"Box?"

"Is this a bamboo hat?"

The eyes of Su Sa, Lin Ya and Zhuang Yunpeng were all attracted by the thing Chen Han fished out from the saddlebag, and they were all talking about it.

There is a lot of black sediment in the saddlebag, so when it is taken out, it looks like it was dug out of sludge.

But this does not affect everyone's observation at all.

Rectangular, woven with a double-layer "herringbone" pattern, reinforced with bamboo slices around the perimeter, and wrapped with rattan.

Judging from the production technique, it is similar to the rattan woven boxes commonly seen in rural areas of southwest China.

However, in terms of shape, it looks a bit like bamboo stalks.

Bamboo bamboo basket is a bamboo utensil similar to a fishing bamboo cage in the Western Han Dynasty, with reversed bamboo pieces installed in the mouth.

To this day, fishing cages woven with bamboo strips are still used in some places to catch fish.

It's just that tools used for fishing should not be placed in the coffin. Even if they are buried with them, they can only be placed in the tomb.

Moreover, the owner of the tomb is a nobleman, so it is unlikely that he can catch fish himself, right?

Zhang Jianbo judged with certainty: "I don't think it looks like it. It should be a box woven with bamboo and rattan."

"Clean it up, open it and take a look!"

Chen Han nodded in agreement, picked up the big "bamboo box", and prepared to open it for inspection.

At this moment, other people also received good news one after another.

Perhaps because they had discovered a new layer of funerary objects, Wang Weida, Lin Ya, and Su Sa also cleared out four "bamboo boxes" of similar styles from the saddlebags one after another.

It's just that the sizes are different. The one on Chen Han's hand is the largest, and the others are slightly smaller. The length is only about thirty centimeters, the width is about ten or twenty centimeters, and the height is only the bamboo box on Chen Han's hand.

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This also made Chen Han even more excited.

The discovery of these five bamboo boxes was a unique "blind box opening" trip for them.

The blind box in Chen Han's hand is definitely the one most likely to open good things!

It has to be a hidden model or a rare model!

After calming down his somewhat excited heart, Chen Han immediately started to open this "blind box"!

After carefully looking around the bamboo box, he quickly found the opening.

Even after two thousand years, this bamboo box is still in very good condition due to being soaked in water for a long time.

Apart from being a little "soft", they are not stuck together.

Chen Han just gently lifted the cover above the box, and the situation inside the box was revealed before his eyes.

"Damn it, this is the Five Treasures of the Study, isn't it?!"

An exclamation of excitement that could not be concealed came from Chen Han's mouth.

I saw pens, ink, tablets, inkstones, and sharpeners quietly placed on the top floor of the box!

For the Western Han Dynasty, these five things were the five treasures of the scholar's study.

In an era when there was no white paper, tablets and bamboo slips were the mainstream methods used to record text.

A slippery slip is a piece of wood that is wider than the bamboo slips used. It is suitable for writing official documents or letters. A slippery slipper can write dozens to nearly a hundred characters.

Chipping is a tool used to remove typos written on wooden slips or bamboo slips. It is also called a carving knife or a book knife.

In the era after white paper became popular, white paper was cheap and easy to spread. If literati and ink writers made a mistake when writing, they could just change to another piece of paper and write again.

However, in an era before paper appeared, slips and bamboo slips were scarce items. They were very troublesome to make, and their value was not low, so they could not be wasted.

So before paper became popular in the Western Jin Dynasty.

When the ancients wrote with slippers and simplified slips, if they made a mistake, they would need to use a sharpener to trim off the wrong character, and then continue writing.

This will not lead to a waste of transition between Dou and Jane.

"Hey, this is a cultural person, maybe a bureaucrat!" Chen Han casually picked up a blank wooden slip in the bamboo box and guessed with some uncertainty.

The Western Han Dynasty was not the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were not so many scholars and scholar-bureaucrats.

Although it experienced the contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Warring States Period.

But by the Qin and Han Dynasties, "knowledge" was still something that could only be controlled by a small elite class.

It is very difficult for the poor class to learn knowledge.

If a poor person is very lucky to study and become an educated person who can write seal script, then at least he can work as a swordsman and pen official and become one of the bureaucratic class of the Western Han Dynasty.

Since the tomb owner’s funerary items included a complete set of five treasures from his study, as well as blank wooden tablets.

It is very possible that the owner of this tomb was a bureaucrat in the Western Han Dynasty during his lifetime.

People who are not officials, even if they are educated, mostly read with bamboo slips, and rarely use the Four Treasures of the Study.

At that time, there was no interest in reciting poems and writing poems, there were no poetry gatherings or ci gatherings, and there was no talk of being a literati.

Scholars really just read, and most of the time they read with bamboo slips in their hands.

Instead of just writing and drawing with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

At that time, only the bureaucratic class would use the Five Treasures of the Study extensively, because they needed to write a large number of official documents, convey government orders, and record local governance situations.

Based on the experience of Western Han Dynasty tombs excavated by Chinese archaeologists.

Most of the tomb owners whose grave goods contained a complete set of study utensils were officials during their lifetime.

For example, the famous "Mr. Xi" from the famous "Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Slips" was unearthed from the tomb.

In his tomb, 1,155 bamboo slips were unearthed that can be studied.

What is recorded above are all Xi’s daily work records written down stroke by stroke by Xi’s lifelong dedication, as well as medical, calligraphy, documents, and law-related books handwritten by him!

There was not a single valuable item in his tomb that could be called a "treasure".

However, these bamboo slips written and left behind by him are actually an important batch of Chinese cultural heritage!

They are a group of amazing treasures that record the splendid civilization of the Qin Dynasty!

When he saw this study treasure in the bamboo box, the hairs on Chen Han's body immediately stood up.

The expectations in my heart immediately soared to the top!

What if, by any chance, the owner of tomb No. 168 is a bureaucrat like Mr. Xi!

And a large number of bamboo slips that recorded the culture, political affairs, people's livelihood, medicine, and his own work experience during the Western Han Dynasty were buried in the coffin room.

Then, this will be a shocking treasure that will shock China!

Mr. Xi gave modern people a comprehensive understanding of Qin's laws, social systems, people's livelihood, and the living conditions of the people at the bottom.

The contents of the bamboo slips he left behind include the medical level of the Qin State, the state affairs and conquests of the Qin State, the training methods of officials, the complete legislative system and a complete torture process of the Qin Dynasty, as well as more than 20 kinds of strict and thoughtful laws.

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There are even the earliest records of forensic science theory and practice in the world!

It clearly brings modern people to understand the most glorious state of the Qin Empire more than 2,000 years ago!
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