In the dormitory, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng were eating dinner and drinking some wine.

"Don't mention it, the one that stole tomb M2 is called a clean!"

Zhuang Yunpeng was depressed and poured a bottle of beer into his mouth.

The excavation project of Suizhou Wenfeng Tower Zenghou Cemetery has been going on for a month.

The excavation went well, but the results were disappointing.

It is different from the excavations that are full of surprises every day like the Han tombs in Phoenix Mountain.

Here in Wenfeng Tower, everyone from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences sighs every day, and the first sentence when they meet each other is to scold the tomb robbers.

It's too ruthless, it's really too ruthless.

Chen Han originally thought that the M1 tomb he handled was miserable enough.

But when he heard the situation of tomb M2 from Zhuang Yunpeng's mouth, he knew that there was no worst, only worse.

Tomb M1 still has 2 tripods left, and in the past week, 2 pieces of gé and a copper rope have been cleaned out one after another.

The mustache is a kind of utensils with a round mouth and three legs, and like a ding, it is also a cooking utensil for cooking.

The copper reel is a round-bellied, square-shaped, lid-covered container with ring-eared ears, which can be used to hold water or wine.

The bronze ice rope once unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng is a bronze rope that can be called the treasure of the town, with a huge size and exquisite production, which is the pinnacle of art in BC.

It was an important ritual in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Only a few large tombs have unearthed bronze threads.

And the thread also has the function of a musical instrument, during the Warring States Period, Lin Xiangru forced the King of Qin to hit the thread.

At the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games, the magnificent scene of thousands of people singing was shocking, and the ropes used in the performance were made based on this bronze ice rope.

Of course, the copper rope cleaned out of the sealed soil of the M1 tomb of Wenfeng Pagoda is not so exquisite, it is also seriously damaged and corroded, and only the fragment of the upper abdomen remains, with a height of less than 12 centimeters.

It should be only a quarter the size of the original.

But Chen Han is optimistic.

If this bronze rope was intact, it would have been stolen by tomb robbers a long time ago, and it would not have remained in tomb M1, giving later archaeologists a chance to see the real face.

"Senior brother, be content, at least you can still find a bronze artifact, even if it is seriously damaged, it is a precious ritual artifact!"

Zhuang Yunpeng patted Chen Han's chest bitterly: "Do you know what is the most valuable thing we found in Tomb M2?" ”

"It's funny to say, it's a turquoise bead!"

"What is the rest other than this?"

"13 copper arrowheads, that is, copper arrowheads."

"The copper components of the 15 carriages and horses are not much different in size and nuts."

"6 trims, a copper ring, two copper latches, a few scattered bones, and a deer antler!"

"And then it's gone! In the five-meter-long and five-meter-wide coffin, there are only so many things left! ”

"The bronze ritual vessels that were supposed to fill the coffin room, the gui, the mustache, the hu, the jue, the bell, the chariot and the horse have all been stolen!"

"Those tomb robbers didn't even leave a complete set of carriages and horses, only left us a few spare parts!"

Zhuang Yunpeng let out a long sigh, and said in a funny and angry tone: "On the contrary, there are two burial coffins, which have not been taken by tomb thieves, the corpses inside have not been disturbed, and the burial goods are well preserved." ”

"But for the nobles to be martyred, what valuables can there be, the two burial coffins are filled with a few pottery dings, pottery bowls, and pottery pots."

"You know, the same utensils made of bronze are ceremonial vessels, but pottery is not."

The tripod made of bronze can be said to symbolize the power of the state and is a ritual vessel.

But the pottery tripod is really just a cooking utensil for cooking, and it is not endowed with any special color.

After all, Dayu is a bronze casting of Jiuding, not of pottery.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the nobles used bronze, and the slaves and low-level commoners used pottery, and the classes were very distinct.

"However, it is really cruel for a slave society to use people for burial." Zhuang Yunpeng took a sip of wine, his expression was very complicated.

"Of the two burial coffins, the remains in the east coffin are quite complete, the long bone fragments of the limbs are slender, the muscles are weakly developed at the line, and the large ischial notch is wide and shallow."

"Judging by the age of the teeth and the characteristics of the bones, it is a young woman aged 25-30 years."

"The remains in the coffin are severely corroded, and the part above the pelvis is missing, so it is impossible to determine the gender, but it can also be determined by the age of the teeth, and the age at the time of the burial was about 25 years old."

Thinkers

Chen Han felt the same way, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "If we lived in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, eighty percent of us would be martyred at this age." ”

"I remember that in the mausoleum area of the Shang King in Yinxu, Anyang, there is a large tomb where more than 360 slaves were buried, most of whom were teenagers under the age of 20, and even a large number of young children."

"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although it was a splendid era in the history books, was an era of cultural and artistic explosion."

"But it is undeniable that it was also a terrible era of slavery."

"Not only do the nobles enjoy a lot of privileges, but they also have a high status, and even if the nobles of the two armies are captured, they must be treated kindly, and they can be sent home as a gift after paying the ransom."

"Prisoners of war, slaves, serfs, and savages who are not nobles have a very low status, and they can be killed at will just for fun."

"Speaking of which, the game played by the European nobles in the Middle Ages was played like this in China three thousand years ago."

"yes." Zhuang Yunpeng shook his head and said in a melancholy tone: "That's one, the age of princes and generals is indeed a kind. ”

"The son of the minister will still be the secretary of state in the future, and all rights will be inherited by hereditary, and the prince will be the heir."

"The descendants of the nobility will always be the nobility."

"The descendants of slaves and serfs will always be slaves and serfs."

"It wasn't until Shang Jun appeared that he broke the status quo."

Many people thought that it was the appearance of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and the shock of Daze Township: "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning"!

It broke the era of aristocracy that had been inherited in China for thousands of years, allowing commoners to stir up the storm, break the class solidification, and have the possibility of becoming nobles.

But in fact, it was actually the Shang monarch who ended the Huaxia Shiqing Shilu system and opened a way for the commoners to rise, and let the eternal nobles fall into the clouds.

It was the Shang Dynasty that changed the law and ended the Shiqing Shilu system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

It was also the military merit system formulated by Shang Ying, so that civilians who could not read a single word, and even slaves, had a chance to become nobles and change their fate.

Half of Qin Shi Huang's team to unify the world are elites who climbed up from the common people!

Before Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Li Si, a commoner who was "unplanted", had already become the prime minister of Qin with his own efforts!

"Shang Jun, he is indeed a talent who has transcended the limitations of the times." Chen Han nodded with a sigh.

To say who he admires the most during the entire Warring States period.

It is not those hundreds of giants who stirred up the world, nor are they those peerless generals who conquered dozens of cities in one battle and were brave and invincible.

It was this Shang Jun who personally ended an old era and opened the door to a new era for Chinese civilization.

"Winter Winter ......"

A sudden knock on the door interrupted Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng's drunken nonsense, and also interrupted Chen Han's flying thoughts.

The dormitory door was opened impatiently from the outside.

Zhang Jianbo hurriedly walked in, ignoring that Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng were eating, he picked up Chen Han and walked out.

"Senior Brother Chen, in the mound of the M1 tomb, a set of chimes have been found!"

"Professor Li asked me to come to you and identify the inscriptions on the chimes together!"