Chapter 069 [Golden Jade Clothes]
"According to what you say, those jade cicadas and jade pigs are all burial goods taken from the dead people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Why didn't you tell me earlier, it's really unlucky. Fang Xiaojun looked depressed, although he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he was still quite taboo about the burial of the dead.
"The rule of the antique industry is to see through it and not say it, if I said it just now, I'm afraid we will both be in trouble."
"Trouble? What a hassle. Fang Xiaojun didn't understand what Qin Fan meant, could it be that torn cotton jacket that dared to do something with them? That's really a lantern in a pit, looking for.
Qin Fan smiled, but he didn't explain much, according to his speculation, this torn cotton jacket was definitely not a person, there must be his accomplices in the antique market, but he never showed up.
Speaking of jade, in fact, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before the Qin and Han dynasties, jade was found in the burial goods, and there were many types, and the shape of each generation was different.
For example, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were jade cicadas, jade fish, jade tubes, jade silkworms, etc., and in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were various small jade animals, such as jade pigs, jade cows, jade dogs, etc., and so on. In the Han Dynasty, most of the jade as burial objects were in the style of jade cicadas.
So why did the people of the Han Dynasty like to carve jade into cicadas?
Because the ancients believed that the cicada was a very noble creature, and it could lead to singing only by drinking dew, symbolizing a noble character. The second is because the ancients hoped that the deceased could be resurrected like cicadas and reborn.
It is also for this reason that as soon as Qin Fan saw this jade cicada, he could judge the jade on the hand of the torn cotton jacket without the gaze of the treasure pupil, the age should be from the Han Dynasty, and it was stolen from the Han tomb with the burial goods.
"Xiao Fan, what about those jade pieces of squares, which were also taken off the dead people?"
Fang Xiaojun felt a little curious, why did these jade pieces have a round hole drilled in the four corners, and each jade piece is like this, and the size is exactly the same.
"I don't know if you've heard of a very famous unearthed cultural relic in the Han Dynasty, the golden jade clothes." Qin Fan's face became a little solemn, and he said seriously.
"You say, those jade pieces were taken down from the golden jade clothes?"
Hearing Qin Fan's words, Fang Xiaojun's heart trembled. The name of the golden jade clothes is too big, and it has appeared in many TV series and novels, so it is naturally impossible for Fang Xiaojun not to hear of it.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that one day he would be able to meet the legendary golden jade clothes.
It is recorded in the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" that "the Han Emperor sent him to death, and he was all made of pearls and jade boxes." The box is shaped like armor and is connected with golden threads. ”
The jade box here is the jade clothes, and the jade clothes look like a box, with thousands of jade pieces drilled with small holes in the four corners, connected by gold threads, just like a piece of armor.
The golden jade clothes were the highest standard funeral clothes in the Han Dynasty, but the use of jade clothes was not strictly restricted in the Western Han Dynasty, and some princes and kings were also buried in golden jade clothes. It was only in the Eastern Han Dynasty that the jade clothes were divided into hierarchies. For example, the emperor of the Son of Heaven can only use golden jade clothes, the princes and kings can only use golden jade clothes, and some nobles use copper jade clothes.
There are a total of eighteen Han tombs unearthed in the Republic of China, and only eight have unearthed gold-threaded jade clothes. Among them, the most representative is the golden jade clothes of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, unearthed from the No. 1 tomb in Mancheng, Hebei Province.
The discovery of this Han tomb is also legendary.
About 40 years ago, when a unit was opening a mountain in Mancheng, it needed to use explosives to carry out construction, and as a result, a large hole was blown out at once. A PLA soldier in the army went over to look into the cave, but saw that the cave was full of gold. Then this Han Dynasty tomb that had been buried for thousands of years was discovered.
After the discovery of this Han Dynasty tomb, it was excavated by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Task Force with the approval of Premier Zhou. At that time, Guo Moruo also went to the site to investigate, and determined that this tomb was the tomb of Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, and suggested that the archaeological team should look for it nearby, and there should be a tomb.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the archaeological team to discover the tomb of Liu Sheng's wife Dou Juan not far away.
Later, two complete sets of gold-threaded jade clothes were unearthed from the tomb of King Jing of Zhongshan in Mancheng. Liu Sheng's golden jade clothes used a total of 2,498 pieces of jade, and the gold wire weighed 1,100 grams, and Dou Xuan's golden jade clothes used 2,160 pieces of jade, and the gold wire weighed 700 grams. It can be seen that the luxury of the funeral system of the Han Dynasty at that time.
"So I think there's something wrong with the origin of these jade artifacts, and if we get involved, maybe we'll have some trouble."
In fact, the vast majority of the Han Dynasty jade collected in the antique trade are burial goods unearthed from Han tombs. In history, there have been tomb robberies in various dynasties, and the most famous is the Three Kingdoms period of the Golden Captain and the tomb robber general Sun Dianying who stole the Qing Dynasty Imperial Tomb.
It's just that the jade artifacts in the hands of the torn cotton jacket are a little special, Qin Fan felt something wrong when he played with them in his hand just now, and there was an obvious earthy smell on these jade objects, it was very likely that they had just been stolen from the tomb.
"You say this man is a grave robber?"
Hearing Qin Fan's inference, Fang Xiaojun was taken aback, and his voice couldn't help but raise an octave, almost letting the guests who were having morning tea in the teahouse hear it.
Fortunately, Qin Fan's reaction was fast, and he plugged the mouth of this product with a shrimp dumpling in time, so that no one could hear it.
"Did you notice, the middle-aged man had a lame leg and clean fingernails." Qin Fan said pointedly.
Fang Xiaojun recalled, he only remembered that the leg of the torn cotton jacket was indeed lame, and as for whether the fingernails were clean or not, he didn't observe it so carefully.
"So what?"
"As far as I know, Tufuzi's work is generally a cooperation between two people, one digging a hole and the other watching the wind. The man's fingernails were clean, which meant that he was not digging holes, and that he was lame and could not be seen in the wind, so he would not be able to run away if someone found him. ”
Qin Fan patiently explained, "In other words, that person just now should be a middleman who is responsible for shipping." So I think we should have encountered a tomb robbery gang with a clear division of labor and multiple people committing crimes. ”
"I guess there must be their companions watching in this antique market, we were being targeted when that person came up to talk to us, and it's fine if the deal goes well. But if something goes wrong, I'm afraid there will be trouble. ”
In addition to those who work in the fields during the day and dig holes and rob tombs at night, many of the tomb robbers who wander around the country are extremely vicious outlaws, and even carry human lives on their backs.
No matter how high Qin Fan and Fang Xiaojun's kung fu is, it is very dangerous to encounter this kind of outlaw, and if they are not careful, they may lose their lives.
And if Qin Fan chooses to eat this batch of ghost goods just now, he may not be long after being approached by the police station, and he will be invited to the bureau to drink tea.
Therefore, Qin Fan pulled Fang Xiaojun and left, deciding not to wade into this troubled water, so as not to set himself on fire.
At this time, Qin Fan noticed a young man wearing a peaked cap, carrying a backpack, and bangs on his forehead coming up in the teahouse.
Qin Fan's gaze fell on this young man wearing a peaked cap, and he suddenly felt that this person seemed to be a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
However, this young man seemed to know Qin Fan at a glance, walked straight to the table where Qin Fan and Fang Xiaojun were drinking tea, and sat down with a big grin. Picking up the teapot that still had residual warmth, he poured himself a cup of tea, raised his head and poured it down, burping comfortably.
"I said brother, did you recognize the wrong person?"
Fang Xiaojun didn't get angry, he looked at the familiar young man in front of him with a strange expression, and said with a strange expression.
"I'm not looking for the wrong person, I'm looking for you."
I saw that the young man took off the cap on his head, revealing a delicate baby face, just like the small Korean fresh meat that Qin Fan often saw on TV in his previous life.
Seeing this familiar face, Qin Fan was taken aback in his heart, this young man was really an acquaintance he knew.
"Officer Yang, what kind of wind is blowing you here today?"
It turned out that this young man was the little policeman Yang Gang that Qin Fan had met in Luzhou, and he was the director Yang Wei, who was known as the black-faced god.
The police?
Fang Xiaojun was taken aback, they had just talked about the tomb robbers, and the police came to the door so quickly? Why is the police so efficient now?
"It's not those dirt rats who are making trouble, this time the order is to die, and they will not stop until they catch this group of people. I stared at the antique market for three days, and my eyes were almost straight. Yang Gang poured another sip of tea, he had been staring at the antique market for most of the day since the morning, and he couldn't take a sip of water to drink, and he was already thirsty.
"So, the person we just traded with is really a member of the tomb robber gang?"
Qin Fan said thoughtfully, it seems that this Yang Gang wanted to get some clues from them, so he would tell the task of the Public Security Bureau this time so readily.
"You already knew?"
This time, it was Yang Gang's turn to be surprised, it turned out that Qin Fan had already seen the identity of the torn cotton jacket, and he also knew that those jade artifacts were unearthed stolen goods.
"Hehe, I'm not sure yet. But now that I see Officer Xiao Yang, you can be sure. Qin Fan said with a smile, and at the same time secretly glad in his heart that he was cautious just now and didn't buy those jade artifacts. Otherwise, Officer Yang would probably come up in handcuffs, and those jade artifacts would eventually be confiscated as stolen goods.