In the "Liangzhou Word Two Songs", it is written: "Grape wine luminous cup, want to drink pipa immediately urge." Drunkenly lying on the battlefield Jun Mo smiled, how many people did Gu Lai fight back? "Grape wine, pipa sand field, western style, jumping on the paper." Grapes are sweet, originated in West Asia, introduced by the Western Han Dynasty, rarely recorded, and now the ancient tombs have been confirmed.
In 2021, the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan was excavated and studied again, and a number of cultural relics were excavated, including gold masks and gold leaves and other precious antiquities. As we all know, the cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site are more peculiar, such as huge masks, which do not look like they were designed for humans at all, and as for what kind of secrets are hidden in them, they can only wait for further investigation by the archaeological team.
However, we should not think that the cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site are the most "strange". As early as the 1990s, the archaeological team found an ancient tomb of the Liao Dynasty in Hebei, the mainland, and there was a table of wine in the tomb. Putting wine and vegetables into the tomb as funerary products, I am afraid that this tomb owner is still the first.
More than twenty years ago,
A farmer in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, was working in his own farmland when he suddenly noticed a large pit in the field.
He did not dare to enter easily, so he had to go back to the village and call a few friends to enter the pit together. Several people originally thought it was just a natural collapse, but they didn't expect it
There is a house of considerable size underground
。 Subsequently, several people hurriedly reported to the relevant local departments and invited experts to come to investigate.
The experts who received the notice immediately realized the existence of ancient tombs underground, so they led the archaeological team to the scene at the first time to carry out rescue excavations of ancient tombs. When the outermost tomb door was opened, the archaeologists were shocked by the scene in front of them, the ancient tomb was far larger than they thought, and it was estimated that the tomb group of a famous nobleman was estimated.
subsequently
Based on the murals found in the tomb, archaeologists deduced that the tomb group was the tomb group of the Zhang Wenzao family in the Liao Dynasty with reference to the local county chronicle
。 Although there is not much introduction to them in the history books, it can be concluded that the social status of this family is not low, and it was a famous and prestigious family at that time. Like this family tomb group, the precious funerary items are naturally innumerable, and the degree of luxury is comparable to the imperial tomb of the emperor.
But what everyone present cared about was not the funeral goods, but a particularly conspicuous table of wine and dishes. Its main
Located in the side hall of the tomb, there are many dishes on the wooden table, some of which are dishes and some are fruits, which look disorganized, more like the scene after the family has eaten.
Among them, there is a dish with some grapes in it
After thousands of years, the grapes have dried up a bit, but you can still imagine what they were. Archaeologists have focused their attention on grapes for some reason, as the fruit is not native to the mainland, but is of Western Asia.
It was not until the Tang Dynasty, with the continuous trade between the mainland and Western countries, that grapes were introduced to China at that time. The Tang Dynasty border poet Wang Han once wrote in a poem: "Grape wine luminous cup", which can also prove that grapes have begun to be introduced into the country at that time. But
Grapes are extremely perishable, and the long distance from West Asia to the mainland shows that these grapes did not originate from "imports", but were planted by themselves, and they had to admire the wisdom of the ancients and have long mastered the technology of growing grapes.
Besides
Some archaeologists also found a falling porcelain bottle under the wine table, according to the study of the small amount of liquid present in the bottle contains a lot of alcohol, which should be the wine made by the ancients
。 This discovery is of great significance, indicating that at that time, the Liao State also had diplomatic exchanges with Western countries, bringing back a large number of local specialties from West Asia, including grapes and wine, which made up for the gap in the history of viticulture in north China.
As the archaeological activities continue to advance, there is another new discovery that makes the archaeologists unable to calm down, because they found that the owner of the tomb wrote on the epitaph: "Wine and vegetables have been sent to you", it seems that he has long expected that there will be descendants entering the ancient tomb, and specially left the wine and dishes to entertain "guests". Generally speaking, the ancients always worried that someone would enter their tomb and set up a large number of organs, but they did not expect that this person was very "hospitable" and specially set up a banquet to entertain the newcomers.
Just as the crowd was lamenting the free personality of the tomb owner, a new discovery was made, and the wall next to it read:
The tomb has a day to reopen, and no one is young.
After thousands of years, these two lines have been somewhat blurred, and there is no trace of chiseling, it is estimated that the owner of the tomb wrote with a brush, more like a testimonial. Perhaps the owner of the tomb has thought of the day when his ancient tomb was discovered before he died, lamenting that he cannot return to his youth, time flies, and he does not treat anyone at all.
In fact, we can often hear the second half of the sentence written by the owner of the tomb. Time is like a wheel that keeps moving forward, unaffected by external factors, whether you like it or not. Especially as young people, everyone should cherish their young time, do not waste time, and regret it when they are old. Just like the owner of the tomb said, people are no longer young, cherish the present, and be positive.