More than 10,000 years ago, the primitive ancestors mastered the technology of pottery burning, and with the development of society, the pottery technology has become more and more mature, in addition to firing pottery pots and clay pots and other living utensils, it can also burn lifelike pigs, dogs, chickens and cows, and even burn pottery coffins. For example, archaeologists have discovered a coffin of Eastern Han pottery, revealing for us the superb technique of han dynasty pottery. What kind of clay coffin is it? If you also want to see the real face, the following Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you from the beginning:
This afternoon, several archaeologists drove to Master Zhang's home, and after some investigation, they determined that Master Zhang found an ancient tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and carried out archaeological excavations of the tomb in the following days. In the process of cleaning, experts found two other Eastern Han tombs, although the specifications of these three tombs are very ordinary, and the burial items are only some clay pots, clay figurines and ordinary coins, but one of the tombs found a treasure.
In the tomb numbered M2, experts excavated and found a lot of broken pottery pieces of different sizes, their surfaces are smooth, about 2 centimeters thick, obviously not the pottery used in daily life, so the experts are also very confused, what are these pottery pieces? With the deepening of excavations, more and more pieces of broken pottery have been excavated, and the remains of the owner of the tomb have been excavated at the bottom, so experts speculate that the broken pottery pieces should be a crushed pottery coffin. In order to verify this hypothesis, experts spliced the excavated pottery pieces, and finally after more than a month of efforts, they repaired it completely, and found that it was indeed a pottery coffin, about 1.84 meters long, about 0.56 meters high, and about 0.47 meters wide.
Judging from previous archaeological findings, the pottery coffin unearthed at Dadukou is the third largest known pottery coffin in mainland China, and the other two are: a 1.89-meter Han Dynasty pottery coffin found in Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province in 1981, and a 1.93-meter Han Dynasty large pottery coffin found in Ranjiawan, Fuling, Chongqing in 2008. In the funeral ritual system in the mainland, the use of pottery as a burial tool can be traced back to the Yangshao culture period more than 7,000 years ago, but at that time, the most was Tao Weng, so the discovery of pottery coffins played a great role in the study of ancient funerary systems. With the development of civilization, the ancients had a new understanding of burial, and in line with the idea of "death is like life", burial utensils should be as luxurious as possible.
As a result, the ancients began to use wooden coffins and sarcophagus, and they were all the best wood and stone, and asked the best technical masters to make them by hand. Later, more expensive copper and gold coffins appeared. In any case, the ancients all pursued luxurious burial utensils, but the above burial tools and ceramic coffins are different. Whether it is a wooden coffin, a sarcophagus and a copper coffin and a gold coffin, only the material can be made, but it is difficult to make a pottery coffin, because the pottery is a very technical industry, especially for the huge ceramic coffin, not only need to have a large enough kiln, the craftsman also needs to accurately grasp the fire temperature and time, so the success rate of the pottery coffin is about one in a thousand.
The most commendable thing is that the pottery coffin has one of the biggest advantages, that is, after thousands of years, it will not rot.
The experts are very fortunate to be able to unearth the pottery coffins of the Han Dynasty, showing us the superb pottery burning technology of the Craftsmen of the Han Dynasty, and also showing that the pottery coffin culture in Chongqing was very popular during the Han Dynasty, which led to the development and progress of the pottery burning technology in the area. Xiaobian believes that experts will find more pottery coffins in the near future, unveiling a deeper hidden historical mystery for us.