There are the most round tripods here, but these are definitely not the most valuable ones.
I took a closer look at the piles of bronze vessels. In addition to the bronze kettles, there were also copper square pots, copper spoons, bronze tripods, and copper nuggets.
In addition to these bronzes, there seem to be some pottery products?
Those are painted pots and pottery figurine heads. These are also considered precious cultural relics.
Here, there is only more preciousness, not the most preciousness.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe only saw those treasures that he didn't recognize, or that he knew were valuable treasures at a glance.
For example, one of the copper square kettles is very conspicuous because it seems to have been specially preserved and placed aside.
Chen Wenzhe picked it up carefully. Unexpectedly, there was still liquid inside. When it was shaken, he could still feel it clearly.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe remembered that such things were not uncommon in Han tombs.
There have been many unearthed containers containing liquids before, and I don’t know if they were wine or medicine!
A pot was unearthed before, containing about 7 kilograms of liquid.
It was also a bronze pot, and the liquid inside was later confirmed to be alumite water.
Now we look very ordinary, and even feel that the behavior of the ancients is weird, but in the eyes of the ancients, alumite water is a "immortality medicine".
Coupled with the elements such as flying birds and immortal trees on the hollow bricks in the tomb paintings, it can be seen that during the Western Han Dynasty, people believed in Taoism and had a strong idea of ascending to immortality.
Because of this, they also attach great importance to the tombs after death.
Whether it was wine or elixir, Chen Wenzhe was not interested in it. What he was most interested in were some of the heavy bronze artifacts here.
Han Dynasty bronze tripod with phoenix head, gilt tripod, square tripod with high legs, tripod, bronze tripod with phoenix and bird pattern, square tripod with high legs, bronze tripod with gluttonous pattern and double ears, tripod with animal pattern, four-frog plate-mouth tripod, tiger tripod, short-legged tripod
Square tripod, small square tripod, gold and silver tripod, etc.
It can be said that this is a Han Dynasty tripod museum. There are too many different types of Han Dynasty tripods here.
Chen Wenzhe could see only seventy or eighty pieces. Of course, it seemed that not all of them were tripods, and there were also some relatively large statues.
How many tripods can be buried in a Han tomb?
How many Han tombs were dug for the bronze tripod here?
Chen Wenzhe didn't know anything else, but he knew that it was previously reported that 11 tripods were buried in the Weijiazhuang Han Tomb.
Even if on average there are five tripods and four gui in one tomb, among the Han tombs that have never been stolen, there is only one tripod and gui.
This is not much. You must know that the princes have seven tripods and six guis, and the ministers have five tripods and four guis.
Chen Wenzhe didn’t want to think about the emperor’s tomb. It was impossible to see it in Pengcheng.
But there are many tombs of princes there. If one Zhuhoumu can yield thirteen bronze vessels, then digging ten of them will yield one hundred and thirty heavy vessels.
This is talking about heavy wares, not counting ordinary bronze wares such as statues, plates, pots, etc.!
Seventy or eighty large bronze vessels, even if they are not all tripods, are stacked together and are still very shocking.
The harvest this time will definitely be enough for Chen Wenzhe to support a large museum.
It can be said that this cave is packed from the inside to the outside, and there is no place to stay at all.
However, Chen Wenzhe could still see that in the large tripod, there were also piles of boxes, pots, pots, basins, plates, daggers, spoons, ear cups, etc.
Of course, these are not important. The most important thing is a very conspicuous humanoid object.
At just one glance, Chen Wenzhe recognized it. It was a gold-lined jade garment.
Next to it, there are some scattered things. Needless to say, they are also jade clothes with gold threads. However, this jade clothes were seriously scattered when they were unearthed.
Apparently, it has experienced more than one tomb robbery.
To destroy a piece of gold-lined jade clothing like this, it must have been dragged out of the coffin by a tomb robber.
Even Chen Wenzhe knew that he must have been dragged to the stone and then the gold thread was removed.
Jade pieces are scattered in the inner tomb passage, on the stone plugs, and in the gaps between the stone plugs in the robbery cave. Many jade pieces were damaged when the gold wire was pulled out.
The reason why we know so much in detail is because the tomb was later archaeologically discovered, and only some fragments of jade were discovered, and the jade fragments were found in the cracks between the stones in the cave.
Instead of looking at the damaged piece, Chen Wenzhe's eyes were fixed on the intact gold-lined jade garment.
The piece of jade clothing is warm and translucent.
Needless to say, this well-preserved gold-lined jade garment must be a top-notch treasure.
After cleaning up a few small tripods, Chen Wenzhe approached the treasure he cherished so much.
When I came in front of it, I didn't care about feeling sick, because someone inside had long since turned into ashes.
All that was left was the exquisite human-shaped clothes. He took out a soft measuring tape and measured it directly.
It is 180 centimeters long and 48 centimeters wide at the shoulder. With a little calculation, Chen Wenzhe calculated that the total number of jade pieces used in this gold-lined jade garment must have exceeded 4,000.
Only those with more than 4,000 pieces of gold-threaded jade clothing are considered treasures. Such gold-threaded jade clothing represents the most noble status!
After looking at it bit by bit, Chen Wenzhe finally determined that this piece was perfectly preserved.
I breathed a sigh of relief, this time I came here and I really gained a lot.
Although he had already thought that he might get a gold-lined jade garment, he still felt very excited when he saw it now.
This thing is really rare in China, and as long as one appears, it will definitely cause a sensation.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe really didn't worry about money anymore.
Even if you don't sell anything, you just take out a mortgage, how can you borrow two billion for this golden jade dress?
Stand up and look at this complete jade garment. Its appearance is similar to the shape of the human body, and it is divided into five parts: hood, upper body, trousers, gloves and shoes.
Jade clothing, also known as jade box, is composed of jade pieces, woven with fine gold, silver or copper wires between the jade pieces.
The jade pieces used to make jade clothes come in many shapes, including more than ten shapes, including square, rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular and semicircular.
Chen Wenzhe remembered that generally such a large jade garment with gold threads would have more than 4,000 jade pieces, and the gold thread used to embellished the jade pieces must have exceeded 280 meters.
This has been unearthed before, and Chen Wenzhe remembers it very clearly. Even if it weighs, this one must be more than three kilograms, which is more than 1,500 grams.
Unfortunately, I don’t know who used this piece of clothing. This will definitely need to be studied carefully in the future.
You should know that jade clothes were used to bury the bodies of emperors and high-ranking nobles in the Han Dynasty. They were made of jade pieces connected with metal wires or silk threads. They are also the most distinctive funeral jade.
In the Han Dynasty, jade garments were divided into gold-stranded jade garments, silver-stranded jade garments, copper-stranded jade garments and silk-stranded jade garments, etc., according to their status. This clearly shows the difference in rank.
The emperor and queen wore jade clothes with gold threads, the princes and kings wore jade clothes with silver threads, and the nobles wore jade clothes with copper threads.
I'm afraid few people know this. In addition to jade clothes with gold threads, there are also jade clothes with silver threads and so on.
The State of Chu during the Western Han Dynasty must have belonged to the princes and kings. However, during the Western Han Dynasty, the system was not so rigorous, that is, there were no detailed regulations.
If there are no detailed regulations, it just works.