"Well, have you counted them all?"

"Count clearly, a total of 2,291 jade pieces."

"However, due to the fact that the silk threads are easy to decay, this set of silk jade clothes is very scattered when it is unearthed."

"It should be much more difficult to repair this jade robe than to repair the golden jade clothes of the Han Tomb in Mancheng."

"It's not three or five years, I'm afraid there is no way to fix it."

Chen Han and Professor Li reported on the extraction and cleaning of jade clothes.

The Mancheng Han Tomb, that is, the tomb of Liu Sheng and Dou Ji, King Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty.

In this tomb, two sets of golden jade clothes were unearthed.

Among them, Liu Sheng's jade clothes share 2,498 pieces of jade, and the gold wire weighs 1,100 grams.

Dou Juan's jade clothes share 2,160 pieces of jade, and the gold wire weighs 700 grams.

The manpower and material resources involved in the production of each set of gold-threaded jade clothes are very amazing.

In terms of the number of jade pieces, this set of jade clothes of the king of Nanyue is about the same as the golden jade clothes of the Han tomb in Mancheng.

However, not a single gram of gold wire was found.

After all, this is a set of silk jade clothes that are free from the official jade clothing system of the Han Dynasty.

However, there was only a year between Liu Sheng's death and the fall of the Nanyue Kingdom.

Therefore, the age in which the owner of the tomb of the Nanyue King in Guangzhou lived was naturally earlier than Liu Sheng.

Therefore, this set of jade clothes is also the earliest set of jade clothes found in Chinese archaeology.

As an earlier jade cloth, it is normal that a unified system has not yet been formed.

Of course, this jade robe is even more precious.

"The tomb of the king of Nanyue has not been stolen, the identity and name of the tomb owner can be examined, it is located at the border of the Han Empire, and it is also a rare tomb of princes with different surnames during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."

"Under the superposition of these total factors, the cultural relics value of this tomb is really too precious."

"It's no wonder that the local government wants to build a cultural base for South Vietnam."

"Just these dozens of jade pieces are the tombs of the princes and emperors of the past dynasties."

There are really a lot of jade in the tomb of the king of Nanyue.

Not only in the coffin, but also in the middle of the west ear chamber near the south wall of the Guangzhou archaeological institute, 3 jade bi and 1 jade ring were found.

In the lacquered wooden box against the north wall, three jade pieces were also found.

Moreover, a lacquer box was found in the middle near the north wall, which contained 43 pieces of jade sword ornaments and 4 pieces of jade huang.

Although he had not yet started to clean up the foot box, head box and outer coffin, Director Fu also saw jade cups, jade bibs, jade boxes, jade belt hooks and other items in the head box.

In the foot box, I also saw the jade, and the four corners of the outer coffin were four large jades that were very conspicuous.

Plus the jade pendant and jade plaque of the inner coffin.

It can be seen that Zhao Hu, the king of Nanyue, really likes jade.

Because in addition to jade, there are obvious traces of use on other jade.

Obviously, these jade objects were his usual items during his lifetime.

This is a relatively rare situation among the tombs of princes and kings that have been excavated.

Even in the tombs of other princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty, more unearthed are exquisite lacquerware and a small amount of jade.

Unlike Zhao Hu, basically all daily necessities are made of jade.

Eat and drink with jade bowls, jade cups, jade pots, and jade pendants, jade plaques, jade beads, and jade belt hooks.

Even the matching sword used must be made of jade to create the sword head and sword ornament!

In comparison, the number of gold objects is very small.

Apart from the two gold seals, there are only a small number of gold objects used as embellishments.

For example, some gold leaves inlaid on the covering, gold hooks, jade dragon pendants, gold belt hooks, and gold beads are used as materials in the group of jade pendants.

The gold is only an ornament, and it is used to set off the beauty of the jade pendant, not as a separate piece of gold.

This can also prove that Zhao Hu is indeed different from other princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty in the same period.

The most favorite thing of the Han princes and kings in the inland is gold, and when they are buried, they will almost make all kinds of gold obtained in their lives into utensils, and even directly make gold cakes for burial.

But in the tomb of Zhao Hu, there is no symbol of wealth such as gold cake and horseshoe gold.

The symbol of his wealth is these countless jades!

Not to mention silverware.

I didn't notice it at all.

At least Chen Han didn't see a single piece of silver in the inner coffin.

There were no articles made of silver in the burial goods in the chamber of the West Ear.

There is no silver in the exposed parts of the head and foot boxes.

There may be, but there are definitely not many, at most three or five pieces.

There are quite a few bronze and iron tools.

But it's all weapons.

In the outer coffin, most of the burial goods were weapons made of bronze and iron, ranging from gee and halberds to swords and arrowheads.

However, these things are not within the scope of Chen Han's work.

It took them a whole day just to clean up the jade pieces of the inner coffin, as well as those jade bibs and seals.

The next day, the archaeological team took over the shift, and Kong Jianwen, with Lin Ya and three researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, took over the cleaning of the main tomb and began to clean up the outer coffin and the head and foot boxes.

The weapons stuffed in the outer coffins are not to be talked about for the time being.

These weapons are all typical standard weapons from the end of the Warring States period to the Qin and Han dynasties, and there are many of them, and they are not very unusual.

But the cleaning of the foot box and the head box gave Kong Jianwen a lot of surprises.

First of all, the silverware that Chen Han and Professor Li had been thinking about before and had not found was finally discovered.

It is a silver box, unearthed in a foot box.

The reason why it is said to be a surprise.

It is because the style of this silver box is not traditional Chinese gold and silverware, and it has obvious exotic styles and characteristics!

It is a flap silver box.

The so-called "petal pattern", simply put, means that the body of the vessel looks like a mangosteen with the skin peeled, or a shakya fruit with no skin peeled.

The small box is filled with a bunch of "petal-by-petal" stripes, which look like the skin of the Sakya fruit.

This kind of petal-patterned silver box has also been found in some Han Dynasty tombs before.

There are not only silver but also copper.

However, the number of petal-patterned silver boxes unearthed so far varies from one to the other.

For example, there are 17 petal-patterned silver boxes unearthed from the Chaohu Han Tomb in AH.

There are 17 pieces of petal-patterned silver boxes unearthed from the Linzi Han Tomb in Shandong.

There are 24 pieces of petal-patterned silver boxes unearthed from the Han Tomb in Dayun Mountain, Jiangsu.

The petal-patterned silver box unearthed in the tomb of the Nanyue King has 26 petals.

In academic circles, it is generally believed that this is a style of silver from Persia, rather than a native Chinese artifact.

The reason for this is that this silver box is very similar in appearance to the silver bowl with a petal pattern produced in Persia.

Moreover, this kind of silver box only appeared in the tombs of the Han Dynasty.

And this kind of petal silver box does not form a unified style.

Unlike other lacquered wood or bronze ware in the Han Dynasty, they all have a uniform style and are made in batches.

The number of petals on the silver box is different from that of the unearthed silver box, which is obviously not produced by a single workshop, but may have flowed sporadically from other places.

Finally, after the Han Dynasty, this kind of petal-patterned silver box quickly disappeared again, and no physical object appeared.

This suggests that this kind of silver box may have been brought to the Han Empire from the distant Middle East by merchants along the Silk Road and sold to the high-ranking nobles of the Han Dynasty.

The petal-patterned silver box that appeared in the tomb of the Nanyue King is also the earliest one found in archaeology.

Even when Zhao Hu, the king of Nanyue, died, the Silk Road was not yet open.

Although Zhang Qian had already carved through the Western Regions at that time, the Western Regions were still under the control of the Xiongnu at that time, and Zhang Qian arrived in the Western Regions by sneaking around and around.

For the time being, the merchants of the Western Regions were not able to conduct large-scale trade with the Han Dynasty.

The real smooth trade did not begin until the later years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it was not until the time of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty that the Silk Road really prospered.

In other words, the petal-patterned silver box that appeared in the tomb of Zhao Hu may not be a foreign object that flowed into Panyu from the Indian Ocean not through the Silk Road, but by sea!

This is an academic treasure for scholars who study the Maritime Silk Road!