Can you believe that? Wang Wenyuan, the leader of the archaeological team, when excavating an ancient tomb, actually dug up the ancient tomb of his ancestors, and at that time he ordered the excavation to stop.
This happened in 2016, when workers were digging drainage pipe grooves on a construction site in Hunan, when suddenly someone found that there were a lot of ancient green bricks at the bottom of the trench, and at this time they also realized that they might have dug an ancient tomb, and then they immediately reported it.
After receiving the order, the archaeological team came to the scene for the first time, under the leadership of the archaeological team leader Wang Wenyuan, after their initial investigation of the ancient tomb, they decided to carry out rescue excavations, because there was mechanical help at that time, so the excavation of the ancient tomb was still very fast. Soon the excavation of the ancient tomb was halfway through, and the outline of the tomb was also displayed in front of everyone, which was an ancient brick tomb, and from the perspective of tomb form, it should be an ancient tomb of a large family in the Qing Dynasty.
As excavations continue, artifacts have also been unearthed in ancient tombs. At this time, some archaeologists found the tomb owner's epitaph and an ancient book, and the experts at that time were very excited, you know, in any ancient tomb, as long as there is something with words, you can understand the history and interpret the identity of the tomb owner very well. It can be said that as long as it is something with writing, it has a high archaeological value, not to mention that this is still an ancient book.
Wang Wenyuan, the head of the archaeological team, opened this ancient book on the spot after getting it and began to study this ancient book. After looking at it for a while, the archeological team leader suddenly ordered the archaeologists not to dig it first, saying that this ancient tomb may be the tomb of his ancestors. What did he see in the ancient books?
It turned out that the ancient books recorded a lot of deeds about the life of the tomb owner, the tomb owner was called Wang Shiming, a prefect of the Qing Dynasty, and his status was very high at that time.
When Wang Wenyuan saw this name, his heart was shocked, because he clearly remembered that on his family's genealogy, there was a person named Wang Shiming, and this Wang Shiming was probably his ancestor, so the tomb they were digging now could be his own ancestral grave.
Dug up your own ancestral grave with your own hands? How was he feeling at the time? Specifically, we don't know, but he must be a little uncomfortable in his heart, and this is the same for anyone. After all, he was not a tomb robber in Shaanxi, and he could do the work of deliberately digging up the graves of his ancestors, which ordinary people could not do.
However, he is different from other people who dig ancestral graves, after all, this is an ancient tomb, especially in the eyes of archaeologists, you can't say that it is your own ancestral grave, you don't dig, you can dig other people's ancestral graves, this is not reasonable, right? Moreover, this Wang Shiming is also a long time away from their generation, to put it bluntly, this is not the ancestral tomb in their family, in the true sense, after all, this tomb was inadvertently discovered.
In any case, the archaeologists have stopped digging. At this time, many archaeologists have come to Wang Wenyuan's side, waiting for his next order, whether to dig or not to dig, always give an explanation, right? Sometimes someone boldly asked Wang Wenyuan, do we dig now or not? Wang Wenyuan looked at him and said, dig, why not dig? However, it is not that we dig, but that we have to leave it to a more professional archaeological team to excavate.
Subsequently, Wang Wenyuan also explained to the archaeological team the real reason why he did not let the excavation, "I asked you to stop digging, not that this is my family's ancestral grave, so I did not let you continue digging." The main reason is because of the identity of the owner of this tomb, there is a clear record in his own family tree, Wang Shiming, as a high official of the Qing Dynasty, his tomb specifications must be very high, and our current archaeological team has no experience in excavating such a high-standard tomb, so I let you stop, the main purpose is that we want to report, let the above send a more professional archaeological team, let them carry out the excavation of this ancient tomb, so as to maximize the protection of the cultural relics in the tomb from being destroyed."
For captain Wang Wenyuan's explanation, the archaeologists also expressed their understanding. After that, they put the site under good protection and waited for other archaeological teams to take over. As for the reason for the explanation given by Captain Wang Wenyuan, is it heartfelt? I think that everyone does not need to discuss and doubt, after all, as a professional archaeologist, in archaeology, they will not have selfish intentions, and we must also believe in their profession.
Digging up the graves of our own ancestors is an absolute act of rebellion for us ordinary people. However, in front of professional archaeologists, it is an ancient tomb, and there is no difference between it and other ancient tombs.
Later, after the excavation of the ancient tomb, Wang Wenyuan made a request to the state, saying, "The owner of this ancient tomb, Wang Shiming, is a major minister of the Qing Dynasty and proposes to build a museum for him", so that more people can understand a piece of history.
I don't know if you have heard of the digging of your own ancestral graves, but there are indeed such things happening in our place. The reason is very simple, that is, we have a young man there, who does not do his job all day, asks the family for money all day, and if the family does not give it, he will take up the hoe and go to his family's ancestral grave to dig, claiming to dig up the things in the tomb to sell. Every time, he used this method to threaten the people in the family, but he was a bottomless pit, where was there so much in the family? There was no money to be paid, he really planed the ancestral grave, as to whether there was a treasure in it, I don't know, because he ran away since he shaved the ancestral grave, and now it has disappeared for a long time.
I don't know if you have ever dug your own ancestral graves there?
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