Since the "King of Qin swept the Liuhe" and Yin Zheng ascended the throne and became the "First Emperor", a magnificent new chapter was opened in Middle-earth since then; Qin Shi Huang is still praised as the "Emperor of the Ages", and it is not known that all the kings of the Qin Kingdom have been Haojun. Of course, if you want to get a glimpse of the "Great Qin" today, you can only rely on the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum; as for the early kings of the Qin State, it is necessary to see the "Qin Gong Tomb".
To put it simply, the "Qin Gong Tomb" refers to the largest ancient tomb excavated by archaeology in China so far located in the command village of Baoji, Shaanxi Province; it is a little regrettable that the tomb of "Qin Jinggong" is also the place patronized by Tufuzi the most, and during the excavation, the archaeological team found 247 pirate caves left "from ancient times to the present".
Don't think much about it, the tufuzi of the past generations do not know how many rare treasures have been stolen from the "Tomb no. 1 of the Duke of Qin", what these treasures look like, and where they have gone, it is now unknown; who thought that in 1992, the archaeological team inadvertently "recovered" a batch of treasures in the tomb of the Duke of Qin.
To explain, this "recovery" is not that the police caught the thief, but that the archaeological team found an inconspicuous "small tomb"; what is more surprising is that the "small tomb" is full of gold and silver jade, and archaeologists say that a pile of "rotten iron" is the most precious.
Friends who have studied archaeology and cultural relics may know that Shaanxi is known as the "hometown of bronzes" in the pre-Qin Dynasty, although it is not "one step and one ancient tomb", but it is almost the same; in May 1992, the news of "discovering ancient tombs" came from Baoji Yimenbao Village, which was investigated as a product of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Era.
It should also be noted here that although this ancient tomb is a product of the Spring and Autumn Period, it did not attract the attention of experts at first; the reason is very simple, the scale of this tomb is too small, and it is less than 3 square meters when it is full.
Theoretically, the owner of this "Spring and Autumn Tomb" should be a commoner, the archaeological value is not high; as expected, the excavation is only a "thin-skinned coffin", who wants to "have a qiankun inside". The "thin-skinned coffin" was full of gold, silver and jade, and its exquisite degree was self-evident, counting as many as more than 200 pieces.
Obviously, the commoners in the Spring and Autumn Period could not have been so rich, and who was the owner of this ancient tomb that was "outside the ruins, inside the gold and jade"?
Among the "piles" of gold and silver jade, the largest gold vessel weighed 3 kilograms. Suddenly, the expert found something wrapped in silk fabric; of course, the outer silk fabric had long since decayed, and even the inside was a lump of black, but it was wrapped so tightly that it should be more precious than the "3 kilograms" of gold.
Simply put, after the experts have processed, the outer envelope has been removed, and the contents of the inside have finally revealed their true appearance, which turned out to be a sword with a golden handle; speaking of this, a friend may be curious: "The handle of the sword is all gold, and the sword body will not be made of 'extraterrestrial iron', right?" ”
It is funny to say that the sword body is not false of "iron", but it is not the imaginary "Xuan Iron", but a piece of ordinary "rotten iron" that has been rusted into slag and has been broken into two pieces; or a friend is disappointed, "I still think it will be a rare treasure, qin Jinggong is not old and confused, and even treats a bunch of 'rotten iron' as a treasure?" ”
This is quite reasonable today, and no one is sure to take the "iron lump" as a treasure today; but in the eyes of archaeologists, this pile of "rotten iron" is the most precious of the more than 200 cultural relics found in this archaeology.
First of all, let's introduce the "golden sword handle", the preciousness of gold is not elaborated here; in addition to gold, the entire sword handle is cast into a complex hollow relief with the "lost wax method", as well as the cloud pattern and bead pattern cast on it, and forms a variant of the cockroach pattern.
Of course, the "golden sword handle" is also inlaid with various precious gems such as turquoise and material stones; a single "sword handle" is definitely worthy of being a well-carved national treasure cultural relic, but it is slightly less precious than the "rotten iron" sword body.
Friends who have studied history may have "reasoned" out. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was still mostly in a slave society, and "science and technology" did not exist; taking the most common "use of fire" as an example, the Spring and Autumn Period did not even burn coal, and human beings used fire mostly from wood.
To use today's "science" to explain, the temperature of "fire" in the spring and autumn period is not high enough. At that time, "fire" could be used to melt gold, copper, etc. into a device, and the melting point of gold and copper was about 1064 ° C and 1083 ° C, which was also the main reason for the pre-Qin bronze.
However, the "fire" of the Spring and Autumn Period was not enough to "make iron", because the melting point of iron was 1535 ° C, and the "wood fire" at that time could not reach such a high temperature; theoretically, without high temperature fire, it was impossible to have iron, but the "iron sword" was in front of us.
Some friends may know that "iron tools" are an important turning point in human development, and its appearance not only helped Emperor Wudi of han drive out the Xiongnu, but also opened a new era for thousands of years to come.
If we analyze according to the "golden handle iron sword", our ancestors already understood "ironmaking" as early as 2500 years ago, which proves that China is the first country for all mankind to use "iron"; using the "golden handle" as an ornament to set off the "iron sword", which also proves that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the value of "iron" is far more than gold.
Here it should also be emphasized that the value of "archaeology" does not lie in how much gold and jade have been unearthed, but its real meaning is to "prove history"; therefore, in the eyes of archaeologists, the value of "iron sword" is far more than that of "golden handle", and the discovery of "iron" is the biggest gain of this archaeological excavation.
Speaking of this, or a friend is anxious, "Let alone nonsense, so many treasures should appear in the tomb of a palace nobleman, how can it appear in a 'small tomb' of less than 3 square meters, and hidden in a 'thin-skinned coffin'?" ”
After analysis, there are no human bones in this "3 square meter" ancient tomb, that is to say, this is likely to be a "fake tomb"; not only that, experts have compared cultural relics, and the cultural relics style and craftsmanship, ornaments, etc. here are similar to the cultural relics excavated from the Qin Gong Tomb not far away.
Therefore, experts boldly speculate that this "3 square meters" ancient tomb is likely to be the hiding place of the "stolen goods" after the Tufuzi stole the Tomb of the Qin Gong, in order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, it was deliberately disguised as a civilian tomb; in theory, the Tufuzi should turn back to take it again, the reason why it was not taken, or because of infighting, or was caught by the government, this is unknown.
In short, experts believe that these cultural relics should be stolen goods after the ancient Tufuzi stole the "Qin Gong Tomb"; this is only the expert's "speculation", but then again, with cultural relics, "what the truth is" is actually not important.