"What are you doing? Why are you so big?" Dou Sprout couldn't help shouting.
Xiaomi put the big box covered with mud on the ground and whispered: "I don't know either."
"Look, look, look."
After cleaning off the black mud on the box, the true nature of this thing was gradually revealed.
It is about thirty centimeters long and twenty centimeters wide. The surface of the material looks like opaque glass, with red and blue colors. It is similar to a box with a heaven and earth cover. There is a big hole on the back of the box. The big hole is composed of two semicircles at the top and bottom.
The box cover button is a money turtle lying on the ground with four legs, and there are sculptures of cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and four animals in the corners. It is in good preservation condition and the workmanship is very complicated.
I couldn't recognize what the box was at first, so I slowly pried it open along the cracks with a knife, and found that the box was filled with black mud. When I poured out the mud, I found a few human teeth scattered in the mud.
, the teeth are smaller than those of normal adults and should belong to children.
Uncle Liao suddenly said thoughtfully: "Is this...is this box made of lead glass?"
"Shell glass?"
"Uncle Liao, are you talking about Liuli?"
Uncle Liao took a deep breath and said solemnly that this seemed to be "Wenming, the glazed Wenming of the Ming Dynasty."
Looking at my puzzled expression, Uncle Liao said, "Have you never heard of Yu Wenming?"
I thought about it and said I didn’t know, I had never heard of it.
There seems to be one "Wen Ming" in the National Museum of China, and there seems to be one in the Shaanxi Museum. It opened my eyes. According to Liao Bo's introduction, Wen Ming is a kind of burial tool invented in the Han Dynasty. I looked through historical materials and only mentioned one sentence.
It is said that the Han Emperor once rewarded Huo Guang with a high-grade coffin burial tool. This special burial tool was called Wenming, and it was specially used to place the heads of dead people.
Very few people have seen this kind of burial equipment. I did some research and thought this is how it should be used.
Isn't there two semicircular holes behind the glazed box? After a person lies in the coffin, his or her neck is drilled into the box along the holes, and then the lid is placed on top. From a distance, the person's head and face are hidden.
In the box.
Why do you do this? What is the role of Wen Ming? Because the information is too rare and there are even fewer people who have seen it, I can only guess. I think there should be two possibilities.
First, like the gold-lined jade clothing and gold-lined mat, except for its antiseptic effect, it is most likely to express the noble status and high status of the owner of the tomb.
Second, the ancients believed that there is a heavenly soul. After death, the heavenly soul will not disappear in the short term, but will live in the Tianling Cap, that is, in the head. The homophony of Wen Ming is "Wen Ming" and Ming represents death. This box is
For the soul of heaven to live.
In any case, this item is very rare and should be very valuable. At the time, I had no idea how much it could be sold for, because there was no specific reference price.
Think about it this way.
This is a small coffin. If the body of a child is buried in the coffin, the child's undeveloped bones are fragile and difficult to preserve. Over hundreds of years, the skull that should have been in the box has weathered and disappeared, leaving only a few teeth.
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"Give it to me," Dou Sprout took the box over with a smile and began to praise Xiaomi for his good luck.
Everyone was in a much better mood after a big piece of cargo came out. Dou Sprout made another suggestion, saying that we couldn't fish it out like this, we had to lift the coffin and dump out all the water.
I said that was fine, and prepared to ask Brother Yu to carry the coffin and pour water.
"who!"
As soon as my hand touched the coffin, I suddenly heard movement outside, which seemed to come from the corridor.
"Did you hear that?" I asked the bean sprouts beside me.
Dou Sprout's sullen face suddenly smiled.
"Did you hear all this? I secretly farted silently just now, I'm sorry."
"No, there is movement..." Xiaoxuan looked around nervously.
"Give me the flashlight." Brother Yu frowned and asked for the flashlight, then went out to check the situation.
"Let's go together, the others stay here and wait." I turned to tell everyone.
After Brother Yu came out, he deliberately turned off the flashlight and we walked along the wall. He whispered to me not to act rashly and to follow his instructions if anything happened.
When I walked out of the main tomb chamber by touching the wall, I saw no one, but I smelled a smell of smoke at that time.
Brother Yu suddenly turned on the flashlight and took a photo forward.
I saw thick smoke rising from the corridor in the southwest corner of the brick wall. The smoke was getting bigger and bigger, and it was starting to choke my throat.
"what's the situation!"
"Where's the smoke coming from?" I was startled and pointed at the smoking corridor and shouted.
