Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 552 Clothes and Beasts
Shen Yunfeng found a beast head inlaid in the lower part of the sarcophagus. He leaned over to see what kind of beast it was, but accidentally touched a mechanism, and a burst of iron chains dragged on the stone surface. After the sound, the stone wall with many talismans carved on it suddenly split into two, and an extremely realistic stone servant slid out from inside.

After carefully looking at the stone servant, Shen Yunfeng suddenly discovered that the stone servant hidden in the stone wall looked like twins with exactly the same height, weight and clothing. The only difference was the head. The one facing the stone coffin was a Wu Xi. The appearance of an adult man without sorrow, but the face of a fox facing the ax-carved stone wall.

The pair of blue eyeballs on the left and green eyes on the right side of the fox's face should be made of extremely rare gemstones. They were so vivid that Shen Yunfeng even had hallucinations, feeling that the eyeballs were moving with him.

After observing for a while, he was sure that the fox eyes had not really come alive, Shen Yunfeng sniffled, and then continued to bend down to look at the animal head he found earlier.

Before opening the coffin, to find out the identity of the owner of the tomb, we can only rely on some features on the sarcophagus.

In ancient times, after people died, they were buried without coffins. It is said that the earliest coffins were made of tiles, that is, pottery. It was not until the Shang Dynasty that wooden coffins appeared.

With the help of "Book of Rites, Tan Gong Shang" and "Sang Da Ji", we can research the funeral system of the Zhou Dynasty. The so-called emperor's coffin has four weights, princes have three weights, princes have one weight, doctors have one weight, and scholars have no weight.It means that after the death of the emperor, in addition to the accident of the inner coffin, there will be four layers of outer coffins outside, making a total of five layers of coffins.

And each layer of coffins has its specific name, the outermost layer is called the big coffin, the second layer is called the genus, and these two layers of coffins are made of catalpa wood, so they are also called catalpa coffins or catalpa palaces. The first layer of the coffin is called Yi or Bi, and the material used is basswood. The fourth and fifth layers are leather coffins made of buffalo and rhinoceros leather (did you think of Russian nesting dolls?).

Then starting from the princes and ministers, according to their respective grades, they began to decrease from the inside to the outside, and finally reached the rank of scholars, only the big coffins remained, and the coffins could not be used.

In addition to strict regulations on the number of coffins, there are also strict regulations on the size of the coffins and the materials used for interior and exterior decoration. The description of the size of the coffin in "Mourning Records" is as follows: "The king's (this refers to the princes) has a big coffin of eight inches, which belongs to six inches, and the secret is four inches. The scholar-bureaucrat's big coffin is eight inches, which belongs to six inches. The lower official's big coffin is six inches, It belongs to four inches, and the scholar's coffin is six inches."

As for the decorative materials of the coffin, it is stipulated as follows: "The king's lid is made of lacquer, three gussets (the wooden tenons connecting the coffin lid and the body) and three bundles (tied with leather strips or silk). The doctor's lid is made of lacquer, two bundles and two bundles. The cover does not need to be painted, and has two folds and two bunches." The interior of the coffin is decorated with red and green silk, fixed with gold nails and ivory nails. The doctor uses black and green silk, fixed with ox bone nails. The warriors only use black silk and are fixed with ox bone nails. "

The stone coffin that Shen Yunfeng discovered was rough in workmanship. Even the wooden coffin inside seemed to have been completed in a hurry. If you want to use them to judge the grade of the tomb owner, it is very difficult. The only characteristic at present is that it appears in the stone coffin. The animal head on it.

Judging from the large number of weapons that appeared in the tomb, it can be concluded that the owner of the tomb should be a military general. In ancient times, there were strict regulations on which animals were used by which officials were rated.

Like the strict hierarchy of coffins, the ancients also attached great importance to the ceremonial communication role of clothing. Han Yingshao wrote in "Customs. Formal. Ye Ling Temple", "The Emperor of Heaven wants to summon me! I wear clothes for bathing, sleeping in it, and covering the toilet." Stand up and cover up." The appearance of official uniforms fully illustrates this point.

After the official uniforms are made in advance, the patterns symbolizing the size of the official position are embroidered later, so they are also called mending the uniforms. Different official positions have different patterns. As long as you see what animal is embroidered on the official uniforms, you will know the person. He is an official of several grades.

There is also a difference between civilian officials and military attachés. Civilian officials use birds as patterns on their uniforms, while military attaches often use animal patterns.

If the civil official is in the first rank, the embroidered crane will be embroidered on the official uniform; if it is the second rank, it will be a golden pheasant. For egrets, the eighth-rank is quail, and the worst nine-rank is sparrow.These patterns of birds are embroidered on the patches of official uniforms, highlighting the elegance and elegance of civil servants.

Then the military officers are also different. Military officers embroider unicorns for the first rank, lions for the second rank, leopards for the third rank, tigers for the fourth rank, bears for the fifth rank, buffaloes for the sixth rank, and both for the seventh and eighth ranks. It is a rhinoceros, the lowest rank of nine, and a seahorse.The pattern of beasts embroidered on the supplementary uniforms of official uniforms can highlight the military officer's masculinity and might.

If the wooden coffin can be opened and the clothes of the tomb owner can be seen, then the identity of the tomb owner can be determined, but now that the coffin cannot be opened, Shen Yunfeng wants to use another method to confirm his identity.

That is to look at the animal head embedded outside the sarcophagus.

However, to Shen Yunfeng's great surprise, the animal head was not what he had taken for granted, neither a unicorn, nor a lion, tiger, bear, leopard, nor rhinoceros and seahorse, but a horse with a single horn on its head.

After seeing the beast's head clearly, Shen Yunfeng felt for a moment that he was seeing Pegasus, the fantasy creature in Western mythology who was born from the blood of the succubus Medusa.

However, the cold sweat on his back and the tomb he was in reminded Shen Yunfeng that where he was now was an ancient Chinese tomb.

Squatting in front of the sarcophagus, I studied it for a long time, but I couldn't figure it out.

Some cold air was blown in from the hole from time to time, and the cold sweat on Shen Yunfeng's back was dry and wet, wet and dry.

He kept squatting on the ground, staring closely at the animal head that should not appear on the sarcophagus, trying hard to find some clues from the archaeological knowledge he learned in school.

After another cold sweat broke out on his back, Shen Yunfeng stood up slowly.

Since he couldn't find the answer from this fantasy animal head, he felt that it seemed that the research direction should be put on the stone servant who appeared inexplicably again.

When he went to look at the stone servant again, Shen Yunfeng suddenly discovered that there was a slight crack on the stone servant, starting from the top of the head and extending to the feet.

Moreover, just when he was about to get closer to the stone maid for a closer look, there was an extremely slight clicking sound in his ears without warning.

Just like, the bones of the human body are constantly rubbing and growing after being hit by external forces.

(End of this chapter)