The Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences moved quickly.

However, as soon as the rescue excavation of this Nanchang tomb was confirmed, the archaeological team composed of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Research Office and the Qin and Han Research Office of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences set out immediately.

Chen Han, who belonged to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Research Laboratory, was naturally among the members of the archaeological team.

This is not to say that the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences only has Xia, Shang and Zhou and the Qin and Han Research Office working in the field every day. Chen Han can get job opportunities whenever there is a project.

However, the projects of several other research labs, including the Tang and Song Dynasty Research Lab and the Ming and Qing Dynasty Research Lab, could not be traced to Chen Han.

In fact, archaeologists from other research laboratories of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences spend most of the year outside participating in archaeological projects.

It's just that the projects they participated in had nothing to do with Chen Han.

How could he, who studied the archeology of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and at most the Qin and Han dynasties, engage in the archeology of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties?

The last time the Tuyuhun Tomb was excavated in Qinghai, it was because the Tang and Song Dynasty Archaeological Office was really short of manpower at that time, and there were several Tang and Song Dynasty tombs involved in the excavation.

We were really short of manpower, so we borrowed people from Qin Han and Xia, Shang and Zhou research laboratories.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Han would only participate in archaeological work during the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin and Han periods.

For example, the Nanchang Han Dynasty Tomb this time!

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April 15th.

Chen Han, who had just returned to the capital for a few days, followed Kong Jianwen and Professor Li to Nanchang.

Jiangxi is right next door to his hometown, and the temperature and climate are quite similar.

And there are many mountains in Jiangxi.

After arriving here, Chen Han felt as if he had returned to his hometown.

Even the food culture here in Jiangxi is quite different from that in Fujian, which is close to the sea.

After coming out of Nanchang High-speed Railway Station, the first thing I saw were various shops selling powder.

Mixed noodles, snail noodles, fried noodles, soaked noodles, soup noodles...

Various rice noodle restaurants are opened in rows along the roadside.

Although Xinghua rice noodles are also famous in Fujian, Xinghua rice noodles are completely different from Nanchang rice noodles.

Chen Han curiously packed a portion of mixed noodles.

The snow-white round powder looks like white spaghetti.

But the taste is not the same as spaghetti at all, it is chewy and quite good.

At least for Chen Han, who grew up eating rice, the taste of rice noodles made with rice milk is still very popular with him.

After briefly tasting the local delicacies, a group of people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences went directly to Dundun Mountain in Xinjian District, Nanchang, where the tomb was discovered.

On Dundun Mountain, the archaeological team composed of Jiangxi Archaeological Institute and Nanchang Archaeological Institute is already busy exploring the tomb.

When Kong Jianwen and others arrived, several archaeological staff from the Nanchang Archaeological Institute had just climbed out of the robbery hole that was fifteen meters deep.

Before Kong Jianwen and the others could exchange a few words with the leaders of the Jiangxi Institute of Archeology, the archaeologists who crawled out of the robbery cave sighed and said, "These tomb robbers are indeed very professional."

"This robbery hole went directly into the main tomb chamber."

"The scene was a mess. There were some wooden boards scattered on the ground. Even the coffin was sawed open and all the funerary objects inside were gone."

"All the cultural relics in the most important main tomb chamber have been stolen."

"Have all those tomb robbers been caught?"

Wen Yuangen, director of the Jiangxi Institute of Archeology, also sighed: "We are still investigating."

"In a local cultural and toy market in Nanchang, someone was holding a big golden dragon and wanted to sell it. It's almost likely that they were part of this tomb-robbing gang."

"The local police are investigating along this line."

"I hope some cultural relics can be recovered."

If there is any dynasty with the most tomb treasures, it must be the Han Dynasty.

It's not just that the nobles of the Han Dynasty liked to wear jade clothes with gold threads and like to be buried in jade.

The more important reason is the rich burial system advocated by the Han Dynasty.

This led to people in the Han Dynasty, whether they were commoners or nobles, to be buried with the things they used during their lifetime, and their descendants would go bankrupt to prepare some gold and silverware for them.

In fact, the most valuable thing is not these gold and silverware, but the things used by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

If the owner of the tomb is an official, then there is a high probability that the document attachments, books he read, etc. that he reviewed during his lifetime will be buried together.

At present, among the bamboo slips unearthed in the Chinese archaeological community, the largest source is Han bamboo slips!

This is not just because the Han Dynasty was the last glorious period of bamboo slips.

It was also because it was not until the Han Dynasty that bamboo slips began to be widely used as funerary objects.

Before the Han Dynasty, the "knowledge" recorded on bamboo slips needed to be passed down from generation to generation.

Each bamboo slip is the most precious treasure and cannot be taken underground.

Therefore, although the number of Chu bamboo slips unearthed during the Warring States Period is also very large, the number of bamboo slips from the Warring States Period is definitely not comparable to the bamboo slips from the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that most of the modern text archeology of the Pre-Qin period relies on the bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty.

The discovery of countless bamboo slips from the Han Dynasty not only re-revised the history of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, but also saved countless pieces of Chinese culture that had been discontinued.

Various orphan copies, out-of-print articles whose titles are only found in historical records but whose contents are not found, were only brought to light through the excavation of bamboo slips from the Han Dynasty.

After a person in the Han Dynasty died, if he had many favorite books during his lifetime, these books would usually be buried with him.

As for whether these books will lose their inheritance after being buried with them.

of course not!

Before the burial, wouldn't it be better to take the bamboo slips and make a copy of the contents and keep them at home to pass on to the family?

In the old days of Zongzhou, it was not customary to bury the bamboo slips that people had read while alive after their death, so there was no need to do so, but it does not mean that it cannot be done.

"Shura Martial God"

It can be said that the surviving documents of the Han Dynasty, apart from being copied by students of various schools of thought, the biggest reason for copying them was to bury them with their dead ancestors before they copied them again.

In other words, among the tombs of various dynasties currently buried underground, only the tombs of the Han Dynasty are the most important to the origin of Chinese culture!

Countless orphans, rare books, and out-of-print works of sages may be lying quietly in a Han Dynasty tomb, waiting for archaeologists to discover them, waiting for the day they will see the light of day again.

Therefore, although all the gold and silver treasures in the main tomb were stolen, Wen Yuangen was still full of expectations for this tomb.

He asked nervously: "What about the bamboo slips? Are there any bamboo slips found in the main tomb room?"

However, when faced with the chief director's questions, the archaeological staff who came down from the tomb looked a little embarrassed.

"Director, no bamboo slips were found."

Wen Yuangen's face immediately became heavy. He waved his hands and said to himself comfortingly: "It may have been too long, and the bamboo slips buried with him may have been mixed with the soil."

"You still have to go down to the tomb and check it carefully to know."

"As a prince, no matter which Marquis of Haihun this is, he must have read a lot of bamboo slips during his lifetime. It is impossible to be buried without bamboo slips."

"Get ready for the official excavation!"

Wen Yuangen was definitely not willing to accept the fact that there were no bamboo slips.

It’s just that other archaeological workers have very complicated moods.

All the cultural relics in the main tomb room have been stolen. If there are not even bamboo slips, then this large tomb that has only been seen in Nanchang for a hundred years will probably end in a big way.
Chapter completed!