Chapter 26 Tang Tomb
At 10:50 in the morning, Yang Xiuwen saw Qian Bin waiting for him at the door of the Cultural Bureau.
After stepping forward and bowing to greet him, he took out the hand piece of sheep stepping on auspicious clouds from his pocket and handed it to Qian Bin and said, "Uncle Qian, I carved this myself and give it to you. It's very rough, don't make me laugh."
Qian Bin took it and looked at the beautifully carved sheep handle piece and said, "Your master showed off a tiger handle piece in front of me a few days ago, and I have one now, hahaha."
Playing with it in hand.
He led Yang Xiuwen inside and continued, "You are the three more candidates for today's exam. It's just a formality. The other two are also from the company."
When he came to the conference room, he understood what a formality was. The other two people were forty years old.
The paper was handed out, two sheets, some historical chronological order, the origin of porcelain, etc.
He picked up the pen and started writing smoothly. He used the cursive script of hard-pen calligraphy. The words were beautiful and he handed in the paper in half an hour.
The invigilator took his paper and nodded secretly.
When I came out of the conference room, I saw Qian Bin talking to someone. When I got closer, it turned out to be Zhao Guodong.
He quickly greeted, "Uncle Zhao, long time no see, everything is well." After saying that, he bent down and saluted.
Zhao Guodong also laughed when he saw him and said, "Xiu Wen, I haven't seen you for a while. I received your calligraphy and painting. I like it very much, especially the poem "Pine and cypress decay for thousands of years, hibiscus flowers rest for a day, after all, we are all in the same void, so why praise the years."
.Your Uncle Qian said you were taking an exam, have you finished it?"
Seeing him nodding, he said to Qian Bin, "I will borrow Xiu Wen now. There is a Tang tomb that is being excavated and needs manpower, okay?"
Qian Bin said, "Why not? Xiuwen, go with your Uncle Zhao and work carefully."
Yang Xiuwen followed Zhao Guodong and set off to the archaeological site.
On the way, Zhao Guodong explained, "This tomb is in Lantian County outside Xi'an. It should be the tomb of the county magistrate. The preliminary work has been completed. The tomb door will be opened today. After it is opened, you go in first. I thought you
He has eyesight that ordinary people don’t have.”
The two sat in the car talking and arrived at the scene within an hour.
The size of this tomb is not large. After being cleared, it is 30 meters long and 15 meters wide.
It's only about five meters above the ground, and the tomb door is still there.
However, this tomb has been robbed. There is a robber hole in the ground five or six meters above the tomb door.
It is unknown when the cave was robbed, but now we can only see the outline of the collapse after rainwater seeped through.
Yang Xiuwen admired the tomb robber's professionalism and his ability to accurately find the location behind the tomb door.
Because there was a tombstone behind the tomb door, he and Zhao Guodong discussed entering through the robbery hole and opening the tomb door.
The thief's cave was quickly opened, and only one person could enter.
Yang Xiuwen nodded to Zhao Guodong and climbed in directly.
As soon as he entered, an unpleasant smell hit his face. He held his breath and worked his mind, and the dark energy in the tomb was quickly absorbed by him.
Under the light of the headlamp, I carefully stepped on the mud up to my ankles and arrived at the tomb door.
A white marble stone pillar is standing against the tomb door.
With his strength and a little effort, the stone pillar was moved away.
Then he grabbed a door and applied a little force. Click, click, click, and the stone door opened, revealing Zhao Guodong's worried face.
Yang Xiuwen stepped out of the tomb in a flash, took a deep breath, and said, "Go in after a while to let out the dirty air."
Half an hour later, everyone began to clean up the mud.
As I said before, archeology is not a high-level job. Now it is more like a sewer cleaner.
First, use a larger brush to slowly sweep the mud into the dustpan, and carefully observe possible cultural relics in the mud.
Then pour it into a basin and take it to an open area on the ground for a second search.
The progress of the work was very slow, and only one-third of it was completed by evening. The doorway had been cleared.
After resting, Yang Xiuwen carefully observed the layout of the tomb. It was a two-bedroom chamber, that is, a main chamber, two ear chambers on the south side, and a back chamber behind the main chamber.
According to his understanding of Tang history, in the Tang Dynasty, two bedrooms and one living room was already a very high standard of treatment.
A county magistrate should not do this.
Zhao Guodong was beside him and said with great joy, "Xiuwen, look at the white marble door stone with peonies engraved on it. The gray bricks on the tomb door have cord patterns, typical symbols of the Tang Dynasty. You are looking at the tomb passage murals..."
He looked towards the tomb passage pointed by Zhao Guodong. There were blue dragons and white tigers. The murals in the robbery cave were damaged, but most of the murals were not affected. There were maids, maids, kabuki actors, and there were sun, moon and stars on the top of the tomb.
After three days of cleaning, the identity of the owner of the tomb was confirmed, Li Mu, a relative of Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty.
Yang Xiuwen also understood the reason for the high standard of the tomb.
The coffin has rotted, and the pile of bones of the noble person in the coffin is no longer in shape. However, there are many cultural relics buried with it, including gold, silver and jade.
The most valuable ones are the colorful and beautiful Tang Sancai porcelain horses and white glazed porcelain.
White porcelain bowl and white porcelain pot. The body is slender, the glaze is not full, the glaze is uneven on the outer bottom, the white is bluish-green, and there are fine ice cracks, clearly showing the style of the mid-Tang Dynasty.
Due to the preciousness of the tomb passage murals, the clean-up work was suspended and another mural protection expert was sent to deal with it.
Yang Xiuwen said goodbye to Zhao Guodong on the fifth day and left for the city.
Chapter completed!