"It's a jade belt hook, right?"

"It's jade again!"

"Not the Golden Seal?"

Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng gathered around the test bench, discussing with some regret.

The big box sets the small box, and the two originally thought that such a cherished practice should be with a gold seal.

But I didn't expect that it was not a gold seal.

Rather, it is a jade belt hook.

It stands to reason that the jade belt hook should be hung directly on the waist of the tomb owner, how can it be solemnly packed in a lacquered wooden box?

Belt hooks, generally used to hang swords and book knives.

The book knife, in fact, is a carving knife, which is used for engraving when writing bamboo slips.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it was a etiquette for a "gentleman" to wear a sword on the left and hang a sword on the right on important occasions.

This is also why Confucianism, at least the Confucianism of the time of Confucius, is not a rotten Confucian who only reads poetry and books, but a gentleman with a sword in his left hand and poetry and books in his right hand.

However, for Liu He, he was even deprived of his qualifications to return to Chang'an to worship his ancestors.

It seems that there is no "important occasion" that can make him pay so much attention to etiquette.

Chen Han touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "This jade belt hook should have a very special meaning for Liu He. ”

"So he didn't wear it himself, but he put it in a box and solemnly placed it in the inner coffin."

"Perhaps, this is a jade belt hook left by Liu He's father, the king of Changyi?"

"For Liu He, this is a precious object that entrusts the emotions between him and his father, and is used to see things and think about people?"

"So after he died, he also solemnly put it in a box, and then buried it together?"

In tombs, it is quite common to find belongings of relatives and friends of the tomb owner.

In general, this kind of item is also very important to the owner of the tomb.

For example, an important memento left by a father, an important memento left by a mother, or a precious gift from a friend.

Wasn't it in the tomb group of Marquis Zeng before, in the tomb of Sima of Zeng Guoda, a halberd sent by Prince Wu was found!

"Or maybe this is a more important and special jade belt hook? Like the emperor sent it? Zhuang Yunpeng also guessed.

He pointed to the jade belt hook that Wei Lai held in his hand and said: "This look is the first-grade Hetian jasper, the body design is unique, the workmanship is delicate, but it is not an ordinary product." ”

"Even in the Western Han Dynasty, it's not something that ordinary nobles can have, and even the princes won't have a few, right?"

Chen Han looked at it carefully, and sure enough, it was as Zhuang Yunpeng said.

This jade belt hook is made of high-quality Hetian jasper.

At first, he thought it was an ordinary green jade.

The high-grade Hetian jasper, which is even rarer than Hetian white jade.

When Qin Shi Huang unified China, Hetian jade was called "the jade of Kunshan" because it was produced in Kunlun Mountain, and later it was called "Khotanese jade" because it was located in the territory of "Khotan".

It was not until the ninth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1883) when the Hetian Zhili Prefecture was established that it was officially named "Hetian Jade".

However, during the period of Qin Shi Huang, many Hetian jade had already entered the Central Plains Dynasty.

The most famous is the "Queen's Seal", a national treasure of the Western Han Dynasty treasured in the Shaanxi History Museum, whose texture is XJ Hetian sheep fat jade, which is the only queen jade seal of the Han Dynasty so far.

In Hetian jade, mutton fat jade is of course the most valuable, but the value of jasper is also not low.

Jasper is more valuable among various jade varieties, it is a kind of Hetian jade variety with more minerals, also known as Hetian jasper, the color is mostly dark red, green or variegated, and the transparency is generally opaque, slightly transparent or translucent.

And the jade belt hook in Chen Han's hand, the Hetian jasper used is still the best among the jasper.

It is not an easy thing just to transport it from XJ to Chang'an, not to mention that it will fall into the hands of the Marquis of Haidun and be made into a jade belt hook.

However, Chen Han still didn't agree with Zhuang Yunpeng's idea.

The jade bibs that were laid on the upper layer of the coffin before, although they were not made by Hetian jade, were made of green jade in the interior.

However, in the inner coffin room, a lot of jade made of Hetian jade has been unearthed.

It is also made of Hetian jade, and there are a lot of them in the inner coffin room, why can this jade belt hook be solemnly placed in the box of the inner coffin?

Presumably, this should be a jade belt hook that Liu He himself has important concerns, not just because of the material.

However, this question will not be understood for a while.

Chen Han put the jade belt hook back into the lacquered wooden box, and kept it in the cultural relics box with the lacquered wooden box.

The research on this lacquer box has come to an end for the time being.

The number of lacquer boxes in the coffin is quite large.

One after another, six or seven lacquered wooden boxes were also extracted.

Some boxes are easy to open, but they are opened on the spot, but there is no golden seal in everyone's heart.

Some lacquer boxes are really difficult to open, so they are sent to the cultural relics conservators, waiting for them to be opened in the future.

After spending half a month cleaning out the lacquer box in the coffin, what was placed in front of the archaeologists was some scattered jade.

These jade artifacts should have been hung around the waist of the tomb owner.

There are jade belt hooks, and there are also jade pendants.

Chen Han participated in the extraction and cleaning of a chisel pendant.

Compared with the lacquered wooden boxes that are heavily adhered to the decaying material in the coffin, jade is relatively easy to extract.

Because jade is blunt, it is actually a kind of stone.

Stone, on the other hand, is certainly not as easy as wood to soften, change its texture, and decay under the influence of time.

The stone thing, put it for tens of thousands of years, is still stable in texture.

So when extracting these jade artifacts, for Chen Han, it was more like picking up stones in the mud.

The difficulty is definitely low.

It is necessary to remove the mud attached to these jade objects, which is a matter of great patience.

However, the last thing archaeologists lack is patience.

Some archaeologists have even experienced only one archaeological project in their lifetime, but this one archaeological project is a lifetime.

For example, the excavation of Yin Ruins, from the last century to the present, basically spans three generations of archaeologists, but they are still excavating.

These archaeologists are in the exploration of Yin Ruins day after day, year after year, holding brushes and bamboo sticks, cleaning up the exploration method little by little.

This can be survived, and it is as good as food.

Chen Han cleaned up this bit of sludge, and naturally he would not be a little impatient.

In the dragon pattern depicted on it, the dragon's eye uses the ground reduction knife method to make the eye socket convex, showing the majesty.

According to the system, such a chise-shaped pendant is a fine jade pendant that only emperors can wear!

It stands to reason that Liu He wore the chisel shape that showed the concept of the emperor on his body, which was inconsistent with his identity as "Hou" when he was buried.

But thinking about Liu He's identity, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Once a prince and an emperor, he wore this chisel into the funeral, and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty would not say much.

Death is dead, a little out of line is a little out of line.