Thousands of calls began to come out, holding the pipa half-covered. - "Pipa Line"
Bai Juyi's pipa line is very philosophical and rational, and has been continuously quoted by countless literati throughout the ages. Now it is generally used to use this sentence to indicate that it takes a process for a certain thing to reveal its original appearance, and it is difficult to understand a person if you want to know a thing overnight.
In the field of antiquities and archaeology, this law also applies. Although archaeologists have extremely rich experience, this does not mean that these people are these people. The judgments made when the artifacts were first unearthed were all correct, in fact, many of their initial judgments were very inaccurate, and only after in-depth study of the artifacts could they make the final correct judgment.
Such a process is undoubtedly very worrying, knowing that the cultural relics buried in the ground may have long been decayed, and it is a very difficult project for experts to restore them to their original appearance and extract the information in its original form.
In 1982, an ancient tomb was found in Gansu, China, and the cultural relics unearthed in the tomb were considered to be rotten street goods at the time, so they were not deeply studied by archaeologists. But these later cultural relics are considered to be national treasures, what happened to this?
In fact, these cultural relics that experts do not think is necessary to study in depth are 17 "stone slabs", and after many years, some experts finally identified the huge value behind these cultural relics.
First, the national treasure was unearthed, and no one recognized the goods
The ancient people of our country believed that after death, there will be a soul in the world, and if the human body is not properly buried, then their soul will wander around the corpse and will never find peace. This is why the ancient people believed very much in the idea of entering the earth, still worried that the dead would not be at peace, and secondly, it was also a kind of respect for their relatives.
Such a custom in ancient China provides a lot of valuable information for archaeology today, especially those cultural relics that are buried in the ground. Because in ancient China, in the treatment of tombs, it has always been "death as life", that is, what is buried around a person after death should be exactly the same as what he did before he died. This also provides a great convenience for the current archaeology, and now people can explore the specific lifestyle and cultural customs of a special period in ancient times through archaeological excavation.
In 1982, an ancient tomb was found in Gansu Province, which was more luxurious than the tombs of civilians, and after the exploration of experts, they believed that this ancient tomb should belong to an ordinary nobleman.
Based on the identifiable information in the tomb, experts have collated the tomb and concluded that the owner of the tomb was not Han Chinese, but belonged to a race called the "Sogdians".
After the investigation of experts, this race is actually a very small race in Central Asia, with relatively few people and a small land occupied. Under the special geographical environment of Central Asia, many races were born, and the Sogdians struggled to survive in the struggle against the various forces around them.
By the time of the Han Dynasty, because the road to the western region had been opened, coupled with the prosperity and wealth of the Han Dynasty, the Sogdians began to migrate to Xinjiang and Gansu in China. They gradually settled here, married and had children, and integrated into the Chinese nation. And after their deaths, they also chose to stay in the China where they lived, and they buried their graves on Chinese soil.
In 1982, the tomb of this ordinary nobleman was excavated by the water conservancy workers at that time.
Since there are many ancient tombs unearthed in the Gansu region since ancient times, these workers, although they are not surprised, they also quickly reported to the local cultural relics bureau.
After the experts arrived, a protective excavation of the tomb was carried out.
The so-called protective excavation is actually to clean up the cultural relics in the ancient tomb as soon as possible. This place has been damaged to a certain extent by workers, if not excavated in time, once these artifacts have too much contact with the air, contact with water, it is likely to produce further damage.
In this ancient tomb, 17 "stone slabs" have been unearthed, which are actually 17 stone screens with frescoes and some sarcophagus beds. Of course, there were also some living items that were very common at that time, such as gold noodles, bronze mirrors, etc.
These cultural relics were transported to the Cultural Relics Bureau for further study, and due to the lack of corresponding archaeological knowledge at the beginning, experts classified these cultural relics into the tombs of some ordinary northwestern nobles in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
In fact, these cultural relics are not very valued, and they are not even exhibited, and they are stored in the museum's warehouse.
So, these cultural relics were later seen in this way and were recognized as national treasures?
The so-called sky outside the sky, there are people outside the people, although the local archaeologists in Gansu Province have looked at these cultural relics, but there are more excellent archaeological experts in our country, they can find those unobtrusive clues from the archaeological trends of the whole country, and these stone screens in Gansu have been identified as national treasures by chance.
Second, the stone screen unveils the mystery
Ever since these stone screens were excavated, they have been in the warehouse of the Antiquities Bureau. Since experts have already made up their minds about these stone screens, they have no interest in further research.
However, from a nationwide perspective, in fact, not only in Gansu at that time, but also in many provinces, the tombs of foreign nationalities have been excavated, and a lot of sarcophagus beds and stone screens have been excavated from these ancient tombs. Gradually, there was more archaeological information about these objects.
In 2010, the museum in Tianshui City, Gansu Province, restored the stone screens in the warehouse accordingly.
Later, after the re-study of the State Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, they found that these stone screens were not actually aristocratic objects from the Sui and Tang dynasties, but came from the aristocratic tombs of the ethnic minority Sogdians. So they identified these stone screens as first-class cultural relics, which is the so-called national treasure-level cultural relics.
The murals on these stone screens actually have very high archaeological value, which is of very high value for the study of the living habits, cultural customs, art and religion of the Soter people, if you can excavate the information on the stone screen earlier, in fact, many studies can take fewer detours.
The original experts who excavated and studied the historical screen also regretted it, if they could dig out the value of 10 square meters earlier, maybe they could also grow accordingly.
However, they also admitted their mistakes very boldly, and the experts cried bitterly, saying, "We made a big mistake." "They believe that they themselves have some academic deficiencies, which is why these national treasures have been piled up in the warehouse for more than thirty years."
In fact, in The archaeological excavations in China, there are many cultural relics that have been recognized as national treasures after experiencing not being valued, and only on a sudden day.
This is not to blame the first batch of archaeologists who studied cultural relics, anyone's knowledge is learned from books, although archaeologists have too ordinary knowledge, but in the face of some novel and complex cultural relics, in fact, intuition, inspiration, experience and judgment have an impact on the judgment of the value of the same cultural relics.
Because books can only take out what has been studied in the past as an example, and examples such as the Sogdian stone screen are never mentioned in books, which naturally leads to the neglect of these cultural relics.
brief summary
In fact, China still retains a very large number of cultural relics, some of which are in the hands of some collectors, some of which are displayed in museums, and some of which are preserved in the warehouses of museums.
With the continuous improvement of Archaeological Technology in China, for the excavation of more detailed aspects of ancient cultures, I believe that these cultural relics can eventually find their own value.
It is not necessary to be too harsh on cultural relics experts, cultural relics experts are also growing, in this process, it is allowed to appear some errors, as long as cultural relics can eventually be well studied, these trial and error costs are acceptable.
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