Chapter 370: Heavenly Emperor's Messenger
After all, Mr. Miao is an old-timer, and the things he likes are indeed high-quality products.
The first treasure that came out was very special - sealing mud.
Special artifacts that are difficult for non-archaeologists to access.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, because paper had not yet been popularized, official documents were written on bamboo slips.
Although the bamboo slips will be tied before the pass, in order to prevent someone from secretly dismantling them, an extra layer of treatment will be added.
That is, at the place where the rope is knotted, it is sealed with a round piece of mud and stamped with the seal of the relevant department.
On some occasions, bamboo slips are put into the box, and a place for mud is left at the opening of the box.
The sealing mud is this kind of mud that is used to prevent tampering and is stamped.
It is equivalent to a postage stamp stamped on the mouth of an envelope.
At first glance, this thing looks a lot like the mud used to seal wine bottles.
However, because Master Wang once recommended Zhang Yang to read the "Complete Works of Ancient Chinese Sealing Mud", although there are a total of fifteen volumes, Zhang Yang read the first three pages of the first volume, but it is still enough for him to recognize this thing at a glance.
The Han Dynasty and the text are at least third-class cultural relics.
The inscription on the seal is "Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven".
Emperor of Heaven? Which Emperor?
Zhang Yang had a thoughtful look on his face.
Was there such a thing as the Emperor of Heaven in the Han Dynasty?
"Name: Emperor Messenger Sealing Mud"
"Production time: 200 A.D. (5th year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty)"
"Details: The sealing mud of the Emperor's envoy was commonly found in the tomb inscriptions and land purchase vouchers of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was a derivative of the belief of the supreme god of the Emperor of Heaven in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was an important material for the study of folk religious beliefs."
Wow, it's this kind of thing!
Zhang Yang once saw the land purchase voucher, which was used by Taoism to pay homage to the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods, and buy a cemetery for the dead to rest.
This is also stamped on the land purchase voucher?
In the Han Dynasty, the land purchase voucher could only be wooden, and it was also reasonable to use sealing mud.
And this Heavenly Emperor's envoy sealing mud should be closely related to Taoism.
Because Zhang Jiao's Taiping Road and Zhang Lu's Five Bucket Rice Road are famous for their belief in the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu.
The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow God, was the messenger of the Emperor of Heaven......
If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Lu and Sun Ce were separated by Liu Biao and Cao Cao, Zhang Yang would have thought that this was Zhang Lu, the third-generation Heavenly Master of Wudou Midao, who personally came to stamp the land purchase coupon for Sun Ce's cemetery.
In short, this thing is of great value for studying the religious beliefs of the Jiangdong region in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
When you see the mud sealed, what about the bamboo slips or wooden slips?
It's impossible to just lie on the ground alone.
Faced with Zhang Yang's question, Teacher Miao was directly stunned.
"You mean, this thing is on the seal?"
"That's right, isn't the seal an ancient envelope, it's a postage stamp."
"However, I picked this up in the main burial chamber, and if it wasn't for the text on it, I wouldn't have brought it out."
Teacher Miao's implication is that the envelope and the letter itself should have been destroyed by the first batch of tomb robbers.
There is only one stamp.
Zhang Yang is not very acceptable to this explanation.
But if you think about it, it's really useless to keep this thing, right?
Even at the top auctions, no one will buy a wooden scumbag.
Not to mention the difficulty of preserving this thing, and the historical value is much higher than the economic value.
"It seems that what is written on the land purchase voucher of Sun Ce's grave will become an unsolved mystery and be buried in the ground forever." Zhang Yang sighed in his heart.
Such a good thing must be taken away.
"Thieves" don't go empty.
Zhang Yang took out a small box from the bag behind his back, which was originally used to hold the commemorative gold coins of the Dayin Museum.
It is just right to fill the sealing mud.
"Master Zhang, you still carry this thing with you at any time."
Seeing Zhang Yang take out the commemorative gold coins and give away the gold coins, Lin Yupan felt very useful.
Master Zhang has me in his heart, and he carries everything with him.
"Well, this box is good."
Zhang Yang nodded, opened the box, and returned the gold coins to Lin Yupan.
Then he took the sealing mud in Mr. Miao's hand and gently placed it on the black foam in the box.
After repeatedly confirming that it was installed, Zhang Yang gave Lin Yupan a thumbs up again:
"The box is so well designed that the lid won't be pressed."
"Huh?" Lin Yupan was stunned for a moment, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.
Seeing that Zhang Yang valued this sealing clay so much, Mr. Miao's expression was a little complicated.
He didn't know whether to be happy or afraid.
I am glad that I have indeed brought out the precious cultural relics, so that they will not be buried in the ground forever;
The fear is that the more precious the tomb robbery, the greater the problem for him.
In the end, he thought about it, forget it, it's all here, let it be.
The second treasure that Mr. Miao took out was a green jade.
Only slightly larger than the palm of an adult's hand.
At first glance, it looks like jade, but when you look closely, you find that except for a little transparency of jade at the edge, all other parts give people the feeling of stone.
"It's Liulibi." Zhang Yang said after the appraisal.
There is nothing special about colored glass, it originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was already a very mature craft by the time of the Han Dynasty.
But firing the glass into this jade shape, Zhang Yang is the first time to see it.
Isn't glass a building material?
The nature is probably equivalent to carving marble into a pendant and wearing it on the body.
Thinking of the leek buddies in the live broadcast room, Zhang Yang suddenly felt that this piece of glass was quite reasonable.
Anyway, as long as it looks good.
Although in terms of flamboyant aesthetics, it is not pretty.
But what if the state of Wu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was beautiful with ugliness?
The aesthetics of the ancients are difficult to say.
In addition to Liulibi, Mr. Miao and the others also looted a pottery building from the tomb.
The glaze on the surface is also the green color of this glaze.
Taolou was a very common funeral vessel in the Han Dynasty, and the only role was probably to prove that Sun Ce did have a preference for green glazed ware during his lifetime.
Otherwise, the people who buried him would not have forced such a thing in.
In addition to the glazed ware, the most precious thing left is the golden-gilded copper handle in the shape of a dragon head that Mr. Miao broke off from a carriage.
It should be the ornament on the carriage at the beginning, but the value is very average.
"That's all I think is precious."
"The rest of the pottery and bronzes are mostly daily necessities, and there is nothing special."
After Mr. Miao introduced what he thought was valuable, his expression was relieved.
This incident has pressed him for decades, and today he is finally relieved.
"That's fine. Teacher Miao, Director Lin, let's see if you want to sign a donation agreement or something, and put these funeral utensils in the museum. Zhang Yang suggested.
He wasn't going to waste any more time on it.
After figuring out whose tomb it was, and also harvesting a piece of "Emperor Messenger" sealing mud, he didn't come in vain.
As for why he was able to carry things in his pocket and take them away...... Of course, it's because he's hard backstage.
And this time, he helped the cultural relics department of Sanchuan City to seize so many cultural relics at one time, he didn't go to the celebration banquet, who dared to move the chopsticks first?
It's really cheap to just take a piece of sealing mud.
(End of chapter)