In the cold winter of that year, when we opened the stone door of the underground palace and entered, slowly moving our flashlights, we were all shocked by the scene in front of us.
What is the purpose of archeology? It is to finally discover these secrets that have been hidden underground for thousands of years.
Dou Sprout looked up at the huge bronze bird sculpture in front of him, his mouth wide enough to swallow a whole egg.
A pair of bronze sacred bird statues with a height of 1.5 meters stand on the stone platform. The wings of the bronze birds are spread out and their heads are lowered. They seem to be about to fly, and they seem to be waiting for their master to ride on them and go to the bliss of the west together.
Behind the bronze bird is a huge granite coffin bed. The whole body of the coffin bed is carved with nine majestic five-clawed golden dragons. The nine dragons' bodies are intertwined, the dragon's whiskers are fluttering, and the dragon's head is raised high on the front, and the dragon's eyes are staring upward.
Nine is the ultimate number, dragon and five claws are the most respected, nine and five are the most respected...
Moving the flashlight, his eyes moved to the coffin bed, and he suddenly saw a strange coffin!
This coffin is more than two meters long. When I first saw it, I thought it was made of jade... When I turned on the flashlight, a faint green light was reflected from the whole body. This green color was like water, flowing slowly on the coffin.
I had never seen this scene before, and my attention was immediately attracted.
What is this?
Jade coffin?
Impossible...A coffin made of pure jade has never been found in history.
After two minutes, I raised my head and took two deep breaths, and then I heard him say: "Come forward and take a look."
Just a few steps away, when we got closer, Dou Sprout's entire face was reflected in green.
The faces of Brother Yu and Xiaoxuan were the same. I stretched out my hand to see that it was also half green.
I turned off the flashlight and the green color disappeared.
When I turned on the flashlight, it appeared again, which means it was caused by reflection.
Douyazai swallowed, stared and shouted: "Oh my God! What kind of coffin is this! Is it an emerald coffin!? Why is it like this!"
Dou Sprout excitedly shook my arm: "We're getting rich! We're going to get rich, Fengzi!"
It is taboo to shout in a tomb, especially shouting in front of people's faces. I said to Dou Sprout: "Don't shout, keep your fucking voice down."
He stared at the coffin for a long time and said solemnly: "This is not a coffin made of pure jade, this is a nail coffin."
After saying that, he hooked his head on the coffin with his fingers. Unexpectedly, he lifted up a piece of jade.
The inner layer of this thing is made of wood, and the surface layer is like fish scales. It is covered with high-quality jade flakes, and then a large number of special thin nails, which people in the industry call "bubble nails" are used to polish them smooth.
Jade pieces were plastered all over the wooden coffin.
I knew at that time that only two such bubble-nailed coffins had been unearthed in China. One was excavated from a Chu tomb in Lion Mountain, and the other was excavated from a Han tomb in Mancheng. Later, in 2009, another one was found in Jiangsu.
A similar one was excavated in Dayun Mountain.
This kind of jade coffin with bubble nails is extremely rare, even rarer than jade clothes with gold threads! Non-emperors cannot enjoy it.
Now, the identity of the tomb owner is about to come out.
The last emperor Li Xian.
Once we open the coffin and see a male corpse lying there, the history books may need to be rewritten. Li Xian lived in the Xixia period. Why did he use this kind of burial equipment that was popular in the Han Dynasty? After thinking about it, there is only one reasonable explanation.
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Anticorrosion.
Ancient people believed that lying in this kind of jade coffin would keep the body incorruptible forever. The polishing process of the bronze bird we just saw is exactly the same as that of the large bronze bull excavated by the archaeological team in the Imperial Tomb Area of Ningxia in the last century.
My hands felt cold when I touched the coffin, which is a characteristic of natural jade.
