Tao Sha Jian: the Autobiography of a Lingnan Tomb Robber

Name: Tao Sha Jian: the Autobiography of a Lingnan Tomb Robber
Author: Arctic Grilled Sweet Potatoes

淘沙鉴：一个岭南盗墓者的自述

by Arctic Grilled Sweet Potatoes (北极烤地瓜)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 344k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
Audience: Male
Updated: 22d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Tomb robbing + suspense + treasure appraisal + Feng Shui] My name is He Shouyi, a tomb robber who was sentenced to fifteen years, and the fourth generation palm eye of the Jiao Si lineage. I can't even count how many tombs I have entered in my life. In our lineage, there are five special skills: listening to thunder to identify acupoints, observing grass to recognize soil, smelling mud to determine the age, detecting traces and locating, and identifying fakes and treasures. When a copper pipe is inserted into the ground during a thunderstorm, whether it is a hollow or a water hole thirty meters below, the echo is completely different. Looking at the color of the grass from a hundred meters away, the Han tombs have thick soil and the grass is dark green, while the Ming tombs have thin soil and the grass is yellow. A handful of soil comes close and smells it. The burnt smell is Han Dynasty, the sour taste is Tang Dynasty, and the fragrance of camphor wood is Song Dynasty. This set of skills was passed down from the Qing Dynasty by Mr. Jiao Si, and my grandpa taught me it for eight years. The people who went to the grave with me were three dead brothers. Ah Shui, the fourth generation water ghost of the Dan family. Hold your breath for four and a half minutes at the bottom of the Pearl River, and you can judge the era by touching the porcelain pieces with your fingers - the glaze of Song porcelain is as thick as an eggshell, while the glaze of Ming porcelain is as thin as the fetal bone. Lao Lin, the 21st generation of Yangjiang Hailao. At home, there is a shark skin chart handed down from the Southern Song Dynasty. A Kun, the fifth generation of Hakka Feng Shui. Before entering the tomb, he burned talismans and recited mantras, saying that he was borrowing paths from things underground. The four of us dug from the tomb of the Nanyue King in Baiyun Mountain to the Second Tomb of the Southern Han Dynasty on Xiaoguwei Island, and from the Hakka Tomb in Meizhou to the sunken ship off the coast of Yangjiang. What is written in this book is the real thing from Jiao Si Fragments, and it is the craftsmanship and rules that were exchanged for a few lives. There are also some things that I still don't understand until my death. For example, there are four symbols on the square jade seal - my grandfather has been studying them for thirty-four years but has not been able to decipher them. For example, the swirling waters in the old Lin family's chart - I went down and saw it, but I couldn't explain it. These are all written down in this notebook.

Reader comments

To be honest, after reading tomb-robbing articles for so many years, this is the first time that I have seen "technical" written so realistically. It's not the kind of cheating routine where the protagonist knows everything as soon as he reaches out his hand, but there is really a complete set of skills that have been passed down. Jiao Siye's "Thunder Listening Technique", which involves inserting a copper tube during thunderstorms to listen to the echoes in the ground to determine the location of the tomb, as well as "observing the color of grass" and "mud marks technique", are explained in such detail that you will wonder whether this thing really works. If you like hard-core technical tomb robbing, this book is worth reading. It's really worth it.
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