In the article "Visiting the Southern Dynasty Stone Carvings Scattered in the Northeastern Suburbs of Nanjing (Middle)", I introduced the stone carvings of the Southern Dynasty Chen WenDi Chen Xuan Yongning Mausoleum located about 200 meters south of the Lion Chong and Yong'an Cemetery in the Southern Elephant Mountain. The classification of this pair of stone beasts as Yongning Mausoleum should be believed is the inference made by Zhu Xizu in the "Investigation Report of the Tombs of the Six Dynasties", and it is further determined that the stone carvings of the Yongning Mausoleum of Emperor Chen Wendi are further determined when they are included in the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
The sign of the lion rushing south towards the stone carving in the Southern Elephant Mountain
So far, the stone carvings still have a national cultural protection monument and a beautiful and standardized "Chen Wendi Chen Xuan Yongning Mausoleum Stone Carving" sign.
East and west opposite Tianlu and Qilin
Stone unicorn in the Southern Elephant Mountain
However, in the past five or six years, such conclusions have been loosened, and there has been a very big change in the identification of their owners.
According to authoritative media reports in 2016, at the "Six Dynasties Archaeology - Sino-Japanese Scholars' Report Meeting" sponsored by the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University, experts revealed that the Nanjing Institute of Archaeology found two large southern dynasty brick chamber tombs in 2013 at the southern foot of the Lion Rush North Elephant Mountain in Xinhe Village, Qixia District. Those who drive past the Nanjing Qixiashan Bridge (Nanjing Yangtze River Fourth Bridge) must remember passing through the North Elephant Mountain Tunnel on the elevated road not far south of the bridge, and the two brick chamber tombs are located at the foot of the mountain south of the North Elephant Mountain.
South Elephant Mountain and North Elephant Mountain are separated from north to south by Qixia Avenue
After archaeological excavations, the tomb unearthed the chronological bricks of "Zhongda tong two years" and "ordinary seven years", and "ordinary" and "zhong datong" were the second and fourth era names of Xiao Yan, the emperor of Liangwu, respectively. Further combined with the excavated cultural relics, related documents, the scale of the ancient tomb shape system and other aspects, experts judged that the owners of these two tombs were Xiao Tong, the prince of Liang Dynasty Zhaoming, and his birth mother Ding Guifei. Most importantly, this conclusion has been affirmed by many scholars in the archaeological community of the Six Dynasties.
With the discovery of Xiao Tong's mausoleum, then, not far from the south side of the two large Southern Dynasty tombs, the owners of a pair of stone unicorns that have been identified as the Chen Wen Emperor Chen Xuan Yongning Mausoleum had to be reconfirmed, and the final conclusion was that they were actually Shinto stone carvings of Xiao Tong's mausoleum.
Those who are slightly familiar with the history of the Six Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms related to Nanjing must be deeply impressed by the two ancients of those two periods; one is naturally Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who naturally sighed for a thousand years that "asking the king how much sorrow he can have, just like a river of spring water flowing eastwards"; and the other is Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming, who compiled the earliest surviving collection of poems in China, "Selected Writings of Zhaoming"; he is not only a royal relative of Southern Liang, but also a famous literary scholar in China's history, and there are currently monuments related to him in many parts of the country.
In the plum blossom valley at the southern foot of Nanjing Purple Mountain, near Yanque Lake, "Jinling Forty-eight Scenic Terrace Wants to Show Ming"
Xiao Tong was the eldest son of The Founding Emperor Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan, the eldest brother of Emperor Xiao Gang of Liang Jianwen and Emperor Xiao Xuan of Liang Yuan, and since he did not reign as emperor, then everyone must have such a question, according to the Southern Dynasty mausoleum regulations, the Shinto stone beasts in front of the tomb of the prince were to ward off evil spirits, and this pair of stone unicorns in the Southern Elephant Mountain belonged to Xiao Tong.
However, the historical fact is that after Xiao Tong's death, he was posthumously honored as "Emperor Zhaoming" by Xiao Dong, the great-grandson of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu and the third emperor of Southern Liang, Xiao Tong's grandson, and accordingly, his mausoleum was naturally built according to the level of emperor mausoleum. Therefore, it is only logical that a pair of qilin originally attributed to the stone carvings of The Chen Wen Emperor Chen Xuan Yongning Mausoleum were converted to Xiao Tong, the crown prince of Southern Liang Zhaoming.
The owner of the stone carving should be translocated, and the archaeological department has been conducting a comprehensive exploration of the area where the lion Chong Nan Dynasty stone unicorn and two large brick chamber tombs are located, and 11 tombs have been found, 6 rammed earth foundations, 7 kiln sites, 4 cemetery walls, 1 Shinto, and 2 stone carved bases, which have revealed the clues of the large-scale presentation of the entire mausoleum. With continuous excavation and discovery, Xiao Tong Cemetery must be the best preserved southern dynasty mausoleum in the architectural ruins found in Nanjing, and it is expected that the relevant departments will have further and more discoveries, and have a long-term and systematic planning for it.
I think that the stone carvings of Chen Xuan Yongning's mausoleum not long ago were blocked by the partition of the sealed passage, which must be related to this.
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