Into Unscientific

  Chapter 491 Solving an Unsolved Case

be honest.

  The number of times Weng Tong's brain went down today is a lot more than the sum of the past ten years.

  Among all the incidents of today's downtime, this news surprised Weng Tong the most.

   After all, that is.

  Golden nanmu.

   Well known.

  Wood or wood is one of the words that occupy the largest space in ancient Chinese civilization.

  From ordinary firewood to furniture, buildings, and coffins. It can be said that the ancient people could not escape from the intersection with wood from birth to death.

   Among the many woods, nanmu, camphor, catalpa and arbor are the most expensive.

   Therefore, these four types of wood are also known as the four famous ancient Chinese trees.

  At the same time, the interior of these four famous trees still has their ranks, and the one named the first is .

   Phoebe.

  Xie Zaihang recorded in "Wuzazu":

"Nanmu grows in Chu and Shu, and its age is unknown in the deep mountains and poor valleys. The stem of a hundred feet is half-buried in sand, so it is cut into a coffin, and it is called a sand board. The best board has texture, and it is as hard as iron and stone. Those who try it, use the signature. Make a box every month, and fill it with raw meat after several nights of enlightenment, and the color will not change."

   And the golden nanmu.

   It is the best category of nanmu.

  Golden nanmu has golden wood fibers and has always been a wood that can only be used by the royal family. It is known as the national wood.

  It is yellow and bright like gold silk, exquisite and unusual.

   There is also a faint fragrance, which can prevent insects and rot, and it will not rot for thousands of years if buried in the ground.

   That is, "Water cannot soak, ants cannot nest."

  At the same time, it is not easy to deform, it is difficult to crack, and the touch feels warm in winter and cool in summer.

  Students who have been in a golden nanmu coffin should know it.

  The corpse is very comfortable to lie in the golden nanmu, the waist support is very stable, and it is not easy to suffer from heatstroke and cold when resurrected.

all in all.

   This is the perfect wood.

Of course.

   Such a perfect wood also has its own little temper, that is, it grows extremely slowly.

  It takes at least two hundred years for golden nanmu to grow from a small seedling to a usable material. In addition, it is mainly concentrated in Sichuan and Guizhou, so it was quite troublesome to transport in ancient times.

   Therefore, in ancient times, golden nanmu was extremely precious.

  Even for the emperor, a top existence in the feudal period, having a coffin made of golden nanmu after death is considered a very high standard.

   The result was unexpected.

  Under the underground palace of Emperor Jiajing, this preserved bronze box of "Yongle Dadian"

   Actually sticking a layer of golden nanmu?

Of course.

  Seeing this, some students may express doubts:

   Not right.

  According to previous measurements, the total volume of this 'bronze box' is only about 150 cubic meters—the volume here refers to volume.

  Deduct the hollow part used to hold the "Yongle Dadian".

  The actual volume value of the golden nanmu lining should be about tens of cubic meters.

  The volume of dozens of cubic meters cannot be said to be small, but it is completely two orders of magnitude compared with the golden nanmu pillars in Changling's En Temple. Is it worth being so excited?

   thump thump thump.

  Daily update 30,000. The small class for refuting rumors has started again.

   There is indeed a famous nanmu pillar in Changling's Yan'en Hall, which can be regarded as one of the most famous nanmu buildings in China.

  Changling refers to the tomb of Emperor Yongle, which is the head of the Ming Tombs and the largest tomb.

  The entire Changling Mausoleum was built in the seventh year of Yongle and completed in the second year of Xuande. It took 18 years, and the underground palace alone took four years.

   Among them, the place where Emperor Yongle is sacrificed is the Yan En Temple.

  The entire hall is built on a three-story white marble platform, nine rooms wide and five rooms deep, symbolizing the emperor's "Ninth Five-Year Honor".

  The whole hall covers an area of ​​1956 square meters, and the hall is paved with gold bricks.

   In addition, there are sixty giant nanmu pillars with a maximum diameter of 1.17 meters and a height of 14.30 meters.

  In the mouths of many marketing accounts, these nanmu are dubbed "golden silk nan".

   But what needs to be explained is that .

  These pillars are just ordinary nanmu, not golden nanmu.

   In terms of exact types.

  These nanmu belong to the standard non-grained fine-leaf nanmu, which can be regarded as a classification of nanmu.

  Non-grained Phoebe has high strength, but this kind of wood has no or only a small part of grain, and has almost no value except for its leather. Of course, this sentence is mainly aimed at the royal family.

  For the ancient commoner class, the value of the fine-leaved Nannan is still very high.

   Actually think about it.

  If these nanmu are all golden nanmu.

   Then it was necessary for Qianlong to "remove the big and change the small" when repairing the Ming Tombs, and only after racking his brains did he dig out dozens of pieces of golden silk from the entire Ming Tombs to make his own coffin?

  Wuwen Xingye Nan and Jinsinan are equivalent to the ratio of red pandas to giant pandas. Except for the similar names, they are actually very different.

  Similar rumors include the gold bricks in the same hall as the Phoebe pillars.

  Ancient gold bricks, also known as fine-material square bricks or "clarity bricks", are special bricks fired from Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and the firing process is very complicated.

  It takes 190 days from firing to completion, which is one week longer than Chubang soy sauce.

  Because it sounds like gold and stone when knocked after it is finished, the ancients called it "golden brick".

   As a result, in the mouths of some marketing accounts, it turned out that Changling Hall is covered with gold.

   And the strange thing is that there are a lot of letters from people, all of them muttering about going to secretly dig for gold bricks

joke.

  If this thing is really gold, it still keeps until now?

  So in some things, you can't just blame the marketing account for having no bottom line. Sometimes the people who believe it are quite outrageous.

   And just when Weng Tong was shocked by Jiajing's big hand.

  Tong Huaijun on the side suddenly blinked and let out a little surprise.

  I saw him clenched his fist with his right hand, knocked **** the palm of his left hand, and said to Weng Tong:

   "Wait, old man, I seem to understand!"

  Weng Tong subconsciously turned to look at his good partner.

  At this time, Tong Huaijun seemed a little excited. He ignored Xu Yun, Academician Pan and others around him, and asked Weng Tong directly:

   "Old man, do you still remember the topic about golden nanmu in the archaeological world?"

  At this time, Weng Tong hadn't fully recovered, and couldn't keep up with Tong Huaijun's rhythm for a while, so he asked in a daze:

   "What topic?"

  Tong Huaijun didn't care when he saw this, he took a deep breath, and said word by word:

   "The dragon-scale-patterned golden nanmu showed a cliff-like decline between the Ming and Qing Dynasties."

   Weng Tong was taken aback for a moment, looking a little surprised.

  But soon he came back to his senses, his eyes widened suddenly, and his tone was full of disbelief:

   "Old boy, do you mean the golden nanmu underneath is dragon scale wood?"

  Tong Huaijun nodded heavily.

   Weng Tong opened his mouth again, as if he wanted to say something, but he still didn't make a sound in the end.

  Because after substituting Tong Huaijun's guess, Weng Tong suddenly felt

   Is it really possible?

  Seeing that the two of them are quite a bit self-satisfied.

  Xu Yun beside him couldn't help coughing lightly, and said to Tong Huaijun:

   "Professor Tong, I don't know what you and Professor Weng mean by the dragon scale pattern."

  Jiang Chenggu had a hint of doubt in his eyes when he said this. Why do the three words "dragon scale pattern" sound so similar to words in ghost novels?

  But Tong Huaijun didn't mean to get Jiang Chenggu, he saw him pondering for a while, and then said:

   "Dr. Xu, you may not be clear. Although golden nanmu is valuable, it is not strictly speaking the name of a specific tree species."

   "According to the density and shape of the texture, it can be divided into more than 30 categories."

   Hear Tong Huaijun's introduction.

   Weng Tong also nodded.

   To some extent, golden nanmu and jade are somewhat similar.

  Jade can be divided into jadeite, Hetian jade, Dushan jade, etc. according to the variety, and jadeite is also known as the king of jade.

  The interior of jadeite can be divided into glass, ice, waxy, bean and so on according to the quality.

  The same is true for golden nanmu.

  Golden nanmu is the head of nanmu, and golden nanmu also has different grades inside.

   Among them, gold thread pattern and mountain pattern are more common, which are mainly used to make small wooden utensils.

  The gentian pattern, dragon scale pattern, gold and jade pattern, rose pattern, and grape pattern gall wood are relatively rare and have relatively high prices. Historically, they have sold for millions or even tens of millions.

Of course.

  In fact, there are not so many gold silk nanmu auctions worth tens of millions, and many news have still been exaggerated.

  For example, you can often see a report on the Internet:

  【At an auction in 2013, a squirrel and grape floor-to-ceiling cover carved with golden nanmu was sold for a sky-high price of 30 million yuan.】

   But actually.

   This is an auction held by Yanjing Poly in 2013. The lot number of this collection is 6100.

  The pre-auction estimate was two to three million, and the final transaction price was 920,000. (polypm.com.cn/assest/detail/0/art5042326100/34/3This is the historical auction information on Poly’s official website)

  Among all types, there are only three most expensive textures of golden nanmu:

  Flame, Gentian and Dragon Scale.

  Among them, in ancient times, the dragon scale pattern had the highest value—because it perfectly fit the emperor's coffin in terms of meaning.

  The emperor is a dragon. The coffin made of dragon scales is simply their custom buff.

   All golden nanmu with dragon scale patterns will basically be used as the emperor's coffin unless it is really inappropriate in terms of volume.

  After Tong Huaijun introduced the value of the dragon scale pattern, Weng Tong added:

   "However, with the development of archaeology, archaeologists have gradually discovered a very strange phenomenon."

"That is the golden silk nanmu with dragon scale pattern in the four dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, which is considered normal in terms of quantity. Find the burial standard of a certain emperor, or in the collection field, you can see some small pieces made of dragon scale patterns that are not suitable for coffins."

   "But since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the number of dragon scale pattern golden silk began to decline like a cliff."

   "So much so that in Kang Mazi. Keke, during the Kangxi period, it was difficult to get even a coffin made of golden nanmu with dragon scale patterns."

  Xu Yun was taken aback for a moment:

   "I'm going. How could this happen?"

  Xu Yun's surprise was really not feigned, he really didn't understand the situation.

   But soon.

  He thought of what he saw and heard on the Qiying in the 1850 copy:

   At that time, there were many wooden products on board the Qiying, even some precious wood species such as huanghuali.

  But Xisheng never mentioned Jinsinanmu from the beginning to the end.

   This is indeed a bit strange.

   After all, Xisheng was standing behind him at the time, but the well-known Prince Zheng, Aixinjueluo Duanhua

  At that time, Duanhua even dared to trade the Jade Seal of Chuan Guoguo and "Yongle Dadian", theoretically speaking, there must be golden nanmu.

   And just when Xu Yun was in a daze, Weng Tong added:

   "About this phenomenon, the current relatively high degree of spread is as follows:"

   "That is the golden nanmu with dragon scale patterns in stock for making coffins, which was burned when Li Zicheng burned the Forbidden City,"

   "However, if you study carefully, you will find that the period when the number of golden nanmu with dragon scale patterns declined was not at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but around Wanli."

   "Li Zicheng was only 14 years old when Wanli was buried, and he was still a young monk in a temple. How could he burn the Forbidden City?"

  Weng Tong's tone was a little subtle. As a researcher of the Ming Dynasty, he was no stranger to this phenomenon.

   It's just that there are too many unsolved phenomena in the Chinese archaeological field, and the decline in the number of dragon-scale golden silk nanmu can only be regarded as a very partial field.

  In addition, the imperial mausoleum cannot be pried open for inspection, so it has not been particularly valuable for discussion.

   But it seems right now.

  If Jiajing really used the dragon-scale-patterned golden nanmu stored in the Ming Dynasty to make the inner wall of the copper hall, then there would be a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon.

  After all, assuming the same thickness, the surface area of ​​a pair of imperial coffins is only about 8 square meters.

  The dragon-scale-patterned golden nanmu in Yongling Mausoleum covers an area of ​​more than 150 square meters, enough to make nearly 20 emperor coffins.

  At the same time, with Jiajing's selfish character, it is not surprising at all to do such a thing.

  Think here.

  Weng Tong couldn't help but look at Tong Huaijun again, and the two saw a strong love in each other's eyes at the same time.

excited!

   That's right.

excited!

  After all, if the golden nanmu in the copper hall is really dragon scale pattern wood, then this will surely become the largest dragon scale pattern golden nanmu cultural relic discovered so far in China!

  For any museum, this is a proper treasure of the town hall.

  At the same time, for archaeologists like Weng Tong and Tong Huaijun, it is undoubtedly a great achievement and honor in life to bring such a precious cultural relic to the world.

  However, compared to Weng Tong and the two whose expressions gradually became brighter, Jiang Chenggu on the side was much calmer.

  I saw him seriously thinking for a while, then asked Xu Yun:

   "Dr. Xu, have you finished introducing the detection results of the gravity gradiometer?"

  Xu Yun nodded slightly, and handed the report to Jiang Chenggu:

   "That's right, the more important results in terms of cultural relics and layout are those mentioned before, and the rest is structural data."

  Jiang Chenggu took the report and glanced at the densely packed formulas above, and slapped his forehead:

   "Fuck, I'm blind."

  Xu Yun:

  “.”

   Then Jiang Chenggu took a deep breath, put away the report seriously, and said to everyone:

   "Okay everyone, today our detection process went smoothly, and the results are quite gratifying."

   "Whether it is the cultural relics in the underground palace, the "Yongle Canon" or the golden nanmu, they are all found as national treasures, and they are probably well preserved."

   “However, from the perspective of the entire project, what we have accomplished today is only a small step in the foundation.”

   "The next excavation link we face is the real difficulty. After all, the lesson of Dingling is too painful."

  Jiang Chenggu's last words were like a basin of cold water, pouring heavily on Weng Tong and Tong Huaijun.

  The expressions of the two froze suddenly, and their eyes dimmed visibly with the naked eye.

  Dingling.

   This word is an eternal pain for any practitioner in the archaeological field.

  [Archaeologists are tomb robbers with a license], a large part of the 'basis' for this sentence comes from the Dingling incident.

indeed.

   It is undeniable that some archaeologists do have strong selfish desires, and they excavate imperial tombs to satisfy their personal interests.

  But this part of the population in the archaeological world is actually not much.

to some extent.

  The archaeological community is somewhat similar to the Chinese scientific community mentioned earlier:

   There are more than 1,700 academicians of the two academies, but because of the slander of a few academicians, the entire Chinese scientific community has been labeled as academic misconduct.

  This is actually a very unfair practice.

   Unfortunately, however.

  In recent years, instead of shrinking, such labels have expanded.

  For example, the food circle these days.

  The term "technology and hard work" was born out of nowhere, making everyone feel insecure, and the degree of distortion is so outrageous.

  A video of a vegetable farmer washing vegetables on a certain video platform turned out to be an unscrupulous businessman soaking vegetables in liquid medicine. How helpless it is.

  But it is different from the food circle.

  The current archaeological community has got such a chance to prove himself as Yongling.

  The last one to seize a similar opportunity was the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With the success of the dark matter press conference, the image of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences has completely changed from Chen Peisi to Zhu Shimao.

   Therefore, no matter whether it is emotional or reasonable, the Yongling excavation plan must be perfect.

  Think here.

  The eyes of Jiang Chenggu, Weng Tong and others locked on the side

  Zhang Ziang.

Note:

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