"Yo, this axe is pretty good."

"What an axe, it's called a horse."

Zhuang Yunpeng put his arm on Chen Han's shoulders and said with a wink.

At this time, the two of them were standing in front of the cultural relics excavated from the No. 12 tomb of the Anti-Mountain King's Tomb.

Since the tomb of the king of the anti-mountain can be considered a royal tomb, of course, it is because in the tomb of the anti-mountain, many things representing the royal power have been found.

The major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong.

I've learned about it.

What about Jon?

If the worship represents divine power, or religious belief, then Rong represents the royal power.

Rong is specifically Yue, and E also refers to Yue.

As a symbol of royal power, the scepter of the military command of the ruler of the dynasty.

"Sima Fa" said: "Xia Zhi Xuanwu, Yin Zhi Bai Qi, Zhou left cane Huang Wu, right white fashion."

The white Qi that the Yin people insist on is a kind of E, "Shuo Wen Jie Zi Ebu": Qi, Wu also.

""Mozi Fei Conquered" also said: The three seedlings of the past were in chaos, the destiny of heaven was destroyed, and the sun demon was out of the night,...... The five grains change, and the people are greatly shaken (shaken). Gao Yang is the order of the Xuanguan, and Yu Qin ordered the Rui of the sky to collect seedlings. …… There are gods and birds, Feng Jin to serve, there is Miao Zhixiang on the threshold, Miao Shi is in chaos, and then there are a few."

The so-called "Heavenly Rui Order" in "Mozi", according to Mr. Dong Chuping's research, is the so-called "Tianyue" in "Liutao", the jade token Yue held by Dayu when he conquered the three seedlings, and the literature clearly says that it is a godsend.

In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as a symbol of royal power, the Yue was inherited from the previous dynasty, and was given to the princes of Fang by the Shang and Zhou kings as tokens for granting the right to conquer the army.

However, a large amount of archaeological evidence shows that the southeast prehistoric cultural circle, that is, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai and other places in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, was the most popular area for Neolithic stone Yue in China.

The stone Yue here not only ranks first in the country in terms of the number of discoveries, the stone Yue is the most abundant in shape, but also the germination, development and evolution sequence of various types of stone Yue is also very clear.

As the symbol of the royal power of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and the ceremonial scepter of military command, the jade and bronze jade and bronze pillars.

In terms of the shape of the vessel and its cultural, social, political and religious functions, Yuyue was directly popular in the Liangzhu culture of the late Neolithic period in southeast China, but was not seen in other regional cultures of the Neolithic period in China.

The bronze Yue is the continuation of the Liangzhu culture, Xuejiagang culture jade and Shiyue in the southeast region.

And in front of Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng, the jade king from the No. 12 tomb of Liangzhu Anti-Mountain, the color is green and yellow, and there is no trace of use.

What does this mean?

This means that this is not a utility.

It also shows that in the Liangzhu civilization, the Yue is no longer a simple weapon when the stone Yue was born, but has become a part of the ritual weapon, and the jade Yue specially made of jade has greater symbolic meaning than practical significance.

It may not even be used once, but only as a symbol of royal power.

Many people who don't know much about archaeology and history are very puzzled by the big bronze Yue unearthed in the tomb of a good woman in the Shang Dynasty when they go to Yinxu to visit the tomb of a good woman.

In fact, the excavation of the bronze Yue from the tomb of the woman is the correct situation, if the copper Yue is not found in the tomb of the woman, it will make people put a question mark on the record of the conquest of the woman in the oracle bone inscription.

Because, the bronze Yue is a symbol of military power, a kind of identity, and a ritual culture inherited from ancient times.

As long as they are generals, they will receive a gift from the emperor as a symbol of their power to rule the army.

This was the case until the Han Dynasty.

However, after the Han Dynasty, the axe began to be broken.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty added nine tins to Wang Mang.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty gave Cao Cao Jiuxi.

The so-called "nine tins" are actually chariots and horses, clothes, musical instruments, Zhu Hu, Na Ma, Hu Ben, bows and arrows, axes, and mustaches.

Behind each of these items is a kind of speciality

Right.

"Axe" is a symbol of military power and power.

Until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and even the Tang Dynasty, "Jiajiu Xi" was a very high-standard royal reward.

However, because Wang Mang made a good start, basically the people who "added nine tins" were all chaotic ministers and thieves, and they were linked to "usurpation", either on the way to becoming the emperor, or on the way to becoming the emperor.

So after Li Yuan was the last to enjoy the treatment of "plus nine tin", "nine tin" was basically rotten, and it belonged to the windward stinky three miles.

No powerful minister dares to ask for "nine tins" anymore, otherwise this is not a clear telling others that I am going to usurp the throne.

Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, the axe basically disappeared from the sight of the public or history books.

But in fact, the descendants of the Son of Heaven, when carrying out some solemn sacrifices, will still use the axe, which is the ritual system handed down by the ancestors, and the law of the ancestors is difficult to change.

Tracing back to the roots, Yue first appeared in the southeast region of China, and it was also the first Liangzhu to use it as a ritual weapon.

Of course, this is not to say that in prehistoric times, except for the southeast, there was no need for axes.

To put it bluntly, this thing looks like an axe, and its usage is similar to that of an axe.

In fact, in the Neolithic period all over the world, there are such things as stone axes.

However, this is the "charm of writing" of our Chinese civilization.

Purely used as a tool, it is frequently used, which can only be called an axe, which is used by ordinary people to cut down trees and cut people.

The axe, which has a special meaning, is not only used as a tool, but also has a symbolic meaning, and is called a axe.

The difference between the two is the difference in material, and the other is to look at the degree of wear.

An axe that has been used with high intensity and is full of wear marks, it will definitely not be a cymbal, just a tool axe.

Only axes that have no signs of wear, or few signs of wear, and are well-made, are considered to be axes.

For example, the Jade Yue King in the No. 12 tomb of Anti-Mountain has no traces of use at all, and it is obviously an item specially used as a symbol.

This is the same as the difference between copper tripod and pottery tripod.

The pottery tripod is a common thing, it can be seen everywhere, and it can be unearthed in the burial pits of civilians and even slaves, but it is just a practical instrument without the slightest special significance.

The copper tripod, the material is changed, the workmanship is exquisite, and the meaning is different immediately, and it has become an exclusive instrument that can only be used by princes and doctors, which not only takes into account practicality, but also has the nature of ceremonial vessels.

Nobles with poor family circumstances may have cast copper tripods for daily use, and after death, they were used as funeral vessels.

The family situation is relatively good, simply put, it is a local tyrant with many mines, who pay more attention to this aspect, and usually use a set of tripods every day, and after they die, they will specially cast a set of brand-new, unused copper bones for burial.

Therefore, in the archaeology of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty, there are often ritual vessels unearthed in some tombs that are brand new, and some ritual vessels unearthed in tombs are low and black, and they have obviously been used.

There is no deep meaning in it, it is simply that some of the tomb owners are rich and some are poor.