In this year, Torii Ryuzo was thirty-six years old and had become a well-known archaeologist and anthropologist in the Wa Kingdom. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

With the help of the great influence of the royal palace, Torii Ryuzo spent three years of free time, almost all over the mountains and grasslands in this nearby area, found a large number of ancient remains, and of course, also took a lot of "specimens"!

According to the note, the person who left these things and wrote them down was the guide who was privately hired by Torii Ryuzo. However, he did not leave his name, claiming that he had no shame to leave his name because he helped the Japanese people take away the things of China. So, I don't know who it is at all.

However, it is also clear that because the archaeological activities of Torii Ryuzo did not go deep underground, the initial objects of investigation were mainly ground and shallow ancient remains, so there was not much to be gained.

Torii Ryuzo's wife understands Mongolian, which saves him a lot of worry to a large extent. The ancient tombs surrounding the stones discovered by Torii Ryuzo are what later experts called "stone mounds", which are typical tombs of the Hongshan culture. At that time, he did not think that this was a Neolithic tomb, and thought that it was the remains of the ancient Donghu people.

Donghu is a horseback ethnic group distributed in eastern Mongolia from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, of course, it belongs to the nomadic people, and its cultural type is completely different from the agricultural civilization of the Hongshan culture.

However, at that time, no one knew about the Hongshan culture at all, and it was a groundbreaking move for Torii Ryuzo to start researching.

The guide hired by Torii Ryuzo is a Han Chinese who has lived in the local area since childhood, and is proficient in Chinese characters and Chinese culture. And he once went to Yanjing to attend a new-style school, and he also stayed in the palace. He had just finished his parents' funeral and was about to leave the place, but it was at this time that Torii Ryuzo found him, and he was also very interested in the so-called investigation of a Japanese people, so he decided to "learn" from it.

During his tenure at the Imperial Palace, Torii Ryuzo traveled to the nearby archaeological site whenever he had time, and he also took a lot of notes.

And after ending his career as a teacher in the palace, Torii Ryuzo did not leave there. He took this guide with him for the last and most in-depth archaeological expedition!

They traveled east along the Xibe River, inquiring about the local people as they searched.

Eventually, Torii Ryuzo came to Red Mountain!

Red Mountain, meaning "Ulan Hada" in Mongolian, means red peak, located in the eastern part of Mombasa. There is also a beautiful legend here. It is said that the original name of Red Mountain was Nine Girls Mountain, because the nine fairies violated the rules of heaven, and the Queen Mother of the West was furious, and they panicked and knocked over the rouge box, and the red rouge was scattered on the mountain here, so that nine red peaks appeared. Later, the Nine Girls Mountain was called the Red Mountain.

This legend, in fact, also shows from a certain angle that the main social structure of the Hongshan culture is actually the matrilineal clan, and the transition to the paternal clan has begun in the late period.

It was in Red Hill that a large tomb was discovered in Torii Ryuzo! This is the largest tomb he has discovered in three years, and in this tomb, he found a total of fourteen pieces of jade from the Hongshan culture!

At the same time, there are many tombs in the vicinity, and some pottery and bone tools have been found in Torii Ryuzo, and most of the pottery is fragments.

Torii Ryuzo conducted in-depth research here, and eventually, he sorted the collected "specimens" and prepared to take them away.

Among them, the most exquisite and important thing is undoubtedly these fourteen pieces of jade! The guide was also surprised, he didn't expect that thousands of years ago, someone would be able to make such a beautiful jade!

Torii Ryuzo also attaches the most importance to these jade objects, and the pottery and bone ware are just packed first, ready to be taken away first. But these jades were marked one by one, and all the jade objects were packed in the strongest small box.

The night before Torii Ryuzo was to leave Momuni, the guide couldn't sleep! Before he followed Torii Ryuzo to archaeology, it was relatively fragmentary time, and the "specimens" he got looked inconspicuous.

The guide didn't know about cultural relics, but this batch of jade shocked him greatly. He tossed and turned all night, thinking about these things left by the ancestors of Huaxia, could they have been taken away by a Japanese people?

It was almost dawn, and he finally made a decision!

When Torii Ryuzo found out, he had already run away with this box of jade!

He originally wanted to go to Yanjing, because after all, he had studied there and was more familiar. But after thinking about it, Torii Ryuzo knew that he had studied in Yanjing, and it was easy to track down. After thinking about it, when he was in school, one of his best classmates was from Chang'an, and later he worked in a newspaper in Chang'an. He then rushed west to Chang'an.

This fellow scholar had a good background, and he mixed well in the newspaper store, so he simply introduced him to work in the newspaper and helped him rent a house. He thought about it and lived temporarily in Chang'an.

At that time, it was still the end of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, the newspapers were very newsworthy, and many of them were bookish newspapers, similar to periodicals, but even so, they must have had more contact with outside information than ordinary people.

At the newspaper office, he got the news that Torii Ryuzo had returned to Wakoku, and he didn't hear any rumors about it. In other words, this matter is basically over.

These fourteen pieces of jade should be safe. Although he didn't know why Torii Ryuzo didn't pursue this matter, he was finally at ease.

Actually, Torii Ryuzo is a bit different from other Wakoku people, how can I say it? He's a bit of a maverick,

He really came to China only to conduct archaeological research. As a Japanese national, he openly opposed the Japanese invasion of China. In 1939, he was also hired as a visiting research professor at Yenching University, where he remained until 1951. At this stage, he is very hard, the Chinese people ignore him, the Japanese people ignore him, he lives by pawning!

It is easy to understand that such a person does not pursue a Chinese man for "stealing" the "specimens" he collected in Huaxia. According to what Torii Ryuzo later wrote, these fourteen jade objects are not mentioned, but pottery and other jade objects are emphasized.

These fourteen pieces of jade are safe, but this person doesn't know what to do with them!

Handed over to the Qing court? At that time, the situation was chaotic, and the Manchu court was so upset by foreigners that it was unable to hold its head up, and how many unequal treaties were signed alone? Of course he didn't want to turn it in.

But to whom? He didn't know anyone in the heritage world, and he didn't have anyone to be fully trusted.

Have you been keeping it private? Nor is it appropriate.

Of course, Tang Yi already knew the final decision, and he was hiding here. In the handwritten letter, it is said that the reason why I wanted to hide here is because I found such a place during a survey of the customs and customs of northern Shaanxi arranged by the newspaper. Later, he came quietly.

"That's pretty much it." Tang Yi said as he looked at it, "However, in the end, he made a request to the person who got this batch of jade. ”