Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 350 Have you ever opened your mouth?

Li Ding'an made it very clear yesterday: If we still can't find the kiln site on the top of the mountain, we will go home today.

As a result, we found it, so not only were there not fewer people, but there were many more.

The Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau dispatched three more teams and two offices, and hired villagers, forklifts, excavators, and vehicles. The foot of the huge mountain was as lively as a market.

Ma Xianming assigned tasks to each team. Since they were all cooperating for the first time, the scene was a bit chaotic: looking for machinery, calling villagers, and even grabbing tools.

Li Ding'an sat on the hillside and watched everything quietly.

Zuo Peng panted and sat down next to him.

"Li...Teacher Li, if you don't go down...just watch!"

He shook his head: "No, I can handle it!"

The ruins have been found, the porcelain clay has also been found, including relevant relics and information, and the rest is excavation. Not to mention Ma Xianming, even if it was for Shu Jing, a team of villagers would be able to do a good job for her.

Zuo Peng paused for a moment: "Teacher Li, are you leaving soon?"

Li Ding'an smiled: "It should be."

There is no problem with the research. Even if it is for the sake of the local people who have been asking for people, cars for cars, and machines for machines in the past month, I still have to do some research for them.

Li Ding'an frowned: "Compass?"

Is the National Museum authoritative enough?

The country’s highest historical, cultural and artistic palace!

Is Li Dingan professional enough?

Zuo Peng hesitated for a moment, "It's what I mentioned before: I would like you to do some research on the ruins in the city..."

But to be honest, Li Ding'an was not too willing.

"My plan is to return to Beijing on New Year's Day, but I have a little time..."

Zuo Peng patted his chest, "Based on my relationship with He Guan, if we ask him for help, he will definitely help us stand on stage, but the premise is that we have to find something real..."

The key thing is that the popularity among the people is still very high: although the information on the Internet has been blocked by Zhang Hanguang, netizens have memories, and with a little hype, the popularity will rise...

"Zuo Bureau, I haven't finished speaking yet..."

The gimmick must be big enough, novel enough, and most importantly, it must be credible.

It just suffers from the fact that there is no opportunity to make it popular. To put it bluntly: it has to have a gimmick.

"It's not a big deal..."

At the same time, there are also concerns: because the municipal bureau’s inspection capabilities and professionalism are limited, it may cause secondary damage to the site, so it has been put on hold..."

Very thoughtful.

In the current Internet environment, even if a lieutenant claims to have discovered an alien spacecraft, only a ghost will believe it if there is no endorsement from an authoritative department.

It’s not easy to invite him, and he can’t be invited, so the plan has been put on hold. Until Guobo and Li Ding'an fell from the sky...

"Okay, I'll try my best..."

"Haha... Don't worry about this. We don't have any relevant publicity plans yet. Even if we do, we don't dare to trouble you..."

Anyone with long eyes can see this exploration process. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole place was shocked.

Don't tell me, it's true.

"Ouch..." Zuo Peng stood up hastily, "Thank you... Thank you..."

Second, Lao Ma was too impatient and didn't plan in advance, so he was a little confused for a while. It will take another day or two to get used to it and wait until he finds the right rhythm...

"Thank you, Teacher Li..."

He said this was a major discovery, but who dares to say otherwise?

The reason why today's scene is so chaotic is that Zuo Peng is too enthusiastic and has transferred too many people and machines.

This is one, and the other is that the inspection unit must be professional enough, especially the personnel team.

In comparison, Tongliao is also a prefecture-level city. I can’t say how many places of interest there are, but it is several times more than there: the Great Wall, the Great Wall, the religious sites, and a real royal palace complex: Qing Dynasty On behalf of the NMQ County Prince's Mansion.

The science and technology at that time was backward, the conditions were limited, and the survey methods were relatively crude. The excavations in several places were not very thorough, and some were missing. Therefore, the city leaders had always planned to conduct a comprehensive and scientific survey of these sites...

But forget about publicity: in Li Ding'an's current situation, too much fame will have the opposite effect...

He Anbang is not popular online, but his status is transcendent enough: the actual person in charge of the National Museum and the secretary-general of the Collectors Association.

Not to mention big ones, such as Xi'an, Beijing, Tongliao and these two places are not in the same order of magnitude, and there is no comparison at all.

"No... Beijing University, the Forbidden City, and even the National Martial Arts Society of Hong Kong Island have all come to conclusions. We can't still imagine making something out of nothing..."

Zuo Peng hurriedly waved his hand, "Mainly some of the previous ruins, such as the Yan Great Wall, the Jin Dynasty boundary trench, and the three major Kulun temples... These ruins were excavated relatively early, roughly after the founding of the People's Republic of China and before the founding of the city... …

Good guys, I almost forgot, why are you still holding on to me?

I understand: local leaders still want to work hard on "cultural and creative tourism" in the hope of boosting the local economy.

Li Ding'an paused and said, "I won't report it to the newspaper, and I won't appear on camera!"

"It will take a few days... until Lao Ma figures it out... Zuo Bureau, is there anything you can do for me?"

There is also identity and status: is he an authoritative expert at the National Museum, is he a national-level project leader or subject leader?

But the smaller ones are completely comparable. For example, Jiayuguan, a small town in the northwest border, relies on a city tower and several sections of ancient city walls, making the tourism economy the second largest industry in the local area.

Over the past month, people have really helped me a lot...

The two exchanged polite words, and the order at the foot of the mountain gradually became normal.

Cheng Feng has led a team to complete the division of the excavation area. With the ditch bank as the frontier, thirty squares with a diameter of five meters have been drawn. Each researcher led three villagers to conduct preliminary excavations.

A little further away, Wan Chengbiao commanded two excavators to bury the surrounding areas. Yao Chuan and Wei Zili each took several team members to identify the excavated raw soil layers. Once the real objects were found, they immediately replaced them with Manual excavation.

The remaining personnel are drilling in three depressions, trying to find out the remaining reserves of china clay.

Everything was going in order. Just as Li Ding'an was thinking about whether to go back to the hotel to catch up on some sleep, the intercom rang.

"Teacher Li...Teacher Li?"

"Copy that, please speak!"

"There is a new discovery: Temple relics were found on the bank of Changchang Valley in Yao Group. There may be temple ruins below!"

What the hell?

I took you to find a porcelain kiln, and you dug a temple for me?

Li Ding'an was startled: "What is it!"

"It's a stone Buddha head with a miter on it. It should be a Tantric statue. There are also two red clay tiles. My preliminary inference is that they should be from around the Ming Dynasty..."

"Exact location?"

"Facing the main peak, Laodao Mountain!"

The tiles... must be built on the roof and will not go into the ditch. Furthermore, temples cannot be built at the foot of mountains or beside valleys.

It is estimated that like the kiln site, it was knocked down from the mountain during the earthquake and buried underground.

Li Ding'an looked at the gorge and then up the mountain: "Zuo Ju, were there any temples built on Laodao Mountain before?"

"It was built, and it can be traced back to the Hongshan Culture period at the earliest. However, the ruins no longer exist. There are only a few stone altars and pottery fragments... There are also some from other dynasties: there are two remaining wall foundations and broken bricks and tiles. It is estimated that it belongs to the Jin and Liao dynasties, and there are also inscriptions from the Jin and Liao dynasties on the cliff below... As for the Ming Dynasty, I have never found any..."

Zuo Peng paused for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Could it be the ruins of some great temple?"

Li Ding'an was a little speechless: Are you thinking too much about the ruins?

During the Ming Dynasty, this place first belonged to Daningwei, and then to Wuliangha Sanwei. It already belonged to Jiubian. Even if there was a temple, how big could it be?

It was pretty much the same in the Qing Dynasty...

"Let's take a look at things first!" As soon as he finished speaking, the pickup truck drove to the bottom of the mountain, and Li Ding'an and Zuo Peng walked down the mountain side by side.

It was Yao Chuan's assistant who came and moved things from the back seat.

A bottle of Buddha's head is slightly larger than a fist. Based on this calculation, the full-body Buddha statue is at most fifty centimeters high.

Wearing a skull crown, there are clones on the left and right sides of the head, two small statues with exactly the same expression: grinning, smiling happily.

"It is indeed a tantric Buddha statue, the Vajra of Joy!"

Li Ding'an explained and looked at it carefully, "The soil is very heavy, but there is no red rust, and there is no sand rust or water rust. Preliminary inference is that it has nothing to do with the earthquake in the Republic of China. It was buried earlier... Well, at least More than four hundred years..."

Four hundred years ago was the Wanli period. Ma Xianming judged that there was nothing wrong with the Ming Dynasty period.

Putting down the Buddha head, Li Ding'an looked at the tiles again.

It is roughly like a cut-open bamboo bucket with a cover added to the lower end. What is usually called a tile is the cover below, commonly known as the tile head.

The main function is to block rainwater, and the second is to decorate, so it is not only used in houses, but also in tombs. Since the Qin Dynasty, many dynasties have been excavated from tombs of various dynasties.

The main way to distinguish is to look at the tile decoration.

For example, this one: a flower basket with eight lotus branches, which is the Eight Treasure Lotus.

The flower basket originated from the Eight Immortals Blue Caihe, which started in the Yuan Dynasty and became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the classic patterns of the Quanzhen Sect, the "Eight Treasures Pattern", also known as the Eight Immortals Pattern.

Most Taoist temple buildings, ornaments, and utensils have similar patterns...

Well, wait a minute...

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an was stunned for a moment: Quanzhen Sect's eight-treasure pattern tile?

What's next to it...the Vajra Buddha head of Tantric Joy?

Although they are both Chinese religions, to be honest, there is basically no overlap between the two sects... They are the kind that cannot be hit with eight poles.

So when these two things come together, it's quite weird...

But let’s look at the materials: the Buddha’s head is carved from basalt, and the tiles are made from iron-aluminum red clay. In all cases, they are made from local materials, and the range will not exceed two kilometers.

Extrapolating the period... Hey, 80% of it is from the Ming Dynasty...

In short: Lama temples and Taoist temples were built here. Not to mention that they are close together, it is very likely that they existed together...

Strange?

Li Ding'an put down the tile and looked up the mountain again: "Director Zuo, has a Taoist temple been built on this mountain?"

"It should have been built, right?"

What is should?

Zuo Peng thought for a while: "How about calling it Laodaoshan?"

Well, there’s really no way to argue with that.

"You haven't investigated it?"

"I have inspected them, but they are all of little value. Including a broken stele from the 'Fourth Year of the Emperor's reign', nothing of value has been found."

In the fourth year of Emperor Tong's reign, the reign name of Jin Xizong Wanyan Quan?

This man respected Confucianism, Taoism and suppressed Buddhism, so he concluded that a Taoist temple had indeed been built on the mountain.

But it is unlikely to survive until the Ming Dynasty...

In doubt, Zuo Peng thought of something else: "Oh... and one more thing. There is a round altar with a fish eye in the center, which looks a bit like gossip... but there is no other information, so it just looks like..."

"What's the year?"

“Yuan to Ming Dynasty!”

Li Ding'an thought for a while: "Go and have a look!"

"it is good!"

Zuo Peng nodded, and the two of them were about to go up the mountain when the intercom rang again: "Teacher Li, I found something again, I will send it to you..."

"Masuo, I'm going to go to the mountain to have a look!"

"Xiao Shu has already sent it up!"

Just as they were talking, the roar of a car was heard in the distance. Shu Jing, who was so proud, drove the Cheetah that Li Ding'an often sat in and stopped in front of the two of them.

Jumping out of the car neatly, Shu Jinghao handed a plastic bag forward: "Teacher Li, look!"

Copper coins?

There are two in total, one large and one small. The larger one is nearly three centimeters in diameter and quite thick, about two millimeters.

Among the copper coins of the past dynasties, this size and thickness are considered to be large coins. Yao Chuan did a preliminary cleaning. There is not much rust and the writing on it can be seen clearly.

But Li Ding'an looked at it for a long time and found that he didn't recognize it.

It's directly read Mongolian... no, Pasiba?

Turn it over again, bare back...

He raised his head and thought carefully: "Only Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan and Yuan Chengzong Tiemu made the copper coins of Pasibawen. But Kublai Khan made small coins with a diameter of only 2.3. You can get them from herdsmen." The ones collected here are... This kind is bigger, it must be the big money from the Yuan Chengzong period... Well, this is the third coin of Yuan Zhen Tong Bao..."

"Yuanzhen Tongbao... discounted by three cents, I remember it's quite valuable?"

"Yes, paper money was mainly used in the Yuan Dynasty. There were not many copper coins, and there are not many surviving ones. The Mongolian copper coins are relatively few, and the Pasiba coins are even less... A big coin with this kind of quality is at least 100,000... but only One!"

"Maybe we can dig out a lot more!" Zuo Peng immediately became more energetic, "Isn't there another one?"

"This is not in Pasiba script, but in traditional Mongolian script... um, wait a minute?"

Li Ding'an squinted his eyes: I didn't notice it just now, I just knew it was in Mongolian, but now I look carefully, the more I look at it, the more familiar it looks.

Hu Bi Jin Khan... Zhu Gu Qian?

And the size, thickness, font arrangement, and tooth edges are all exactly the same as the one Zuo Peng sent with the compass before?

"Hello Shu Jing, help me get my bag!"

"I brought..."

She took out the box containing the chocolate coin and handed it to Li Ding'an.

Only then did Zuo Peng realize: Is this exactly the same as the one he and Luo Pan collected from the herdsmen?

After looking carefully and touching it, Li Ding'an breathed out: "Yes, the two coins were cast by the same institution: Daduquan Goods Supervision... A lamasery was built here, I mean that kind of big temple... …Hmm, HF Temple?”

Zuo Peng shook his head: How is that possible?

The inheritance of Tibetan Buddhism is stricter than that of Tianshi Mansion. Can such a temple be built casually?

From the beginning of Tibetan Buddhism to the present, a total of 21 lamaseries have been built in Naiman Lung, but not even one has HF.

And as long as it is built, it will be recorded in relevant Buddhist materials. Anyway, it is impossible to say that it is buried like a kiln...

Li Ding'an frowned: Is that even weirder?

If the HF temple has not been built, where did the Zhugu money come from?

"Let's go up and have a look..."

Zuo Peng was even more excited than him. He just raised his feet and pointed at Shu Jinghao: "Xiao Shu, take Teacher Li's bag with you. If you find anything again, such as a compass or something, you can check the information..."

Do you really dare to think about it?

Li Ding'an sighed and took the bag.

As soon as the car door was closed, the intercom rang again: "Mr. Li, my old horse...Mr. Li?"

"What did you find again?"

"An iron plate..." Ma Xianming paused, as if he was trying to identify himself, "It looks... a bit like Director Zuo's compass...?"

Li Ding'an suddenly paused and looked at Zuo Peng blankly: Good guy, have you ever opened your mouth?

(End of this chapter)