Chapter Ninety-Five: Talking about Food and Talking about Ancients
After everything was ready, Fang Hong went down to the underground palace for the third time, and now, or should it be said, went down to the tomb. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Xia Ji is actually not the name of the last Xia King, Ji is a nickname, taken from the unruly Ji, which means that this monarch is fierce. ”
"Brother Gun, has this monarch really done so many brutal things?"
Fang Hong was stunned for a moment: "From the perspective of later generations, nine out of ten kings in history can be regarded as brutal and ignorant, but it is not excluded that the latter dynasty will be black and the former dynasty will be whitewashed, this is not necessarily the case, sometimes the later dynasty will whitewash the previous dynasty." ”
History is a difficult thing to say, for example, the existence of the Xia Dynasty is widely doubted in the historiographical circles, and the only problem is that there is no written proof.
However, in the historical records, the hereditary genealogy of Xia is as complete as Shang, and even records the death year of each king (no birth year) in great detail, and there was also an era in the middle of the Xia Dynasty when there was no king due to the struggle for power of many royal families, so it is called Xia Youwang without a king for 450 years.
At the beginning, people were also suspicious of the existence of Shang, but the appearance of Shang characters corroborated each other with historical records, and it was found that the historical records were generally the same as the real situation of these Shang kings.
In other words, Shang, who was suspected at the beginning, was confirmed, and it was only a matter of time before Xia was confirmed.
Going down to the ground, Fang Hong pointed out the direction to Professor Wang: "To the south from here, there are three burial chambers and a burial pit, and then there is a structure like the outer wall of the ring city, and that structure is not separated by a burial chamber, it seems to enclose this place in a circle." ”
The colonel stepped forward: "Elder Wang, did you send someone in to clean up the upper soil first?"
Professor Wang shook his head: "This is different from ordinary burial sites, the terrain here is low, but it just avoids the water flow, if you dig up the surface soil, there should be water accumulation below, and you have to consider how to deal with it." ”
Quite simply, is this a closed cultural relics protection unit, or is it open to the public as a museum? If it is the latter, then an area of tens of thousands of square meters of land will have to be excavated more than ten feet of ground.
To do so, you must first find the main entrance to the tomb.
There is not even a door, and the tourists who come from the window of the observatory? Professor Wang did not climb down, but was hanged down, can ordinary people come down as smoothly as soldiers?
"The coffin is over there, let's go see it first?"
Professor Wang shook his head: "Don't worry, don't worry, it's all been found, and I haven't touched it, so there's nothing to see, let's go find the surviving cultural relics first." ”
Originally, Shu was not much threatened by tomb robbery, and it didn't matter if a large tomb like this was not excavated.
Most of the time the tombs are opened for rescue excavation, because they have been stolen, so they are dug up, many ancient tombs are clearly erected on the surface of the ground and have buildings, and they have not been dug up, just because they are not threatened by tomb thieves, and there is no need to dig up.
After doing it for a long time, Fang Hong thought that a large number of people would dig up this place to the bottom, but it might not be excavated at all.
Unless someone on the ground answers it, people from outside will not want to enter here, and it is unlikely that it will be stolen.
Of course, all walks of life, folk masters are all awesome, and it is not excluded that they can find a way to get in.
Just like some time ago, a buddy was detained for smuggling a national first-class protected animal, and in the end he was not sentenced.
The reason is that this buddy has researched the breeding method of this animal, and the state has invested millions of millions of things that have not been done, and he has done it, and he has done it, and he has made a meritorious contribution to saving this protected animal, and he has not been imprisoned, but he has been fined and educated.
In the archaeological industry, unless you are a very old expert who knows more than tomb robbers, where can the average academic school compare with the experience of tomb robbers?
Wang Lao led the people towards the tomb on the east side.
The role of the team is still very large, especially the two searchlights, which illuminate the fire ahead.
"Professor Wang, you said that after Xia's defeat, why didn't Shang Tang directly kill Xia Wei, besides, isn't it a legend that Xia Wei died in Nanchao?"
Professor Wang put on his glasses: "When you are young, you should study more." ”
Fang Hong was speechless for a while.
"666, Brother Gun also has a time when he is deflated. ”
"First, more than half of the twenty-three main last monarchs in ancient China died in their lives, and the remaining half either died of illness after Chan Rang, or committed suicide before the destruction of the country, and those who were directly killed by the next generation of rulers basically do not exist, and this situation recorded in the wild history has not been verified. ”
In other words, most of the last monarchs were not killed.
"This has something to do with the system, although the history books have always written that it started from the Xia and entered the era of the world, in fact, among the many emperors and kings that appeared in ancient times, less than half of them inherited the throne from their fathers and brothers, and most of them succeeded to the throne through Chan. ”
"The change of dynasties, the last monarch to tell the world that it is necessary to let the virtuous, such as Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Li, and Lord Chai, these people are like this, and in the same surname, it is not necessarily all inheritance, many emperors have no descendants and no brothers or brothers, so the throne is actually Zen to the same surname whose kinship is not enough to achieve the inheritance system. ”
Film and television dramas always show harem battles, and kings seize the throne, in fact, there have been so many times in history when kings compete for the throne.
Fang Hong smiled awkwardly: "I mean, why did Xia Wei come here." ”
Professor Wang nodded: "This is actually very easy to understand, in ancient times, whether it is inheritance or Zen concession, in short, the inheritance of the throne has roots, probably in history can be divided into three empires, although there are many dynasties, but many dynasties are inherited from the imperial power of the previous dynasty." Once this kind of inheritance happens, then whether the previous generation of rulers still exists is of little significance, our history focuses on success and defeat, and historians do not care about the death of a dead monarch. ”
In front of them, the first tomb facing east shocked everyone.
A big tripod is placed on the ground, this is actually one, a three-legged tripod.
The four-legged tripod is a ritual vessel, logically speaking, the three-legged tripod of this era is actually a pot, but at the end of the summer and the beginning of the Shang dynasty, pottery is generally used for cooking.
Professor Wang turned around: "I heard Old Man Huo say that you are one of the top chefs in Sichuan?"
As soon as Fang Hong heard the praise, he was immediately humble: "No, no, whether it is Shanghe cuisine, Yanbang cuisine, or Xiahe cuisine, there are more masters than me who have the ability." ”
Professor Wang nodded: "Then do you know how the word torment came from?"
Boiling dumplings and boiling ejiao are both cooking methods.
"What about cooking, frying, roasting, stewing, simmering, boiling, steaming, stewing, exploding?"
Fang Hong thought for a long time: "Except for stir-frying, other cooking methods were originally used to kill people. ”
Torment, fire under the copper tripod, and living people into the tripod, isn't it torment?
Cannons, branding, these are all criminal laws.
Fang Hong looked up, this house was not a kitchen, it was a torture room.
This Dading is used for execution, and the corner of the house, the inconspicuous pillar, should be a copper pillar, which is the source of the burning, and it is Xia Wei's masterpiece of invention.
"At that time, the concept of human beings was not so deep, they did not think that their behavior was inhumane, and the branding of the pancake was the first criminal law in history to exterminate human nature. ”