Historical documents of rope surname

On April 13, 2005, the cultural relics management department of Huangdao District of Qingdao rescued an ancient tomb at a construction site of Xin 'an Sub-district Office. The tomb runs north and south, 220 cm long and 90 cm wide. The tomb was badly damaged, leaving only the bottom of the tomb without any funerary objects. When the archaeologists were cleaning up the tomb, they found an inscription brick, which was 28.5cm long,12cm wide and 4.5cm thick. It is grayish red and hard. In the middle of a long side, there is a border 7 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, inside which is the word "rope brick", and the top and bottom are decorated with diamond patterns. On the short side, there are five words "Yamato Four Years' Meritorious Work", both of which are from Yang Wen, which are typical official scripts of the Han Dynasty. The word "rope's brick" in the inscription brick is clear, and it was fired by a master named "rope". "River" is the historical title of China. In the history of China, only Tang Wenzong used the year number of "Daiwa", and the year of "Daiwa Four Years" was 830 AD. However, the tombs and relics of the Tang Dynasty have never been found in and around the area, and the bricks unearthed from the same tomb are all Han brick patterns, so there is still no basis for determining the tomb as the Tang Dynasty. In ancient China, the words "Da" and "Tai" were universal, and their meanings were basically the same. The same is true of writing. Pianya Xunzuan explains: "There are too many ancient people to add points". In the book Li Bian compiled by Gu Aiji in the Qing Dynasty, all the official scripts selected were from inscriptions in the Han Dynasty, and the word "Tai" can also be written as "Da". Based on this, it is inferred that "Daiwa four years" should be "Taihe four years". Five dynasties in the history of our country used the calendar year of "Taihe", but only three dynasties had a calendar year of more than four years, namely Wei Mingdi in the Three Kingdoms (227 ~ 233), Haixi Palace in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (366 ~ 37 1) and Emperor Xiaowen in the Northern Wei Dynasty (477 ~ 499). Because the shape, size and pattern of this inscription brick are basically the same as those of the Eastern Han Dynasty brick unearthed in the local area, the production time of these bricks will not be far apart, and only the Three Kingdoms period is the closest to the firing time of the inscription brick. Secondly, the inscription on this brick is typical of Han Li style, which is also a popular calligraphy style in the Three Kingdoms period. Therefore, the "Four Years of Yamato" should be the "Four Years of Taihe" in the Three Kingdoms Wei Mingdi era, that is, in 230 AD. China's inscriptions on bricks first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the main contents were auspicious messages, as well as the surname and production year of the brick maker. Most of these stone tablets have words on one side, and most of them are monotonous and scrawled. The brick with the inscription "Shi Sheng" unearthed in Huangdao has the surname of the brick maker and the year of production cast on both sides of the brick respectively. The text layout is rigorous and the pattern is exquisite and precious. Its excavation not only provides a reliable physical basis for studying local history, but also has important reference value for studying the historical inheritance of firing pottery and making bricks, folk calligraphy art and decorative art. The inscription "Shi Sheng" brick kiln is located in Huangdao District, which is located on the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay. With mild climate, abundant products and convenient land and water transportation, it is one of the birthplaces of Dongyi culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Qi once set up a frontier fortress here, and Qin Xufu set sail from here, looking for the elixir of life for Qin Shihuang, and providing market demand for local ceramics and brick-making industries. According to the production process of this inscription brick, it should have been produced in a very formal workshop at that time. So where is the brick kiln where this kind of brick is fired? This is crucial to the study of local history. According to many ancient sites found in the local area, a large number of bricks, pottery and other artifacts of the Han Dynasty were unearthed, which was enough to see the demand at that time. Combined with the traffic conditions at that time, this kiln site should be local. According to the clue of the inscription brick "Sheng", in 2006, the local cultural relics department discovered a batch of kiln sites in the Western Han Dynasty-Wei and Jin Dynasties, covering an area of more than 30,000 square meters (China Cultural Relics Newspaper, 2nd edition, August 3, 2007, Qingdao Rescue and Excavation of Ancient Kiln Sites in the Western Han Dynasty). It is preliminarily proved that there are 3 kilns, 3 wells, 4 borrow pits and 1 stone sedimentation tank in the kiln site, and some pottery of Han dynasty and a large number of pottery pieces and bricks of different ages have been unearthed. A mudflat with an area of several square kilometers was also found less than 100 m from the kiln site, and the depth of the mud was about 1 m. As long as these sludge are simply desalted, they are natural raw materials for firing ceramic bricks. It is determined that the soil quality of these silt and borrow pits is completely consistent with the pottery pieces and bricks unearthed in this kiln site, and their ages are basically consistent with the age of this inscription brick. It is preliminarily concluded that this kiln site is the kiln field of "Rope Home". It can be seen that in the Han Dynasty, the Xin 'an area in Huangdao District had the scale of an ancient city.