"Tsk. So many tripods? ”

"One, two, three, four, five......"

"There must be more than twenty tripods, right?"

"As a liege, even if he has been a king and an emperor, he can't use so many tripods, it's still a copper tripod!"

"Is this the era after the legendary ritual collapse?"

With his hands on his waist, looking at the more than 20 tripods cleaned up in the East Tibetan room, Chen Han was speechless.

The East Tibetan Room, that is, the kitchenware room cleaned up by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, unearthed a large number of bronzes.

There are kitchen utensils such as tong, pot, zun, ding, kettle, mortar, pestle, spoon and so on.

Some bronzes have words such as "Changyi Shiguan" and "Jitian", reflecting the identity of the owner of the tomb, as well as the "Shiguan" system and the sacrificial system of "heavy agriculture" in the Western Han Dynasty.

Among them, the bronze shapes such as copper tripods, copper ropes, and copper long-necked pots are very exquisite.

However, the most important thing is the discovery of the words "Changyi Food Official".

Liu He, the Marquis of Haidu, was the king of Changyi before he became the Marquis of Haidu.

And his Changyi throne was inherited from his father, and he was the king of Changyi for ten years.

After that, there was no longer the throne of the princes of Changyi.

In other words, the one who can "engrave the word Changyi" on the bronze ware used can basically only be Liu He, or his father Liu Ji.

Liu He's father, Liu Ji, the fifth son of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, died in Changyi.

Changyi is located in Juye County, Heze, Shandong, which is a little too far away from Jiangxi.

Then, the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, can basically determine who the owner of the tomb is.

It is only possible that Liu He.

Although, the key seal engraved with names such as "Hou He of Haidu" and "Liu He" has not been found for the time being.

But for the owner of this tomb, everyone in the archaeological base has basically reached a conclusion.

It's just that Liu He, the Marquis of Haidu, didn't run away.

However, after determining the identity of the owner of the tomb, it is a bit surprising that so many copper tripods were found in this East Tibetan room.

Counted, there are a total of 24 pieces, most of which are three-legged tripods.

How can a liege have 24 bronze tripods to accompany the burial?

The Son of Heaven was buried with the Nine Crowns and Eight Crowns, not to mention the liehous?

How bold is Liu He to dare to risk the world's condemnation and accompany the burial of bronze tripods far exceeding the number of Jiuding?

This is the largest number of bronze tripods unearthed at one time among all the tombs of the Han Dynasty!

However, just when everyone was puzzled.

The words engraved on the belly of the bronze tripod line by line can be regarded as giving the answer.

"Changyi Tiantong Dingrong weighs 48 pounds in ten liters, and the second is the second"

"Changyi's Tiantong Dingrong weighs ten liters and weighs forty-eight pounds, the third"

"Changyi Native Tian Tongding ......"

A large number of inscriptions on "Jitian" were discovered by everyone from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

This discovery can be regarded as a good idea for everyone.

It turns out that these bronze tripods are not used as ritual vessels to show their status for burial.

These bronze tripods are the ritual vessels cast by Liu He when he participated in the Jitian ceremony.

The so-called Jitian ceremony is a kind of auspicious ceremony in ancient times.

That is, in the first month of Meng Chun, before spring ploughing, the Son of Heaven led the princes to personally plough the field.

This ritual system was carried forward in the Han Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven personally took the lead in personally working in the fields during the spring ploughing every year to show that he attached great importance to farming.

In the Western Han Dynasty, this kind of "home field ceremony" has developed a mature system.

From the Son of Heaven to the princes and kings to the princes.

As long as there is a fief, regardless of the size of the fief, they will take the lead in carrying out the land ceremony during the spring ploughing.

On the one hand, it is to show that he attaches importance to farming, and on the other hand, he is also begging God to give a good harvest.

When the home field ceremony is held, before ploughing, it is necessary to worship the gods and send it to the prison.

At this time, it is time for Tongding to play a role.

The sacrifices of the prison were placed in the bronze tripod and then offered to the gods.

At this time, the copper tripod symbolized not rights, but was only used as a sacrificial tool, returning to its earliest use.

In fact, when the tripod was first created, it was used for cooking and sacrifice.

It's just that in the ancient tribal period, the person who held the right to "sacrifice" was often the most powerful person in the tribe.

In the ancient tribal era of China, divine power and royal power were one.

According to the legend, after Emperor Zhuan was connected to heaven and earth, the holy kings of ancient China were those who held both royal power and divine power.

He is a child of heaven who has the blood of a god and can communicate with the gods.

Rather than being separated from politics as in the West, where theocracy and kingship belong to the pope and the king.

Therefore, when the holy kings dominated the sacrificial power, gradually the Ding evolved into a symbol of power.

Especially in the Shang Dynasty, no matter how big or small, whether the mood was good or bad, the merchants had to kill individual animals to sacrifice to their ancestors, and frequently used the tripod as a tool for sacrifice.

Therefore, over time, owning the tripod is equivalent to having the right.

Ding also evolved from the Shang Dynasty, which only had the role of "sacrifice" and "steamed food", to the Zhou Dynasty and became a symbol of power.

And most of Liu He's tripods were cast when he was in the field ceremony, when he was sacrificing to the gods.

Theoretically speaking, it is indeed not specially cast as a ritual vessel, as evidenced by the inscription on the tripod.

However, after his death, these copper tripods used in the field ceremony were buried in the tomb together, which was more or less a bit of a violation of etiquette.

It can only be said that the Western Han Dynasty is worthy of being a dynasty re-established from the ruins, and the etiquette is indeed very complete.

According to historical records, when the Western Han Dynasty was founded, Liu Bang searched all over the country, but he couldn't find a few people who still understood Zhou etiquette.

So that in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, there was basically no complete etiquette system, and Shusun Tong wanted to rebuild the etiquette system, but in the end he only had time to engage in a set of etiquette during the great court ceremony.

Regarding the dress of the Son of Heaven, except for the crown dress, the other systems are basically gone.

Moreover, in fact, in the early Western Han Dynasty, even the specific wearing system of the crown dress was not confirmed.

The Son of Heaven, the crown prince, the prince, the princes, and the princes are all eligible to wear the crown robe.

"Zhou Li, Chun Guan, Si Suit" contains: "The king's clothes: worship Haotian God, then serve the big Qiu and crown, and worship the five emperors as well; Enjoy the crown of the first king; Enjoy the first public feast and shoot the crown; Worship the mountains and rivers in four directions, and the crown; The five rituals of the sacrificial shrine are crowned; The sacrifice group is a small ritual. ”

And the crown clothes such as the big crown crown, the crown of the gun, the crown of the skull, the crown of the Xuan, the crown of the crown, the crown of the crown, the difference is that there are 12 chapter patterns, some 9 chapter patterns, some three chapter patterns, and one chapter pattern.

However, these tiaras are all "king's" clothes, but they are worn differently on different occasions.

There is no later saying that the Son of Heaven wore twelve chapters, twelve crowns, nine chapters, nine crowns, five chapters of kings, and five crowns.

Therefore, in the early Western Han Dynasty, when emperors such as Liu Bang, Liu Ying, and Liu Heng held some sacrificial ceremonies, as well as important dynasties, the princes and princes and kings wore the same as the emperor, all of them were red and black crown clothes, and they all wore bead curtains.

At that time, the only thing that the emperor could wear and others could not wear was the Liu crown created by Liu Bang, which was only worn by the emperor of the Liu family.

And this provision is not a weekly gift, but a new gift set by Liu Bang.

It wasn't until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to think about the reformulation of the ritual system.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Chinese ritual system was re-established, but it was already very different from the Zhou rites.

In fact, at that time, the Western Han people may not have as much understanding of Zhou Rites as modern people.

After all, modern archaeology has unearthed many noble tombs in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even earlier, and there are many studies on their ritual systems.

The Western Han people had no way to archaeology everywhere, so they could only rely on some scattered records in the literature to restore the Zhou rites.

Of course, the loss of music is more serious than the ceremony

You must know that the Zhou Dynasty was a dynasty that did not read "poems" and "books" and could not speak.

At that time, no matter what the princes did, they went out to fight or returned to the country, or they were facing each other, welcoming and triumphant......

All of them have a complete set of ceremonial music, as well as a complete set of processes for thanking and saluting between the king and the courtiers.

You must know that the "Wind" in the "Book of Songs" is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty, "Ya" is the positive sound of the Zhou people, and "Song" is the music of the Zhou royal court and the noble temple!

These are all songs! It's all liturgical music that can be sung to the music!

But by the Han Dynasty, all these things were lost, and all kinds of elegant music were only recorded in writing, and as for what the original music was, I don't know what it was like for a long time.

The graves of musicians in all countries are several times high, where can you find complete ritual scores?

The Western Han Dynasty, which was rebuilt from the ruins of the troubled times at the end of the Qin Dynasty, in a sense, the system and culture were indeed redeveloped.

That's why we're now Han and not Zhou.

Chinese civilization is dominated by Confucian culture rather than other schools of thought during the Warring States Period.

Why do Chinese people advocate filial piety first?

It all started in Han!

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