Since ancient times, countless treasures and cultural relics can be excavated in the tombs of many emperors. The tomb of the King of Nanyue is different, and later generations have excavated fourteen kinds of seafood in it, one of which is unaffordable for ordinary people. Do you know what's going on? Xiaobian this is to reveal the secret for you.
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In 1983, a group of construction workers were working on the Xianggang in Guangzhou, but when the steel shovel of the excavator went down, they only heard a loud "click", and they actually shoveled a huge "strip of stone" in the soil layer. Where are the stones in the soil? This kind of stone was generally used in large mausoleums, and sure enough, when this strip of stone was lifted, there was a complete imperial mausoleum underneath, the tomb of Zhao Hu, the king of Nanyue Wen. This news soon shocked the archaeological community, after all, many emperors are always targeted by tomb robbers when they are buried, and most of the treasures in the tomb are stolen, but Zhao Hu is different, his tomb is a secret burial, so the whole mausoleum is very completely preserved.
The archaeological team finally cleared out more than 10,000 cultural relics, which not only included rare cultural relics such as the "Wendi Xingxi" gold seal, the wrong gold inscription Tiger Festival, the jade horn cup and the printed copper plate mold, but also several very rare treasures, such as the "pearl pillow", which is the pillow under Zhao Hu's head, and the pillow inside is a pillow core made of pearls. In the South Vietnamese era, "pearls" were rare treasures, and Zhao Hu used thousands of pearls as pillows at a time, which was too luxurious. The second is the "mask with gold pieces", which covers Zhao Hu's face. I saw that on this masked scarf made of silk, there were eight apricot-shaped gold flakes, and the pattern also had a goat's horn pattern that blessed the owner of the tomb with a peaceful sleep. The third is the clothes that Zhao Hu wore on his upper body when he was buried--beads. Why the name? It is a short tunic decorated with small beads, the hem of the short top has three stripes, and the gold bubble decoration on the stripe is very fine, and it needs the help of 20 times the magnifier to see the fine solder joints on it.
While archaeologists were marveling at the treasures, someone found food in the stone chamber next to it. For example, the delicious Qiao Flower Sparrow, and a Yue-style Ding, which contains pigs, chickens, fish and other skeletons, it is conceivable that when buried, it must be full of all kinds of hearty food, and the aroma is fragrant. Unfortunately, most of the food has disappeared over time, leaving only the skeletons of these animals.
However, it is not unusual for ancient emperors to use pigs, cows and mutton to accompany burials, and surprisingly, archaeologists have also found traces of 14 kinds of aquatic products here. They are ear-shaped ear snails, grooved bamboo shoot snails, green cockles, wedge-shaped axe clams, river clams, turtle feet, barnacles, real shrimp, yellow croakers, Cantonese bream, bone fish, Chinese flower turtles, etc. Some of these seafood only have shells, some seafood but only bones, relying on archaeologists to carefully distinguish, to identify their identities.
Among these 14 aquatic products, the appearance of "barnacles" is particularly surprising. Commonly known as "horse's tooth", barnacles are arthropods attached to the rocks of the sea, generally forming dense communities. Don't look at barnacles as hermaphrodites that can be bred all year round, but they only grow in tropical seas, and their species and numbers decline as the distance from shore increases. So it's not easy for people on the coast to catch it.
In ancient times, the "Yuhuan Kanmen Town Chronicle" recorded: "Or have spare time, go to the beach rock recess to catch conchs, knock barnacles, and chat about filling dishes." The "Binh Duong Fishery Chronicle" also said: "Heavy salting can be hidden for a long time." "Wenzhou Folklore" also said: "The shell is nearly cylindrical, the inner shell is composed of triangular shell pieces, the shell color is red and purple, often densely attached to the rocks near the low tide line between the islands and reefs, and it is dug in March and June and July of the lunar calendar every year, blanched in soup, knocked out the shell, and then steamed with spices to accompany the meal." ”
It can be seen that once the barnacles are attached to the boat, they will endanger the aquatic products in the cabin, and have long been used as food by fishermen along the coast of our country, and it can be steamed and eaten, pickled and eaten, with a variety of tricks and very delicious. However, the ancient traffic is backward, inland people want to eat seafood is very difficult, not to mention this small number and difficult to catch the rare creatures, even in the traffic developed today, it is still most people can not afford to eat seafood, the King of South Vietnam is worthy of the emperor, in the world to taste the world's food, buried also with "seafood", is really a top "foodie".
Although the news of "seafood" excavated in the tombs of the South Vietnamese kings is surprising, but the seafood of barnacles, many modern people can not afford to eat, but marine life contains a lot of protein, which can not only improve human immunity, but also help the human body to destalt, in short, eat more fish is always right.
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, this article is written by: Special history writer: Feng Doudou