Don't pretend, anchor, I've seen you touch the golden talisman!

Chapter 239

Boat burial!

At this moment, this concept immediately appeared in Lin Yi's mind.

Boat burial, also known as boat coffin burial, as the name suggests, is to cut wood into a hollow structure, shaped like a ship, and use it to hold the body of the deceased.

Or directly use a canoe to bury the body.

Archeology found that this boat coffin is divided into two parts, the bottom and the cover, both of which are carved from a whole piece of wood, and the upper and lower parts fit together.

The bottom is the main body of the boat coffin, and the middle is a rectangular corpse holding place; the cover is semicircular, and the inside is hollow like a boat, and is known in history as "Jiagu boat coffin", "immortal boat", "boat boat" and so on.

This burial system can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Modern archaeological discoveries are also mainly concentrated in Fujian and Jiangxi.

In Fujian, boat burials were launched, while in Jiangxi, they were divided into underwater boat burials and hanging boat burials, which were later called hanging coffins.

In addition, Jingxiang and Hunan in the south-central region also have the custom of boat burial.

Only the ancestors of the Ba people in the Bashu area adopted the "boat coffin burial" method, although they adopted the boat coffin burial method.

Later, with the discovery and excavation of the "Jinsha Ruins", the history of Shu people's boat burials was advanced by more than 500 years.

The specific reason why the boat coffin was chosen, according to expert analysis, was mainly because the rivers in the Bashu area were criss-crossed at that time, and the residents here used boats to make a living, and even lived on boats.

After death, of course, he would choose to stay on the ship.

However, there are many doubts about the location of the ship burial where the "Western King's reward money" was found.

First of all, it is not uncommon to find boat coffin burials here, but the boat coffin burials here are mainly earth burials, not water burials.

Secondly, by the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the burial system here was not much different from that in the Central Plains. They all chose coffins for burial. Why was the "Western King's reward money" found in such a shipwreck?

Lin Yi turned his eyes to Qian Sheng.

Of course Qian Sheng understood what he was thinking. He opened his mouth and shouted to Chen Erwa at the stern:

"Is there really a ship underwater in the place you mentioned?"

Wang Qiang immediately widened his eyes and looked towards the stern:

"If you dare to lie to us, Lord Wang, I will throw it down and feed the fish right now!"

"Which son of a bitch is fooled by you! If you don't believe me, go down with Laozi to see it, it's true."

After finishing speaking, Chen Erwa accelerated the rhythm of the scull, and then the water quickly reached the destination.

"Here, which one of you will go down?"

When Chen Erwa got off the anchor, she immediately took off her shirt, put on a pair of swimming goggles, held a waterproof flashlight in one hand, and took a sip of liquor with the other hand.

Although it's summer now, the river water is still seeping in the middle of the night. Once he drank this wine, his whole body became hot.

"You guys and Fifth Brother are waiting up there, I'll go down with Lulu to find out what's going on."

Lin Yi put on his diving suit while talking.

Bai Lu had put on the diving suit early on, and everything was ready.

Among them, the one with the best water quality is undoubtedly Bai Lu, followed by Qian Sheng, then Lin Yi, and finally Wang Qiang.

But Qian Sheng's health did not recover, and he was afraid that he would be agitated by the river water again.

Wang Qiang's level is limited, and it's not time to use him yet.

The good thing about Lin Yi is that he has a good body, so he doesn't suffer from anything.

Over there, Chen Erwa saw that they were both dressed neatly and had scuba gear on their backs, so she came to the stern of the boat first.

"Follow me!" After saying that, he plunged into the water.

Bai Lu and Lin Yi jumped down after him.

Soon, the three lights gradually disappeared into the river.

Chen Erwa not only dived fast, but also swam fast. Bai Lu and Lin Yi wore flippers and could barely keep up with him.

After diving for about ten meters, Chen Erwa turned around underwater, gestured at them, and then shone the beam of the flashlight downward.

Just under the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, a shipwreck could be vaguely seen.

More than half of it was buried in the sand, only a small half of the stern was exposed, and the cover of the ship's cabin was nowhere to be found.

The hull was pitch black and not rotted.

But at a glance, it can be seen that the ship has been at the bottom of the river for some years.

Lin Yi and Bai Lu looked at each other and nodded to each other, proving that this second child is not lying.

So, they approached the sunken ship together, and gently stirred the silt accumulated inside the cabin with the tools in their hands.

Silt and various sediments from the bottom of the river immediately floated around, and the visibility dropped sharply.

Several people quickly moved aside.

This is one of the problems that underwater operations have to overcome.

Lin Yi gestured towards Bai Lu and Erwazi, telling them to go upstream, and he approached the cabin to stir things up first.

Because, in this kind of boat coffin buried under water, the corpse has already entered the belly of fish and shrimp, so there is no possibility of corpse change.

Moreover, the cover of the boat coffin was gone, and most of the funerary objects inside were either washed downstream by the river, or were touched by experts like Chen Erwa.

There is very little left.

Most importantly, these underwater boat coffin burials are generally not buried with epitaph-related things.

Paper or leather ones are not easy to preserve, and stone carvings are too heavy.

Therefore, most of the content will be presented on the side and hull of the boat in the form of carving and painting.

Bai Lu and Chen Erwa moved upstream, Lin Yi picked up the engineering shovel and stirred in the hull of the sunken ship.

The surroundings were full of muddy sand, and his shadow could not be seen at all.

After fiddling for a while, Lin Yi also stepped aside, and after waiting for the floating objects to slowly settle and flow, the three of them returned to the sunken ship again.

Lin Yi had already dug out more than half of the silt in the cabin. After the sediment slowly settled to the bottom of the river, nothing of value was found.

"How many times have you been to this place?"

Lin Yi gestured to Chen Erwa.

"Three or four times."

Lin Yi felt helpless for a while.

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier? There's nothing here!"

"You didn't ask me." Chen Erwa gestured truthfully.

"Is that what you found around your neck?"

Chen Erwa nodded firmly.

Lin Yi didn't know how to answer him for a while. It was indeed because he didn't ask clearly and was a bit ill-considered.

He found this priceless silver coin in this place, but he couldn't help but come and explore it a few more times?

It's all money!

The two of them were still communicating with each other hand and foot. Bai Lu approached the wooden boat with an underwater camera and began to carefully record the situation here.

The body of the boat was full of all kinds of slippery things like water plants, and the interior space of the cabin was not large. Bai Lu put the camera in and let it replace her own eyes, to see if she could find something of value.

Unexpectedly, some content was actually found in the monitor.

Just inside the side of the boat, the words "Three Years of Dashun" can be faintly seen.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng, the "King of Chuang", established a political power in Xijing, with the title of "Dashun" and the title of "Yongchang".

In the same year, Zhang Xianzhong, the "Eight Great Kings", established the Daxi regime in central Shu, with the reign title "Dashun".

It can be seen that this ship must have come from Zhang Xianzhong's command, and the writing in this ship gang should be related to the identity of the deceased.

(End of this chapter)