Millennia-old tomb failed to leave a "name"
There is a Ganquan Village in Hanjiang County, Jiangxi Province, why is this village called Ganquan Village? Because there is a mountain near this village, the spring water flowing down from the mountain is very sweet, the people here named the village Ganquan Village, and this mountain was also named Ganquan Mountain.
Next to Ganquan Mountain, there are dozens of hills of different shapes, the layout is also very regular, and there are two adjacent hills on the north side of the mountain, which people here name "Double Mountain".
You may ask, this is not a basin terrain, why are there so many mountains and hills! In fact, these mounds are not naturally formed, but the tombs of ancient princes and generals. Once a local farmer tried to open a kiln on the mountain, but accidentally dug up cultural relics.
This secret has spread, but what is even more unexpected is that the ancient tombs here have long been visited by tomb robbers.
From 1975 to 1980, Archaeologists in China excavated two ancient tombs near Ganquan Mountain in a conservation nature, and the two mining projects were named "Ganquan No. 1" and "Ganquan No. 2" respectively.
When the experts entered the tomb, they found that the ancient tomb had been destroyed by the tomb robbers to the point of being almost in a mess, resulting in the mutilation and loss of many cultural relics. But after all, the tomb robbers are nostalgic for gold and silver, and experts still find many valuable cultural relics in the tomb.
For example, the entire lamp height of the wrong silver and copper cow lamp is 46 centimeters, the base is a muscular cow, and the cow carries a lamp, which is an environmental protection lamp of the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.
In addition, there are also the Golden Tiger New Agate Seal (this is a work of art that belongs exclusively to the emperor, in the Ritual System of the Han Dynasty, the Tianzi Seal is based on the Jade Tiger Button, the Queen's Seal Golden Dragon Tiger Button), the 4 gold circle inlaid crystal stone magnifying glass and many other works of high literary and artistic value.
In the burial chamber, experts also found a highly significant cultural relic, that is, an ancient horseback riding pedal, at the bottom of which is engraved "Shanyang Di Copper Goose Foot Long Stirrup Construction Wu 28 Years Of Manufacture Ratio 12". Jianwu was the era name of Liu Xiu, emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In addition, the excavated antiquities are relics of the Han Dynasty in terms of craftsmanship and style, but from the specifications and forms of these two tombs, this is by no means the tomb of the emperor.
In addition to the era name, the word "Shanyang" printed on the character also can't help but remind people of Liu Jing, whose ninth son Liu Xiu was named "King of Shanyang". If it was Liu Jing's tomb, why did the tomb have a seal that belonged exclusively to the emperor's regulations?
What is the truth? Just when the experts were divided, the answer to the mystery arrived.
The woman accidentally picked up the national treasure, and the mystery of the millennium gradually surfaced
On February 24, 1981, Tao Xiuhua, who was cleaning up the rubble and snow on the highway, suddenly saw an orange-yellow metal lump, and without hesitation, he subconsciously picked it up and went to the ditch to wash the dirt on it. Tao Xiuhua looked at this rare thing in front of him.
It was like a seal with a turtle lying on it and words engraved on it. But Tao Xiuhua's education level was not high enough to understand the words on it, and then she went to ask her co-workers in the same commune as her. Just asked a circle and didn't ask a question.
Back at home, Tao Xiuhua quickly took this seal to her husband, and Tao Xiuhua's husband could not see it and had to quickly hand it over to the state. It turned out that Tao Xiuhua's husband had participated in the mining of the ancient tomb, thinking that this might be the contents of the ancient tomb being pulled down.
Although Tao Xiuhua was somewhat reluctant, she finally chose to respect her husband's decision. Before the couple could hand over the treasure to the state, the news that Tao Xiuhua had picked up the treasure spread in ten miles and eight townships. Villagers came to see the liveliness.
On the other side, the experts of the Nanjing Museum were even more overjoyed, because the inscription on the gold seal was "Seal of the King of Guangling".
Because in the Han Dynasty, there was a habit of giving turtle-shaped seals to high-ranking officials Houhou, and judging from the shape and craftsmanship of the turtles, it was indeed a work of art of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Such seals are personal seals and are generally carried by the person himself.
In this way, the identity of the owner of the tomb will also surface and be nailed.
Why did Liu Jing, who was originally the "King of Shanyang", become the "King of Guangling"? What is the untold story behind this seal?
In the newspaper, Tao Xiuhua was highly praised for the beautiful quality of picking up the "national treasure" and collecting gold, and the other side of china's coastal area opened up a heavy layer of historical mystery because of this report.
It turned out that as early as February 23, 1784, a young man named Shiguro in Japan also picked up a gold seal with a snake carved on it on the side of the road. At that time, the guards also handed over this seal to the government out of the good quality of collecting gold.
History is always strikingly similar, is this really just a coincidence? It's far from simple. Later, the serpentine seal passed into the hands of a lord named Kuroda, who knew that what he had in his hand was worth a fortune and rewarded the guards with five silver dollars.
For an antiquity, the history behind it is far more precious than its own value, so Kuroda also specially asked the great Confucian Kamei Nanming next to him for advice. Kamai Nanming recognized that the words engraved at the bottom of the seal were "King of Han Weinu", which meant that this seal was given by the emperor of the Han Dynasty to the Uighur Kingdom.
This discovery can be said to have subverted the history of Japan, and in order to prove the authenticity of the seal, Kamai Nanming went through the historical materials of the Han Dynasty and finally found the source in xuancheng Taishou Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty":
"In the second year of the Jianwu Dynasty, the Uighur Kingdom paid tribute to the pilgrimage, making people call themselves Daifu, the southern boundary of the Uighur Kingdom. Guangwu gives the seal silk"
The history told in this sentence is: "In the second year of the Jianwu Dynasty, the envoys of the Uighur Kingdom came to the Han Dynasty to pay tribute to the pilgrimage, and the emissaries claimed to be the Doctor, and the Uighur Kingdom was located in the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, so the Guangwu Emperor gave the seal silk."
For the origin of the golden seal, it can be said that human and physical evidence is all there, and the academic community has also set off a bloody storm for this purpose.
It is divided into two factions, one faction supports Kamai Nanming. One faction believes that the golden seal is an imitation because the seal inscription does not have the word "seal" or "seal"; the seals of the Han Dynasty ministers are often turtle-shaped and never snake-shaped.
For years, the two factions argued endlessly. Over time, the truth gradually surfaced.
In April 1981, Miichiro Kato, president of Japan's "China-Japan Shimbun", brought back to Japan the news and photos of the "Seal of the King of Guangling", which instantly set off a frenzy in Japanese historians.
People were surprised to find that the "Guangling King Seal" and the "King of Han Weinu" found in Japan were strikingly similar, whether it was the size of the seal, the pattern or even the engraving technique was almost exactly the same, so the similarity was exactly as if it came from the same person's hand.
According to the Book of Later Han, Liu Jing, the King of Shanyang, was renamed King of Guanglingsi by Emperor Ming of Han in the first year of Yongping (58), and the "King of Han" was awarded the seal in the second year of Jianwu, that is, in 57 years. There is only a year difference between the two, and it is entirely possible that it came from the same person.
Until now, there is only one question that has not been solved, that is, why is the "King of the Han Dynasty" a snake instead of a turtle that the Han Dynasty has always loved?
This doubt was finally answered when the archaeological team found the seal of the Dian King in Yunnan, which was also a snake-shaped statue on the seal of the Dian King. According to expert archaeological findings, when the Han Dynasty gave the golden seal to the surrounding vassal countries, the specialties of the country were used as a reference.
For example, the king of the south is the snake button, the king of the north is the sheep button, and the king of the northwest is the camel; the princes of the Han Dynasty use the turtle button uniformly. In addition, there is a record in the Book of later Han: "The Kingdom of Wu is facing the far south of me", so it is a snake button.
The truth of everything was finally kept open to the moon because of a "Guangling King's Seal", and no one ever thought that a kind deed of The Jiangxi girl Tao Xiuhua would help the Uighurs to clear the layers of fog behind history.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Japan crossed the ocean to china and bowed to the great powers of the Heavenly Dynasty, hoping to get the blessing of the great powers, and the name "Wuguo" also originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the end, why did Liu Jing, the ninth son of Emperor Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty, change from a good "King of Shanyang" to a "King of Guangling"?
According to the Later Han Dynasty, "The King of Shanyang was ambitious and passed the throne to Liu Xiu's brother Liu Zhuang after Liu Xiu's death, and Liu Jing was dissatisfied and repeatedly plotted rebellions. First anonymously instigated his uncle to rebel against the defendants, then instigated the feudal state to rebel against the defendants, and finally tried to seize the throne through witchcraft."
Emperor Xiaoming Liu Zhuang endured his brother's absurd behavior again and again, and reduced his brother from "King of Shanyang" to "King of Guangling", which meant "reflection", but Liu Jing not only did not understand his brother's painstaking heart but made mistakes again and again.
In the end, Liu Zhuang was helpless to the pressure of the Qunchen and could only press Liu Jing into prison, and Liu Jing also knew that his sin was unforgivable, so he chose to kill himself in prison.
After all, it was the confused prince who did the confused thing, but the discovery of the tomb of the King of Guangling is of the same significance as the process of Chinese and Japanese history and the prosperity of Chinese historians.