Chapter 371 Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven

After all, Teacher Miao is an old-timer, and the things he values ​​are indeed high-quality products.

The first treasure I took out was very special - sealing mud.

Special cultural relics that are difficult for non-archaeologists to access.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, since paper had not been widely used, official documents were written on bamboo slips.

Although the bamboo slips will be tied up before being passed on, in order to prevent someone from secretly taking them apart, an additional step will be taken.

That is to seal the place where the rope is tied with a round piece of mud and stamp it with the seal of the relevant department.

On some occasions, the bamboo slips are put into the box, leaving a place for mud at the opening of the box.

Sealing mud is the kind of mud that is stamped with a seal to prevent tampering.

It's like a stamp on an envelope.

At first glance, this thing looks like mud used to seal wine bottles.

However, Master Wang once recommended Zhang Yang to read "The Complete Works of Ancient Chinese Sealing Mud". Although there are fifteen volumes in total, Zhang Yang read the first three pages of the first volume, but it was still enough for him to recognize this thing at a glance.

There are also characters from the Han Dynasty, which are at least third-level cultural relics.

The words printed on the seal are "Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven".

Emperor of Heaven? Which Emperor?

Zhang Yang had a thoughtful look on his face.

Did the term Emperor of Heaven exist in the Han Dynasty?

"Name: Heavenly Emperor's Messenger Fengni"

"Production time: 200 AD (the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty)"

"Detailed information: The envoy of the Emperor of Heaven is often found in tomb inscriptions and land purchase certificates during the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a derivative of the belief in the supreme god of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Emperor of Heaven, and is an important material for studying folk religious beliefs."

Oops, it’s actually something like this!

Zhang Yang has seen land coupons before, which are used by Taoists to pay homage to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, and to buy a cemetery for the dead to rest in peace.

Is this also covered by the land purchase certificate?

In the Han Dynasty, land certificates could only be made of wood, so it was reasonable to seal them with mud.

And this messenger of the Emperor of Heaven, Feng Ni, should be closely related to Taoism.

Because Zhang Jiao's Taiping Road and Zhang Lu's Five Pecks of Rice Road are famous for their belief in Huangdi and Laozi.

The Yellow Emperor, also called the Yellow God, is the messenger of the Emperor of Heaven...

If it weren't for Liu Biao and Cao Cao between Zhang Lu and Sun Ce, Zhang Yang would have thought that Zhang Lu, the third-generation Heavenly Master of Five Dou Rice Road, had personally come to stamp the land purchase certificate for Sun Ce's cemetery.

In short, this thing is of very high value for studying the religious beliefs in the Jiangdong area at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Now that we’ve seen the mud seals, what about the bamboo slips or wooden slips?

It's impossible to just lie on the ground alone with a piece of mud.

Faced with Zhang Yang's question, Teacher Miao was stunned.

"You mean, this thing is covered with seals?"

"Yes, isn't the seal just like an ancient envelope? This is a stamp."

"But, I picked this up in the main tomb. If it didn't have writing on it, I wouldn't have taken it out."

The implication of Teacher Miao's words was that the envelope and the letter itself must have been destroyed by the first batch of tomb robbers.

There is only one stamp.

Zhang Yang couldn't accept this explanation.

But if you think about it carefully, keeping this wooden tablet is really useless, right?

Even at the top auctions, no one would buy wooden tablets.

Not to mention the difficulty of preserving this thing, its historical value is much higher than its economic value.

"It seems that what was written on the land purchase certificate for Sun Ce's grave will become an unsolved mystery and be buried underground forever." Zhang Yang sighed in his heart.

Such good things must be taken away.

"Thieves" don't go short.

Zhang Yang took out a small box from the bag behind his back, which was originally used to contain the commemorative gold coins of the Dayin Museum.

Just perfect for holding sealing mud.

"Master Zhang, keep this thing with you at all times."

Lin Yupan felt very useful when he saw Zhang Yang taking out the commemorative gold coins and giving them as gifts.

Master Zhang has me in his heart and carries everything with him.

"Well, this box is pretty good."

Zhang Yang nodded, opened the box, and returned the gold coins to Lin Yupan.

Then he took the sealing mud from Teacher Miao's hand and gently placed it on the black foam in the box.

After repeatedly confirming that it was installed, Zhang Yang gave Lin Yupan a thumbs up:

"This box is well designed, and the lid won't press against it."

"Huh?" Lin Yupan was stunned for a moment. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain it.

Seeing how much Zhang Yang valued this seal, Teacher Miao's expression was a bit complicated.

He doesn't know now whether he should be happy or afraid.

I am happy that I did bring out the precious cultural relics and they will not be buried underground forever;

What he is afraid of is that the more precious the things he robs are, the bigger the problem will be for him.

Finally, he thought about it and said, forget it, it has come to this point, just let nature take its course.

The second treasure that Teacher Miao took out was a green jade.

Only slightly larger than an adult's hand.

At first glance, it looks like a jade, but upon closer inspection, I find that except for the edge, which has a slightly transparent feel of jade, the rest of it feels like stone.

"This is a glazed jade." Zhang Yang said after appraising it.

There is nothing special about colored glaze. It originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty and was already a very mature craft by the Han Dynasty.

But this was the first time Zhang Yang had seen glass fired into the shape of a jade.

Isn’t colored glaze a building material?

The nature is probably equivalent to carving marble into a hanging ornament and wearing it on the body.

Thinking of the old friend Liek in the live broadcast room, Zhang Yang suddenly felt that this glass jade was quite reasonable.

Anyway, as long as it looks good.

Although looking at the flamboyant aesthetic, it is not good-looking.

But what if the Wu State in the late Eastern Han Dynasty regarded ugliness as beauty?

It’s hard to talk about the aesthetics of the ancients.

In addition to the glazed jade, Teacher Miao and the others also found a pottery tower from the tomb.

The glaze on the surface is also the green color of this glass.

Pottery towers were a very common burial vessel in the Han Dynasty. Their only function was probably to prove that Sun Ce did have a preference for green glazed vessels during his lifetime.

Otherwise, the person who buried him would not have forced such a thing into it.

Apart from the glassware, the most precious thing left was a gilt copper handle in the shape of a dragon's head that Teacher Miao broke off from a carriage.

It should be a decoration on the carriage, but its value is very average.

“These are the things I feel are precious.”

"The remaining pottery and bronzes are mostly daily necessities, nothing special."

After Teacher Miao finished introducing the things he thought were valuable, his expression was relieved.

This matter had weighed on him for decades, and he was finally relieved today.

"Okay. Teacher Miao, Director Lin, see if you want to sign a donation agreement or something and put all the buried artifacts in the museum." Zhang Yang suggested.

He wasn't going to waste any more time on this.

After finding out whose tomb it was and getting a piece of clay sealed by the "Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven", his visit was not in vain.

As for why he can put things in his pocket and take them away...of course it's because he has a strong background.

Moreover, this time he helped the cultural relics department of Sanchuan City to seize so many cultural relics at once. If he didn't go to the celebration banquet, who would dare to use chopsticks first?

It's really cheap for them to only get a piece of sealing mud.