Imperial Mausoleum Treasure

This ridiculous old man couldn't help missing one ear, and the other ear was pitifully small, only half of a normal person's!Everyone knows that big ears are a blessing, but this old man has such small ears, but he has lived to such an old age.

Moreover, the mouth with sunken cheeks is still wide open, I don't know what he was yelling when he was alive!His eyes were also open, but the eyes looked like the eyes of a dead fish, not only cloudy and dull, but also shriveled and ugly.

This is even more strange!An old man who looked to be in his nineties was still shouting loudly before he died, and he was still dying!He's not a howler monkey!

In fact, living to 90 years old is not a big deal!There were not a few centenarians in ancient times, and there are even more centenarians today, and quite a few of them lived to be 20 or [-] years old, or even older.

As for the longest-lived old man in the Guinness Book of World Records, it is more than a hundred years old.

However, in the Western Regions more than 2000 years ago, it was very rare for the elderly to live to an advanced age of about 90 years old.

Seeing him lying there on his back, he doesn't look like he was buried alive and killed. In this way, his shocking "soaked death" shape with eyes open and mouth open, looks very mysterious and peculiar. , which the well-informed Seventh Brother could not understand.

This mysterious, unique and enigmatic old man wears a white felt hat with pointed feathers on his head, and he still has four feathers in it!Sleep on your back in a coffin like a ship.

This extremely primitive but very safe tomb design allows the second monster to glimpse his "sleeping moment" thousands of years ago.

This strange old man with one ear missing lay here and fell asleep forever, and he never woke up from his sleep.His wooden coffin is like an old wooden boat turned upside down and stranded on the shore. It originally covered him inside and isolated the time and space tunnel of life and death, but now it is dug out like a yam egg, allowing people to pass through.

His coffin!It is different from the coffins in the mainland!No precious nanmu, huanghuali and rosewood were used, but two common poplar trunks in the desert were processed into a pair of "bracket" shapes longer than the human body. These are the side panels on both sides of the coffin.

The two ends of the "brackets" are perfectly butted together with skillful craftsmanship, and then the baffles are wedged into the grooves at both ends of the coffin board to fix them completely, and an extremely beautiful boat-shaped coffin is formed.

After the death of local people with status, they can enjoy it.

So it seems that this old man should still be a big guy with some status!

Seventh brother had also heard about this form of funeral from the land master, but it was the first time he encountered it today.

Whenever the dead in this area pass away, the strong and huge live yaks will be slaughtered on the spot, skinned and cramped on the spot, disembowelled, and when the internal organs of the cow are taken out, the abdominal cavity, chest cavity and internal organs will still emit white steam.

The entire coffin will be wrapped in fresh cowhide on the spot, as if it was put on a condom.

then!Xiaohe people will put the coffin covered with cowhide into the sand pit dug in advance!Then straight wooden stakes were planted in front of and behind the wooden coffin.

Finally, the tomb was filled with yellow sand, and the upper end of the tall wooden pillar at the front of the coffin exposed the ground of the tomb at that time, becoming the most obvious tomb marker.

After being buried in the dry bottom, the fresh cowhide will continue to shrink during the drying process.

The arid climate in the desert, as well as the dry underground sand, will gradually evaporate all the moisture in the cowhide.Finally, the cowhide will wrap the coffin tightly and tightly, so that the surface becomes as strong as a shield, as tight as a big guy wearing a small condom.

The old man's burial objects were rather generous. A small basket made of straw was placed beside him. There were more than a dozen horns of ox horns and Tibetan antelopes in it. I don't know what they were used for.

In addition, there are some dry seeds such as wheat grains and millet grains, and a large pile of gray-black charcoal buried with them. The charcoal should be used for heating in winter.

However, because these seeds have passed through thousands of years, they can no longer be planted and germinated, just like people who are too old and have become infertile.

This exquisite little basket is made of plant stems and rhizome fibers, which are densely woven. It is bulging, just like a person's fat belly.With a round bottom and a handle on the small basket, it reminds that the small basket is always carried in Xiaohe people's hands. It belongs to daily necessities, just like our handbags today.

Xiaohe people use the different luster and texture of grass to weave triangular and stepped patterns with alternating light and dark.The most amazing thing is that these most perishable straw baskets are as new as ever after thousands of years.

Beside him, there are sharp poplar wood arrows carved with patterns, dark bows, wooden ancestors, ephedra bundles, red-painted bull heads, snake-shaped wooden poles, and sacrificial objects engraved with mysterious patterns!These!Both bring the two monsters into a mysterious world full of primitive religious atmosphere.

After careful analysis of the tomb objects, Seventh Brother believes that earlier than the ancient Loulan Kingdom, there was an ancient European tribe that lived from the bronze and stone tools until the bronze culture period.

They once danced with the cunning and cruel Xiben wolves, were active in the northern area of ​​Lop Nur, and could use fire, stone tools, and wooden tools.

They can also weave baskets and baskets with weeds and wool, and can make warm clothes with felt and boiled leather. They have fixed houses covered with trees and mud, and they can wrap themselves in sheepskin. Their life is simple and rough, and they often crowd around the charcoal fire. And in a sandy living environment.

The second monster carried the old man out and found an extremely sharp bone knife in the coffin!But there are still two gaps on the blade, which should be chopped off!Other than that, there is nothing else.

Seventh Brother and the angel Yao Meier carried out the coffin with a little disappointment, thinking, compared to the mausoleums and tombs of princes and generals in the Mainland, this is really too shabby.

The sturdy and handsome Seventh Brother doesn't care about these things, and continues to dig down!Angel Yaomeier thought he was crazy.

However, after digging less than one and a half meters, a complete lynx skin with no fur was found, with something bulging inside.

"The seventh brother with a tiger's back bent down like a wolf." After finally opening the package with an extremely sharp knife, he found a wooden figure inside!This kind of wooden figure is probably a substitute for the deceased. Its burial style and customs are the same as those of real people, but its size is very small!

The production of this statue is quite simple. A piece of Populus euphratica is used to simply carve out the human head, torso and lower limbs, and a thin slightly curved stick is added to each side of the torso as the arms.

As for the face!Randomly carved slit-shaped eyes, mouth and slightly protruding nose, although similar in appearance, but extremely crude!

A few years later, Li Lianying, the great eunuch who was buried in the Eastern Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty, used a wooden stick to carve out his penis, which he had lost when he was young, in the crotch of his lower body!It is said that although the baby is very small and belongs to micro-carving, it is extremely vivid...

Seventh brother held the knife tightly in one hand, and touched the woodcarving man's face with the other!He murmured to himself: "Damn it, this sculptor is either a lazy man or an absurd man who loves to drink! Why is he buried here with a wooden doll! The real dead man was fucked Where did it go?