"Zeng Hou begged?"

"Yes!"

Kong Jianwen, who entered the door, took out his mobile phone and showed a few inscriptions and explanations sent from the Zaoshulin cemetery to Chen Han and Professor Li.

"At the beginning of the first month of the first month of the king of Yu, Ji Dinghai, Zeng Gong begged to choose his Ji Jin to make Yi Shengding, and used it to enjoy filial piety to the emperor Zu Nangong to Huanzhuang, with the flag, eternal life and longevity, and its eternal use."

"At the beginning of the first month of the first month of the king of Yu, Ji Dinghai, Yu Qi chose Ji Jin to make his own Zongyi pot, and used his longevity and filial piety to Emperor Nangong as far as Huan Zhuang, with the flag, eternal life and longevity, and the children and grandchildren will always use it."

"At the beginning of the first month of the first month of King Yu, Jidinghai ......"

"At the beginning of the first month, Ji Yihai, the king of Chu is a fisherman, and his eyebrows are lifeless for 10,000 years, and his descendants will always use it."

There are a total of seven or eight inscriptions, the content of each one is almost the same, and it can be roughly understood, it should be a batch of bronzes made by Zeng Houqiu and Zeng Houqiu's wife Mi Yu, the two of them.

And it was all at the beginning of the first month of the first month of the king of the king, Ji Dinghai. "I did it on this day.

It seems that it was planned in advance to make a batch of bronze ritual vessels.

"To be precise, the owner of the tomb is Zeng Gongqiu, and there is too much evidence to prove his identity." Chen Han shrugged his shoulders and said with some envy.

Kong Jianwen smiled: "This is the inscription on the bronze ritual vessel unearthed in the tomb M190 of the Zaoshulin cemetery. ”

"The people of the Hubei Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University have long coveted the Zaoshulin cemetery, and they have done a small decade of exploration work to basically find out the situation of the tombs in this cemetery."

"As soon as the State Administration of Cultural Heritage approved the excavation, they immediately started to work on the largest tomb, M190."

"Tomb M190, located in the northern part of the cemetery, is a "A" shaped tomb with a ramped tomb road. ”

"The tomb has two tomb roads, east and west, the east tomb road is the main tomb road, and the north and west all collapsed in the early stage, and the shape is irregular."

"And because the eastern part is occupied by private houses, it has not been excavated completely, and only half of the tomb has been excavated."

"I heard Lao Tan from Hubei say that when the tomb was first excavated, the owner of the tomb only had a coffin, and the shape was not the five-fold of the princes stipulated by the Zhou rites."

"Lao Tan thought he had found the wrong one, this was not from the tomb of Marquis Zeng."

"And when I dug up the tomb, the coffin had been opened, the cinnabar at the bottom of the coffin was clearly visible, and the human bones had been disturbed."

"It's clear that the grave thieves have dug it up first."

"You must know that in order to apply for the excavation of this project, the Hubei Institute and the Institute of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University spent a lot of energy and effort, and also gave up a lot of connections and favors to win."

"And tomb M190, which is the largest tomb in the Zaoshulin cemetery, is not Marquis Zeng, and it has been stolen."

"At that time, Lao Tan's heart was half cold."

"But I didn't expect that more than 320 pieces of burial artifacts were unearthed in the follow-up M190!"

"Musical instruments, weapons, chariots and horses, a small number of toilets, and a large number of wine and ritual vessels!"

"And these bronzes are very well preserved, and they have the color of copper and gold, which is called a beautiful one."

"It can't be called bronze, it should be called bronze!"

Kong Jianwen chattered and scratched out a bunch of photos of unearthed cultural relics sent by colleagues from the Jingzhou Institute of Archaeology for Chen Han and Professor Li to see.

I have to say, it's really beautiful and beautiful.

On those bronzes, they can basically remain golden, but there are a little more red and green rust spots.

Some rust spots happen to appear on the pattern line of the bronzes, dyeing the patterns green or red, and then matching the overall gold of these bronzes.

Not only is it beautiful, but it may even surpass its original beauty!

"It's really beautiful, this level of preservation of bronze is rare to see in ten years!" Chen Han was also surprised.

Compared with the Wenfeng Pagoda, the unearthed ones are full of rust green, and they don't even have a complete appearance, only half of the broken bronzes remain.

The bronze artifacts unearthed from the Jujube Forest Cemetery look like they have just been cast.

One heaven and one earth, there is no comparison.

Chen Han was even more envious, and even had an urge to immediately go to the jujube grove cemetery to see it with his own eyes.

Such a beautiful bronze must be seen with your own eyes, and even touched and caressed!

"According to the shape of these bronze objects, they are generally similar to the similar tools found in the Zhouyuan area."

Kong Jianwen explained: "On the side of the Institute of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University, it is basically certain that this Zeng Gongqiu should be a Zeng Marquis in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. ”

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes of various countries were more casual in their titles of "duke" and "marquis".

Whether it is a large country or a small country, its monarch will call himself "Gong" in the bronzes he makes.

Not to mention the Marquis of Zeng, even the smaller Teng Kingdom, the State of Di, and the State of Qin, on the surviving bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period, all call themselves "Gong".

It is not surprising that this Zeng Gongqiu, as the monarch of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zeng Kingdom, called himself "Zeng Gong" on the self-cast bronzes.

At that time, such a trend was popular.

"Of course, the most important thing is the inscription at the back."

Kong Jianwen forwarded several bronze inscriptions unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Zeng to his laptop.

"You see, on most of the bronzes, there is this sentence: Use to enjoy filial piety to the emperor Zu Nangong to Huanzhuang."

This emperor Nangong, and we saw in the tomb of Zeng Hou Yu, "the king ordered Nangong, the camp is in the soil, and the king shelters Huaiyi", which is undoubtedly corroborated by the two phases. ”

At this point, it is a definite fact that the first ancestor of Zeng Guo was "Nangong". ”

"In addition, a set of bells unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Gongqiu also recorded an event during the Zhaowang period."

Kong Jianwen opened the most important one of the inscription rubbings.

"King Zhao traveled south, Yu ordered Yu Zeng, Xiancheng I said, there are Zhou left and right, give it to use Yue, and use it to conquer the south."

"It is suitable for the eastern part of the Han Dynasty, the south is borderless, and it involves the expedition of Huaiyi, as for Fanyang."

"This is an inscription that records the historical events of King Zhao of the Zhou Dynasty such as his southward journey and passing through the south!"

"During the reign of King Zhao of Zhou, King Zhao once toured the south once, and met with the monarch of Zeng, and gave him Yue, giving him the right to rule Handong and conquer Huaiyi."

"There is no doubt that in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Zeng was one of the most important vassal states in the south of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it can be said that it was the Bo State that ruled the south!"

"Moreover, he was also the vanguard of the southern strategy during the Zhao Dynasty, and was the most important force for the Zhou Dynasty to expand the influence of the south and conquer the southern Zhuyi."

"The importance of the Zeng State to the Western Zhou Dynasty, like the Qi State, was to shoulder the mission of defending the frontier and educating and conquering the local Yi people."

"It's just that Zeng didn't have the same good luck as Qi, Qi was close to the sea, and the local Yi people were not strong, and Qi State, which had the right to conquer, quickly conquered the east and west, obtained a huge amount of land, and became a big country."

"And next to Zeng Guo, there is a Chu State that is eyeing the Zhou Dynasty, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it has always been at the forefront of resisting the Chu State, and it is a buffer line sandwiched between Chu and Zhou."

"Chu is not a weak Dongyi, and the people are also a civilization with a long heritage, and the ancestors are still Zhurong."

"It is difficult for Zeng Guo to get any benefits from Chu State, and he can only barely resist the invasion of Chu State."

With the gradual decline of the Zhou royal family, the Zeng State gradually changed from "left and right civil and military" to "left and right Chu State", became a vassal of Chu State, and finally died out secretly. ”