“…… The bronze tripod from the early Western Han Dynasty was identified by the British, and there is no inscription, but I think it is likely to be an item from the late Warring States period or the Qin Dynasty. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

From China to Egypt, it may take hundreds or even hundreds of years, but unfortunately it will not be seen again. ”

At this point, Zhang Nan asked: "Director Nong, in the early Western Han Dynasty, I mean that before Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions, our Central Plains had direct contact with the Middle East and even the Near East and North Africa?"

"There must be non-governmental or semi-official contacts, official contacts may be, and the war has ruined too many records.

For example, Xiao Zhang, if you play antiques, there are jade carved from Hetian jade in the Shang Dynasty, so how did this raw material come from?"

Zhang Nan smiled, he looked like himself just now.

It is impossible to rely on the existing historical records to determine that the Hetian jade of the Shang Dynasty could not have flown to you from the southern part of Western Xinjiang to the vicinity of present-day Henan Province, and it was properly brought over by people.

Since there is demand, there will be a market, and the Shang Dynasty traveled from the southern part of Western Xinjiang to the Central Plains, which is difficult......

Nong Bosheng on the other end of the phone continued: "I am inclined that this bronze tripod on your side should have passed through the Persian region, and then spread to Egypt and Sudan.

I remember that there are sources showing that the exchanges between China and Persia, even with present-day Iran, can be traced back to before 300 BC, when the Qin state, which was the most western, during the Warring States Period, became strong and exchanged with the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia.

There are still many Iranians who call Huaxia Qin, which may be a legacy of tradition.

In the Han Dynasty and the Persian Sabbatical Dynasty, in addition to people-to-people exchanges, government-to-government exchanges were also relatively frequent. ”

Speaking of which, Nong Bosheng felt a bit off-topic, and it was easy to be led into the ditch when he talked about academics: he was busy making up for history for this little Zhang, and as a result, he pulled the Spring and Autumn Ding to the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty.

"Xiao Zhang, you can't recognize the word in the middle of the title of the King of Chu?"

"Curator Nong, Bird Seal Book, I can't compare to you!"

It could have been the Assyrians from Elama in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., or the Medes a little later, or by 550 B.C., the early Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great's unified Persian Achaemenid dynasty.

It is possible that both the Assyrians and the ancient Persia of Cyrus had taken ancient Egypt. It was a Chu king's ding, and the casting period was likely to be after 704 BC, depending on which generation of Chu kings was cast......"

"Can you be sure it's 704 B.C.?"

I feel that the agricultural curator is divine! I can guess this.

Zhang Nan asked, and the curator on the other end of the phone almost took a breath!

If his students dared to ask such a question in front of him, the end would be miserable!

As for Xiao Zhang...

Forget it, first, the braincase can't be knocked, and secondly, Zhang Nan is not studying history, so he can't force it.

"That was the time when the barbarians of the Chu State gave themselves the title of king, was there a king of Chu before?"

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Nan reacted, the "barbarian" that Nong Bosheng said was Xiong Tong, the king of Chuwu: this barbarian was not scolded by others, but he claimed it and used it to threaten others!

In the thirty-fifth year of Xiong Tong's reign as the monarch of Chu, in 706 BC, Chu invaded Sui.

However, due to the more complicated reason for the nonsense of the soldiers who surrendered without a fight, the Chu army did not attack Suiguo, but forced Suihou to blackmail Zhou Tianzi for Chu.

Xiong Tong said: "We are barbarians, and now the princes of the Central Plains have betrayed the Son of Heaven and attacked each other. I also have a decent team, thinking that I have nothing to do to participate in the political affairs of the Central Plains, and ask the Zhou royal family to honor my name. ”

Suihou was afraid of the military might of the Chu State, so he complied with this request, and sent an envoy to Zhou Tianzi, asking for the title of the king of Chu, but Zhou Tianzi did not agree.

In the thirty-seventh year of Xiong Tong's reign, that is, in 704 BC, he reported to the state of Chu that Zhou Tianzi refused to raise the name of Chu Jun.

Xiong Tong was furious when he heard the news: "My ancestor Mane Xiong was the teacher of King Wen of Zhou and died very early.

King Cheng of Zhou promoted my ancestor to my father, but he only sealed the land of my ancestor baron and let us live in the land of Chu.

Now that the barbarian tribes in the south are all subservient to the Chu State, and the Zhou royal family does not promote the title of the Chu State, I have no choice but to call myself the honorific title!"

So Xiong Tong immediately proclaimed himself the king and called him "King Wu of Chu".

The Xiong of Chu was called the king, which opened a precedent for the Chinese princes to claim the title of king, but because of the decline of the Zhou royal family at that time, there was nothing to be done about this move of the Chu State.

The title of the fifth rank of the prince and the prince is not a foreign product, it is the creation of the ancestors of China. Now those dukes and counts in the West are just "equivalents" for the Chinese people to understand the convenience of Western titles.

As for the title of "king" of the king of Chu, although there were later people who called the monarch of Chu before Xiongtong, the king of Chu, the king of Chu, this low-level mistake was generally not made on the bronze ritual vessels of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Speaking of which, the problem of copper tripods circulating in the west of the Green Ridge seems to have been solved, but what about the east of the Green Ridge?

The kings of Chu called themselves the southern barbarians, and you can imagine what a wild place southern China was at the beginning.

The ancient Silk Road has always been from the north, because the wild jungles in the south are much more terrifying than the deserts and snow-capped mountains in the north!

Although on a modern map, it is much closer to reach India from the south through Indochina than from the west over the Pamirs, but just think about how terrible a savage mountain is!

How did the ritual vessels of the "Southern Barbarians" get to Sudan?

The long distance on the map of China is the most amazing question, to answer this, you must first identify the inscription inside the copper tripod!

Of course, it is possible that modern people will never know what happened 2,500 years ago, but exploring the unknown is one of the most fascinating things.

"Xiao Zhang, you hurry up and print down those words and fax them to me immediately. ”

"No problem, there are still photos, I'll have someone wash them out and fax them over today. ”

"Okay, then I'll wait in the office, you write down the fax number. ”

When Zhang Nan heard this, he hurriedly said: "Don't, Director Nong, I'm in Sudan, I have to find a fax machine that can transmit international fax first, and it is more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest big city."

Also, I don't know if the Sultan can wash color photos, so I'll write down the fax number first, and you go home first, and I'll have someone call you as soon as it's done. ”

"Okay, that's it.

By the way, if that bronze tripod can be exhibited in Sudan, if there is a chance, it is best to let it go back to see it. ”

"Okay, I'll do my best, and there is a similar clause in the agreement that allows you to choose to leave some of the artifacts for a period of time to be exhibited in Sudan. ”

Hang up the phone, and this is the action.

As soon as he saw Adjani on the side looking at him with wide eyes, he said, "If you're curious, follow suit." ”

As soon as I got out of the RV, I saw Alyosha in the shade of the car.

"Alyosha, let someone go and fetch that Savar, and say that I have something to help him. ”