Chapter 272: What Did the Bamboo Slips Say?

Liu He is very interesting and good at playing side balls.

As long as the Western Han Dynasty court had a clearly stipulated system, he would not dare to transgress it.

For example, the Western Han Dynasty emperor clearly stipulated that the Western Han Dynasty emperor did not prepare anything that was not allowed to be used unless the emperor gave it.

However, the Zhou Dynasty ritual system in the Zhou ceremony, he has surpassed everything he can surpass.

Whether it's ten tripods or three hanging music.

It is estimated that when he was alive, he did not do such a thing as dancing in court.

Anyway, as long as there is no strict etiquette system in the imperial court, he has adopted the behavior of not capping the top and not guaranteeing the bottom.

Therefore, in the process of excavating the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, a large number of things that are not owned by the identity of "liehou" will be discovered.

Including these more than 300 pieces of pure gold, in fact, it is also something that the liehou can't do.

After the seal was discovered, the identity of the owner of the tomb was thoroughly determined.

Dear archaeologists, a big stone that has been pressing on your heart has finally landed.

The cleaning of the inner coffin is also a lot easier for everyone.

The first thing to clean up is naturally the jade on the top layer of the inner coffin.

On the first day of the coffin, everyone's energy was focused on extracting jade.

All of them were cracked into pieces of jade, and it was not easy to extract.

By the evening, all the jade on the surface had been extracted.

And today's archaeological work has come to an end for the time being.

The rice paper was re-covered and the hypoxic environment in the laboratory was activated again.

The archaeologists, dressed in white coats, left the laboratory site in an orderly manner.

"Let's go back and rest first, and we'll see you tomorrow."

Director Wen led his archaeologists, smiled and said goodbye to Kong Jianwen and the others, and then left the archaeological base in a hurry.

Everyone's time is in a hurry.

After returning home, eat, wash, organize and record today's excavation report, and then sleep to refresh yourself to face tomorrow's excavation.

I don't really have much time to socialize or have fun.

After seeing the people from the Jiangxi Institute leave, Chen Han also turned his head to look at Kong Jianwen: "Teacher, we have also withdrawn?"

But Kong Jianwen shook his head: "No hurry."

"It's rare to come to the archaeological base once, let's go and see the situation of those bamboo slips."

These front-line archaeologists rarely come to the laboratory area of the archaeological base.

Although, where they live, it is only a few hundred meters away from the laboratory.

But usually after returning from work, it is very late, everyone is tired, and it is time to go to bed after taking a hasty shower, so how can I have time to come here.

But today is different, today is early, and cleaning the inner coffin is very important, but compared to cleaning the 400 square meters of tomb, it is still much easier.

Everyone's energy is not bad.

As soon as Kong Jianwen's words came out, Chen Han and others responded.

Everyone is also curious about what the large number of bamboo slips extracted from the tomb recorded.

A group of seven or eight people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences followed Kong Jianwen and walked in the experimental area of the archaeological base for five or six minutes before coming to the bamboo slip protection room.

The bamboo slips found in the tomb were sent here for follow-up processing after preliminary protection and extraction at the site.

If you do the math, a few months have passed, and it's time to have some results.

"Winter, winter, winter."

After Kong Jianwen knocked on the door, he didn't wait for the people inside to reply, opened the door by himself and walked in.

Chen Han hurriedly followed.

"Ah, Director Kong, a rare guest!"

Mr. Fang Beisong, the director of the Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center and an expert in the restoration of bamboo slips, saw that it was Kong Jianwen who entered the door, and greeted him with a smile.

As one of the top experts in the field of simple bamboo restoration in China, Mr. Fang Beisong and Kong Jianwen are very familiar with each other.

The Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, after all, runs everywhere in the country, and a large number of bamboo slip restoration work will be in contact with the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center every year.

Kong Jianwen also smiled and exchanged a few words with Fang Beisong, and then got down to business: "Old Fang, it's been a few months since you took over the bamboo slips, how is the situation?"

"Those bamboo slips, have they been restored, what are recorded in them, and are there any heavy documents?"

Previously, more than 5,000 bamboo slips were cleaned out from the Chinese book file room of the tomb.

This amount, which may seem like a lot to modern people.

But in fact, because the number of words that bamboo slips can carry is not much, in fact, a bamboo slip can only write more than a dozen words.

These more than 5,000 bamboo slips, all the words recorded in them add up, and it may be just more than 100,000 words.

However, for the ancients, 100,000 words was already a large volume.

Perhaps it is because before the invention of paper, the information carriers of the ancients, whether bamboo slips, wooden slips, or silk books, were not suitable for recording a large number of words.

Therefore, from the earliest Shang and Zhou dynasties to the later Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese people wrote very concisely.

The goal is to say as much information as possible with the least number of words.

The Chinese people's "classical Chinese" system was also thoroughly perfected from the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han dynasties.

The special writing system of the Chinese people, this kind of "square character" that can carry a lot of information in one word, may be born because of the limitations of bamboo slips and wooden slips.

Therefore, in the eyes of modern people, classical Chinese is very complex and difficult to understand, and it may be possible to translate a sentence of seven or eight words into vernacular but can translate two or three crosses.

Not even to mention modern people, in fact, even the ancient people themselves, because of this way of writing with the least number of words and the most information, it is very common for future generations to not understand or interpret different ideas according to the content of the book, except for the person who wrote the book.

Like the Confucian Ram School and the Guliang School, it is actually the difference between the "Spring and Autumn" Ram Note and the "Spring and Autumn" Guliang Note.

Both of them learned Confucius's "Spring and Autumn", but because the ontology of "Spring and Autumn" is too streamlined, future generations will leave their own annotations when they learn it.

The same sentence may be left by different people, but the annotations will be different.

This is why there is the Ram faction that learns the Ram Commentary, and the Gu Liang faction who learns the Gu Liang Commentary.

A book written by an ancient sage, almost one or two hundred words, is already a very informative article.

If there are thousands of words, it is no longer an article, but a book!

Lao Tzu's masterpiece is considered to be the ancestral home of Taoism, and it is only 5,000 words!

With a collection of 100,000 words, I don't know how many ancient classics there are, and maybe there are many lost books that have been rediscovered!

Sure enough, Kong Jianwen's expectations were not disappointed.

Hearing that Kong Jianwen was here for this, Fang Beisong laughed and said proudly, "Old Kong, this batch of Han Jian is extraordinary!"

"The results of our infrared scan have come out, and a lot of text has been found!"

"The content of the text covers the Analects, the Book of Changes, and the Book of Rites, as well as eight aspects: medical skills, five-color food victory, mourning for the dead, signing cards, and playing the scroll!"

"At present, the detailed content is still being interpreted, mainly because most of the bamboo slips have not been dehydrated and recovered."

"In another half a month, the first batch of bamboo slips should be successfully restored."

"When the time comes, you will definitely be amazed when you look at it!"

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