pappabearbooks Chapter 1384: Dragon Pattern Soul Bottle
Chapter 1384: Dragon Pattern Soul Bottle
"Tell me about their origins?" Lu Yang seemed to be testing Lin Ran's ability.
Lin Ran replied: "These two tombs are buried together. They are typical stone-slab tombs of couples from the Song Dynasty. There is a high possibility that copper or porcelain can be found in such tombs, but the probability of being valuable is not high because they are the tombs of common people." ."
He looked at Lu Yang in confusion, time was precious, how could he have time to linger on such an ancient tomb?
However, an old man with one eye who was blind came out next to him. He was the leader of the team. He smiled and said: "Little brother, you still have some eyesight. Yes, this is the stone slab tomb of the Song Dynasty."
After saying that, they took out shovels and seemed ready to open the grave.
"What good things can be found in this?" Lin Ran frowned.
A team like Liu Jingfeng's team would never give this kind of ancient tomb a second look.
The opponent's team is so big, but they don't even want to leave such a small tomb.
Those buried inside are, at most, small local landowners, and they can have some good stuff.
"The probability of finding something good from a Song Dynasty stone slab tomb is indeed low, but after all, it is a thing that has been around for thousands of years, so we took the opportunity to pry it for him." Lu Yang lit a dry cigarette beside him.
The others got busy, took out their Luoyang shovels and shovels, and started working next to the ancient tomb.
It didn't take long for the first stone slab to be pried up.
This stone slab is about thirty centimeters thick and is a typical Song tomb stone.
Obviously this is not a big tomb. When you pry it open, it turns out to be a coffin.
There is no lower limit for these people, and they will smash the coffin with a shovel.
What he did was completely the style of the Northern Tufuzi.
Four people had already pried open the coffin lid. They climbed to the top of the tomb at the same time, and then inserted a steel drill into the middle of the lid at the four corners.
They shouted slogans at the same time and worked hard together, completely tilting the coffin up.
To their surprise, there was nothing inside the coffin.
"Damn, it's an empty coffin."
Several other people worked together to overturn another cover, and Lin Ran went over to take a look.
Both ancient tombs are the same, both are empty inside, and there is a lot of soil inside the coffin.
Not all ancient tombs are the same as the tombs of princes and nobles. After all, the body is buried in the soil, which basically means it is integrated with nature.
In particular, the quality of this coffin is not very good. As long as there is a gap and it is not sealed properly, the soil will directly sink into the coffin and gradually fill it up.
The corpse must have been turned into fertilizer and integrated with the soil.
I just hope the antiques inside are not crushed.
Others took out shovels and began to shovel out the soil from the coffin.
But their work has to be very meticulous. If you are not careful, you will damage the antiques inside, and then the work will be in vain.
Lin Ran sat nearby and frowned, watching their behavior.
"Mr. Lu, where is the big tomb you mentioned?"
Lu Yang smiled slightly, but did not answer, but said that it was still early, so there was no need to rush.
Guan Yun said angrily: "We came here for the legendary tomb, and you actually brought us to dig someone else's grave?"
Even if this is a group of tombs, they will dig a tomb whenever they see it. They want to leave, but they don't know how to wait until the year of the monkey.
Wan Zhen also joined the shoveling ranks.
I dug down about thirty centimeters and still found no burial objects.
Only then did he shake his head: "There are no burial objects."
"We haven't finished digging yet, continue." Lu Yang directed from the side.
Wan Zhen didn't talk nonsense and continued to pick up the Luoyang shovel and dig down the soil.
He wanted to keep digging. In fact, Lin Ran already understood his intention.
Because of this stone slab tomb, there are two standing stone slabs with lotus flowers carved on the inside.
In ancient times, this represented a beautiful meaning.
Ordinary people don't understand, at least they are literati.
"Do you want to take the tombstone back too?" Lin Ran asked.
"No, doesn't selling Yin engravings cost someone's life? We don't make money." Lu Yang took a puff of his cigarette and laughed.
He was quite satisfied with Lin Ran's vision, because these two tomb slabs could be sold for a lot of money if they were treated as ordinary carved stone slabs without telling others their origins.
Under his orders, the local masters worked very hard.
After a while, the grave soil accumulated next to it was half a meter high.
"There's something!" Wan Zhen reminded with the brightest eyes.
Then the other local masters stopped shoveling the soil.
Wan Zhen squatted down, slowly opened the soil next to him with a small shovel, and dug out a yellow bottle from the soil.
Judging from the shape, it should be a vase?
Lin Ran also came up to watch the fun, but when he saw the bottle, he frowned.
From the outside, this bottle is relatively well-made. It looks like an earthen jar with a dragon pattern carved on it.
Wan Zhen said happily: "It's a dragon! Is this the royal family's stone tomb?"
Lin Ran found it funny when he said it. Which royal family would use a stone tomb as their final destination.
He explained: "Brother Wan Zhen, you have misunderstood. This is just an ordinary soul bottle. In the Song Dynasty, not only the royal family could use dragons."
People now generally believe that in the feudal era, the dragon was a symbol of the emperor and was taboo among common people.
In fact, this phenomenon only became popular from the Yuan Dynasty. Before the Yuan Dynasty, both the folk and the royal family could use dragon and phoenix patterns.
After the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, due to lack of understanding of the Central Plains culture, the image of "dragon" was monopolized.
Starting from them, ordinary people are no longer allowed to wear clothing with dragon and phoenix patterns, and even shops are not allowed to manufacture and sell cloth containing dragon and phoenix patterns. If anyone violates this, he will be sentenced to beheading.
But in China, the dragon has always been a totem representing auspiciousness, and the dragon pattern has a long history.
It was banned all of a sudden, and people naturally had great opinions.
After much consideration, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty decided to make changes.
So the dragons were divided into different grades.
The highest level among them is the five-clawed golden dragon, which is reserved exclusively for the emperor.
Other three-claw and four-claw dragon patterns are allowed to be used by civilians, which can be regarded as a gentle technique.
However, it was only after the Ming Dynasty that all this was completely banned.
After the Ming Dynasty, the folk were not allowed to use dragon patterns at all. Therefore, in most people's impression, dragons are only royal objects.
This was not the case in the Song Dynasty.
Wan Zhen had a regretful expression on his face, but after thinking about it, he knew how could such a small tomb be a royal tomb.
He remembered Lin Ran's words just now and asked, "What do you mean when you say this is a soul bottle?"
"The soul bottle is not a burial object, but an open weapon." Lin Ran explained, "You'd better put it back in the tomb. No one will buy this thing."
"Are you reliable?" The person next to him didn't trust Lin Ran very much to begin with. When he heard him denying his victory, he suddenly became unhappy.