The so-called button refers to the position of the upper end of the print.

Turtles, tigers, sheep, horses, camels and other animals with certain meanings are often taken, often symbolizing the identity of the owner.

Some are printed with tiger buttons, and some use dragon buttons, cow buttons, tiger buttons, turtle buttons, and table buttons.

Generally speaking, in the Han Dynasty, the more common ones were turtle buttons and tiger buttons, that is, the animals printed with the carving were turtles or tigers.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, the table button was more common.

And the fish button is rare.

Although fish and "Yu" are homophonic, it has the meaning of attracting wealth, preventing disasters, and avoiding disasters since ancient times, and conveys good wishes for surplus every year.

However, in ancient times, if you want to use the meaning related to "fish", you usually prefer to carve a kiss.

The kiss is born of dragons and fish, ranking ninth. Since ancient times, it has often carried the meaning of driving away evil spirits.

And it is more noble, which makes the ancients love it more.

This makes the "fish" even more unfavorable.

At present, there are only two fish buttons unearthed or surviving.

One is the "Taicang" half-pass (half-seal) seal in the early Han Dynasty, which was the official seal of a lower-level official in the Western Han Dynasty.

The other one is a private seal of the Eastern Han Dynasty, printed with the word "Shi Shaoya", which should be the name of the owner.

In addition, heirloom fish buttons are rare.

However, there are 10 official seals of copper fish buttons unearthed in recent decades, and most of them are from the Qin Dynasty.

It can be seen that the official seal of the fish button has a phased and obvious regional nature in the times.

In the official seal system of the Qin system, the official seal of the fish button is the lowest level of button.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the official seal of the early Western Han Dynasty that survived later only had a "Taicang" seal of the lowest-ranking official.

The "Jingxiang Order Seal" in the style of a fish button unearthed now, in terms of style alone, should also be the seal of a low-level official.

It also shows that the Nanyue State has indeed inherited more of the Qin system, at least in the official seal system.

After all, this is a group of generals and soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Corps of the Qin State, who conquered the country.

"Jingxiang Lingyin, what kind of official position is this Jingxiang Ling." Chen Han frowned, looking back and forth at the four inscriptions on the seal.

In his impression, the Western Han Dynasty should not have the official position of "Jingxiang Order".

Professor Li, who was also contemplating, pondered for a while and said, "It should be a eunuch." ”

"Qin has Yongxiang Ling and Cheng, which is still set up in the early Han Dynasty, and is in charge of the concubines and palace maids and prison affairs in the palace, and serves as eunuchs."

"According to historical records, the palace built by Zhao Tuo in Panyu is basically modeled after the Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace and Jianzhang Palace in Chang'an."

"Even the interior details are almost the same as the residence of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an."

"In this case, the royal palace of Nanyue should also have an official position system similar to that of Chang'an."

"This Jingxiang Order should be the Yongxiang Order of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is in charge of the affairs of the emperor's family."

Chen Han nodded in sudden realization.

Yongxiang Ling, it sounds very powerful, he can actually control the concubine and the palace prison affairs, which is equivalent to being a criminal police officer in the palace.

But in fact, this official rank is only 600 stones, which is a petty official.

Nominally subordinate to the Shaofu, he is in charge of the palace officials and maids, but in fact he is doing dirty work.

Usually I can only deal with the punishment of some palace maids who make mistakes, and it is a dream to really want to manage the concubine.

Only when the Son of Heaven is dissatisfied with a certain concubine and imprisons her in Yongxiang, Yongxiang Ling can take care of it.

The so-called Yongxiang is actually a long alley in the palace, which is the concentrated residence of the palace maids who have not been assigned to the palaces, and it is also a place where the concubines who have lost their power or fallen out of favor are confined.

is similar to the cold palace that was often said later and in film and television dramas.

About Yongxiang, the most famous is the story of Empress Lu imprisoning Mrs. Qi in Yongxiang.

Mrs. Qi was also made an adult in Yongxiang.

After that, throughout the Western Han Dynasty, "Yongxiang" of Chang'an Palace was a taboo place for all concubines and palace maids, and no one dared to mention it or go there.

Since Zhao Tuo is a palace built for himself after the Chang'an Palace, there should also be a place similar to Yongxiang for punishing and imprisoning concubines and palace maids.

This "Jingxiang Order" is likely to do just that.

The more Chen Han thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and he echoed and said: "In the small seal, Jing Tongying, and Yong Tongyin, are homophonic and easy, but the glyphs are two different words. ”

Perhaps the king of Nanyue deliberately used the word "Jing" to replace the word "Yong" to show the meaning of distinguishing it from the Chang'an court. ”

After discovering this seal and determining the identity of the martyr in the front room, everyone immediately understood why he could have such a beautiful bronze mirror and a complete set of jade ornaments to accompany the burial.

Although he has a low status, he is only a eunuch with a rank of 600 stones, but his position is not ordinary, he is a eunuch, and he has access to the king of Nanyue.

The three officials in front of the prime minister's door, let alone the princes and kings?

These burial goods, which exceeded his own status, were probably the rewards given by the king of Nanyue who was lying in the main chamber.

Even thinking in the direction of the tragic point, maybe this Jingxiang Ling didn't use this set of jade ornaments and bronze mirrors in front of him, and he only obtained these two burial items after being forcibly buried.

And apart from these two valuable burial goods, as well as the two iron tools, there were no other funeral goods in the coffin of this Jing Xiangling.

In addition, the rest of the entire frontroom is scattered around five-sixths of the space with carriage and horse accessories.

It is estimated that there was a complete set of chariot and horse models in the front room, and it was much more complete than the wooden horse model outside the tomb door.

It took Chen Han and Professor Li three days to clean up these carriage and horse accessories and mark them one by one.

In the entire front room, a total of exactly 60 artifacts were unearthed.

Five of them are copper knockers on wooden doors at the entrance of the east and west transepts.

It was also the discovery of these door knockers that made Chen Han suddenly realize that the left and right ear chambers were not without doors, but they were not stone doors like the tomb door and the main room door.

Instead, two wooden doors were built!

It's just that the wooden door has gradually decayed after the vicissitudes of time, and only a few copper knockers on the doorknob are still built.

In addition, there are three pieces of pottery, as well as a bronze tripod, which are the large artifacts that Chen Han and Professor Li first saw when they entered the front room.

The location of these artifacts is close to the aisle entrance of the West Ear Chamber.

Afterwards, everyone got together to discuss and judge, and felt that these pottery and copper tripods should not have been originally placed in the front room.

Because these utensils do not match the burial goods in the front room.

And the number is not right, how can there be only one burial tripod.

These three pieces of pottery and a copper tripod are supposed to have slipped out of the corridor of the west ear chamber.

Probably due to a slight earthquake due to a geological change, the burial objects in the West Ear Chamber turned over and rolled down the aisle into the Frontrooms.

Why is it so judged?

Because Professor Li took advantage of everyone's inattention, he secretly entered the west ear room and saw a pile of disorganized bronze ritual utensils and pottery that had fallen to the ground...

The west ear chamber is the location where the top stone slab was dug up when the tomb was excavated at the beginning of the construction site.

At that time, Fu Pu, the director of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, also used a flashlight to see a corner of the west ear room, which was full of bronzes.

"Heaven Descends"