In recent days, Baling has been on the Internet hot search list, which has also attracted the attention of the general public, and many experts and scholars have also deliberately gone to Baling to study and investigate, while the tomb of Empress Bo also has surprising discoveries. For example, the experts unearthed some gold artifacts of the grassland civilization from the tomb, which at first made the experts wonder, and then thought about it carefully and felt reasonable, and also let us know that Empress Bo was a fashionable old lady. What's going on here? Below, let xiaobian reveal the secret to you from scratch.
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Baling, also known as Baling, is located in the Baqiao District of Xi'an, Shaanxi, and is named after its proximity to the Bahe River. In the 1930s, archaeologists after in-depth research determined that Baling was the mausoleum of Liu Heng, the Emperor Xiaowen of the Western Han Dynasty, and also found an ancient tomb not far away, which was speculated to be the tomb of Empress Bo, the biological mother of Emperor Xiaowen, through historical records, and there were also a large number of Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in the surrounding area, which had great research value. All along, whether it is Emperor Xiaowen's Tomb or Empress Bo's tomb has attracted the attention of academic experts, in recent days, Xi'an archaeologists have excavated the burial pits of Baling and Empress Bo's tomb, especially the gold artifacts of Empress Bo's tomb are amazing.
After investigation and investigation, experts found that there are 3 outer pits of Empress Bo's tomb, of which the nearest one is only more than 30 meters away from the main tomb and the farthest 50 meters, so archaeologists first excavated the farthest outer pit. After cleaning the sealing soil of the surface of the outer pit, it can be seen that it is about 12 meters long and about 8 meters wide, which is much larger than the civilian tombs that have been repeated, so it can also be inferred that the luxury of the main tomb of Empress Bo can also be inferred. In the process of cleaning up the outer pit, some burial items also gradually surfaced, experts first found a gold jewelry, as the excavation work continued to deepen, more and more gold objects began to appear, there are blonde hairpins, gold earrings, gold headdresses and gold accessories, hundreds.
These gold objects, seemingly ordinary, but in fact these gold tools are not simple, it is not at all the form of gold in the Central Plains, but with a very strong grassland civilization characteristics, such as ox heads, tiger stripes and wolf heads and other modeling patterns, so experts say that these gold tools are the gold tools of the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty. For a time, the gold artifacts hidden in the pit outside Empress Bo's tomb were puzzling, because Empress Bo was a Han Chinese in the Central Plains, why were there so many gold ornaments of the steppe Xiongnu?
To answer this question, we must first look at Empress Fu's experience. Empress Bo was originally a concubine of Xiang Yu's subordinate Wei Bao, and was later summoned into the palace to become a concubine of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, but unfortunately Empress Bo was not favored by Liu Bang and never saw Liu Bang again after she gave birth to Liu Heng. In 195 BC, after the death of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, Liu Ying of Han hui took the throne, at this time, because Empress Bo and Liu Heng had no status, Emperor Hui of Han let their mother and son go to the Dai Kingdom, which is now the area of Zhangjiakou in Hebei, so Liu Heng also had an identity - the Dai Wang. Later, Emperor Hui of Han died, and in order to eliminate the "Lü clan", many ministers welcomed Liu Heng back from the Daiguo, that is, Emperor Xiaowen.
Empress Bo and Liu Heng lived for more than 20 years in the Daiguo, which bordered the sphere of influence of the steppe Xiongnu and was therefore also influenced by the Xiongnu culture. Liu Heng, as a famous filial piety in history, he also loved and filial piety to his mother Empress Bo, so experts speculated that the gold ornaments hidden in the pit outside Empress Bo's tomb may have been bought by Liu Heng from the Xiongnu Bazaar for his mother Empress Bo, or it may have been a gift from the Xiongnu leader to Empress Bo, indicating that before the Silk Road was opened, the Central Plains and the Xiongnu already had trade exchanges, but the scale was very small, only in the border areas, but also showed that the frontier at that time was relatively stable, otherwise how could gifts be given to each other?
We can imagine that Empress Bo, dressed in Han Dynasty costumes and wearing Decorations of the Xiongnu, should have been the most fashionable lady at that time. Later, Liu Heng returned to the Central Plains to ascend the throne as emperor, and Empress Bo naturally returned to the Central Plains, and those gold accessories she had in the Daiguo were also brought back to the palace. It is worth mentioning that after that, although the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu was not good, but there was no provision not to allow the use of Xiongnu things, Empress Bo is the best example, otherwise it may be labeled as treason, which also shows the inclusiveness and diversity of the Han Dynasty culture, which can accept foreign civilizations, within the court, in the bottom society should also be, otherwise there would be no later Silk Road.
Empress Bo can be regarded as the "ambassador" of the Han Dynasty and the steppe Xiongnu, and there are many such people in Chinese history, and it is their eclecticism that has added new vitality to Chinese civilization and made the tide of its civilization roll forward endlessly.
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"Shaanxi Imperial Tomb" by Wang Shuanghuai, Publisher: Xi'an Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's