"You should keep records diligently, draw more pictures, take pictures, and write down all kinds of signs in detail as much as possible to provide a basis for future research!"

"The movements of the hands are lighter, more detailed, and don't be frizzy!"

"Okay, let's not talk about more, let's get to work!"

With Professor Li's order, the joint archaeological team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology officially began to clean up the main tomb of the Nanyue King Tomb in Xianggang.

Yesterday afternoon, the lacquered wood screen placed on the east wall has been cleared.

It is said to be a screen, but it is actually four piles of pitch-black carbide.

The lacquered wood structure of the screen has completely disappeared, and only the copper-clad corner members used to secure the corners of the cloak are still there.

It was also with these copper-clad corners that I recognized it as a screen.

The so-called clean-up is actually to extract the four piles of screen decay as a whole, and then put them into boxes, waiting for the follow-up cultural relics restoration workers to sort out and restore.

My Healing Game

The reason why the cloak is to be sorted out is because the position of the cloak just blocks the coffin tomb.

Don't look at the main burial chamber is 4.84 meters long and 1.84 meters wide, which seems to be quite large.

But in fact, this size is just enough to fit a coffin.

The coffins of the princes and kings are all four coffins and one coffin or three coffins and two coffins, and considering that the king of Nanyue has always been arrogant, it may still be the seventh layer of the Son of Heaven.

So in fact, in the main burial room, there is not much space for archaeologists to move.

Clearing the location of this screen is just enough for five or six archaeologists to settle down.

In fact, they stood in a row, replacing the original screen.

There are not many people, there are six people in total, namely Professor Li, Director Fu, Chen Han, Ling An, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Wang Weiqing.

Three people from each of the two archaeological institutes.

Of course, the archaeological work on the entire main burial chamber was not just involving the six of them.

This time, the cleaning of the main tomb will be divided into two shifts, and after Chen Han and the others are done, they will change Kong Jianwen to lead the team to continue the cleaning.

"Huh..."

As soon as the clean-up began, Professor Li noticed that something was wrong.

"The coffin of the owner of this tomb seems to have only one coffin and one coffin?"

"It's not his identity!"

Although the coffin has decayed, there are still obvious traces of it because it has been placed in the tomb for a long time.

According to these traces, it is possible to restore the original appearance of the coffin.

It is precisely for this reason that Professor Li felt very strange after carefully looking at and observing the coffin in the center of the tomb.

According to the Zhou rites, the coffins of the princes were fivefold.

Most of the tombs of the princes and princes of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed before were five-fold coffins, without exception.

And this is not the system of the Western Han Dynasty, but the Zhou ceremony!

Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, all the princes have been buried like this.

But the owner of the tomb used a coffin and a coffin!

This is seriously inconsistent with his status, and only the lowest rank of taxis would act like this!

With the arrogance style of the South Vietnamese monarchs, shouldn't such a low-level coffin be used?

Frowning, Professor Li couldn't figure it out.

Chen Han, Director Fu and others also looked up and down at the coffin marks with strange eyes.

This coffin is very large.

The length and width of the coffin can be roughly inferred from the gray marks of some of the plates left and the position of the six large copper pavements where the original nails were embedded in the coffin.

Although it is a coffin and a coffin, the coffin is very large, almost four meters wide and two meters long.

There was also a gap of about two meters between the coffin and the coffin, and it was stuffed with burial goods.

The outer coffin is two meters wide and contains a number of bright objects, including car decorations.

The inner coffin is also two meters wide, visible to the naked eye, and the more conspicuous thing is the piece of jade, which seems to cover the body of the tomb owner.

In addition, there is a head box, which also contains a lot of burial goods.

Among them, there is a tall jade cup that is very conspicuous, and it should be a daily necessities commonly used by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

Between the coffin and the neatly arranged burial goods in the coffin, there is a vacant area of about 20 centimeters, separating the coffin from the coffin.

Obviously, this was supposed to be the siding between the coffins.

Although the coffin has basically decayed, there are still some remnants of patent leather to be seen.

The first step in cleaning the coffin is to extract the patent leather.

These patent leathers are black on the outside and red on the inside, but there are only more than ten pieces left, but they can already let the archaeologists determine that when this coffin was originally built, it should have been painted with black paint on the outside and red paint on the inside.

It is in line with the popular style of the early Western Han Dynasty.

In addition, the largest piece of patent leather, about the size of a palm, is black lacquer on the base, but there are green, yellow, and vermilion moire drawings on it.

This shows that the coffin should have been painted with painted ornamentation.

Although there is no way to see the coffin now.

But as you can imagine, when it was first built, this coffin would have been very beautiful.

It is also a coffin and a coffin, but the coffin of the king of Nanyue is much higher grade than Mr. Sui's coffin, and the degree of exquisiteness cannot be compared.

The situation inside the coffin is even more complicated.

The whole coffin can be roughly divided into four parts: the outer coffin, the head box, the foot box, and the inner coffin.

One of the most conspicuous is the position of the inner coffin.

Because the coffin is all decayed, there is no need to open the coffin, and everyone can see the situation of the inner coffin.

The first thing that catches your eye is several very large pieces of jade.

These jade stones are beautifully carved and stacked in inner coffins.

Professor Li joked with a smile: "The jade clothes have collapsed and pressed to flatten, not so much a jade coat as a jade mat." ”

"Some of the cultural relics conservators are busy now."

When the golden jade clothes were unearthed, it was naturally impossible to maintain the shape of a "human" like in the museum.

In fact, most of the gold-threaded jade clothes were already scattered when they were unearthed and did not form a shape.

The "golden threads" in the middle have long been broken, and they can no longer maintain the shape of the clothes.

Each piece of gold-threaded jade clothes needs to be re-"sewn" by cultural relics restorers piece by piece in order to restore the original appearance.

For this, everyone has been prepared for a long time.

So when I saw the hundreds of jade pieces spread out in the inner coffin, I didn't feel any loss.

"On the top of the jade clothes, from the abdomen to the legs, there are 10 jade walls arranged in an orderly manner, four large jade walls are in the center of the column, and the two large jade walls are placed on the left and right, forming a cross shape, and a small jade wall is placed at each of the four corners."

Chen Han pointed to the pile of jade stacked on the jade clothes, and his expression was very emotional.

In the inner coffin, the most abundant thing is jade.

It's not just because the golden jade clothes are scattered into a pile of jade pieces.

It is also because there are a lot of jade bibs placed in the inner coffin.

In addition to the stacks of jade that were placed on the tomb owner for covering, there were dozens of jade bibs and multiple jade bibs, scattered among the inner coffins.

It can be said that the entire inner coffin is a world made of jade.

The jade that is placed in the mouth of the deceased, the jade grip held in the hand, the jade covering the face, the jade clothes worn on the body, the head, chest, crotch and left and right arms are covered with jade, and the head and chest are covered with jade!

This whole set of funeral jade ornaments together constitutes the most respected burial system in the Western Han Dynasty.

Jade burial!

The reason why there is such a luxurious zang is because the Han people believe that jade can make people's bodies incorruptible and their souls forever!