Ancient people, not only Chinese people, have always studied the mysterious concept of "soul".

In addition, people around the world, although they do not communicate with each other, have a common understanding of the existence of the "soul".

The Egyptians believed that after death, the soul would not be destroyed, and as long as the body was preserved, it would be resurrected to eternal life in Elysium after 3,000 years.

Therefore, the Egyptian pharaohs had to make mummies after death, and store vital organs separately in order to live forever in the future.

Coincidentally, in China, thousands of kilometers away from Egypt, there is a similar saying.

The most important meaning of jade in the Western Han Dynasty is actually to attract the soul not to go away.

In the worldview of the Western Han people, the reason why people die is that the soul is separated from the body.

Therefore, as long as the soul is kept from going away and the body is not corrupted, then when the time comes, the soul will return to the body and the dead will be resurrected.

Moreover, this resurrection is not a new person, but it is equivalent to "feathering", life has entered a more advanced stage, and it will become an immortal.

This is also why the Western Han people like to seek immortals very much.

In some modern tomb robberies, the concept of the Western Han people is often used as the material for writing, creating a plot such as a non-rotten jade chrysalis.

Liu He's body is full of jade, and the layers under his body are actually a kind of beautiful vision to keep Liu He's soul and become an immortal in the future.

Of course, modern scientific research has shown that it is impossible for human beings to live forever, let alone rise from the dead.

At least in modern times, when this kind of technology is very advanced, it is still not possible.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it is even more impossible to resurrect from the dead.

In fact, more than 2,000 years have passed, Liu He has not come back to life, and his body has not remained indecomposed.

However, the Western Han people's practice of dying like life is very emotional.

Even in the underground world, Liu He still adheres to the privileges of the nobles.

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The seven pieces of jade that were exposed, the one in the middle of the chest and abdomen, were the most damaged, so they were also the first to be extracted.

When extracting this piece of jade, you need to be very careful.

Inevitably, there was some accident, Kong Jianwen was even personally responsible for extraction.

The process of extraction is not complicated, it is still the same, inserting bamboo sticks, inserting pallets, and then extracting as a whole.

Unfortunately, because the damage is so serious, I want to extract it as a whole, but I still can't succeed.

When the pallet was inserted halfway, Kong Jianwen didn't dare to continue inserting it, because the half of the jade that had already reached the pallet had been completely separated from the other half of the jade that was still in the coffin because of the angle of inclination.

This piece of jade was broken in half from the middle, and the two halves were divided into several small pieces, which were very badly broken.

Kong Jianwen had no choice but to extract half of the side first, and the other half remained still, clamped it up with tweezers little by little, and then spliced it onto the tray.

When he was clipping the jade fragment, Kong Jianwen frowned and said, "The jade quality of this jade is not very good."

Compared to the exquisite jade extracted from the waist of the tomb owner before, as well as the covered jade.

This piece of jade placed on the chest, the jade quality is simply two extremes.

Not only is it very broken, but it has completely become almost like a stone, without the warmth and smoothness of jade.

At first glance, the texture of this piece of jade, like a gray brick soaked in water, is very inconspicuous.

However, if you look closely, from the fractured cross-section of the inner wall, it can also be seen that this piece of jade should have been a piece of green jade, but the texture is very ordinary.

In contrast, the jade on Liu He's left chest is a piece of Hetian jasper taken from Hetian.

It can be seen that even if it is a great nobleman like Liu He, whose wealth is comparable to that of an emperor, there is no way to do a complete set of jade burials, and all of them use high-grade Hetian jade.

He could only mix some ordinary green jade in it.

The characters of Liu He's contemporaries can be more luxurious than him, and it is estimated that only Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty is available.

If you want to find a jade burial made of a complete set of Hetian jade, I am afraid that you have to go to the imperial tomb of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to find hope.

Archaeological excavations are forbidden in the imperial tombs.

Liu He's tomb is already the most precious tomb that can be excavated in the Western Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the archaeologists have no other ideas about this piece of green jade, and they will not think that Liu He "does not have enough face", as long as it is jade, it is luxurious enough...

Seven pieces of jade, more than a dozen archaeologists, spent almost half a day of work, and all of them were extracted.

And with the successive extraction of these jade bibs, the traces left by the bones of the tomb owner are gradually revealed in front of everyone's eyes.

"It seems that these jade bibs are still on top of Liu He's remains, and there is nothing wrong with that."

Kong Jianwen lay next to the coffin, holding a bamboo stick, following the traces left by Liu He's bones, comparing Liu He's body data.

Several pieces of jade originally covered Liu He's remains, so that archaeologists could not see the traces of Liu He's upper body bones.

Now that the jade is extracted, Liu He's bones hidden under the jade are revealed.

Of course, the bones are gone, there are no bones left.

But because of the passage of time, even if these bones decay, they will leave traces of a "human form".

This mark looks like the shape of the victim's bones drawn with chalk in the TV series "Crime Scene".

The silhouette of a person can be roughly seen, but there are no details.

This is bad news for the study of Liu He's physical condition, without bone residue, modern scientific and technological tests cannot be carried out, and Liu He's accurate physical condition before his death cannot be obtained.

This is undoubtedly a pity.

However, in addition to the pity, there are also surprises.

Under the jade, in addition to the traces of Liu He's bones, there are also some woven cross gold leaf.

These yellow gold foils attracted everyone's attention as soon as they appeared.

The gold leaf is very complete, and the function of these gold foils is to connect pieces of jade together.

Of course, this is not a golden jade robe, but a jade mat strung together with gold leaf!

Chen Han's guess was right!

Liu He didn't get the golden jade clothes, he was really unwilling in his heart, and he didn't just be so plain and obedient, but chose to create a golden jade mat for himself!

Director Wen, who was studying the "jade seat" that was pressed under him by Liu He, frowned: "No, this is not jade, it's glass!"

"If you really let Liu He make a golden jade seat, he shouldn't dare."

"So he played a side ball and made a glass mat!"

"Coupled with the glass mat on the lid of the coffin, which has almost decayed, Liu He was buried with two glass mats wrapped in the upper and lower glass mats!"