Chapter 22 12. Aftertaste

Liu Bang joked about his second brother, and asked his father Liu Taigong: "Today, my second brother's property is bigger, which one is bigger?"Naturally, no one answered at the time—isn't the answer obvious! But time passed, and in the Tang Dynasty, someone passed the mountain where Liu Zhong lived in seclusion, and sighed: "The traces of thousands of years are sent to Xueluo, the old mountains and rivers in Peizhong Township."Changling is also a leisurely hill, who will know Zhongduo in the future? The answer is thought-provoking. Because under the thick loess, the prosperity has been wiped out.More than 2,000 years later, the westerly wind remained above the original sky, and the Han family mausoleum was full of Qin bricks and Han tiles, and the ashes of the fire.Everything seems to have been buried deep in those distant times.

However, history is not just those ancient symbols in the pile of old papers, it often travels through time and space and suddenly appears in front of us. On the Wuling Plain in the north of Xianyang, a random burst of wind and rain may reveal a piece of history. In 1968, a third-grade elementary school student in Xianyang City accidentally found something that looked like a seal in a field ditch beside Langjiagou Road in Hanjiawan.The seal buttons are carved with animals that look like tigers, and the seal characters are carved with strange characters. "Maybe it is a cultural relic?" So this "seal" was transferred to the local cultural relics department.

It is 2 centimeters high, 2.8 centimeters long on a side, and weighs 33 grams. It is made of Khotan jade, with chi tiger buttons, cloud patterns engraved on four sides, and the four characters "Queen's Seal" are engraved on the seal face. In the eyes of experts, this small "seal" has lost its original mystery.The seal of this "seal" revealed its identity - "The Queen's Seal". Which queen's imperial seal should it be? The place where the "Queen's Seal" was unearthed is only one kilometer away from the Changling Mausoleum where Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and Empress Lu Zhi were buried together.Therefore, archaeologists judge that this is probably the seal used by Lu Zhi, the first queen of the Western Han Dynasty.

After the death of its owner, this square seal became a burial object in the Changling Mausoleum—maybe it was buried with the coffin, or it might be used for sacrifices in the side hall beside the mausoleum.From then on, it quietly accompanied its master, passing the lonely time, waiting for the doom of the end times. It was born away from the world, and after watching the court disputes between Liu and Lu, the chaos of the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu, it also saw Iron Riders Jue the Desert, Pu Tao Entering Yuguan, Nagato Fu Youyuan, Jinwusuo Gillian, and Zhaojun Leaving the Fortress. Song Pipa Han Gongqiu, Zisai Qingzuo did not return.

Finally one day, there will be no more bells and bells.The curling cigarettes of sacrifices floated on the ancestral temples of other people's homes. This is the vicissitudes of life. A few years later, a group of chaotic Shandong farmers came here. They demolished the buildings, dug up the mausoleum, and then set a fire.The objects and treasures attached to the burial were all taken away by them. The "Empress's Seal" was thrown casually in the ditch by some ignorant guy, and it has been buried for two thousand years since then. Also by accident, a child passing by woke it up from its two thousand years of sleep.

However, that was another strange era. The heroines in history, such as Wu Zetian, Lu Zhi, and even the rebellious female "thieves" Chen Shuozhen and Tang Saier, were all re-evaluated, and a strange public opinion was being created. . Therefore, the excavation of the "Queen's Seal" was endowed with extraordinary significance. It was carefully sent to Beijing, touched, gazed at, and savored... People lamented: What a distant but similar era that was! However, the curtain of history finally fell, and when the dust settled, the "Queen's Seal" returned to the place where it should go most.

Today, it lies quietly in the Shaanxi History Museum, attracting the amazed eyes of people two thousand years later.For a stone that has experienced vicissitudes, all of this is already as light as smoke.