"Stealing" is a very inferior act. But tomb robbing, sometimes having to admit, is an ancient, professional and mysterious profession. The recorded tomb robbery incident in history was the "touching gold" of the Shang Tang Tomb, which dates back to about 3600 years. Over the years, we have a large number of novels, films and televisions with the theme of tomb robbery, which is enough to show that everyone really has a permanent curiosity about such things.
Robbing graves, digging up people's graves, and robbing people of their wealth are unseemly, and most of the participants are exterminating humanity. For example, an unknown number of people who entered were swallowed up by those who were picked up by the cave entrance. But this dirty thing is often done with a very bright identity. From Cao Cao and Wen Tao to Jiao Si, Li Yazi and Sun Dianying in modern times, they are all famous thieves on the historical list. Although one report is still reported, the tomb that is suspected of Cao Cao, when it is discovered, it is also a thousand holes that the tomb robbers have dissected.
Tomb robbery itself is a high-risk, profiteering and violent industry, and it is really not something that anyone can do. In the old society, the folk Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, many people in the Central Plains relied on this to eat, it was the craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation, and that ability could really be magical.
For example, modern technology probes the location of the thick burial tomb, and some tomb robbers are really more reliable than anything else. They only have one stop, look at the layout of the feng shui, and then according to the soil, the color of the soil and the appearance of the soil, they can determine whether the underground is a tomb, what period of tomb, or what type of relic, and it is like having a piece of data in their hearts. Even the shovels used by Chinese archaeologists today were imported directly from tomb robbers. These people, can be said to be the real senior experts in the burial of ancient cemeteries, do not obey. If you think it is exaggerated, but the notes of the past do have a lot of records.
In modern times, I have heard an expert from a scholar say that the quality of talents in this industry seems to have declined very much, and there are not many extremely professional tomb robbers. Or because of strict control and sound laws, there have been very few high-grade tomb robbery cases in the past few decades. Thieves are unfortunate to be fortunate in the country, so they invisibly protect some ancient tombs from being brutally killed! Let's talk about some of the more interesting tomb robberies that have occurred in recent years.
1, all-you-can-eat party: dig out the "first ancient corpse in China", pull out the first case of self-theft inside the New China Museum.
The "first ancient corpse in China" is not the corpse of Mawangdui Xin chasing women in the Hunan Museum, but the corpse of the early Western Han Dynasty that exists in the Jingzhou Museum in Hubei Province. Really lifelike, perennial standing in the hall for free people to visit, I have a good thing to see, now Baidu also has pictures, too scary to put the picture. The excavation of this ancient corpse is very legendary, it was made by several tomb robbers in 1994 from an ancient tomb that has long been weathered into a flat land, which is a wizard. Because of the loophole in the trafficking link, all three of the perpetrators were shot.
What is even more amazing is that a few years later, because of the problem of recourse for cultural relics trafficking, it was found that the librarians of the Jingzhou Museum colluded with tomb robbers and traffickers to sell national cultural relics. The leader was Wang Mou, the deputy director at the time. Among them, there are 92 first-class cultural relics such as the world's famous sword "Yue Wang Zhou Hook Sword" and the Warring States Double Dragon Head Jade Belt Hook. The report said that at that time, such precious cultural relics were sold for about 600 yuan per piece, or the deputy curator personally received the opening of the library for purchase. Later, in 2003, deputy curator Wang Mou was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, only for the crime of abuse of power. By now, he should have been released from prison and enjoyed his old age.
Therefore, what really shocks people is not the unscrupulousness of tomb robbers, but the internal self-corrosion. Therefore, I want to start with this bland story. To put it more seriously, headlines often discuss the question of whether archaeologists will covet ink, and it is impossible for relevant personnel to pack tickets as usual. In fact, because of the negligence of the mechanism management, not to mention that the cultural relics on the scene may disappear, even if this thing reaches the museum, it will evaporate in the world. In the past, the museum in Shaanxi, according to reports, also had a staff member smuggled out a terracotta warrior head and prepared to sell it to a foreign buyer for 300,000 US dollars?
2, technical: use condoms as equipment to dig tunnels
There is a Suining County in Jiangsu, there is a Yaoji town in the county, there is a Jiaolong Village in the town, there are two mounds in the village, and the locals have called it "Double Lonely Pile" for generations. The two mounds, one large and one small, are hundreds of meters apart from east to west, and the large isolated pile is about 20 meters high and about 80 meters in diameter, and the top is very flat, and the villagers have been growing crops on it.
The legend of the Double Lonely Pile is well known in the local area, but almost no one can say who has found the treasure here. It was not until around 2000, because there were always suspicious outsiders in the village, that it attracted the attention of locals and public security departments. After several days of investigation, a tunnel was found in the home of villager Li Mou, which was thousands of meters long and led directly to the double lonely pile.
At the scene of the crime, a large number of condoms were scattered. This is a strange thing that has never been seen in the history of tomb robbery. It turned out that these condoms were used to hold explosives in order to explode. Their gang has been working together to dig tunnels for nearly a year, and in the process of digging holes, some of them encountered the stratification of stone blocks, and they would use impact drills, and if they could not dig, they would punch holes in the stones and stuff condoms into the drill holes to blast. Because the explosives are loosely packed and less powerful, they can crush the stones little by little. This arduous and "innovative" "tunnel warfare" was about to be completed when it was found to be in vain. I don't know whether to say that this gang is extremely smart, or stupid to go home, huh.
After archaeological excavations, it is believed that this pile is the tomb of the first generation of the Lower Pi King, that is, Liu Yan, the sixth son of the Hanming Emperor Liu Zhuang, and his queen, which has a history of nearly 2,000 years.
3, Scholar Fan: The "first master of Guannei" in the tomb robbery world
When it comes to the big guys in the contemporary tomb robbery world, many people may have heard of Yao Yuzhong as a person. In the past, he was "honored" as the "grandfather" of the industry, was a leader in this field, and has always had the "reputation" of "the first master outside the Guanwai". With the arrest around 2005, he was forced to close.
He was actually an authentic farmer, born in Inner Mongolia and only had a primary school education. However, from the age of 16, he began to contact the "craft" of tomb robbery, and when he became an adult, he began to study various cultural relics and tomb robbery "culture", proficient in "feng shui", "I Ching", astronomy, geography and other side doors, coupled with hands-on practice, planned to participate in tomb robbery for more than 30 years, and was actually a top master in the tomb robbery industry.
Although this man was a tomb robber, he was full of scholarly style. It is said that in his daily life, his only preference is to read and study, "field visits" to tombs in various parts of the north, museums and antique markets, taciturn temperament, not smiling, always wearing a gold wire glasses, neat and elegant clothing, always showing people in Zhongshan suits or long coats, the demeanor of the elderly, simply make people unable to connect with the identity of tomb robbers.
Yao's name of "the first master outside the Guan" was not "blown". After he was arrested, he was charged with the first number of cases involving tomb robbery and cultural relics in the country, and the number of national precious cultural relics recovered was also the first in the country. His tomb robbery kung fu is said to be invincible in the whole north, completely "eating through" the characteristics of tombs, and is good at seeing "stars", "feng shui" and other mysterious traditional skills.
General tomb robbers common to what "metal detector", "three-dimensional stereoscopic imager" and other high-tech, he does not use anything, he carries a "zazi", in the mountain where there are ancient tombs will be able to find 'living soil', and then according to the stars, terrain and maps, accurate to the location of the ancient tomb. For example, the famous Hongshan cultural site, archaeologists are not sure, he later confessed that the area amazingly showed the arrangement of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, indicating that the ancients were in accordance with feng shui to choose the site, he relied on this set of theories and logic, as soon as he found it.
It is said that some tombs, because the difficulty is too great, Xi'an, Luoyang and other places "connoisseurs" can not be determined, this Yao Yuzhong can not only accurately locate, but also successfully dig up "things", "god of its gods" trick so that the entire industry personnel are worshiping and admiring, are fantasizing that one day can also be like "Yao Zushi".
Later, because the movement was too big, it finally attracted the attention of the department and decided to arrest him. Perhaps everything is really doomed: on the day the special case team was founded, it did not happen to be Yao's birthday; the time of his arrest was 3 a.m., which was exactly the time of Yao's birth; the place of arrest was the Tianyi Hotel in Tianyi Town, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, so that afterwards everyone joked that "Tianyi" turned out to be "Providence".
On April 14, 2016, Yao was sentenced to death. "The first master of Sekiwai", after that, he can only spend the rest of his life in "Kannai".