Chapter 1162 – Identity of the Ancient Tomb Owner (II)

The appearance of the Jade Seal of Passing State did not bring Zhuang Rui this tomb owner direct information, just narrowed down the scope a lot.

However, this tomb owner, whether it is a generation of pride Genghis Khan or his son Wukodai, or the majestic Kublai, solely based on this side of the jade seal, Zhuang Rui is also unable to make a conclusion.

Mongolia khanate to get the time of the Jade Seal, although in Genghis Khan died, but this does not mean that the Jade Seal can not appear in the Genghis Khan Mausoleum.

This is because a lot of emperor mausoleum construction work, often are in the emperor after the death of the completion of the time long even reached decades, genghis khan death from Mongolia to destroy the gold, is only a short period of eight years, is really not count for anything.

And Zhuang Rui has enough reason to believe that in the Al Zhai grottoes within the Genghis Khan grottoes, very likely is Genghis Khan died after stopping the spirit of the place, due to the underground mausoleum palace project is huge, which is in the end of the gold after being buried.

Of course, this is only Zhuang Rui’s subjective speculation, the fact that in the end how, the owner of the tomb is actually who? Still have to come up with enough sufficient evidence to speak.

“Grandma, those ancient painters are pitiful ah? What level is this? Can’t even draw a human face?”

As a well-known collector and antique connoisseur in China, Zhuang Rui for the ancient Chinese painting art, has always been highly respected, but at this moment, Zhuang Rui students are incomparably hate the ancient Chinese painting skills.

This is because Zhuang Rui in the study of Mongolia’s history, also once saw Mongolia early khan several khan’s portrait, but the tragedy is that those portraits and the coffin inside the person does not have a picture of the appearance of the match.

Ancient Chinese painting is concerned about the writing, to be the kind of mysterious “chi Yun”, “mood” of the aesthetic characteristics.

Just so, this also makes those ancient emperors portraits, there is not a look and I look similar, either the wise and powerful or kind eyes, anyway, the portrait and myself, that is not a little relationship.

In fact, this can not be blamed on the ancient painters craft tide, it is really the emperors are too difficult to serve, like Zhu Yuanzhang, long a face of marijuana, did the emperor, asked the painter to paint his portrait.

The first painter was very honest, as usual, gave the painting.

The portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang sitting on a chair, head wearing a soft square scarf, face especially long, forehead bone bulging, face covered with large and small earth spots, eyebrows and eyes are hanging upwards vertical, nose is very large, nostrils upward cocked, ears are very long, almost hanging down to the shoulders, the mouth is big and wide, chin than the forehead protrudes a lot, looks extremely vicious.

This is also later recognized as the most like Zhu Yuanzhang himself a painting, now hidden in Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.

Only the painting was finished, things are not over, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang saw this painting, did not say anything, but shortly afterward, found an excuse to this painter to click off.

The second painter heard about this matter, Zhu Yuanzhang painting, for fear of repeating the same mistake, simply the whole Zhu Yuanzhang to change a face, hemp hanging eyes and nose natural are gone.

Of course, the painter painted this wearing a dragon robe handsome emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not a little bit of relationship, after a short while, was also Zhu Yuanzhang to mischievous trumped up charges to kill.

These two things out, engaged in the court painters, everyone is at risk, are sick not out, no one dares to Zhu Yuanzhang portrait again, let Zhu Yuanzhang dragon face anger.

Later, a portrait painter called Chen Yuan realized the mystery, and offered to give Zhu Yuanzhang painting, which let the colleagues breathe a sigh of relief, are on Chen Yuan’s IQ expressed doubts.

But then the result, is to let those people fell down, Chen Yuan to Zhu Yuanzhang portrait, only the outline of the face painted like, the rest of the best according to the emperor model painting, and thus looks benevolent and kind, graceful and noble.

Zhu Yuanzhang see this portrait is very satisfied, and let Chen Yuan another painting more than given to the kings, Chen Yuan for this also get the Wen Yuan Pavilion service edict of the official position, of course, the painting like not like, naturally, no one to pursue.

From the appearance of the emperor can not be identified, Zhuang Rui can only think of another way, of course, with the appearance of the body as the basis for its identity, this is also the history of archaeology has never happened, Zhuang Rui originally did not report much hope.

After shifting his attention, Zhuang Rui first searched inside the coffin, but he didn’t find any objects with words, and except for that “Jade Seal of State”, he didn’t find any seals.

“Damn, how to forget this?”

For this, Zhuang Rui first froze for a moment, and then suddenly realized, even slapped his head, to know, Mongolia early is not their own text, want to find epitaphs, obviously is an unlikely thing.

According to historical records, in the era of Genghis Khan, marching to war to issue orders, often let the commander to memorize the order, with singing in the heart, passed to the generals under his command, until the death of Genghis Khan, are used in this way.

To modern times, historians and military scientists for Mongolia at that time the expansion of military operations, almost entirely by guessing inferred, because those who conveyed the command of the song, has long been in the steppe become extinct.

So want to find in Mongolia khanate early in the burial of written records, almost is an unlikely thing, Zhuang Rui now just hope to see if you can find some representative of the objects at that time, so as to deduce the identity of the owner of the tomb.

Until 1204 when Genghis Khan conquered the Nai barbarians, Nai barbarians in charge of the seal officer of the migratory birds Tata Tonga although arrested, still guarding the seal of the country.

Genghis Khan very much appreciated his loyalty to his country’s behavior, so he was ordered to take charge of Mongolia’s paperwork and seal, and ordered him to teach the Prince, the kings of the Woods character to write the Mongolian language, the Mongols to this point will be adopted to write the Mongolian Woods character, known in the academic world as migratory style Mongolian language.

This is also the earliest appearance of Mongolia’s text, and at that time only in the Mongolian aristocrats circulated, the ordinary Mongolians can not touch these words.

In the era of Kublai Lie of the Yuan Dynasty, the Bashi Ba character, commonly known as New Mongolian, was created by Bashi Ba, the state master of Tubo at that time.

Without their own text and culture, resulting in the then Mongolian Khanate handed down very little written information, even in the Yuan Dynasty in the last hundred years, but also very few historical materials remain, which is also caused by the later generations of the Mongolian and Yuan history of the main reason for a lot of unanswered questions.

According to its appearance can not recognize the identity of the owner of the tomb, the tomb and did not find textual records, Zhuang Rui can not help but some head scratching, to be honest, his field excavation archaeology experience is not very rich, for a moment also do not know where to start from the good.

This main chamber, placed in the burial goods countless, Zhuang Rui hesitated for a while, began to pick some brocade silk and sheepskin objects to observe, he also wants to take a chance, maybe these things will be left above a word and a half, so that you can judge the identity of the owner of the tomb?

But a few hours passed, Zhuang Rui’s face became more and more ugly, in the tomb is these objects, including some very fine Persian carpet, but Zhuang Rui want to see the text, or not be able to find.

Archaeology is a very boring and detailed work, sometimes digging a large tomb, often after several months of investigation, in order to know the identity of the owner of the tomb.

Although Zhuang Rui had the great killing weapon of the aura within his eyes, it was not a realistic thing to judge the identity of the owner from the piles of burial goods in a short period of time.

“Grandma, I still don’t believe it, buddy can’t dig you out, can’t even figure out your identity.”

Zhuang Rui muttered indignantly, took a deep breath, calmed down his somewhat restless mood, and after contemplating for a while, turned his gaze to those exquisitely crafted weapons above.

Ancient people, especially emperors, often held weapons that were far more meaningful as symbols than killing the enemy on the battlefield, so they would often have their names engraved on them.

Like on Emperor Qianlong’s Longquan Baojian of the Qing Dynasty as well as various sabers, many of them were engraved with Qianlong’s imperial words, Zhuang Rui was trying to start from here to see if he could find anything?

“Damn, it’s so beautifully beaten, don’t you know to engrave your name on it?”

Zhuang Rui told himself that he couldn’t be in a hurry, but after even looking at thirty or forty well-made weapons, he still couldn’t help but burst out, being able to inlay gold and silver on a weapon, can’t you engrave the user’s big name on it?

“Eh? What is this?”

When Zhuang Rui’s gaze swept over the golden giant bow that he had already explored, he suddenly realized that underneath the wall where the golden bow was hanging, there was an arrow capsule.

This arrow capsule was made of cowhide, and the outside was also decorated with exquisite patterns, a few gold beaten arrows were exposed beyond the capsule, and Zhuang Rui, inadvertently, seemed to see some lines engraved on the arrows.

“This …… this …… should be the text.”

After Zhuang Rui put his attention to those subtle and almost hard to notice lines, the whole person almost jumped up in excitement, because the above ghost drawing general pattern of lines was wonderful and unusual in Zhuang Rui’s eyes.

These people are difficult to recognize the lines, it is Mongolia appeared the earliest, by modern academia called “migratory bird Mongolian” text.

“Marco Polo” read out a few words above, Zhuang Rui hard clenched his fists, “God bless, these words I know.”

To be honest, although Zhuang Rui students read the direction of research during the doctoral period, is the main focus of Mongolian history and its burial culture, but he for the early days of the ghostly Mongolian characters, but also recognize and not much, at best, only in the time of reading the literature, to remember so many names only.