Master Archaeologist

Chapter 178 "Special Style" Jade Clothes 2000 Years Ago!
Professor Li, Chen Han, Director Fu, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Ling An buried their heads in the inner coffin and began to grope around.

The group of ten jade bis placed on the top of the jade clothes has been properly extracted by them.

I didn't seriously think about and observe it just now, and I haven't noticed it yet.

But now everyone has observed carefully, and immediately found that this set of jade clothes is indeed a bit messy.

It is almost flat on the bottom of the coffin, without the slightest sense of three-dimensionality.

This spells two bad news.

One is the owner of the tomb in Yuyi Nei. The preservation of the bones is very poor, and there may not be many remains left.

The other is that the supporting structure of this set of jade clothes, that is, the silk threads that connect the jade pieces together, may have been mostly decayed, unable to maintain the shape of the jade clothes, which caused all the jade pieces to be laid flat and scattered.

Fortunately, fortunately, even if the eyes were scattered when it was unearthed, the general condition of each part of the jade clothes can still be distinguished.

The headgear, body, left and right sleeves, left and right gloves, left and right trousers, left and right shoes are all fairly clear.

After all, after the tomb owner was buried, he was never robbed and disturbed, let alone raised the coffin again, so even if the jade clothes collapsed and scattered, they still fell into the coffin as they were.

The specific principles in this regard belong to gravity, and Chen Han didn't bother to figure it out.

Anyway, it can still maintain the general shape.

However, the jade pieces used in this jade garment are of poor quality and mixed colors.

Most of the jade flakes are opaque, mainly yellow-brown and yellow-white, severely eroded and weathered, and a few are blue-white jade, slightly transparent.

The sheet shapes are mainly rectangular and square, and the rest are trapezoidal, triangular, pentagonal, etc., but the number is small. The piece on the top of the headgear is round.

Among them, the jade pieces of the headgear, two gloves and two shoes are polished smooth on both sides, and the corners are drilled, and the materials are relatively fine.

Most of the jade slices in other parts are cut from waste jade or scraps, and the thickness is uneven and there is no hole.

"This shows that the jade pieces on this part of the body are not threaded, but glued together by some special method." Chen Han said thoughtfully.

Professor Li lowered his head and kept groping among the scattered pieces of jade, and asked in his mouth, "How, did you find any traces of the thread?"

Chen Han shook his head.

He was just studying the different parts of the jade clothes and the different materials of the jade pieces.

However, Zhuang Yunpeng and Ling An discovered something.

"professor!"

"Look, I found some remnants of Si Ma's decay on Yu Yi's chest!"

Zhuang Yunpeng carefully picked up a curly black carbide with a pair of tweezers.

It seems that it is not as thin as the silk thread, so it must have a width of one centimeter. Considering that this thing is shrunk, the original silk and hemp should be two or three centimeters wide.

This is obviously not the silk thread used to connect the jade pieces.

However, Professor Li took it over and observed it carefully.

Ling Yun, who was at the side, also found some small residues on the glove part of Yuyi, which resembled the residue of silk after decay, and handed it to Director Fu.

Whether it is Professor Li or Director Fu, they are all old scholars who have been doing archaeology for decades.

Even though Director Fu had contacted very few Han Dynasty tombs in Guangzhou before, there are so many silk residues found in the west ear room!
The two of them looked at each other, and it was immediately clear in their hearts.

"This set of jade clothes is connected with silk threads and ribbons!"

Professor Li said excitedly with an expression of seeing through all the truth: "The hood, two gloves, and two shoes have holes in the jade pieces, and silk residues were found."

"That means these parts should be connected with silk threads!"

"As for the body, the left and right sleeves, and the left and right trousers, the jade pieces used in these positions are not only not perforated, but also have different thicknesses. It should not be connected with silk threads, but tied with ribbons, hemp threads, etc. tied together!"

"This should be a set of silk jade clothes made by the Nanyue Kingdom imitating the style of the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty!"

"This is not only the earliest complete set of jade clothes that our country has seen so far!"

"It's still a new species that has never been seen in literature and archaeological discoveries!"

"In the previous records and unearthed, there are only three kinds of jade clothes, gold thread jade clothes, silver thread jade clothes, and copper thread jade clothes!"

"I didn't expect that Nanyue Kingdom still has such silky jade clothes!"

"This should be the product of the jade clothing style that has just become popular and is still in the stage of barbaric growth!"

"Maybe it will be the only one in the whole country!"

In the tombs of princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty, more than a dozen pieces of golden jade clothes were unearthed.

In the tombs of princes and kings in the Eastern Han Dynasty, two silver-threaded jade clothes were unearthed.

A jade garment with copper threads was also unearthed in the tomb of a high-ranking nobleman in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

but!

This thread of jade clothing has never been unearthed!

Even in the history books, it has never been recorded that there is such a thing as silk jade clothes!
And it is different from the jade clothes that have formed a complete system in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The jade clothes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were made of all the jade pieces in the body, after being pierced, then stitched together with gold (silver, copper) threads.

However, this jade suit of the Nanyue King only has three parts: the head, hands and shoes, which are perforated at the four corners of the jade piece and stitched together with silk thread.

The clothes, arms, and legs with the largest area are tied with ribbons.

This is also a unique situation.

This is a "special" jade garment that can only appear when the production of jade garments has not yet formed a complete system.

In modern terms, this is an out-of-print clothing that is custom-made and limited to one piece!
Just when everyone was excited and excited, there was a sense of excitement that the clothes were out of print, and their hearts were ups and downs.

An exclamation sounded from Zhuang Yunpeng's mouth.

He inadvertently glanced at Yuyi's waist and abdomen, and suddenly found a golden dragon head!
"Fuck!"

"Professor Li! There is a seal! The dragon button seal!"

It turned out that when everyone turned over the jade clothes several times just now, they turned out a few seals that might have been placed on the jade clothes or at the waist.

Chen Han hastily reached out and dug through the jade pieces a few times.

Three square inch seals appeared on his hand.

The seals of the Qin and Han Dynasties were not big at all.

The largest emperor's seal is about 3.3 centimeters, so it is called the square inch seal.

An inch is 3.3 centimeters.

The three seals that Chen Han picked up were only about three centimeters long and wide.

One of them was a jade seal. Chen Han turned over the seal, but did not see the engraved words.

One is a gold seal, made of a tortoise, with a vivid tortoise crouching on it.

This time there are words on the printed page.

"Taizi?" Chen Han muttered, his eyebrows furrowed for a moment, and then smoothed out immediately.

"Taitongtai, this should be the prince's seal."

Casually putting this seal in Professor Li's palm, Chen Han looked at the last, most important seal.

This seal is still a gold seal, but it is a little bigger than the other two seals.

There is a very primitive dragon coiled on the print, which is not similar to the common image of dragons in later generations, and its head is very similar to that of modern stone lions.

The body is the body of a snake with four legs.

Turning over the printed surface, four square seal scripts separated by the word "Tian" came into Chen Han's eyes.

"Emperor Wen Xingxi!"

(End of this chapter)