Many bits and pieces have been found, such as some ancient coins. Now Han Peacock has discovered coins such as Kaiyuan Tongbao, Xiangfu Tongbao, Tiansheng Yuanbao, Huangsong Tongbao, Xining Tongbao and so on.
Others include fragments of green glazed jars and white porcelain bowls, copper sheets, copper blocks, silver wires, silver cap iron nails, etc.
There are the largest number of building components here, including nearly 300 pieces of porcelain, pottery, clay sculptures, stone carvings, copper, ironware and other cultural relics.
Among them, Han Peacock also found several pieces of white porcelain, such as a white porcelain bottle, a white porcelain bowl, many white porcelain tall bowls, many white porcelain flat-bottomed bowls, several white porcelain small bowls, and white porcelain basins.
1 piece, many fragments of a celadon-glazed bowl with peony pattern, 1 celadon-glazed bowl with sunflower pattern, several gray-glazed bowls, 1 sauce-glazed small plate, several clay sculptures, and several stone tablets.
It can be said that there are so many things here that you can see everything. It is more like a city than a mausoleum. All the things found in cities in the world are found here.
They found so many things before entering the real tomb, which made Han Peacock gradually become excited and recover from the impact of the previous treasures.
Although those can be considered antiques, they are treasures in a fundamental sense, and the porcelain, bronzes, stoneware, ironware and architectural components discovered now can be regarded as cultural relics and objects of cultural heritage in the true sense.
Arriving near the mausoleum in the center, there is a tomb passage. The tomb passage has a 30-degree slope and a horizontal length of 49 meters. The east and west walls of the tomb passage each have two rows of rafter holes parallel to the tomb passage, 2 meters apart. The surface of the base passage of the corridor
It is made of grass mixed with mud, but it is not very smooth. Most of it has been eroded, and no murals have been painted on it.
There are logs and rotten wooden boards in front of the corridor door, which may be used to seal the entrance of the corridor.
There are paintings of warriors on the two walls of the south road. The warrior statues face the entrance of the corridor. The ground of the tomb is nearly 25 meters above the ground. The tomb is divided into the main chamber and the left and right side chambers. The middle chamber is 6.8 meters wide in the front and 7.8 meters in the back.
5.6 meters long.
The walls and top of the tomb are very well preserved. The left and right side chambers are about 2 meters wide and 5 meters long. The aisles are covered with holes and the roof is covered. There is a protective floor on the lower wall of the tomb chamber, so the space is small.
There are many golden warriors surrounding here. Judging from their clothes and the things they hold, Han Kongque can determine the identity of these golden warriors.
This is the resting place of Genghis Khan, so all his close soldiers are here, such as Suguerchi - "the one who still provides clothes in the palm of his hand", and Huerchi - the music player.
Others include Jalichi - the one who writes imperial edicts; Bichachi - the secretary, who is in charge of literature and history; Borchi - the cook, "the one who personally cooks and serves the food and drink"; and Dacichi - the one who holds the wine.
After clearing out the golden guards one by one, Han Peacock and the others came to the real tomb wall. Looking at the tomb wall, Han Peacock couldn't laugh or cry.
"I said before that there was no diamond wall, what is this?" Han Kongque pointed at the tomb wall.
In fact, diamond walls are very common in ancient buildings. Diamond walls are not only found in mausoleums. Generally, diamond walls refer to the vertical load-bearing walls at the foot of arches (the arc-shaped parts of buildings such as doors, windows, bridges, etc.), also known as "kingang walls".
"Flat water wall" is a kind of reinforced wall.
In ancient buildings, all invisible reinforced walls are called diamond walls. For example, the diamond wall inside the tip hole is generally made into a water-splitting point shape, so it is called the "water-dividing diamond wall", and the one outside the tip hole is called "two-sided diamond wall".
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"Is this a diamond wall?" It was the first time Mu Ling excavated an ancient tomb, so he was very curious.
"Why does it look like a parapet to me?" Huang Shan said.
Han Kongque shook his head and said: "This is not a parapet. The parapet is a structural component located around the mausoleum. Its function is only for the safety of people moving on the building surface. It also serves to cover the ugly components and details of the building surface. My daughter
Most walls are made of masonry blocks, which are a burden to resist earthquakes. This wall here is obviously a diamond wall."
This is actually very easy to identify, as long as you do a few digs.
The diamond wall is made of diamond soil, and this Korean peacock will not admit it wrong.
The so-called diamond soil is not a substance that exists naturally, but an artificial mixed soil.
That is, glutinous rice juice and several other flower juices are added to the unique loess of the Loess Plateau. The characteristic of this soil is that it is extremely hard and invulnerable, so it is called King Kong soil.
This kind of soil is often used to build hard city walls. Here, the diamond wall is the way for the dead to enter when placing their coffins, so it is also the passage between the entire underground palace and the outside world. It is also the outer wall of the tomb and the entrance to the underground palace. As long as you find the diamond wall,
No problem getting in!
"Open this portal now?" After confirming the diamond wall, we can only choose to crack it violently, because there is no trick to deal with such a reinforced wall.
"dig slowly! I think the murals around the tomb passage are good, don't destroy them." Han Peacock observed for a while before saying.
"Murals? Can't we adopt the experience of Dun@huang and remove these murals?" Jin Yao said with a smile.
This is not a country. If you can't take it away, you can only make it easier for others or bury it here forever and never see the light of day.
As for the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, people scraped the walls three feet away and removed all the murals.
"It's not that troublesome. These seem to be pasted porcelain tiles, and they seem to be white porcelain. This is rare!" At this moment, the wood spirit, attracted by Han Kongque's words, made a new discovery.
"White porcelain tiles? The Mongolians can also make porcelain. Do they have the ability to make white porcelain?" Jin Yao said strangely.
He has been following Han Peacock for a long time, so he naturally knows some antique knowledge. Apart from herding horses and robbing, when did the Mongols know how to make porcelain?
"Who made the Yuan blue and white flowers? Not the Mongols?" Huang Shan said at this time.
The Korean peacock looked at Huangshan speechlessly. Was the Yuan blue and white made by the Mongols?
"Was it made by the Mongols? It was made by the Han people, but it was made by the Han people in the Yuan Dynasty. You fool, you don't even understand this?" Jin Yao said.
"You know, you know, why don't you tell me, where do these exquisite horse head statues come from?" Huangshan said unconvinced.
"Horse head? I seem to have heard of it somewhere. It seems to be a treasure." At this time, Mu Ling said thoughtfully.
"The horse head relief you mentioned, I seem to have the impression that it is a treasure from the Xixia era." Han Kongque showed a coin in his palm. This coin seemed to be made by Xixia.
What Han Kongque is holding is a Xixia Wen Da'an treasure coin. This is a Xixia Wen Da'an coin cast during the Da'an period of Zhao Bingchang (1075-1085), Huizong of the Xixia period. There are two types of ancient coins like Xiaoping and two.
The Da'an treasure coin held by Han Peacock has a regular outline, clear handwriting, rounded strokes, simple shape, convoluted text on the face, and no writing on the back. Such a Da'an treasure coin has a small diameter of 2.4 centimeters and a weight of about 3.5 grams. Although it is relatively small,
Rare, but not uncollected.
The one in Han Kongque's hand is 2 cents in diameter and is 3.4 centimeters in diameter. It is very rare. No one knows how much it originally weighed, so this ancient coin is very precious.
This kind of Da'an Bao coin is more refined than the Fu Sheng coin, with regular outlines and simple characters. This shows that Xixia coins are getting better and better as they are cast.
I heard that there is now a coin that can be folded into two coins, which is hidden in the cultural management office of Xi'an. It is found nowhere else. It is a rare treasure among the Xixia coins. However, few people have seen this coin that can be folded into two coins, so Han
Only peacocks cherish the coins in their hands.
Xixia's money-making, Xixia's double-series pots with thick and fine workmanship are extraordinary, Xixia's bronze waist badges, Xixia's 20 cm long and 17 cm wide flat pot, these things are all exquisite.
Especially the Xixia flat pot is the best among the best. This Xixia flat pot not only uses decals and printing techniques, but also combines Chinese characters, which reflects the economic and product exchanges between the Xixia and Song Dynasties.
When he first discovered so many Xixia cultural relics, Han Kongque didn't think much about it, but when he saw the ceramic tiles, or porcelain tiles, on the tomb wall, Han Kongque couldn't help but think about it.
The horse head statue Mu Ling mentioned just now is actually a horse head relief. Han Kongque remembered that the horse head relief was an extremely precious cultural relic from the Xixia period, which was nearly a thousand years ago.
Now look at the porcelain tiles on both sides of the tomb passage. The white porcelain horse head looks like a relief or half of two single-sided porcelain. Moreover, the white porcelain horse head here has a realistic shape, a strong body, and is elegant and free.
The strands of mane on the horse's head are lifelike and dynamic. There are also several round "leopard spots" on the horse's neck. There are also strong muscles on the lower jaw of the horse's head. Its workmanship is exquisite and can be called
Unparalleled in the world.
Although I have never seen the horse head relief sculpture that is widely circulated, I think it is of this level of craftsmanship.
The piece that is circulated is a rare treasure. Although it is just a "horse head", its cultural relic research value is very high. Moreover, among the existing Xixia cultural relics, this is the only one with a horse shape.
When the cultural relic was discovered, cultural relic experts at the time also speculated that if conditions permit, systematic excavations may be carried out, and other parts of the white porcelain horse may be found where the "horse head relief" was unearthed, or other parts of the white porcelain horse may be discovered.
Other more precious Xixia cultural relics.
Now, Han Kongque has found the complete version of the horse head relief without having to go to his hometown of Xixia. It turns out that this is not a piece of porcelain at all, but a porcelain tile, or ceramic tile.
"These things were all stolen from Xixia, right?" Mu Ling said with a wry smile after learning the origin of these horse head reliefs.
"The Mongolians are indeed masters of robbery." Huang Shan said with some admiration.
The golden demon also said: "They are quite discerning, these reliefs are really good."
Han Kongque also sighed and said: "I thought the Mongols only knew gold, but I didn't expect them to know that porcelain is precious."
Mu Ling smiled and said: "Actually, we all have a cognitive error. Porcelain is very common now, but it was not like this in ancient times, especially among ethnic minorities. They didn't even have many ordinary porcelain bowls. Don't say that.