Master Archaeologist

Chapter 300 Extracting the Glass Mat

Just next to the laboratory where the inner coffin is placed is a lacquer laboratory.

Most of the lacquer boxes extracted from Haihunhou Liu He's inner coffin, regardless of size, were sent to this laboratory to be opened and cleaned.

After the composition of the glazed mat has been determined for the time being, several scientific and technological archaeologists are still preparing for the official extraction of the glazed mat, such as 3D surveying and mapping, modeling and painting.

So Chen Han and the others were free.

It was during this spare time that Chen Han was free to come to the lacquerware laboratory to take a look at the results of their excavations.

Most of the lacquer boxes extracted from the inner coffin have now been opened.

Even though some were crushed very flat, and some were stuck together and difficult to open, all of them were opened under the skillful hands of the lacquerware restorers.

Among these lacquer boxes, the most exquisite and precious one is a Nine Sons Lian.

Liao, a mirror box used by women in ancient China to store their toiletry items.

Simply put, this thing is for cosmetics.

Jiuzilian, as the name suggests, is a combiner consisting of nine small lacquer boxes.

The Jiuzi Lian, as a whole, was placed in a round lacquer box.

When they were unearthed, they had collapsed and squeezed together, making it very difficult to separate them.

But now it's been separated, and the boxes are all opened.

Square, round, oval, horseshoe-shaped, rectangular, and triangular, a total of nine lacquer boxes form a set of nine lacquer boxes.

At this time, Chen Han was standing next to this set of nine sons' dowry, admiring its beauty.

Even after 2000 years, this set of Nine Sons is still very gorgeous and beautiful.

The gilt is inlaid on the lacquered wood with the theme of black and red, and the three colors of black, red and gold are intertwined, which is very gorgeous.

Next to Chen Han, Wei Lai, a researcher from the Capital Institute of Lacquerware, introduced to him with a smile: "This set of nine sons is very functional."

"In the nine lacquer boxes, all the cosmetics of the owner of the tomb were placed."

"For example, there are bronze mirrors in the round dowry, hairpins in the long dowry, and combs, grates and other toiletry items in the other lacquer boxes."

"There is a lacquer box containing some powder, which should be cosmetics from the Western Han Dynasty, but it has been powdered, and it needs to be sent for testing to know the ingredients."

"Probably rouge lipstick or something."

Yes, men in the Western Han Dynasty also used rouge and lipstick, which was not just for women.

After all, the meaning of the birth of rouge lipstick is actually to make people look more energetic after using it.

In the era of patriarchy in ancient times, it can be said that the meaning of anything invented was dominated by men, and it must have been used by men at first, or by both men and women, and then it gradually became only for women.

This is true both in the East and the West.

Just like silk stockings and high-heeled shoes in the West, they were actually invented first and were worn by men, but gradually became something only for women.

"Make-up", in the early days of Huaxia, was actually used for men as well.

At least during the Zong Zhou period, male aristocrats paid great attention to grooming and grooming. Not only did they have a very good-looking hairstyle, but they also paid attention to facial appearance.

Simply put, it is to use some "cosmetics" to make people look more energetic and temperamental.

This is also one of the differences between nobles, countrymen and savages.

Nobles can dress themselves exquisitely, but commoners and savages don't even take a shower.

Therefore, in the pre-Qin period and even the Han Dynasty, nobles and ordinary people could really be distinguished at a glance.

Liu He's Nine Sons Lian is a cosmetic box used to dress himself up, and it is the most exquisite set of all lacquer boxes.

However, besides the most exquisite, there is a group of lacquered boxes, which are also very special.

This group of lacquer boxes is not very exquisite in itself, it is the normal level of Han Dynasty lacquerware.

But what's inside is very special.

There are five lacquer boxes in this group, and the five lacquer boxes are arranged in order from small to large, so that people can know that they are a group at a glance.

When opening the boxes, the lacquerware researchers also opened the boxes one by one from childhood to adulthood.

And the things that were opened were indeed a set of utensils.

To be precise, it is a set of copper spoons.

The five copper spoons of different sizes look very much like the common water ladles or wine spoons used to scoop wine.

What is this set of spoons for?

Is it for scooping wine?
But the wine vessel for scooping wine should be placed in a special wine vessel room in the tomb, and shouldn't be in the inner coffin?
According to its characteristics of different sizes, the researchers quickly figured out the identity of this group of copper spoons.

This is a set of gauges!
As we all know, the greatest achievement Qin Shihuang made was that the books were in the same text, the carts were in the same track, and the weights and measures were unified, which established the unification of China.

The unified "weights and measures" of Qin Shihuang is reflected in these small spoons.

These copper spoons are a set of standard water measuring devices, and the water that can be scooped out by one spoon represents units similar to modern "milliliters, liters".

And why Liu He put such a set of measuring instruments in the coffin, there is only one answer.

This set of measuring instruments was commonly used by Liu He during his lifetime.

Liu He is a weak and sick nobleman, so when he was alive, he often needed tonic.

Cordyceps unearthed before is evidence.

When taking supplements, these copper spoons are used to determine the measuring device.

This is a practical tool that Liu He used frequently during his lifetime, so it was buried in the inner coffin.

Apart from these two lacquer boxes, there is one more special lacquer box at the end.

The special thing is that this lacquer box contains a jade jade.

This jade kui is made of Hetian jasper, and the interruption has been broken, but the whole is well preserved.

Length 16.1 cm, width 6.9 cm, thickness 3.1 cm!

Gui, whose shape is derived from stone shovel and stone axe, is an important ritual vessel in Chinese culture, and it is used in pilgrimage to show class status.

Simply put, when you meet the emperor, you need to hold Gui to see him.

It's a pity that this piece of jade, from the time it was made to the time Liu He died, probably never came in handy.

After all, according to historical records, Liu He should have never seen the emperor himself once from the time when he was deposed to the time when Emperor Xuan of the Han ascended the throne.

Even if he expressed to the central government that he wanted to meet with the court, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty did not agree.

This piece of jade had never been used, it could only be used as a decoration, and was finally brought underground by Liu He.

It can be seen from the fact that he made this jade jade.

Liu He did have plans to return to Chang'an for an audience, perhaps because he wanted to meet Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to show his loyalty.

It's just that Emperor Xuan of Han didn't give him this chance!
(End of this chapter)