the owner of the tomb will be able to resurrect and become a fairy.

And agate, in the modern classification of jade, does not belong to jade in a broad sense.

But in ancient times, agate was also jade, a kind of jade with a different color.

Therefore, agate can also be used as jade nine orifices in theory.

As for not making it into a cylinder, it was made into an ellipse.

Liu He's jade plug, which was stuffed in his buttocks, also had a unique shape, and it was even carved with dragon patterns.

It's not out of the ordinary to get an oval agate to plug the nostrils!

However, Chen Han's guess is not conclusive.

Because, he found only one agate bead
The human nose has two nostrils.

Unless he finds a second agate bead of the same size, he won't be sure that this thing is used as a nasal plug.

For this reason, Chen Han also pawed and pulled the face very seriously.

However, before he found another agate bead, he found another thing first.

He found two thin pieces of jade, exactly a pair, located at the eye area.

Among them, the piece on the left has been displaced, from the original horizontal to vertical, while the piece on the right still maintains its original shape.

Obviously, these two pieces of jade are also one of the jade nine orifices, the jade eyelids used to cover Liu He's eyes!
The jade nose plug hadn't been found yet, but the jade eye cover was found first, which is a surprise!
Even more satisfying.

As we all know, the eyes are the most important part of the face.

The position of Liu He's eyes can be determined through the position of the jade eye cover. Then, with Liu He's eyes as the anchor point, it is easy to determine where Liu He's ears are.

In this way, the last part of the Jade Nine Orifices, which is the earplugs, is not difficult to find!

Chen Han took a few bamboo sticks, took the eyes as the center point, and after some gestures, he determined the positions of Liu He's ears.

At the same time, the position of the nose has been thoroughly determined.

It turned out that the location of the agate bead discovered before was not actually in the nose, but in the middle of the human body.

This agate bead, which is suspected to be a jade nose plug, may have been displaced and fell below.

After confirming the position of the nose, Chen Han began to grope according to the position from the root of the nose to the middle of the nose.

Sure enough, he soon found another agate bead.

The size and shape are basically exactly the same as the one just now, and the color is also dark red.

"Two beads came out."

"From this point of view, this agate bead should indeed be a stuffy nose!"

Chen Han was digging in the mud happily.

Yes, "pick", the silt in the coffin is not as wet as the silt at the bottom of the pond.

In fact, the silt in the coffin is very solid and relatively dry, similar to the soil in normal land.

So even though the coffin was cleaned up.

But for Chen Han, the feeling is not much different from digging.

Two agate beads were quickly dug out.

In addition to two pieces of jade eye masks and a jade rod plug, five pieces have been unearthed in the jade nine orifices.

However, what is strange is that these few pieces of jade are all substitutes, not jade pieces specially made to be used as jade nine orifices.

Whether it is a stuffy nose or a butt plug, they are all non-specialized utensils.

And those two eye masks are all plain, and the shape is not the standard jade eye mask, it looks like a substitute.

Liu He, a rich, powerful, and extravagant nobleman, why didn't he prepare a special jade nine orifice for himself, but use "second-hand goods"?
(End of this chapter)