Chapter 1161 The identity of the owner of the tomb (2)
Chapter 1,161 The identity of the owner of the ancient tomb (2)
The appearance of the Chuan Guo Jade Seal did not bring direct information to Zhuang Rui, the owner of the tomb, but only narrowed the scope a lot.
However, Zhuang Rui could not make a conclusion based on this jade seal alone, whether the owner of the tomb was Genghis Khan, his son Ogedai, or the talented Kublai Khan.
Although the Mongolian Khanate received the imperial seal after the death of Genghis Khan, this does not mean that it is impossible for the imperial seal to appear in Genghis Khan's mausoleum.
This is because the construction of many imperial mausoleums was often completed after the death of the emperor, which sometimes took as long as decades. The time between Genghis Khan's death and the end of Mongolia's empire was only a short eight years. In fact,
Nothing.
Moreover, Zhuang Rui has enough reasons to believe that the Genghis Khan Recuperation Grotto in the Arzhai Grottoes is most likely the place where Genghis Khan rested after his death. Due to the huge underground mausoleum project, he was buried after the Jin Dynasty was destroyed.
Of course, this is just Zhuang Rui's subjective speculation. What are the facts and who is the owner of the tomb? We still need to provide sufficient evidence to speak for ourselves.
"Damn it, those ancient painters were all cheating? What level are they at? They can't even draw a human face?"
As a well-known domestic collector and antique connoisseur, Zhuang Rui has always admired the ancient Chinese painting art. However, at this moment, Zhuang Rui hated the ancient Chinese painting techniques.
This is because when Zhuang Rui was studying the history of Mongolia, he had seen portraits of several great Khans of the early Mongolian Khanate, but the tragedy was that none of those portraits matched the appearance of the people in the coffin.
Ancient Chinese painting pays attention to freehand brushwork, and what is needed is the mysterious and unpredictable "charm" and "artistic conception" aesthetic characteristics.
But as a result, none of the portraits of the ancient emperors looked like me. They were either wise, mighty, or kind-hearted. Anyway, the portraits had nothing to do with me.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the popularity of ancient painters. It was because emperors were too difficult to serve. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a pockmarked face. After he became emperor, he asked painters to paint his portrait.
The first painter was very honest and drew it anyway.
In the portrait, Zhu Yuanzhang is sitting on a stool, wearing a soft square scarf on his head. His face is very long, his forehead bones are raised, his face is covered with large and small dirt spots, his eyebrows and eyes are upturned, his nose is big, and his nostrils are turned up.
, the ears are very long, almost hanging down to the shoulders, the mouth is big and wide, and the chin is much more protruding than the forehead, making him look extremely vicious.
This is also the painting that is recognized by later generations as the most like Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and is now hidden in the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing.
It's just that after the painting was finished, the matter was not over yet. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the painting, he didn't say anything, but soon after, he found an excuse to get rid of the painter.
After the second painter heard about this, when he painted Zhu Yuanzhang, he was afraid that he would make the same mistake again, so he simply changed Zhu Yuanzhang's face. Naturally, the pockmarked eyebrows and the turned-up nose were gone.
Of course, the extremely handsome emperor in dragon robes painted by this artist had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang. Not long after the incident, he was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang on unfounded charges of evil intentions.
As soon as these two incidents came out, all the palace painters were in danger, and they all excused themselves because of their illness. No one dared to paint Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait anymore, which made Zhu Yuanzhang Long Yan furious.
Later, a portrait painter named Chen Yuan realized the mystery and offered to paint Zhu Yuanzhang. This made his colleagues breathe a sigh of relief, but they all expressed doubts about Chen Yuan's IQ.
However, the later results were shocking to those people. When Chen Yuan painted Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, he only painted the outline of his face to look similar, and the rest was painted in an imperial style, so he looked kind, kind, graceful and noble.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied after seeing this portrait, and asked Chen Yuan to paint several more and give them to the kings. For this, Chen Yuan also got the official position of Wenyuan Pavilion.
People went to investigate.
Unable to identify the emperor from his appearance, Zhuang Rui had no choice but to find another way. Of course, using the appearance of the corpse as a basis for verifying his identity was something that had never happened in the history of archaeology. Zhuang Rui originally had
Didn't give much hope.
After turning his attention, Zhuang Rui first searched inside the coffin, but did not find any objects with writing, and except for the "Jade Seal of the State", he found no seals.
"Damn, why did you forget this?"
Regarding this, Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and slapped his head repeatedly. You must know that Mongolia did not have its own writing in the early days. It is obviously impossible to find an epitaph.
According to historical records, during the Genghis Khan era, when marching and fighting, when issuing orders, they often asked the messengers to memorize the orders, memorize them in songs, and pass them on to their generals. This method was used until Genghis Khan's death.
In modern times, historians and military scientists have almost entirely relied on guesswork to infer the military operations of Mongolia's expansion at that time, because the songs that conveyed orders have long since become the last song on the prairie.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to find written records in the early tombs of the Mongolian Khanate. Zhuang Rui is now just hoping to see if he can find some representative objects at the time, so as to infer the owner of the tomb.
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Until 1204, when Genghis Khan conquered the Naimans, the Uighur Tata Tong'a, the official seal official of the Naimans, was arrested but still guarded the country's seal.
Genghis Khan highly praised his loyalty to his country, and ordered him to be in charge of Mongolia's documents and seals, and also ordered him to teach the prince. The kings were afraid of the Wu characters to write Mongolian. At this time, the Mongols began to use the Weiwu characters to write Mongolian.
It is called Uighur Mongolian in academic circles.
This was also the earliest writing in Mongolia, and it was only circulated among Mongolian nobles at that time. Ordinary Mongolians had no access to these writings.
During the era of Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ba Si Ba script created by the then Tubo Imperial Preceptor Ba Si Ba was commonly known as the New Mongolian script.
Without its own writing and culture, the Mongol Khanate at that time had very few written materials handed down. Even in the nearly 100 years of the Yuan Dynasty, there were very few historical materials from Liu Chuan. This also caused many puzzles in the history of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in later generations.
The main reason for the mystery.
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The identity of the owner of the tomb could not be identified based on his appearance, and no written records were found in the tomb. Zhuang Rui couldn't help but scratch his head. To be honest, his field excavation and archaeological experience was not very rich, and he didn't know what to do at the moment.
Where to start?
There were countless funerary objects placed in the main tomb chamber. Zhuang Rui hesitated for a while and began to select some brocade, silk and sheepskin items to observe. He also wanted to try his luck. Maybe there would be something left on these items.
How can one tell the identity of the tomb owner in just a few words?
However, a few hours later, Zhuang Rui's face became more and more ugly. There were these objects in the tomb, including some very exquisite Persian carpets, but the words Zhuang Rui wanted to see were still not found.
Archeology is a very boring and meticulous work. Sometimes when a large tomb is excavated, it often takes several months of investigation to learn the identity of the tomb owner.
Although Zhuang Rui has the aura in his eyes, which is a great weapon, it is unrealistic to determine the identity of the owner from the piles of funerary objects in a short period of time.
"Grandma, I still don't believe it. I can't dig you out. I can't even figure out your identity..."
Zhuang Rui muttered angrily, took a deep breath, and calmed down his impetuous mood. After pondering for a while, he turned his attention to those exquisitely crafted weapons.
Ancient people, especially emperors, often carried weapons whose symbolic significance was far greater than killing enemies on the battlefield, so they often engraved their names on them.
For example, Emperor Qianlong's Longquan sword and various sabers of the Qing Dynasty were engraved with the words "Qianlong's Royal Use". Zhuang Rui wanted to start here to see if he could find anything?
"Damn it, it's so beautifully made, why don't you know how to engrave your name on it?"
Zhuang Rui told himself not to rush, but after looking at thirty or forty well-made weapons, he still couldn't help but curse. If a weapon can be inlaid with gold and silver, can't it be engraved with the user's name?
"Huh? What is this?"
When Zhuang Rui's eyes passed over the huge golden bow that he had already explored, he suddenly discovered that there was a quiver under the wall where the golden bow was hung.
The quiver was made of cowhide, with exquisite patterns on the outside. Several gold arrows were exposed from the quiver. Zhuang Rui inadvertently seemed to see some lines carved on the arrows.
"This...this...should be words!"
After Zhuang Rui focused on those subtle lines that were almost hard to notice, he almost jumped up with excitement, because the ghost-like lines pattern on them, in Zhuang Rui's eyes, made him excited.
It's wonderful and unusual.
These lines, which are difficult for ordinary people to recognize, are the earliest writing in Mongolia and are called "Uighur-style Mongolian" by modern academic circles.
"It's only a catty!" After reading the words above, Zhuang Rui clenched his fists fiercely, "God bless me, I know these words..."
To be honest, although Zhuang Rui's research direction during his doctoral studies was focused on Mongolian history and its tomb culture, he didn't know much about the early Mongolian characters that looked like ghostly symbols. At best, he only learned about it when reading documents.
