"Third brother, be careful, don't get too close. If it's six coffin nails, I'm afraid it's five."
A mole patted his chest and muttered: "It's okay, it's not just five moles."
I later learned a little about this statement.
Ancient funeral customs have been evolving, but there are a few things that have not changed much over thousands of years. For example, the coffin is placed in the burial place, and the coffin nails seal the material to separate the yin and yang.
When a coffin is covered with six or seven nails, it is normal, but if there are less than six nails, it is not good.
Those with five nails are called soul-sealing nails, and those with four nails are called soul-soothing nails. According to traditional culture, these are unlucky for both the dead and the living.
Sun Laosan is very courageous. After all, he has been a geotechnical engineer for many years. He has seen countless coffins. I don't think he is afraid of these things at all.
The crowbar was shoved into the coffin, and the nails that sealed the coffin had rotted. He used a little force to open it.
"What is the third child inside?" A mole asked in a low voice.
"There's not much. There's a handful of gold wire and a bunch of white chocolate. Come and have a look." He waved to us and asked us to go over and take a look.
We walked over and took a look, and it was true that there were no burial objects in the coffin. Except for two short pieces of gold wire, there were only some scattered dead people's bones. The white chocolate he was talking about was these scattered dead people's bones.
bone.
There's just a little bit of gold thread, so it's definitely not the remnants of the gold-lined jade garment.
Boss Sun shook his head after looking at it, "It seems that the conditions down here are good. It has been more than 2,600 years, and the bones are still there. If this kind of pit is placed in the north, it would be good if there are only one or two teeth left."
"Excuse me, please lift your leg." As he spoke, Boss Sun picked up a dead man's leg bone and threw it to the head of the coffin.
"Huh? What is this?"
After removing the bone, he used a small crowbar to pull at it, and a large black ball-shaped object was exposed.
Upon closer inspection, it looks like a round stone covered with mud. The surface of the ball is also stained with some seeds that have not rotted away.
"This... these seem to be melon seeds, right?" A mole frowned.
"It's really melon seeds, bad luck. I know what this thing is," Sun Laosan threw away the pebble ball and kept wiping his hands on his clothes.
"This is the Houqiao Pearl. In ancient times, it was a tormenting thing. If the owner of the tomb is really a mustard, then he is not a good person."
Then Boss Sun pointed to the bones of the dead man in the coffin and told us his guess.
The system of slave burial was actually abolished when the Western Zhou Dynasty was first established. However, the Emperor of Zhou enfeoffed the vassals. At that time, there were many princes and kings in remote areas. Some stubborn vassal states still continued the practice of living burying in the Shang Dynasty.
This bad habit.
At that time, unlike now, women's social status was not high. Among the victims, women accounted for a very large proportion. The pile of bones in the coffin in front of you must also be a woman.
Third brother, this is how he restored his guess.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, three thousand years ago, it was summer and the weather was very hot. The female weavers employed by the family took a break from work, so they all sat together and had a short chat.
Suddenly, the owner was kind-hearted and brought a cart of cantaloupe for everyone to eat on this hot summer day, tricking the female workers into eating melons to relieve the heat.
Unexpectedly, these melons were drugged with sweat-inducing drugs, and everyone fainted after eating the melons.
At this time, the host brought stone balls and stuffed them directly into the female workers' posterior orifices. Some of them might wake up from the pain, but it was useless. They were still nailed to the coffin lid, and they died of pain inside the coffin.
This cruel burial method, which makes people suffer to death, actually comes from the custom of the ancient Yue Kingdom.
Not only are the beads stuffed into the back of the orifice, but the mouth must also be sewn with gold thread. The implication of this is that one cannot go in or out, and can serve the master with peace of mind.
The small amount of gold thread that remained was used to sew up the mouth of the female martyr.
After all this was done, quite a few women were still alive, but because their mouths were sewn shut with gold thread, they couldn't scream or open their mouths in the coffin.
