Since ancient times, people have always been in awe of death, but there is an old farmer in Zhejiang who has slept on a coffin for 30 years, and he has always felt that his hometown is unremarkable and nothing special.
One day, the old farmer suddenly felt that his house was a bit dilapidated and wanted to renovate the old house, but when he was looking for someone to work, he accidentally found a red coffin.
He was particularly surprised by this result and immediately contacted the local cultural relics department and asked experts to help investigate the specific situation.
After the experts arrived, they studied the lipstick coffin, and found that it was something from the Southern Song Dynasty, and quickly let people leave the scene. How could this old farmer's family have a coffin from the Southern Song Dynasty, and who was the owner of the coffin?
The old farmer's surname is Yang, and the red coffin he dug out was bright as new when it was first unearthed, and the red paint on it looked like it had just been brushed. The villagers were particularly curious about this and rushed to watch.
Archaeologists rushed to the scene, determined the age of this red coffin, and immediately decided to carry out protective excavations on it, so as to avoid unnecessary damage to the contents of the inside, because of environmental changes.
In the process of excavation, archaeologists found an epitaph that said that his wife Li Shi was born in a certain month of a certain year, and the name of the money was Zhao Bopeng.
After seeing this name, archaeologists instinctively felt somewhat familiar, as if they had seen it somewhere. Just as the experts were thinking carefully and preparing for the next step of excavation, a villager pushed aside the crowd and came to the archaeologists and told them that this thing could not be dug, it was the grave of our ancestors.
To prove his claim, the villager also produced a thick family tree with Zhao Bopeng's name and his family ties. The name of Zhao Bopeng on the family tree can correspond to the epitaph, which can prove that this is their ancestral grave, but the experts did not heed the advice of the Zhao clan.
They told the descendants of the Zhao family that this coffin was from the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 800 years ago, and according to the provisions of the national cultural relics law, it should be handed over to the state for disposal, and could not be decided by the family without authorization.
Under the patient persuasion of archaeologists, the Zhao clan people reluctantly gave up their original position and watched as archaeologists excavated their ancestral graves.
This result made the onlookers particularly sigh, but everyone did not leave, but stayed where they were, wanting to see what was in the tomb.
In the subsequent excavations, archaeologists accidentally remembered the true identity of Zhao Bopeng, an official during the Southern Song Dynasty. From the perspective of blood relations, he should be the seventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he is barely an imperial relative.
Because of the relatively weak blood relationship, after Zhao Bopeng was born, he did not become a prince and nobleman, but only received a relatively good cultural education.
Later, because of his strong personal ability, Zhao Bopeng went to Huangyan County, the capital of Taizhou, as a county clerk. During his tenure, in order to help the local people, he majored in the Huangyan Five Caves Bridge.
This ancient bridge, which has a sense of age, is now a key cultural relics protection unit in Zhejiang. Therefore, experts have heard of Zhao Bopeng's name a long time ago and are curious about where his tomb is.
After confirming the true identity of Zhao Bopeng, archaeologists were particularly excited, and they immediately cleaned up the debris around the ancient tomb and prepared to transfer the red coffin to a relatively open place for a comprehensive study.
Before the coffin was officially opened, archaeologists used equipment such as electric drills to punch a small hole in the red coffin.
After seeing this behavior, the onlookers were particularly curious and did not know why they did it. The archaeologists did not want to make a fuss, explaining to the onlookers that although the red coffin looked bright and beautiful, there must be a lot of water in it.
These accumulated water is the groundwater that the ancient tomb continues to infiltrate in the process of dust sealing, if they are not cleaned up and directly transferred, the historical relics inside will definitely be unnecessarily damaged because of the continuous shaking of the water.
It turns out that the experts' judgment is not wrong, they used the electric drill to create small holes, there is indeed a lot of stagnant water flowing out.
After a whole night, the water inside was basically cleaned. Subsequently, archaeologists, with the assistance of farmers, moved the red coffin to another place for the opening of the coffin.
After carefully opening this red coffin, the experts accidentally found that the body of the tomb owner Zhao Bopeng, wrapped in various silk fabrics, lay quietly inside, and the various cultural relics and antiques next to him were quite well preserved and basically did not suffer much damage.
Inside, there are daily clothing items such as clothes, pants, shoes, socks and boots, as well as various silk products. For example, silk, luo, aya, cotton silk and so on.
These things have high research value, and their excavation can restore the ceremonial costumes of the Zhao clan relatives of the Southern Song Dynasty to a certain extent, which can help archaeologists continue to study the ancient clothing culture.
In addition, the excavation of these silk fabrics can also prove the degree of development of handicraft industry in the Southern Song Dynasty, which can help archaeologists study the textile technology at that time. The various ornaments inside can also reflect the aesthetic orientation of the Southern Song Dynasty to a certain extent.
There are 66 cultural relics in total, which are closely related to the former Silk Road and can provide valuable physical information for the study of the history of silk fabric trade.
In addition to these silk fabrics and exquisite ornaments, there is also a piece of Southern Tang jade bi inside, which was used by Li Fu, the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Its excavation, which fills part of the gap in the archaeological history of our country, is an extremely valuable national treasure.
According to experts, Zhao Bopeng's ancient tomb is the only ancient tomb in Zhejiang that has not been excavated by stolen tomb thieves and is relatively well preserved, and its historical value cannot be ignored.
Fortunately, after the old farmer Yang found this coffin, he did not dispose of it without authorization, but contacted the local archaeological department in time.
Otherwise, this ancient tomb, which has been preserved for more than 800 years, is likely to be unnecessarily damaged, and the various silk fabrics and exquisite ornaments inside will also be destroyed.
In order to better protect these historical relics, archaeologists have carried out special protection for them with modern technology.
In the end, these things were sent to the museum by archaeologists for proper preservation, and the old farmer Yang Mou was still a little worried, afraid that he would be contaminated with something unclean, and after the archaeologists verified the specific origin of the red coffin, his inner anxiety gradually recovered.
Subsequently, according to the original plan, he renovated his old house and lived in a low-key manner as usual, without mentioning the red coffin again. When the red coffin was first unearthed, the local villagers were particularly curious about this thing, and after learning its specific origin, they had no intention of pursuing it in depth.
After talking about it for a while, it stopped talking about it. At this point, the storm caused by the red coffin has completely subsided, and it has not caused too much disturbance in the people.