Chapter 224 The disappeared jade
I only heard the smell of Ye Zhen starting to whisper.
"This Lingjiatan ruins are the same as some previous excavations."
“It’s also the process of farmers plowing and plowing the soil.
Someone found some stone tools and broken jade dug out of the ground.
The local people said that this thing is unlucky.
It is something that people used to bury with them in ancient times.
Everyone knows that people in rural areas are relatively superstitious.
Therefore, after some farmers dug these things, they threw them aside.
And he looked very disgusted. "
No matter how you say these are the things of dead people, they can be regarded as ghost weapons.
In everyone's eyes, these are unlucky things.
It seems like a lot
“But in recent years.
Someone actually came to collect these jade items that no one usually wants.
It was also by chance that someone collecting antiques came to their village.
I want to see if there are any good treasures in these rural areas.
In fact, this is a very common thing in the antique world.
Because our country has a very long history.
Many people have ancestors who were once rich, either as officials or working in the palace.
So some people have more or less things in their homes that have been passed down from the older generation.
These old people don't know anything about antiques.
So some antique dealers took a fancy to this.
I often go to rural areas and other places to wander around.
At the beginning, we really got some real treasures for these people.
It's what the saying goes, and it's like picking up things like bowls, vases, coins, etc.
Purchase from villagers at extremely low prices.
The villagers didn't know it at first, because sometimes things can be bought for a thousand or a few hundred yuan.
This is a lot of money for farmers, much better than having to work hard for a year.
As long as there is one transaction, some other farmers will go to their homes to look for it.
See if there are any old items, let others see them, and see if you can sell them for a little money.
The jade from the Lingjiatan site was also discovered in this way.
Later, someone discovered that these jade stones were incredible and treasures.
I reported it to the local cultural station manager. "
Speaking of which, I have to tell an interesting story.
Later, many people knew that they might receive good things if they went to the countryside.
Some other antique dealers also imitated.
Some villagers learned the lesson and let the antique dealers take a look first.
See what they want to buy among a bunch of old things.
Because the villagers themselves don’t know which ones are valuable and which ones are not.
So these antique dealers are regarded as tool people.
Ask them to identify which items are valuable.
Then I waited for the other party to make an offer, but they didn’t sell.
Instead, he hid the things and took them to town or other places.
Just shop around before selling.
These are some smart farmers.
There are also some people who have spotted the mentality of those antique dealers.
They are people who specialize in forging antiques.
How do they do it?Put the forged antiques directly into the homes of those villagers.
Let the villagers pretend that they were dug up at home or passed down from their ancestors.
Specifically to deceive those vendors who come to the countryside to collect antiques.
Such a person has to be said to be a genius.
After doing this, going to the countryside could be simple at first, but now it can only rely on eyesight.
There is no advantage anymore.
“The head of the cultural station quickly contacted his superiors.
The above directly sent a team of archaeologists here.
They found that some stone tools and pottery fragments were indeed unearthed here.
And these stone tools are very ancient at first glance.
After the archaeological team saw and identified them, they confirmed that these items were from the Neolithic Age.
They are all cultural relics.
What are these unearthed stone tools?
Stone axes, stone hoes, stone chisels, stone shovels, etc.
And archaeologists found that the polishing technology of these stone tools was extremely high. "
The big screen behind Ye Zhen projected some stone tools and pottery fragments unearthed that year.
Now that I have a big screen, I can see things much clearer.
It can be clearly seen that these stone tools have holes in them.
Moreover, the edges of the stone tools themselves are very smooth, and the inside of the holes is also polished very smooth.
The craftsmanship is very exquisite at first glance.
“At noon that day, the director of the cultural station went to buy some pork and came back.
I want to give the archaeological team here a break.
At that time, the archaeological team leader saw that the unearthed stone tools were very intact.
He just wanted to do an experiment, which was to use this stone ax to cut the pork.
It was just an idea at first, but I didn't expect that this stone ax could actually cut pork easily.
This stone tool has been preserved for thousands of years and is still so sharp.
This polishing technique is really not simple. "
After hearing Ye Zhen's words, everyone also saw the picture behind Ye Zhen's screen.
"Are these stone tools still so sharp after thousands of years?"
"It seems like it's nothing, just some stone tools."
"But the craftsmanship looks much more exquisite than some of the stone tools I've seen."
Apparently the sharp stone ax capable of cutting pork is very surprising.
But that's it.
Some archaeologists saw it and said.
"This stone can be said to be the easiest cultural relic to preserve."
"Yes, even if it has been buried in the ground for tens of thousands of years, it will still be intact after being excavated."
"This stone should be the strongest and easiest to preserve cultural relic."
But it's different in the eyes of scientists. "Stone can be said to be the best information storage medium."
"Have you not had any ideas before? If we want to leave a message to humans or civilizations in the next one million years, what should we do?"
"U disk? CD, or using steel to save it? None."
"It is recorded with the simplest stones. Any man-made thing will fall into disrepair if no one maintains it."
"So the final method I came up with was to carve it on stone. This information is most likely to be known to civilization one million years from now."
If it were just some pottery pieces and stone tools.
This was not enough to shock these archaeological team members.
Ye Zhen continued to show.
“There are also many jade artifacts unearthed here.
These various jades were known to the archaeological team leader at that time.
There must be a very developed ancient civilization here.
Otherwise there would not be such exquisite jade.
They just want to dig and see what else is inside.
Continue digging in those places where stone tools and pottery fragments have been unearthed.
Sure enough, some jade articles were found wrapped in red soil.
The archaeologists cleaned up the soil.
First, use a bamboo skewer to clean it up bit by bit.
They found traces of plants mixed in the red soil.
A bit like straw and stalks.
Just seeing these things made the archaeologists very excited.
Finally, I went to test it and found that it was really some straw and straw-like things.
After breaking it into pieces, mix it into the soil.
What does this mean?Here are the ruins from ancient times.
Those ancient people were already growing rice, which is proof of the development of agriculture.
The second was the red soil. They discovered that this soil was not ordinary soil.
They are bricks that have been fired at high temperatures. "
Red bricks?
What's so strange about this? The audience said after watching it.
“Did the ancients already cultivate rice so early?”
"Our country is worthy of being the world's largest agricultural country, and has been so since ancient times."
"So what's so magical about this brick?"
Only some archaeological experts know what the fired bricks represent.
"Is this red clay actually a fired brick?"
"So we were the first countries to use bricks?"
It was previously recognized that Mohenjodaro was a place.
Why was it so shocking to the world's archaeological experts when it was born?
Because Mohenjodaro was built using large quantities of fired bricks.
The bricks used in this Lingjiatan site are more than 1000 years older than Mohenjodaro.
Ye Zhen said: "These fired bricks are enough to show that the Lingjiatan site was already developed to a certain extent.
But the most magical part is not here.
Didn’t these archaeologists dig out new jade artifacts? Those newly unearthed jade articles are washed with water.
They were surprised to find that the jades actually softened and melted.
It just disappeared.
When the archaeological team leader discovered this phenomenon, he knew it was bad.
They were immediately ordered to backfill and protect the site. "
How can jade become soft?And disappeared.
This is something difficult to understand.
"Could it be like some cultural relics that weathered and turned into ashes due to oxygen?"
"But that's jade, how could something like this happen?"
"Did it really dissolve? Just disappear?"
This incident also aroused everyone's curiosity.
Why does this fine jade melt when exposed to water?
some scientists pondered.
"It's impossible for this jade to melt when exposed to water. This is not scientific at all."
"Could it be some kind of component in the soil?"
"Can jade also melt? It's really unheard of."
Professor Zhou asked: "Did something like this really happen back then?"
Old Wu nodded, "I knew the archaeological captain at the time, and he did say that such a thing had happened."
"Some jades did disappear directly for unknown reasons."
"This strange thing has always bothered him."
If all the jades in this site are like this, they must not be excavated.
Later they discovered that some of the remaining jades could be unearthed safe and sound.
It seems that not all the jade in here will melt.
Only Ye Zhen smiled mysteriously, "Do you think this is magical? There is no way to explain why this jade melted and disappeared.
Do you remember what I said about jade containing oxygen 18? The jade that was excavated may be jade that has been used up.
The oxygen 18 inside has been absorbed by people.
That’s why it melts and disappears after being unearthed. "
After Ye Zhen explained this.
Some archaeologists back then were quite shocked.
"Can it still be explained like this?"
"Is it really being absorbed as some kind of spiritual stone?"
"Is this the truth back then?"
Everyone thought this was an unexplainable phenomenon before.
Now Ye Zhen said that this is jade that has absorbed oxygen 18, which makes sense.
Why does it melt and disappear? It's because a certain element inside has disappeared.
So it will collapse and disappear directly.
Some scientists did not expect that there was continuity.
Ye Zhen just finished talking about the jade, and now the jade disappeared and he contacted her.
"So the ancients have already absorbed jade for cultivation?" Professor Yan Xin discovered that the jade was not just a decorative item.
It's possible that it actually has practical uses.
Is this jade a spiritual stone?crazy!
No wonder Ye Zhen said this was a jade civilization.
Cultivation is something that has always been spread? Jade for cultivation, what surprises are there in Lingjiatan? (End of this chapter)