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Finally overturned another cover, Zhang Nan took a look: it was similar to the other side, there was not much accumulated soil - if it was not well sealed, let alone the tombs of the Song Dynasty, even the tombs of the Ming Dynasty would be filled with the soil left by the muddy water that seeped in.

If that's the case, you're going to have to dig slowly.

"No coffin. ”

When Zhang Nan heard that it was his brother-in-law who was talking, he said: "It's already rotten, we are acidic soil, and it is estimated that there will not even be any bones left." ”

I stepped forward to check it and found that I had just misestimated: only 9 stone slabs were used in the two Kang tombs, and the front and back were connected, and the two Kang tombs shared three plates.

"Xiao Zhang, there are carved flowers on the south side, is it useful?"

Wang Deshun asked on the side, in fact, Zhang Nan had already seen it: although the soil in the grave pit was not particularly thick, it was estimated that it was twenty or thirty centimeters - there was no burial goods in sight.

On the inside of the stone slab shared on the south side, two huge stone lotus flowers are carved, which will make people feel strange even under the big sun.

This is called stepping on the lotus, a beautiful meaning of the ancients. This is still a piece of yang, Debiao, if you find a place to keep it for yourself, it may be worth some money in 20 years. ”

Wang Deshun disagreed, "Who wants this thing, bad luck! There are almost as many Taiping Ponds in the village as the ponds." ”

Taipingtang, which is basically in the villages in the Jiangnan region, is generally in the middle of the village, and there are several in many large villages: it can be washed, and water can be taken to fight the fire at critical moments, so it is called Taiping.

The stone slab along the pond is convenient for washing clothes and vegetables, and this stone slab was not cheap dozens of hundreds of years ago, so basically it is used for anything, and what tombstones and tombstones are very common.

Wang Deshun doesn't want it, and Zhang Nan doesn't say much: 20 years later, such a piece of yang carving "stepping on lotus" with good craftsmanship, as long as you don't tell people that it is a tomb board, it is not a big problem to sell it for 5,000 or 8,000.

No one wants the engraved ones.

Some people decorate villas and build their own houses, and want to decorate some old stone carvings, but if they don't have a bit of eyesight, they will move their "yin house" home without paying attention.

The most interesting thing is that someone wants to get the old stone lion town house for the house, and ends up buying back the stone lion for the grave!

The stone lions used in the yang house are generally positive: that is, the lion's head is facing forward and does not turn, even if a small number of old stones are crooked, the direction of the seated lion must be facing one of the sides of the square base connected below.

And a pair of stone lions placed in front of the tomb, this head is not only crooked, the sitting lion is facing the diagonal of the four corners of the base!

But make no mistake.

Because the foundation is to be built, the construction site adopts the "mountain moving method" for this stone tomb: dig around and on top of it.

The whole thing is exposed, and the subsequent cleanup is much easier.

"Pry that piece of 'foot lotus' and slowly clean it up from south to north to see if there will be a little surprise. ”

"No problem. ”

Wang Deshun immediately instructed the workers to work, and when the stone slab was torn off, it could be seen that the soil was only about 20 centimeters thick.

The length of the tomb is two meters and a half, and the two workers carefully follow what Wang Deshun taught: first use chopsticks to "explore the way", and then use hoes to dig the soil.

"There are usually bowls and bottles in the area near the south, so be careful not to dig them up. ”

Although I know that it is unlikely that good things will come out of the stone slab tombs of the Song Dynasty, since it has been done, you have to be careful.

Sure enough, a worker quickly dug up a long bottle.

"Manager, there's something good!"

When Wang Deshun heard this, he was in a spirit: it was a bottle with a blue-yellow glaze, lying horizontally in the soil, and there seemed to be a dragon wrapped around it.

On this side, the soil was carefully picked with wooden slats so as not to be damaged, and on the other side, an identical one was dug out of the grave.

"Xiao Zhang, a pair of vases, good things!"

Looking at Wang Deshun's elated appearance, Zhang Nan was really a little reluctant to dampen his enthusiasm, but he still had to say.

"Deshun, come here. ”

Zhang Nan called him and said, "Don't bring those two bottles to your home, and when the time comes, you can give a reason to the cultural management committee." ”

Now Wang Deshun was surprised, "Don't you want such a beautiful bottle?"

Zhang Nan smiled mysteriously and said, "That's not a vase, no matter how beautiful you are, you can't forget to move at home, unless you think you're long-lived!"

As soon as he heard Zhang Nan speak, it didn't seem like a joke, Wang Deshun and a few people on the side also pricked up their ears.

"Stop hanging your appetite, what's the point?"

As soon as he heard his brother-in-law's words, Zhang Nan also had to answer honestly: "It's called 'soul bottle', it's not a funeral object at all, but a spiritual artifact!"

"Artifact?"

"According to our side, the simplest understanding is to help the soul to conjure, and it is also said to be a small house for the souls of the dead to live, and the last theory is to help the soul ascend to heaven.

Three functions, just choose one at random, move home?"

Zhang Nan said that everyone's eyes changed when they looked at the two beautiful bottles!

But Zhang Nan's words are not finished, "Also, Deshun, you will tell the people in the construction site when the time comes: this kind of strange bottle dug up in the tomb is okay, and it is not a big problem to lose it in the construction site for the time being."

If you dig out this fancy porcelain vase or pottery vase from the soil alone, it has nothing, then don't care about anything, take it to the outside of the construction site and immediately dig a pit and bury it, and burn some incense paper candles or something for the bottle by the way, so as not to make trouble for the construction site. ”

"What's the point?"

Everyone's curiosity rose, Zhang Nan said: "In ancient times, transportation and communication were not developed, and relatives served as soldiers to fight and go out to do business, many of them could not come back as soon as they went out, and they died in a foreign land, and very few corpses could be transported back to their hometowns, and they didn't even know whether they were dead or alive."

The family had no choice, so they made a soul bottle and let people bring back the souls of their relatives, and that bottle was for the souls to live, and to put it bluntly, it was a coffin with a dead man. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan looked at everyone with a "You drop, understand?" look at everyone - it's a fool if you don't understand it now!

Even if you have a problem with your brain, you probably won't move a "dead man's coffin with a dead man" to his home, right?

Of course, there are also collectors who specialize in playing with soul bottles, and for those collectors with super strong nerves, Zhang Nan can only say: "I have served you!"

To be honest, the general craftsmanship of the soul bottle is quite high, but even after more than 20 years, few people buy it, and it is unlucky to see it!

……

The soul bottle began to appear in the Han Dynasty, and a large number of soul bottles have been unearthed, especially in the tombs of the Song Dynasty: its excavation has a guiding and corroborative role in the dating of tombs without epitaphs: the soul bottles of the Three Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty are larger, the ratio of height and width is small, the glaze is impermeable, and most of them are flat-bottomed;

Archaeological play, private collectors avoid it. (To be continued.) )