As the old saying goes, a soldier dies for a confidant, and a woman is for a person who pleases herself." For ancient women, careful makeup is a very high etiquette, basically in the face of Ruyi Langjun will be fine powder, in the Great Northwest Xiaohe cemetery, unearthed a female tomb, which actually has a cow died for the beauty, what is going on? Let me reveal the secrets to you:
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In the early 20th century, most of Chinese mainland's northwest was eroded by wind and sand, and large areas of desert made it extremely uninhabitable, but there were still many indigenous people who used their superb hunting skills to survive here. In the spring of 1910, the Rob hunter Oldek went out hunting as usual, but when he was digging traps, he had an unexpected harvest, and he found that under a piece of wind and sand, there seemed to be an ancient tomb buried, but for his own safety reasons, he did not dare to open it.
Twenty years later, the Swedish archaeologist Bergmann came to this desert land, his purpose was to find ancient ruins, driven by interests, Oldek became his guide, the two marched south along the Peacock River, and finally discovered the cemetery, but what happened afterwards was unimaginable to the two, and it was actually a group of cemeteries. Subsequently, Bergmann returned to Europe and published the book "Archaeological Research in Xinjiang" in Stockholm, and since then, the Xiaohe Cemetery Group has become famous all over the world.
After the unremitting efforts of mainland archaeologists, the full picture of the Xiaohe Cemetery has now been displayed in front of the world, the Xiaohe Cemetery Group was built in the ancient period 4000 years ago, its area can reach 2500 square meters, the overall structure is several layers of superimposed state, after repeated stacking of the cemetery, forming an oval sand mountain. A total of 33 tombs have been found in the Xiaohe Cemetery Group, due to the large temperature difference between day and night in the local area, the moisture is easily lost, and a large number of precious wooden cultural relics have been preserved to this day: tall wooden carved human figures, small wooden carved human faces, carved wooden arrows, dark bows, wooden ancestors, red bull heads, snake-shaped wooden poles and copper pieces embedded in wooden structures, etc., they are very precious ancient civilization cultural relics.
Among the many cemeteries, archaeologists had a windfall in a women's cemetery. This is a 3,000-year-old tomb, the owner of the tomb is a Loulan beauty, her dry body is exceptionally well preserved, not inferior to the mummies of ancient Egypt, of course, the two methods of use are completely different, ancient Egyptian mummies need to be filled with various spices, this Loulan woman, but only by the high temperature environment of the desert, completely dried.
But the experts have a new discovery on the waist side of the tomb owner, here is a small bag made of cowhide, its sealing degree is very good, experts speculate that it should be a totem and other relics, but in order to accurately explore the truth, the experts still use synchrotron radiation micro-CT technology for observation, to everyone is puzzled that there is a strange thing, it is a finger-thick object, can not see what it is for. Even a wooden comb shouldn't be just finger-thick, right? The experts were puzzled, and after a meeting and discussion, they decided to take it out and find out.
After careful operation, the utensils in the cowhide bag were taken out, this is indeed a rod body, with the help of isotope tracking technology, experts found that its surface contains a large amount of hematite components, but it is not an inorganic mineral inside, but like an organic matter, the team has a local old expert, he carefully observed that the rod body is the heart of the cow, because he has eaten the dried products of the heart of the cow, he feels that the shape is very similar, along this line of thought, the experts have indeed been confirmed, This is really a piece of cow's heart made of things!
Referring to the discovery of tombs around the world, experts quickly came to a further conclusion, the identity of this cow heart product should be a makeup stick, the cow heart is soft, it will not harm the skin of the face, and at the same time it can perfectly glue the required cosmetic paint, most importantly, the color of the cow heart can be perfectly integrated with the red hematite, so there is no need to worry about the variegated color in the makeup, the local experts also said that the loulan people who lived here in ancient times, the cow is deeply admired, so people who can use the cow heart as a makeup stick, The status of this woman is self-evident.
Through hard work in archaeological excavations, the secret story that the Guloulan people can also wear makeup was finally restored, which not only let us know the secrets of the ancient people's lives, but also let us feel the fun brought to us by history. The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past. Will everything we take for granted today also become an interesting story for future people? It's so much fun to think about!
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. Archaeological Research in Xinjiang by Volcker Bergmann [Sweden]; published by Xinjiang People's Publishing House