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Chapter 610 Jade Toad

Luo Tian's answer made everyone "cut", and the atmosphere suddenly became lively. After the joke was over, Luo Tian looked at all the funeral objects in front of him, and the expression on his face was not very good.

"Director Fu, are everything here?" Luo Tian was vaguely disappointed.

"Yes." Director Fu was a little helpless: "This is a bit different from what we imagined."

"Director Fu, can you ask me to go to the tomb again?" Luo Tian said: "Also, I want Feitian to go in with me." Luo Tian always felt something was wrong.

"Okay." Anyway, the accumulated water has been extracted and almost all the things inside have been shipped out, so it doesn't matter if you look at it.

Luo Tian immediately went to find Feitian, and finally found him in Ouyang Tian's workshop. The two of them were smiling at the ancient fabric spread on the stage. In a while, Ouyang Tian's progress was rapid. He had already begun to repair the missing part. When he saw Luo Tian coming in, he asked him: "How is it, how many are there?"

"Not much." Luo Tian said disappointed: "I want to go in and take a look again. I hope Mr. Feitian can go in with me."

Fei Tian was stunned: "What are you suspicious of?"

"I think it's impossible for Liu Qu to leave with only these things. Even if the person who handled his funeral took away part of it, this amount..." Luo Tian shook his head: "It's unlikely, I just think it's impossible."

"I can't tell that you, father and son, are both people who do things by intuition." Feitian was interested: "Okay, old man, I'm in a good mood today. I'll accompany you in again, it's free."

Luo Tian and Feitian went into the tomb again. Although the water inside was drained, it was muddy all over the floor. The two of them put on rain boots and Feitian pointed at the already empty tomb: "You see clearly, it's empty, and all the mechanisms have been broken by me. What else do you want to find?"

"I don't know either." Luo Tian murmured, his hand touched the stone wall, closed his eyes, meditation, meditation, antiques can record history, and tombs can also record history. Luo Tian firmly believed in this, and he was stunned in front of him, and finally saw what he wanted...

"What's wrong with you, Luo Tian?" Feitian was about to pat him, but Luo Tian suddenly turned around and faced Feitian. The expression on his face was a little weird: "Uncle Feitian, we have a place we haven't found." There was no one else here, so Luo Tian changed to a more intimate name.

"Where?" Fei Tian's face was not good-looking. He claimed to be the number one tomb robber in China. He could not miss anything where he swept his eyes.

Luo Tian walked to the place where the sarcophagus were piled up and pointed there: "There is something underneath, I'll go out to get the tools." Luo Tian quickly went out to find a shovel, and dug it up there. The digging deeper and deeper, digging down more than a meter. The shovel encountered a hard thing. The two of them fought each other and made a crisp sound. Fei Tian looked surprised: "Is there something?"

"It should be fine now." Luo Tian threw away the shovel and simply pulled it up with his hands. There was a large iron box inside with a lock on it. Luo Tian had never seen it before. Fei Tian immediately recognized it: "This is an iron three-spring lock from the Han Dynasty. Its structure is mostly a rectangular horizontal padlock with a built-in 3-4 springs. The length of the device is 3.3-31 cm. It has been used in China for at least a thousand years."

Luo Tian still knew that China's locks have a very long history. The earliest locks were made of wooden and had extremely simple structure. They were just a symbolic lock and had no anti-theft function. Chinese metal locks were invented in the Han Dynasty. Most of them were iron locks in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, copper locks became a necessity for every household. As a common daily necessity, ancient locks recorded the development level of social productivity in different periods. Some locks with special shapes and carved patterns also recorded the folk customs of the time.

The "bone misunderstanding" in the Yangshao culture of the Neolithic period, "stone misunderstanding" is the prototype of the lock key. "口", an awl made of bones in ancient times, which was used to untie the ropes and knots, was the prototype of the ancient key. Therefore, "口" is one of the oldest locks in my country.

Although the Yin and Shang dynasties had entered the Bronze Age, copper was mainly used to make large drinkware, food and sacrificial utensils, and had not been used to make locks. Its development period was from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, from the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. After the Yin and Shang Bronze Age, the Spring and Autumn Period entered the Iron Age. Archaeology proved that during this period, people used iron locks, copper locks, silver locks, gilt locks, etc., among which representative ones were such as bronze locks in the Western Zhou Dynasty, metal locks in the Eastern Han Dynasty, shrimp tail silver locks in the Tang Dynasty and square locks in the Song Dynasty, etc., all of which had a very high technical level.

Especially the iron three-spring locks in the Han Dynasty were used for more than 1,000 years in my country. The prosperity was during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Locks of various materials developed simultaneously, mostly copper locks and iron locks, with more exquisite craftsmanship, and great innovations in unlocking difficulty and appearance manufacturing. For example, the three-color copper locks in the Ming Dynasty, the white crane locks in the Qing Dynasty, the password locks, secret door locks, four-opening locks, reverse zippers, and various people, animals and text-shaped locks are dazzling and beautiful. Some locks have complex structures, clever designs, and unique mechanisms, which are difficult for ordinary people to open.

"Oh no, how to open it now?" Luo Tian looked around and hesitated. Fei Tian pulled it with one hand and broke the lock in one go: "Silly nephew, do you think it is safe after thousands of years of corrosion?"

The lock was broken, and the iron box was opened immediately. The things inside made the two who had seen the world open their mouths slightly, and there was a smell inside. Luo Tian said: "Why does it look like the smell of incense and candles? It's strange that it can still be preserved after so long."

"Everything can happen in the ancient tomb. If it were before, I could still take you to see it. This kind of tomb is actually nothing." Fei Tian flipped the things in the box: "I'm not familiar with these things, come and see."

"Jade Toad?" Luo Tian picked up a jade artifact. This is a jade toad. The toad is an animal with extremely high medicinal value. Although it looks ugly, it has a beautiful legend. Since ancient times, it has been used to describe the "Toad Palace's Chopping Guigui" as a metaphor for the Jinshi. Legend has it that there are three-legged toads in the Moon Palace, and later generations also called the Moon Palace the Toad Palace. The Jade Toad not only has a decorative effect, but also can ward off evil and attract wealth. When placing the jade toad, you must face the door.

"I know this thing. Now many rich people buy Feng Shui arrays." Feitian said.

"This one is not used to set up a Feng Shui array, this is a container for water." Luo Tian said, holding the jade toad and pouring it out, and liquid flowed out. Luo Tian said, "Volume 6 of "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing" says: 'Only one jade toad is as big as a fist, with empty belly, and five combinations of water, and is as bright as new as new. The king takes it to hold the book."
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