Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 558
Because of Shen Yunfeng's sudden action, he saved a very possibly precious cultural relic. The chief person in charge of the ancient tomb excavation site, Director Qiu of the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, changed some of his views on Shen Yunfeng. He took Professor Yang of Han University and another expert Qi Lao from the Bureau of Cultural Protection and left the tomb.

Mr. Wang had heard that Shen Yunfeng graduated from the Department of Archeology of Han University, and now he is working as a treasurer in an antique shop. After seeing Shen Yunfeng's actions today, he also understood what Director Qiu meant, so he decided to test Shen Yunfeng's professional ability.

He smiled and asked, "Young man, tell me, if my little colleague opened the wooden box forcibly just now, what damage would it do to the cultural relics inside?"

On the side, Wu Yanan slowed down, carefully cleaned the soil on the unearthed cultural relics, and strained his ears to hear what Shen Yunfeng had to say.

Shen Yunfeng didn't know that Wang Lao asked himself because he had other thoughts, thought for a while, and combined with some of his previous experience, he answered seriously: "I have never seen this kind of mirror box that was just excavated from the ancient tomb, but because of work I have handled three or five letter boxes."

"I noticed just now that this mirror box is a bit similar to a letter box. The two drawers are artificially sealed and buried deep in the tomb. It has been in a near-vacuum state for so many years."

Mr. Wang scratched his thinning hair and said with a smile: "Yes, at first when I saw the mirror case on the top, I thought it was a wooden box containing letters, but it was only when I got down that I saw clearly that it was a dressing box."

"After so many years, every cultural relic in the tomb is in a semi-vacuum environment. When we take them out of the soil, the surface of these cultural relics has already oxidized, especially for wooden products like this. If the method is not proper If you open it rashly, the cultural relics inside are likely to accelerate oxidation and cause some irreversible reactions."

After finishing speaking, seeing that Shen Yunfeng seemed to have something to say, Mr. Wang smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, I seem to have interrupted your train of thought."

"Haha, I have studied cultural relics all my life. When I hear others talk about a certain aspect, I can't help but add a few words."

Shen Yunfeng smiled and said: "When I was in college, our Teacher Chen had this habit. I have long been used to saying something you don't like to hear."

Mr. Wang laughed loudly, pointed to the outside of the tomb and said, "Oh, it turns out that Mr. Chen also taught you. I thought it was only Professor Yang who taught you."

Wang Lao is also an old fox. He has long seen that as a professor of the Department of Archeology of Han University, Professor Yang, as Shen Yunfeng's mentor at the beginning, has not been very enthusiastic since Shen Yunfeng came to the archaeological team. A little repulsive.

Especially the scene of Zi Ah's tomb that happened just now, when Mr. Wang and Mr. Qi were on it at that time, some of the things they saw were more intriguing.

Elder Wang felt that if Shen Yunfeng hadn't acted resolutely and spoke with reason, it would be Shen Yunfeng who was transferred from his job at this time, or even left, and not his little colleague Xiao Luo from the Cultural Protection Bureau.

Because, the way Professor Yang looked at Shen Yunfeng at that time, Mr. Wang could see clearly.

Shen Yunfeng glanced at Wu Yanan who was peeking at him, looked at Mr. Wang who was smiling and looked at him, and said: "Mr. Wang, I will take the letter box as an example, and then I will talk about my superficial views."

After Wang Lao nodded, Shen Yunfeng continued: "If the ancient tomb is very old, the letters and other things in the letter box are likely to be written on silk or other materials. Silk and cloth will become fibrous, and even after the emergence of paper in later generations, the shape of the paper will change over time, but as long as there is no strong external force, the text on it can still be read clearly."

"It's like burning a page to ashes, but as long as it doesn't crumble into ashes, the words on it can still be read."

Elder Wang nodded in agreement.

Shen Yunfeng nodded with a smile, and continued: "My class is a master of axe. For example, when excavating the Mawangdui ancient tomb more than 300 years ago, the archaeologists discovered a 'mysterious' lacquered wooden treasure box, because it was enough Be careful, and it has not been damaged by excessive external force, so after the treasure box was opened, the experts at that time found 28 kinds of silk scripts with different contents."

"In the end, the experts found that the silk books contained in the treasure box covered many categories such as military law, medicine, health preservation, and the Book of Changes, and the number of words reached more than 12."

"For example, my country's earliest medical and health exercises "Daoyin Tu" and "Xianma Jing", my country's earliest medical skills "52 Disease Prescriptions", etc., were found in the treasure box."

"In particular, it should be pointed out that "52 Disease Prescriptions" is close to [-] words, and the diseases involve internal medicine, gynecology, surgery, etc. Among the prescriptions for treating malaria, there is the later famous 'artemisinin'."

"After "52 Disease Prescriptions" was published, it played a certain role in promoting the use of artemisinin in the treatment of malaria in my country's medical field, and finally won the Nobel Prize."

Having said that, Shen Yunfeng paused for a moment, pointed to the main tomb nearby and said, "I heard a few big bosses discussing in the dining room, and I can already confirm that this is an ancient tomb from the early Ming Dynasty, but as for the identity of the owner of the tomb, it is still unknown for the time being." Mystery, so, I think, since the mirror box just now was found near the sarcophagus, it means that the owner of the tomb must have cherished it during his lifetime, so it is very likely that there is something about the identity of the owner of the tomb inside."

"Even if it is not as shocking as the treasure box unearthed at Mawangdui, it is still very meaningful for us to reveal the identity of the owner of the tomb and understand the historical knowledge of the period in which he lived."

Mr. Wang nodded and said, "That's true."

He raised his hand and patted Shen Yunfeng on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Boy, that's right, I didn't embarrass Lao Chen. On behalf of me, hehe, thank you for us immortals."

Shen Yunfeng said modestly: "This is what I should do as a member of the archaeological team."

At this moment, an angry gasping sound came from above the head.

Shen Yunfeng and Wang Lao looked up and found Xiao Xie squatting on the edge of the tomb looking down at some time.

Mr. Wang seemed to know Xiao Xie's temperament, and said with a smile: "Xiao Xie, do you have no work at hand, or Director Qiu sent you over again to be a 'supervisor'. Yes, how about you come down?"

Although he had a haha ​​smile on his face and his tone of voice was a bit joking, everyone could tell that Mr. Wang's tone was serious.

(End of this chapter)