Master Archaeologist

A jade plug caused a lot of jokes from everyone.

But after all, this is not too bizarre or surprising.

As for the jade nine orifices, it is normal for Liu He to plug the nine orifices as a former emperor.

At most, the behavior of taking a toy from the Warring States Period as a butt plug is a bit "unruly".

But the owner of the tomb is willing to do this, so outsiders like Chen Han naturally have no reason to talk and joke.

Three-dimensional scanning, drawing, and detailed records of the positional relationship of cultural relics buried in Liu He's inner coffin.

In the small laboratory, more than a dozen archaeologists are busy in an orderly manner.

The person in charge of the [-]D scanning kept modeling behind the computer, trying to use the computer to restore the condition of Liu He's inner coffin.

The painters, based on the appearance of the unearthed objects, copied and painted on the spot, and from time to time drew a map of the location of the cultural relics in the inner coffin.

The archaeologists who were in charge of cleaning the inner coffin were lying on the floating platform built on the inner coffin one by one, stretched out their arms, and carefully cleaned the cultural relics in the inner coffin with bamboo sticks.

"beautiful."

"It's a little belt hook."

"Liu He has a lot of belt hooks hanging around his waist."

"Is this a jade knife?"

"Exquisite, really exquisite! This is the first time I have seen a jade knife made by Hetian Baiyu!"

Liu He's waist is the area with the densest burial relics.

The Western Han people, or most of the Han dynasty, have strict regulations on what to wear.

Among them, the waist is the most important position.

Whether it is a jade pendant, a pendant, a sword, or a sachet, as long as it is something that needs to be worn when going out, it will be placed on the waist.

And how to put it on the waist?

It is to rely on the jade belt hook.

The so-called jade belt hook is a jade article with hooks at both ends and opposite hooks.

The hook on the top is hooked on the belt around the waist.

The hook under the head is used to hang things that need to be worn.

According to the style of the Western Han Dynasty, the jade belt hook on the left should hang a sword, and the right should hang a knife.

The sword is a self-defense sword. It is hung on the left side. It is convenient to use the right hand to quickly pull out the sword to fight against the enemy.

And the knife is not a weapon for killing people, but a pen knife.

The mainstream writing carriers in the Western Han Dynasty were bamboo slips and wooden slips.

Both bamboo slips and wooden tablets are carved with a carving knife, that is, a pen knife.

The so-called "knife and pen officials" are the small officials in the government office who are responsible for copying and burning official documents with knives.

People in the Han Dynasty, anyone who was educated, must hang a pen knife on the right side.

Aristocrats use jade belt hooks and jade knives, which are more decorative than practical.

It is more practical for the poor to directly insert the bronze penknife on the belt without the hook.

And Liu He, as a cultural person with an entire library of books, obviously needs to wear a pen knife.

But his pen knife is a jade knife made of high-quality Hetian white jade.

It seems that it is indeed very beautiful and exquisite. When it was unearthed, it caused exclamations from the archaeologists.

But to say how practical it is, it is obviously impossible.

No matter how strong jade is, it is just a stone.

How sharp can a knife made of stone be?

It may be used to peel things, and it is still okay.

After all, during the Stone Age, a large amount of primitive jade was polished by the ancients and used as tools.

But in terms of how easy it is to use, it is definitely not as good as iron, not even bronze knives.

I really want to use this jade knife to carve words on the bamboo slips.

It takes a bronze knife to carve three or five characters in the time it takes for a jade knife to carve one character.

Otherwise, tools made of jade would not have been replaced by bronze tools during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Liu He's jade knife is more for decorative purposes.

This is the same as the emperor's ritual sword.

Could it be that the emperor really expected the emperor to go to the battlefield to kill people with a gift sword studded with precious stones and jade and gold?

"Hey, there is a big hook next to this small hook!"

Kong Jianwen exclaimed from time to time while cleaning Liu He's waist.

It's a thing with a hook, although the ancients said that they wear one on the left and one on the left.

But this is the least of the cases.

In fact, there is no limit to the use of this thing.

As long as you're not afraid to yank the belt off, it's not a problem to have hooks all over your waist and then hooks full of things.

Liu He has many belt hooks around his waist.

In addition to the two large belt hooks, there are several small belt hooks.

Now another large belt hook has been found, that is, three large belt hooks.

"This should be a thing too."

Kong Jianwen cleaned up the mud next to the small belt hook, and gradually, an oval object became clear in the mud.

"The one with piercings should be a hanging ornament, right?" Lin Ya who was next to her leaned over and judged.

Kong Jianwen nodded: "Well, there is a hole in the middle, and the texture seems to be neither gold nor jade."

The "gold" mentioned here does not refer to gold, but metal.

"It should be a dzi bead." Kong Jianwen said with certainty.

The utensil he cleaned up was oval, hollow, and about the length of a finger. The color of the utensil was jet black, but there were white stripes on it.

All natural, not painted.

Such utensils look very much like dzi beads.

The so-called Tianzhu, also known as "Heavenly Falling Stone".

In the "Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary", the explanation of Tianzhu is: "Agate, cat's eye stone, a kind of gemstone, commonly known as nine eye beads, can be used as medicine to cure cerebral hemorrhage."

The earliest Tianzhu is Zhang Zhung Tianzhu, which was born in the most powerful ancient civilization across Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in ancient times - the ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom. head".

The ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom existed very early, formed about 4000 years ago, and reached its peak before the 7th century.

In 200 BC, the snow region should have already had the embryonic form of the ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom.

And this kind of dzi should have spread in the snow area.

However, being able to spread from the remote snow area to the inland Jiangxi area is obviously not something that can be achieved by simple trade.

Of course, considering that Liu He's tomb also found something like Cordyceps that also came from the snow area.

It is almost certain that in the Western Han Dynasty at that time, at least among the upper-class nobles, there were trade exchanges and commerce with the snowy area.

Otherwise, how could these Dzi Beads and Cordyceps produced in the snowy area fly all the way to the mainland?
Fortunately, Tianzhu is a kind of ore after all. Under various coincidences, through the spread of merchants from many places, it is still possible to be brought to Chang'an by Han merchants and dedicated to the emperor.

It is possible that Liu He obtained this exquisite dzi accessory from the palace in Chang'an, and then brought it to Haihun County.

But the few boxes of caterpillar fungus in his tomb obviously couldn't have come from the palace.

It has been more than ten years since Liu He was deposed to become Marquis of Haihun.

It is impossible for Liu He to keep these caterpillar fungus unused.

Even brought it to the tomb to accompany him?
There is only one explainable reason.

That is, Liu He has a stable trade channel with the snow area.

Not only can I get Cordyceps regularly, but I also got Dzi Beads from there!