In Guangzhou in the 1980s, urban construction was in full swing.
One evening, a worker pushed a trolley to fetch soil on the elephant hill, shoveled it down, and made a cracking sound, and there seemed to be something hard under the dirt.
The worker used a pickaxe shovel to remove the dirt from the surface, and found that under the dirt were rows of huge rows of long bluestone slabs.
Several workers rushed over when they heard the news, and several people worked together to pry open a bluestone slab, and a black hole appeared under the bluestone slab...
The bluestone slabs covered the tomb
The workers talked about it, and the matter soon alarmed the construction authorities...
After receiving the notice, the Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology quickly sent archaeologists to the construction site.
After consultation, archaeologists are ready to explore the specific situation of the tomb, such as whether it has been stolen and excavated.
A relatively young archaeologist was willing to go down to the tomb and have a look.
So they tied a rope around the man's waist and let him slip down the gap in the stone slab that had been opened.
Before going down, archaeologist Huang Zhanyue repeatedly told the young man that if he smelled anything below, or heard any strange sound, he would immediately withdraw it.
After the young archaeologist went down, everyone crouched down at the entrance of the cave, nervously listening to the movement below.
The people above thought that the archaeologist who went down might have encountered some danger, and several people quickly lifted the rope upwards with force, and finally pulled the young archaeologist up.
Everyone often breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there was no danger.
Graveyards of stones
The young archaeologist was embarrassed to tell everyone that he saw several bright lights in the burial chamber below. I didn't know what those bright lights were, so I couldn't help but scream.
Archaeologist Huang Zhanyue was very excited to hear the young archaeologist's description, and he told everyone that the tomb may be a high-standard tomb.
Huang Zhanyue went on to analyze: The few bright beams of light that the young archaeologists saw below were most likely the amount of light reflected by the bronze mirror placed on the heads of the martyrs.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, many high-grade and high-standard tombs had the bad habit of martyrdom.
When these people who were used to find treasure were buried in the tomb, a bronze mirror was placed on their heads, which may have been a burial custom at that time.
Therefore, Huang Zhanyue speculated that if there were martyrs in this tomb, then it should be a high-grade tomb.
Everyone rubbed their fists together, set up a good exploration party, and began to carry out rescue excavations of the tomb.
Soon, the tomb passage was found.
What's going on ? It turned out that the tomb was full of stones, each weighing hundreds of pounds. Obviously, these huge times are used to prevent theft.
Stone tomb door
There was no way for the Archaeological Research Institute to contact the construction units working nearby, called for cranes, and helped them hang these huge stones one by one.
After the stones were cleared out, the tomb door was quickly found along the grave road.
Standing in front of the huge stone tomb door, the archaeologists are helpless again! Can't get in!
Because this stone door is too thick, archaeologists can't smash the door open, that is, to destroy cultural relics! Speaking of such a good stone gate, archaeologists are reluctant to do it!
Finally, everyone thought of a way, and after consultation, they decided to dig a gap under the stone door, find a relatively thin archaeologist to drill through the gap in the stone, and open the stone door of the tomb from the inside.
After opening the stone door, the experts saw that there were many small bronzes and pottery for the funeral on the ground in the Yongdao, but from the perspective of the specifications of the cultural relics of the funeral, they were not too high, which somewhat disappointed the archaeologists.
The scene makes the color mark
So what kind of official position is this sight order? What was it doing during the Qin and Han dynasties? Here I would like to explain that in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the "jing" and the eternal "yong" of the scene were tongna and universal. The "scene" is the "Yong Lane".
During the Qin and Han dynasties, this scene order was an official position dedicated to the management of the harem for the emperor.
Since there is a scene order for martyrdom in this tomb, it means that the owner of this tomb is at least the level of an emperor!
Because only the emperor has a harem, he will set up a scene order to manage the harem.
This reasoning makes all archaeologists look forward to the archaeological excavations under this tomb.
After the yongdao was cleaned up, we went to the main burial chamber. Another huge stone gate blocked the way.
This time, everyone had experience, so they dug a gap above the stone door, let a thin archaeologist drill in, and opened the stone door.
After the stone door of the main burial chamber was opened, and when I saw the scene inside, everyone's eyes widened...
Everyone can see that the dome-shaped tomb roof is painted with a pattern of cloud curls, which is very exquisite. This kind of painted tomb roof is also the first to be found in the Lingnan region.
Painting of a cloud curl pattern
Because they saw that on the coffin bed in the burial chamber lay a scattered golden jade robe.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, according to the hierarchical system, only emperors or kings could wear golden jade clothes after they died.
Now that the golden jade robe has been found, it means that this tomb is buried with a king.
When the archaeologists were cleaning up the dirt on the ground, they quickly found two seals, one of which had the inscription "Imperial Seal" engraved on it.
This made everyone cheer with excitement, because when they saw this seal, they could be sure that a person who had once been called "emperor" was buried here.
In this part of Lingnan, the only people who have been called emperors in history are Zhao Tuo of the South Vietnamese state and his son Zhao Hu.
The question now needs to be ascertained whether this tomb is buried in the tomb by Zhao Tuo, the first monarch of the South Vietnamese state, or his son Zhao Hu.
Speaking of zhao Tuo, the founding monarch of this South Vietnamese state, it may not be familiar to readers.
Zhao Tuo was a cadre general under Qin Shi Huang. After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang ordered Zhao Tuo to go to the Lingnan region to administer this area.
Imperial Seal
However, shortly after Zhao Tuo came to Lingnan, Qin Shi Huang died.
After another two years, Liu Bang led an uprising army to overthrow the Qin Dynasty and establish the Han Dynasty.
Zhao Tuo, who lived in the middle of Lingnan, heard the news of the demise of the Qin Dynasty and decided to establish himself as king. The State of South Vietnam was established, and Cho Tuo himself was the first king of the State of South Vietnam.
Because the two words engraved on this seal are "Zhao Ming".
Among the emperors of the South Yue Kingdom, there was no such person, and sima Qian's historical records did not record this person, so who was this person named Zhao Ming?
At this time, archaeologists found a dragon button seal made of pure gold while cleaning the golden jade coat. This did not appear as a pure gold seal, which solved all the doubts in the minds of archaeologists.
Some readers have to ask, why didn't King Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam pass on his throne to his son? And what about Zhao Hu, who chose to pass on to his grandson?
The reason is actually very simple, because the King of South Vietnam, Zhao Tuo, lived for 101 years and reigned for 66 years!
When King Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam died, his own son had already gone before him, so he could only pass the emperor's throne to his grandson Zhao Hu.
But archaeologists have questioned the dragon button seal of pure gold.
Because the seal of this pure gold seal is engraved: "Emperor Wen Xingxi".
So what happened to the seal that was buried in the grave?
Later, after careful study by experts and scholars, the answer was finally found. Because according to historical records, shortly after the death of King Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam, his grandson Zhao Hu also died soon after.
Zhao Hu was the second emperor of the State of South Vietnam. When Zhao Hu died, his son Zhao Baoqi was meeting emperor Wu of Han in Xi'an.
Hearing the news of his father's death, Zhao Infant Qi rushed to Panyu, the capital of the South Vietnamese state at that time, overnight.
When burying his father, Zhao Infant Qi chose to bury this "Emperor Wen Xing Seal" and the golden seal together in his father's tomb.
Because after Zhao Infant Qi met Emperor Wu of Han in Xi'an, Zhao Infant Qi found that Emperor Wu of Han was a particularly powerful emperor, so he did not intend to claim the title of emperor himself, but chose to submit to Emperor Wu of Han at that time...
Dragon button pure gold seal
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