"It's not well preserved."

"It feels like it's going to shatter when you touch it."

Chen Han and Professor Li, squatting in the tomb near the tomb door, both frowned, looking at a bronze mirror in front of them.

The bronze mirror was so badly corroded and damaged that it didn't even look like "copper", like a piece of clay made of powder.

Neither dared to reach out and touch it.

I'm afraid that this bronze mirror, which is currently in a stable state, will be broken and shattered at the touch of a button.

Today is the third day of clearing the graveyard.

The fill in the cemetery has basically been cleared, and the situation in the cemetery has become clear.

It can already be determined that outside the tomb gate, there is a rectangular flat-bottomed pit about four meters long, and there are outer coffins built of wood.

It's just that the coffins are not well preserved, and they are all decaying.

What is a Hidden Coffin?

To put it simply, it can be understood as a burial pit.

It is usually used to accompany the burial of some slaves, subordinates, and cooks.

Of course, after the abolition of human martyrdom, it is generally replaced by figurines.

In general, in the early Western Han Dynasty, if there is a hidden coffin, it is usually set up at the tomb road and Yong road.

The meaning is self-evident, guarding the door for the owner of the tomb.

At the beginning, everyone actually didn't consider the question of whether the king of Nanyue would be martyred.

When the Nanyue Kingdom existed, it was already the Western Han Dynasty.

The system of human martyrdom has long been abolished.

Like the Phoenix Mountain Han Tomb Group in which Chen Han participated before, as well as the Mawangdui Han Tomb excavated earlier, no traces of martyrdom have been found.

But.

When the archaeologists almost cleaned up the tomb road, they gradually found something wrong in the face of the gradually clear tomb situation.

At the place near the east wall of the inclined part of the tomb road, a group of pottery was placed, including small dings, bowls, pots, small boxes, three-legged boxes, pots, and bowls, which were stacked together.

The bodies of these 12 pieces of pottery are relatively small and rough, and considering the comprehensive age, they are definitely not the utensils used by the king of Nanyue.

It's more like pottery commonly used by civilians.

Moreover, there are small bronze mirrors and copper belt hooks next to this pile of pottery.

At the clay pots stacked under the hooks, there are also remains of vermilion patent leather, which look very much like the remains of coffin lacquer.

In addition, there is a pair of gilt bronze medallions on the west side opposite the location of these pottery and bronze objects, which is located near the west wall of the tomb.

The belt hook is the hook of the belt worn by the ancient people.

The bronze medal ornament is a hanging ornament worn on the chest by ancient people.

Then consider the remains of vermilion patent leather.

Obviously, the place where the tomb slopes near the east wall should have been a coffin.

These pottery, bronze mirrors, belt hooks, and bronze medallions were all placed in the coffin.

It's just that this coffin is completely rotten, and these items are scattered on the ground at random.

Why is there a coffin in the cemetery?

Obviously, this is a human martyr!

Moreover, Chen Han can also judge the situation at the time of the martyrdom through the nature and placement of these unearthed artifacts.

Plaques, bronze mirrors and belt hooks are generally placed on the head and feet of the deceased.

It can be judged in turn that the coffin of the martyr should be placed in the tomb with its head east and feet west, but unfortunately the coffin and the entity inside have been corroded by time when it is unearthed.

However, with the combination of three utensils, such as a plaque, a bronze mirror and a hook.

Chen Han also probably guessed the identity of this person's martyrdom.

He was supposed to be a samurai guarding the palace, so he was placed at the end of the slope of the tomb and took on the duty of guarding the tomb.

The South Vietnamese State is still using people to be martyred.

This discovery made all archaeologists feel a little uncomfortable.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, and even earlier, the martyrdom of the pop people was counted, and all the nobles at that time did this, and it can only be said that the times were like that.

However, in the Western Han Dynasty, the inland Western Han Dynasty emperors, princes, princes, and even other nobles had abandoned the inhumane martyrdom system and replaced it with terracotta figurines.

It is a bit unreasonable to say that the South Vietnamese country, which lives in a single country, is still using people to be martyred.

And it's not just one person who died!

In front of the tomb gate, there is a vertical pit more than four meters long and 2-2.3 meters wide.

This is the outer coffin.

The east side of the coffin is the place where the coffins of the martyrs are placed, which is about 2.2 meters long and 1 meter wide from north to south.

The coffin frame is completely decayed without traces, and only 1 pair of gilt bronze medallions remain.

Judging from the location of the excavation, this should also be a burial object contained in the coffin.

In the south of the coffin, that is, at the southern end of the coffin of the martyr, some traces of lacquerware were also found, most of which became a mass of black lacquer wood slag, and only one ear cup was still recognizable.

Similarly, the coffin wood that hides the coffin outside is also completely decayed, and only the gray-white slab ash traces are left in the three horizontal sleeper ditches at the bottom of the pit.

Except for the coffin of the martyrs placed on the east side by the south, the rest of the coffin is covered with burial utensils.

The burial utensils are divided into two layers, and there are 17 large pottery urns on the lower floor, which are placed on the left and right sides.

Between the two piles of pottery urns, there is a vacant space about 0.8 meters long from north to south.

It turned out that there may have been a model of a wooden car here, but unfortunately, it has also decayed.

As for why there may be a model of a wooden cart, it is because just above this position, there is a rectangular wooden box containing a bow cap.

This wooden box rests on top of two large clay urns in the north and south, and fortunately, it is not completely decayed, and there is a bottom plate to drag the contents inside.

There are two sets of copper-capped bow hats in the wooden box, one set of 9 on the south side and one group of 31 on the north side.

In addition, among the pottery urns arranged horizontally on the north side, there is also a wooden plank remaining, and four iron nails are placed on this wooden board.

It is known that there is also a wooden box containing utensils here.

And this chest may be filled with ceremonial ornaments, because there are 9 ceremonial ornaments under this position, which fell on the pottery urn.

The wooden body of the ceremonial guard is decayed, and the bowl-shaped bracelet at the top is decorated with some falling into the pottery urn, and some are scattered around the urn.

The copper sleeve at the end of the battle fell in piles at the northwest corner of the coffin.

The cap is a part on the ancient car cover and was used to fix the car cover.

Honor guard ornament, as the name suggests, is a nobleman, usually at least a rank above the rank of a prince, when traveling in a carriage, used to show the status of the honor guard.

Just like in the Ming and Qing dynasties, some high-ranking officials had to let their servants carry a bunch of wooden signs and flags in front of the carriage when they traveled.

On the top are written words such as "XXX according to the inspector", "XXX Hou", "XXX Bo" and other representative identities, which serve as a guard of honor and a clean street.

This thing also has a heritage, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the nobles traveled in a carriage, they must have a guard of honor.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the chariot and horse culture prevailed.

The princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty, when traveling, there are several music cars and honor guards in front of them to beat the drum to open the way, the princes and kings take the luxury carriage to the center, and there are many carriages and entourages to follow, the mighty convoy is accompanied by the sound of drum music, and the momentum is mighty!

Not to mention the Son of Heaven.

You must know that the servant of one of the nine kings of the Western Han Dynasty is responsible for managing the palace car for the Son of Heaven, and he also has to personally set up a car for the Son of Heaven, which is equivalent to a royal coachman!

The Son of Heaven needs to have a special servant organization to be responsible for managing and arranging the Son of Heaven's public car and travel, so you can imagine how grand the trip will be!

Obviously, the martyr who was buried in the outer coffin at the door of the tomb and also carried a chariot and horse should have been the charioteer of the king of Nanyue before his death.

Of course, it won't be a high-ranking official like a servant, and judging by the richness of the funeral goods, it should be a civilian-level coachman.

Now the situation in the tomb is clear.

A burial warrior guards the entrance to the tomb to keep the owner safe.

A coachman with a chariot and horse is guarding the door of the tomb, ready to prepare for the tomb owner's trip.

Although the tomb door has not yet been opened, it has officially entered the tomb of the Nanyue King.

However, the magnificent momentum of this king of Nanyue during his lifetime has been revealed in front of the world.

Just for the sake of peace and convenience after death, a samurai and a coachman were buried with him, and he could not even be buried in the tomb, but could only guard the gate on the tomb road.

This king of Nanyue is probably not a monarch with a humble and benevolent personality.

Since the second king of Nanyue is nicknamed "Wen", he should have some similarities with Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and he shouldn't be able to do this kind of martyrdom, right?

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Could it be that the owner of the tomb is the Nanyue Wu Emperor who followed Qin Shi Huang to fight the world and killed all the Baiyue tribes in Lingnan, Zhao Tuo?

It's kind of like his style.