Who is the old man?

This man has an unpredictable skill in tomb robbing. Just heard that a stone statue was dug up in the small town of Gaobeidian, and I immediately guessed that the origin of this ancient tomb is not small, and it is by no means a simple tomb of dignitaries. Why? We all know that in ancient times, the mausoleums of rich and powerful people after death must be on a grand scale, and they are by no means comparable to ordinary people.

But what does it mean to be big-scale?

A room full of gold, silver and jewelry?

Of course, it's not that simple.

When we meet people who drive big Land Rovers and wear big gold chains, we always laugh and call this person "turtle nouveau riche". But the term is not new. As early as ancient times, people had the concept of "vulgar".

Let's take an analogy, if you are a person with a very high taste in life, like to pursue niche and literary arts, and don't care about things like LV and Lafite at all, and even the paper that wipes the butt groove can't be made of wood in the shade, then you naturally don't want to be confused with the "turtle nouveau riche" who wears a big gold chain, even if you are worth the same amount.

There are too many rich people in modern society, and things like famous cars and watches are not uncommon for a long time, but there are also high and low elegance between rich and rich people, so this is why the business of antique auction houses is so hot. Today's rich people, if they don't hang two paintings of Picasso Monet at home, they really can't distance themselves from the "turtle nouveau riche".

In ancient times, it was the same between the rich and the rich. Don't look at some people who are named princes and generals, if you really talk about getting started, you may not necessarily have the local "rice shop" and "big salt merchants" and other wealthy, and even some grass and green forests are worth tens of millions.

As a prince and general, he naturally does not want to be compared with these "rich little citizens" after death. So what to do? So they instigated the emperor and promulgated a burial system that distinguished between nobles and commoners, which is the "gui" and "stone statue" that we are familiar with today.

What is "Ding and Gui"?

To put it bluntly, these things are two kinds of bronzes, and there are many of them in the museum, all of which are guys who ate at the ancients, and curious Taoist friends can go and see it without anything. In ancient times, only royal people could enjoy the burial system of "Ding and Gui", and if the commoners dared to put these two artifacts in the tomb, no matter how rich you were, they would all be beheaded.

There is also a burial system similar to the "Ding and Gui", that is, the "stone statue".

If you don't understand what you hear, let's continue to make a simple analogy: if you go to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings, you will find that the Buddha always sits in the middle position, and on his left and right, there are often eighteen arhats. The stone statues on both sides of Shinto are the same as it, and they are all for the purpose of showing the "right lord". In a word, "Dinggui" and "Stone Statue" are not things for you civilians to play with, no matter how rich you are, as long as you dare to touch them, you will be killed.

But then again, there is also a difference between "Dinggui" and "Stone Statue". For example, when the emperor Lao'er was buried, it was "nine tripods and eight tripods", then the remaining princes and generals, after death, according to their own ranks, or "seven tripods and six tripods", or "five tripods and four tripods", in order, not to cross the line.

It's the same with stone statues.

Generally speaking, on the left and right sides of the emperor, there are dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and the like. Most of the princes and generals are tigers, horses, cattle and sheep. Anyway, if the owner of the tomb liked any animal during his lifetime, or thought that the animal was auspicious, then build a stone statue of this animal around him.

But......

Who would repair the stone statue of a "man"?

This is a big no-no.

We all know that in Chinese history, only those emperors who killed people during their lifetime, such as Qin Shi Huang, were buried with "human-shaped" stone statues. Emperor Qin unified the six countries, which was exchanged for how many people he killed, and he couldn't count them. Therefore, after the death of such a person, because he was afraid of the retaliation of the descendants of the Six Kingdoms, he took the risk and used the "Terracotta Army" to deter. As everyone knows, this is a very evil act that defies the condemnation of the world, because the stone figure looks like it is made of mud from the outside, but in fact the mud is full of living people. After doing this kind of thing, don't expect Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless their family after death.

We have said so much, you may ask, even if the stone statue is dug up in the small town Gaobeidian, it means that the tomb below is a murderous master in ancient times, but what does this have to do with the performance of the old man? They only care about the value of the unearthed cultural relics, and they don't care whether the owner of the tomb is good or evil. Why does the old man take it so seriously? So since we talked about this issue, I have to mention to everyone a "law" of tomb robbery that only "insiders" know.

Antique artifacts, what is the most valuable?

There is no doubt that it must be a plum bottle!

A plum vase, as the name suggests, is a porcelain bottle. It's nothing special from the outside. If you go to Baidu to search, or ask a friend who knows about antiques, they will definitely tell you that the plum bottle is filled with wine. But in fact, only a few people who really understand know that the plum bottle is not a bottle of wine at all, but a "spiritual vessel" in the true sense.

The essence of this thing is completely used to ward off evil spirits, and thieves are worth a damn damn thing! Whether it is archaeological or tomb robber, as long as the plum bottle is dug up, it will definitely be rich. Everyone knows that Sotheby's once auctioned a blue and white jar of "Guiguzi Descending the Mountain" in the Yuan Dynasty at a sky-high price of 230 million. And the same piece of Yuan blue and white "Xiao He Yuexia chasing Han Xin", just because it is a plum bottle, the value has directly increased by as much as five times!

But when it comes to plum bottles, where is the most?

Undoubtedly, there are the most graves of those who are vicious!

What is it to dig up a stone statue? The old man knew very well in his heart that there were definitely a large number of plum bottles buried in this ancient tomb in Gaobeidian. This kind of thing is only known to old rivers and lakes like him, and those nerds in the literary examination institute don't know these things at all. If this ancient tomb is dried by him and more than a dozen plum bottles are made, then their "mud leg gang" will really raise their eyebrows this time!

So, in front of a group of cheering and another group of people waiting to see the joke, the old man didn't say a word, boarded a minibus to Gaobeidian and set off. Beijing and Gaobeidian are only more than 90 kilometers, it takes less than two hours by car, the old man is holding a bubble of urgent urine before getting on the car, fortunately the distance is short, otherwise his bladder may be blown up.

So after getting out of the car, his face was already flushed, so he quickly took off his pants on the spot, took out the guy in his crotch, and hurriedly urinated first. Who knows that the people in this small place of Gaobeidian have never seen the "Beijing official", and I heard that there will be an expert leader from the capital to participate in the archaeological work today, which is worth it?

So early, the Gaobeidian long-distance bus station was crowded with local officials to "pick up the car", and the old man got off the bus and just urinated on a small tree, and the sound of gongs and drums behind him suddenly stopped. Several local officials came up again, smiling and shaking hands with the old man.

So the old man held the guy who had just urinated half of his urine with one hand, and with the other hand free, he shook hands with others one by one, and the scene was very embarrassing. Because the urine was held for too long, the old man peed for more than a minute before he eased up slightly, and then shook shyly, then turned around and waved hello to the guard of honor of gongs and drums who came to greet him.