In 2014, the largest tomb robbery case since the founding of the People's Republic of China occurred in Liaoning Province: the Hongshan Cultural Site Conservation Area was stolen in large numbers.
The heinous nature and importance of this incident became the "No. 1 Supervision of the Ministry of Public Security" case of the Ministry of Public Security, the Public Security Department of Liaoning Province, and the public security organs of Chaoyang City at that time.
Of course, the case was solved the following year, the artifacts were recovered, and the tomb robbers were caught. However, the destruction of many ancient tomb groups and ancient cultural sites has also become an irreparable reality. For our country, it is an irreparable loss.
But such a case actually happened again in 2020: the tomb of Wu Yue Wusu King Qian Wei was stolen!
As the only well-preserved imperial mausoleum in Zhejiang Province, this is a very serious matter: the national key cultural relics protection unit has been destroyed.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to talk about the reasons why the tomb of Qian Gong is important.
This tomb is located on the southern slope of Taimiao Mountain in Jincheng Street, Lin'an District, Hangzhou, and was established in 932 AD, and has a history of 1,000 years.
The whole tomb is backed by Taimiao Mountain, which is 9 meters high, 50 meters long and 50 meters wide. For thousands of years, it had remained intact and had never been destroyed excessively.
As the first king of Wu Yueguo, Qian Wei is also a very legendary figure, because he can be called an early "revolutionary" who started from scratch and established political power on the one hand.
At that time, the family was too poor to even go to school, and halfway through the school, they dropped out of school. Opening the "Chronicle of the History of Wu Yue", the book describes Qian Wei as follows: "Slightly longer, good fist bravery, happy renxia, to solve hatred and resentment, good at shooting and hammering."
It can be seen that Qian Wei is a figure with a chivalrous spirit. And he also relied on this chivalrous spirit to eventually grow from the army to the supreme king. However, this process took Qian Wei almost half a lifetime, which can be seen in his "Testament of King Wumu": "From deputy envoy to king, he remained for fifty years and experienced hundreds of battles."
According to historical records, Qian Was crowned King of Wuyue in 907 AD, also known as King Wusu. This land of Wuyue, also known as the Zhejiang area, was summarized as "one army and thirteen states" at that time.
Facts have proved that Qian Wei will not only fight, but also govern the country.
After he took over the land of Wuyue, he used the method of "protecting the border and the people" to take care of the Wuyue area very well. At the same time, he also built a sea pond and dredged the West Lake, and developed the matter of Nongsang, which eventually made Jiangsu and Zhejiang a country that took the lead in getting rich.
Of course, this is all his political image, and for Qian, he should be more successful in his way of governing the family.
After becoming king, Qian Wei prepared his own "Self-respect Notes", and later revised the "Eight Precepts" and "Ten Precepts" of the Ruling Family twice, and wrote the "Testament of King Wusu" at the age of 81.
In this "Testament", qian's emphasis on loving the people and protecting the army, brotherly harmony, respecting the elderly and loving the young, and being diligent and thrifty can be seen everywhere. One of the most important:
"After I established my name, I continued the family style and preached the ritual religion in my descendants, and this long-term enjoyment of wealth and wealth was also the law." If any of the descendants are unfaithful, filial, unkind, or unjust, they are bad for my family's style and must be attacked with the sound of a drum. ”
This is Qian's love for his children and grandchildren, and according to this family style, his 33 sons have also prospered the family throughout the country with their ability.
However, due to the limitations of the times at that time, the Qian family was too numerous to record them all. However, there are many well-known figures such as champions, scholars, lifters, and medicinal holy hands.
Especially in the modern Qian family, there are many big people we are familiar with, such as Qian Sanqiang, Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang, Qian Zhongshu, Qian Qichen and so on.
Qian Xuesen is the 33rd generation grandson of Qian Wei, and the harmonic sound of "Xuesen" is "Xueshen".
Some people have summed up the talents of the Qian family: one Nobel Prize, two diplomats, three scientists, four masters of the study of four countries, vice chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and academicians of the Eighteenth and Twelfth Academies.
Qian Xuesen's father, Qian Junfu, said: "Our Qian family has been diligent and thrifty for generations, and we have extremely strict requirements for our children and grandchildren, perhaps under the influence of the ancestral family training." ”
This is just like what Qian Wei asked for in his family training: Although his children and grandchildren are foolish, poetry books must be read.
It can be seen that the importance of Qian's tomb not only means his past legend, but also the inheritance of the well-being of future generations.
At least, the inheritance of Qian's "thousand-year-old famous family" is enough to make the world stunned. Therefore, as early as 2001, the state began to pay attention to qian's tomb, first including it in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and then including it in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
This kind of protection is no longer a simple historical protection, but also the protection of cultural inheritance and the protection of humanistic feelings. As a national key protection object, Qian Wei is well-deserved.
Unfortunately, such an important imperial tomb was stolen last year. However, perhaps due to the magnitude of the events at that time, the matter was not announced to the public. It was not until April this year that the Zhejiang public security organs released the article "The National Special Action to Combat Cultural Relics Crimes Has Achieved Remarkable Results". It lists a large number of precious cultural relics such as gold and jade belts and secret color porcelain, as well as several criminal suspects who were arrested.
This allows us to contact the largest tomb robbery case mentioned in the Opening Article mentioning the theft of the Hongshan Cultural Site, but from the perspective of the nature and destructive power of the tomb robbery this time, as well as the value of cultural relics, the tomb of Qian Biao will leap to the largest tomb robbery case since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
This is no joke, according to the cultural relics recovered from the case cracked by the public security organs, it can be seen that there are 175 cultural relics with good instruments and high historical, artistic and scientific value, which are all products of the Five Kingdoms and Ten Dynasties period, and their actual value cannot be calculated by numbers.
In addition, the tomb of Qian Gong has lasted for thousands of years and has been well preserved, and once it is stolen at this time, the consequences can be imagined. But the problem is that such an important cultural relics protection place actually came from the theft of two people (it is said that only 2 people stole the money and tombs). Isn't this going to be sensational again? I can't believe that the Millennium Mausoleum was destroyed at the hands of just two people!
Wuyue culture has a long history, as an important historical and archaeological representative of the southeast region of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the tomb of Qian Wei is of great significance. Moreover, the architectural style of the Tomb of Qian Wei itself is also very prominent, among which the four walls such as the Kang Tomb and the Tomb of Wu Hanyue are arranged according to the direction, and the carved astrological chart at the top of the mausoleum forms the correspondence of the four gods and the twelve hours. This characteristic alone is probably enough to reflect the importance of this tomb. Now destroyed, the impact on later cultural research can be imagined.