After taking out all the jade bi, jade huang, and three sets of seals covering the jade clothes, Chen Han and the five of them began to clean up the jade pieces of the jade clothes around the "coffin".

It's easy to clean up, but it's hard to say.

Because the silk threads and ribbons used to hold the jade pieces together have all decayed, and all the jade pieces are scattered in the coffin.

All archaeologists can only pick up the jade pieces one by one and put them in special boxes.

You can't just grab something like you can grab it one by one.

After all, no one knows if there are any other items mixed in these jade pieces, such as the bone fragments of the tomb owner, such as the remnants of linen and silk fabrics lining some jade clothes.

Everyone can only extract from the coffin one by one.

This process is actually very simple, it is nothing more than to repeatedly pick up the jade piece, check whether there is any residue on it, and then put it in the box.

But there are a lot of jade pieces in the inner coffin!

Conservative estimates are that there must be at least more than 2,000 pieces.

Five people pick up together, and they only pick up twenty or thirty pieces in a minute.

Just picking up these jade pieces is estimated to take an hour or two.

With the gradual reduction of the jade pieces in the coffin, the situation of the tomb owner buried by the jade pieces gradually became clear.

Although most of the bones of the owner of the tomb in the jade clothes have decayed, only bone residue or powdery remains.

However, the whole skeleton shape can also be seen, and the burial style is supine and straight, with the head north and feet south, the face facing upward, and slightly to the right. The upper limbs are slightly bent inward, the two hands are pressed together on the abdomen of the jade clothes, and the lower limbs are straightened.

This is different from the jade clothes that are commonly seen in museums when they are repaired and their hands are stretched out on either side.

In fact, when it was unearthed, most of the tomb owners wearing jade clothes had their hands crossed and placed on their abdomen.

Because it's like "sleeping" and not a cold death.

"The skull of the tomb owner has been smashed by the collapsed coffin planks, only a few parietal bones remain, there is very little sludge in the occipital bone fragments, and the facial bones are so broken that they are no longer recognizable."

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Chen Han cooperated with Professor Li to clean up his important face while briefing others.

The bones of the face are scattered and severe, which means that at least the owner of the tomb is unable to do 3D modeling and reconstruction of the face like Mrs. Xin Chai.

There is no way to reproduce what this South Vietnamese monarch looks like.

"The crown of the tooth in the tooth is only the enamel shell, and there are more than 100 small pearls adhered to the inside of the chin, with a diameter of about 1 millimeter, and some pearls are stuck with silk fabric residues."

"This should be wrapped in silk silk into a small pearl ball during the burial, and stuffed into the mouth of the tomb owner to fill the rice."

Rice is one of the ancient funeral ceremonies.

From "Zhou Li, Diguan, Sheren".

According to the identity of the deceased, put the grain and shellfish into the mouth of the deceased.

Regarding rice, according to the "Zhou Li", "the king uses a beam, the doctor uses a millet, and the scholar uses rice".

And Han, is "the Son of Heaven with real pearls, the princes with jade, the doctor with Ji, the scholar with Bei, and the people with grain".

That is, the Son of Heaven wants to stuff the jewel into his mouth, the princes stuff the jade, and the doctor uses the beads that are not round, and the Shi Saibei.

However, this Zhou ritual system has basically collapsed in the Western Han Dynasty, and all the nobles who have passed away will basically prepare a jade for themselves if they are capable.

For example, Mr. Sui of the 168 Han Tomb in Phoenix Mountain put a jade seal engraved with his private name in his mouth.

Strictly speaking, in fact, he also transgressed.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the etiquette collapsed, and the impact was still great.

But no one cares about this kind of thing, after all, after taking it in the mouth, the person is buried.

Compared with the use of jade seals before death, this kind of thing of secretly carrying a jade seal after death is harmless.

"The owner of the tomb, Zhao Hu, has a pearl in his mouth, and it seems that he was indeed buried with the gift of the Son of Heaven."

"It's just, why is there only one coffin and one coffin?"

Chen Han is still worried about the fact that there is only one coffin and one coffin in the main tomb.

However, with a width of more than one meter and eight points, such a tomb is very compact at the level of the Son of Heaven.

If it weren't for the length of more than four meters, it wouldn't be like burying a "Son of Heaven".

"Alright, we'll talk about that later."

Professor Li shook his head and said expressionlessly, "Record." ”

"The remains of the lower jaw of the tomb owner are well preserved, and the first and second incisors are maintained on the dental bed, and the canine and first premolars are 1 pair each."

"The second premolar on the left and two molars and one wisdom tooth are all in order."

"The wisdom teeth have all grown, which indicates that the owner of the tomb is an adult."

"The remnants of the skull also show skeletal characteristics of males."

"Judging from the current situation on the skeleton of the tomb owner, the speculation that the tomb owner is Zhao Hu, the second monarch of South Vietnam, should still be correct."

Although it is said that the tomb unearthed the ritual vessels of Emperor Wen of Nanyue, the jade seal, and the private name seal.

But there is still a very small probability that the owner of the tomb may not be Zhao Hu, the Wen Emperor of Nanyue.

In case, if there was a woman lying in the coffin, wouldn't it be dumbfounded!

Fortunately, God didn't play such an absurd joke on everyone.

The owner of the tomb dressed in jade was a man.

That's basically stable.

On the other side, Zhuang Yunpeng, who extracted the middle and lower jade pieces with Director Fu and Ling An, also reported with full anger: "The vertebrae of the tomb owner are slightly bent. ”

"Most of the cervical vertebrae are difficult to identify, only the thoracic vertebrae are contoured, and 4 pairs of ribs can still be identified in the middle, which have been completely cracked and flattened."

"The lumbar spine is poorly preserved, and mastoid marks can be seen on individual nodes. Some traces remain on both shoulder blades and left clavicle. ”

"The owner of the tomb may have had some problems with the vertebrae before his death, maybe a little hunchbacked."

"The most important thing is that the contours of the hip bones of the lower body are still clear, although the two femurs are cracked, most of them have been powdered, and the remaining traces of the patella, tibia, and fibula have been mixed and indistinguishable."

"But!"

"The tarsal bone of the right foot is still clearly recognizable!"

The tarsus, which is where the ball of the foot is located.

Determine the position of the soles of the feet, as well as the position of the head, then you can know the exact height of the tomb owner!

Zhuang Yunpeng picked up a soft ruler, took the top of the tomb owner's head as a starting point, and pulled it all the way to the position of the tomb owner's tarsus.

"According to the preserved skeleton traces, from the top of the tomb owner to the root of the foot, it is 170 centimeters long!"

"The height of the tomb owner before his death is estimated to be not far from here!"

"The error is no more than two centimeters!"

Even if a little error in the musculature is added, the height of the tomb owner, Zhao Hu, Emperor Wen of Nanyue, should not exceed 172 centimeters.

This height, for modern people, is a bit short.

But for the ancients, especially the ancients in BC, they were already very tall.

Don't look at the descriptions of some military generals in the history books, they are eight feet tall at every turn.

Take the Chu ruler of the Warring States period, one foot is 22.7 centimeters.

The eight-foot tall man is actually 184 centimeters.

And these are just the examples! He is a well-known military general who can be recorded in the history books!

Yao Ming is still 2.26 meters, is it possible that all modern Chinese people are more than two meters tall?

In fact, according to most of the unearthed remains of ancient people, the general height of men in the Western Han Dynasty was between 160 and 175.

Ordinary farmers are just over six points per meter.

Only the aristocracy can hope to grow to more than 1.7 meters.

Those who can exceed 175 are sporadic and few, and they are talented.

As for women, most of them are between 150-160 in height, with around 155 cm being the most common.

For example, Mrs. Xin Chai was 154 cm tall when she was unearthed.

This is still a nobleman, the wife of a liehou, and she has been rich since she was a child!

And Zhao Hu is the monarch of the Nanyue Kingdom.

These aristocrats usually eat and drink well, do not worry about eating and drinking, and when they are well nourished, their height is not as good as that of the current post-00s.

It is said that human beings seem to have not evolved for thousands of years.

Actually, not.

In the last 5,000 years, the most remarkable evolution of human beings is the average height.

Especially after entering the modern society, it can rise by almost five centimeters every 20 years!

In ancient times, this was something that could not have been imagined!

The people can't eat enough, they don't eat well, and they never get enough nutrients, how can they all grow into big and tall people?