Chapter 2 The Jade Seal of the Country
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No matter how hard Tang Fanghua tried to recall, he couldn't figure out where he had seen this ancient corpse, maybe he had seen it in which literature? Maybe someone in a film and television work is extremely similar to this ancient corpse? Maybe it's the hallucination caused by the excitement and exertion of this one!
The subsequent discovery surprised them, because the ancient corpse in the inner coffin was only dressed in a moon-white brocade robe with high-quality materials and fine workmanship, no official uniform, no seal to prove the identity of the tomb owner, and no written anything, could there never be any major discoveries in the inner coffin?
Yes, if it was a major discovery, it was a thick layer of rush grass, ice chips, and a small amount of musk laid at the bottom of the coffin, as well as a sword by the pillow of the tomb owner. Rush grass, borneol and musk are all materials used to preserve the corpse from decay, and this sword, the whole body is black, the shape is ordinary, and there is no clue for a while, so the sword can only be identified tomorrow by dating and material composition analysis and documentary evidence.
At this moment, everyone's minds were full of fresh corpses, and no one took this sword to heart, but they never thought that this ancient sword would stab out such earth-shattering and shine with such colorful light in the future. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
To the surprise of the archaeologists, everything in front of them added up to bring them boundless confusion, the slurry tomb, golden silk nanmu, cloud brocade quilt, incorruptible fresh corpses, rush grass, borneol, musk all prove that the owner of the tomb is at least a princely and general-level figure, but they have not found even the slightest bit of the identity of the tomb owner. In addition, this pitiful little is hardly in the shape of any funerary items, which looks like the tomb of some emperor and general?
Although everyone was puzzled in their hearts, they had no good plan for a while, so they worked together to carefully move the ancient corpse to the ancient corpse preservation cabinet, and then went to organize and preserve the rush grass, borneol, musk and the long sword, but at this moment, only to hear Zhang Bo shouting: "Eh! Look! What is it? ”
But seeing that Zhang Bo was holding a jade in his hand, its color was turquoise, the whole body was clear, and there was a faint touch of dragon-shaped blood in the clear, a monster was carved above the jade, and the other side was engraved with some ancient characters like birds and insects crawling.
I saw Qi Hong slowly take the jade from Zhang Bo's hand with his left hand, looked carefully up and down, left and right, and gently stroked the ancient characters crawling like birds and insects with his right hand, and whispered: "By the order of heaven, Emperor Shouchang"
Tang Fanghua was stunned when he heard the eight words 'Emperor Shouchang by the Order of Heaven', and squeezed out four words from his throat: "Inherit the jade seal of the country!?" When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed.
Heirloom jade seal? What kind of treasure is this?
What can shock the experts is naturally extraordinary, there are records in the history books, when Qin Shi Huang ruled the world, ordered Li Si to seal the book "by the order of heaven, the emperor Shouchang" eight characters (there is also a saying that it is 'ordered by the sky both Shou Yongchang'), Xianyang jade Wang Sun Shou will be and the family of the bi fine grinding, carved for the seal, is for the country jade seal.
Since then, the jade seal of the country, as the only token of "divine power of the emperor, orthodoxy and legitimacy", has become the only standard to test whether the emperor is orthodox.
The history of the jade seal of the country has been passed on to all dynasties and generations, inherited from the hands of hundreds of emperors, and finally fell into the hands of Li Congke, the emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, and Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan to capture Luoyang, Li Congke brought the jade seal of the country and the queen prince in the Xuanwu Building.
If this jade seal is the legendary heirloom jade seal, then this archaeological discovery is no less than the previous tomb corpses, so how can this not make Tang Fanghua and them overjoyed?! However, this heirloom jade seal has been very legendary in history, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it is because everyone is overjoyed that there is a big question mark in their hearts.
No, Qi Hong, who is good at historical allusion documents, flashed a few suspicious colors in his eyes, and said, "I'm afraid this is an imitation." Tang Fanghua frowned, took the first treasure of China from Qi Hong's hand and looked at it carefully.
Qi Hong said: "There is a record in the "World Book" written by the Han and Song Tables: 'Lu Zhaogong began to make the seal, Qin and the Six Kingdoms were called the emperors, and the jade of Lantian was first taken, and the jade worker Sun Shou carved it, and Li Si was the big seal book. But the jade seal in front of me is engraved with a small seal, not a big seal! ”
Zhang Bo scratched his head and said quite humbly: "Sister Hong, you know that I studied computers, and I just entered the institute not long ago, don't laugh at me if I say something wrong, some of the materials I read before mentioned that the text on the jade seal of this country is the small seal of Qin Shi Huang after he unified the world, not the big seal before the unification of the world." ”
Fan Zhifeng waved his hand, a mouthful of Shaanxi dialect, and said: "This heirloom jade seal has been flickering since it came out, true or false, it is difficult to figure out, and there are documents that say that it is bird and insect text, stone drum text, tadpole text, and it is very messy!" ”
At this time, Tang Fanghua spoke: "Xiao Fan's words are also true, now the archaeological community has different opinions on the text, shape, ornamentation, and material of this heirloom jade seal, and no one has ever seen the real heirloom jade seal, and there are different opinions on the literature. ”
Wang Ge took over and said, "I think I may not be able to figure it out until the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is excavated." ”
Everyone laughed, Qi Hong was unconvinced, and said: "Even if this is not clear, but this jade seal is engraved with 'Emperor Shouchang by the Order of Heaven', not 'Ordered by Heaven and Shouchang', which is basically recognized by all walks of life in domestic history and archaeology, as well as the color and texture of the jade......"
Qi Hong's mobile phone rang non-stop when he spoke, it is estimated that his family urged him to go home, although everyone did not answer the phone, but Tang Fanghua still intercepted Qi Hong's words and said: "Xiao Qi, let's put this issue aside for a while, and we will study it after the paleographers and geologists arrive, okay?" ”
Qi Hong was a little embarrassed, and said: "Anyway, there will be no conclusion for a while and a half, since the leaders have spoken, dare not obey!" ”
Tang Fanghua looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock, and said: "It's late, everyone is tired, let's go here in advance today, go home to worship the Five Organs Temple, have a good rest, nourish your spirit, and continue to fight tomorrow!" ”
Everyone had no objection, and they were busy for more than half an hour according to the archaeological process, placing and preserving the cultural relics properly, and putting the ancient corpses in the low-oxygen archaeological storage cabinet. At the end of the day, Tang Fanghua did not forget to explain a task to Zhang Bo: "Zhang Bo, I have to trouble you to work overtime after you go back and sort out the records!" Zhang Bo responded: "Teacher Tang, don't worry! Mission completion guaranteed! Just for a moment, Zhang Bo asked weakly: "Mr. Tang, is this incident going to Beijing today?" ”
Tang Fanghua patted his head: "Hey! Really, we are all busy and confused, ventilation, of course, we also need experts in many aspects of Beijing to help us! "But when I looked at the time, my face was in trouble, it was so late, how could I fight in the middle of the night?
At this time, everyone looked at Zhang Bo in unison, and Tang Fanghua spoke: "Zhang Bo, it's inconvenient for you to see it so late, why don't you tell Zhang Lao?" ”
Chapter Lao? Who is Mr. Zhang? It is a chapter of Taishan Beidou 'one chapter and two Tang' in the archaeological world, Zhang Lao Zhang Lianjing, who is also Tang Fanghua's teacher and director of the Beijing Institute of Archaeology, it is no exaggeration to say that his words can determine the authenticity of a cultural relic and the life and death of an archaeological project, and Zhang Bo is none other than Zhang Lao's precious grandson.
Zhang Bo smiled humbly and said, "Teacher Tang, you beat you, this is a matter of work!" Tang Fanghua nodded, then called Zhang Lao to report the archaeological discovery, and Tang Fanghua, who hung up the phone, said: "Zhang Lao is very shocked and very happy, saying that Beijing will send people to support us tomorrow." ”
After Tang Fanghua got home and got some food, he plunged into the study, checked the relevant documents of today's archaeological work, and after careful analysis, he believed that the jade seal of the country was still confusing in at least four aspects: First, should the words engraved on the jade seal be a small seal or a large seal, or a bird and insect inscription, a stone drum inscription, or a tadpole inscription? Second, is the material of the jade seal Hetian jade or the hard Lantian jade? Third, is the carving shape above the jade seal a tiger or a five dragons, or a dragon fish and phoenix? Fourth, when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the jade seal was dropped by the Empress Yuan, and was it the 'seal horn' or the 'dragon horn', or the horn of the tiger? Looking at the jade seal in the photo, after some comparison, I pondered that there is another feature on the jade seal found today that has never been mentioned in historical documents, that is, the dragon-shaped blood red on the jade seal, but the more I think about it, the more I don't understand, plus the fatigue of the day, Tang Fanghua, who was thinking about it, fell asleep on the chair unconsciously.
In Xi'an in early spring, the spring was cold, and after a while, Tang Fanghua was awakened by freezing, and saw the email sent by Zhang Bo flashing and flashing, when he opened the text and photos sorted out by Zhang Bo, he saw the ancient corpse again, only to feel that the eyes of the ancient corpse were looking at him again, he turned his head to the left, and the eyes of the ancient corpse seemed to look to the left, he turned his head to the right, and the eyes of the ancient corpse seemed to turn to the right, he blinked again, and the ancient corpse seemed to blink, although Tang Fanghua was a complete atheist, But at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a gust of wind blowing from behind him.
Tang Fanghua, whose heart was beating fast, got up and closed the window of the study, and when he was about to sit down, he heard a sound of clanging from his daughter's room, Tang Fanghua suddenly stood on end, thinking: It is said that it has been almost three years since the death of this wife, and her daughter is studying at Western University again.
Tang Fanghua walked to the door of his daughter's room and called his daughter's name softly: "Qiqi? Kiki? Seeing no response, Tang Fanghua boldly pushed open the door, facing a cold wind blowing, Tang Fanghua shivered, turned on the light, his daughter was not at home, on the desk under the lamp, a vivid black and white sketch portrait of his daughter was inlaid in a ten-inch walnut frame, which was quietly placed on the desk, and his daughter was smiling sweetly at him in the portrait.
The windows were ajar, and the floor-to-ceiling curtains were blown high by the wind, and then fell slowly. Tang Fanghua stepped forward and closed the window, only then did he see a few pieces of paper and a book scattered on the ground, thinking that his feelings were all caused by this wind, it must have been a strong wind at night, and this wind blew the paper and books on the desk to the ground, so he guessed that he heard the sound of clanging. After sighing, she picked up the paper on the ground and nagged with relief: This girl is still so lost, and she forgot to close the window when she left.
A casual glance at the pieces of paper made him raise his eyebrows.
It turned out that one of the pieces of paper was painted with a jade seal, and one side was exactly the same as the 'heirloom jade seal' found in archaeology today, that is, even a touch of dragon-shaped blood in the jade seal was also painted exactly the same.
Tang Fanghua only felt a buzzing of his head, and in all his surprise, Tang Fanghua pondered that firstly, his daughter did not know how to paint, and secondly, his daughter blamed her archaeological work for a large part of the reason for his wife's death, so her daughter had an extreme rejection of archaeology. What's more, even if her daughter went to college to learn painting in the past few years, she would not paint this archaeology-related heirloom jade seal, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if she wants to paint the heirloom jade seal, she can only copy it from the Internet and books, how can she draw the heirloom jade seal that is only available today and is not the same as the record in all the surviving materials in the past?
After pondering and pondering, Tang Fanghua felt the need to call his daughter to ask for clarification, but when he picked up the phone, he saw that it was already more than three o'clock in the morning, and he had no choice but to give up.
Confused, he raised his eyes and saw his daughter's smiling face again, and suddenly he seemed to have discovered something, and his eyes examined and compared the two paintings back and forth, and found that the two paintings were strikingly similar in terms of brushstrokes and expressions, which means that the two paintings were most likely made by the same person. But could this painter be a daughter? If not, who is the person who paints it? How could this painting end up in her daughter's hands? What is the relationship between the painter and his daughter?
Tang Fanghua, who was lying on the bed, tossed and turned, unable to sleep for a long time, he was thinking, no matter who painted the heirloom jade seal, it didn't matter, what was important or weird was that how could a person living today draw this heirloom jade seal that only the dead knew?
Tang Fanghua, who was puzzled, meditated hard and didn't come up with anything famous, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that today's archaeological discoveries were full of mysteries and mysteries, and the appearance of this painting in his daughter's room added a bit of unbelievability and bizarre weirdness to this archaeology.
Suddenly, Tang Fanghua sat up from the bed suddenly, unless...... Unless the person who painted the painting has seen another heirloom jade seal, and this heirloom jade seal is exactly the same as the heirloom jade seal found in the ancient tomb? That is to say, in reality, there is another heirloom jade seal, if this is the case, then where is this jade seal now? And who collects it? Why did the ancients carve two identical heirloom jade seals when they carved jade seals? Which of these two heirloom jade seals is true and which one is fake?
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