After taking the mobile phone from Kong Jianwen's hand, Chen Han saw some black and white bamboo slip photos.

"This was taken with that spectral imager?" Chen Han asked curiously.

According to the restoration process of the slips, the batch of slips sent to the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center should have just finished cleaning and were just about to be decolorized, and there is at least half a year before they are completely repaired.

And now it's the Spring Festival again, and the cultural protection center shouldn't be working.

These pictures must have been taken with that amazing spectral imager.

As long as the bamboo slips are cleaned, even if the carbonization is pitch black, the handwriting can be restored with a spectral imager.

"Yes, this was sent by Minister Rong a few days ago, and everyone was on vacation before, so I didn't inform you." Kong Jianwen explained simply.

In fact, these photos have been in his hands for seven or eight days.

It was just now that everyone was getting together, and Kong Jianwen remembered it.

He remembered that his disciple's ability to read seal scripts was very good.

"Come, let's see if there's any important record in here."

"Okay." Chen Han nodded and carefully flipped through the photos.

There are not many slips unearthed from tomb M168.

There is only one bamboo slip, and that is the letter of confession.

There are more than 60 bamboo slips, one with less than 2 characters, and more than 14 characters, adding up to a total of not a few hundred words.

Chen Han quickly flipped through most of it and confirmed: "Mentor, this should be a volume of "Dispatch Book". ”

In fact, when this batch of bamboo slips was unearthed, Professor Li judged from the remaining rope marks on the slips, and he could see that this was a volume composed of fine hemp rope divided into two lines in order.

It's just that when it was unearthed, because the braided rope had decayed, the order in which the bamboo slips were sorted out was scattered.

After reading it carefully, Chen Han replied to his mentor: "Teacher, the contents of this volume include the name, size, and quantity of the artifacts, as well as the name, quantity, and placement of the artifacts. ”

"It's easier for us to name the artifacts we have excavated."

Most of the unearthed artifacts are not actually named after them, but have been renamed by modern people.

For example, Simu Wuding, just because there are three words "Simu Wu" on the tripod, it is named Simu Wuding.

And now it has been corrected, that oracle bone inscription is not a division character, but a later character, and the official name has been changed to the stepmother Wuding.

As for the end of this tripod, when the Shang king Zu Geng or Zu Jia was cast, what it was named for, I don't know for a long time.

Maybe it doesn't have a name at all, maybe it's called "Sacrifice Ding".

Generally speaking, after the excavation of cultural relics, the naming of them is named with reference to the characteristics of the cultural relics themselves.

For example, the pair of exquisite three-fish ear cups unearthed in tomb M168 were also simply and rudely named three-fish ear cups when they were registered and named.

But now the deportation has appeared.

In the book, there is a record of this pair of three-fish ear cups, and the accurate record is "a pair of painted three-fish pattern lacquer ear cups." ”

If nothing else, the cultural relics unearthed in tomb M168, as long as there is an accurate name in the dispatch book, will be accurate according to the name of the dispatch book.

Kong Jianwen shook his head with some pity: "The cultural relics excavated from the tombs of Phoenix Mountain have been sent to the Jingzhou Museum and Cultural Protection Center, and they will sort it out according to this booklet, we don't have to worry about this." ”

"It's a pity, it's just a handbook, and nothing else is recorded."

"But in addition to the book, there is also a bonus, you turn to the last page and take a look."

Unexpected joy?

Chen Han turned to the last page with some confusion.

A three-sided scan of a long strip of bamboo appeared in front of Chen Han's eyes.

Isn't this the bamboo piece that Chen Han found at the bottom of that bamboo stick before!

After the restoration of the spectral imager, the words that Chen Han had not had time to see reappeared on the bamboo surface.

On one side of the bamboo slip reads: "It is calling Qian Heng for the baby family of the Yang household in the city." ”

On the other side, it is written: "Take money as a burden, impeachment (carving) is said to be 'four zhu (baht)', and the two ends are equal to ten." Dare to choose the weight and use, impeachment and punishment, ten days. ”

On the thin side, there are three more words written, but the first word is completely blurred and invisible, and only the word "Huang Rule" remains.

After reluctantly recognizing the words on the bamboo piece, Chen Han was shocked.

"This, this is a sky balance bar?!"

Kong Jianwen nodded: "Yes, this is a sky balance bar, to be precise, this should be a money balance." ”

What do the two sentences engraved on the bamboo piece mean?

The first sentence "is the city of Yang household infant family called Qian Heng." "Obviously, it is to explain the makers and users of this scale.

"Zheng" is the meaning of Li Zhengguan.

The Shiyang household infant house shows that this balance was made and used by a family called the infant family in Shiyang.

Moreover, since this "Qian Heng" can appear in Mr. Sui's funeral goods, it is obviously something closely related to Mr. Sui's life.

Maybe it's a family heirloom, maybe it's something he's used to use.

In short, this "baby family" must be Mr. Sui's family.

Mr. Sui's mouth contains a jade seal in Yin, and there is only one word in the seal as "Sui".

According to the Chinese seals unearthed in the past, if the seal is a character, it is generally the user's name.

In other words, Mr. Sui should be surnamed Ying and his name is Sui.

Baby, after Dr. Ji Ying.

The Han Dynasty did have the surname baby, and it was not a small surname.

This is one of the more important findings.

However, the next sentence on the other side of the bamboo slice is the real heavy message!

Tired of money, engraved four baht, and ten at both ends. Dare to choose the weight and use, impeachment and punishment, ten days.

What does this phrase mean?

"Money is tired", that is, the use of money as a weight to weigh the four baht and a half taels used in the transaction.

There is such a note in the "Hanshu Food and Goods Journal", he said, "When the money weighs four baht, the law money is 100 pieces as a catty and 16 zhu, and the light is to make a few pieces of money enough to make the full peace."

This passage is a good illustration of the Han Dynasty's use of money as a balance weight to weigh money.

One end of the balance is put 100 pieces of money, and the other end is put 100 pieces of four and a half coins used in trading, so that the balance can be balanced.

If the four and a half baht taels used in the transaction are less than the official weight of four baht, a number of coins should be added to keep the balance balanced.

Judging from the text of the weighing rod, the unearthed method of using the money balance is similar to this.

The difference is that the two ends of the unearthed money balance are ten pieces each.

That's what "ten at both ends" means.

In other words, this balance pole is used to weigh money, no wonder it is called "weighing money"!

Kong Jianwen smiled slightly and said excitedly: "When modern people mention the scale, the first impression that comes to mind is the Egyptian balance. ”

"Indeed, according to papyrus, the Egyptians used the scales as early as more than 1500 BC."

"Some scholars even believe that the Egyptians may have used the scales earlier than that, about 5,000 B.C."

"However, the balance is not a foreign thing for us Chinese people!"

"In ancient China, there were also instruments with balance structure, and the period of production was also very early!"

"There's no way to trace when it first appeared."

"However, at least in the late Spring and Autumn Period, our Huaxia balance and weight manufacturing technology has been quite sophisticated."

"It has been recorded in the history books that the balance is made of bamboo slices as weighing rods, the silk thread is the button, and a copper plate is hung at each end."

"It's just that later, because the balance weighing is more troublesome, I gradually switched to scales, that is, the old-fashioned handmade scales that are tied with scales and hooks on the other."

"The older generation still uses this scale to sell things!"

"Of course, the balance has not been completely eliminated, it is only used when weighing small things."

"In ancient China, when money and silver were weighed, they were measured by the scale."

"In the Chinese medicine store, the balance has been used to weigh since ancient times!"

"Scales, it can be said that the Egyptians started using them earlier than us, but it is absolutely impossible that we learned them from the Egyptians!"

"The balance of China is also invented and researched by our Chinese ancestors!"

"This balance bar is the most powerful proof!"