When the excavation work was carried out at the archaeological site, the overall feeling was very pleasant.

Whether it is the sense of surprise in the face of unearthed cultural relics, or the satisfaction of hard work and harvest, it is very cool.

There are more than 30 funeral goods, and it is not possible to clean them up in a day or two.

It took more than three days for Chen Han and the others to clean up more than a dozen pieces of pottery.

Most of these pottery items are everyday utensils, in modern parlance, pots and pans.

Except for the pottery well, which is slightly unusual, other funerary goods are very common in Han tombs.

However, common does not mean ordinary, every cultural relic of the Han Dynasty that can be preserved to the present is a rare treasure!

Although it is said that things like pottery, especially pottery before the Tang Dynasty, are basically not very popular in the field of collecting.

Whether it is a public auction or an intimate high-end cultural entertainment circle, it is basically rare to see pottery before the Tang Dynasty shine.

Auctions or private sales do not sell for a price.

Most of the popular ones in collecting circles and art circles are porcelain, especially porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties!

Even Tang Sancai, a famous pottery from the Tang Dynasty, is rarely circulated in private collections.

Why?

Because 99.9% of the pottery that survives now, whether it is from the Western Zhou Dynasty or the Han and Tang Dynasties, is all unearthed burial goods dug out of the soil!

There is nothing that has been handed down from our ancestors, or that has been passed down from generation to generation.

The Han and Tang dynasties and even the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period are too far away from modern times.

And pottery is very difficult to preserve, a bump will be broken, it is impossible to preserve it for thousands of years.

Moreover, pottery is, after all, more beautiful porcelain in terms of exquisiteness.

In addition, the traditional Chinese collection generally does not accept the dead vessels, and it is believed that the unearthed burial objects are heavy and should not be placed to play.

Therefore, pottery is not of high value in the field of collectibles, and few people care about it.

If you see someone in a cultural toy store or one of those cultural toy markets, it looks like a pottery that has just been dug out of the soil, saying that this thing is from the Western Zhou Dynasty and is very valuable.

Then you don't have to look at it, it definitely can't be the Western Zhou, only it could be last week, and it was used to deceive newcomers.

However, the fact that pottery is worthless in the field of collectibles does not mean that these cultural relics are not treasures.

For archaeologists and historians, these pottery objects are a gateway to understanding and touching antiquity.

Through these pottery, scholars and researchers were able to restore the living conditions of the society at that time, although it cannot be said 100%, but there are still 70% or 80%.

The significance and importance of research are still very high.

Chen Han: They were very serious when they cleaned up these pottery, and they were as serious as applying film to their mobile phones under the overpass.

It wasn't until all the pottery had been cleaned and registered that they moved on to the second largest category of funerary goods.

Bronze!

This thing is different from pottery, and the state prohibits any private sale.

Anyone who dares to buy or sell this thing openly has to go into the police station and drink tea.

Ordinary people want to see bronzes, then public museums everywhere are the only choice.

As for wanting to touch and touch it yourself, feel the feel and charm of bronze?

Unless you have the audacity to rob the tomb, and you have to steal the right place, you have to take the road of studying archaeology.

Now Chen Han is very lucky to be able to touch and play with these bronzes from 2,000 years ago.

After 2,000 years of vicissitudes, these bronzes have changed from gold when they were first produced to cyan color.

"A lot of people have a misconception about bronzes, thinking that they are cyan when they are cast."

Playing with a five-baht coin that had just been picked up from the mound, Chen Han complained to Su Sa helplessly:

"My cousin, two days ago, asked me why the bronzes were cyan, and the copper she saw was yellow."

Su Sa grinned and said unsurprisingly: "What's the matter, when I was in high school, I thought that the bronze was originally cyan." ”

"It wasn't until I went to college that I learned that the bronzes were originally golden when they were cast, but they gradually rusted and changed color because of the erosion of time."

"Speaking of which, the Yue Wang Goujian sword has no rust, and when it is unearthed, it is still golden, and it is known as a thousand-year-old stainless sword."

"I went to the museum last year to see it, it was really super beautiful, no wonder bronze was called US dollars and gills in ancient times!"

Chen Han nodded: "The sword of King Goujian of Yue is indeed beautiful, I have also seen it, it is worthy of being a national treasure!" ”

It's a pity that they didn't have this blessing this time, and they could find any thousand-year-old stainless bronzes.

In addition to about 100 five-baht coins, the bronzes that accompanied the burial included washing, mirrors, and chariot and horse vessels, but all of them were rusty and patina.

Chen Han cautiously picked up a round bronze vessel from the north of the tomb, and said with a sigh:

"Before the Han Dynasty, most of the documents called bronze "gold", and called the pure and beautiful bronze Jijin. ”

"These precious bronze objects glow with a golden glow and look very auspicious."

"You can imagine how beautiful these bronzes must have been when they were first made."

"At that time, these bronzes should have been the same as today's copper, exuding a golden yellow or rose gold, which was extremely gorgeous."

"It's a pity, no matter how beautiful the bronze is, it can't withstand the corrosion of time."

What Chen Han was holding in his hand was a bronze mirror, and the people of the Han Dynasty generally had the habit of burying the mirror with him when he was buried.

And the mirror is usually placed on the side of the tomb owner's head.

Therefore, it is usually possible to determine the position of the head and tail of the tomb owner by the position of the mirror in the tomb.

For example, in this tomb, the mirror is placed at the north end of the tomb, which means that the head of the tomb owner should be facing north and feet facing south.

When the coffin is opened in this way, you can probably know the "posture" of the tomb owner, which is convenient for archaeologists to operate.

You must know that not all tombs can be well preserved by the tomb owner, and some of them are worrisome, and there may even be only a few teeth left, or only some powder left.

At this time, it is very important to locate the direction of the tomb owner by the position of the bronze mirror.

lest the head and tail of the tomb owner be reversed and affect the judgment of the situation inside the coffin.

While sighing that this bronze mirror was no longer as beautiful as it was when it was first cast, Chen Han looked at this bronze mirror carefully.

Although it is already "green", rust does not hide its beauty.

The mirror is in the shape of a perfect circle, about 10 centimeters in diameter.

On the north side of the mirror, there are a bunch of carved patterns, mostly arc patterns common to bronzes.

And the main pattern in the middle of the pattern is a circle of inscriptions.

Chen Han took a closer look at it.

The archaeological expertise given to him by the system played a role.

He could easily identify that the inscription was a seal.

Twelve seal scripts that have been eroded by the years and are still deep on the back of the mirror were read softly from Chen Han's mouth.

"The inner Qing is clear, and the glory is like the sun and the moon."