.........The most eye-catching thing is the coffin that is placed in the center of the entire space, with a height and width of more than three meters and a length of about four meters.
Seeing this huge coffin, Liu Dong couldn't help grinning. He couldn't suppress the huge excitement and excitement in his heart, and he cursed, "Grandma, how on earth did Uncle Li and this group of tomb robbers do it? They are so arrogant."
Got it!"
The coffin is generally the most important of all tombs, with the most abundant and precious burial objects, and it is also the heaviest object in the tomb. For example, the tomb of the famous Zeng Hou Yi, his coffin weighed seven and a half tons. At this moment, Liu Dong saw this huge object.
The coffin of Marquis Zeng Yi is even larger, and the appearance is not that of Zeng Hou Yi with thick wooden boards embedded in the copper frame, but a real bronze coffin.
Liu Dong wanted to go over and observe in detail, but the bronzes here were all full, and Liu Dong really had no place to start. In the end, he could only suppress the excitement and expectation in his heart and pack up the other bronzes first.
The first item is a thin waist, a wide mouth, erect ears, an inward-in neck, a girdle, and a flat bottom. The body of the vessel is fully decorated, and the abdominal wall is decorated with six dragon-like reptiles at equal distances. It is 60 centimeters tall and has a caliber of
The belly diameter of the Shengding is also about 60 centimeters.
Next to this Shengding, there are eight other Shengdings, but they are different in size. The largest one is close to one meter in height, diameter and width, and the smallest is forty centimeters.
According to the system of rows of tripods in the Zhou rites, the emperor had nine main tripods, three accompanying tripods, and eight guis, while the princes could only use seven main tripods and six guis. However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when rituals and music collapsed, countless princes used nine tripods and eight guis.
And the King of Chuzhuang, who ‘aspires to conquer the Central Plains’, is naturally no exception.
When he was in the capital last time, Liu Dong had already seen eight of the eight guis in the nine tripods. Now he saw the nine tripods. After the past nine tripods were promoted.
It is Sanpai Ding. There are two kinds of wok tripod and shy tripod. The wok tripod is the big pot for cooking meat. The shengding tripod is the small pot in which all kinds of meat cooked in the wok tripod are put. According to "
"Zhou-Li", wok and tripod are divided into ox wok, lamb wok and hog wok according to their shape and size. Xiding is a tripod filled with seasonings. Xiding is a delicious seasoning soup, which is mainly made of livestock and animal meat.
Made of materials.
The wok tripod is usually the largest of the three types of tripods. The wok tripod Liu Dong saw at the moment was used to cook beef. It was more than 100 centimeters in height and 120 centimeters in diameter. It had a round mouth, a flat folded rim, attached ears, and a bundle.
The neck has a deep belly, a round bottom, and three legs in the shape of animal hooves. The tripod's ears are decorated with Kui patterns and Pan Chi patterns on the belly, and the neck is decorated with an ox head, double body, and Pan Chi patterns. The heel of the tripod is decorated with a high-relief animal face pattern. It is the symbol of all Chu Dynasties.
King Zhuang used the largest cauldron during his lifetime.
After putting these tripods away, they are: Li, 甗, gourd, gui, jue, guanliu jue, goblet, 斝, lei, kettle with handles, gourd-shaped kettles with handles, center column plates, plates, etc. These include cooking utensils, food utensils,
Things including wine vessels and water vessels.
The things that can be buried in the tomb of King Chuzhuang are naturally extraordinary. Almost every artifact is exquisite. The most exquisite one is the round Nine Dragon Zun. The whole body is decorated with fine cloud and thunder patterns as the ground, and the neck is exquisite.
It is decorated with banana leaf patterns and ribbon-shaped Taotie patterns composed of Kui dragon patterns, and four high-relief coiled dragons are decorated on the shoulders. This vessel uses a decorative technique that combines round carvings and reliefs to cleverly combine the nine Kui dragons with the body of the vessel.
as one body.
The entire Nine Dragons statue is made using the lost wax method, which makes the original rigid-shaped utensils very vivid. It organically combines the utensils with animal shapes, and is good at mastering the processing between plane decoration and three-dimensional sculptures, reaching the technical level.
The perfect combination with art.
However, this Nine Dragon Zun did not belong to King Chuzhuang, but was made by craftsmen when a man named Shu Houxin ascended to the throne.
Shu State, after Liu Dong read through historical records and learned about the life of King Chuzhuang, he was no stranger to this country. To be precise, Shu State, also called Qunshu. It was established by the descendants of Gaotao here, including Shu,
Longshu, Shubao, Shuyong, Shujiu and many other people with the surname Fang are collectively called Qunshu.
In 615 BC, Qunshu rebelled against Chu. Chu's order Yin Chengjia captured the monarch of Shu and the monarch of Zong, and then besieged Chao.
615 BC was the period when King Zhuang of Chu was in power, so it is not difficult to explain why the spoils of Shu appeared in King Zhuang's tomb.
In addition to this Nine Dragon Zun, Liu Dong also discovered many exquisite bronzes from the twenty-six kingdoms that were wiped out by King Chuzhuang.
When Liu Dong had cleaned half of the bronzes in the cave, he also walked to the coffin of King Chuzhuang in the center. He saw that the coffin was decorated with cloud patterns, triangle patterns, etc., and there were shadows on the longer sides of the coffin.
It is engraved with patterns of characters ascending to heaven, as well as scenes of banquet guests. The expressions of the characters are vivid and very natural. It is obvious that this represents the luxury of King Chuzhuang during his lifetime and his vision of ascending to heaven and becoming an immortal after his death.
On the other two smaller coffins, there are cloud patterns and some statues of gods with animal heads and human bodies.
The entire coffin was supported by twelve animal-foot copper pillars. Liu Dong stretched out his hand and tried it on the bottom of the entire coffin. Even with all his strength, he could not shake the coffin at all, but it is estimated that the weight of the coffin of King Chuzhuang is the highest.
It weighs at least ten tons. I don’t know how Uncle Li and the others transported such a heavy coffin here.
Of course, the skills of tomb robbers are often unexpected. Just like the Lion Mountain Han Tomb, the entrance to the tomb passage was blocked by four huge stone strips that were two meters long and weighed more than five or six tons.
From a space that was two meters wide and no more than one meter long, huge strips of stone that could only be pulled out with a crane were forcefully pulled out, and then the treasures inside were stolen.
Later archaeologists could not figure out the reason, and it remains an unsolved mystery to this day.
The coffin in front of him was obviously another puzzling question, and there were no records related to it in Uncle Li's diary. Liu Dong had no way of knowing, but he didn't intend to waste his brain cells here.
"It's incredible!" When Liu Dong saw clearly the situation inside the coffin, he opened his mouth in surprise.
"If this coffin were really opened, it would probably be enough to shock the world!" Thinking of people's admiration for the female corpse in Mawangdui, Liu Dong could understand how sensational the contents of this coffin would be after they were revealed.
However, things are very rare, but how to present the things in it to the world in a reasonable and legal way is still a problem that Liu Dong needs to worry about in the future.
"Forget it, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain!" After shaking his head, Liu Dong put his hand on the cold coffin and put it into the mustard space.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but when Liu Dong put the coffin away, he seemed to feel that his head was a little heavier.
Shaking his head, Liu Dong collected all the remaining bronzes here.
A simple statistics shows that in this space, Liu Dong collected more than 200 large and small bronzes, and there were more than 50 bronze tripods of different sizes. There were even more other statues, pans, jues, gobs, and vases.
too much.
Moreover, more than 80% of these bronzes have inscriptions, but only half of them were actually used by King Chuzhuang during his lifetime, and the rest were almost all trophies from the twenty-six kingdoms he destroyed.
Putting away the bronzes in this space, and then following the four-meter-wide rock passage with obvious traces of excavation, Liu Dong once again came to a wider space. Once entering here, what shocked Liu Dong the most was the placement
In the center, three bronze carriages.
Just like the two bronze carriages unearthed from Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum in 1978, which are completely imitating the real carriages of the Qin Dynasty, the three carriages in front of you are also completely imitating the real carriages of the Chu State. And the middle one is the 'Sixth Chariot of the Emperor'
The bronze carriage is even more rare in comparison.
According to the Zhou rites, the emperor drove six, the princes five, the ministers four, the officials three, the scholars two, and the common people one. From the carriage in front of you, you can see that the tomb of King Chuzhuang was completely in accordance with the emperor's regulations.
And in addition to the luxurious chariot and horses driven by the emperor in the middle, there are also four-horse bronze chariots on both sides of it. There are not only sergeants driving the chariots, but also soldiers holding long swords, recreating the real life.
During the period of King Zhuang of Chu, he was the overlord of the Kingdom of Chu.
In addition to the three carriages, there are also a large number of bronzes placed around them. The most precious of them are two bronze deers. However, these two bronze deers are different from ordinary deer. On their heads stand two tall bronze deers with spread wings.
Flying crane.
Cranes and deer are symbols of longevity and good fortune. The ancients called the immortals' carriages "Crane Yu" and "Crane Driving". These two things are just like the 'Deer Antler Standing Crane' in the tomb of Zeng Hou Yi, placed next to the coffin.
, embodying the vision of the deceased ascending to heaven.
However, compared to the tall crane with antlers, the height of this two-piece tall crane with antlers is over 2.5 meters! It is much taller.
In addition to these two statues of standing cranes with antlers, there are four statues of gods nearly three meters high, with huge bodies, animal bodies and human faces, wearing armor, with the left hand in front and the right hand holding a sword high.
Looking at these four statues with different shapes but the same ferocious appearance, Liu Dong understood that they were 'tomb-suppressing beasts'! However, the ones he had found before were all small ones, and such a huge one with a height of three meters had never been seen in China before.
Found it.
When Liu Dong put away all the bronzes here, he simply lost it. There were about three hundred pieces. At this time, after seeing too many bronzes that could be rated as national treasures, he had become numb.
Because there are so many good things here.
A tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng can unearth 15,000 pieces of art, as well as a large number of bronze treasures. So how many treasures are there in the tomb of King Chuzhuang, the overlord of the Central Plains who swept across the Yangtze River Basin in the 26th century?
Woolen cloth?
Liu Dong had been speculating on this question before, and now he finally had the opportunity to verify it himself.