"What is this?"

Chen Han stretched out his right hand, carefully placed this crisp and soft strip of bamboo in the palm of his hand, and carefully held it up.

At first, he thought it was a bamboo slip.

Because he saw some ink on the bamboo surface less than a centimeter wide, there should be writing on it.

However, when he picked up the bamboo piece completely, he found that there was a bamboo nail at the left and right ends of the bamboo piece, like two small fish hooks, hanging on it.

In addition, in the center of the bamboo piece, a copper ring is also marked.

It looks like something that can be hung on a door.

How to say it.

If you hang two small copper bells on the bamboo nails at both ends, this bamboo piece is a bit like the welcoming decorations hanging on the glass doors of bubble tea shops and dessert shops.

The kind that "jingles and jingles" when guests open the door.

"What's this?" Chen Han pondered for a while, but he didn't figure out what this thing was.

He also tried to determine what the object was by recognising the handwriting on the bamboo slices.

But because this is a piece of bamboo, when it was picked up by Chen Han, as soon as it came into contact with the air, it immediately quickly oxidized and blackened.

Before Chen Han could see it clearly, the bamboo pieces that were originally yellowish turned black, and he couldn't make out the handwriting.

You have to wait until the conservators have restored it before they can study the text above.

There was no way, after pondering about this unknown artifact, Chen Han, who had no clue for the time being, had to follow the process of cultural relics protection, and put it aside for the time being after doing thermal insulation and moisturizing treatment for this artifact.

Again, during archaeological excavations, it is normal to unearth something that I don't know what it is used for.

It's a good thing to even find out that you don't understand, what you don't know.

This shows that it is a new discovery, something that no longer exists in modern times!

Maybe it's some kind of artifact that was possessed in ancient times, but has become extinct and lost in modern times!

This is one of the most important goals of archaeology!

Find and inherit the modern Chinese civilization has been broken, lost, extinct, and only a short-lived culture in the long river of history!

Chen Han solemnly wrote the five characters "unknown bamboo" on the moisturizing bag.

After that, this big bamboo stick, which can be called a treasure blind box, was basically hollowed out by Chen Han.

Except for a few bronze rings about 3-5 centimeters in diameter, like bracelets, which were found inside, there was nothing else inside the bamboo flute.

After cleaning up the stagnant water sediment in the bamboo flute, and keeping the bamboo flute intact, and labeling and packing it, Chen Han sneaked over to the others in the same group with his hands behind his back to see how everyone had harvested.

"What's the matter, what did you find in the bamboo pipes?"

Lin Ya, who was also buried in cleaning a smaller bamboo stick, said without raising her head: "I'm here to hold food." ”

"Millet and some animal bone fragments are all mixed with the stagnant sediment, and it is a long trouble to clean up."

"I recognized some fish bones and bones from large animals, I don't know if they were pig bones or sheep bones or cow bones, maybe they were all there."

"Hey, I've got something good here!" Wang Weida raised his head and beckoned, and Chen Han immediately walked over.

"Yo, this is a bamboo tube?"

Chen Han took a bamboo tube with a length of more than ten centimeters and a diameter of about five centimeters from Wang Weida's hand with great interest.

The front of this bamboo tube is painted with some geometric patterns in black and red, and there is a clear black character "salt" on the back!

At the top of the bamboo tube, there are two small eyes symmetrically opened left and right.

"This is for salt? Spice bottles and jars? Chen Han pointed to the two small eyes on the bamboo tube, and guessed curiously: "These two small eyes should be used to tie ropes." ”

"Tie two ropes and you can carry the bamboo tube."

"Yes!" Wang Weida nodded excitedly: "This bamboo stick of mine is full of this kind of bamboo tube!" ”

"I've already cleaned up three, and each bamboo tube is marked with a purpose, which is used for salt, meat sauce and sauce!"

"There are still a few of them that haven't been cleaned out, I guess this is to bury all the condiments from the kitchen of the tomb owner before his death!"

"And that's not all!" Zhuang Yunpeng also came over and said in amazement: "I don't have anything in that bamboo stick, just like Lin Ya, it is full of food, and now there are only a bunch of animal bones left." ”

"But! Guess what I found in the side box? ”

"Bamboo flute (luò)! Twelve pieces! ”

"Although all of them are mutilated and not in a very good state of preservation, the contents of the basket are well preserved."

"All I could recognize was ginger, red dates, cumin, broken eggs, and some pits!"

Bamboo flute is a kind of bamboo utensil similar to a plate, which was originally specially used to carry food.

The excavation of bamboo bamboo pipes is not surprising, but the food contained in it is still remaining, so it is more precious.

This is of great significance for the study of the food culture of the Western Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago and the dietary preferences of the aristocracy.

"Yes! There are actually red dates! Chen Han couldn't help but praise it.

Red dates have a special meaning in ancient China.

"The Book of Songs, Fengfeng, July" says: "Peel dates in August, and harvest rice in October." ”

As the saying goes: "Three jujubes in a solar eclipse do not show old at the age of 100", "Five grains and red dates are better than Ganoderma lucidum grass"

Among the 24 traditional seasonal solar terms, many solar terms such as rain, frost, and light cold have customs or health suggestions for eating dates.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, red dates have been the favorite and most precious fruit of Chinese people.

In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, the doctrine of Huang Lao prevailed, and "cultivating immortals" became one of the favorite things of the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty.

At that time, people believed that jujube was something that immortals ate, and as long as they ate more jujubes, they could live forever!

On the existing bronze mirror of the Western Han Dynasty, there is engraved with the poem "There are immortals who do not know how to grow old, and they are thirsty to drink jade springs and eat dates".

Among the cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, there are jujube cores.

Now the tomb of M-168 has also unearthed red dates, which once again proves that the records of the Han Dynasty people in the Chinese historical documents who loved to eat red dates are indeed true!

"it!"

"Come and see, what's written on it!"

Suddenly, an exclamation of surprise rang out in the small burial chamber.

Su Sa, who was standing next to the side box, was holding a yellow bamboo slip with a length of more than 20 centimeters and a width of four or five centimeters, with a surprised expression.

Seeing that the bamboo slip in her hand had begun to slowly turn black after coming out of the water, the others hurriedly surrounded it, wanting to see what was written on the bamboo slip, which surprised Su Sa so much.

Zhang Jianbo, who had the fastest movements, rushed forward with a brisk step, and while the bamboo was not much oxidized, he picked up the camera hanging around his neck, and clicked more than a dozen consecutive photos.

Chen Han and Kong Jianwen also reacted very quickly, and the old and the young rushed behind Su Sa almost at the same time, looking intently at the ink on the bamboo slip.

"In May of the thirteenth year, Gengchen, Jiangling Cheng dared to sue the underground Cheng."

"The five doctors of Ichiyang (?) Shaoyan and the Great Nuliang and other twenty-eight people, the Great Maiden Yi and other eighteen people, two chariots, one or two ox carts, four horses, (?) Two horses and four horses. ”

"Let the officials do it, and dare to sue the Lord."

Except that there are two words that he doesn't know very well, and one "two" is "car".

Chen Han read out the words on the bamboo slip clearly almost word by word.

At the moment when he finished reading, the bamboo slip also completely turned black.

The words on it were like a flash in the pan, disappearing into the darkness.

Kong Jianwen quickly went over this text in his mind, his pupils suddenly dilated, and his lips trembled and exclaimed: "This... This is a letter to Tubo! ”