Chapter 371: The Huge Bronze Coffin

………… The most eye-catching thing is the coffin placed in the center of the entire space at this moment, with a height and width of more than three meters and a length of about four meters.

Seeing this huge coffin, Liu Dong couldn't help grinning, he couldn't suppress the huge excitement and excitement in his heart, and burst into a foul mouth, "His grandmother, how did Uncle Li, this group of tomb robbers, get home!"

The coffin is generally the most important of all the tombs, the most abundant and precious funerary goods, and the heaviest object in the tomb. For example, the famous tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, his coffin weighed seven and a half tons. At this moment, the coffin in front of Liu Dong is larger than Zeng Houyi's coffin, and the appearance is not a thick wooden board embedded in Zeng Houyi's copper frame, but a real bronze coffin.

Liu Dong had the heart to go over and observe in detail, but the bronzes here were all full, and Liu Dong really had no place to put his feet, so in the end, he could only hold back the excitement and expectation in his heart first, and pack up the other bronzes first.

The first piece of the head is a thin waist, extravagant mouth, standing ears outward, neck adduction, waist, flat bottom, the body is full of ornaments, and the abdominal wall is decorated with six dragon-like reptiles at equal distances, with a height of 60 centimeters, and the caliber and abdominal diameter are also about 60 centimeters.

On the side of this ascension, there are eight other ascensions, but the size is different, the largest one is nearly one meter in height, diameter and width, and the smallest is forty centimeters.

According to the Lieding system in the Zhou rites, the Son of Heaven is Zhengding 9, Accompanying Ding 3 and Gui 8, and the princes can only use Zheng Ding 7 and Gui 6. However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the etiquette and music collapsed, and there were countless princes.

And King Chuzhuang, the 'winner of the Central Plains', is naturally no exception.

The last time he was in the capital, Liu Dong had already seen eight of the nine tripods. Now I see Jiuding. After the past nine ascensions.

It's the three escorts. There are two kinds of companions: Wok Ding and Shame Ding. Wok Ding is a large pot in boiling meat, and Shengding is a small pot in which all kinds of cooked livestock are placed in the Wok Ding. According to the "Zhou-Li", the wok-ding is divided into cow wok, sheep wok, and pig wok, according to the size of the shape;

The wok tripod is usually the largest of the three tripods, and the woks used to cook cattle that Liu Dong saw at this moment are more than 100 cm high. The width of the caliber reaches 120 centimeters, the round mouth, the flat fold edge, the attached ears, the neck, the deep belly, the round bottom, the hoove-shaped three-legged; the tripod ears, the abdomen of the instrument is decorated with the crest pattern and the pan claw pattern, the neck is decorated with the bull's head and the double body of the bean crest, and the heel of the tripod is the animal face pattern of high relief; it is the largest of all the tripods used by the king of Chuzhuang during his lifetime.

After putting these tripods away. That is, the mustache, the ring, the urn, the gui, the jue, the pipe liujue, the yao, the jue, the wei, the beam pot, the gourd-shaped handle pot, the middle pillar plate, the plate and so on, including cooking utensils, food utensils, wine vessels, water vessels, etc.

The things that can be buried in the tomb of King Chuzhuang are naturally not ordinary. Almost every piece of the object is exquisite. One of the most exquisite is the round Nine Dragons, the whole body is covered with fine cloud and thunder patterns, the neck is decorated with banana leaf patterns and ribbon-like gluttonous patterns composed of Kui dragon patterns, and the shoulders are decorated with four high-relief coiled dragons, and this vessel adopts the decorative technique of combining round carving and relief carving, and skillfully combines the nine dragons with the body as a whole.

The whole piece of Kowloon Zun uses the lost wax method to make the original rigid utensils, become very vivid, organically combine the utensils with animal shapes, and are good at grasping the processing between plane decoration and three-dimensional sculpture, and achieve the perfect combination of technology and art.

However, this Jiulong Zun is not the property of King Chuzhuang, but a craftsman named Shu Houxin made it when he ascended the throne.

Shu State, Liu Dong read through the historical records, after learning about the life of King Chuzhuang, he is no stranger to this country, to be precise, Shu State, also called Qunshu, is the descendants of Gaotao established here including Shu, Long Shu, Shu Bao, Shu Yong, Shu Jiu and many other Yan surnames Fang Guo is collectively called Qunshu.

In 615 BC, Qunshu betrayed the state of Chu, and the state of Chu ordered Yin Chengjia to capture the monarch of Shu and the monarch of Zong, and then besieged Chao.

And 615 BC was the reign of King Zhuang of Chu, which is not difficult to explain why the spoils of Shu appeared in the tomb of King Zhuang.

In addition to this Nine Dragon Venerable, Liu Dong also found a lot of exquisite bronzes from the twenty-six kingdoms that were swept away by King Chuzhuang here.

When Liu Dong cleaned up half of the bronzes in this cave, he also walked to the coffin of King Chuzhuang in the center, looking at the coffin decorated with cloud patterns, triangular patterns, etc., and on the longer sides of the coffin, the pattern of the person's ascension to heaven was engraved respectively, as well as the picture of the banquet guests, the expression of the character was vivid and very natural, it was obvious that this was the luxury of King Chuzhuang during his lifetime, and the vision of ascending to heaven and becoming an immortal after his death.

On the other two smaller coffins are moire and some statues of beast-headed human deities.

The whole coffin is supported by twelve beast-foot copper pillars, Liu Dong stretched out his hand and tried it at the bottom of the entire coffin, even if he hugged the strength of the whole body, he didn't shake the coffin at all, but it is estimated that the weight of the coffin of King Chuzhuang is at least ten tons, and I don't know how Uncle Li transported such a heavy coffin here.

Of course, the ability of tomb robbers is often unexpected, just like the Lion Rock Han Tomb, the entrance to the tomb is blocked by four huge strip stones that are two meters long and weigh more than five or six tons, but the tomb robbers with great powers, in a space two meters wide and only eight or nine meters long, pulled out the huge strip stones that could only be pulled out by a crane later, and then stole the treasures inside.

Later archaeologists have not been able to figure out the reason, and it is still an unsolved mystery.

And the coffin in front of him is obviously the same puzzling question, and there is no record related to it in Uncle Li's diary, and Liu Dong has no way of knowing, but he doesn't plan to waste brain cells here.

"It's incredible!" Liu Dong opened his mouth in surprise after seeing the situation inside the coffin clearly.

"If this coffin is really opened, I'm afraid it will be enough to cause a sensation in the world!" Thinking of people's amazement at the female corpse of Mawangdui, Liu Dong was able to understand the sensation of the things inside the coffin.

However, things are very rare, but how to present these things in front of the world reasonably and legally is still a problem that Liu Dong needs to worry about in the future.

"Forget it, there must be a way before the car reaches the mountain!" After shaking his head, Liu Dong put his hand on the cold coffin and put it into the mustard seed space.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when Liu Dong put the coffin away, it seemed that his head was a little heavier in an instant.

Shaking his head, Liu Dong put away all the remaining bronzes here.

A simple statistic, but in this space, Liu Dong received more than 200 bronzes of different sizes, and there were more than 50 bronze tripods of different sizes. There are more of the other honorable, platen, jue, goblet, and the like.

Moreover, more than 80% of these bronzes have inscriptions, but only half of them really belonged to King Chuzhuang during his lifetime, and almost all of the rest were the trophies of the twenty-six kingdoms that he destroyed.

Put away the bronzes in this space, and then along the rock passage with obvious excavation marks and a width of four meters, Liu Dong once again came to a wider space, and as soon as he entered here, what shocked Liu Dong the most was the three bronze carriages placed in the center.

Just like the two bronze carriages unearthed from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in 1978, which completely simulated the real carriages of the Qin Dynasty, the three driving cars in front of him were also completely imitated by the real carriages of the Chu State. And the middle one is still the bronze carriage of the 'Son of Heaven Six Cars', which is even more rare in comparison.

According to the Zhou rites, the Son of Heaven drove six, the princes drove five, the Qing drove four, the doctor three, the scholar two, and the Shuren one. From the carriage in front of him, it can be seen that the tomb of King Chuzhuang was completely buried in accordance with the emperor's regulations.

And in addition to the luxury chariot and horse of the Son of Heaven driving six in the middle, on both sides of it, there are four horse-drawn bronze chariots, on which there are not only sergeants who drive, but also soldiers holding Changge, which reproduces the hegemonic style of the country of Chu during the period of King Chu Zhuang.

In addition to these troikas, there are also a large number of bronze objects around, the most precious of which are two bronze deer, but these two bronze deer are different from ordinary deer, and above their heads stand two feathered cranes with wings spread high.

The crane and the deer are symbols of longevity and good luck. The ancients called the immortals "crane driving" and "crane driving". And these two things are like the 'antlers standing crane' in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, placed next to the coffin, reflecting the vision of the deceased ascending to heaven.

However, compared to the Antlered Crane, the height of these two Antlered Cranes is more than two and a half meters!

In addition to these two antlered cranes, there are also four statues of gods with a height of nearly three meters, a huge body, a beast body and a human face, wearing armor, a front body in the left hand, and a long sword in the right hand.

Looking at these four statues of gods with different shapes, but also hideous, Liu Dong understood that this was a 'tomb beast'! However, what had been found before were all small pieces, and such a huge one, with a height of three meters, had never been found in China.

When Liu Dong put away all the bronzes here, he simply lost, and there were probably more than 300 pieces. At this time, after seeing too many bronzes that can be rated as national treasures, they have become numb.

Because there are so many good things here.

A tomb of Marquis Yi can unearth 15,000 works of art, as well as a large number of bronze treasures, so how many treasures are there in the tomb of King Chuzhuang, the overlord of the Central Plains, who swept the entire Yangtze River basin, defeated the Jin State, and won the Central Plains?

Liu Dong had been guessing about this question before, but now he finally had the opportunity to verify it in person.

……………………………… (To be continued......)