Chapter 1465 Stamp
"Let's try." Jiang Tianxi made the decision: "If the identity of the tomb owner can be discovered, we can determine the level of rescue excavation as soon as possible. There are urgent time requirements for the Three Gorges Project Of course, the sooner the better.”
“ "Elbow, it's up to you." Teacher Deng pushed the tool box towards Zhou Zhi: "Director Yuan said you are very good, a master who can draw the meridian and weft on silk books."
Literature and History. There really is no distinction between families. It seems that Yuan Dongjue of the Institute of Ancient Books has given this capable person a lot of bragging rights.
However, the Ancient Books Research Institute, which was originally affiliated with the library, has now been placed under the jurisdiction of the museum. It is said that they are one family.
Zhou Zhi was no longer polite, took the tool box and started operating it.
This is also the first time that the friends have seen Zhou Zhi's working status with their own eyes. To be precise, it is one of the working statuses of this child. They all hold their breath and dare not speak.
Archaeological tools are actually very simple and have not changed much in decades. Apart from brushes, bamboo sticks, tweezers, etc., the rest are not much different from those used by masons, but they are a bit too much. A relatively compact model.
Zhou Zhi’s hands were very steady. He first lit the alcohol lamp, and then based on the position of the bamboo curtain, mud layer, and copper button, and after checking the distance, he used the alcohol lamp to bend the bamboo stick and turned it into a small A small probe was used to scratch the soil around the copper button, and the approximate range of the copper button at the bottom of the bamboo curtain was determined.
During the exploration process, I kept spraying water on the copper button with a watering can to take away the scratched soil. After a while, the top of the copper seal connected to the entire copper button was exposed.
This determined the general scope of the copper seal, and everyone was relieved when they saw it. Although there was a bamboo curtain above the copper seal that could not move, there was a working surface on the side, and you could dig it out from the side.
After discussing the plan and getting the approval of Jiang Tianxi and Huo Wei, Zhou Zhi inserted a small pointed scraper from the side of the copper seal, and then opened up the mud on the side of the copper seal.
This is clean and neat, and after removing the silt, you can still see that there is still a thin layer of silt on the side of the copper seal, which means that Zhou Zhi's knife is extremely stable, and the trajectory of the knife is consistent with the copper seal. The distance between the seals was less than a millimeter. Although they were extremely close, they did not touch them at all.
The next step is simple. Use a bamboo skewer and a water spray bottle to continue cleaning the bottom and sides of the copper seal. Finally, after hollowing out the bottom of the copper seal, gently press the top of the copper seal with a bamboo skewer to find that it is a little loose. After that, you can carefully use the original bamboo stick with the top bent to draw out the copper seal.
“Awesome!” Teacher Deng couldn’t help but admire her. She was already a master at this, but Zhou Zhi’s operation made her even ashamed.
It is really stable and fast, and the brain is also flexible.
For example, you can bend bamboo skewers and make them into improvised tools. She had never thought of this idea.
"Hurry and look at the seal surface to see if there is any seal left." Jiang Tianxi didn't have time to boast, he was more concerned about this. Zhou Zhi turned over the copper seal covered with mud. At this time, he did not even dare to use bamboo sticks. If the seal had been rusted, the bamboo stick might shave off the seal that had turned into patina, which would be a heavy loss. .
So I only dare to use a brush and a water bottle to turn the soil on the printed side into mud, and then brush it away with a soft-bristled brush.
After the seal began to appear at the bottom, everyone found that the seal was quite well preserved. Although there was rust on the bottom, it was probably due to long-term use that the seal was protected by patina and sludge, and the oxide layer was thin and thick. It is even and even in better condition than many ancient coins from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Although everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Tianxi couldn't help but sigh when he saw the finally cleaned seal: "Ba Shu seal, this is the undecipherable Cuban Shu seal."
"What is the Cuban Shu seal?" Although Zhou Zhi knew seal cutting because of his calligraphy, this thing was completely different from what he was familiar with. It was too professional, and it was completely separated by lines.
“We already know that this generation is the seat of the country of Cuba. The Ba people are an ancient ethnic minority living in Sichuan and surrounding areas from the Neolithic Age to the Qin Dynasty. Its founding period ranged from the late Shang Dynasty to the late Warring States Period. "It lasted for thousands of years." Huo Wei explained: "In the Warring States Period, the ancestors of Bashu developed a developed seal culture. Different from the seal system of the Six Kingdoms, the ancient seals of Bashu have obscure meanings. They are not Chinese characters, and it is difficult to say whether they are words or pictures. "
"At present, we can only call them Bashu symbols. "Seal." Huo Wei said: "The quality is mainly copper, with stone and pottery as the main buttons, just like this seal."
"The content of the seal is very special and consists of various unique Bashu symbols. In terms of individual symbols, it can be broken down into three categories: Category A is obvious pictographic symbols, such as Lei, Duo, Cut, Ge, Hand, Person, Horses, insects, birds, frogs and other animals. Category B is an abstract but stable symbol, and it is a basic symbol that appears many times. Category C is very weird and is still available for the time being. Completely unable to grasp its form. "
"Leave aside Category C, judging from the more than 150 stable symbols on more than 1,000 Bashu seals that have been unearthed and recorded, they must represent a certain meaning." Jiang Tianxi. The introduction said: "According to the late Professor Xu Zhongshu, an expert on pre-Qin history and philology, he speculated in the "Ancient and Modern Script Comparison Table" that these Bashu symbols can only represent meanings and are not a language that can be read word by word. It needs to be explained with many examples, otherwise it will be difficult for ordinary people to understand it. '"
"This is also the common understanding of the academic community so far. Although it cannot be interpreted, the Bashu symbol seal must have a logo, possession, title, Seals with practical functions such as emblems.”
Jiang Tianxi said: “And we also discovered that the ancestors of Bashu are very fond of seals for burial. During the same period, the Central Plains countries, including the Chu State, also played a role in the exchanges between Guba, Shu, Qin and Chu and other surrounding areas, and probably contributed to the rise of Qin and Han image seals."
Here we have issues involving cultural input and output exchanges, and like common cultural exchange phenomena in history, this kind of input direction is often opposite to the strength of culture, economy, and society.
The more powerful, stable, and developed a social group is, the more it likes to accept novel and interesting cultural elements. As a result, the culture of surrounding underdeveloped social groups is often exported to them.
For example, Buddhism was introduced in the Han Dynasty; Hu Xuan dance and Hu music were popular in the Tang Dynasty; Goryeo folding fans, Japanese swords, and Su Muzhe were popular in the Song Dynasty; blue and white porcelain with Suma Liqing in the Ming Dynasty; Hendustan in the Qing Dynasty Jade articles are all representatives of this cultural phenomenon.
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