On the morning of the 14th, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held an online meeting in Beijing, at which it was announced that the Bailuyuan Jiangcun Tomb in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, was the tomb of Liu Heng, the Emperor of han Wen. So why was this imperial tomb not discovered until more than two thousand years later, and it had always been a mysterious existence before?
In 157 BC, Emperor Wen of Han died and was buried in Baling. According to historical records, Baling was the first imperial tomb in Chinese history to be chiseled into the Xuan Palace by the mountain, which had a great influence on the establishment of the later imperial tombs on the mountain. Because Baling is not made of soil piles, but chiseled mountains as a hole, there is no ground marking without sealing soil, and there are few historical records, so it is difficult for posterity to know the specific location of the Baling Underground Palace.
The saying that Baling uses mountains as mausoleums was first seen in the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Ying Shao, which is the Book of Han. The notes made in the Records of Emperor Wen record that Baling "because the mountains are hidden, there will be no graves." Therefore, from the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Baling was gradually recognized as an imperial tomb with mountains as a mausoleum, and the Phoenix Mouth was located near Baling, with a steep and imposing mountain, which was mistakenly mistaken for Baling. There are also monuments erected by Bi Yuanli in the Qing Dynasty under the mouth of the phoenix, including the protection monument of the modern cultural relics department.
In fact, some people have always suspected that the phoenix mouth is not a baling, because the phoenix mouth is too far away from the Dou Empress Mausoleum. According to the Tomb System of the Han Dynasty. Generally, the empress is buried together, that is, the empress and the emperor are buried in the same place, but each tomb is erected. For example, the two tombs of Liu Bang and Lü Hou of Han Gaozu are about 280 meters apart, the two tombs of Emperor Hui of Han and Empress Zhang are about 1800 meters apart, and the tombs of Fenghuangzui to Empress Dou are 2400 meters, which is too abnormal.
Therefore, since 1966, China's archaeological team has repeatedly carried out archaeological investigations and excavations of the Tomb of emperor Wen of Han, but has not made progress. Until 2002, an auction in the United States appeared 6 pieces of black pottery figurines from the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese government through political diplomacy and other channels, in 2003 to let these 6 black clay figurines return to Xi'an, began to trace their origins, after investigation to understand that these 6 pieces of black pottery figurines are tomb robbers from the "Jiangcun Tomb" excavated. At that time, the tomb had been badly damaged, so only rescue excavations could be carried out. After 20 years, it was determined that it was the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han.
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