Children are the most in need of love and care in the world. In today's life, we can be said to take great care of these young lives. But people can't imagine that in ancient times, not everyone could be protected and cared for. In Shandong, China, a thousand-year-old tomb was unearthed, in which a 5-year-old girl wearing gold and silver dressed in a wedding dress was buried, and after the identity was finally determined, the result was scolded by experts.
In 2003, Wang Xizhi's former residence in Linyi, Shandong Province, was underway for a major expansion project. On April 30, the excavation of the engineering team has been carried out to the east side hall of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and this prestigious cultural tourist attraction will show a more glorious gesture to the world. At this moment, the workers suddenly had an unexpected discovery.
With the excavation of the foundation, before anyone noticed, a large, bottomless hole appeared at the bottom of the site. At this moment, people realized that they had probably found an ancient tomb. Experts from the relevant departments quickly arrived at the scene, and some red marks were found at the entrance of the cave.
According to the Taiping Imperial Records, the iron ore was painted red and pink, which was the qualification of the Son of Heaven, which also showed that this was probably a tomb of an emperor. So, a large excavation began in full swing, and it was not long before it entered the burial chamber deep underground. After a search of the tomb, the team was stunned by their findings. In this ancient tomb, the bodies of three young children are buried, and there is a 5-year-old girl wearing a wedding dress and gold and silver.
This bizarre and bizarre burial forced experts to be cautious and immediately began to work on identity. After translating the epitaph and going through the various ancient books, the conclusion was finally reached. This turned out to be the tomb of Sima Huan from the Eastern Jin Dynasty more than 1700 years ago.
Sima Huan was born in 317 and was the fifth son of Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, as well as the heir to the title of King of Langya, he was very unfortunate to die prematurely due to illness and died at the age of 2, which made his father very sad. The other boy in the tomb was Sima Rui's grandson Sima Anguo, who died at the age of five.
According to the Book of Jin, Emperor Rui of the Jin Dynasty was very sad about the departure of the fifth son, and insisted on building a nationally draining mausoleum for him despite the objections of his subjects. Moreover, out of his love for Sima Huan, the tombs given to him by Emperor Yuan were all of specifications comparable to tianzi, which were extremely brilliant. At this point, the identities of the two boys in the tomb have been confirmed, they are both unfortunate to die early in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. But the girl in the wedding dress is still a mystery.
After experts had studied the customs of the time in which girls were dressed, a shocking answer emerged, and that was marriage. In ancient traditions, marriage was a ritual dedicated to making up for the "regret of unmarriedness" for the deceased. At first, it was just an act of replacing it with a paper man, but under the influence of such a powerful influence as the emperor's love for the emperor, it slowly evolved into a kind of funeral. And this little girl was the "wife" prepared by Emperor Jinyuan for Sima Huan.
According to a study of the girl, people were shocked to find that she was only 5 years old. How cruel it is for such a young life to bear such a ruthless thing as a funeral. In the face of this girl who put on a wedding dress that contained happiness, experts felt great heartache, scolded several times, and her tragic ending was ironic in contrast to the happiness that was forcibly arranged.
Both "secret marriage" and funerals are the most ruthless and cruel traditional shackles from feudal society, and under this concept, it is unknown how many innocent girls have lost their lives and their parents have been forced to lose their daughters. Every child should be protected, not let them be harmed by these feudal acts. The cruel and cold-blooded system should be eliminated by history like the feudal dynasty, and life needs warmth and love.