With the first piece of gold cake and horseshoe gold weighed, the weight of these three boxes of gold is a very simple arithmetic.

In the three boxes of gold, there were 68 gold cakes and 16 horseshoe gold.

According to an average of 250 grams, these three boxes of gold add up to 21,000 grams, 21 kilograms of gold!

What is the concept of 21 kg?

Based on Chen Han's gold price of 385.7 yuan/gram when they unearthed the gold that day.

These gold are worth 8,099,700 yuan!

Just at the price of the gold itself, without the cultural value of any cultural relics themselves, these gold are worth more than eight million!

Gold, whether it was 2,000 years ago or 2,000 years later, is a precious metal among precious metals!

Being able to carry 21 kilograms of gold with him for burial is enough for the Marquis of Haidun to not only be a rich man on the ground, but also to maintain his luxurious life after going underground!

The concept of death in the Han Dynasty is vividly embodied in this tomb of the Marquis of Haidu!

And that's just the beginning.

The bigger surprise is yet to come!

After the excavation of the main burial chamber began, the most striking thing was the coffin in the east chamber of the main burial chamber.

The coffin of the Marquis of Haiyang is very large, but the main coffin chamber of the tomb of the Marquis of Haihuang has collapsed many times due to geological movements, so the preservation of the coffin is not as good as imagined.

Judging from the appearance alone, it can only be seen that the Marquis of Haidun did use a heavy coffin.

But there are specific coffins, and it is impossible to know until they are opened.

It was also possible to determine that the Marquis of Hailun used a heavy coffin, so after a meeting and discussion with the heads of several archaeological institutes at the scene, they felt that they could open a coffin first.

The opening of the coffin here is actually not the opening of the main coffin, to be precise, it should be the opening of the coffin cover.

Only after the coffin cover is opened, can you see the situation in the coffin, the situation of the main coffin, and the situation of the heavy coffin.

And opening the coffin cover will not affect the main coffin of the Marquis of Haidu, as well as the remains of the Marquis of Haidun in the main coffin.

To put it simply, it's like a suite that opens the door to the outside and doesn't disturb the owner who is sleeping in the bedroom.

After all, there is still a bedroom door that has not been opened.

And the main coffin is the bedroom.

Even this bedroom can be moved out of the whole house.

It's the same as a nesting doll.

Of course, before opening the coffin cover, it is necessary to clean up the cultural relics in the west room, that is, in the inner coffin room, close to the coffin.

It is necessary to clear a vacant space, and then carry out the opening of the coffin cover.

This work was handed over to the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Chen Han and the others temporarily put down the cleaning work of the West Room and handed over the work at hand to the staff of the archaeological institutes in Shaanxi, Henan and other places who came to support.

And they came to the inner coffin room, with the coffin as the center, and extracted the cultural relics in the coffin room from far and near.

At this time, the cultural relics of the coffin room have been marked by 1700+.

Chen Han took a toolbox and first got busy at the south end of the inner coffin room.

Because, as soon as he entered the inner coffin room, on the ground at the south end, he saw a paralyzed bronze "monster".

The bronze monster was half covered in silt, with only its head exposed.

And if you just look at the head, I really want it to be a dragon's head, but there are also some Rui beasts like unicorns, so I can't be sure yet.

Let's get off the book

Next to this bronze "dragon head", there are piles of agate and jade pieces scattered.

It can be seen that these agate and jade pieces should have been inlaid on the bronze body, for example, some agate may be the eyeballs of this bronze dragon.

Because the dragon head collapsed in the mud, the eyes were hollow, and there was nothing.

It was also because these agate and jade pieces were scattered too badly, and this bronze dragon was also half cut off in the mud.

So after looking at it, Chen Han did not choose to extract it separately piece by piece, but planned to continue to extract it as a whole.

It's still a plastic pallet.

After digging about five or six centimeters around this bronze dragon, Chen Han took the pallet and carefully lifted it to the bottom of the entire scattered bronze beast.

When he was almost able to hold it up, he lifted the whole piece of mud with a strong force, holding the pallet with both hands.

"It's pretty heavy."

With a blushing face, Chen Han's eyes motioned for Zhuang Yunpeng to take a hand.

The two of them worked together, and then they lifted the bronze beast and the accessories scattered around it, and sent it to the box next to it to be packed.

"This artifact is quite beautiful!" Kong Jianwen, who was doing on-site command and supervision on the side, said with some surprise: "I don't know if it's a dragon or a unicorn when it is repaired?" ”

"It feels like a dragon." Chen Han pointed to the body that was a little scattered with mud because of the movement, revealing more of its body, and said, "Teacher, look, this is the dragon's mouth, and the jade is inlaid on this lacquer. ”

"This lacquer is put on top of the copper again, and this should be a lacquer covering the copper bottom."

"It's not just a viewer."

"It should have been originally a utility, maybe a wine vessel, or maybe a container, but it was just a faucet for bottom decoration!"

At first, Chen Han thought it was a simple ornament.

However, when the whole was excavated, judging from the size and the lacquered wood found in the subtleties, it showed that this should be a practical tool.

In the Han Dynasty, lacquered wood was made for utility, not just for viewing.

Such as plates, saucers, cups, etc.

For high-end utilitarians, the base is trimmed with bronze, and the lid is made of lacquered wood for painting.

Obviously, this is one such artifact.

As it turned out, Chen Han's guess was also correct.

When the bronze artifact extracted as a whole was sent to the cultural preservation room in the archaeological base next to the tomb for a simple cleaning, the whole picture of the artifact was revealed.

You don't need to fix it, just simply spell it out, and you can be sure that this is a 匜 (yi)!

It was a watering utensil used by ancient Chinese nobles to hold ceremonial activities, which appeared in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

It is elliptical in shape, with a stream in front and a puff in the back, and is mostly quadruped.

In the early days, it was made of bronze, and after the Han Dynasty, gold and silverware, lacquerware, and jade ware appeared.

"Left Biography. There is a record of "Feng Qi Wo Xu", Wo means watering, and the meaning of washing hands and face, Feng Qi Wo is an important ritual in ancient China before the sacrificial ceremony.

It is a kind of washing utensils cast in bronze in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which is equivalent to a modern scoop or scooping vessel, some have a lid, some are tall, and some are covered with patterns, and the shapes are different.

Surprisingly, although it has been buried for more than 2,000 years, the dragon's head and jaw can still move freely.

The faucet of this cultural relic, in fact, acts as a handle.

At that time, the ancients held this faucet and poured water, similar to the handle of a teapot.

And the design of this faucet handle is very ingenious.

When in use, you only need to pinch it lightly, and this faucet will be opened, and you can hold the handle inside.

If he doesn't use it, he will naturally return to the state of a dragon's head!

This ingenious design is both practical and ornamental.

It's a unique creation!

The ingenuity of the craftsmen of 2,000 years ago is simply amazing!