"What's this?"

Kitchen utensils in the warehouse.

Zhuang Yunpeng and Lin Ya squatted in front of an oval-shaped, somewhat old-fashioned liquefied gas tank, looking strangely while cleaning up the mud attached to the artifact.

This bronze is rounded like a barrel, with diamond-shaped cutouts and feet.

But this shape is not like any common bronze ritual vessel or wine vessel or anything like that.

At least, in the previous Qin and Han dynasties and even in the pre-Qin archaeology, it seems that this kind of artifact has not been seen!

Their doubts attracted the attention of other archaeologists.

Chen Han, Kong Jianwen and others all cast their eyes on.

"Huh"

Kong Jianwen frowned.

He didn't recognize what it was.

"Is it a furnace?" Chen Han said uncertainly.

He saw that on both sides of the body, there were two copper rings, which were obviously used to make people "lift", which had the characteristics of a furnace.

"Not really." Kong Jianwen shook his head.

This bronze aroused his great curiosity.

Putting down a copper kettle that was being cleaned in his hand, Kong Jianwen walked to Zhuang Yunpeng's side.

I saw that next to the oval bronze ware they cleaned up, there was also a kettle on the left and a right on the right, and a dish that was a bit like a pot.

All three objects are made of bronze.

In addition, from the analysis of the structure of the utensils, these three artifacts seem to be a combination of utensils, which are used together.

This made Kong Jianwen even more curious.

Cauldrons, cylinders, pots?

What do these three things make up one?

His murmuring aroused Professor Li's inspiration.

"it!"

Professor Li, who never swears, actually made an exception and exploded foul language.

But people don't have time to care about these details anymore.

Because Professor Li then said: "This can't be a set of stills for making liquor!" ”

"it!"

"Really?!"

"Still?!"

All kinds of exclamations kept ringing in the kitchenware warehouse.

Some of the archaeological workers who were still cleaning up other cultural relics all pricked up their heads one by one.

It felt like all the gophers were sticking their heads out together when they were whack-a-mole.

The record of distillation sprinklers and distillers first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty document "Drinking and Dining Zhengyao".

The Ming Dynasty medical scientist Li Shizhen's book "Compendium of Materia Medica" also pointed out: "Shochu is not an ancient method, it has been created since the Yuan Dynasty. The method is to use strong wine and lees, steam to steam, and use a vessel to take dew. All the sour wine is steamed and burned. ”

The Yuan Dynasty is far away from the Western Han Dynasty, and the difference is not a year, ten years, decades, or even a hundred years!

There is a difference of 12,300 years between these two dynasties!

If the Han Dynasty used distillers to make liquor, then the history of science and technology would be rewritten, which is undoubtedly a major discovery!

It's just that at that time in the Western Han Dynasty, was it possible to have distilled spirits?!

If distilled liquor appeared at that time, why did later generations never have rumors of baijiu, and they have been drinking rice wine for thousands of years?

Just when everyone is unsure and confused.

Lin Ya, who was still trying to clean up the oval bronze, suddenly exclaimed: "There are a lot of things in this bronze!" ”

"It seems that there are chestnuts, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, peanuts and other fruits!"

"There seem to be some carbonized grains down there that are not easy to distinguish!"

Everything else was fine.

But when the word "peanut" appeared from Lin Ya's mouth, everyone was shocked again.

"Peanuts?!"

"This is really a treasure tomb!"

Chen Han rushed forward in disbelief and looked into the bronze artifact.

Sure enough, there were a few objects that looked like peanuts, but had been somewhat carbonized, and they were lying in the utensils.

These are peanuts that have not been shelled, and they are in the shape of "8s".

"There are really peanuts!"

Peanuts, before the 90s of the last century, were generally believed to be a plant native to South America, and later during the Ming Dynasty, through Spanish trade, it was introduced to China.

Regarding the origin of peanuts, it is currently recognized in the world that peanuts are native to the tropical regions of South America.

But!

In the Chinese archaeological community, there has been an attempt to prove that peanuts in China were the first to have local cultivated varieties.

It was only later that more suitable varieties came from South America, and the local peanut varieties in China were eliminated.

A large number of archaeological materials and cultural relics can provide proof for it!

In 1958, two carbonized peanut seeds were found for the first time in the ruins of Qianshanyang primitive society in Wuxing, Zhejiang.

By carbon 14 determination, 4700±100 years ago, this proves that peanuts have existed in China in the Neolithic period!

And the oldest peanut relic found in South America so far is more than 1,000 years later than in our country!

This can prove that Huaxia is probably the first country to cultivate peanuts!

Later, in 1990, archaeologists found peanuts again in more than 20 burial pits that had been excavated and excavated on the east side of the Hanyang Mausoleum!

Among them, the No. 15 burial pit on the east side of the imperial tomb found a large number of clay figurines such as cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, as well as grains such as rice, wheat, and millet!

And, more than 20 peanut-like grains were found in it!

Because they were mixed with the carbonaceous materials of other grains, archaeologists carefully identified them before they were separated.

Although buried underground for more than 2,100 years, they still retain a clear appearance.

In order to further explore the "identity" of these more than 20 grains, archaeologists handed them over to the Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Center.

In the following years, experts from domestic archaeology, geology, plants and other aspects conducted careful research and identification on them, and finally confirmed that they were peanuts in 2009!

At this point, this news has caused a sensation around the world.

It proves that peanuts are not the only birthplace in South America!

At least in 200 BC in China, peanuts were planted in the Western Han Dynasty, and they were preserved as grain and reserve grain!

Moreover, this peanut is very different from modern peanuts, or peanuts from South America to the world.

This distinction is similar to the difference between bananas and plantains.

Although they are all yellow bananas, they differ in size, shape, and even yield.

It's just that I don't know why, after the Han Dynasty, this kind of peanut native to China did not continue to be planted, but became extinct.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty, after the arrival of South American peanuts, that this crop reappeared on the tables of the Chinese people.

This also made the discovery of peanuts in Hanyang Mausoleum an isolated case.

As we all know, there are no exceptions.

A single example does not prove that during the Western Han Dynasty in China, the Western Han people had consciously planted and cultivated peanuts.

Only when peanuts in the Western Han Dynasty have been found in many places and many times can it be proved that the Western Han people were indeed cultivating this crop.

And, this time, if peanuts are found again in the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu, the isolated theory will be broken!

The origin of peanuts and the domestication history of peanuts in China will become a sure fact from the speculation of scholars!

(End of chapter)