Chapter 561
The unearthed cultural relics are delivered every two days. Since they were delivered once yesterday, the ones unearthed today have to be temporarily stored in a warehouse specially prepared in the yard.
The electricity came on again tonight, a rare occasion, and the teachers took the students to see the fragments of cultural relics unearthed today.
One day, they dug out two large boxes of things, including pottery shards and many cones of different sizes.
Professor Wen pointed to the vertebrae and said, "These can basically be confirmed to be cooking utensils. Although they are of the same type, their shapes are different.
Some are solid, some are hollow, some are thick, and some are thin. After being sent back to the research institute, they will be compared and reassembled with other fragments to see if they can be pieced together into a complete vessel.
We can then determine the dynasty and ethnic group to which they belong based on their morphology.”
A student raised his hand and asked, "Teacher, the shapes and characteristics of utensils vary from dynasty to dynasty. Are there also significant differences in the utensils used by different ethnic groups in the same era?"
Professor Wen pushed his glasses and answered seriously, "Of course, the utensils used by different ethnic groups in the same era often differ.
Take the cooking utensils legs we have discovered so far, for example. Their morphological differences may well reflect the differences in living habits, craft traditions, and cultural beliefs among different ethnic groups.
Take our current life as an example. Our classmates come from different regions, have different eating habits, and use different cooking utensils at home.
Some places prefer steaming and boiling, some places prefer frying and stir-frying, and even the forms of hot pot have their own merits.
The cooking utensils we discovered, in addition to their morphological characteristics, sometimes also have special totems.
We can use these details to determine whether the user of this cooking pot was a local aborigine, a Zhou person from Baoji, or an immigrant from the Shang Dynasty? This allows us to analyze and understand the demographic structure of the population."
The students sat around the fragments of cultural relics, discussing one after another, their eyes filled with a desire to solve the historical mystery.
Wang Xinyue suddenly said, "It feels like these fragments of cultural relics are like puzzle pieces. We have to piece them together bit by bit to see the complete historical picture."
Sister Lin Qingqing smiled and responded, "That's right, that's the charm of archaeology. Every fragment is a gift from history, and our task is to interpret the stories behind them."
As the discussion deepened, everyone's understanding of archaeological work deepened.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the roar of the generator stopped, and the teachers and students reluctantly left the warehouse.
Su Miao lay in bed, the various shapes of cooking utensils bases and pottery fragments still appearing in her mind. These cultural relics kept turning around in her mind, and it took a long time before she fell into a deep sleep.
In the next few days, everyone repeated the same task every day, digging and digging non-stop.
The feeling of digging up cultural relics fragments has changed from the initial excitement to a bit of numbness.
Senior Qingqing said that this was normal. How many people can maintain a strong passion for repetitive work day after day?
One has to be able to endure and tolerate loneliness to do a good job in archaeology. If one day they can suddenly dig out a complete bronze tripod with their own hands, they will know that the long silence is worth it.
The weekend finally arrived. Su Miao happily went home to get clean clothes and went straight to the bathhouse.
The bathhouse industry in the capital has a long history, and records of it can be found in ancient books as early as the Yuan Dynasty.
According to legend, the "perfume shop" opened by monks in temples during the Yuan Dynasty was the predecessor of the bathhouse industry, which has a history of hundreds of years.
With the development of commercial services, the modern Beijing bathhouse industry began to flourish during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.
Like restaurants and hotels, bathhouses are divided into different grades according to their conditions and specifications.
Su Miao went to a public bathhouse that Aunt Li took her to last month. This bathhouse has a good reputation in the area, and the environment and sanitary conditions are good.
When Aunt Li took Su Miao there, she kept praising her, saying that she was very graceful and didn't look like someone who was having her first bath.
Su Miao smiled secretly. In her previous life, during the severe winter in the capital, it was the bathhouse that saved her life, otherwise she would have to sleep with a cow.
The basic cost of a bath is 38 cents. I heard that the price has just increased. It used to be 26 cents, and that price has remained for many years.
In addition, there are a variety of other services that are charged separately, such as scrubbing, back massage, pedicure, scraping, etc.
Su Miao paid the fee for bathing and scrubbing at the front desk. After getting the key and number plate, he couldn't wait to walk inside.
In the changing room, rows of beds connected to bedside tables were arranged in an orderly manner, head to head.
As soon as she walked in, a warm waiter came over to greet her and took her to her bunk according to the number on Su Miao's nameplate.
Su Miao changed her clothes, locked them in the closet, and couldn't wait to take a shower.
There are many large and small pools in the bathhouse, with different temperatures, including warm pools, hot pools and extra hot pools.
Su Miao could only soak in the hot pool at most, while the elderly grandmothers and aunts mostly preferred the small extra hot pool.
When they came out of the pool, they were all red and their faces were filled with happy smiles.
Soaking in the comfortable hot water, Su Miao breathed a sigh of relief, as if all the fatigue from working on the construction site in the past few days had been melted away by the hot water.
At the construction site, she could only wash herself in a basin. She hadn't had a proper shower in four days, which broke her record.
She closed her eyes and enjoyed the comfort brought by the hot water. She secretly decided in her heart that next week she would not wait so long and would go out to take a bath on Wednesday.
The water was so comfortable that Su Miao almost fainted. She rubbed herself with her hands and felt that she was soaked thoroughly, so she went to find the bathing aunt.
The soaking time must be long enough to soften the mud and loose skin on your body so that the bath attendant can scrub them off later.
At that time, most of the bath-scrubbing aunties in Beijing were from Hebei. They were extroverted, spoke fluently, and could chat with customers while scrubbing their bodies.
The technique of scrubbing the body has its own particularities. According to tradition, the whole body should be rubbed 108 times.
The guests are not allowed to feel any pain during the process, and the mud is rubbed off comfortably. After this, they are all heroes.
Su Miao rubbed it thoroughly, then went to take a shower and washed her hair. After washing, she felt several pounds lighter.
In the lounge, some guests who had just finished taking a shower were lying on the bed and resting their eyes; some were drinking tea and chatting together, and some were bringing snacks to relax.
When people of all kinds come here, there is no distinction between high and low, and it is completely natural and relaxing.
Su Miao's main purpose of coming here was to take a good bath, and he didn't want to waste any more time, so he changed his clothes, blew his hair, and went home.
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