The imperial palace guards of the Qing Dynasty were not ordinary people. The situation of the Qing Dynasty is more special, after the Qing army entered the customs, the Manchu-Han contradiction was once fierce to be difficult to control, in order to ensure the safety of the imperial family, the Qing Emperor will choose the Eight Banners of Manchuria as the palace guards, so many of the famous courtiers we are familiar with are starting from the guards, step by step into the power hub of the Qing Dynasty, and the marquis worships the chancellor.
People like Fu Heng, Suo Etu, Sonny, Mingzhu, and He Yan all served as palace guards. However, although they are all crowned with the name of bodyguards, everyone's welfare benefits are not the same, because the guards are also divided into three, six, nine and so on. Imperial Guards, Qianqingmen Guards, First Class Guards, Second Class Guards, Third Class Guards, Blue Plume Guards... Like the imperial guards and the Qianqingmen guards, they belong to the beauty of the emperor.
The guards in the inner court have high positions, good salaries, and many opportunities for promotion, so they have become the "fragrant food" that everyone is eye-catching. According to the system of the Qing Dynasty, the inner court guards were generally born in the Manchu and Mongolian xungui families, even if they "retreated to the second place", they had to choose the jinshi from the martial arts, and even if the Han people obtained the qualifications, they had to go through many tests to receive the "work card" of the guards.
Therefore, even if it is a Qing Dynasty imperial palace guard tomb, it also has a very high archaeological value, because being able to do this position itself represents the identity and ability of the tomb owner. Then again, the celebrities who came out of the Manchu noble guards of the Qing Dynasty are all familiar to us, but what about the Qing palace guards of the Han Nationality? According to the discovery of modern archaeological tombs, although the Qing palace guards from han origin are few, their treatment is not bad.
A few years ago, during the construction of a school in Anhui, the tomb of the Han Qing guards was found. At that time, the school's comprehensive building was to be renovated, and an off-campus construction team was invited, but I don't know if it was a fulfillment of the modern law of "the school is usually built on the cemetery" and "the construction team is also called the archaeological pioneer team", and the construction staff also found the underground tomb group and ancient artifacts because of the failure of the forklift operation.
So local archaeologists rushed in and carried out rescue excavations of the tomb. Here is not a single person's tomb, but a family tomb, according to the site survey, experts found that the age of this tomb is the middle and late Qing Dynasty, when the Manchu-Han contradiction has tended to be peaceful, so it is not a strange thing for Han people to enter the palace as guards.
With the deepening of archaeological work, experts are more likely to predict that this is the family tomb of a Qing Dynasty military attaché, most likely a palace guard. The tomb unearthed a top wear, silver ingots, jade belt hooks, wrenches, bows and arrows, etc., which were worn without flower feathers. The civil officials of the Qing Dynasty had flowers to indicate the rank, but the Great Inner Guards did not; and this top was owned by the Five Pin Officials, but they had not heard that there were Manchu guards here.
Until a local resident present provided clues. He heard the experts say that the rank of this guard officer was not high or low, belonged to the third class of guards, and should be from the Han martial arts, and immediately recalled the stories of the local martial arts people told by the old man. At the same time, he also told the expert team that this martial artist became a bodyguard after being selected layer by layer, and chose to build a "tomb with his children and grandchildren" after returning to his hometown.
This coincided with the situation at the scene, and the identity of the owner of the tomb was about to be revealed. Just halfway through the excavation, the descendants of the tomb owner who heard the news came with the family tree, and after consulting the family tree, their ancestor was this martial guard. However, they demanded that the archaeological work be terminated so as not to disturb the ancestors, and the two sides quarreled, and finally had to negotiate that the cultural relics department would re-erect the tomb for the guard, and then continue the archaeological repair.