Chapter 1833: Drought changes to water, Chaori Palace
103 pieces of bronze wares were found in the cellar, which is the largest number of bronze wares unearthed in the cellar since the founding of the People's Republic of China. One of the cultural relics has become a national treasure, which is the Western Zhou wall plate.
The Western Zhou wall plate means the plate of a noble named "Qiang" in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
There are 284 words of inscription engraved on the plate, and the content is mainly divided into two paragraphs.
First, he praised the kings of the Zhou Dynasty, and then talked about his own family affairs.
In particular, the story about the King of Zhou is very consistent with Sima Qian's "Historical Records", making the plate of great significance and becoming one of the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from being exhibited abroad.
The Zhouyuan ruins are located in Fufeng and Qishan, Shaanxi. Do Fufeng and Qishan look familiar?
Fufeng County is a famous Buddhist holy land. Qishan Mountain is very famous in the "Book of Mountains and Seas". It is also the hometown of Emperor Yan and the birthplace of the "Huangdi Neijing".
Previously, Chen Wenzhe found a large number of treasures due to Qishan's antique collection.
The Zhouyuan ruins were originally the birthplace of Zhou culture.
The discovery of the cellar allowed the archaeological team to discover a large number of bronzes, divination armor, divination bones and other supplies in the site.
This explains why the "Book of Changes" is also called "The Book of Changes". People in the Zhou Dynasty were very keen on the gossip of the Book of Changes!
What the archaeological team still doesn't understand is that the Zhuangbai No. 1 cellar is only 30 centimeters from the surface, and the bronzes are arranged in a mess. From this, it can be seen that the Zhou people were very panicked when they buried them.
The time for burial is tight, something important may have happened, but we don't know what it is yet.
Of course, these have nothing to do with bronze mirrors.
The reason why this cellar attracted Chen Wenzhe was because it contained a national treasure bronze mirror.
The main thing is the bronze mirror found in this cellar, which is still shining brightly after thousands of years.
Things like this don't happen by chance, because they have been discovered in other places before.
In June 1974, in Bing City, Heilong Province, an archaeological team came to Yagou Town, Acheng District, to conduct preliminary archaeological exploration.
At this time, an old farmer who happened to pass by told the archaeological team that there was an ancient bronze mirror under the cellar nearby.
Who would have thought that just such a sentence would make the archaeological team make greater discoveries during this trip.
At that time, the old farmer surnamed Li told the archaeological team this incident.
More than ten years ago, a local villager picked up a round metal object while digging a water cellar for his home.
After some cleaning, the villagers discovered that it turned out to be an ancient bronze mirror, and the mirror surface was still shining brightly.
The old farmer's words shocked the archaeologists.
Under the guidance of the old farmer, the archaeological team began exploring near the cellar where the bronze mirror was found.
After exploring for about half a day, they actually discovered some traces of an ancient ruins.
After further identifying the scope and age, experts speculated that this site should be part of the Shangjing site of the Jin Kingdom thousands of years ago.
However, what kind of buildings are under the ruins and what kind of things are there need to be carefully excavated.
Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, there are quite a lot of cultural relics at this site.
The final discovery covered pottery, stoneware, porcelain, jade, bronze, etc.
There are also weapons and official seals from the Jin Dynasty that can prove the identity of this site, totaling more than 2,000 pieces.
Judging from these weapons and official seals, this site should be the site of Huining Mansion in Shangjing of the Jin Kingdom recorded in ancient documents.
Among these cultural relics, the most outstanding cultural relics are probably the more than 500 bronze mirrors unearthed.
Among the many bronze mirrors, the most precious one is undoubtedly a bronze mirror with a diameter of more than 43 cm and a weight of 24.
Looking from the back of this bronze mirror, two lifelike carps are engraved, connected head to tail, chasing each other, which probably symbolizes the feeling of endless life.
In addition, it is also surrounded by exquisitely conceived arabesque patterns, and the lines are extremely smooth, showing that the craftsmanship of the Jin Dynasty at that time had reached a certain level.
In addition, some bronze mirrors are engraved with dragon-shaped patterns, which should obviously be royal items of the Jin Kingdom.
In fact, the archaeological discovery this time is only part of the ruins of Huining Mansion in Shangjing during the Jin Dynasty.
Through numerous archaeological discoveries in the following decades, the entire site was gradually restored.
For example, the archaeological excavation of Jinshangjing's "Chaori Palace" in 2002 was quite dramatic.
At that time, several farmers in Yagou Town were working on converting farmland from drought to water. They discovered a lot of stones in the fields and dug them out to the roadside to be discarded.
Coincidentally, someone happened to be passing by and noticed that these "stones" were unusual.
He feels like the "rubble and rubble" left over from the construction of the building.
Later, through the judgment of archaeologists, it was discovered that these were actually the remains of gray pottery bricks and stone chisels from the Jin Dynasty eight hundred years ago.
Later, the "Chaori Palace" was rated as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China" in 2002.
This is the largest suburban sacrificial palace site known to have been used by Chinese emperors through archaeological excavations.
This site provides very valuable information for revealing the culture and major historical events of the Song and Jin Dynasties.
For example, according to historical records, the Jin Kingdom established Shangjing City in 1115.
After Hailing King Wanyan Liang came to power, in order to better compete in the Central Plains, he began to think about moving the capital from Shangjing to Yanjing.
In order to force the royal family who opposed moving the capital to leave Shangjing, King Hailing even directly demolished the palaces and sacrificial sites in Shangjing.
And this incident happens to be consistent with the archaeological discovery of the Chaori Palace in Jinshangjing.
In this way, China's historical records are indeed much more true.
These historical records can often be supported by many documents and archaeological discoveries. This is the true ancient civilization.
This time, a damaged bronze mirror was connected to a cellar, and this cellar was actually related to a ruins.
After all, it was impossible for an ancient bronze production workshop to be hidden in a small place.
You know, in ancient times, copper was linked to money, and copper could also be said to be money.
The status of copper is similar to that of gold today.
So, are there other architectural ruins around the bronze mirror workshop?
However, Chen Wenzhe has discovered too many cellars now, and he does not have time to go to Western Shaanxi for archeology specifically for one cellar.
However, now that it has been discovered, it still needs to be recorded. It can be used to exchange information with the country in the future and obtain some appropriate benefits.
He doesn't want money or fame, he just wants some convenience.
This time he came to Yangluo for real. There were so many things he could learn and be inspired by here.
He is like a mouse in a rice vat, trying hard to eat and making things, but in the end he finds that he can never finish making them.
Therefore, it is not good for this golden finger to be too powerful, because he can gain too much, which makes his excitement threshold, and even happiness threshold, become very high.