Go east, spring comes.

The excavation of the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery has gradually come to an end.

From the end of January to the beginning of June, the 66 tombs were almost cleaned.

The situation is different here at the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery.

The real estate developer is going to build a new Wenfeng Pagoda community in this original Wenfeng Pagoda community.

Therefore, the tombs within the planning area are basically all subject to protective excavation.

Otherwise, the site will continue to dig up the tombs.

Of course, at this time, some people will say, why not simply cancel this real estate development project in order to protect the tomb, and protect this land?

It's a great idea, but there's really no room for maneuvering.

In addition to those with large enclosed soil gardens, such as the Maoling and Yangling tombs of the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, as well as the imperial tombs of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Either they have been sealing the soil, and no dynasties have broken ground on their graves.

Or even the above-ground buildings are still well preserved, and the sacrifices are endless.

Such tombs can indeed be protected.

However, like the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, the buildings on the ground have been demolished and demolished, and they have long become a part of modern society, and the places where real estate and residential houses have been developed are impossible to protect anymore.

If such tombs are to be protected, there should be tombs buried under one-third of the land in China, and wouldn't all of them be able to start building new houses?

Where possible, such as burials found in rural areas or fields that are not in cities, they can be protected because there is no plan to build high-rise buildings.

But as long as the land in the city is developed, the tombs buried underneath must be excavated for conservation.

It can't be that because there are ancestors buried here, modern people can't continue to develop.

For this kind of place where the ground must be broken out of necessity, Chen Han's participation in the excavation is not a psychological burden at all.

Even he enjoyed it.

Over the course of five months, he participated in the excavation of seven or eight tombs.

It's just that in addition to the tombs of the two Zeng Marquis at the beginning, more important cultural relics have been unearthed that can complete the history of China.

The tombs in the back are basically the same.

Bronze, pottery, chariots, horses, jade, basically just a few things.

Importantly, there are no bamboo slips that record the text, and there are no inscriptions that record historical information.

Most of them are the tombs of some doctors and scholars of the Zeng Kingdom.

The only sensational thing is the tomb of Marquis Bing, who was finally discovered.

It's a pity that in the tomb of Zeng Hou Bing, there are no bronzes with great inscription information.

There are only a batch of ritual vessels engraved with inscriptions such as "Zeng Hou Bing's self-made vessels".

This made Chen Han very disappointed.

Because the era of Zeng Hou Bing was already in the middle of the Warring States period, it was very close to the fall of Zeng.

Everyone hopes to find some history at the end of the Zeng Kingdom in the tomb of Marquis Bing.

Especially Chen Han.

Now Zengguo, a vassal state dug out of the ground, is working together with three tomb groups.

An approximate lineage has been restored.

From the beginning of Nangong Shifeng, to the tomb of the Marquis of the early Western Zhou Dynasty on the side of Yejia Mountain, the middle of the Spring and Autumn period of the Zaoshulin cemetery, and the late Spring and Autumn period of Wenfeng Pagoda to the middle of the Warring States Period.

Coupled with the previously excavated Guojiamiao and Sujialong, a complete lineage of the Zeng Kingdom can be pieced together.

This is a very rare and precious thing.

All the princely states of the Western Zhou Dynasty, including the famous Seven Heroes of the Warring States, have not been able to excavate a complete lineage like Zeng Guo in archaeological excavations.

Most of them are occasionally excavated to the tombs of one or two monarchs, and the intermediate dating is very serious.

What is even more rare and commendable is that the exploration and search and excavation of the Zeng Hou lineage have nothing to do with the history books.

The archaeologists, relying entirely on archaeological means, without any historical materials to assist, not only dug up this lost vassal state from the ground, but also pieced together and restored part of the important history of the Zeng country!

The most important reason for the beginning of the seal is the transformation of Zeng State from "left and right civil and military" to "left and right Chu kings", and then completely fell to Chu after the battle of Wu and Chu, and did not communicate with the Central Plains.

The destruction of the last Zeng country is not certain!

The series of papers on the [vassal states dug out of the ground] that Chen Han is preparing, if the reasons for the fall of the Zeng Kingdom and the conclusive archaeological evidence can be added, it will really be complete.

Otherwise, in his paper, regarding the reasons for the demise of the Zeng State, he can only put forward a view in the form of speculation that "Zeng was destroyed in Qin" and "or was destroyed because of the white attack on Chu".

It's just an opinion, not conclusive historical evidence, which makes Chen Han very sorry.

It can't be helped.

Zeng Guo was so inconspicuous in the turbulent era of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that it was so small that it was not even recorded by historians.

Perhaps the history of the Zeng State, on the side of the historians of the Chu State, has many detailed records, including the time, place, and reasons for the demise, which will be recorded by the historians of the Chu State.

After all, Zeng Guo is the loyal little brother of Chu State.

However, after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he destroyed all the histories recorded by the historians of various countries, leaving only the records of the historians of the Qin State as the official official history.

Sima Qian said: "Qin is proud, burning poems and books all over the world, especially the historical records of the princes, and he ridicules them. “

When Qin Shi Huang burned books, he collected all the "poems", "books" and hundreds of classics that could be collected by the people and burned them.

Moreover, the historical records written by the historians of the Six Nations are even more focused on destruction!

"Poems", "Books", "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan", "Mencius" and other pre-Qin classics, because there were many people who learned at that time, and many people risked being killed to collect them privately.

Therefore, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, some of these hundred schools of thought were preserved and reorganized into a book by word of mouth.

Even so, some of the more unpopular and less scholarly doctrines among the hundred schools of thought were completely wiped out because of Qin Shi Huang's book burning and the troubled times at the end of Qin.

Not to mention the history books of various countries.

This thing is not something that needs to be learned, and it is generally kept in the offices of various countries after it is written, and it will not be widely disseminated.

As soon as Qin Shi Huang set the fire on fire, the history books of the Six Kingdoms were directly destroyed.

In the Western Han Dynasty, after the political situation was stabilized, no one knew the content of the history books of the Six Kingdoms.

It is rumored that in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, there is a set of historical books of the Six Kingdoms to accompany the burial.

If nothing else, if Chen Han wants to find out the reason for the demise of the Zeng State, I am afraid that he can only go to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and find the history books of the Chu State...

Thinking of this stubble, Chen Han couldn't help but burst into tears.

Counting on the excavation of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

It's better to hope that luckily that day, it would be more reliable to dig out the "Records of the History of Chu" hidden in the wall in the old capital of Chu State...

Even if it's still ethereal, at least there's a thought.

As for digging up the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it is estimated that it is impossible for him to see it in his lifetime.

"Hey, it would be great if the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang could be excavated at any time, and it is estimated that the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China can be directly completed." Chen Han sighed a little unrealistically.