Chapter eight hundred and eighty nine hundred refining ring first knife
Chen Wenzhe looked around as he walked. The cave was not wide, but very long. At this time, there were layers upon layers inside, and most of the things piled up were gold objects.
Here, because there are the largest number of gold objects, they appear to be the most ordinary.
Occasionally, a piece of silverware appears, which makes it even more extraordinary.
After walking for a while, Chen Wenzhe discovered another good thing. This was a silver mirror and a small basin!
Needless to say, this silver mirror also has an inscription on it.
This thing is 11.4 cm high and 74.7 cm in diameter.
It has a folded rim, two rings under the mouth rim, a short neck, a flat bottom, and a plain surface.
There is a fold line on the lower part of the abdomen, and the left-hand horizontal inscription is engraved with the seal script "The official's family is still bathing in silver, bathing in the mirror, two stones, one bucket, five liters, weighing eighteen kilograms and ten taels, the first royal", indicating that it is a bathing utensil.
After seeing these two things, how could Chen Wenzhe not guess that this was the grave of a royal female family member? And the status of this woman was definitely not low.
Putting down the silver mirror, he picked up a fish-and-dragon-shaped gold belt hook.
The ichthyosaur-shaped gold belt hook is still very beautiful. It is 3.5 centimeters long and in the shape of an ichthyosaur. The body is bent and lying on the round button, which is full of movement.
The dragon on the hook protrudes a long tongue from its mouth and bends it backward to form a hook.
A turquoise is inlaid on the body, which is innovative and exquisite.
This is the belt used to corset the ancients, and the belt hook is the hook used to fasten the leather belt.
Belt hooks were an indispensable tool in the daily lives of ancient nobles, bureaucrats and literati.
The gorgeously decorated, unique and unique belt hooks were also important decorations used by the ancients to show off to each other and show their identity and status.
In addition to this fish-dragon-shaped belt hook, there are also goose-head-shaped gold belt hooks.
Here are two gold belt hooks in the shape of goose heads. This kind of belt hook is 3.1 cm long. The goose holds its head high and bends its neck to form a hook. The body of the hook is decorated with deformed feather patterns.
Although the inlay on the goose's head has fallen off, it still looks lifelike.
In fact, these are not the most conspicuous things. The most conspicuous thing is the gold buckle like a modern belt.
From the front, this kind of gold belt buckle looks exactly like the belt we use today.
Each plate of this gold buckle is 13.3 cm long, 6 cm wide, and the buckle tongue is 3.3 cm long.
In front of Chen Wenzhe, there were two gold-buckled and shell-embedded belts of the same form. These two belts were placed in the pile of weapons and overlapped. They were 97 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide.
The two ends of the belt are buckles made of pure gold, and the middle is composed of three rows of seashells braided with ribbons. The seashells are interspersed with several flower decorations made of gold pieces.
The thickness and weight of the two buckles are different, but the size and pattern are basically the same.
This buckle consists of two rectangular gold belt plates and a gold buckle tongue.
One of the strips is engraved with "One pound and one twenty-eight baht" on the back, and the other is engraved with "One pound and one twenty-four baht" on the side.
In other words, these two strips weigh 275 grams and 280 grams respectively.
The front of the strip is decorated in low relief, with a theme of a fierce beast fighting scene. A bear and a beast hold down the prey and bite greedily. The one being bitten seems to be a horse, struggling hard;
The periphery of the main pattern is a hooked beak and bird's head pattern.
There is no pattern on the back of the belt plate, with fiber fabric attached to it, raised borders on the four sides, and two transverse double-ring buttons in the middle.
There is a small, slightly triangular hole at the inner lower corner of each belt plate for the buckle tongue to penetrate.
The entire gold belt buckle is well-made, and the decorative reliefs reveal a rich and grand atmosphere. The animal images are vivid and very dynamic.
This kind of belt buckle looks like the Hu-style belt commonly used by nomadic people in the northern grasslands.
However, although these two pairs of buckles are based on the theme of fighting beasts on the grassland, judging from the production process and the way they are tied, they should be made from the mainland of the Central Plains.
After the Han Dynasty, there should be a process of fusion between Hu and Han. It is quite normal for such daily necessities to appear.
From this we can see that no matter how far back in ancient times there were, there were only distinctions between rich and poor. As long as one had money and power, even two thousand years ago, the quality of life was very high.
The belt was cleared out, and a collection of swords were piled underneath.
Of course, if you are not a professional, you will definitely not recognize these as swords.
It is not easy for the swords of the Han Dynasty to be preserved to this day, so the quality of many of the swords here cannot be said.
However, if there are many of them, some of them will be better preserved.
Moreover, Chen Wenzhe could also see that these Han Dao and Han Swords were carefully maintained after they were discovered.
At the very least, it turns out there should be layers of oiled paper wrapping on the outside, and even a layer of butter on the inside.
Unfortunately, when it was placed here, it must not have been too careful, or even too casual. It has been several decades, and the outer layer of oil paper has been seriously damaged.
Pick up a dark thing on it that looks like a fire stick.
If he hadn't been familiar with history and understood Han swords, Chen Wenzhe would never have recognized that this was a ring-headed sword from the Han Dynasty.
The Huanshou sword of the Han Dynasty is very famous.
And who can believe that this dark, fire-stick-like scrap of copper and iron is actually a ring-headed sword handed down from the Han Dynasty?
This is the representative ring-shou sword of the Han soldiers. Unfortunately, the condition is really poor and it is impossible to read it at all.
One handful, two handfuls, three handfuls, more than a dozen handfuls were cleared out in a row, but they couldn't even be seen.
However, the deeper you dig, the better the condition of the ring-shou knives piled below seems to be.
"Eh? This one still has a sheath?"
Finally, Chen Wenzhe dug out a well-preserved knife. He had confirmed that there was no sword among the pile of weapons.
After picking it up and studying it carefully, I found that it was a well-preserved Huanshou knife.
Maybe it is well preserved because of the black lacquer scabbard?
This ring-shou sword is extremely valuable.
Slowly pulling out some, and seeing the back of the knife, Chen Wenzhe was sure that it was a knife, not a sword!
During the Western Han Dynasty, due to the development of cavalry tactics, the sword, a melee combat weapon that was good for chopping and slashing, developed rapidly, thus replacing the sword and becoming the standard weapon for close combat for future generations.
This sword from the Han Dynasty has a slender body, a thick back and a straight blade, about one meter in length.
The rear end of the handle is a large oblate ring, so it is called "ring-shou knife".
The earliest ring-headed sword discovered so far is a funerary object in the tomb of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty. It is 62.7cm long and consists of three parts: the blade, the stem and the head. The blade is also slender and the head is ring-shaped.
The emergence of knives with such a shape is definitely due to the advancement of smelting technology in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which allowed the emergence of more sophisticated long ring-headed knives.
Chen Wenzhe measured it with his hands and found that the length of the ring-shou knife was more than one meter, and the width of the blade was three times the thickness of the back.
Looking at the blade, it is decorated with exquisite gold flame patterns, and there are eighteen gold inscriptions on the blade: "Make the Thirty Big Sword on Bingwu in the fifth month of the sixth year of Yongchu, good luck to the sheep and descendants."
In the sixth year of the Yongchu period (AD 112), after the steel was fried and forged on the 30th, it was repeatedly forged for thirty layers. This is what is commonly known as "hundred steelmaking".