Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 293 Tang Tomb
"Your name is Wang Haoming, right?" After explaining to the staff member, Professor Meng looked at Wang Haoming.

Seeing Wang Haoming nodding in agreement, he went on to say: "Brother Rong recommended you to me a while ago, and he almost praised you as a flower. I don't believe it, old man, but it's better to meet you than to be famous. Yes, the foundation is still the same." Not bad, as long as you pass the written test, I have no problem here."

Seeing that Wang Haoming was a little embarrassed, Professor Meng gave him another reassurance.

He is very satisfied with this student, and he is very vigilant and meticulous. He used to set traps for others, and he did not know how many people were trapped by this small trap. He did not expect that this young man would see through it.

"Thank you, Teacher Meng, thank you, Teacher Meng."

Wang Haoming was also very happy in his heart, this was just a whim, he wanted to see how other people did the archaeological excavation, but he didn't expect to meet his future mentor here, which also saved Wang Haoming and Uncle Rong from going to the excavation site in the future. Visited Professor Meng.

Professor Meng was also very satisfied with his future disciple, and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "By the way, Xiao Wang, is your English okay?"

"English? No problem, both writing and conversation are fine. For general professional translation, as long as you know the relevant vocabulary, there is no problem."

Although Wang Haoming didn't understand what Professor Meng meant, he still answered honestly.

After hearing Wang Haoming's words, Professor Meng nodded.Said: "That's good, review the knowledge of ancient Chinese, and if you have time, come to Beijing and I will give you some study materials."

Wang Haoming nodded and agreed, but he was a little strange in his heart. Could it be that he still has some arrogant spirit?But I just answered one question, is Professor Meng showing love so much?
In fact, Wang Haoming did not understand that from ancient times to the present, not only is it difficult to find a good master, but it is also difficult to find such an apprentice. Although it is said that hard work can make up for one's weakness, a person's talent often determines his future achievements.

Therefore, although people like Professor Meng are said to be full of peaches and plums, except for the disciples in the early years, the disciples who can be recognized by him now, that is, a small number of people, are all brought with him and carefully taught.

It is completely different from teaching in a large class. Now that he has determined that Wang Haoming is savvy, he naturally wants to take him under his wing.

Due to his age, Professor Meng no longer teaches in large classrooms, and only leads a few graduate students.

And he has also decided that after leading this group of disciples, he will no longer recruit graduate students. In a sense, Wang Haoming can be regarded as his closed disciple.

As for asking Wang Haoming about English, that is a drawback of domestic exam-oriented education. According to the relevant regulations of the country, English is a must for postgraduate exams.

But like many remote majors, such as traditional Chinese painting, it has nothing to do with English at all, and it has nothing to do with it, and this kind of students often learn this major since childhood, and it is normal for them to fail in English things.

This allowed many old professors to find good seedlings, but they just couldn't take them under their wing.

There was once a well-known university professor who was unable to recruit graduate students for several years for this reason, and finally resigned from the university angrily, causing great social repercussions.

"It's good to have confidence. Now that we have met, come over and help, and get familiar with the archaeological site first. Don't wait until you go to the site in the future. If you see ancient corpses and get scared, then my old man will lose face."

Professor Meng didn't ask Wang Haoming why he came here, so he recruited the young men. In fact, he knew that Wang Haoming couldn't help much, and he just wanted Wang Haoming to feel the environment in the arena.

Excavating the emperor's tomb is not a common thing.

"Girl, come here a few of you, don't be sneaky."

Seeing that Wang Haoming agreed, Professor Meng waved to his granddaughter who was standing in the distance and kept looking over here.

"This is my granddaughter Meng Xin, this one is Zhou Tong, and the one wearing glasses is Liu Kan. The two of them are graduate students I'm leading this year. Xiao Wang is going to take my graduate exam next year. You guys need to get to know each other first, by the way. Xiao Wang, In the future, I still want to call him Senior Brother, haha."

Professor Meng's personality is very cheerful, and he makes jokes from time to time.

Professor Meng said to his granddaughter: "You first introduce the situation of this tomb to Xiao Wang, and I also want to see if the piece of porcelain that came out just now can be repaired."

"Go, let's talk about it later."

Seeing Professor Meng turn around and walk towards the shed, except for the girl, Zhou Tong and Liu Kan were relieved.

Although Professor Meng usually didn't put on any airs of a teacher, the demeanor he inadvertently revealed made the two of them feel a little uncomfortable.

It is difficult to describe this kind of demeanor in words.It is a kind of personal cultivation and accumulation of culture, and it can only be revealed after reaching a certain depth.

Wang Haoming also felt a little ashamed when he stood beside Professor Meng just now.

"Whose tomb is the tomb you are digging now?"

Wang Haoming followed them to the bottom of the pit. He used his spiritual power to look down to a depth of seven or eight meters. There seemed to be no coffin or anything like that below.

After Zhou Tong and Liu Kan's explanations, and the little girl Meng Xin chirping aside, Wang Haoming knew that what they were digging was the imperial tomb of Tang Wenzong Li Ang.

The first book Wang Haoming read when he was in school was Liang Yusheng's Biography of the Empress Xuan Ying. From then on, he naturally paid more attention to the Tang Dynasty, and often looked for historical materials of the Tang Dynasty.

But the more he knew, the less favorable Wang Haoming had for Tang Chao.

Although the Tang Dynasty was well-known, even those who went abroad in the early years regarded themselves as Chinese people, and they were called Chinatown.

However, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty all ended up miserable. Even Li Yuan, the founding emperor with great military exploits, and Li Longji, the Ming emperor of the Tang Dynasty, were all usurped by their sons and died of depression and confinement.

Those unknown emperors who were later killed by eunuchs or ministers were not in the minority, and not many were able to die well, and this Tang Wenzong was the No.14 emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and his end was also very bleak.

Everyone knows that the eunuchs were eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty was even worse. At that time, the political cronies fought against each other, and officials were frequently transferred.

Tang Wenzong was supported by eunuchs, and later appointed Li, Zheng Zhu and others to eradicate eunuchs.

In the ninth year of Yamato, Li lured eunuchs to visit the so-called "nectar" in an attempt to destroy it in one fell swoop, but the incident was revealed, which led to the massacre of court officials by the eunuchs. Afterwards, Wenzong was restrained by the eunuchs and died of depression.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were even more chaotic, which brought great harm to the Central Plains.

"The eighteen tombs in Guanzhong are all recorded. Why did they start excavating only now?"

Wang Haoming was a little puzzled. As far as he knew, the Eighteen Tombs in Guanzhong were except for the tomb where Wu Zetian and Gaozong were buried together.They have already been patronized by tomb robbers. If the country wants to protect, it should have been done long ago.

"You don't know that. The country has always been extremely cautious about the excavation of cultural relics. It will not dig up tombs lightly unless it is absolutely necessary."

"The reason why we came here is because some time ago, Guangdong Customs seized a batch of smuggled cultural relics, and one of them was even a national first-class cultural relic, Ma Tafeiyan."

"According to the account of the captured cultural relic dealers, these cultural relics came from Wenzong's tomb, so we came to do a rescue excavation to see if we can protect some cultural relics."

In fact, the state controls the excavation and archaeology of tombs, and the root cause is money. Since the unearthed cultural relics have been eroded by the mud and humid environment for a long time, maintenance after unearthed is very important, which requires a lot of expenses.

Among other things, the collection and maintenance of the cultural relics in the Palace Museum cost an astronomical sum of money every year.

Even so, there are many precious cultural relics that have been damaged a lot due to poor preservation. Of course, these things are not easy to spread.

This is the case in all countries, and those local cultural relics and archaeological departments, even Qingshui Yamen, which are not valued, can't afford the money for the maintenance of cultural relics. Go underground.

However, in Wang Haoming’s view, these are all nonsense. If cultural relics are kept underground for one more day, the chances of damage and theft will increase. save it.

Of course, the leaders will not accept such a suggestion. Drinking alcohol is also a need for revolutionary work. Don’t think that drinking two to five to eighty thousand a day is very comfortable.

"By the way, the horse riding on the flying swallow you mentioned just now. It is an object from the Han Dynasty, and only one has been unearthed so far. How can it be unearthed from Wenzong's tomb? Was it imitated by later generations?"

When it comes to cultural relics, Wang Haoming can be regarded as half an expert. He is naturally no stranger to the famous Ma Ta Feiyan.

The Horse Stepping on a Flying Swallow unearthed in Weiwu County, Gansu Province is an outstanding work integrating sculpture art and copper casting technology in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It represents the highest artistic achievement of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the history of Chinese sculpture.

In the whole work, the bronze horse holds its head high, its four hooves are rolling, its tail is raised high, and its mouth is opened to neigh.

The galloping horse looks slightly to the left. Due to the lightness of the horse's hooves and the fluttering of the mane and tail, it seems that the horse is flying in the sky.

As a result, Feiyan is not aware of its weight but is surprised by its speed. Its bold conception and romantic technique give people a thrilling feeling, which is amazing.

However, Wang Haoming has only heard of one unearthed piece of this work, so he has some doubts about the horse stepping on a flying swallow that Liu Kan said.

Liu Kan shook his head and said, "It's not an imitation by later generations. After identification, the horse stepping on the flying swallow is almost exactly the same as the one in Gansu's collection in terms of size, shape and material."

"This also shows that in the Han Dynasty, there should be more than just such a utensil made. The teacher came here for this reason. He also wanted to know whether this utensil was really unearthed in a Tang tomb."

"It's all up, take a rest, Brother Zhou Tong, you will be lazy."

The little girl's voice came from above, and the people at the bottom of the pit rushed up. It was almost noon, and they had to wait until four or five o'clock in the afternoon when the sun was about to set before digging for a while.

"Ermao, pick two more watermelons."

Although he didn't do any work, Wang Haoming still felt parched, so he took out 50 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Ermao.

"No, no, Brother Wang, I can't ask for your money."

Ermao waved his hands again and again, if the archaeological team gave him the money, he would take it, but he didn't dare to take it from Wang Haoming.

"Take it, this is bought by the archaeological team, go and return quickly." Wang Haoming knew what Er Mao was thinking, and stuffed the money into his hand.

"Hey, I'll be back in a while." Er Mao jumped up like a rabbit and ran away quickly.

When Ermao came back, there were several women following behind, each carrying two baskets, who were here to deliver food. The archaeological team lived in Zhaojiazhuang during this time.

Since it took more than two hours to go back and forth at noon, they didn't go back, but spent a little more money and asked the people in the village to send it over.

Wang Haoming was also hungry, and he also enjoyed eating this farm food with little meat, but Liu Kan and others, after eating this kind of food for a few days, got a little tired, and they didn't eat a few bites of the food, so they all went to deal with Ermao Baolai of watermelon.

After eating, Wang Haoming, Zhou Tong, and Liu Kan all gathered around Professor Meng, while the staff and local women all went to find a shady place to cool off.

On the contrary, after the armed policemen ate a few pieces of watermelon, they dutifully took on the task of guarding.

"Mr. Meng, can you confirm this place? Is it where Wenzong's tomb is located? I think the things unearthed here are very ordinary."

Wang Haoming went to see it just now, and the broken porcelain pieces that were put together and marked, although the workmanship was fairly meticulous, did not look like royal sacrificial offerings.

Moreover, the spiritual power in his eyes can now penetrate the ground at a depth of about 10 meters, and he has not found any precious cultural relics below.

(End of this chapter)