What is this?
Guess what...
Didn't expect it
This is a Han Dynasty bamboo jane
What you see is it after a thousand years of slumber
Stretch the first "lazy waist" ~ ~ ~
Tomb of marquis Xiahou of the Western Han Dynasty, Jiangxi
It is currently discovered by the mainland
The largest area, the best preservation, the richest connotation
Ruins of the Han Dynasty Marquis settlement
More than 5,200 bamboo and wood tablets were unearthed in the tomb
It is one of the most important discoveries
Jianmu includes bamboo jane, wooden jane, bamboo and wooden mu
It is one of the main forms of ancient Chinese books
It is also a "priceless treasure" in archaeological discoveries
Beginning of May 2015
After the tomb of the Marquis of Haidian was cleared in the northwest corner
Its west cloister has a complex phenomenon of accumulation
There was a pile of mud there, a mess
There are scattered patent leather, complex artifacts piled up
No one thought of the rotten blackened thing in the mud bar
It's – Bamboo Jane!
More than 5,200 bamboo tablets excavated from the tomb of Liu He of the Han Dynasty in Nanchang
It involves many classics of traditional Chinese studies, such as "Poetry", "Spring and Autumn", and "Analects"
as well as relevant documents from the period of Liu He's ren Changyi Andhou Hai
It is not just a major discovery of unearthed classic literature
It is also for the study of the western Han Dynasty king and marquis hierarchy
As well as the education and culture of the upper class, new physical materials were provided
On the occasion of the Year of the Tiger
The research team of Hai Di Jian Mu once again sent heavy news:
In a "Yi" literature, there are "tigers" infested
Also appeared four times!!
(An infrared photograph of a bamboo strip with a "tiger.") Courtesy of Jiangxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
Including tigers
A total of ten zodiac animals appear in Zhujian
Experts compare similar unearthed literature to believe
During the Western Han Dynasty, there was already a zodiac system
However, it is not fully finalized
Lai Zulong, a member of the research team and a researcher at the Jiangxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, introduced it
Discover this batch of bamboo strips of zodiac animals
Because the content appears the same as today's "Zhou Yi"
Yin and Yang symbols, sixty-four gua gua order
As well as information such as season, direction, month, etc
It was named "Easy" Jane
It is speculated that the ancients combined this information
Perform divination and ask for good fortune
The Zodiac does not appear quite in the Bamboo Jane
Only ten of them appeared:
Rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, chickens, pigs
Monkeys did not appear, but appeared cockroaches (long-tailed apes)
The dog was gone
The origin of the zodiac is still a mystery
Lai Zulong said
Twelve birds recorded in the Sleeping Tiger Di Qin Jian in Hubei Province
It is similar to today's Zodiac
It is also the earliest excavated document linking twelve species of animals to the twelve earth branches
Until the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Chong's "On Balance"
Only then did the zodiac signs, which were exactly the same as today's
It is more than 1900 years old
The discovery of zodiac animals in the sea dusk
Let people have a clearer understanding of the evolution of the zodiac
Li Zero, a member of the research team and Chair Professor of Humanities at Peking University
It is written in the article "The First Interpretation of the Book of Yi Zhan"
In the past, most people thought that the thirty-six birds were an enlargement and supplement of the zodiac
That is, twelve sticks in December
Monthly and then divided into Meng Zhongji
This constitutes the number of thirty-six
Now it seems
The Zodiac is instead developed and shaped by thirty-six birds
Twelve species of animals that match the twelve branches of the earth
Gradually evolved in the process of easy occupation
Resembles the zodiac signs of people and things in society
He compares the sea dusk "Easy" Jane with the Sleeping Tiger Di Qin Jane,
After putting Ma Tan Qin Jian and Kong Jia Po Han Jian speculated
"Rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, chickens, pigs"
It was determined to be the Zodiac around the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties
"Dragons, snakes, horses, sheep" should have been determined in the early Western Han Dynasty
The latest to be determined may be the two animals "monkey and dog"
Because in the above four literatures
The late Jane era of "Easy" is the latest
Except for the zodiac animals on the bamboo strip
There are also "leopards, fish, jackals, wolves, dragons, geese"
These belong to the animals of thirty-six birds
And "mantis (larvae of scarab beetles), cranes, ostriches (roe deer), finches" and so on
Some animals that do not appear in the zodiac and thirty-six birds
Nowadays, zodiac culture
It has become an important part of the traditional culture
The Zodiac has also become the mascot of the Spring Festival
New archaeological discoveries can fill in or correct history
But it also brings new puzzles
Like what
This year's mascot, the tiger
Why does it appear more frequently in the "Easy" Jane?
Does it represent its status as the king of all beasts?
The Han Dynasty 2000 years ago,
How to use the sixty-four trigrams to cooperate with many animals to divinate the auspiciousness?
Everything is still to be revealed...
Source: Jiangxi Publishing Comprehensive Science and Technology Daily, Xinhua News Agency Jiangxi Branch, Half Moon Talk, Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Editors: Zhu Jiaming, Xiong Xiuji
The cultural relics unearthed in Jiangxi are really wonderful~
Light up and
I wish you all "Year of the Tiger and Good Luck"!