Master Archaeologist

Chapter 301 The Handed down Classics in the Tomb of Marquis Haihun
"Junior Brother Chen!"

"Junior Brother Chen!"

"Over there in the bamboo slips research room, some bamboo slips have been restored!"

"Good guy, it's full of explosive content!"

"Not only "The Analects of Qi", but also many pre-Qin classics, and the memorial written by Haihunhou to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty!"

Early in the morning, Chen Han, who was still recovering from sleep, was shaken awake from the bed by Zhuang Yunpeng.

Today is a rare day off, Chen Han originally wanted to take a good day off.

Unexpectedly, he would not be given the chance to sleep in.

However, the news that Zhuang Yunpeng brought was indeed too explosive.

He got up from the bed in a jerk, and after putting on a coat for himself, Chen Han had no time to wash up, so he followed Zhuang Yunpeng and ran to the bamboo slips research room.

The current Haihunhou archaeological base has been fully constructed, almost like a scientific research base.

The dormitory is quite a distance from the laboratory building.

On the way, Zhuang Yunpeng kept chattering and introduced: "A total of more than 5200 bamboo slips were found in the document archives in the coffin chamber of the Marquis of Haihun."

"It's just that the bamboo slips were not well preserved when they were unearthed. According to current statistics, there are less than one tenth of the bamboo slips with complete characters."

"After the Institute of Unearthed Documents of Peking University and the JX Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology started the work of sorting bamboo slips, it was preliminarily judged that the bamboo slips basically belonged to ancient books, and more than 500 bamboo slips were related to the administrative affairs and etiquette of Changyi Kingdom and Haihunhou Kingdom. And so on.

"And there are more than 60 pieces of wooden slips, which contain not only books but also official documents."

"The compiled classics can now be divided into six arts, "Book of Rites", "Book of Filial Piety", Analects of Confucius and Spring and Autumn, Zhuzi, Poetry and Fu, Liubo, Mathematics, Fangji, and documents !"

"The more important ones are the lost "The Analects of Confucius", and the lost "Fangzhong", "Health Preservation" and "Medical Prescriptions."

"There are also several types of numerology that have never been seen before. Among them is a numerology book "Yi Zhan" that uses the "Book of Changes" for daily fortune-telling and miscellaneous fortune-telling!"

"Moreover, there are more than 50 bamboo slips in the style of "political theory" among the Haihun bamboo slips. Most of the slips are well preserved and the handwriting is clear. There are two woven ropes, each of which contains 32 characters!"

"Jianwen advocates light corvée and thin Fu, Yanwu prose, governing the country with benevolence and righteousness, and opposes "poisonous punishment and terror law" and excessive taxation."

"The Jianwen takes Zhou and Qin as examples, pointing out that Zhou used righteousness to rule the world for six or seven hundred years, while Qin used "poisonous punishment to terrorize the law, and the second generation will punish the world."

"This is consistent with the purport of the political essays in the Western Han Dynasty, and its thinking is close to Confucianism."

"It is worth noting that there are several references to "Chunqiu Day" in the Jianwen, but the quoted sentences are not found in the current "Chunqiu" classic biography! This shows that there are differences between the current "Chunqiu" and the ancient "Chunqiu"!"

Every word Zhuang Yunpeng said was big news!

"The Analects of Qi", this is a legendary classic, it is a lost thing!
Isn't "The Analects of Confucius" always there, everyone can see it now, why do you say it is a "lost thing"?
In fact, in the Han Dynasty more than 2000 years ago, there were three versions of "The Analects of Confucius".

Namely: "Qi Lun", "Lu Lun" and "Gu Lun".

The "Analects" we read today is the version compiled by Zhang Yu, Marquis of Anchang in the late Western Han Dynasty, based on "Lu Lun", "Gu Lun" and "Qi Lun".

The biggest difference between "Qi Lun" and the other two editions is that there are two more articles, one is "Ask the King" and the other is "Knowledge".

Regrettably, according to some related literature and history records, "Qi Lun" has been lost in the Han and Wei Dynasties.

In other words, after the Han and Wei dynasties, no one read the Qi version of "The Analects of Confucius".

Among them, "Ask the King" and "Knowledge" have been completely lost, and have not even been quoted.

However, during the restoration of the bamboo slips in Haihunhou's tomb this time, an ancient book titled "Knowledge" was discovered!

Isn't this the "knowledge chapter" in "The Analects of Confucius"!

The rediscovery of this lost ancient book is simply a cultural surprise for the Chinese civilization!
Other discoveries are equally important.

The Book of Rites, the Classic of Filial Piety, the Doctrine of the Philosophers, Poems and Fu, and other literary classics in the pre-Qin period are of great significance to modern people's understanding of the era when a hundred schools of thought contended in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

Especially those political essays, it is entirely from the perspective of the Han Dynasty people to demonstrate the gains and losses of Zhou and Qin's failures in their eyes.

It can be said that these political theories are the political thoughts of the politicians in the Han Dynasty, and they are the political essence of that era!
These works can give modern people a good understanding of the society and political thought of the Han Dynasty!

It can be said that if you understand these political theories, you will be able to understand the political views of the Western Han Dynasty and the principles of governing the country of the Western Han people!

This is so important!
And those medical skills for health preservation, medical treatment for diseases, intercourse surgery and other things are also worth a lot of money.

These books record the medical level of the Western Han Dynasty, as well as the early treatment methods of Chinese medicine!

Although, many people at home and abroad have opinions on Chinese medicine, thinking that Chinese medicine is dross, unscientific, and a scam.

But it is undeniable that the population of Chinese civilization, since the pre-Qin period in ancient times, has far exceeded that of any other continent in the world!
Compare it with the whole of Europe, which has the same land area as China.

Before the establishment of modern medicine, the combined population of the whole of Europe was only as large as the population of Jiangnan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Such a disparity in population is definitely not just due to the war.

Wars in China have never been less.

The plague in China has never been less.

When the Black Death broke out in the West, China also had the plague.

When the plague in China was severe, it would affect several provinces, even half of the country!

But China's population death rate is definitely not as high as that of the West.

This is due to the traditional Chinese medicine that Chinese people have been studying since the time when Shennong tasted a hundred herbs!
It is the vigorous development of Chinese medicine that made China have a population of tens of millions before BC, and a population of over [-] million in a few hundred years AD!

For Chinese medicine practitioners, they may not know why the prescription they prescribed can cure the disease.

But they can be sure that according to such a prescription, patients who drink it can indeed be cured.

This is called empirical medicine.

Although it cannot be compared with modern medicine, in ancient times, Western bloodletting therapy and blind eating therapy were definitely beaten.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, when the British king was sick, he had to undergo bloodletting therapy, induce vomiting, and then pour all kinds of messy things. In the end, he was not cured, but was made alive by bloodletting and eating. Tortured to death!

This kind of thing was unimaginable in the Western Han Dynasty in China BC!

And this batch of medical books from the Western Han Dynasty can lead modern people to have a glimpse of the treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine in BC!
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