Master Archaeologist

Chapter 57 Open the Blind Box!
"Box?"

"Is this a bamboo box?"

Su Sa, Lin Ya and Zhuang Yunpeng's eyes were all attracted by the thing Chen Han fished out from the side box, and they talked about it in a hurry.

There's a lot of black sediment in the saddlebags, so when the thing is pulled out, it's kind of like it's been dug out of sludge.

But this does not affect everyone's observation.

Rectangular, woven with double-layer "herringbone" patterns, reinforced with bamboo sheets around the periphery, and wrapped with rattan.

From the point of view of the production method, it is similar to the kind of rattan woven boxes commonly seen in the southwestern rural areas.

But in terms of shape, it looks a bit like a bamboo box.

笥笼, which actually refers to two bamboo utensils that are very similar in appearance and function.

笥 (sì), a square bamboo vessel for holding rice or clothes.

Lu (qiè), bamboo utensils such as boxes.

In ancient times, the storage utensils made of bamboo were collectively referred to as 笥 and 笥, while those made of wood were called boxes and boxes.

In modern times, because this kind of storage tool made of bamboo has almost disappeared, these two words are rarely known.

After careful identification, Zhang Jianbo made a positive judgment: "I think it's a box woven with bamboo and rattan, it's a box or a box!"

"Clean it up, open it and have a look!"

Chen Han nodded in agreement, picked up the big "bamboo box", and prepared to open it aside for inspection.

At this moment, other people also received good news one after another.

It may be that a new layer of funerary objects has been explored. Wang Weida, Lin Ya, and Su Sa also cleaned out four "bamboo boxes" of similar styles from the side box one after another.

It’s just that the size is different. The one in Chen Han’s hand is the largest, and the others are slightly smaller. The length is only about 30 centimeters, the width is more than ten or twenty centimeters, and the height is only the bamboo box in Chen Han’s hand. half.

This also made Chen Han even more excited.

If we say that the discovery of these five bamboo boxes is a unique "opening blind box" trip for them.

The blind box in Chen Han's hand is definitely the one most likely to get something good!
It must be a hidden or rare item!

After calming down his agitated heart a little bit, Chen Han immediately started to open this "blind box"!
After carefully looking around the bamboo box, he soon found an opening.

Even after 2000 years, the preservation of the bamboo box is still very good because it has been soaked in water for a long time.

Other than a little "softness", it didn't stick together.

Chen Han just gently lifted the cover on the top of the box, and the situation inside the box was displayed in front of his eyes.

"Fuck, this is the five treasures of the study, right?!"

An exclamation of unconcealable excitement came from Chen Han's mouth.

I saw the top layer of the box, quietly placed with brushes, ink, slips, inkstones, and sharpeners!

For the Western Han Dynasty, these five things were the five treasures of the literati's study.

In the era when there was no white paper, tablets and bamboo slips were the mainstream used to record text.

Slips are wider pieces of wood than those used in bamboo slips. They are suitable for writing official documents or letters. A single slip can contain dozens to nearly a hundred characters.

And cutting is a tool used to remove typos written on wooden tablets or bamboo slips, also called carving knife or book knife.

In the era after the popularization of white paper, white paper is cheap and easy to spread. If literati and inkmen make mistakes when writing, they can just change a piece of paper and write again.

However, in the era when paper had not yet appeared, slips and bamboo slips were scarce items, and it was very troublesome to manufacture, and their value was not low, so they could not be wasted.

So before the Western Jin Dynasty paper became popular.

When the ancients used slips and bamboo slips to write, if they made a mistake, they had to cut off the wrong word and then continue writing.

This will not lead to the transitional waste of Du and Jian.

"Hey, this is a cultural person, maybe a bureaucrat!" Picking up a blank wooden tablet in the bamboo box, Chen Han guessed with some uncertainty.

The Western Han Dynasty was not the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were not so many scholars and scholar-bureaucrat groups.

Although experienced the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Warring States period.

But in the Qin and Han Dynasties, "knowledge" was still something that could only be grasped by a small number of elites.

It is very difficult for the poor class to learn knowledge.

If there is a poor person who is very lucky to study and study and become a cultural person who can write seal script, at least he can get mixed up with a knife and pen official and become one of the bureaucratic classes of the Western Han Dynasty.

Since there is a whole set of the five treasures of the study in the burial objects of the owner of the tomb, and there are blank wooden tablets.

It is very possible that the owner of the tomb was a bureaucrat of the Western Han Dynasty during his lifetime.

People who are not officials, even if they are educated, mostly read with bamboo slips, and rarely use the Four Treasures of the Study.

At that time, I was not fond of reciting poems and composing right, and I didn’t know how to hold poetry or Ci conferences, and there was no such thing as a literati.

Scholars really just read books, most of the time they read with bamboo slips in their arms.

Instead of just writing and drawing with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone when you have nothing to do.

At that time, only the bureaucratic class would use the five treasures of the study extensively, because they needed to write a large number of official documents, convey government orders, and record the situation of local governance.

According to the experience of the Western Han tombs excavated by Chinese archaeologists.

Most of the tomb owners with complete stationery among the funerary objects were officials during their lifetime.

For example, the "Mr. Xi" of the famous "Yunmeng Sleeping Tigerland Qin Bamboo Slips" was unearthed in the tomb.

In his tomb, 1155 bamboo slips for research were unearthed.

The above records are all his daily work records that Xi has worked hard all his life, stroke by stroke, as well as the medical, calligraphy, documents, and legal related books that he copied by hand!
In his tomb, there is no valuable item that can be called a "treasure".

However, this batch of bamboo slips written and left by him himself is a batch of important Chinese cultural heritage!

It is a group of shocking treasures that record the brilliant civilization of the Qin Dynasty!

When he saw the treasure of the study in the bamboo box, the hairs on Chen Han's body immediately exploded.

The expectations in my heart immediately soared to the top!
If, just in case, the owner of tomb No. 168 is a bureaucrat like Mr. Xi!
And a large number of bamboo slips that recorded the culture, political affairs, people's livelihood, medicine, and his own work experience of the Western Han Dynasty during his lifetime were buried in the outer coffin.

Then, this will be a shocking treasure in China!
Mr. Xi, let modern people fully understand Qin's laws, social system, people's livelihood, and the living conditions of the people at the bottom.

The contents of the bamboo slips he left behind range from Qin’s medical level, Qin’s state affairs and conquests, official training methods, to a complete legislative system and a complete set of torture procedures of the Qin Dynasty, as well as more than 20 kinds of strict and thoughtful laws. Clause!
There are even the earliest records of forensic science theory and practice in the world!

Clearly lead modern people to appreciate the most glorious appearance of the Great Qin Empire more than 2000 years ago!

Then, can the owner of tomb No. 168 also let modern people understand the glory of the Han Empire?

(End of this chapter)