Pumping water, cleaning the coffin.

Familiar with the content of the job.

Chen Han, who got started for the second time, is obviously more handy.

With the work of the pumping machine, the situation in the coffin gradually became clear in front of the archaeologists.

Compared with Tomb M-105, this Tomb M-168 is really much more advanced.

The coffin chamber of Tomb No. 168 is divided into three parts: the head box, the side box and the coffin box by beams and straight plates.

The head box and side box here do not mean "boxes with heads", but two partition areas above and next to the coffin.

It's like a workstation in an office room separated by veneers.

Between the coffin box and the head box, there is a door and two windows to communicate.

Between the coffin box and the side box, there are also two doors and four windows.

It is these interconnected doors and windows that all areas inside the coffin are filled with groundwater.

However, looking at the situation in this coffin, it can also be seen that in the Western Han Dynasty, the coffins of the nobles were built in imitation of the living rooms before their deaths.

These side boxes, the head boxes, which are divided, can also be seen as condensed chambers.

The coffin box is the "bedroom" of the tomb owner.

Compared to the princes, kings and emperors directly reproduced the palace where they lived before they were born.

The aristocrats who do not have solid financial resources can only restore a little bit of the scene of living in the coffin.

A self-contained coffin is a set of condensed "dwellings".

Of course, these compartments aren't really just decorations.

The burial goods of the owner of the tomb are all placed in the head box and side box!

As the water level in the coffin is getting lower and lower, faintly, everyone can already see the figure of the burial goods in the coffin.

Nearly 20 archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences gathered around the coffin, which is 4.3 meters long from east to west and 3.1 meters wide from north to south, and immediately devoted themselves to the intense work of extracting cultural relics.

This big coffin room is full of treasures!

Professor Li led the team to clean the head box, and soon cleaned out some slave and maid wooden figurines accompanying the burial, as well as car, boat, horse, cow, dog and other models of the Ming utensils.

It can be seen that the head box was specially used to place the model of the burial object.

As for the side box, Kong Jianwen and Chen Han and their team were responsible for cleaning and extracting.

The situation of the side box is also quite complicated, mainly placing some household utensils used by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

A large number of household utensils made of lacquer, wood, bamboo, pottery, copper, and other materials, as well as models of pottery warehouses and pottery stoves similar to those used in the M-105 burial chamber, have been excavated.

There are at least one hundred and sixty pieces of lacquerware alone, including one hundred ear cups, twenty-six plates, six lacquer boxes, eight bowls, four jugs, and other bits and pieces.

Compared to Tomb 105, where all the burial goods add up to more than 30 pieces, this Tomb 168 is simply a bumper harvest.

"The lacquerware is all wooden, the inner layer is painted with red lacquer, and the outer layer is mostly black lacquer, and the geometric patterns such as cloud patterns, cloud dragon patterns, fish patterns, leopard patterns and dot patterns are painted with red, brown, and golden lacquer on the black lacquer."

Chen Han was holding a lacquer plate, which was simply amazing.

The lacquerware in the coffin is very well preserved, the colors are as bright as new, the idea is ingenious, the lines are smooth, and the decoration is exquisite!

Some lacquerware has delicate needle carvings on the surface, and some lacquerware has imprinted or engraved characters.

Overall, this batch of unearthed lacquerware can be called high-quality, there is not much paint falling off, and the color is still very gorgeous!

This also made Chen Han look forward to the situation inside the coffin again.

The burial goods placed in the coffin are still in good condition, and the condition of the inner coffin may not be bad!

Carefully observing the lacquerware that his companions had just "dug up" from the coffin, Chen Han soon found that most of the lacquerware were mainly engraved with two kinds of characters.

One is the character "benevolence" written in white powder, and the other is mostly "Chengshi grass" and "Chengshi full" that are carved or directly branded with a pen knife.

"Ren? Grass in the city? Full of the market? ”

When he saw these handwritings, Chen Han immediately fell into deep thought.

The appearance of the word benevolence is easily reminiscent of Emperor Wen of Han in the Western Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty added an extra word "benevolence" on the basis of governing the country with filial piety in the Western Han Dynasty, and his governing policy and national policy was to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety.

As we all know, whatever is the policy of a country at the top, the bureaucrats at the bottom will show their loyalty in this regard.

This is the "upward and downward effect", which is nothing more than this from ancient times to the present.

Therefore, after discovering that the word "benevolence" was written on these lacquerware with white powder, Chen Han immediately thought of whether the owner of Tomb 168 was a bureaucrat during the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty?

Therefore, on the lacquerware of his house, a large number of books have the word "benevolence".

As for the "Seiichi grass" and "Seiichi satsu" imprinted on the lacquerware, it is easy to understand.

From the late Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, the production of official lacquerware was relatively prosperous.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Chengdu was the main place to make lacquerware.

Yang Xiong, a writer from the Western Han Dynasty, once said in "Shu Du Fu": "Carving and engraving tools, a hundred tricks and thousands of work." It is a vivid description of the craftsmanship and production scale of Chengdu lacquerware.

Modern archaeological discoveries can also corroborate with historical records.

According to the unearthed discoveries, the officials of Shu County and Guanghan County were indeed mainly engaged in the manufacture of tools.

The so-called lacquerware is lacquerware with metal components such as buttons, rings, pins, feet, and pavements, and it can be said to be the highest grade of lacquerware.

Chengdu has made high-end goods, and it must have also made ordinary lacquerware.

The word "Chengshi" on this batch of lacquerware refers to the CD city government!

The "grass" of "Chengshi grass" is a fake word for "making" in the Western Han Dynasty, so it means making a city.

As for the word "full" in "Chengshi Satie", it is fake "lacquer + bag", and the pouring process of multiple lacquering is called "full".

These two lines of lacquerware are imprinted on them, indicating that the origin of these lacquerware is a lacquerware handicraft workshop under the jurisdiction of the CD city government.

From this, it can also be seen that the commerce of the Western Han Dynasty was very developed.

Chengdu is nearly 1,000 kilometers away from Jingzhou in a straight line, but the distance does not affect the commercial exchanges and exchanges between the two places.

This discovery alone is enough for modern people to have a clearer understanding of the commerce of the Western Han Dynasty.

Chen Han hurriedly found Kong Jianwen and told him about his findings and guesses.

"Yes, this is indeed the meaning of Chengdu manufacturing."

After comparing the inscriptions on multiple lacquerware in detail, Kong Jianwen nodded in agreement: "This is indeed a very meaningful discovery. ”

"It has been recorded in the history books that the Bashu region has had a very strong commercial culture since the Qin period, and the world has produced big merchants."

"The Ba widow Qing during the Qin Shi Huang period, and the later big merchants Zhuo Shi and Cheng Zheng in Shuzhong are all famous in the history books."

"Historical Records: The Biography of Goods and Colonies" once recorded that Bashu is also fertile, and the land is full of rao, ginger, dansha, stone, copper, iron, bamboo, and wood. The south of the royal Yunnan servants, the servants, the west near the horses, the cattle. ”

"At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the silk, lacquerware, bamboo and wood wares and other commodities of Bashu were sold in large quantities to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the iron produced by Bashu was also dumped in Yunnan, Vietnam and other southwestern ethnic regions."

"Then the Bashu merchants bought slaves, horses, and cattle from the Yunnan and Yue regions and sold them back to Guanzhong."

"Through the Baochuan Road and other roads, the north of Bashu trades with the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and through the Yangtze River waterway, the goods reach Sanchu in the east, through Guizhou and Guangxi, and the Bashu specialties are even sold to Panyu, the capital of Nanyue!"

"The merchants of Bashu can be said to have passed through the world in the Han Dynasty, and their commerce has been connected to the whole country, and they have earned countless wealth by virtue of industry and commerce."

"When the Bashu trade was at its peak, the big merchants were rich and thousands of people, and the joy of hunting in the fields and ponds was comparable to that of the king!"

"The excavation of this batch of lacquerware is a favorable evidence recorded in this historical book!"