Chapter 278: Wet Inside and Out

Jenny talks about Tutankhamun, but it stops abruptly at the mention of it, because this young pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt is so famous!

In the Western world, it is more famous for Tutankhamun's curse, so as soon as he said the name of the pharaoh, he felt unlucky and quickly shut up. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The young pharaoh was only eighteen years old when he died, but his short life left behind a treasure that shocked the world--- his mausoleum was not hidden in a high pyramid, but was built underground, so it remained undiscovered for a long time.

It wasn't until November 5, 1922, that the British archaeologist Howard Carter finally found the entrance to Tutankhamun's mausoleum: it was dug under a cliff, beneath the mausoleum of Pharaoh Ramses VI.

In the mausoleum there is a plaque made of clay: "Whoever disturbs the peace of this pharaoh, the 'wings of death' will descend on his head." ”

When the tomb was opened, Tutankhamun's curse seemed to spread from the shadows of antiquity: for decades, those who were said to have dared to disturb his peace had almost all been under the spell, suffering from strange illnesses or dying unexpectedly and painfully.

Of course, this so-called "curse" still has a lot of water, for example, there don't seem to be as many people who died as in the legend, and some people died almost seventy or eighty.

According to scientific explanations, some of the accidental deaths related to the pharaoh's mausoleum may be just a coincidence, while others may be fungal infections!

It is said that when Tutankhamun's tomb was first opened, many clumps of "inexplicable things" were found in the tomb: they were probably the most likely deadly fungi.

What fungi from 3,000 years ago rejuvenated after exposure to fresh air and moisture?

It's a bit bizarre, but there are so many things in this world that can't figure it out, and it's not bad for this one: maybe that's what it is!

So when Jenny saw the dirty pot, she kindly reminded Zhang Nan why he didn't do the most basic protection.

How worried she was.

Many parts of Egypt are extremely dry, and even if you don't make mummies, the chances of such dried corpses appearing are not small, but in the south of the Yangtze River, China, not only is the climate humid, but the soil is mostly acidic soil suitable for tea growth.

Generally, as long as the tomb is more than 500 years old, not to mention the wooden coffin in the tomb, there will be no bones left!

Dust to dust to dust, everything messy is rotten, and the soil inside the tomb is not much different from the outside soil, so Zhang Nan doesn't have to worry about any fungus, corpse poison or anything.

However, there are exceptions to everything: in the previous life, there were three kinds of tombs, Zhang Nan would never touch it directly with his hands, even if there were valuable jade artifacts such as jade bracelets unearthed, it would also pass through other people's hands, and he would only get his hands on it after cleaning.

Among them, the most common are some old tombs in the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: because of the short burial time and funeral habits, these tombs are shallow from the surface;

There are also some tombs of that era that were originally built on the surface, even if the sealed soil on the top has been piled up and looked flush with the surrounding areas, it is impossible to see that there are tombs here, in fact, it has always been above the surface position of dozens or one or two hundred years ago.

As a result, there is no large amount of water seepage inside, and the short time period of time does not allow much silt in the tomb.

Once such a tomb is dug up at the construction site, even if Zhang Nan happens to be there, he will ask the excavator to dig it up quickly.

The reason has been said before: one of these old graves accidentally has the legendary corpse poison and poisonous gas!

In the early 50s, when Zhang Nan's grandfather was in the "vigorously develop agriculture and make land for the plains of the countryside" movement, he was exposed to this kind of corpse poison, which caused an infection and inflammation and decay of a finger joint.

And one of grandpa's legs was also attacked by the kind of inexplicable "poisonous gas", it can't be said to be rotten, anyway, the skin is always molting, chapped, sometimes good and sometimes bad--- all this started from that "flat grave".

Because sometimes the coffin board in that kind of tomb will not be rotten, the bones of the dead are also there, and even the cotton jacket and quilt worn by the dead are not rotten!

Unlike the ancient tombs in the north that left human bones thousands of years ago, there are a lot of organic matter in this old tomb in the south, and a lot of it is "corpse poison" to put it bluntly!

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Holding pots, also known as "note" and "note pot", wine utensils appeared in the Sui Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the pot holder was a handicap, with a short neck, a bulging belly, a cylindrical or hexagonal short direct current, a crank, a short body, a bulging belly, and a false ring foot.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, a large number of holding pots were popular, basically replacing the chicken head pot, phoenix head pot, etc.: during this period, there were many styles of holding pots, including short flow, long flow, crank, straight handle and so on.

From the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, the body of the pot gradually increased, the whole body pressed 4-6 melon ridges, the flow gradually became slender and slightly curved, the crank was higher than the mouth of the pot, and the flat bottom became a circle foot.

The pot in Zhang Nan's hand is a typical five-generation style: the glaze is moist, about 20 centimeters high, the diameter is less than 10 centimeters, and the foot diameter is about seven or eight centimeters.

Pot skimming, short neck, sloping shoulders, oblong five-petal melon ribbed abdomen, shallow circle foot: one side of the pot body is bent flow, the other side is placed in the crank between the mouth and the shoulder, and the shoulder is symmetrical and vertical.

The inside and outside of the pot and the inside of the foot are full of green glaze, and there are six flat "kiln nails" at the bottom of the foot: the glaze is fine fragments, and the glaze color is just so bad than the "secret color porcelain"!

After 20 years, such a first-class Yue kiln pot with first-class craftsmanship and quality will cost at least 15 to 200,000 yuan in Zhang Nan's hands.

This is not the Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain that can be auctioned and hyped, the Yue kiln has disappeared since the Song Dynasty, and the complete Yue kiln that appears on the market, there is one that counts as one, all of which are unearthed cultural relics!

If it is strictly in accordance with the cultural relics law, as long as it is a new Yue kiln ware that appears in the market, any purchase and sale is illegal!

200,000 yuan, that is already the price of high-end goods in addition to secret color porcelain in Yue kiln porcelain: it cannot be compared with the price of millions of other famous kilns.

You are breaking the law by selling the kiln!

So the price can't go up at all.

The price of Yue kiln porcelain is generally not comparable with the other five traditional kiln porcelain: it is not that its craftsmanship is not as good as Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, Ding, but the five famous kilns are said to have been first seen in the Ming Dynasty royal collection catalogue "Xuande Ding Yi Spectrum": "The inner library of firewood, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and named kiln vessels, elegant styles, written drawings into the present." ”

At that time, the Yue kiln was long gone, and its most classic secret color porcelain had long since disappeared with the demise of the Song Dynasty, and was only preserved in underground tombs and cellars.

How many years have passed, the Chinese people don't even know what the color of the secret color porcelain is: of course, the Ming Dynasty people don't know, and as a result, the Yue kiln porcelain is sadly reduced to a "bargain".

In addition, the most top-quality Yue kiln porcelain unearthed in the Huiji area and the Yuyao generation in the Yongcheng area, this area is almost all acidic soil, and the damage to the porcelain buried underground is far greater than that of other places.

Therefore, although there are many unearthed porcelain in the Yue kiln, it is rare that it is well preserved!

"Deshun, I also look at this pot as good as you collected, I want it. This was dug up from the construction site on that hill as well?"

If there's nothing to look at anymore, then withdraw.

When you get to the faucet outside, simply rinse the pot with cold water inside and out--- since it has been in contact with the air for some days, there is no problem with washing it directly.

In addition, it is also very cold in the power distribution room, and the temperature and tap water temperature do not feel like there is much production, and the glaze will not burst due to the sudden temperature difference!

"It's over there, but I didn't go over, just a construction worker who looked at the construction site brought it, do you want to go and see?"

Zhang Nan was dealing with the loess accumulated inside the pot, so he just shook his head casually and said, "No, just ask."

By the way, I just talked about Zhang Heng of the Cultural Management Committee, you seem to be very familiar with him?"

"I dealt with it twice, and the last time I sent the bottles of those two evil sects, he received them.

And didn't you say that there are two kinds of tombs that you don't touch, I heard a few days ago that you went to Shanghai, and you came across one in those days.

As soon as I dug up, I called the cultural management committee, and later not only people from the county cultural management committee, but also people from the region.

I also asked us to pick up the crane, and I said that I was busy on the construction site and had no time.

That thing is evil, I'm afraid that the luck of our crane will be ruined, so let them figure it out by themselves, and it will take half a day and a day's work. ”

You have to pay attention to doing engineering, and some evil things can be avoided, and you can't make trouble for yourself.

Zhang Nan didn't touch three kinds, but only said two to Wang Deshun: because the first kind of construction site couldn't be avoided at all, and saying it was tantamount to saying it in vain.

"Then they borrowed one from the power plant and it took a busy day to transport it away. ”

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said, "Dry or wet?"

"It's wet inside and out. (To be continued.) )