A gentle gust of wind awakens the body that has been sleeping for a thousand years; a gentle gust of wind blows away the mysterious veil of history. Standing on the shoulders of time, I talk to history.
Chinese culture is broad and profound has long been the mantra of the common people, China's thousands of years of historical inheritance, in addition to the words recorded in the history books and oral stories, but also need an important witness, that is, archaeological relics and antiques. Most people who are not in the collecting world will think that gold and silver treasures are the most precious, but in fact, the most valuable are the artifacts and paintings that accompany the emperor.
In 2000, when Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was planning to build a commercial street building, it happened to find several large ship-shaped logs. The construction workers did not dare to continue to work, often in the construction industry they know that this may be dug up antiques, quickly reported to the relevant units.
Archaeologists from the Chengdu Museum came to check it out and confirmed that it was the ship's coffin, and it was likely that it was a cemetery. Speaking of "ship coffins", there is also a lot of culture in it. Because of the large geographical and cultural differences between the north and the south, it led to the ancient northern Jinge iron horse, and the southern water strange traffic. Therefore, most of the tomb groups unearthed in the north are mainly carriage and horse pits, while in the funerary culture in the south, most of them are buried in boat coffins. The ship coffin cemetery excavated in the center of Chengdu is a typical representative of southern funerary culture.
Then, archaeologists carried out more than two months of meticulous excavations in this area, in order to be able to protect the site of this cemetery, archaeological construction excavated a total of more than 1,000 square meters, but the actual cemetery area is 600 square meters. Although the archaeologists have been very careful, some artifacts have encountered air and sunlight after excavation, become powdered, and turned into dust at the touch of a touch.
How to preserve some of the fragile artifacts that have just been excavated is the most difficult step in the archaeological excavation process, and it has not been solved until now, let alone 20 years ago. Through careful research and discussion, it was confirmed that this was a large group of tombs from the Warring States period. It is also the cemetery of the Enlightened Dynasty, which dates from about 2400 to 2600 years ago.
The Enlightened Dynasty was founded in 666 BC because the land of Bashu was fertile and rich in materials, and was targeted by the Qin state at that time. In 316 BC, the King of Shu personally confronted the Qin army, but was killed by the Qin general. The enlightened dynasty, which lasted for more than three hundred years, came to an end. Although this tomb has traces of being stolen many times, it still unearthed many precious burial items, as well as small coffins used in martyrdom.
Most importantly, as many as 17 large ship coffins and canoe coffins were unearthed in the pit, all of which were made of thousand-year-old zhennan wood in the golden silk nan wood. People who know Chinese furniture, architecture and trees will certainly be blinded, but the golden silk nan wood is one of the top ten precious woods, and it is the first of the four famous trees.
The lofty status of the golden silk nan wood is determined by its wood and pattern. The best gold silk nan wood is generally unearthed in Sichuan, and the "golden wire" in it can shine under the sun. Its loose wood and texture are self-contained in landscape paintings, and are loved by the royal family and nobles. The furniture in the ancient imperial palace, dragon chairs, and dragon beds will use this wood.
In May 2020, China's famous rich man He Hongshen passed away, and his coffin was made of gold silk nan wood, with a cost of up to 8 million yuan. The gold silk nan wood coffin unearthed from this tomb has become a priceless treasure because of its own value and the precipitation of historical time. From this, we can see the scenery of the tomb owner of this tomb in Chengdu. However, more than two thousand years later, his tomb was accidentally discovered, which also made a career for archaeology.