Chapter 257: Tomb Robbers' Paradise

Wen Yiming put down the palace lamp, quickly took out a long black package from the box, and slowly opened it, it was actually a guqin!

Wood lacquer snails, red lacquer surface, thirteen luodian emblems, fine snake belly pattern, abdomen with nine Xiao ring seal book and Xia's Taifu descendants Yongbao seal book engraving, and then there are Qingqiu ancient seal square seals.

"Tang Guqin, Nine Heavens Ring!"

Looking at the mottled traces on the surface of the piano, Wen Yiming carefully rewrapped it, and said with a smile: "Fuxi style, made in the Tang Dynasty, thousand-year-old guqin, known as Jiuxiao Huanpei, the piano is made of sycamore, fir wood is the bottom, the whole body is purple paint, the lacquer is repaired in many places, the small snake belly is broken, the pure antler gray tire appears in the smoothed broken lines, and the antler gray tire is used as the base with arrowroot. ”

"The curvature of the surface of the piano gradually plumps from the edges like the sky, plump and round. Intersect in arcs, and the transition is natural and smooth. In particular, the end is gradually rounded from the bottom of the thirteen emblems, and the lines of the crown corners are also very finely carved, which improves the monotony of the body. ”

"Add a bit of agility to the rough piano body, solemn and vigorous in revealing the majestic and tall momentum, Jiuxiao Huan Peiqin is the rarest in the Tang Qin, since ancient times, this piano is extremely famous, known as the Ding Ding Tang product and immortal product, which is unforgettable. ”

Wen Yiming remembered that the last time he visited the Forbidden City, he saw the Jiuxiao Huanpei circulated in the Qing Palace, which was collected by the late Qing Dynasty pianist Yehenara, and was later obtained by Pu Dong and later sold to the collector Liu Shiheng. In the 50s, it was collected from the descendants of the Liu family and collected by the Palace Museum.

This must be the first real Tang Dynasty Jiuxiao ring in China, but unfortunately after thousands of years, it is damaged, and it needs to be repaired by experts, which is a trivial matter.

Wen Yiming has long wanted to get the guqin, the ancients paid attention to the elegance of the incense, when to make their own incense, there are beautiful women behind them to play the guqin, and the incense and piano are one, so they are more forced.

"Sir, and this wine glass?"

Wen Yiming took what looked like a wine glass, the body of the cup was in the shape of a horned beast's head, and the beast's two horns were the cup handle. The mouth is inlaid with a gold cap, and the eyes, ears, and nose are all delicately depicted.

"Haha, the beast head agate cup, one of the national treasures that is restricted from leaving the country!"

The beast head agate cup in the hand is carved from red, brown and white agate, with clear layers. One end is carved into the mouth of the cup, and there are two round convex chord patterns outside the mouth, and the cup body is smooth and smooth.

The other end is carved into a vivid and lovely beast head, and the beast head is round and stares ahead. Two long horns, stout and powerful.

The small end of the jade is carved out of the vivid beast head, and the thick end of the vertical texture is carved into the mouth of the cup, and there are just two round convex strings outside the mouth, the lines are smooth and natural, and the clothes are seamless. Cleverly use the color technique to depict the beast's eyes in black and white, and the shape is Bixiao, which truly achieves the finishing touch.

Wen Yiming took off the golden stopper in the beast's mouth, which is actually a wine stopper, and the wine can flow out from here after taking it off, and it is as warm as jade in the hand, and it is ingenious.

"What is this, sir?"

Liu Datong took out the last thing from the box, a round sphere, hollowed, carved dragon and phoenix, very exquisite, but I don't know what to do?

"Grape flower and bird pattern silver sachet!"

Wen Yiming excitedly took the silver sachet, the outer wall is made of silver, it is spherical, the whole body is hollowed, and it is evenly divided into two hemispheres with the middle horizontal line as the boundary, and between the upper and lower spheres, it is sleeved with a child and mother buckle.

The display said: "The outer wall, the ring, and the golden bowl are riveted with rivets, which can rotate freely, no matter how the outer wall ball rotates, due to the gravity of the ring and the golden bowl, the incense bowl can always maintain balance, and the spices inside will not be spilled." The intricacies of the production process, the scientific and ingenious design of this silver sachet are a sight to behold. ”

"Hejiacun also came out with the same sachet back then, and the research should be used by Yang Guifei, this must also be a personal thing for Guifei, put it in the quilt in winter, plus charcoal fire, warm and aromatic, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Needless to say, the four are all national treasures, which should be the last essence left by the tomb robbers. Put the baby in the car, Wen Yiming washed the agate beast head cup with water, let Heifeng pour the best Lafite red wine, take a sip, and said: "Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, if you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately." Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, and a few people came back to fight in ancient times. ”

Playing with the silver sachet, I like to find the treasure about the incense road, and display it in the museum later, so that people can feel what is called the art of thousands of years of inheritance!

The group drove back to the city, rested for the night, and continued the treasure hunt the next day, the city is the ancient capital of the Seven Dynasties, rich in history, so to speak, full of ancient tombs.

"Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, died and buried in the north!"

Looking at the vast mountains in the distance, Wen Yiming sighed: "This is the paradise of tomb robbers, for thousands of years, I don't know how many people have come here, originally there were ten tombs and nine emptiness, and now there are ten tombs and ten emptiness!"

There is no danger of majestic and steep mountains, and there is no beautiful scenery, but this ordinary hill is the northern barrier of the ancient capital, and many wars have occurred here in history, and many major events are related to the mountain. In particular, there are mounds on the mountain, and the tombs are pressed into the tombs, and the number of ancient tombs can be called the most in China.

There is little idle soil on the north mountain, and it is full of old tombs of Luoxiang people.

The number of ancient tombs here, the size of the area, and the length of time are rare in the world. In an area of more than 750 square kilometers, spanning the 7 districts and counties of Luoyang, there are countless princes, generals, talents and celebrities from the Eastern Monday to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Everyone began to climb the mountain, Wen Yiming introduced: "There are hundreds of tall and majestic ancient tombs in the shape of the bucket in the mountain, dotted all over the place, the forest is magnificent, and many people jokingly call it the Oriental Pyramid Group. ”

"Don't say it, the identity of the people buried here is really not lower than that of the Egyptian pharaohs! Dozens of emperors such as Liu Xiu and Yuan Hong, thousands of generals and celebrities such as Zhang Yi, Fan Xu, Ban Chao, and Di Renjie, many foreign kings such as King Fuyu and King Quannan, and even Liu Chan, Li Yu and other kings of the dead country, all rested in the soil ridge of dozens of miles north of the city. As for the tombs of ordinary rich and noble families, they are even more numerous. ”

"The theft of the tomb group in Bishan has not stopped intermittently from ancient times to modern times, but it is not very serious and has not caused much damage to the tombs. The real grave robbery that caused serious damage to the tomb occurred in modern times, and it was mainly triggered by the construction of the Bianluo Railway. ”

"In 1905, the Qing government borrowed money to repair the Bianluo Railway, passing through the southern foot of the mountain, and the construction workers continued to dig out the underground tombs when they took soil on the spot. Foreign technicians collected pottery in large quantities and sent it back to Europe and the United States. Ancient pottery has attracted great attention in the European and American markets, so Western antique dealers have come to buy them at a high price. This is where the large-scale tomb robbery, which lasted for more than 40 years, began, and the nightmare of the ancient tomb began. ”

At that time, many intellectuals liked to buy these antiquities, such as Mr. Lu Xun, who had purchased antiquities unearthed here in Liulichang. According to the "Lu Xun Diary", on February 2, 1913, he went to the Liuli Factory and purchased five pieces of spiritual weapons from Beipi, with six yuan of silver...... and a one-horned human-faced beast with wings, I don't know what its name is. ”

Walking to the top of the mountain, Wen Yiming squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil, sniffed it with his nose, and said with a smile: "Last time, Jiao Laojiu also said that I had the talent to enter the industry?

"This is the school of tomb robbers, and because of the age of the ancient tombs, there are very few sealed mounds, and there are no traces on the ground. Figuring out the exact location of the tomb is the first problem to be solved. ”

"Frequent grave searches enable grave robbers to gradually acquire the skills to distinguish various soils. The soil under the ground is all the same color of raw soil, if you find flower soil, the color of the soil is different, it means that someone has moved here, and it is likely that there is an ancient tomb. ”

"Originally, tomb robbers used thick, sharp shovels to dig square holes in the ground to identify the soil brought out by the shovel heads, so as to find the tombs. This method is laborious, and the shovel often does not bring up the soil, nor can it probe deeply. Then the well-known Luoyang shovel in the tomb robbery and archaeological circles came into being. ”