Cover reporter Zeng Jie and Liu Kexin from Xi'an
"The fields have changed to a different look, the colours of autumn have faded like feathers, and the rivers have become silent after the hustle and bustle." Chen Zhongzhong's "the earth is simple and elegant, the sky is open and far-reaching" Bailuyuan, because of the reconfirmation of the Han Wen Emperor's mausoleum, has become once again noisy and lively.
At noon on December 16, 24 hours after the hot search on the Baling Fire, the cover news reporter debugged the equipment outside the Excavation Site No. 1 of the Hidden Pit outside the Jiangcun Tomb, and in half an hour encountered more than 10 groups of people from all over the world to watch. Among the crowd, there are both ancient old people who smoke cigarettes and idle, and milk dolls sitting on a waist stool and being held in the arms of adults. They came for the tomb of Emperor Wendi of Han, or with long guns and short cannon tripods, or with oversized old people's mobile phones, from the locked gate to the greenhouse of excavation site No. 1. There are even elderly people who skillfully circle the film for a week and send the video to the short video platform.
About 9 kilometers away from Chen Zhongzhong's hometown, Baling was on fire, and his white deer plain became lively. The crowd of onlookers tacitly parked their vehicles on the wider side of the road, trying not to affect the entry and exit of the construction team's vehicles. It is not too much fun to get close to the door, and someone always asks the security personnel: When can we go in and have a look? The security guard tirelessly repeated: Go back, don't let me in now, just go home and watch the news.
Positioning has been updated quickly
From the mouth of the phoenix to the tomb of Jiangcun The positioning of the navigation software is more accurate
Before December 14, if you search for "Baling" with navigation software, you will most likely be directed to The Phoenix Mouth in the southeast direction of Maoyaoyuan Village in Baling Township, Baqiao District, where many Ming and Qing Dynasty sacrifice monuments are erected on the platform. If it were not for the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announcing that the Jiangcun Tomb was the tomb of emperor Hanwen, the citizens in the unknown would have followed the "Tomb of Emperor Hanwen" written by Bi Yuan, the inspector of Shaanxi during the Qianlong period, and paid homage to this "tomb" with no traces of tombs.
After the repositioning of the Tomb of emperor Wen of Han, citizens and media people flocked to it. On the evening of the 14th, the reporter asked the local media counterparts about the specific address of the Jiangcun Tomb, and got a reply: "First navigate to the Tomb of Empress Dou, 800 meters to the west", in a dark wilderness, relying on a super bright searchlight to point out the direction. The next day, the mobile phone navigation software has kept pace with the times, pointing the destination of the Hanwen Emperor's Tomb to the Bailuyuan Jiangcun Tomb in Baqiao District, making it convenient for citizens to come and watch.
There are 4 questions below this address, one of which is self-asked to answer the accurate point of Baling, and two questions are "will the car stop on the side of the road in violation of the rules", "Do you want tickets", some netizens answered "There is no road, do not want tickets at present". In addition, there are 15 netizens waiting for help under this question: "Drive to go, where to park conveniently." "The changes in the coordinates of the baling on the navigation software are becoming more and more accurate, and its heat is evident.
On the 16th, many citizens drove straight to the Jiangcun Tomb. Starting from the Bailuyuan Bailucang Scenic Area on Dizhai North Road, there is a cement road leading to the Great Tomb of Jiangcun, 3 kilometers away. If you don't get a taxi, you wave at the passing vehicles on this road, and there are enthusiastic citizens who stop and ask if you want to go to the Gangchon Tomb together to see the strange. After the hustle and bustle, you can also rub another wave of citizens' cars and return to the main road together.
The locals cowed up
Xi'an "archaeologist per capita" interior designer three days two searches for the tomb
Although the door of excavation site No. 1 outside the Gangcun Curtain is locked, it is still impossible to stop the enthusiasm of the citizens to see the strange. A "Public Notice Board for Archaeological Excavation Projects" erected outside the Iron Gate shows that the project began in April 2018, and the project introduction column shows that "Jiangcun Tomb is a high-grade tomb in the Mausoleum area of Emperor Wen of Han, and it is surrounded by a large number of outer storage pits for burial funerary products, and this excavation site is part of the outer storage pit in its northeast region."
Two signs hung on the iron gate, one of which read, "Please note that you have entered the surveillance area" and "Please do not take pictures without permission." There is a security booth on the left side of the gate, and the hidden pit outside the tomb can be seen from all angles through the monitoring screen. The security personnel are very dedicated, and they will walk to the iron gate every once in a while to observe whether the crowd of onlookers is abnormal. Through the iron gate, the engineering team was welding the archaeological greenhouse, making a piercing noise from time to time.
Listening to the "idleness" of Xi'an people at the door is an interesting thing, Xi'an people are like "archaeologists per capita", they are like a number of family treasures in the 11 imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, and answer the questions thrown by others instantly, and from time to time there are technical terms such as "protective archaeology" and "non-active excavation". An old man asked how the "Phoenix Mouth" was not a Bullying? Another old man replied, "There is no tomb in the mouth of the phoenix, and the tomb has been dug here", and a middle-aged man came over to add, "I guess there are no particularly precious cultural relics in this outer pit, it should be some clay pots."
Two citizens living near Afang Palace drove 40 kilometers to get a glimpse of the matter. One of them said a very poetic sentence to reporters: "We live near the former residence of Qin Shi Huang, and rushing to worship the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han is like listening to the dialogue between the two emperors of Qin and Han across time and space." ”
Wang Hao, who is engaged in interior decoration design, is a native of Bailuyuan Dizhai, not far from the excavation site of jiangcun tomb. He was an archaeology fan since he was a child, self-deprecating that he was not admitted to the archaeology major, but this did not prevent him from loving archaeology, where there are archaeological projects, where there are state security units, he always pulls friends to visit. On the night of the 14th, he groped over after work, but unfortunately it was dark and he didn't see anything. On the morning of the 16th, he rushed to the scene again, and was blocked at the No. 1 excavation site, he was not dead hearted, and then drove around and around to the No. 2 excavation site. He handed a cigarette to the doorman from outside the iron gate, but was rejected by the master with a smile. "Emperor Wen of Han is one of the emperors I most revere, he is honest and filial, if there is a heritage park here in the future, I will definitely buy a ticket to support."
On both sides of the cement road outside the iron gate, there are one-man-high barbed wire fences and iron railings to prevent non-staff from entering the archaeological excavation area. About a meter apart on the barbed wire, a billboard for the Hanling Archaeological Team is hung, reminding the public to protect cultural relics. Some archaeologists revealed that after the excavation of the Jiangcun Tomb, some citizens came to watch, and in order to ensure the safety of cultural relics, the local government also strengthened security patrols. Some locals also issued a friendly reminder to reporters, "Don't go to the Baling tomb on a big night, be careful of being treated as a tomb robber."
Although the iron gates of the two excavation sites were surrounded by crowds, in full view of everyone, a flexible flower cat appeared, with a small milk cat walking into the iron gate, standing on the mound "meowing" and looking back at the crowd outside the door with envious eyes.
College students "cry"
Reviewing and reviewing the knowledge points in the archaeology book have changed
Cao Long, 46, an associate researcher at the Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute and the deputy head of the Hanling Archaeological Team, previously engaged in archaeological excavations at the Hanyang Mausoleum. The Hanyang Mausoleum is a joint burial cemetery of the Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi and his empress Wang Shi Tongmu, and the National Archaeological Site Park has been built for the public to visit. After many years, he came to the archaeological excavation of the Baling Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han, the father of Emperor Jing of Han, and became acquainted with two key figures of the "Rule of Wenjing" in the Western Han Dynasty, which was the pleasure of archaeologists.
After the results of the Baling archaeological excavations were announced to the public, interviews from all over the country came pouring in, and the humorous Cao Long was a good interviewee, frequently interviewed, and his voice was a little hoarse. He posted several pictures of the archaeological excavation site in the circle of friends, with the caption being Li Bai's "Farewell to Baling".
In October 2018, the Second Chinese Archaeological Congress was held in Chengdu, and Cao Long went to Rongcheng for a meeting and shared some public archaeology experiences with the cover reporter. After 3 years of separation, he was born early, and what remained unchanged was the kind smile that he always carried on his face.
On the afternoon of December 16, Cao Long and the reporter wore helmets and walked into pit No. 15 in the northeast corner of jiangcun tomb. At that time, because of the burglary, they only excavated 39 meters of this 70-meter-long pit. The boardwalk is about 60 centimeters wide, and if you are not careful, your forehead will touch the scaffolding. Inside the pit, he explained to reporters the chain of evidence on why the Gangcun Tomb was identified as a bullying tomb, and what was exquisite about the large number of clothed figurines unearthed. The northern half of the Gangchon Tomb has not been excavated, and when the protective greenhouse is set up, archaeologists will excavate it.
This "Duan Zi hand" who is good at public archaeology used a real paragraph of a circle of friends to interpret the significance of the new discovery of Baling archaeology: Previously, when we talked about the shape of the Western Han Emperor's Mausoleum, it was generally expressed as "The Eleven Imperial Tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, except for the Han Wen Emperor's Tombs, most of the other cemeteries are square..." However, after the announcement of the archaeological results of Baling, some archaeology students sent a circle of friends to ridicule, "Reviewing (archaeological expertise), the examination points changed", and the picture was a textbook photo of the Baling Mountains.
Cao Long said that in the past, we always excluded Baling as a special case to study. In the past, it may have been that its "untreated tomb" indicated his (Emperor Wen of Han's) frugality, and the area referred to by "because of the mountain as a mausoleum" was very large, and after misinformation, we always used it as a special case. In general, the Baling tomb is in line with the imperial funeral etiquette system.
The determination of the location of the Baling Tombs found the last piece of the puzzle of the 11 imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, and also solved the problem of the names of the 11 imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.
Cao Long tirelessly popularized the significance of archaeology to the media and netizens, in his view, the basic goal of archaeological excavation is to study and find out the layout and connotation of cultural relics; the ultimate goal is to protect the inheritance and make the heritage protection benefit the people. "Archaeology is the smallest excavation area, solving the most important academic problems. Archaeology is not a treasure hunt, and the more excavations there are, the better. Archaeology is a first-level discipline with its own disciplinary theories and work norms. ”