"Senior brother, how is the excavation going? Are there any earth-shattering discoveries? ”

Chen Han went down to the M22 grave with a hippie smile and found his senior brother.

After returning from the Yejiashan cemetery, Chen Han did not participate in the on-site excavation work much, and cooperated with Professor Li to identify the inscriptions of the excavated cultural relics and write papers.

This was agreed by Kong Jianwen.

This also made Zhuang Yunpeng, who was in the same dormitory, very envious.

But it was useless for him to envy.

Who told him that he didn't understand Zhong Dingwen...

"Senior brother, don't come to entertain me." Zhuang Yunpeng straightened up from the pit, stretched out his hand to hammer his waist, and complained: "It's okay for you, you can sit in the office in the cultural relics storage room first." ”

"Senior brother, I still have to go down to the grave when it's freezing on this day."

"Do you know how hard it is to dig in the dirt in the winter?"

"Even if the temperature is low, and the soil is still very hard, my hands are going to be stiff."

Zhuang Yunpeng wept and stretched out his hand to Chen Han's eyes.

The hands were red, not the healthy ruddy, but the congested rose.

Although it is already February, the temperature in Hubei has not risen at all, and it is still in the depths of winter.

Generally, winter is not the season for archaeological excavations, Zhuang Yunpeng has been in university for four years, and he has never participated in excavation projects in winter.

This time I was taught hard by the winter.

I also understand why archaeological work is not carried out in winter.

It's more than twice as difficult to excavate in winter as it is in summer!

And the physical destruction is also greater.

Suizhou is better, at least not in the north, it rarely snows, and there will be no snow.

If it was excavated in the northern winter, Zhuang Yunpeng couldn't imagine how difficult it would be.

"Senior brother, I'm really not here to entertain you." Chen Han stretched out his hand and put it on Zhuang Yunpeng's shoulder, and said seriously:

"I've already finished writing a thesis."

"The inscriptions on the bronzes unearthed from Tomb M1 have almost been interpreted, and the remaining words are really unrecognizable, so we have to let those paleographers study them slowly."

"So I'm going back to work!"

"What's the situation with your tomb, do you need my help?"

"No, you don't." Zhuang Yunpeng rolled his eyes: "I am a small earthen tomb with a length and width of only two or three meters, and there are only some pottery and a small number of bronzes with the burial goods, so how can I use more than one person." ”

"If you're idle, go to Pit M21 next door to help."

"It's a medium-sized tomb over there."

Speaking of this, Zhuang Yunpeng suddenly smiled ambiguously, leaned closer to Chen Han's ear, and said shyly: "There are girls next door~"

Chen Han was stunned and wondered: "Sister, what sister, the owner of the tomb is a woman?" ”

“he... tui！ Zhuang Yunpeng snorted and was speechless: "I won't say this to you, a straight man of steel." ”

"You can live with archaeology for the rest of your life!"

The corners of Chen Han's mouth curled, put away the look of surprise, and said happily: "Teasing you, senior brother." ”

"However, to borrow your good words, I really want to live with archaeology for the rest of my life."

"Let's go, I'm going next door to help."

patting his ass and waving his hand, Chen Han left the No. 22 pit without looking back.

Zhuang Yunpeng had a black line on his face, raised his middle finger and scolded: "If you have the ability, don't get married for the rest of your life." ”

"When the time comes, I will have an engagement banquet, a wedding banquet, a full moon wine for children, and a first birthday banquet, and I will receive your red envelope, and I don't have to pay it back!"

......

Ignoring Senior Brother Zhuang's angry words, Chen Han climbed up, turned his head and walked towards the M21 pit.

The so-called large tombs, medium-sized tombs, and small tombs are a relative statement.

Take the situation on this side of the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery.

If the length and width of the bottom of the tomb is more than 7 meters, it belongs to the scope of a large tomb.

The cemetery is about 5 meters long and wide, and it is a medium-sized tomb.

If the length and width of the cemetery are only 2-3 meters, it is a small tomb.

According to the existing excavations, the owner of the small tomb should be a low-level nobleman of the Zeng Kingdom, that is, the first class of scholars.

The owner of the medium-sized tomb is a middle-to-high-ranking nobleman from the doctor to the first level of the secretary.

Large tombs are only eligible for use by Marquis Zeng and his wife.

According to this tomb system, although the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery has not been completely excavated, Chen Han can also roughly infer that at least three Zeng Marquis were buried in this tomb group.

Because there are five large tombs, and two of them are obvious to see the master and slave, it should be the tomb of the Marquis Zeng and his wife.

There is only one tomb M4, which is a large and isolated tomb.

It is also because Tomb M4 is lonely, so Kong Jianwen decided to excavate this tomb first.

Chen Han also took a look just now.

The excavation of Tomb M4 went well, with plenty of personnel, adequate preparation, and everyone in good spirits.

Even if the fill has not been cleared, and the tomb has not been dug for the time being, there should be no cultural relics unearthed within a few days.

After reaching more than 20 meters, Chen Han came to Tomb M21.

As a medium-sized tomb, Tomb M21 has a width of 3.5 meters and a length of more than 5 meters.

The "staircase" dug out by hand leads from the entrance of the tomb to the bottom of the tomb.

Walking down the tomb road, Chen Han saw Lin Ya and Su Sa.

Under the leadership of Zhuo Jiani, a researcher in the Qin and Han Research Laboratories of the institute, the two of them are cleaning up the tomb.

The situation of the tomb that catches your eye is not bad.

Although the coffin of the owner of the tomb has decayed, judging from the coffin lid and decay that have not yet completely decayed, the coffin lid can vaguely distinguish the barren curtain and gold stalk.

At a glance, the identity and status of the tomb owner are prominent.

What's more, the tomb doesn't seem to have been tampered with.

It's not easy.

The tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were excavated in large quantities during the Han Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, especially during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Basically, it's not one out of ten.

In particular, this kind of tomb group with the significance of a centralized cemetery is usually as long as one of the tombs is discovered, and the remaining tombs are basically inseparable.

Therefore, the high-level burial areas of the vassal states in the Eastern and Western Zhou dynasties were basically stolen.

And most of them were stolen in ancient times, and it was too late to recover the cultural relics.

Like Zeng Guo's three cemeteries in Suizhou, they are all Zeng Guojun's cemeteries that have just been discovered and confirmed this year.

However, according to the current archaeological situation, these three cemeteries have already been patronized by ancient tomb robbers.

Now the M21 tomb of Wenfeng Pagoda has survived, and I am really lucky...

If it weren't for the Wenfeng Pagoda community to be completely transformed into the Wenfeng Pagoda community, a lot of construction would have to be done, and the tomb might have been able to remain quiet underground.

"Senior Brother Chen, you're here just in time." Su Sa, who saw Chen Han's arrival, beckoned to him with a smile: "This tomb is buried with a set of bronze ritual vessels, and we are cleaning it up!" ”

"There are copper tripods, copper bowls, copper threads, copper plates, copper cups, copper five sets, some inscriptions can be vaguely seen on these bronze ritual vessels, but we can't understand them."

"Senior Brother Chen, take a look, what is written here, and whether there is any record of the identity information of the owner of the tomb."

Hearing this, Chen Han walked to Su Sa's side with his hands behind his back, and stretched out his head to look at the pile of bronzes placed in the corner of the tomb.

"Great-grandson Shao's trip"

"Great-grandson Shao's Journey"

"The pot of great-grandson Shao's great walk"

"Well, this tomb owner should be the grandson of a certain great-marquis, named Shao."

"Yes, it's a high-ranking nobleman of the Zeng Kingdom."