"How so? Open side chamber? Kong Jianwen looked at Professor Ke and asked.

After three days of cleaning, the cleaning of the main burial chamber was basically completed.

It would not be a matter to say that nothing has been unearthed in the main burial chamber.

In fact, the cleaning of the main burial chamber is quite a task.

Although, intact artifacts are basically very few.

However, there are still quite a few fragments.

In the disturbed soil of the main burial chamber, there are a large number of textile fragments.

There are many types of textiles, including yarn, qi, luo, silk, silk, and brocade.

Among them, Qi and brocade account for about 90% of the types of textiles!

Most of the figures on these fragments are cluster-shaped, that is, a ring-like structure with the midline as the axis, and one or more circles of beads form a circle.

The patterns can be divided into three categories: plants, animals, and geometric shapes, such as lions, flying birds, dragons, grapes, and curly grass, and some of them have a strong Sogdian style.

The Sogdians are an ancient people who lived in the area of the Amu Darya River and the Syr Darya River in Central Asia in ancient times, and spoke the eastern Yinlang branch of the Yin Lang language family.

Probably during the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, the Sogdians began to intersect with the Han Chinese.

They were active on the Silk Road and were famous in Eurasia for their prowess in business.

Until the 11th century, there were still a large number of Sogdian-speaking villages on the outskirts of KS Gar.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were a large number of Sogdians living and settling in the Western Regions, and many of them joined the frontiers of the Tang Dynasty, had Tang household registration, and were Tang people.

Of course, the culture of the Sogdians also influenced the cultural aesthetics from the Western Regions to Qinghai and Gansu to Guanzhong.

As we all know, the status of "silk" in the Tang Dynasty was very high, almost equivalent to currency.

Basically, in the Tang Dynasty, officials and ordinary people used silk to pay silk in daily transactions, salaries, and rewards.

Of course, the value of silk produced in different places is also different.

A high-quality Shudi silk is estimated to be able to exchange for several Hedong silks.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty when silk = money, it was not uncommon for these Tuyuhun people living in Qinghai to have a large amount of silk.

This thing is hard currency.

The king of Tuyuhun was buried with silk, which was about equivalent to a burial with money.

It just so happens that the unearthed plain weave fabrics are mainly silk and yarn.

The density is sparse for yarn, with holes, and the holes are square, mostly earthy yellow. There are many kinds of colors of silk, including yellow, earthy yellow, vermilion, blue, and dark brown.

And the craftsmanship of the textiles unearthed from this tomb is exquisite!

There are six known crafts: weaving, painting, lacquering, embroidery, dyeing, and collage!

But it's a pity that the silk fabrics found in the disturbed soil of the main burial chamber are all fucking fragments!

The largest piece, a 10 x 20 cm piece of silk cloth, is far from the length of a horse.

Obviously, there should have been a large number of silk cloths in the unit of "horses", which were buried together.

However, after being disturbed by tomb robbers for generations, these silk cloths that were originally preserved one by one were either stolen, or accelerated oxidation because of the air entering the tomb many times.

Even from the remnants of these silk fabrics, you can see how beautiful these silks are, the red is dazzling, and the gold is brilliant.

Some of the fragments also have gold leaf attached to them, which is very luxurious!

At a glance, you can see that all these silks are from the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty.

It is absolutely impossible for the Tuyuhun people to master the silk making process.

It's not that I look down on the Tuyuhun people.

Rather, I want to make silk, and that's a systematic job.

From raising silkworms, planting mulberry trees to finally processing silk into a variety of different silks, the process in the middle is so complex that no foreigner can learn it.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Chinese people to sell silk to the world for more than 2,000 years, and no foreign nation or country can imitate it.

In horizontal comparison, Chinese porcelain has only been sold for hundreds of years, and the West has studied the production process of porcelain from the finished product.

Since the 16th and 17th centuries, porcelain has been produced in France and Germany.

At one time, many countries in Europe also copied Ming Dynasty porcelain, and then packaged it as porcelain purchased in the Ming Dynasty and sold it on the European continent.

Up to now, the appraisers in the porcelain industry have to specialize in identifying, and some of the so-called "family heirloom" porcelain of Europeans is made in China or imitated by Europe itself.

It can be seen how large the number of porcelain made in the European continent was at that time.

However, silk, which entered the European world earlier than porcelain, was not copied by any European, and could only be purchased from China at a high price.

It wasn't until the Europeans themselves came up with wool weaving, after the Jenny loom, that cheap and large amounts of wool fabrics sold well on the European continent, and the upper class aristocrats in Europe still regarded wearing oriental silk as noble.

Because this thing really can't be made, it has to be really embroidered and woven by Chinese craftsmen to be high-end.

Before World War I, Japan's largest export was raw silk, which was sold to Europeans.

The money for the Meiji Restoration was all made by the Japanese planting mulberry trees.

And these raw silks bought by Europeans were sold to silk merchants in Jiangnan of the Qing Empire, and they exchanged high-end silk from them and shipped them back to the European continent for sale, which was several times the huge profit!

It was not until the land sinking of Kyushu in China that it was divided by warlords and invaded by foreign enemies, and after the establishment of New China, for some reasons, silk that could not be industrially manufactured gradually withdrew from the top position of global fabrics.

Chinese people can proudly say that from the birth of silk to the present, the real high-end silk, handmade silk, still no foreigner can imitate it!

Chinese silk is not only a silk fabric, but also brings together thousands of years of Chinese culture and heritage.

If you don't understand Chinese culture and the historical precipitation of these silk fabrics, you can't make good silk.

However, these luxury silk fabrics, which were already very good in the Tang Dynasty, are all only fragments!

If the silk fabrics in this tomb can be well preserved, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an additional national treasure for the country!

Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world.

In addition to the fragments of these silk fabrics, there are also some trivial pieces of jade ribbons, turquoise, agate, glaze, and pearls in the disturbed soil of the main burial chamber.

In addition, a large number of black and white stone chips have been unearthed in the tomb passage and coffin bed.

In addition to these small objects, there are also the four conch conch on the altar, which are all the items unearthed in the entire main burial chamber.

It cannot be said that there are few, but most of them are fragments, and very few are well preserved.

Therefore, Kong Jianwen asked Professor Ke if it was time to take a look at the situation in the other four side rooms.

The main chamber was subjected to such rampant excavations, and the other four side chambers were probably visited by tomb robbers.

But for archaeologists, many things that tomb robbers are not interested in are very valuable to archaeologists.

For example, some wooden slips and silk books that record words and the like.

And these things, perhaps, will be placed in the side room!