Zhang Nan smiled awkwardly and added: "It's our white dyed mud, this white dyed mud is waterproof and not breathable, and the upper part of the tomb is filled with tamped soil, which makes the tomb of the tomb almost a closed space." Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With so much sealing protection, it can be said that the air exchange between the burial chamber and the outside world is basically isolated.

In addition, there is a river near the tomb, and the water table is high, and the burial chamber of the tomb has been soaked in groundwater for a long time. And no matter how well the water tightness, it can't stop the water from slowly penetrating into the tomb in the form of molecules.

In general, who is not good for the protection of cultural relics, but in the case of waterhole tombs, this is good news, because the groundwater that infiltrates in this way is not very acidic and alkaline, and is basically neutral. After this groundwater immersion, the amount of oxygen in the burial chamber is less.

A combination of several reasons for this sword to survive. ”

Saying that, Zhang Nan couldn't help but pick up the sword and appreciate it again, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it!

"This is a good sword that can be compared to famous swords such as Zhanlu and Yugut!

Ou Yezi cast five famous swords, which belonged to Xiang Weirong and Cao Qiang in the Huiji area, and even Guan Xingquan and Lin Ming, a native of Xichuan, had heard of it.

"I thought these fish intestines were still steel swords. ”

At first glance, it was Lin Ming who spoke.

The topic was successfully shifted, and Zhang Nan avoided embarrassment.

The legendary peerless sword turned out to be a "primitive" bronze sword by Zhang Nan: Lin Ming, who was born in a martial arts family and dreamed of owning a peerless sword when he was a child, was obviously a little weird.

Zhang Nan said to him with a smile: "This Yue Wang Yu Hui actually has an iron sword, but there are very few. However, it can be basically confirmed that the five famous swords cast by Ou Yezi for the Yue Kingdom should all be bronze swords.

There is a record in the "Book of Yuejue" written by Yuan Kang, a historian in the early Eastern Han Dynasty: Yunchang, the king of Yue, is the grandfather of Yu Yu and the father of Goujian's unit, and this king of Yue once ordered Ou Yezi to cast five swords.

The book says this: Ou Yezi is because of the spirit of heaven, know its tricks, and make three major punishments, two small punishments, one is called Zhanlu, two is called Chunjun, three is called victory over evil, four is called fish intestines, and five is called Juque.

This big and small punishment is the punishment of the criminal law, which is the meaning of large and small large and small today.

Among them, the large ones are Zhanlu, Chunjun, and Shengxie, and the small ones are fish intestines and giant que.

The text also says that when Ou Yezi cast the sword, the mountain of red pansy broke out of tin, and the stream of Ruoye dried up and came out of copper...

Forged of copper and tin, these swords should be bronze.

Moreover, Chijin Mountain and Ruoye Creek are in Huiji next door, and there are sword casting relics in both places now, and they can also be matched with the literature. ”

The peerless sword became a bronze sword, which was really a bit awkward for Lin Ming!

"Boss, I remember that it seems that the Spring and Autumn Festival should also have an iron famous sword, right?"

"Yes, Longyuan, Tai'a, and Gongbu are steel swords, and they are patterned steel made of repeated folding, which is also recorded in the "Book of Yuejue".

And after the appearance of the iron sword, the 'king's self-acting sword' almost disappeared. It seems to have a handle in the bend of the 'Yue Wang Zhou Hook Copper Grid Iron Sword', now only the copper grid remains, and the two sides of the copper grid are cast with bird seals, and the translation is 'Yue Zhou Gou Yue Zhou Gou' and 'Self-acting Sword Self-Action Sword'.

The body of the sword is gone, rotten, only the residual rust remains in the hole and edge of the sword grid, and it is tested to be iron, that's all, steel is too easy to rust!"

Zhang Nan didn't say one thing: two years later, Huaxia will unearth a jade-handled copper-core iron sword in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the owner of the tomb, Shi Ji, is the monarch of a certain generation in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and this iron sword will also be known as "China's first sword"!

Since the use of iron swords and steel swords in the south, the 'King Self-Action Sword' has almost disappeared, and it is estimated that it is not that it has not been cast, but has been replaced with lighter and tougher steel materials!

Iron swords are very easy to rust and difficult to retain after being put into the earth: from the thousands of iron sword remnants found in known Han tombs, it can be found that the vast majority of them can no longer be formed and extracted! Even if a very few can still be extracted, they are already unrecognizable, and it is impossible to identify their inscriptions or ornaments, let alone whether they belong to the king's sword!

Zhang Nan worked as a native master, and there were also remnants of iron swords in the Han tombs that he had stolen and excavated; and in the years of running the construction site, he had seen more iron swords - there were many brick tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties near Yan County, as long as the ancients and men who could afford to build such a brick tomb, almost all of them would bury an iron sword in the tomb - the position would generally be placed on the right hand side of the approximate position of the corpse.

Unfortunately, none of the swords were useful: many were completely rotten to slag, and even those that could be seen were broken into a few knots and rotten to the core!

Different from today's iron swords, the iron swords of the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties basically have ring heads, just like the kind of swords in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and almost all of them have a ring on the hilt.

It's about the same as a ring-headed knife.

......

This time, Cao Qiang prepared a sword and three pieces of porcelain for Zhang Nan, one of which has been scrapped, and another is a four-series jar of animal noodles in the Yue kiln - Zhang Nan didn't ask for it, let him keep it for himself.

Zhang Nan is not very interested in this kind of four-series jar, and the mouth of this artifact is slightly damaged: like this kind of thing, you don't have to collect it yourself, it is estimated that the engineering teams under Wang Debiao can dig a bunch for themselves in a few years.

However, Zhang Nan received the last porcelain: a celadon pot of the Northern Song Dynasty Yue kiln that can almost reach the level of secret color porcelain.

Different from the one Wang Debiao brought, this is a carved pattern pile line holding pot, and the process is a grade higher than the previous one.

If it is auctioned in Xiangjiang, this pot will definitely be draped with the signature of "secret color porcelain". But for Zhang Nan, the secret color porcelain is the secret color porcelain, almost not at all!

Although this carved pattern pile line holding pot has not reached the level of secret color porcelain, it is thin and delicate, and the glaze is green, like the turquoise water of Xizi Lake!

The enamel is thin and transparent, the overall carving is decorated, and the pattern is clear: skimming, necking, the long neck goes straight down, and there are two rope patterns at the junction from the long neck to the abdomen, so that the neck is connected downwards with six double-strand rope patterns to divide the round belly and body equally.

The Jomon partition is engraved with a floral pattern with a needle, with smooth lines and elegant decoration: a handle on one side between the neck and abdomen, which is curved and powerful, and the junction with the ampulla outlines the leaf pattern in two lines.

Parallel to the handle is the pot flow, which is curved to a degree, and there are continuous swirls on it.

I took two antiques and left, and both sides were happy.

Before leaving, Zhang Nan told Cao Qiang: "The person who sold your Yue Wang Sword may still have the bronzes of the Chu State in his hand, and you can go and inquire if you have the opportunity." If there is something good, I pay for it. ”

the strong and pat your chest and say it's no problem!

When I returned to my home on the top of the mountain, Nicole and the others had already returned.

Seeing that the two beauties seemed a little tired, Zhang Nan asked, "Do you want to rest for two days before going to Shanghai?"

"I'll leave tomorrow, I'm going to Xi'an, I'm going to see the eighth wonder of the world!"

No problem, Zhang Nan will arrange it.

When he arrived in the living room, Guan Xingquan, who had finished eating, said.

"An Isuzu pickup truck and your Cherokee are ready, and the things we can use have been loaded, and I will drive with Liu Wendong, Panfeng and Qiu Bo, and meet in Xi'an when the time comes. ”

"Stay safe. ”

Go to Shanghai for two or three days, and then take a plane to Xi'an.

Of course, the small trucks and off-road vehicles ran so far not as Zhang Nan's transportation in Xi'an, but that there were some things nearby that should be moved back - the time near the Spring Festival is also the agricultural slack season, so it is best to do it at this time!