Master Archaeologist

Chapter 276 What did the bamboo slip say?

Liu He is very interesting, and he is very good at playing around the edges.

As long as the Western Han court has a clearly stipulated system, he dare not go beyond it.

For example, the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty clearly stipulated that the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty did not allow the use of things such as yellow intestines, golden jade clothes, catalpa palaces, and private rooms. Liu He did not prepare any of them privately.

However, he surpassed all the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty in the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty.

Whether it is ten tripods or three blocks of hanging music.

It is estimated that when he was alive, he did a lot of things like dancing in court.

Anyway, as long as the imperial court did not have strict rules of etiquette, he would all adopt the behavior of not capping the top and not guaranteeing the bottom.

Therefore, in the process of excavating the tomb of Marquis Haihun, a large number of things that could not be owned by the status of "Liehou" were discovered.

Including these more than 300 pieces of pure gold gold, it is actually something that Liehou can't do.

After the seal was discovered, the identity of the owner of the tomb was completely confirmed.

Dear archaeologists, a big stone that has been pressing on your heart has finally landed.

With regard to the clean-up work of the inner coffin, everyone felt much more comfortable and relaxed.

The first thing to clean up is naturally the jade bibs on the top layer of the inner coffin.

On the first day of opening the coffin, everyone focused on extracting the jade bi.

They were all cracked into pieces of jade, and it was not easy to extract them.

In the evening, all the jade on the surface was extracted.

And today's archaeological work has temporarily come to an end.

The rice paper was covered again, and the hypoxic environment in the laboratory was activated again.

The archaeologists in white coats left the laboratory site in an orderly manner.

"Let's go back to rest first, see you tomorrow."

Director Wen led his archaeologists, said goodbye to Kong Jianwen and others with a smile, and left the archaeological base in a hurry.

Everyone is in a hurry.

After going back, eat, wash, sort out and record today's excavation report, and then sleep to refresh yourself for tomorrow's excavation.

I really don't have much time to socialize or have fun.

After watching the people from Jiangxi Institute leave, Chen Han also turned his head to look at Kong Jianwen: "Teacher, are we also withdrawing?"

But Kong Jianwen shook his head: "No hurry."

"It's rare to come to the archaeological base once, let's go and see the situation of those bamboo slips."

Frontline archaeologists like them rarely come to the laboratory area of ​​the archaeological base.

Although, where they live is only a few hundred meters away from the laboratory.

But usually after coming back from work, it is very late, everyone is exhausted, and it is time to take a hasty bath and go to bed, how can we come here for a stroll.

But today is different, work starts early today, and cleaning the inner coffin may seem very important, but compared to cleaning the 400 square meter tomb, it is still much easier.

Everyone's energy is not bad.

As soon as Kong Jianwen said this, Chen Han and others responded one after another.

Everyone is also curious about what is recorded in the large number of bamboo slips extracted from the tomb.

A group of seven or eight people from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, followed Kong Jianwen, walked around the experimental area of ​​the archaeological base for five or six minutes, and then came to the bamboo slip protection room.

The bamboo slips found in the tomb were sent here for follow-up processing after preliminary protection and extraction at the site.

After doing the math, several months have passed, and there should be some results.

"Dong dong dong."

After Kong Jianwen knocked on the door, he opened the door and walked in without waiting for the people inside to reply.

Chen Han hurriedly followed behind.

"Ah, Director Kong, rare guest!"

Mr. Fang Beisong, the director of the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center and an expert in bamboo slip restoration, saw Kong Jianwen coming in, and greeted him with a smile.

As one of the top experts in the field of bamboo slip restoration in China, Mr. Fang Beisong and Kong Jianwen are very familiar.

The Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, after all, travels all over the country, and every year, a large number of bamboo slip restoration work will be in contact with the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center.

Kong Jianwen also smiled and exchanged a few words with Fang Beisong, and then got down to business: "Old Fang, you have taken over the bamboo slips for a few months, how is the situation?"

"Have those bamboo slips been recovered? What is recorded in them? Are there any important documents?"

A total of more than 5000 bamboo slips were cleared from the tomb's Chinese document archives.

This number may seem to modern people to be a lot.

But in fact, because the bamboo slips can carry not many characters, in fact, only a dozen characters can be written on a bamboo slip.

These more than 5000 bamboo slips, all the words recorded may only be more than [-] words.

However, for the ancients, [-] characters is already a large volume.

Perhaps it is because before the invention of paper, the information carriers of the ancients, whether it was bamboo slips, wooden slips, or silk books, were not suitable for recording a large amount of text.

Therefore, from the earliest Shang and Zhou dynasties to the later Qin and Han dynasties, the writing of Chinese people was very concise.

The pursuit is to convey the most information with the least number of words.

The "classical Chinese" system of the Chinese people was completely perfected precisely from the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The special writing system of the Chinese people, this kind of "square characters" that can carry a lot of information in a single character, may have been born because of the limitations of bamboo slips and wooden slips.

Therefore, in the eyes of modern people, classical Chinese is very complicated and difficult to understand. Maybe a sentence of seven or eight characters in classical Chinese can be translated into vernacular Chinese, but it can be translated into two or three characters.

Not to mention modern people, in fact, even the ancient people themselves, because of this way of writing with the least number of characters and recording the most information, other than the person who wrote the book, later generations could not understand it, or interpret it differently according to the content of the book. Thought situations are common.

The Gongyang School and the Guliang School of Confucianism are actually the difference between the Gongyang Notes of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Gu Liang Notes of the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Both studied Confucius' "Spring and Autumn", but because the main body of "Spring and Autumn" is too simplistic, future generations will leave their own notes when they study it.

For the same sentence, different people may leave different comments.

Only then did the Gongyang School learn from Gongyang's annotations, and the Guliang School learn from Guliang's annotations.

The book written by the ancient sages is almost one or two hundred words, which is already an article with a lot of information.

If there are thousands of words, it is no longer an article, but a book!
Lao Tzu's huge work, which is considered to be the "Tao Te Ching" of Taoism's ancestral home, is only [-] characters long!

With a collection of [-] words, there are countless ancient classics, and there may be many lost books that have been rediscovered!

Sure enough, Kong Jianwen's expectations did not fail.

Hearing that Kong Jianwen came here for this purpose, Fang Beisong laughed and said triumphantly, "Old Kong, these Han bamboo slips are extraordinary!"

"The results of our infrared scanning have come out, and a lot of writing has been found!"

"The content of the text involves eight aspects including "The Analects of Confucius", "Book of Changes", "Book of Rites", medical skills, five-color food, mourning Fu, signing cards and memorials!"

"The current detailed content is still being interpreted, mainly because most of the bamboo slips have not been dehydrated and restored."

"In half a month, the first batch of bamboo slips should be successfully restored."

"At that time, if you look at it again, it will definitely surprise you!"

(End of this chapter)