In ancient times, when a young child died, a burial chamber was built, which usually showed that his family cared deeply about him, especially if the owner of the tomb was still a girl; if it was still a thick burial, it meant that the family was extraordinary. So far, the excavation of ancient tombs about children is particularly uncommon and few, so the discovery of the tomb of a 9-year-old girl in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, has also caused quite a stir.
Nowadays, when I travel to Xi'an, there is a particularly interesting saying: "I look at the mausoleum every day." Xi'an is located in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain, in 1981, UNESCO identified it as a "world historical city", and China's first Neolithic site museum is the Xi'an Banpo Museum, which was built in 1957 on the archaeological excavation of the Banpo site.
It was also in this year that archaeologists found the tomb of a 9-year-old girl near Liangjiazhuang in Xi'an, which belonged to the Sui Dynasty period, and it is the most complete and highest-grade Sui Dynasty tomb to date, although the burial chamber is small, it is also a luxurious underground palace.
Why hasn't this tomb been stolen for thousands of years? First, because the tomb was built next to the palace, who in the feudal dynasty dared to make trouble next to the palace? The second is the intention of the person who built this tomb, and from all indications, it can be seen that the owner of the tomb was favored before his death, so who is she?
She was Li Jingxun, the granddaughter of The Northern Zhou Empress Yang Lihua, Li Jingxun's grandfather Li Chong, a famous general in history, who had followed emperor Yuwen Yongpingqi of Northern Zhou, and then followed Emperor Wen of Sui to fight the world, the official was the supreme pillar state, and finally died on the battlefield, because of Li Chong's sake, Li Chong's son Li Min was raised by Emperor Wen of Sui in the palace from an early age, and he was also favored.
The record of Li Min in the Book of Sui is "beautiful posture, good riding and shooting, singing and dancing orchestra, all incomprehensible." In the early years of the kai emperor, Yang Lihua (the eldest daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui and empress of Emperor Yuwen Yong of northern Zhou) personally chose a son-in-law for her only daughter, Yuwen Eying, and selected Li Min among hundreds of people, and later Li Min was also the Grand Master of Guangzhi Guanglu.
Li Jingxun was lively and lovely since childhood, and Yang Lihua liked her very much, so he left her in the palace to raise her, but in the fourth year of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Daye (608), Li Jingxun died unexpectedly, and Yang Lihua, the Empress dowager of Northern Zhou, was deeply distressed, and because of her status as the sister of Yang Guang, the Sui Emperor, Yang Lihua built a mausoleum next to the palace and buried her with a generous ceremony.
After the excavation of Li Jingxun's tomb in the 1950s, more than 230 funerary items were unearthed, and it can be seen from the excavated funerary items that Yang Lihua will almost be the daily items needed by Li Jingxun before his death, and a beautiful necklace worn by Li Jingxun is the most valuable.
The epitaph is also beautiful and intoxicating, which greatly touches the experts, and the epitaph is inscribed: The beads are clear and obscure, and the flowers and incense are fragrant. It means "shining like a pearl, fragrant like a flower".
Studying history, historians have also found that in the second year of Li Jingxun's death, Yang Lihua died in Hexi while touring Zhangye with the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, and on his deathbed he instructed the Sui Emperor: "Concubines have no children, only one daughter." Not to die of self-sorrow, but to have deep pity. Present Tang Muyi, Beggar Hui and Min. ”
However, in the eleventh year of Daye (615), Yang Lihua's only daughter, Yuwen Eying," was involved in the "Li Shi Dangxing" Incident, Li Min and others were executed, and Yuwen Eying was also given poisoned wine, which made people sigh.