The first thing to do when excavating the main burial chamber is to remove all the wood from the main burial chamber.

In fact, because the tomb has been disturbed many times, the shed wood used as a ceiling on the tomb is already full of holes.

Now the top canopy is in poor condition, some of it has decayed and collapsed, and some of it has disappeared.

Based on the remaining conditions, it can be inferred that there should have been 19 shed trees, which were staggered and tiled side by side.

The diameter of each shed is about 0.2~0.4 meters.

Whether it is thickness or length, it cannot be compared with the cypress wood of the nine-story demon tower.

Not to mention timber.

Although it is impossible to tell what kind of wood these sheds are for a while.

But to be sure, not the precious cypress.

Archaeological staff may not be able to distinguish other woods, but cypress wood is definitely accurate.

Because cypress wood has been a necessary burial wood for ancient emperors for a long time.

The standard wood for the yellow intestine problem!

After removing all the wood in the main burial chamber, which basically did not have much left, looking down from above, the situation in the main burial chamber came into everyone's eyes.

The main burial chamber is made of stone walls, and in the middle of the stone layer, square wood is also sandwiched.

I feel that building tombs with stone layers + wood layers is a traditional custom of the Tuyuhun tribe.

There are four layers of square wood on each of the east and west walls, and five layers of square wood on each of the north and south walls. The wall surface is relatively flat, with a slight collapse in some parts.

The east wall of the main burial chamber is connected to the corridor and the tomb gate, and the tomb gate is on the east wall.

From this point, it can also be seen that this tomb is not a large tomb of the Han people in the Central Plains.

Because there is no Han civilization that sits in the north and faces south, the main tomb is facing west and facing south, and there are passages on the north and south sides to connect with the side chambers.

This is different from the appearance of the main burial chamber in the tomb of the Nanyue king, where the main burial chamber sits on the north and faces south, and the side chambers are built on the east and west sides.

However, in the tomb, there are some things that are obviously influenced by the Central Plains culture.

For example, on the four walls of the main tomb, Chen Han found that there should have been a wooden structure like a bucket.

This is a key component of the Huaxia timber frame building structure.

Generally, only the buildings in the Chinese culture will build dougongs.

Oh, and the country where the boy had a good day, and learned Tang-style architecture.

Ao, as well as the North Korea next door, also learned the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty.

It should be said that only the ethnic groups under the influence of Chinese culture will have this kind of unique Chinese architecture.

And in the main burial chamber of this Tuyuhun royal tomb, there is actually a wooden structure of the bucket on the four walls.

This shows that their culture must have been influenced by the culture of the Tang Dynasty at that time.

It's normal to think about it.

The location of the Tuyuhun tribe was a neighbor of the Tang Dynasty at that time.

And they often had to be beaten and beaten by the Tang Dynasty, and many territories were fought back and forth between the Tang and Tibet.

During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Tibet was driven back to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

However, during the heyday of Tibet, the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty and the entire Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor were also taken by Tibet.

Love and hate have been intertwined for hundreds of years between the two countries, and each other's cultures have actually influenced each other.

The Tang Dynasty also received a lot of culture from the Tubo Kingdom, and in terms of the production of gold and silverware, it was very "Hu" style.

However, it is a pity that the wooden structure of the main tomb is very seriously damaged due to theft.

Only the timber structures on the east and west walls are relatively intact.

It is composed of three parts: the lower column, the middle support, and the upper jumping beam.

It was the discovery of these three parts of the structure that convinced the archaeological team that this thing was a bucket, not a wooden structure made by Tuyuhun himself.

The only two remaining pillars served as supporting the shed, and it is estimated that when the main tomb was built, it was really built as a "house" for people to live in when they were alive.

Only then do there are beams, columns, bucket arches and other structures.

Although the preservation of these remaining wooden structures such as jumping beams, supporting trees, and columns is poor, they are still relatively recent to the Han Dynasty because of their age.

Therefore, the red paint on the surface of the wooden structure has been preserved.

"Hey, there's a mural!"

Professor Ke, who jumped into the main tomb and was observing around the walls of the main tomb, was pleasantly surprised for a few seconds, his expression calmed down again, and he sighed: "The four walls of the main tomb are painted with murals. ”

"But most of them have fallen off, and only some remnants remain on the north and east walls."

"The contents of the mural are no longer recognizable, except for a few black and red lines."

Reaching out and gently stroking these remaining murals, and even getting close to his nose to smell them, Professor Ke said with certainty: "The ground layer of these murals should be two layers of white ash and grass and mud. ”

The so-called ground layer is the base layer, which is simply the layer that is painted on the wall before the mural painting.

Similar to when decorating a house, a layer of putty and cement should be applied first, and the exposed bricks should be covered.

Then, use a brush and paint to paint on the whitened wall, leaving a layer of paint.

Unfortunately, the pigment layer has fallen off, and the ground layer is directly exposed on the four walls.

After carefully examining the remaining murals on the wall, Professor Ke confirmed: "The construction techniques of the murals are similar to those of the Tang tombs in the Central Plains. ”

"This shows that Tuyuhun, or Tubo, also had extensive and close exchanges with the Tang Dynasty in terms of painting, and did not have its own school."

It's normal to think about it.

Whether it is Tuyuhun or Tubo, they were all nomads before.

One is a nomadic herder on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the other is a nomadic herder in Qinghai.

Isn't it a trouble to expect the nomads to have any mural skills that have been passed down from generation to generation?

In fact, as long as there are murals in the entire cultural circle of East Asia, they are more or less influenced by the culture of the Central Plains of China.

Korea and Japan in the north, and Vietnam and Thailand in the south, all learned from the Central Plains civilization in terms of court paintings and murals.

Of course, during the Tang Dynasty, the mural painting techniques of the Han people also incorporated many styles and techniques from the Western Regions.

Many of the murals in the Mogao Grottoes are unique murals born under the fusion of Chinese and Western Regions techniques.

After the Tang Dynasty, this mural painting technique gradually ceased to flourish, and was replaced by the highly developed freehand ink painting of the Song and Ming dynasties.

So to speak.

The Han Dynasty was a new starting point for the development of Chinese murals, and the Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of the development of Chinese murals.

After the Tang Dynasty, the art form of mural painting gradually began to weaken, and by the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was far less important than ink painting.

In many Tang Dynasty tombs, the exquisite murals are breathtaking.

It is a pity that this Tuyuhun tomb, which also uses the mural construction techniques of the Tang Dynasty, did not leave exquisite murals.

However, most of the archaeological team members no longer have the time to care about these broken murals that they can't even see what they have painted.

They are more focused on another thing.

"Where's my coffin?"

"So where did the big coffin go?"