Chapter 1806: The appearance of having money but not enough background
“This arm was found on the right arm of one of the corpses. When the tomb was opened, it was the first thing everyone saw. Because of its gorgeous colors, mysterious patterns, and magical meaning, it immediately attracted everyone's attention."
"Look, this is what it looked like when it was just unearthed. "
Although there are many clothes on the corpse, the colors are relatively simple. Only the brocade armband on the right arm is made of very bright white, red, yellow and green colors and is woven on the green ground. Typical Chinese patterns, although still in a wrapped state, Zhou Zhi can already see cloud patterns, bird and animal patterns, evil spirits patterns and red and white circular patterns representing the sun and moon. The connotations are very rich within a square inch.
“This is what the arm guard looks like when unfolded.” Director Jiang switched to another slide.
This photo is very clear. Director Jiang introduced: "The brocade harmoniously combines star patterns and auspicious cloud patterns, as well as auspicious animal patterns such as redbirds, cranes, lions and tigers, and evil spirits. The area is not large. , 18.5 centimeters long and 12.5 centimeters wide. "
"Is there any data on the warp and weft density and pattern cycle width?" Master Yang asked.
"Yes. The warp density is 2200 threads per ten centimeters, the weft density is 240 threads per ten centimeters, and the cycle width is 7.4 centimeters."
"Then this is the same as the official brocade of the Han Dynasty in central Sichuan The data are the same. This brocade came from our country, Shu?"
"This is very likely. But it still needs to be studied." Dean Jiang said: "The importance of this arm guard is firstly due to the text and pattern, and secondly, it corresponds to the "Han Wu Shooting Jiao Picture", which can solve the problem of "Han Wu Shooting Jiao Picture". "The final doubt is that now everyone believes that "Han Wu Shooting Jiao Picture" is a Song Dynasty copy of Zhang Sengyao's original work."
"The right side of this brocade retains the edge?" Master Yang asked.
The brocade pattern starts from the right side and shows a pair of male and female rare birds. The male bird stands at the bottom of the cloud pattern, head held high. On the top of its head is the Chinese character "五", and a dogwood pattern hangs on the left cloud pattern on its chest. The female bird stands on the cloud pattern and lowers her head facing the male bird. There is a white circular pattern on the top of her neck symbolizing "Taiyin", a "star" on the top of her back, and a dogwood pattern on the bottom of her tail.
The word "星" separated by a dogwood pattern is the word "出".
The word "东" is above the gap between the two moire patterns.
On the lower left side of the word "东", above a cloud pattern, is a red circular pattern symbolizing the "sun".
On the lower left side of the "sun" is an upside-down cloud pattern. In the recessed part of the cloud pattern, there is an auspicious unicorn with a mouth and tongue, its head raised and howling, with a drooping tail and a wing on its back, which may be to "ward off evil spirits". The top of the moiré pattern above the horn is the word "square".
The word "利" is separated by a cloud on the upper left side of the word "方".
On the left side of the cloud pattern below the word "利" is a tiger-shaped animal with vertical stripes and wide-open leopard eyes. It steps on the cloud pattern with its right foot and walks to the right. Its tail is high and strong. powerful. On the right side of the tail is the character "中" and on the left is the character "国". The hem is the unpatterned part of the brocade edge. This arm guard is made by cutting the brocade, adding a selvedge to it, and then adding six thin strips to the selvedge.
When cutting the brocade, the tailors made the best use of the brocade, even the edges without patterns, which shows that the rich man of Jingjue country has great interest in the Han Dynasty. The importance attached to tapestry.
Zhou Zhi even had a strange feeling. The rich man wanted to be buried with this arm guard when he died, which shows how much he attached importance to the arm guard. And the Chinese characters on the Han brocade might be a kind of a kind to the rich man. Blind "cultural worship", he didn't understand the meaning behind the words, but he just felt that wearing this kind of brocade with Chinese characters was very stylish, just like many foreigners in later generations like to tattoo some nonsense Chinese on their bodies. Same.
As for the deep meaning of the five-star coming out of the East and China's victory over the barbarians, and the five-color silk thread matching the five-star, Jingjue should not be able to understand it.
“Indeed, this extremely rich man attached great importance to this tapestry, because we also found the leftmost part of this tapestry in the tomb chamber, and the pattern on it is integrated with the arm guard. , but there are only three words - 'Talk about Southern Qiang'"
"In fact, the entire tapestry should be 'Five Stars'. "Out of Dongfang Li China's "Tao Nan Qiang"? "
"Yes, this piece of 'Tao Nan Qiang' brocade is cut from the same brocade material as the 'Five Star' brocade. We use The pattern combination analysis of your oracle bone laboratory shows that the weaving text is actually "Five stars come out of the East to benefit China and conquer the Southern Qiang". ”
"This foreigner is really frugal." Master Yang said with a smile: "If it were me, I would definitely cut off the edges and leave the essence to make this arm."
"Master Yang, you may also I misunderstood this brilliant foreigner." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "In the Han Dynasty, we provided fabrics for the royal government. The brocade department is called "weaving room". This kind of brocade with astrological characters is only in the hands of royal historians, and the dynasty has absolute authority and interpretation power over the calendar and celestial phenomena. Anyone who privately discusses and studies "astronomical calculations" will They are all punishable by death, so being able to use these The weaving unit that took the word "Xingzhi" and dared to use it as an auspicious saying on the brocade could only have come from the weaving room and was then gifted to the Jingjue Kingdom by the royal family."
"Jiuzi is right. The emergence of the sentence brocade text is undoubtedly the result of the Central Dynasty of Han and Jin Dynasties for the purpose of praying. The major event of conquering the Qiang was smooth and successful politically and militarily, and the celestial fortune-telling was combined with the ambition of "conquering the southern Qiang" to achieve auspiciousness."
"In other tapestry, there are practical witnesses. Have you ever written anything similar?" Zhou Zhi really didn't do much research on this aspect.
"Yes, and they are especially found in Loulan and Jingjue. For example, Loulan has the brocade of "Prolonging life and raising children and grandchildren", "The kings and princes will be together for a long time and live forever, and they will have descendants" brocade. The one with the longest text is 'Qi' Wei and the four barbarians from Dachang, China, conquered the southern Qiang, Le'an, Tianwujiang'jin and so on, which should have been given to the countries in the Western Regions by the Han government at that time."
"Then this is a symbol of status?"
"If you really have status, you won't be so picky." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "It is estimated that the Han royal family gave it to King Jingjue. This rich man doesn't know how to pass it. I got this piece of tapestry by some means, but I still missed it when making the arms, and I couldn't bear to part with it even if it had no stripes. He looks a bit like a nouveau riche but doesn’t have enough background.”
“Hahahaha... this is just unwarranted speculation.” Although Jiang Tianxi criticized Zhou Zhi, he couldn’t help but laugh. He is an academic. Without Zhou Zhi's wild imagination, he couldn't think of any other possibility to refute his ridiculous conclusion.
"Before, we always thought that the arms used by Emperor Wu in "The Picture of Han Wu Shooting Jiaos" were either part of the leather armor to prevent the bowstring from scratching his hands, or they were made up by the author..." Zhou Zhi turned his attention again Falling back to the painting: "No wonder you can't see it in Chinese figure paintings. It turns out that this is something passed down from a foreign land."