Chapter 285: Treasures of the World
"It's useless, I can't open it," Zhu Beichen said.
Han Qingxin touched the tadpole-shaped door carvings, and always felt that they were like groups of words, "Do you know what these things are?" I think it should be a kind of text, and if you understand it, it may be useful to open the door. ”
"Tadpole Wen?" The fat man interjected, in fact it was a bit far-fetched to say that they were tadpoles, and they were mixed together completely irregularly, more like a group of tadpoles gathered together to play.
At this moment, the door shook with a "boom", and there were faint signs of opening.
What's the matter, I haven't done anything, how can this door be opened all of a sudden? Zhu Beichen had a hunch, and under the urging of the dark feeling, his palms were pressed back on the door, and he gritted his teeth and pushed it up with all his strength.
"Boom!" The door was slightly inward, and at first glance it seemed that the door was standing there steadily, and it did not move at all.
But it did move, and the touch from the palm of his hand told Zhu Beichen that the door moved.
He continued to push with the strength of the milk, and Han Qingxin also came over to help when he saw that there was movement in the door.
Gradually, a small gap appeared in the joint between the granite door and the surrounding wall.
"Fat~, I'll go, you come to help, why are you stunned." Zhu Beichen panted.
"Okay!"
The addition of the fat man accelerates the speed at which the stone door opens.
After a while, the gap grew larger and larger, and the light inside shone through the gap into the corridor.
A strong cold wind poured into the tunnel frantically from inside, blowing the hair of the three people messy, and the air was mixed with a faint metallic smell.
Gold and silver jewelry has a special smell, especially when a room full of jewels is gathered together.
The fat man said happily while pushing the door hard: "The bitterness is coming, there are cultural relics inside!" ”
"Get excited, work harder." Zhu Beichen said.
The granite door was opened halfway through and the three of them found that the door was 100 centimeters thick, and the weight should not weigh tens of thousands of catties.
"That's enough, don't push." Han Qingxin said.
The door is two-thirds open, and there is enough space for one person to enter.
As soon as the two heard Han Qingxin's words, they sat down on the ground one after another.
Han Qingxin vigilantly walked into the space behind the door with a dagger in his hand, and said, "You guys stay first, I'll go in and see the situation." ”
The world behind the granite attracted her attention with a dazzling and brilliant golden gemstone rhyme, and a mountain of treasures, colorful porcelain, and various treasures were piled up throughout the room.
"Fatty, have you rested enough, don't you want to go in and have a look?" Zhu Beichen asked.
"It's enough, I don't know what happened to that girl, and I don't see a squeak. I'm scared too. The fat man looked expectantly at the world inside the door.
So the two got up and cautiously walked through the granite door and walked in, Zhu Beichen poked the fat man, "What is she doing?" ”
Han Qingxin stood beside a pile of golden sand with a dull gaze, and his motionless appearance made Zhu Beichen worried.
"What else can you do, whoever walks into this room doesn't have this expression."
As he spoke, the fat man jumped up and down into the pile of gold and silver sand like a child, threw the gold high, and put it in his mouth twice, and his mind began to become a little abnormal.
Zhu Beichen didn't care about the fat man, and walked to a treasure chest, only to see that the box was open.
He picked up a ceramic vase and looked at it with one hand as he held the bottom of the vase, his eyes full of doubt.
There is a question of whether history is wrong, or whether the technology of the Han Dynasty has developed to such a point.
Zhu Beichen couldn't believe that what he was holding in his hand was porcelain.
No, to be precise, it's a glazed porcelain.
It is well known that China is the homeland of porcelain.
Chinese porcelain appeared in the middle of the Shang Dynasty around the 16th century BC, but it was still crude both in the carcass and in the firing process of the glaze.
The firing temperature is also relatively low, showing primitiveness and transition, so it is generally called "primitive porcelain".
Porcelain was born from pottery, and its invention was gradually explored by ancient Chinese ancestors in the experience of firing white pottery and printed hard pottery.
And China's real porcelain was indeed produced in the Eastern Han Dynasty, influenced by the style of thick burials, and it is not surprising that porcelain was used as a funerary object.
However, the most prosperous type of colored porcelain was in the Qing Dynasty, and the glaze color molding was in the Qing Dynasty, and the process was complicated.
First, it is fired into white glazed porcelain, and then painted on the white glaze, and then entered the color furnace for low temperature secondary firing, and the glaze is colorful, pastel, and enamel are all glaze colors.
"Impossible, how could this kind of craft appear in the Han Dynasty, let alone in the Loulan Ancient Tomb."
Zhu Beichen is almost about to subvert what he has learned before, and taking out a random piece of the funeral goods here is enough to cause a sensation in the world, and a glaze treasure of the Han Dynasty is enough to rewrite the history of Chinese porcelain.
He gently put the rare treasure back in its place, and even the glaze color became unremarkable among the treasures of the temple.
"Fatty~Fat!" Zhu Beichen shouted twice in a row, his whole person was already addicted to curiosities, and there was no distraction in his eyes.
Is Han Qingxin like this? Zhu Beichen's eyes wandered, looking at her location, Han Qingxin was still standing in front of the pile of gold like a wooden man.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
Finally, there was a sound from the other end, and Han Qingxin shook his head, "Do you know what I'm thinking?" ”
"What?" Zhu Beichen was a little confused.
"The wealth in the palace, even if Gu Loulan was located on the Silk Road and accumulated centuries of wealth, would there be so much?" Han Qingxin originally thought of this.
Barren northwest region, and then compare the current funeral utensils, I am afraid that even the powerful Han Dynasty at that time could not bury such an amazing wealth, even if the national strength is so strong, and that generation of Loulan King is worth filling his mausoleum with national treasures?
"Forget it, don't think about it if you can't figure it out. Now I have a question. Zhu Beichen said.
"What?" Han Qingxin asked coldly.
Zhu Beichen pointed to the fat man who flowed to a golden chair again, and said softly: "I'm afraid that the fat man's heart can't stand it if it goes on like this, and sooner or later he will die here." "Then the seven rooms disappeared bizarrely, and the trace of the "empty fox" in the hall was gone.
"It's simple, just knock him out." Han Qingxin said.
Do you know what it is? Do you know what it is?
The fat man suddenly turned out a pair of teacup-shaped objects from out of which corner and screamed at the two of them.
Han Qingxin and Zhu Beichen glanced at each other, and they were secretly saying that the fat man wanted to toss something, but looking at his excited and shocked look, maybe he really found something.
Is that a teacup? Ancient utensils are meticulously elaborate, which can be regarded as a university question.
Zhu Beichen couldn't tell it for a while, so he had to cooperate: "Dear~ Fatty, what is that in your hand, the teacup?" ”
This annoyed him, the fat man's face changed suddenly, and he looked gloomy and faintly angry, "I'll go to your sister's teacup, it's terrible to be uneducated." ”
"You know what? This is called ice cracked porcelain. Looking at Zhu Beichen's questioning expression, he knew that he was not good at porcelain, and explained by the way: "Do you know the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty?" The glaze is covered with cracked pieces, usually known as 'open pieces', which is the unique decorative style of Longquan Ge kiln, and the celadon ware with cracks produced by Ge kiln is a treasure in the world. If this pair of wine glasses comes out, it will definitely make a sensation in the world, you know? ”
The fat man was so excited that his skin and flesh began to twitch, and a pair of wine glasses in his hands began to tremble.
"Then you take it easy, don't smash it, it's all money when you take it out." Zhu Beichen teased.
The fat man was afraid that Zhu Beichen would not understand the preciousness of ice cracked porcelain, so he told a story in a different way.
In 1506, when the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade was developed, the Zhengde Emperor sent a merchant ship called "Fangyuan" to visit Europe, and many of the goods on board were the exclusive crafts of the royal family.
Unexpectedly, when he set out for the Sea of Japan, he encountered pirates and Japanese pirates, and the officers swore to resist to the death, and the pirates were angry and set fire to the ship, which burned at sea for two consecutive days, and all the rare treasures on board sank into the sea.
When Digal, an Italian merchant in China at the time, heard the news, he immediately notified the fleets of the European nobles to salvage this rare treasure in the East China Sea.
They found that among the treasures of this ship, there were a batch of glittering pottery vases, with lines like crystal cracks that had been burned by fire, and the fragments were naturally layered and full of three-dimensionality.
Soon, these glittering earthenware vases were introduced to Europe, where they became a luxury item sought after by European aristocratic families.
Digal's descendants made several secret visits to China to find out how to make this pottery and simulate the process of firing it in a sea fire, but they were never able to do so.
Until modern times, Italy's ceramic design industry developed rapidly, and the designers of IUAU borrowed modern scientific methods to finally concoct the formula of this crystal crack glaze.
"If the body and glaze in pottery are not properly designed in terms of formula and firing, the difference in expansion coefficient between the two is too large, which often causes glaze cracks. However, deliberately causing glaze cracks, it also has a unique flavor, and we call it crack glaze in pottery. 'Ice cracked glaze' is different from crack glaze in that the former is a multi-level crack, while the latter is a single-layered crack. Due to the technical difficulty of "multi-level cracks", it can be imagined. The biggest feature of 'Ice Cracked Glaze' is the multi-level three-dimensional structure cracks, resulting in a layer like rose petals, coupled with the change of glaze color, which makes people love it and want to see through Fang Xiu. ”
The fat man continued to vividly explain the cause of the ice cracked porcelain, and cherished the wine glass in his arms.
"Important, where did you get these things?" Zhu Beichen thought, since it is a product of the Song Dynasty Ge kiln, why has it appeared in the Han Dynasty.
"I found it on that table, and if you think about it, the manufacturing process of ice cracked porcelain is not exclusive to the kiln, but more than 1,000 years in advance. Now on the market, even the ice cracked porcelain handed down from the Song Dynasty kiln is a priceless treasure, what if it is from the Han Dynasty? ”
The fat man behaved like a porcelain-savvy expert.