When everyone watches some costume TV series, they all know that the dragon chair where the emperor sits is made of the best gold silk nan wood, which is very precious. This wood is also unique to The Country, with an aroma of its own, the wood is tight, and the surface of the wood has gold wire and a silk-like texture. As early as the Yuan Dynasty, it was selected as a material for court furniture. Today, this rare wood was inadvertently discovered during a construction.
In 2000, workers were building a new commercial street in the downtown area of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, as planned. Everyone's work is very busy, but the whole project is still in order. Suddenly, someone seemed to dig up wood like a boat under the ground. The workers soon realized that it was possible that artifacts had been dug up. Therefore, the archaeological team was immediately notified to come to the construction site.
After the archaeologists rushed to the scene, they found that these ship coffins were made of gold silk nan wood, a total of 17 pieces, but because the time buried under the ground was too long, so as long as a light touch, it will cause some damage to the cultural relics themselves, and also lose their original luster.
How to protect these cultural relics has become a tricky problem for archaeologists. However, to their surprise, at the same time as the discovery of the golden silk nan wooden coffin, some other cultural relics were unearthed, such as pottery, ancient coins and bronzes. This surprised the archaeologists, who consulted historical sources to find out the origin of the ship's coffin and finally got the answer they wanted.
These ship coffins are from the Warring States period tomb group, that is, the Enlightened Ming Dynasty, which was built in 666 BC from the Warring States period more than 2400 to 2600 years ago. The appearance of golden silk coffins and other cultural relics is of great historical significance for the study of the culture of this dynasty. Seeing this, people can't help but marvel at the wisdom of the ancients and the technical level of craftsmen.
In such an era when all aspects of the conditions were scarce, it must have taken a lot of time and energy to make so many pottery, ancient coins and bronzes. In addition, through more than 2 months of meticulous excavation, archaeologists found that the area of the cemetery is 600 square meters, which is not simple.
From here, it can also be seen that the ancient people attached great importance to funerals, especially those nobles with status and status, they must be prepared in advance to make all preparations related to funerals, before they will be buried, which is still a big project in modern times, but they have completed their tasks with perseverance, which is really not simple.