Master Archaeologist

Chapter 60 A Letter of Proclamation to Uncle Tu

"What is this?"

Chen Han stretched out his right hand, and carefully placed the long, crisp and soft bamboo piece in his palm, and lifted it up carefully.

At first, he thought it was a bamboo slip.

Because he saw some ink stains on the bamboo surface less than one centimeter wide, it should be that there were words written on it.

However, when he picked up the bamboo piece completely, he found that there was a bamboo nail on the left and right ends of the bamboo piece, like two small fishhooks, hanging on it.

Moreover, a copper ring was placed in the center of the bamboo piece.

It looked like something that could be hung on a door.

how to say.

If two small copper bells are hung on the bamboo nails at both ends, this piece of bamboo is a bit like the welcome decorations hung on the glass doors of milk tea shops and dessert shops.

The kind that "jingle bells" ring when guests open the door.

"What is this?" Chen Han pondered for a while, but he couldn't figure out what it was.

He also tried to determine what the object was by identifying the writing on the bamboo piece.

But since this is a piece of bamboo, when it was picked up by Chen Han, it immediately oxidized and turned black as soon as it came into contact with the air.

Before Chen Han could see it clearly, the originally yellowish bamboo slices turned black, making it impossible to discern the handwriting.

We have to wait until the cultural relics restoration staff have restored it before we can study the text on it.

There is no way, after thinking about it with this unknown artifact, Chen Han, who has no clue for the time being, had to follow the process of cultural relics protection, heat preservation and moisturizing treatment for this artifact, and temporarily put it aside.

Again, during archaeological excavations, it is quite normal to unearth some things that do not know what they are used for.

I even found that I didn't understand, and what I didn't know was a good thing.

This shows that it is a new discovery, something that no longer exists in modern times!

Maybe it's some kind of artifact that was owned in ancient times, but is extinct and lost in modern times!

This is also one of the most important goals of archaeology!

Find and inherit the modern Chinese civilization that has been discontinued, lost, and extinct, and that has only been a flash in the pan in the long river of history!
Chen Han solemnly wrote "Unknown Bamboo Ware" on the moisturizing bag.

Afterwards, this big bamboo box, which is called a blind treasure box, was basically emptied by Chen Han.

Except for a few bronze rings with a diameter of about 3-5 cm that looked like bracelets, there was nothing else in the bamboo cymbal.

After cleaning up the accumulated water and sediment in the bamboo stalks, and keeping the bamboo stalks intact, after labeling them and packing them into boxes, Chen Han walked over to other people in the same group with his hands behind his back to see what everyone had harvested.

"How about it, what did you find in the bamboo sticks?"

Lin Ya, who was also immersed in cleaning a smaller bamboo porridge, said without raising her head, "This one is for food."

"The millet and some animal bone fragments are all mixed together with the accumulated water sediments, and it is very troublesome to clean up."

"I recognized some fish bones and bones of large livestock among them. I don't know if they are pig bones, sheep bones, or beef bones. There may be all of them."

"Hey, I have something good here!" Wang Weida raised his head and waved, and Chen Han immediately walked over.

"Yo, is this a bamboo tube?"

Chen Han took a bamboo tube with a length of more than ten centimeters and a diameter of about five centimeters from Wang Weida's hand with great interest.

The front of this bamboo tube is painted with some geometric patterns in black and red, and there is a clear black character "Salt" on the back!
And at the top of the bamboo tube, two small eyes were opened symmetrically.

"Is this used to hold salt? A seasoning bottle?" Chen Han pointed to the two small eyes on the bamboo tube, and guessed curiously: "These two small eyes should be used to tie the rope."

"Tie two ropes, and you can carry the bamboo tube."

"Yes!" Wang Weida nodded excitedly: "This bamboo basket of mine is filled with such bamboo tubes!"

"I've cleared out three, and each bamboo tube is marked with its purpose, which is used to hold salt, meat sauce and sauce!"

"There are still a few that haven't been cleared out. I guess they buried all the condiments in the tomb owner's kitchen during his lifetime!"

"It's more than that!" Zhuang Yunpeng also came over and said in amazement: "There is nothing in my bamboo box, just like Lin Ya, it is filled with food, and now there are only a pile of animal bones left. "

"But! Guess what I found in the saddlebag again?"

"Bamboo sticks (luò)! Twelve pieces!"

"Although everything is incomplete and the state of preservation is not very good, the things contained in the box are not badly preserved."

"As far as I can recognize, there are ginger, red dates, cumin, broken eggs, and some fruit pits!"

Bamboo straw is a kind of bamboo utensil like a plate, which is originally used to hold food.

It is not surprising that the unearthed bamboo sticks, but there are still remains of the food contained in it, so it is more precious.

This is of great significance to the study of the food culture of the Western Han Dynasty 2000 years ago and the food preferences of the aristocrats.

"Yes! There are red dates!" Chen Han couldn't help but praise.

Red dates have a special meaning in ancient China.

"The Book of Songs Bin Feng July" says: "Jujube is peeled in August, and rice is harvested in October."

As the saying goes: "Three jujubes in a solar eclipse, one hundred years old will not look old" "Five grains plus red dates are better than Ganoderma lucidum"

Among the traditional 24 solar terms, many solar terms such as rain, frost, and minor cold have customs or health suggestions about eating dates.

Jujubes have been the favorite and most precious fruit of Chinese people since the Zhou Dynasty.

In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Huang-Lao theory prevailed, and health preservation "cultivating immortals" became one of the favorite things for the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty.

People at that time believed that jujubes were eaten by immortals, and as long as you eat more jujubes, you can live longer!
On a surviving bronze mirror of the Western Han Dynasty, there is a poem "the immortals do not know how to grow old, thirsty to drink Yuquan and hungry to eat jujube".

Among the cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, there are red date pits.

Now red dates have also been unearthed from tomb M-168, which once again proves that the records in Chinese historical documents that people in the Han Dynasty loved to eat red dates are indeed true!

"Fuck!"

Just when Chen Han was lamenting that the nobles in the Han Dynasty liked to eat jujubes, and even linked eating jujubes with becoming immortals.

Suddenly, an exclamation resounded in the not-so-big tomb.

"Come and see, what's written on it!"

Su Sa, standing next to the side box, was holding a yellow wooden tablet with a length of more than 20 centimeters and a width of four or five centimeters, with a surprised expression on her face.

Seeing that the wooden tablet in her hand was slowly turning black after coming out of the water, other people hurriedly surrounded it, wanting to see what was written on the wooden tablet, which surprised Su Sa so much.

Zhang Jianbo, who moved the fastest, rushed forward at a brisk pace. Before the wooden tablet had oxidized much, he picked up the camera hanging around his neck, and took more than a dozen consecutive photos.

Chen Han and Kong Jianwen also reacted very quickly. The old and the young rushed behind Su Sa almost at the same time, staring at the ink writing on the wooden slip.

"Gengchen in May of 13, Cheng Jiangling dared to sue the underground Cheng."

"The fifth (?) Shiyang doctor (?) Shaoyan and 18 people including Da Nuliang, [-] people including the maidservant Yi, two carts, one or two ox carts, four horses, (?) two horses, Riding four horses."

"You can order the officials to do it, dare to sue the Lord."

Except that there are two characters in it that he doesn't know very well, and the word "two" is connected with "vehicle".

Chen Han paused almost every word, and read the words on the wooden tablets clearly and smoothly.

The moment he finished reading, the wooden tablet also completely became pitch black.

The text on it seemed to be a flash in the pan, disappearing into the darkness.

Surprised that Chen Han could recognize these seal scripts at a glance, Kong Jianwen also quickly went through the text in his mind.

A few seconds later, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he exclaimed with trembling lips: "This is a letter to the uncle!"

(End of this chapter)