Photo: Xi'an landscape
For thousands of years, Xi'an has been an ancient city full of fireworks, and there are too many stories in this vicissitudes of the ancient city. Some of these stories are joyful, some are sad, and some are very bizarre.
Among the many bizarre stories, the stories related to ancient tombs are the most, after all, this is the capital of many ancient dynasties, and many historical celebrities, including Qin Shi Huang, are buried.
Because of this, this place has become a hard-hit area for tomb robbers, and many precious cultural relics have been lost from here, which really makes people sigh.
However, with the development of the times and the attention of the state, the problem of illegal mining has gradually decreased in recent years.
However, those ancient tombs that have been excavated can only be rescued.
The story told today takes place in such a background, when excavating the ancient tomb of a 9-year-old girl, it was found that the sarcophagus of the tomb was impressively engraved with the four characters of "open the coffin is death", which made many experienced experts difficult.
So where did the coffin go? Did it open in the end?
Pictured: The robbery hole was found
Surprise beyond the empty tomb In the middle of the last century, the tomb robbery was found in Liangzhuang Village in the west of Xi'an, and the cultural relics department immediately organized expert forces to investigate, and if the situation is true, then rescue excavations will be carried out immediately.
When the experts arrived, they found an ancient tomb that had been stolen and excavated, and the experts immediately excavated it, but it was a pity that the tomb had been stolen and excavated. The members of the archaeological team cursed a few words in regret: "These damn tomb robbers, just to sell a few dollars, do not know how much damage this has caused to the study of the country's history." ”
Just when the team members were dejected and ready to go back, the exploration team found another ancient tomb next to this ancient tomb, and there were also traces of theft. The group immediately contacted the leadership, hoping that rescue excavations could be carried out. After receiving permission, the archaeologists immediately began a full excavation.
Photo: Archaeological excavations
After the small sarcophagus tomb was opened, it was found that the tomb had reached a depth of 3 meters, and the length was nearly 7 meters, which showed that this was a large ancient tomb.
The archaeologists carefully cleaned the tomb passage and tomb door in front, and after opening the tomb door, they also confirmed the previous speculation, the tomb chamber is not only grand and reasonably distributed, the key is that the burial materials of the tomb are extremely rich.
Although this tomb has a robbery hole, the tomb is well preserved, and judging from the situation of the tomb, it is likely to be a mausoleum of the level of the princely general.
Then the archaeologists and experts began to clean up the burial items in each burial chamber, after inventory, in this ancient tomb found gold, silver, pottery, porcelain and other utensils, gold and silverware are mostly women wear jewelry, especially a pearl gem gold necklace, although after a thousand years of burial, but the excavation is still glorious, people can't help but sigh the ancient people's production skills.
Pictured: Pearl gemstone gold necklace
With the excavation of this necklace, everyone is also very curious about the identity of the owner of the tomb, and they have speculated that this must be the tomb of a noble lady of the palace.
However, to everyone's surprise, only a small sarcophagus was found in the main burial chamber, which, according to the size of this sarcophagus, was at most a child of about ten years old.
In order to find out, the archaeologists began to clean up the dust on the sarcophagus, ready to find a way to open it.
After some cleaning, everyone found that the sarcophagus was impressively engraved with 4 big characters: Open the coffin is dead.
This makes everyone feel difficult, because everyone knows that in order to prevent the coffin from being disturbed, the ancients will make some anti-theft measures inside the coffin, such as storing poison gas or hidden weapons and other items.
In desperation, the crowd decided to transport the sarcophagus back to the research center to make plans.
Just as the sarcophagus was being moved, an epitaph was found between the sarcophagus and the ground, and the true identity of the owner of the tomb was revealed.
Pictured: 4 characters on a sarcophagus
The owner of the tomb is named Li Jingxun, a princess of the Great Sui Dynasty.
According to historical records, Li Jingxun was the granddaughter of Yang Lihua and lived in the imperial palace since childhood, because of her sweet and lovely appearance and sensible understanding, so she was deeply loved by Yang Lihua.
Because of this, although she did not have the title of princess, she was treated as a princess.
But unfortunately, this poor girl has been sick since childhood, and just turned 9 years old and died of illness, which made her parents cry bitterly, and Yang Lihua also regretted it.
To this end, Yang Lihua specially ordered someone to build a huge mausoleum and buried many precious treasures, hoping that children could also enjoy wealth in the underworld.
After consulting the information, the experts who opened the sarcophagus could not help but look at the sarcophagus placed in the research room, hoping to open the sarcophagus to find the reason for the girl's illness, but no one dared to approach and open the sarcophagus.
In the end, the experts found protective clothing and gas masks and opened the sarcophagus, but the coffin did not contain the various mechanisms that were initially speculated, but there were many funerary items, some of which were even more precious than the necklaces found earlier.
The experts invited medical experts after properly storing the artifacts, but it was a little regrettable that the cause of the illness could not be found from the girl's skeleton.
References: Book of Sui, New Book of Tang