Chapter eight hundred and eighteen the tomb of the king of Chu
Chen Wenzhe and his party boarded the ship in the afternoon. The party was not very early in the evening. When they woke up after a long sleep, it was almost noon.
At this time, it was already far away from Dahai City, and was even about to reach the South China Sea.
After walking around the kitchen, Chen Wenzhe wanted to find something to eat.
Unexpectedly, when Chen Wenzhe came to the kitchen, he found that there were food piled everywhere.
In addition to some foods that are easy to store, such as roast chicken, biscuits, various canned meats, canned vegetables, and various sealed snacks.
It can be said that there is everything, and these are not the most, there are more various drinks and alcoholic beverages.
Aren’t the most important things to eat when sailing on the sea are fruits and vegetables?
I really don’t know if that kid Zheng Yu’s head was caught in the door, but he actually brought so many cooked foods that are easy to store.
I looked at my phone and saw that it was only half past ten. It was still a long time before lunch, so I had to make do now.
After rummaging for a while, I found a bag of Hualong instant noodles and a large bottle of Huiyuan juice. After thinking for a while, I picked up some dried fruits.
Returning to the room, opening the curtains, making instant noodles, drinking juice, eating dried fruits, and looking at the sea view outside, this is how he should live his life.
"Treasure hunting or something, it's so annoying. It's actually on the edge of a small village in the mountains? Or is it the seaside?"
After sorting out the itinerary for this trip, Chen Wenzhe planned to visit South Vietnam on the last leg.
There has been a lot of domestic investment there in the past, and many locals can even speak Chinese, so he is not worried about not being able to communicate in the past.
However, you still need to prepare some things that should be prepared.
Turn on your phone, search the map, and keep looking.
By tracking the movement of the little bear tripod, Chen Wenzhe was able to locate the place where it was unearthed.
This is also simple. The main thing is to check where Wuer and the others bought it from.
After that, track down the original owner, and you will discover the origin of the Little Bear Cauldron.
A small village in the mountains close to the coast and not far from a small pier.
After combing through the information obtained through the Little Bear Cauldron in his mind, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the small dock was not simple either.
That should lead to South Vietnam, or it should be a secret small port privately opened by the border residents of South Vietnam.
It is not used at ordinary times. Only on some special days, the port will be activated.
It was a very secret place, located in a small water bend.
The land over there is all mountains. If you don't get close, you will never find a small water bend surrounded by some extending rocks.
Such a strange place can still be found through satellite maps.
Once this location is locked, the place where the Little Bear Cauldron is hidden is also locked.
The Little Bear Cauldron, or the ancient pressure cooker, was really not a simple sacrificial vessel during the Han Dynasty.
If it is a sacrificial vessel, there must be only one, or at most some similar ones.
As a practical utensil, the Little Bear Cauldron is different. At that time, it should have been a food utensil that could be used by nobles.
When he first saw the Little Bear Cauldron, Chen Wenzhe immediately thought of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan. However, by looking back, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the Little Bear Cauldron was not unearthed from the tomb of Liu Sheng at all.
In the end, through constant analysis of the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb, Chen Wenzhe determined that the tomb should belong to the tomb of a Han Dynasty prince.
Although there were not many useful pictures sorted out, Chen Wenzhe knew some things just by looking at the little bear tripod.
Those people must have excavated more than one Han tomb.
The area where they took action seemed to have a lot of Han tombs.
Because through some character analysis, the thing they discussed most at that time was batch work.
A large number of Han tombs are concentrated in one area. It is not difficult to deduce that such a place is located.
As we all know, at the beginning of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bangguang was granted the title of king with the same surname. Even the "Seven Kings Rebellion" during the reign of Emperor Jing did not change this reality.
In the more than 200 years of the Western Han Dynasty alone, there were as many as 31 feudal vassal states, among which the more representative ones are Chu, Jing, Wu, Yan, Qi, Zhao, etc.
With so many vassal states, there will naturally be a huge number of tombs of the Han Dynasty.
Among the tombs of the Han Dynasty excavated in modern times, the more famous ones include the tomb of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan in Mancheng, and the tomb of Liu Wu, Prince Xiao of Liang in Yongcheng.
However, an obvious fact is that judging from the excavations so far, the most excavated and most significant ones are naturally in Pengcheng.
It is said that the culture of the Qin and Tang dynasties looks at Chang'an, the culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties looks at the sacred capital, and the culture of the Han Dynasty looks at Pengcheng.
The reason why Pengcheng has a strong flavor of Han culture stems from its status in the Han Dynasty.
Pengcheng is the hometown of Liu Bang, Xiao He, Zhang Liang and others. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang made his half-brother Liu Jiao the vassal of Pengcheng as the King of Chu.
Since then, there were 12 Chu kings in Pengcheng during the Western Han Dynasty, plus one from the Eastern Han Dynasty, a total of 13 kings.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the State of Chu was renamed Pengcheng State, and there were five more Pengcheng kings in Pengcheng territory.
In addition, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiapi Kingdom was granted a vassal status east of Pengcheng, and there were a total of four generations of Xiapi kings.
So in summary, there are 22 Han Dynasty vassal kings in Pengcheng, plus the lineage of vassal kings that has flourished for more than 400 years, you can imagine the number of Han tombs left here.
Therefore, the number of Han tombs in the Pengcheng area is unprecedentedly large.
Judging from the map of Pengcheng City, except for the narrow area of the old city, it is surrounded by tombs of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, it makes sense for Han culture to look at Pengcheng.
Pengcheng was the state of Chu during the Han Dynasty. The tombs of Chu kings discovered in the country are the most famous ones of the second and third generation Chu kings.
Although their tombs were robbed, not many things were stolen, at least they were not emptied.
The reason why the third generation Chu king's tomb is famous must be because there are too many burial objects in it, such as broken and repaired jade clothes with gold threads, millions of taels of gold, etc.
The reason why Chen Wenzhe judged that the tomb that was stolen or even emptied belonged to the tomb of King Chu was not without reason, because the tomb's standard was displayed there.
The tomb of the King of Chu is easy to identify. Looking at the specifications, format, style of grave goods, etc. of the tomb, you can infer which era and vassal state the tomb belongs to through its culture and tradition.
There are three unique features of Pengcheng Han culture - Han tombs, terracotta warriors and horses, and stone portraits.
With such an obvious marker, Chen Wenzhe could easily infer that the Little Bear Tripod came from one of the Han tombs in Pengcheng.
Of course, he not only inferred from the terracotta warriors and horse figures, but also the construction form of the tomb.
From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until the early Western Han Dynasty, the tombs at that time were generally in the vertical pit type.
Today's imperial mausoleums of the Han Dynasty in Shaanxi Province, such as Yangling, Maoling, etc., are also made of rammed earth in the shape of an overturned bucket, with underground palaces underneath. However, the underground palaces of this period are only prototypes.
Since the middle and early Western Han Dynasty, the burial structure of imperial mausoleums has undergone major changes.
The style of underground palaces has changed from vertical caves to horizontal caves. In vast mountainous areas, rock cave tombs with holes drilled through rocks have become widespread.