Chapter 41: The Yuan Dynasty Tomb
As soon as the tomb appeared, the staff all looked at its exterior, fortunately, no robbery hole was found, such a large tomb, if it was not stolen, it is very likely that a lot of burial goods were unearthed.
However, it obviously took some work to get in through the tomb door, but fortunately the stone bricks on one side of the tomb door had been staggered. After careful analysis, the staff decided to remove the stone bricks on the side of the door.
As the stone bricks were removed, the corridor in the tomb was revealed, and everyone took a flashlight and cautiously drilled into the corridor, although Han Duoer was afraid of ghosts, but there were so many people in the tomb, and they were bold enough to drill into it.
Zhao Zhuo stood outside the door, turned his head to look at Mo Ling beside him, Mo Ling was tilting his head to look at the tomb, turned his head to him and said, "Big brother, thank you, if you hadn't called me out of the ink jade, I'm afraid I would have stayed in it for the rest of my life." Although Moyu is the place where I was born, staying there is no different from staying in this tomb. ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly: "I should thank you, if it weren't for you, how could I become so powerful?" ”
Laughing, he followed Han Duoer and walked into the tomb. Although the entire tomb was three or four meters high, in fact, the side length was only more than 2 meters, Zhao Zhuo and Han Duoer were bold enough to drill into it, and as soon as they entered, they smelled a rotten smell, and there seemed to be a few stone tablets lying on the ground.
Zhao Zhuo squatted down, picked up the flashlight and pointed at it, the stone tablet was written with dense words, as if it was an inscription, but because it was broken into several pieces, it was impossible to judge which piece to read for a while.
The burial chamber is dark and dry, and the corridor is made of regular gray bricks, on which two murals are painted in white and yellow.
Cui Shiyan took a flashlight and looked at it carefully on the wall, and then said: "It is a mural in the style of the Yuan Dynasty, and the shape of this tomb is also quite in the style of the Yuan Dynasty, so it should be a Yuan tomb." ”
Han Duoer said with a new face: "I heard from the village chief just now, there was a big official here in the Yuan Dynasty, could it be the tomb of that big official?" ”
Cui Shiyan smiled and said, "There is this possibility, let's go inside." ”
After passing through the not wide corridor, you came to the tomb, there are two small ear chambers on both sides of the main chamber, but unfortunately the roof of the ear chamber has long collapsed, according to the law of the ear chamber buried, it is generally a living utensils and the like, most of them are ceramic wood and the like, it is estimated that it has been damaged.
The whole burial chamber is square, the inner wall is made of white tomb bricks, the top of the wall is inlaid with gray bucket arches, and there are quite exquisite murals on the four walls, which show the rich life of the tomb owner during his lifetime.
In the center of the burial chamber is a large coffin, because of the age, the surface has shown some decay, on both sides of the coffin, there are some porcelain bowls, clay pots and other burial goods, which are covered with thick soil.
Cui Shiyan walked to the coffin and looked at it, touched it with his gloved hand, and said with a smile after trying it: "This tomb is not small, and it has two ear chambers, which looks decent, and the wood of this coffin is also quite good. ”
"Do you want to open it now?" Han Duo'er asked with wide eyes.
Cui Shiyan smiled and waved his hand and said: "Not now, the porcelain is okay, the clothes have been isolated from the air for so many years, and once they are opened, they will oxidize rapidly [***], so we have to wait for the other staff to come here, set up tents, control the temperature here, and then bring all the saved tools before the coffin can be opened." ”
Speaking of this, he looked at the burial goods on the ground and smiled: "But there are about twenty large burial goods that can be seen, which is enough for us to clean up." ”
Because the light in the tomb was not clear, Cui Shiyan asked the staff to remove the loose tomb bricks at the top of the coupon, so that the entire tomb was exposed to the sun.
The next step is to clean up the burial goods. Cleaning up the burial goods is a delicate work, because after hundreds of years, no one knows whether the burial goods in the tomb have been damaged, so you must be very careful when cleaning up, for the soil covered, use a small brush to brush away the soil little by little.
Han Duoer is very interested in cleaning up cultural relics, took a small brush and began to clean a small porcelain bowl, Zhao Zhuo is naturally very concerned about cleaning things, he now only gets porcelain in the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and there are four games, namely the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Six Dynasties, the primitive celadon and the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the porcelain required for these four games has not been found.
And in this Yuan tomb, if a piece of porcelain that can be used for the Dou Porcelain Festival competition can be unearthed, it will naturally be the best, and Cui Shiyan has already promised to lend it to him.
The first porcelain bowl was quickly cleaned out, and it was a blue and white water mountain pattern bowl.
This bowl mouth along the slight skimming, deep belly circle foot, regular shape, hold in the hand can feel the delicate fetal quality, touch the glaze can feel moist like water, needless to say, it is definitely the real product of the Yuan Dynasty.
Look at the pattern of this vessel again, the outer wall of the abdomen is painted with lofty mountains and mountains, layers of mountains and mountains, ancient trees and cold ke, and there are streams and springs and waterfalls, small bridges and flowing waters, which are embellished with courtyard people's houses, pine and bamboo shades, a group of rural forest and wild fun, the poetry and painting of hidden paradise.
"It's a really good drawing." Han Duoer exclaimed.
Cui Shiyan leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but say: "It's really quite expressive, but it's not an official kiln, it's just a product of an ordinary folk kiln, and it's not a high-quality product." ”
Zhao Zhuo also bowed slightly: "Yes, there are many such things on the market, and the price is only 3 or 40,000 yuan." ”
At this moment, a staff member next to him shouted: "Curator, Shadow Green Glaze!" ”
Everyone hurriedly rushed over, only to see that this person was holding a cyan string pattern holding pot in his hand, the pot was only 10cm high, it looked ordinary, but the glaze color was a little different from the ordinary celadon, it looked between blue and white, blue with white, white in the flashing blue, the string pattern depicted on it could be seen inside and outside the light, as if the porcelain was smeared with a layer of cyan shadow.
Cui Shiyan took the pot over, touched it with his hand, and then handed it to Zhao Zhuo's hand, Zhao Zhuo touched the porcelain fetus, only felt that it was as thin as paper, and the fetus was pure white as snow, even though it was hidden in the ground for hundreds of years, but it still could not hide its dazzling light.
The porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty was developed on the basis of the Song Dynasty, and a special palace was set up to manage the firing of porcelain. The reign of the Yuan Dynasty was only more than 90 years, and it was a melee year after year, so on the whole, the ceramic industry of the Yuan Dynasty basically inherited the old system of the Song Dynasty, except for the blue and white, glaze red and other varieties, there was not much development, as for the shadow blue glaze, that was also invented during the Song Dynasty.
After he carefully distinguished, he nodded heavily and said: "Yes, this is the shadow green glaze of Jingdezhen, but it is not the Yuan Dynasty, but the Southern Song Dynasty." ”
Cui Shiyan smiled and said: "Senior brother's eyesight is really amazing, and you can see at a glance that it is something from the Southern Song Dynasty." ”
Zhao Zhuo said with a smile: "This is very easy to distinguish, most of the glaze in the early Northern Song Dynasty was multi-light and unpatterned, and a small amount of decoration such as carved flowers appeared after the middle period, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that printing and other lines prevailed." However, the Song porcelain is fine and dexterous, and the production of Yuan porcelain is gradually coarse and clumsy, and the style is quite different. ”
Han Duoer stuck out her tongue when she heard it and said, "This is still easy to distinguish, just listening to it is already confused." ”
Cui Shiyan laughed and said: "Han girl, we are people who specialize in eating with eyesight, if we can't see this, then we can only drink the northwest wind." ”
Han Duoer thought about it, and said curiously: "Then how much can this porcelain be worth?" ”
Zhao Zhuo thought for a while and said, "About 200,000." ”
"Hmph, then I'll clean up a valuable one too." Han Duoer snorted lightly, squatted down and continued to clean up things.
Cui Shiyan lightly touched Zhao Zhuo with his elbow, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, you are really capable, on one side is Miss Jing, and on the other hand is this childhood sweetheart, senior brother, I am really envious, but don't show your stuffing, otherwise, the sky will fall." ”
Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Senior brother, you misunderstood, we are all friends." ”
Cui Shiyan looked like a person who had come over, and said with deep meaning: "Your senior brother and my eyes are not dizzy, everyone can see that this little girl is very interesting to you, and Miss Jing is the same, she is cold to everyone, but she smiles when she sees you, do you think she is really just a friend?" ”
Zhao Zhuo was stunned when he heard this, and he really didn't know how to explain it for a while.
The excavation of the burial goods is very smooth, unearthed porcelain bowls, holding pots, glazed bottles and other porcelain a total of more than ten pieces, the most expensive is the shadow blue glazed holding pot, in addition, also unearthed a bronze mirror of the lady's figure, a pot of worthless copper coins, as well as the wood carving Guanyin head that is seriously rotted, several rusty bronze gilt Buddha statues, the value is not too high.
As Cui Shiyan expected, the damage to the ear chambers on both sides was very serious, although only a small part was cleaned, but almost all the clay pots that were buried with them had been crushed to pieces, and the rainwater had also soaked into them, so it was almost impossible that a complete artifact had been unearthed.
However, the number of burial goods outside the coffin alone is so rich, Cui Shiyan judged that there must be gold and silver and more valuable cultural relics in the coffin, at this time, there are also staff who have spliced the stone tablet in Yongdao, after distinguishing the text above, it is determined that this tomb is the tomb of a returning official in the Yuan Dynasty, who once did a local official of Wupin, and also did some good things after returning to his hometown, and later died of illness and was buried here.
The cleaning of the tomb has just begun, and the cleaned up artifacts still have to go through a series of follow-up work such as drawing and measuring, of course, what everyone is most concerned about is the contents of the coffin.
(To be continued)