Yan Shigu made an annotation on the "First Year of Jianyuan" in "Book of Han: Chronicles of Emperor Wu": "Since ancient times, emperors have not had reign names, so it started here."

According to research in "Lianghan Journal Mistakes", it is believed that the beginning of the reign name began with Yuanding, and Jianyuan, Yuanguang, Yuanshuo, and Yuanshou were all named by later officials.

An examination of "Zizhi Tongjian·The First Year of Yuanding, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" states: "The year names of Yuanding are also like those of Jianyuan and Yuanguang, both of which were revised later."

Zhao Yi's "Twenty-Two Histories" believes that the era name begins with Yuanshou, and the former are all for chasing fate.

Yang Shuda's "Hanshu Yiguan·Wudi Ji" believes that in the first year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty got a white-scaled bird from hunting, which made him very happy, so he issued an edict to change the name of Yuanshou to Yuanshou, which was the beginning of the reign name.

Modern scholars "New Evidence of Hanshu" believe that "Rizhilu" and "Twenty-two Historical Notes" state that Emperor Wu founded the Yuan Dynasty and Yuan Guang was a posthumous record, which is actually untrue.

In the rubbings of the "Xiaoxiaojingge Jinshiwen", there is a record of the "Longyuan Palace Tripod", which was made in the third year of Yuanshuo, and the "Longyuan Palace Pot", which was made in the first month of the second year of Yuanshuo.

In addition, "Shan Qi Ji Jin Lu" records that in the twenty-fourth page of "Ren Qi", it is also recorded that "Long Yuan Palace Pot was made in the second year of Yuan Shuo".

The author of "Xiaoxiao Jingge Jinwen Rubbings" is Liu Tizhi, a native of Lujiang, the fourth son of Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, a former supervisor of the Qing Dynasty Bank, a director of the China Industrial Bank, and a scholar-type capitalist.

The bronze inscriptions recorded in this book are collected by Liu over the past 30 years, starting from the old rubbings of the Qian and Jiaqing Dynasties, and going down to the artifacts unearthed in modern times. A total of more than 6,500 rubbings of bronze inscriptions have been compiled, making it the most comprehensive catalog of bronze inscriptions in modern times.

The identification of cultural relics is generally recorded at that time, which can prove that Jianyuan, Yuanguang and Yuanshuo were not killed later.

But there is a fatal premise, that is, the records about Longyuan Palace Cauldron and Longyuan Palace Pot must be true.

These two things have long since disappeared in the long river of history; the words left behind are also the "old rubbings" from the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty. The "evidence" listed before is overwhelming. It is only the identification of cultural relics recorded in historical documents, not the true identification of cultural relics.

The evidence is not sufficient.

The tombstone discovered by Zhou Zhi now has four small characters on it, which completely resolves the thousands-year-old controversy about the earliest use of Chinese era names.

The Jianyuan year number is not a retrospective record.

Therefore, the earliest time when China used era names should be 140 BC, the first year of Jianyuan.

Rather than being identified by many scholars through literary and historical data, it was 122 BC, the first year of Yuanshou.

In the eyes of many people, this bit of knowledge cannot be used as food or drink, it cannot produce "benefits", and it is of no importance.

But anyone who has done some research on Chinese civilization will know how important this issue is.

The era name is the exclusive product of the Chinese emperor during the five thousand years of the Chinese Empire. It was initiated when a new emperor came to the throne in ancient China.

In order to distinguish the previous monarch, the new monarch recalculated the number of years in office. Later, people called the beginning of this recorded era "Era". This word is still a commonly used word in Chinese.

In ancient times, the era name has always been considered a symbol of imperial orthodoxy. When a regime expresses its vassal status and surrender to another regime, the first thing to do is to change the era name of that regime. There is a special vocabulary to express it. This matter - "Feng Zhengshuo".

On the contrary, establishing an independent reign represents a complete rebellion.

The era name carries countless historical events. Emperors of the past dynasties generally had to change the era name when they encountered major events such as "auspiciousness from heaven" or internal strife and external troubles.

Therefore, in addition to being a time clue and mind map for researchers of literature and history, it is also an intangible spiritual cultural heritage in Chinese history.

In the final analysis, it is something that was abolished only a few decades ago and has been throughout the entire feudal dynasty. People who study literature and history cannot avoid it.

At that time, Zhou Zhi was still young and had a wild temper. He thought that he was very spiritual and could easily learn anything related to literature and history.

It wasn't until his godfather forced him to carry this thing that he was really depressed to death, and then he realized that this road was not only full of fun, but also had all kinds of biting snakes.

Then Zhou Zhi got into trouble and got into trouble with these snakes.

"Hey! What are you thinking about?"

"Oh, it's nothing. I remember those days when you forced me to memorize chronology."

"Hahahaha..." The godfather laughed so hard that his nose turned even redder: "What's the matter? You still don't have a white back after all, right? Just send this rubbing to the capital of Shu, and your master can't give you a big treat!"

Zhou Zhi was stunned: "Do you think this thing can still be kept in Jiachuan?"

"How long can you protect me?" Godfather even used the word "protective": "It's so beautiful..."

The mating diagram of Fuxi and Nuwa is a pattern that often appears in tombs of the Han Dynasty, usually in tombs where couples are buried together.

According to the ancient Chinese etiquette of men on the left and women on the right, Fuxi is on the left and Nuwa is on the right.

The two people have human heads and snake bodies, and snake tails are intertwined. One of them holds the sun on his head, and the other holds the moon on his head.

Surrounding the picture are various constellations composed of dots connected by lines.

Because of the saying "the sky is round and the earth is round", Nuwa, who represents the sky, holds a compass for drawing circles in her right hand; Fuxi, who represents the earth, holds a square for drawing squares in her left hand.

The whole picture has profound meaning, unique composition, full of artistic charm and mystery.

This is the big picture. This tombstone also has a magical background pattern. The lower part seems to include the life of the tomb owner, farming, reading, cooking, fishing, shooting geese, driving...

"Like me, I have a wide range of interests and hobbies," Zhou Zhi said.

"It's so extensive, do you know how to make rubbings?" Godfather asked.

"I really don't know how. My fourth cousin never taught me this, and neither did you."

"I'm not good at this, so I have to go to Lao Li from the calligraphy and painting studio. He can even draw flowers, birds, fish and insects."

"So awesome?"

"Ask him to come work overtime in the afternoon, and you can take a look then." The godfather took the camera over and said, "Continue."

There are also many good things next. In addition to the pair of kissing figurines, there are also figurines playing piano, holding baskets, and drums.

Although many of them are handmaid figurines, they are not a complete set of large and small ones. I received about twenty of them. They all have typical Han Dynasty clothing characteristics, with vivid and beautiful expressions, smooth clothing lines, and rich details, which are of great research value.

There are also some that are quite distinctive. For example, there is a pottery with a jar shape at the bottom and a pointed lid on top. If you look closely, you will find that the pointed lid is actually made into the shape of a mountain.

"This thing is also weird. The top is in the style of a Boshan furnace, but the bottom is a round cylinder. At first glance, I thought it was a pottery warehouse."

Boshan furnace is a common utensil in the Han Dynasty and a commonly used incense device in the Western Han Dynasty. It can be used to smoke clothes and quilts to deodorize and avoid filth.

The shape is relatively small, generally about the size of a fist. Some are decorated with cloud patterns all over the body, and some are gilt or gold and silver.

When the incense is burned in the furnace, the smoke comes out from the hollow mountain-shaped cover, which is like a fairy spirit, giving people the feeling of being in a fairyland.

The mountains on the lid symbolize the overseas fairy mountain - Boshan, west of Penglai, so this kind of utensil is called Boshan stove. The most famous one is the Western Han dynasty gilt and silver bamboo-jointed high-handled copper fumigator unearthed in Xingping County, Shaanxi Province.

and the Cuojin Boshan furnace unearthed in Mancheng County, Heb Province.

But now this one is made of pottery, with the original green glaze applied on it. The bottom is a cylindrical pottery bowl with three legs.
Chapter completed!