Master Archaeologist

Chapter 85 A Pair of Old Cloth Shoes Carries China for 3000 Years!
After replying to some netizens' private messages and Aite, and collecting some archaeological self-media videos on Douyin, Chen Han, who was completely awake, did not intend to continue to sleep.

Because he was on his mobile phone and saw a message.

"Wake up and come to the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute."

This is a WeChat message left by his mentor Kong Jianwen, which was sent an hour ago.

Obviously, after less than six hours of sleep, the teacher rushed to the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute to fight again.

Mr. Sui's body has indeed been dissected and has been properly preserved for the time being.

But this does not mean that the archaeological arrangement of tomb M168 is complete.

The huge inner coffin has not even had time to clean it.

Even in order to protect the situation inside the coffin, apart from taking a little bit of the red fluid and sending it for testing, it was still floating in the coffin intact.

Who knows if there are any well-preserved burial objects in these effusions?

These are things that need to be cleaned up by archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences.

After putting on his clothes and washing up, Chen Han went downstairs to the street outside to buy some food, took a taxi, and went to the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute alone.

As for roommate Senior Brother Zhuang, let him sleep more.

Anyway, the message from the teacher didn't ask him to call Senior Brother Shang Zhuang.

The ten-minute drive was just enough for Chen Han to finish eating four or five big meat buns.

After hiccupping and getting out of the car, Chen Han casually threw the plastic bag containing the food into the trash can on the side of the street, and then went to a workshop on the second floor of the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute with ease.

"Teacher, here I come!"

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Han saw Kong Jianwen and Professor Li leading Lin Ya and a researcher from the institute, busy around the inner coffin.

All the red fluid in the coffin had been cleaned up and sealed with two other glass jars.

"Xiao Chen is here."

"Coincidentally, we just extracted all the fluid in the coffin, which is a full [-] milliliters."

"The test results have also come out. The coffin liquid contains a large amount of mercury and some traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, which is similar to Mrs. Xin Zhui's situation."

"However, according to medical experts, the preservation of Mr. Sui's body is better than that of Mrs. Xin Zhui in all aspects."

"Mr. Sui's age of death has also been determined, around 55 years old."

"As for the cause of the disease, it should be different from Mrs. Xin Zhui. She did not die of illness, but a natural death."

Kong Jianwen pulled Chen Han to the inner coffin.

The more they researched, the more amazed the group of medical experts became.

Mr. Sui's preservation is really good.

Except for the hair of the whole body that was not preserved, all other parts basically remained the same.

And his physical condition is still very good.

When Mrs. Xing Zhui was unearthed, her eyeballs were protruding, her mouth was open, her tongue was sticking out, and her rectum fell off.

This is the deformation of the body surface caused by the strong air pressure formed by spoilage bacteria in the abdomen after death.

But Mr. Sui did not have such a situation at all.

His face was normal except for the atrophy of his muscles, which caused his gums to be exposed, and his nose retracted a little, making him look a little hideous.

This shows that Mr. Sui did not have the slightest corruption after his death.

Moreover, it can be seen from the remains that Mr. Sui was in good physical condition during his lifetime.

Although there are also gallstones, pericarditis and cholecystitis.

However, compared with osteoporosis, severe coronary heart disease, systemic atherosclerosis, gallstones, congenital malformations of the gallbladder, calcified tuberculosis lesions in the left upper lung, old fractures in the left forearm, and narrowing of the fourth lumbar intervertebral space, there are Bone hyperplasia phenomenon.

And Mrs. Xin Zhui who was infected with schistosomiasis, pinworm and whipworm at the same time.

It's just that Mr. Sui, who also suffers from parasitic infections, can be said to be very healthy.

This is why medical experts judged that Mr. Sui died of natural causes.

There was nothing serious about him that could have been the cause of death.

Unlike Mrs. Xin Zhui, she died of a coronary heart attack caused by biliary colic.

"These are well-preserved shoes that we just cleared out, and they are probably the only pair in tomb M168 this time."

Kong Jianwen led Chen Han to look at a pair of "square shoes with double pointed heads" they had just cleared out of the inner coffin.

"This pair of shoes is very well preserved. The uppers, soles, pads, and uppers are all made of linen."

"The upper is white plain weave linen, and the sole, lining, and cushions are made of hemp thread."

"There are signs of wear on the soles, and they should have been worn during his lifetime."

"Mr. Sui was buried wearing these shoes. When Mr. Sui was transferred for autopsy, they fell off and fell back into the inner coffin."

A pair of "square shoes" with rounded heels and a square toe, which is very different from the current shoe style, appeared in front of Chen Han.

This pair of shoes is made with the most traditional Chinese shoemaking technique.

That is, "Na" came out.

Making cloth shoes can be said to be the most traditional life skill in China.

The earliest Nadi cloth shoes in China began in the Zhou Dynasty.

On the soles of kneeling statues of warriors from the Zhou Dynasty more than 3000 years ago unearthed in Houma, Shanxi, there are clearly rows of regular stitches, which are exactly the same as the current Nadi cloth shoes.

Traditional handmade and embroidered cloth shoes reached their peak in the Qing Dynasty. They were once sold as export commodities throughout Asia and even sold to Europe.

"Thousand-layer cloth shoes" have become one of the famous Chinese business cards both at home and abroad.

Until the 60s and [-]s of last century, most Chinese people still made cloth shoes with soles by themselves.

Up to now, the elderly people in some rural areas in the north still have excellent shoe sole technology.

However, in modern society, this kind of handmade mille-soled cloth shoes is no longer liked by young people, and is even regarded as a symbol of old-fashioned and backwardness.

For this point, Chen Han has always been unable to understand.

The leather shoes handmade by Europeans are also purely handmade, and the craftsmanship is not even as complicated as the traditional Chinese cloth shoes with thousand layers of soles.

Why are people's handmade leather shoes regarded as a symbol of high-end?

But Huaxia's mille-soled cloth shoes have become synonymous with low-end and old-fashioned in the eyes of their own people?

When someone hears that someone wears handmade cloth shoes, the first impression is that the person is poor, without money, and rustic.

Why?

You must know that handmade cloth shoes are complex in workmanship, complicated in process, highly skilled, difficult and time-consuming.

Moreover, the process requirements are strict. The production of each pair of shoes has to go through nearly a hundred processes such as cutting the base sample, filling the layered bottom, cutting the bottom edge, cutting the shoe shell, shoe-making, last shoe, sub-trimming and smearing, and inspection.

In the Western Han Dynasty, this kind of cloth shoes, which could be made of linen and stitched together with the soles, were only affordable by nobles.

The poor in the Western Han Dynasty couldn't afford this money at all, and they were reluctant to buy a pair of linen shoes with this money.

Usually you can only wear straw sandals!

To have a pair of cloth shoes is a luxury item, and you will only wear them on special happy occasions or important occasions, and you must be careful not to get them dirty.

In terms of high-end level, it is not inferior to the so-called "leather shoes handmade by masters" by Europeans.

People's handmade leather shoes are only affordable for nobles.

Our handmade cloth shoes can only be worn by nobles.

Moreover, China popularized this kind of handmade cloth shoes more than 1000 years earlier than the backward Europeans.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was already affordable and affordable for the common people.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women in every household were able to pull out two or two pieces of cloth and make them by themselves.

At the same time, the poor in Europe were still wearing wooden shoes and espadrilles, and the nobles were wearing ugly Krakow shoes and high heels.

Everyone in China can wear warm and comfortable, light and non-slip, warm in winter, breathable and sweat-absorbing mille-aloud shoes in summer!

A pair of old cloth shoes has carried the Chinese people's 3000 years of history.

People in the Zhou Dynasty wore it and set out from the Yellow River Basin to fight in all directions, laying down the embryonic form of China.

The Qin people wore it, unified the six countries, and established a unified Chinese civilization!
People in the Han Dynasty wore it, conquered Baiyue in the south, sealed wolves and lived in Xu, and dug through the Western Regions!
People in the Tang Dynasty wore it, conquered 36 countries in the Western Regions, all nations came to court, and created a prosperous age!
People in the Ming Dynasty wore it, chasing death to the north, conquering grasslands, going to Southeast Asia, and even set foot on the land of Africa!
But in modern times, this pair of old cloth shoes has become a symbol of backwardness and old-fashioned.

Sad, deplorable!
(End of this chapter)