Chapter 1231 Archaeologist: Believe in Science (6)
Their value was exploited during their lifetime, and their value will still be exploited by the princes and princes thousands of years after their death. They lose the chance of rebirth and will always be slaves here for the rest of their lives, supporting the princes and princes with their bodies and souls.
Zhang Yuexi said: "But there are also some tomb owners who actually did not do any bad things during their lifetime. They even made many contributions to the country and the people. They deserve to rest in peace."
In fact, this issue is not only questioned by archaeologists themselves, but also by many people. That is why archaeologists are called by many people: state-run tomb robbers.
However, before getting entangled in this issue, Gu Mo felt that everyone should understand one thing first - China has a long history and culture, and modern people have to survive and modernize, which leads to the embarrassing matter of digging up the graves of their ancestors.
It's something that is simply unavoidable.
If you find it, what can you do?
Is the country just waiting for tomb robbers to steal it if it doesn't care about it?
Tomb robbers don't care whether the tomb is a tyrant or a hero. They don't protect the ancient tomb at all. They just take the money and leave. There was even a situation where the corpse of a national hero was dug out and thrown into the wilderness.
A hundred years ago, when China was in war, a large number of cultural relics were discovered in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, but the country had no intention of taking care of them and relied on a Taoist king to guard them.
How could Taoist Wang manage this alone? No matter how hard he tried, a large number of cultural relics in Dunhuang fell into the hands of foreigners, causing incalculable losses to China.
So at this point, the discussion is not about whether we should dig, but how to dig.
China has also made explicit provisions in relevant laws.
One of them: ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, ancient buildings, cave temples, stone carvings, murals, important modern and modern historical sites and representative buildings and other immovable cultural relics can be determined as national key points based on their historical, artistic and scientific value.
Cultural relics protection units, provincial-level cultural relics protection units, city- and county-level cultural relics protection units.
There is another article: the ownership of collectively owned and privately owned memorial buildings, ancient buildings and ancestral cultural relics, as well as other cultural relics acquired in accordance with the law, is protected by law. The owners of cultural relics must abide by the laws and regulations of the state on the protection of cultural relics.
The law protects the interests of the people at large, not the interests of a certain group or individual.
So from this aspect, the work of their archaeologists is legal.
In fact, from Gu Mo's point of view, she feels that when people die, they become a pile of loess. If you enjoy yourself while you are alive, there is no need to occupy the living space of future generations after you die.
The corpse or whatever, it really doesn't matter.
But this idea is completely contrary to the Chinese funeral tradition. There is no need for her to say such words to attract scolding.
She can only act according to the rules of this plane, as long as she has a clear conscience.
But obviously, Zhang Yuexi is now trapped in misunderstandings and entanglements.
As a student of archeology, she knew the meaning and principles of archaeological work. It was useless for Gu Mo to tell her, so he said:
"Actually, you can think about it this way. Ordinary people in ancient times were not qualified to build luxurious tombs. They didn't even have the money to bury them. When many people died, they just wrapped them in straw mats, dug a hole and buried them. It didn't take long for them to be buried.
A handful of loess, but the princes and nobles were born as kings and emperors. They did not produce but lived and clothed themselves. In essence, they had exploited ordinary people during their lifetime, and the gold, silver and jewelry buried with them after death were still an exploitation of the people's property.
, the burial of living people is an exploitation of the lives of the people. No matter before or after death, the enjoyment should be doubled. It can't always be enjoyed by them, right? Now it is their turn to make some contributions to the historical research of future generations.
Well, if they are those heroes, their state of mind is not ordinary. If they knew the current situation of the country and knew that we had no choice but to dig their graves, they would not care about us."
In fact, even some heroes in ancient times were buried alive.
Gu Mo could understand why he was buried with gold, silver and jewels, but it was really shameless to bury a living person.
Not to mention that the ancients were all like this, and they were buried for whatever reason, and based on whatever traditions they had.
No matter what era, it is disgusting to trample on other people's lives and use other people's lives to set off your own noble behavior.
Gu Mo has traveled through too many planes, and has long been indifferent to the physical body, so after she dies in every plane, she will ask Jian to bury her.
Gold, silver and jewels are left to the living to spend.
As for sacrificial burial, it is even more impossible. Whenever she has visited the ancient planes, she will do her best to abolish sacrificial burial.
Zhang Yuexi was silent. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that this was all she could think about, otherwise what else could she do?
After she has done this job, she can't deny the significance of her job, right?
"But if we die in the future, hundreds of years later, thousands of years later, we will be dug up like this..."
Gu Mo, "You don't have to worry about this, because you won't have the chance to be buried whole. Now you can only be cremated..."
Zhang Yuexi, "..."
Gu Mo, "If your ashes can be preserved to that time thousands of years later and still have the value of research, you should feel honored. After all, the teacher taught us that we must have a spirit of dedication. We can't just give when we are alive, but also when we are dead."
That’s okay too.”
Zhang Yuexi, "..."
It seems that I can only think this way. After all, many accidents can make you overwhelmed when you are alive. How can you still think about what will happen after death?
"But isn't that unfair?"
Gu Mo sighed, "There is no absolute fairness in this world. What we can do now is to do our job in a down-to-earth manner, state the facts with evidence, restore the historical truth, and let future generations learn from the past.
We should learn lessons from history, learn from it, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and cherish the present, which will also make our country's historical civilization more and more enriched and enhance our national self-confidence. As for whether others can understand what we do, it is not important. What is important is that we must have a sense of belief.
, you have to believe that what you do is meaningful.”
History is the most basic heritage of a country. A country without its own history and culture is ignorant and blindly obedient.
Just like the Bang Country, if they had their own splendid culture, would they be robbing other people's houses all day long? Would they tell lies with their eyes open, insisting that the dragon bones belong to their country?
But the farther away the history and culture is, the more incomplete it is.
What you do as an archaeologist is to do your best throughout your life to complete the incomplete history.
The last paragraph finally brought Zhang Yuexi back to her senses.
Yes, everything in the world has good and bad sides.
Her current identity is an archaeologist, and her work has greater value and significance. As long as it does not infringe on the interests of living people and does not violate laws and disciplines, why does she care so much?
Can……
"But just now, the little prince king faked his body. Won't all those dead prince kings come alive to seek revenge on us?"
In the past, Zhang Yuexi would not have believed in anything like gods and ghosts.
But after entering this ancient tomb, she discovered that mutated snakes, insects, rats, and ants were all fake corpses. Her knowledge of the past decades was shattered, and now her heart was trembling.
Moreover, in addition to those supernatural events that cannot be explained by science, there is also Lee Kang-jae who is eyeing him. How are they going to handle it?
Gu Mo said seriously, "We must believe in science."
Then he very professionally and scientifically explained the reasons why the little princes and kings deceived their bodies.
Zhang Yuexi, "..."
I actually believed your nonsense...
Gu Mo looked at Zhang Yuexi's numb expression and touched his nose.
"Believe me, science can eliminate all feudal superstitions."
The author of this novel is a Chinese who doesn’t understand the history and culture of China at all, but he insists on writing about the protagonist exploring the ancient tombs of China.
Naturally, those who read novels can only see very superficial things that the author tries his best to express, such as metaphysical gossip, the author knows nothing about it.
But he didn't understand, just because it wasn't written down didn't mean it wasn't there.
therefore……
Forget it, just trust science.
Zhang Yuexi kept praying that she would not encounter those terrible things again.
Fortunately, until they found Li Kangzai and the others, they didn't see any scary scenes. They just encountered a lot of skeletons of tomb robbers who had come in and died inside.
When you see enough skeletons, there seems to be nothing to be afraid of.
When they found Li Kangzai, Yu Wensen and the others were in a bad situation.
Along the way, they witnessed Li Kangzai destroying ancient tombs in various ways. When they saw anything of research value, they said it was from their country and took the things away with confidence. Yu Wensen and the others were so angry that they couldn't hold back and started scolding Li Kangzai.
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They were all young and energetic people, and they started taking action after cursing.
Originally, in order to maintain his image in front of Xie Nannan, Li Kangzai never personally killed Yu Wensen and the others.
Now that Yu Wensen and the others took the initiative, Li Kangzai just had an excuse.
Others were yelling at him to kill him, so Xie Nannan couldn't ask him to continue to be patient, right?
Finally, seeing Li Kangzai trying to kill these people, Xie Nannan fell silent as expected, and even looked like Yu Wensen and others were unreasonably selfish and vicious.
Just so angry.
What's even more annoying is that Xie Nannan, a Chinese, actually thinks that Li Kangzai is right and feels that the property should be returned to its original owner and they should not stop it.
Yu Wensen and others were shocked by Xie Nannan's remarks.
