Chapter 1,701: Three hundred scriptures and three thousand tunes
"I want all these things. You can give me a price, as long as it's close to the price."
After flipping through the photo album, Chen Wenzhe said directly.
"Okay, we have sorted everything out. Do you want to take a closer look? There are quite a few things."
A smile appeared on the boss's face at this time, but that smile was a bit strange.
Chen Wenzhe didn't say much and just waved his hand.
He really wanted to see these things quickly, especially the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui. As long as these things appeared, it would definitely bring his museum to a higher level.
It turns out that although there are many things in his museum, the most authentic ones are porcelain from the sea, and most of the other bronzes and so on are imitations.
It's fine now. In addition to the batch of bronze vessels and gold-studded jade clothes he brought back from South Vietnam, he also has a batch of valuable treasures.
The boss was indeed prepared, and their batch of treasures had actually been transported to Dahai City.
In other words, their batch of things was originally hidden in Dahai City.
Following the boss, Chen Wenzhe and his group arrived at a foreign-style house.
It seemed that the stall owner had gone there specifically to wait for him, and just this bungalow could prove his worth.
When a group of people walked in, Chen Wenzhe looked at the furnishings of the bungalow and was a little stunned.
Earth tripod, Gui, Li, square pot, round pot, jian, beans, just counting, there are more than thirty pieces.
Chen Wenzhe was even more surprised by the copper carriage placed in the middle of the bungalow hall.
This bronze carriage from the Western Zhou Dynasty has a wooden rim covered with a copper shell. The diameter of the wheel is about 1.4 meters, the circumference is about 4.4 meters, the tooth width is 5.7 centimeters, and the thickness is 1.9 centimeters.
Nail holes can be seen in some places, especially the animal-shaped carvings inlaid with turquoise, which are very exquisite.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, very few bronze carriages of the same type were found.
"Look, this is the site of the excavation."
At this time, the stall owner handed Chen Wenzhe a photo album again.
Looking at the first black-and-white photo and the annotations on it, I realized that this was actually an archaeological site in 1903.
The photos from that period are all antiques now.
The photo clearly shows a pit for carriages and horses. Looking at the description behind it, they actually cleared out 4 carriages and found 90 buried horses.
Also unearthed were bronze parts from the car and other decorations.
Among them, the No. 1 car unearthed was huge, with a length of 2.56 meters and a width of 1.66 meters.
The top of the cart is equipped with rain and sun protection facilities and is luxuriously decorated.
There are traces of colorful mats on the hood, and tubular bronze and bone vessels are decorated around the top of the carriage.
In addition, excavations revealed that Car No. 1 and Car No. 2 were placed side by side from north to south, and the horses buried with them were laid on their sides.
There are no horse utensils on the horse bones, which is consistent with the record in the literature that the funeral car was "dismantled and buried".
Funeral vehicles are generally divided into different forms such as "complete vehicle burial", "dismantled vehicle burial" and "mixed vehicle burial".
This ancient tomb obviously practiced "car dismantling and burial".
That is, the horses were killed first and placed side by side at the bottom of the pit. Then the complete vehicle was disassembled and the parts were placed on top of the horse carcasses.
Judging from the excavations, the carriage buried in the No. 3 carriage and horse pit may have been the daily vehicle used by the king and his wife of a country.
However, it is impossible to determine which country and which generation of monarch it is.
However, just looking at the restored bronze carriage is enough to make people marvel.
Especially restoring this copper carriage is definitely not a simple matter. I just don’t know how many copper carriages they have restored?
You must know that these bronze toothed carriages were not in complete condition when they were unearthed.
If you want to restore this bronze wheel carriage, you must first clean it up.
Not to mention other things, just cleaning the carriage interior is very cumbersome.
Based on the extracted relics and accurate data, a one-to-one restoration must be carried out according to the original craftsmanship and structure.
Only then can we restore the grace and splendor of the bronze carriage and let it regain its former majesty.
Not to mention how big this bronze wheel-toothed horse is, the remains of the carriage, consisting of the carriage body and the remains of the four horses, are enough to make you dizzy cleaning it up.
And this is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is the turquoise on it, because there are tens of thousands of turquoise pieces on this carriage.
Compared with previously discovered funerary carriages from the Western Zhou Dynasty, this set of carriages is not only larger in shape, but also has gorgeous and complex decorations.
The carriage is decorated with a large number of bronze components inlaid with turquoise, thin-walled bronze animal face decoration, as well as jade and painted components.
The animal-faced carriage is inlaid with turquoise, which is very exquisite, and this makes it even more difficult to restore this carriage.
You should know the turquoise on the car. There may be one or two hundred turquoises inlaid on one utensil.
Chen Wenzhe circled the carriage a little and calculated that they had repaired more than 400 pieces of copper ornaments, of which more than 300 were inlaid with turquoise.
This may be the Western Zhou Dynasty carriage known to have the most bronze components.
Each horse is decorated with copper accessories, such as the horse's ruff, horse face and other copper accessories.
The luan bell is in better protection and has turquoise on it.
There are ten or twenty small pieces of copper ornaments inlaid with turquoise, and one or two hundred large pieces.
It is so luxurious that no matter how you calculate it, there are tens of thousands of turquoise pieces on the carriage.
In addition to the one or two hundred inlaid turquoises and the copper animal faces decorated on three sides of the carriage, the rare copper teeth on the carriage all reflect the high level of the carriage and also reflect the Western Zhou aristocrats' travel preferences.
In today's terms, it means being willful if you have money.
Of course, not only the car body is exquisite, but the horse is also exquisite.
Looking at the photos, especially the remaining horse hair, you can see that the coat color of the four horses should be the same.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, this was not something that the average class could achieve.
"My chariot is attacking, and my horse is with me. The four horses are flying together, and they are driving to the east."
The feudal hierarchy in ancient my country's transportation administration and rules and regulations was first reflected in the "right to ride."
That is to say, the use of vehicles, horses, sedan chairs and other means of transportation has distinctions between high and low.
There are many provisions in Zhou rites, and it is recorded in the literature that "there are three hundred classic rites and three thousand qu rites";
Involving all areas of society, it is reflected in the strict car service system in terms of travel.
Therefore, this "bronze toothed carriage" must be a ceremonial vehicle.
In addition to its luxurious decoration, its most unique feature is that the entire outer edge of the wheel is made of bronze.
The wheel is wrapped in a ring of copper, and the pouring marks left in the middle part of the outermost periphery of the wheel have not been worn away.
This shows that this carriage is rarely used. It is not a chariot used for combat, but a vehicle for ceremonial purposes.
The ceremonial car represents some kind of etiquette system of high-level nobles in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It may be a car used to review troops or conduct exchange activities to welcome guests.
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In addition, the rim is very thin and can easily sink into the soil if driven for a long distance.
Also, because it is well decorated, the animal faces of the copper pieces, the jade carvings, the height of the horse and the solid color, etc., all show that the ceremonial things may be stronger.