"In other words, the raw materials of these jade ornaments are mainly from the XJ Hetian area, and they are the best Hetian jade?"

", this is really evidence of the prosperity of cultural and trade exchanges between the Central Plains and the Western Regions in the ancient Silk Road!"

Holding a texture test report issued by the laboratory in his hand, Chen Han sighed with emotion.

In the main coffin room, there are more than 20 jade swords of various types, as well as a large number of jade objects.

The shape of the accessories and the texture of the jade are clearly visible, and the jade used in these jade objects is very high-grade, at least not comparable to the topaz in the tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties and even the Zhou Dynasty in the past.

This also aroused the curiosity of the laboratory archaeologists, who immediately tested the texture of these jades.

The result of this test, the result was a surprise.

These jades are all from XJ Hetian, which is the earliest "Hetian jade"!

For jade, the time scale of two thousand years is actually no different from a moment.

The jade produced from the Hotan region 2,000 years ago is not much different in texture from the current Hotan jade.

So it's easy to identify.

But this result is still surprising.

At this time BC, the Marquis of Haiding, who was far away in the Nanchang region, actually owned the Hetian jade from XJ Hetian...

Moreover, in this tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, a lot of jade pieces that have not been formed for the time being have been unearthed.

Judging from this indication, there may also be a workshop dedicated to making jade for the Marquis of Haidu.

In other words, the Marquis of Haiyang directly bought Hetian jade, and then let the craftsmen make it into exquisite jade.

Well, it's aristocratic!

Obviously, since Zhang Qian's exit, the Central Plains and the Western Regions have had close exchanges.

At least, the primeval jade mines produced in the Western Regions can be transported thousands of miles to the hinterland of the Western Han Dynasty!

This road will have to go down for at least thousands of miles!

After reading the report, Chen Han, who was standing next to the main coffin, picked up a jade sword that was "carrying" to protect the owner of the tomb from the soil on the ground, and looked at the jade head, jade grid and other jade accessories on the sword, which was called a sigh.

"The Great Age of Genes"

These seemingly inconspicuous swords are actually all made of Hetian's jade.

Boy.

This Liu He is really good!

He was in Nanchang, but the sword he used had to be made of jade transported from XJ!

However, this seems to be quite in line with the thinking of the people at the time.

Sword!

It is a weapon that has been used throughout Chinese history and has been given a special significance.

Why were swords used for so long in ancient times?

Not only because it is a weapon that is easy to carry, but also because it is a symbol of the social status and status of feudal bureaucrats and scholars!

"Jin Shu Yufu System" uploaded: "The Han system from the Son of Heaven to the hundred officials, all wear swords, and then only the dynasty carries swords."

It is also recorded in the "Shuowen": "The ancients of the Son of Heaven were twenty and wore a sword, Zhu Hou was thirty and had a crown with a sword, and the doctor was forty crowned with a sword.

For the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty, the sword was their second life.

When you usually travel, you must never leave your sword.

For them, a good sword, a sword worthy of their identity, is very important!

The so-called gentleman's accessories, this Confucian saying, is actually a continuation of the etiquette system of the Zhou Dynasty.

A beautiful sword that can not only defend oneself, but also show the user's prominent status.

In the Han Dynasty, when the Son of Heaven went to court, he needed to wear a sword.

Except for the Son of Heaven, no other minister was allowed to enter the main hall with shoes or swords.

However, there is a very special glory called "Sword Shoes in the Temple"!

If the Son of Heaven grants a minister the right to go to the temple with a sword, then that minister can go to court with a sword!

This is considered a godsend!

However, by Wang Mang's time, this was originally an honor used by the Son of Heaven to reward important ministers, but it was completely ruined.

The sword goes to the temple, praises and worships the nameless, and does not enter the court.

Wang Mang gathered these three privileges, and then usurped the Han.

Since then, the sword has become the standard for powerful ministers from the greatest honor of a courtier.

But all the powerful ministers who can do the abolition must have these three privileges.

Dong Zhuo is like this, and so is Cao Cao.

Let's add nine tin, which is basically the meaning of the ministers who want to usurp the dynasty.

Especially when it came to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the many regime changes on the side of the Southern Dynasties were all powerful ministers who gathered their swords to go to the palace, praised and worshipped the nameless, and after entering the dynasty, they were given nine tins, and then the Son of Heaven could Zen and concede.

At this point, the fine gentleman's tradition of the saber has been completely broken.

When the ministers were not in court, they did not dare to bring swords.

What does it mean that you are okay with a sword?

Want to bring your sword to the court?

Or do you want to get the standard honor of the powerful minister who walks on the sword to the palace?

Gradually, the tradition of Chinese nobles, ministers, and gentlemen going out to wear swords was no longer there.

By the time of the Song and Ming dynasties, the scholars had completely become powerless "gentlemen", not to mention swords, and they couldn't even hold swords.

even thinks that it is insulting to practice martial arts if people who read books have nothing to do.

These scholars don't know that their ancestors in the Han Dynasty are all poetry and books with one hand and swords with the other, and they can govern the army and the people!

This is the real gentleman!

......

After packing up a few ancient swords that have been guarding the Marquis of Haiyang for more than 2,000 years in the main coffin room.

Chen Han set his eyes on the main coffin.

The cleaning of the inner coffin room has been carried out almost completely.

Several leaders also have thoughts about this main coffin.

Judging from the size of the main coffin, this coffin is at least a double coffin, and there should be an inner coffin inside.

Therefore, Kong Jianwen discussed it and planned to open the coffin on the spot.

First open the coffin cover of the outer coffin and take a look at the situation inside.

Otherwise, I don't know the situation inside, and there is no way to carry out the next step of the archaeology of the main coffin.

In the open tomb of the main tomb of the Marquis of Nanchang in the Western Han Dynasty with a depth of 15 meters and an area of about 400 square meters, the core is the main coffin of 60 square meters.

And in the main coffin, the most mysterious is the main coffin.

After a month of excavation, the burial items in the inner coffin have been cleared out, and the bottom of the coffin is exposed to everyone's eyes at a glance.

The main coffin lies in the northeast corner of the main coffin.

According to the on-site measurement of archaeologists, the length and width of the coffin are 3.7 meters, the height of the back stop of the coffin is 1 meter, and the height of the front jaw plate is 0.3 meters.

Judging from this length and width, it is clear that this is not a coffin with many weights, and the largest is likely to be a double coffin.

This is indeed inconsistent with the regulations on the weekly ceremony.

In the Mawangdui Han Tomb before, Mrs. Xin Chai used a five-fold coffin!

Liu He, as a liege, how could he use a double coffin?

With this doubt, all the staff of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology gathered in front of the main coffin.

Looking at the traces of some barren curtains still remaining on the top of the main coffin, Kong Jianwen and Wen Yuangen glanced at each other.

"Open the coffin cover?"

"Open!"