Throughout the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, countless dynastic regimes have emerged, of which countless small countries have slowly drowned in the tide of the times, if it were not for some accidental archaeological clues, they may not be known until now, such as the Kingdom of Wei that appeared three thousand years ago.
It begins with an archaeological discovery in 2004. In the spring of this year, a major event occurred in a place called Hengbei Village in Yuncheng County, Shanxi, and the villagers were awakened by a huge explosion on a quiet night, and it was later verified that a group of tomb robbers had exploded an ancient tomb in the north of the village.
After the provincial archaeological team arrived, it immediately conducted an investigation of the site, and 9 deep pits appeared in the wheat field, and some tomb robbery tools and cultural relics fragments were scattered on the side of the pit. Fortunately, the villagers found and reported it in time, the tomb was not excavated, and the archaeological team carried out rescue excavations in order to protect the cultural relics.
What is shocking is that the area of this tomb has reached 35,000 square meters, and there are as many as 1,300 burial pits, which is obviously a tomb group, and according to the specifications of the tomb and some cultural relics excavated, it can be concluded that this is a tomb group of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Such a large-scale tomb group, the owner of the tomb is likely to be a big figure of the monarchy level of a princely state.
With the deepening of excavation work, a magnificent tomb group was soon displayed in front of the archaeological team, of which the funerary products of the two main tombs of No. 1 and No. 2 were the most impressive, and as many as 14,000 pieces of various bronzes, jades and other cultural relics were unearthed, and more than dozens of first-class cultural relics alone. Such a well-preserved and numerous tombs are very rare in the country, which further confirms the extraordinary identity of the tomb owner.
Surprisingly, the puzzle was quickly solved, and archaeologists found conclusive evidence from a bronze ding unearthed, and the tomb no. 1 was buried with the king of the kingdom of Qi, who was once a rumored princely state, and finally confirmed its real existence here. Tomb No. 2 buried the lady of the monarch at that time, named BiJi, and it is doubtful that this lady's funeral goods far exceeded her husband as the monarch.
After many experts have been examining and approving, it has always been believed that the identity of this Bi Ji should not be ordinary, "Ji" is her original surname, if so it can be said, this surname is the surname of Zhou Tianzi at that time, and if the lady of the monarch is the daughter of the Tianzi family, her identity is naturally more noble than that of the monarch of the princely states.
With the surprise of the excavation of a large number of burial items has not stopped, five days later, an object found in Tomb No. 1 has stumped many archaeologists, and finally everyone unanimously decided to withdraw from the main tomb first and ask experts from Beijing to personally guide them. Finally, under the guidance of Beijing experts, this cultural relic was finally published, and it turned out to be a silk fabric covering the coffin, the key point is that it has not been weathered after more than 3,000 years, which is an incredible thing in the archaeological community.
After identification, it was learned that this object was named "Desolation", and its function was to cover the coffin, but experts only heard its name from the history books and really saw the physical object is very rare, after all, the silk fabric is the most difficult to preserve in the erosion of the years, but this "Desolation" is not only well preserved, the area has reached 10 square meters, which is of epoch-making significance for the study of ancient Chinese silk fabrics.