Chen Wenzhe didn't come here to rob tombs this time. He didn't even expect that there would be a large area of ancient tombs here.
However, if you encounter it, you can't just leave it alone.
He doesn't like the things here now, but protection is still necessary.
"They are stacked in an orderly manner, right? As soon as I found them, there were a lot of them. They were all stacked together. They looked very beautiful, but it's a pity that they can't be separated!"
The old man seemed to have really seen it before. From his regretful expression, he knew that the porcelain they found here was very unusual.
Then, Chen Wenzhe inquired carefully and found that there was more than one place where porcelain bowls were piled up.
This is only right, because the mausoleum here is a large area, and all of them are sealed with earth. The family must have money.
However, in ancient times, even if one had money, it was rare for a large amount of porcelain to be piled up in a tomb!
After asking the old man carefully, especially how the excavated porcelain was stacked, Chen Wenzhe confirmed it several times.
At this time, the information on the broken piece of porcelain in his hand was also read by him, and his guess was confirmed.
Now he had a general understanding of what was going on here. Those porcelains were not specially buried objects, but porcelain bowls were piled up to build tombs.
This is a very rare type of tomb, called a bowl tomb!
A tomb made of blue and white porcelain bowls of different sizes stacked on top of each other is called a bowl tomb.
Some such bowl tombs have been discovered in Sichuan Province, and most of them are from the Qing Dynasty.
When it was first discovered, it surprised everyone.
How spectacular is the scene when the ancient tomb made of thousands of blue and white porcelain bowls is excavated?
Anyone who knows about such a strange burial method will be curious about it.
Therefore, when he heard about this kind of burial method, he went out of his way to learn more about it. Of course, he couldn't find much information on the Internet.
Chen Wenzhe knew about a bowl tomb from the Qing Dynasty that was discovered by a local county cultural relics worker in a large vegetable garden in a small village.
They were quite surprised when they first saw it.
The ancient tomb, which covers an area of nearly 5 square meters, is made of nearly a thousand blue and white porcelain bowls of different sizes.
The bowl tomb is arched, made of triple soil mixed with yellow mud, lime, and glutinous rice paste, and the bowls are stacked on top of each other.
The blue and white porcelain bowls used to build the tomb are each about 12 centimeters in diameter and can make a crisp sound when they collide with each other.
Most porcelain bowls are glazed on the surface and decorated with patterns both inside and outside.
Later, after research, the tomb was roughly built in the late Qing Dynasty, and nearly a thousand porcelain bowls were used. From this, it seems that the owner of the tomb may not be an ordinary civilian.
In order to protect the ancient tomb, the current cemetery has been sealed in place.
Thinking of Wan Tomb, Chen Wenzhe did not hesitate and sent a message directly to Professor Tao explaining the situation he was encountering now.
Soon, his cell phone rang, but it was also a message received.
I think Professor Tao is very experienced and knows that his current situation is not suitable for talking on the phone.
After looking at the information recovered by Professor Tao, Chen Wenzhe was a little surprised.
It seems that the burial custom of Wan Tomb in Sichuan Province was passed down from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Then, Chen Wenzhe received another message, which was sent by Professor Li Mingsheng.
Looking at the introduction of Wan Tomb in Sichuan Province, Chen Wenzhe fell into deep thought.
Domestic experts originally believed that bowl tombs were a unique form of burial in northeastern Sichuan, but now it seems that this is not the case.
In fact, if you think about it, you will know that if Sichuan Province had a unique burial method, then there would be no bowl tombs here.
However, through chatting with the old man, Chen Wenzhe understood clearly that the situation the old man mentioned was the bowl tomb system.
In addition, he also saw some fragmentary pictures through that small piece of broken porcelain.
Although the picture was in pieces, he could still see some of the overall tomb structure, and it was indeed a bowl tomb.
Looking at the message sent by Professor Li, Chen Wenzhe slowly understood that the burial style of this bowl tomb was not necessarily unique to Sichuan Province.
In fact, not many bowl tombs have been found in Sichuan Province.
Bowl tombs are mainly concentrated in eastern Sichuan. I heard that they have been discovered in southern Sichuan, but no archaeological material has been seen so far.
The form of bowl tombs varies from place to place. Some use bowls directly to form rectangular tombs, while others use bowls sandwiched between the soil of the tomb.
The bowls used to build tombs include exquisite porcelain bowls and rough earthen bowls.
In fact, Zhouda discovered the bowl tomb as early as 1986 during the second national cultural relics census.
According to current research, bowl-shaped tombs were a relatively popular form of burial in eastern Sichuan from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Republic of China. They were most popular in the Qing Dynasty and were called "Wanshan" by local people.
Judging from the bowl tombs that have been discovered so far, this type of tomb is generally 2.5 meters to 3.5 meters long, about 2 meters wide, and 1.8 meters to 2 meters high.
A bowl tomb was once cleaned in Chuantong District. More than 8,000 blue and white porcelain bowls were built into three layers. The mouths of the bowls on each layer were facing inward, and they were all bonded together with glutinous rice paste, tung oil and lime.
The porcelain bowls are painted with figures, flowers, plants, copper coins and other patterns.
At that time, they wanted to separate these porcelain bowls and clean them, but it was difficult to separate them by soaking them in acid and cooking them in an iron pot.
All staff of the Cultural Relics Protection Center of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology participated in the work, but the effect of cleaning the porcelain bowls was not very good.
It is said that there are still tens of thousands of bowls unearthed from various bowl tombs in Zhouda, and they are piled up in the warehouse of the Cultural Affairs Bureau.
Since more than one bowl tomb has been discovered, many people have naturally studied it. However, the owner of the tomb is still a mystery until now.
In fact, Chen Wenzhe somewhat understood it, just like the cemetery he discovered now.
This is probably the ancestral grave of a family in the original village. This kind of family graveyard is actually found in every corner of the country.
Just like the Chen Wenzhe family cemetery, how many of them have tombstones carved on them?
No, in family cemeteries, people are buried in order according to their seniority.
When there are descendants of this type of cemetery, they will know exactly where the tomb of their ancestor is.
And when things change and descendants die or move, no one will know who is buried underground.
But the cemetery discovered now is different. Their owners can probably be verified.
Bowl tombs appeared in the Ming Dynasty, probably because there were no special institutional regulations and restrictions on funerals in the Ming Dynasty.
Among the ruling class, most people regard luxurious burials as an honor.
Those who lack strength will borrow money and property and throw a big banquet at the funeral.
At the appropriate time for the burial, relatives and friends will be gathered in the water and land ashram to entertain the corpse to show the scenery.
There was no trace of sadness in the funeral, and the bowl tomb appeared.
Some experts even say that the bowl tomb means there will be food to eat after death!
Chen Wenzhe doesn't know whether this statement is true or not, but he knows that one piece of information is very important.
That is, the bowl tombs in Sichuan Province may be the customs brought by the ethnic minorities from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who moved there when Huguang reclaimed Sichuan.
The area around Dahai City is not far from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.