The reason why the excavation of Houhai faint Hou tomb has attracted so much public attention is mainly because of the special era of its master status. As the ninth king of the Han Dynasty, Liu He, the tomb owner, was in office for less than a month, but such a noble status is rare in the world.
The Confucius screen unearthed in the tomb is the earliest statue of Confucius so far, and the appendix records the life story of Confucius. According to records, the screen is well preserved, and archaeologists and experts can clearly observe the above words, which mainly describe the basic information of Confucius. What interests the public most is that Confucius' age, height and even face value can be inferred from cultural relics!
But to the public's headache, the records on the screen are different from Confucius in Sima Qian's Historical Records. The first thing we should know is that the confirmation of history, the exact cultural relics are more convincing than the exact historical materials. Nowadays, the excavation of the tomb of Hou faint in the sea is almost to shake Sima Qian's position for thousands of years.
However, what our existing documents bring us is not conducive to new historical materials, such as seasickness, so we can't pay attention to one thing and lose another. As soon as we see the new historical materials, we get the treasure. Only by relying on this new discovery, we will overturn the previous summary and draw a groundbreaking conclusion. For these new discoveries, we still need to look at them with suspicion and prove them with convincing historical materials.
Sima Qian's love for Confucius was more real, mainly because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was already the dominant Confucian family at that time, and the market of "ousting hundreds of schools and respecting Confucianism alone" was unstoppable at that time, and Sima Qian was no exception.
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