A jade plug caused a lot of jokes from everyone.

But in other words, it's not a strange or surprising thing.

Jade Nine Tricks, Liu He, as a person who has been an emperor, is normal to stuff nine tricks.

At most, it's just a bit "bohemian" to take a piece of play from the Warring States period and use it as an ass jade plug.

But the owner of the tomb himself is willing to do this, so Chen Han and the outsiders naturally have no reason to talk and joke.

Three-dimensional scanning, drawing, and detailed recording of the location of the cultural relics buried in Liu He's coffin.

In the small laboratory, more than a dozen archaeologists are busy in an orderly manner.

The person in charge of 3D scanning continued to model behind the computer, trying to use the computer to restore the situation of Liu He's coffin.

Drawing, according to the appearance of the unearthed objects, the scene is copied and painted, and from time to time the location map of the cultural relics in the current inner coffin is also drawn.

The archaeologists who are responsible for cleaning the inner coffin lie on the floating platform on the inner coffin one by one, stretch out two arms, and carefully clean up the cultural relics of the inner coffin with bamboo sticks.

"It's so beautiful."

"It's a little hook."

"Liu He has a lot of belt hooks around his waist."

"This is a jade knife, right?"

"Beautiful, really beautiful! The jade knife made of Hetian white jade is the first time I have seen it! ”

Liu He's waist is the area with the densest concentration of burial cultural relics.

The Western Han people, or most Han dynasties, had strict rules about what they wore on their bodies.

Among them, the waist is the most important position.

Whether it is a jade pendant, a pendant, or a sword or a sachet, as long as it is something that needs to be worn out of the house, it will be placed on the waist.

And how to put it on the waist?

It's going to rely on the jade belt hook.

The so-called jade belt hook is a jade object with hooks at both ends and opposite hooks.

The hook on the top is hooked to the belt around the waist.

The hook at the bottom is used to hang what needs to be worn.

According to the style of the Western Han Dynasty, the jade belt hook on the left should hang the sword, and the right side should hang the knife.

The sword, which is a self-defense sword, is hung on the left side, so that it is convenient to quickly pull out the sword with the right hand to fight the enemy when defending against the enemy.

And the knife is not a weapon to kill, but a pen knife.

The mainstream writing carriers of the Western Han Dynasty were bamboo slips and wooden slips.

The bamboo slips and wooden slips are engraved with a carving knife, that is, a pen knife.

The so-called "knife and pen officer" is worth the official who is responsible for catching knives, copying and burning official documents.

The people of the Han Dynasty, but anyone who was literate, must hang a pen knife on the right side.

The nobles used jade belt hooks and hung jade knives, and the decorative significance was greater than the practical significance.

Poor people do not need to bring hooks, and directly insert bronze pen knives into their belts, which is more practical.

And Liu He, as a cultural person who owns an entire treasury collection of books, obviously needs to wear a pen knife.

However, his pen knife is a jade knife made of fine Hetian white jade.

It looks very beautiful and exquisite, and when it was unearthed, it caused a burst of exclamations from archaeologists.

But to say how practical it is, that's obviously impossible.

No matter how strong the jade is, it is just a stone.

How sharp can a knife made of stone be?

Maybe it's used to sharpen things, and it's okay.

After all, in the Stone Age, a large amount of primitive jade was used as a tool by the ancients after polishing.

But if you want to say how easy it is, it must be inferior to iron, even bronze knives.

I really want to use this jade knife to engrave words on bamboo slips.

The time for the jade knife to engrave one word is enough for the bronze knife to engrave three or five words.

Otherwise, the tools made of jade would not have been replaced by bronze tools in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Liu He's jade knife is more just for decorative purposes.

It's the same as the emperor's sword.

Could it be that the emperor was really expected to take a ceremonial sword studded with precious stones and jade gold to go to the battlefield and cut people?

"Hey, there's a big hook next to this little hook!"

Kong Jianwen cleaned Liu He's waist while exclaiming a few words from time to time.

This thing with a hook, although the ancients said that they wore one on the left and one on the left.

But that's just the bare minimum.

Actually, there is no limit to the use of this thing.

As long as you're not afraid to pull the belt off, it's okay to have a strap hook around your waist and then a hook all over it.

There are many hooks around Liu He's waist.

In addition to the two large belt hooks, there are also several small belt hooks.

Now another big hook has been found, and that's three big hooks.

"This should be a thing, too."

Kong Jianwen cleaned up the silt next to the small belt hook, and gradually, an oval-shaped thing became clear in the silt.

"It's perforated, this should be a hanging ornament too, right?" Lin Ya next to her leaned over and judged.

Kong Jianwen nodded: "Well, there is a hole in the middle, and the texture seems to be non-gold and non-jade." ”

By "gold" we don't mean gold, but metal.

"It should be a dzi." Kong Jianwen said affirmatively.

The artifact he cleaned out was an oval, hollow, finger-long artifact, the color of the body was jet black, but there were white stripes on it.

It's all natural, not painted.

Such an object looks very much like a dzi.

The so-called dzi is also known as the "Heavenly Stone".

In the "Tibetan and Chinese Dictionary", the explanation of dzi is: "Arace, cat's eye stone, a kind of gemstone, commonly known as nine eye beads, can cure cerebral hemorrhage when used in medicine."

The earliest Dzi is Zhangzhung Dzi, which was born in the ancient Zhangzhung Kingdom, the most powerful ancient civilization across Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is the sacred relic of Yongzhong Buddhism and the first of the seven treasures of the Tibetan people.

The ancient kingdom of Zhangzhung existed very early, about 4,000 years ago, and reached its peak before the 7th century.

In the 200 years BC, the snow area should have been the prototype of the ancient Zhangxiong Kingdom.

And this dzi should also be spread in the snow area.

However, being able to spread from the remote snow area to the inland Jiangxi region is obviously not something that can be achieved by simple trade.

Of course, considering Liu He's tomb, Cordyceps was also found, which also came from the snow area.

It is almost certain that at that time, the Western Han Dynasty, at least among the upper nobles, had trade exchanges and trade with the snow area.

Otherwise, how could these dzi and cordyceps produced in the snow area fly thousands of miles to the mainland?

It is good to say that the dzi is an ore after all, and under various coincidences, through the spread of merchants in many places, it is still possible to be brought to Chang'an by Han merchants and dedicated to the emperor.

It is possible that Liu He could get this exquisite dzi accessory from the palace in Chang'an, and then bring it to Haihuang County.

But the boxes of cordyceps in his tomb obviously couldn't have come from the palace.

From Liu He's deposed to becoming the Marquis of Haidu, more than ten years have passed.

Liu He can't keep these cordyceps all the time.

Or even brought to the tomb to be buried?

There is only one reason that can be explained.

It is that Liu He has a channel for stable trade with the snow area.

Not only can you get Cordyceps regularly, but you can also get dzi from there!