The plane landed at Hongcheng Airport, and the archaeological team had already sent a special car to pick it up.

The driver was Jin Guangyi, the leader of the archaeological team, and in the car, he briefly briefed Cao Runde on the discovery of the Han tomb.

The Han Tomb is located in the northwest of Hongcheng, more than 40 kilometers away from the city, a small place called Huanghuang Mountain, located on the shore of Pohu Lake, very remote.

The discovery of this Han tomb was also purely accidental, when two villagers saw a group of people sneakily digging something on the mountain when they were on the Huanghuang Mountain, the two villagers thought it was from the wood on the mountain, so they quietly called the police.

After the police caught those people, they saw that the tools were all used for tomb robbery, and after such interrogation, they learned that Huanghuang Mountain turned out to be a giant ancient tomb.

The police immediately reported this situation to the Hongcheng archaeological team, and the archaeological team went to the scene to check, and found that Huanghuang Mountain is actually composed of two hills, one of which is a larger mountain has several robbery holes, and it seems that the damage has been very serious, and this was found except for the robbery hole that has just been dug out is not deep, no other robbery holes were found, and there was no major damage as a whole.

In order to rescue the excavation of the ancient tomb, the Hongcheng archaeological team applied to the provincial archaeological team for rescue excavation of Huanghuang Mountain.

After the approval of the provincial archaeological team, the Hongcheng archaeological team excavated the ancient tomb, which was a large Han Dynasty tomb, the scale far exceeded the overdue, and it was likely to be the tomb of an emperor of the Han Dynasty, so it was hurriedly reported to the central government.

Hearing that it was a large Han Dynasty tomb, the central government immediately sent a national archaeological team into the site to take over the tomb.

As the excavation progressed, the results of the excavation became more and more exciting, setting a number of national archaeological firsts.

The ancient tombs with the most ancient coins, the ancient tombs with the most gold cakes, and the ancient tombs with the most bamboo slips in the Han Dynasty have filled a number of archaeological gaps.

However, it is not yet possible to determine who the owner of the tomb is, and it can only be preliminarily determined that it may be the tomb of a marquis in the Han Dynasty.

I didn't know what the name of the tomb was, so according to the name of Huanghuang Mountain, I took a Huanghuang tomb.

Cao Runde is not interested in antiques or anything, only interested in those bamboo slips, heard that there are more than 10,000 bamboo slips in the ancient tomb, and immediately became so excited that he couldn't wait to rush to the emperor's tomb immediately to carry out research on those bamboo slips.

The car of the archaeological team shuttles through the winding mountain road, Hongcheng is mostly hilly, there is only one mountain Meiling, the altitude is only more than 840 meters, although the peak is not high, but there is a unique handsome beauty in the south of the Yangtze River, which makes Chen Yu and Yuan Pengpeng a few students who are used to seeing the mountains and rivers in the north excited.

After driving for more than an hour from the airport, I finally arrived at Huanghuang Mountain.

It is said to be a mountain, but it is more like a tall mound, standing in a flat field.

There are two peaks in Huanghuang Mountain, which run from east to west.

The two large rivers on the left and right meander from Meiling in the distance, meet about five miles east of Huanghuang Mountain and flow into Pohu Lake.

With Meiling as the ancestor, down the dragon, surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is a good feng shui pattern.

Lin Wei saw the scene around Huanghuang Mountain, and couldn't help but admire the unique vision of the people who chose the tomb back then.

When the goal was reached, Cao Runde couldn't wait to take the students into the cemetery to clean up and study the bamboo slips.

The ancient tomb is not as magical as written, what quicksand, what hidden weapons, no, this is a sealed tomb, the archaeological team directly broke the ground from above, excavated layer by layer, and cleaned up layer by layer.

Probably influenced by some tomb robbers, when they heard that Cao Runde was going to take them to the archaeological site for excavation, Chen Yu and Yuan Pengpeng were full of curiosity about the ancient tomb, until they arrived at the excavation site, they were disappointed, and it was far from the ancient tomb scene they were expecting.

There is no imaginary strange landscape, only layers of abandoned loess, and the mood is naturally lost.

"You guys have been robbed of the tomb and burned your heads, how can there be so many bizarre things in the ancient tomb, hurry up and clean up the bamboo slips!" Cao Runde criticized Chen Yu and Yuan Pengpeng after hearing their whispered discussions.

"Oh." Although it is not as interesting as I imagined, as a major in ancient literature, it is also a lucky thing to be able to get in touch with first-hand information about ancient literature.

Chen Yu and Yuan Pengpeng immediately buried their heads in cleaning up the bamboo slips.

These bamboo slips are all before the Han Dynasty, many fonts are still seals, fortunately, as a researcher of ancient literature, the change of ancient Chinese characters is a necessary skill for everyone, and there are special courses in the school, so they are not too laborious to recognize these words, and some of the words they don't know are also Cao Runde, an expert, is present.

Pieces of bamboo slips were sorted out and deciphered, and Cao Runde was excited.

Many of the bamboo slips are not recorded in the history books, or there are records but no relevant supporting materials can be found.

Since the Han Dynasty, Chinese culture has undergone more than 2,000 years of changes, and some historical materials have been revised several times, especially after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the Four Books and Five Classics have undergone a major revision, and some historical books have been different from historical facts.

This time, a large number of bamboo slips from the Han Dynasty were unearthed, which filled many historical gaps and corrected people's perception of some history.

"Professor Cao, come and see, what is this painting on it?" Archaeological team leader Jin Guangyi cleans up dirt from a wooden board.

Hearing Jin Guangyi's shout, Cao Runde asked Chen Yu and them to continue cleaning up the bamboo slips, and only brought Lin Wei and Qu Jing to Jin Guangyi's side.

By this time, the dirt on the board had almost been cleared, and the whole of the board was revealed, and it was a screen painted with brilliant colors.

Hesitantly, the color of the screen oxidized when it met the air, and when it was first excavated, it was put into a transparent box near a vacuum.

Jin Guangyi put his hands into the box, carefully cleaned the soil on the screen with a brush, and when he saw the picture on the screen, he couldn't help but call Cao Runde to identify the pictures on the screen.

"Kong Zu!" After seeing the painting on the screen, Qu Jing exclaimed without waiting for Cao Runde to say the name of the painting.

"Have you ever seen this painting?" Seeing Qu Jing call out the word Kong Zu, Cao Runde and Jin Guangyi were a little surprised, because this was just a painting, and there was no writing on it, so why did she directly say that it was Kong Zu painted on it.

Confucius is a Chinese literary saint, and he has an important influence in both the cultivation and secular worlds.

"I haven't seen it, but his movements are exactly the same as those of Kong Zu in my family." The portrait on this picture is not the same as the appearance of the characters on the exercise map handed down by the ancestors of the family, but the action of bowing the hand is exactly the same, so Qu Jing blurted out the word Kong Zu.

"Maybe it's just that later generations learn from Confucius." Jin Guangyi said.

Although there have been portraits of Confucius in major Confucian temples and books, no one knows whether it is a real portrait of Confucius, because Chinese painting and calligraphy techniques do not want Western painting techniques to be based on realism, Chinese painting is mainly freehand, focusing on the momentum of the characters, and not paying much attention to the appearance itself, even if the painting is the person, it may not be able to see that the real Confucius portrait has not been excavated in the previous tomb excavations, if this time it is really a portrait of Confucius, it will fill this gap, Everyone will also know what Kong Zu really looks like.

(End of chapter)