"And brass, and lacquered wood, and precious stones, and gilt!"

"This is a very rare composite device, which combines a variety of processes in one!"

"Rare, rare!"

"This type of vessel is extremely rare in previous archaeology, and in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, I am afraid it is even rarer, maybe there is only such a one!"

"It's a one-of-a-kind!"

In the cultural preservation room of the archaeological base, all kinds of surprises came and went.

The design of this bronze is stunning!

The Western Han Dynasty can be said to be the last peak and glory of bronze.

At this time, iron tools have been fully replaced by bronze tools, and the craftsmanship and skills of bronze tools have just reached their peak.

Compared with the bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and even the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the bronzes of the Western Han Dynasty undoubtedly represent the pinnacle of craftsmanship of the Chinese bronze civilization.

Compared with the heaviness of the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the bronzes of the Western Han Dynasty pursued more exquisiteness.

Just like this dragon head that can be opened and closed, it will definitely not appear in the archaeology of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

This is actually a kind of technological progress, even a technological progress!

And this bronze, inlaid with gems and jade pieces with lacquerware, is simply a rare treasure!

At the excavation site of the tomb next door, Chen Han, who was still busy cleaning up, had no idea that the cultural relics he extracted casually as a whole were actually such a rare treasure!

At this time, he was also cleaning up other cultural relics in the inner coffin room.

The bronze dyeing furnace and copper ear cup are still exquisite and beautiful.

The lacquered fungus cup is bright and bright, and it can even reflect light.

The jade ear cup is delicate and exquisitely workmanlike, and the warm texture remains unchanged after two thousand years.

In the inner coffin, most of the cultural relics unearthed are commonly used by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

Like ear cups, three textures of copper, lacquered wood, and jade were unearthed.

Although there are three types of textures, there are only two ways to use this ear cup in terms of use.

One is for food, and the other is for wine.

The jade ear cup is generally used as a wine vessel, and the texture of jade is very suitable for holding wine, because the texture is warmer.

However, the name "ear cup" is only a modern name, or an archaeological name.

When these utensils were used back then, it was not the name.

When the ear cup was used to hold wine, it was called "feather".

The original meaning of the word "觞" is to refer to the oval, shallow belly, flat bottom, and half-moon-shaped ears on both sides.

The poem "Seven Revelations" by Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms: "Filled with green bottles, withered with buds, floating ants boiling, cool and fragrant." ”

Li Bai's poem "Farewell to the Jiangnan of Cao Nanqun Officials" said: "Sorrow is a farewell for thousands of miles, and this title is repeated." ”

The 觞 here refers to the feather 觞.

It became popular from the Warring States period to the Tang Dynasty, and it was widely used by the Chinese people.

The high-ranking nobles used jade to make their roots, and the common people or minor nobles used lacquered wood to make their roots.

Jade and lacquered wood ear cups are used to drink wine.

But the bronze ones are different.

Bronze ear cups, when they arrived in the Western Han Dynasty, were more likely to be used as utensils for holding food, rather than as drinking utensils.

It can only be said that the level of enjoyment of the nobles has increased.

In the past, the earliest bronze ear cup was "Zhen", but with the progress of "science and technology", after having a lacquered fungus cup, the cold bronze ear cup is not so easy to put into the mouth.

Not to mention that the liquor brewed in ancient times is all low-alcohol liquor, and most of it is drunk after it is heated.

This is also known as "warm sake".

The bronze cup is even more unsuitable, the heat dissipation is too fast.

So this kind of bronze ear cup was gradually used as a tableware and used to put food.

As we all know, people in the Western Han Dynasty had a separate meal system.

Under the separate meal system, one person actually does not need too much utensils to serve.

Just like today's Japanese food, it is all served in small bowls.

The size of the bronze ear cup is just enough to be used as a tableware.

However, the excavation of these daily utensils is not the most important cultural relics of the inner coffin.

In fact, even the dragon head is not.

The truly heavyweight cultural relics are a jade seal that Zhuang Yunpeng found on a lacquer plate in the upper left corner of the inner storage room!

This jade seal is very inconspicuously placed in a lacquered wooden plate, and there is no lacquer box specially for jade seals, so it is placed in the lacquer plate so aggressively.

And this lacquered wooden plate is also very casually lying in a corner of the inner coffin room.

However, its own unique material is difficult to escape the sight of archaeologists.

Zhuang Yunpeng saw this jade seal at a glance and immediately picked it up.

The size of this jade seal meets the standard of the Western Han seal, that is, the "seal of the square inch", which is not much bigger than the thumb.

The jade seal itself is a square turtle button, which is also a more common style.

But it's made of the finest white jade!

Even after 2,000 years, the jade is still very delicate and smooth, and exudes a warm feel!

After getting his hands on it, Zhuang Yunpeng couldn't wait to turn over the jade seal, wanting to see what words were printed on the jade seal.

Jade!

According to the Western Han system, only the emperor, empress, and queen mother can use jade as a seal, and the jade seal made by the emperor is called a jade seal!

But having said that, in fact, the princes and kings can also use jade to make jade seals, and the central government basically doesn't care.

However, on the printing surface, the jade seal of the princes and kings can only be called "XX seal" and "XX king seal", and it can never be called "seal".

If you dare to engrave the "seal", your life will not be guaranteed!

Flipping through the seal, Zhuang Yunpeng frowned and carefully identified it, then muttered uncertainly: "Big... Liu... What's the print? ”

There were four words on the printed surface, and he only recognized three of them, Da, Liu and Yin.

The word "big" is easy to recognize, and in the small seal, it is the appearance of a "giant".

And "Liu" Zi belongs to a small seal script that is basically to be learned.

But anyone who studies the archaeology of the Qin and Han dynasties must learn how the word "Liu" is written in a small seal, so it is difficult to find Zhuang Yunpeng.

Needless to say, the last word "seal" belongs to all seals, and it is impossible not to recognize it.

There was only a third word, which he didn't recognize.

It's okay if you can't recognize it, there's help from the outside!

Zhuang Yunpeng took this seal, looked up and shouted, "Teacher! Senior Brother Chen! ”

"I found a jade seal with four words printed on it, and I only recognized the seal of Da Liu!"

"Come and see, is this a congratulatory character, is it a big Liu Heyin?"

As soon as Zhuang Yunpeng said this, the small inner coffin room immediately became agitated.

Chen Han, Kong Jianwen and Professor Li, the three of them rushed towards Zhuang Yunpeng with their legs pulled.

Chen Han, who was young and fast-moving, ran to Zhuang Yunpeng first, took away the jade seal from his hand, and lifted the seal to look at it.

"Da Liu... Imprint! ”

"This is not a congratulatory word!"

Chen Han's face changed from surprise to disappointment, which was called a big change in attitude.

I thought I had found a seal that could directly prove the identity of the owner of the tomb.

The result is just a "big Liu mark", in addition to proving that the owner of the tomb is indeed surnamed Liu and is a descendant of the Liu family, it cannot prove that the owner of the tomb is Liu He, the Marquis of Haidu!

"Heaven Descends"

Pity!