In May 2016, a villager surnamed Yang in a rural area of Zhejiang Province was renovating his house when he accidentally found a blood-red coffin under the foundation of the house. This crazy scene made everyone look stupid, and after a while everyone reacted, which was dug up to the ancient tomb. The villagers reported the matter to local archaeologists, but they did not expect that there was a bigger secret behind it.
The owner of this house, who had slept on a coffin for more than thirty years, was terrible enough to imagine. China has a long history and has gone through countless dynasties, among which the ancient cultural relics of each dynasty are very precious, especially the ancient tombs, which are of great help to our study of history.
So far, countless tombs have been found, many of which are large-scale and breathtaking tombs, mainly found inadvertently by ordinary people. The tomb found in the family of this farmer in Zhejiang Province, after expert research, learned that the coffin has a history of 800 years.
First, live in a coffin
In May 2016, a villager named Yang Nianzhi in Qianjiao Village, Huangyan District, decided to renovate his house and start construction after choosing a good day. The villagers were very united, and when they heard that they wanted to build a house, their fathers and fellow villagers came to help, and a large group of people worked feverishly in the yard.
This old house was built by his father when he was young, and the brothers and sisters have moved out one after another when they grow up, and now there are only two parents left, and Yang Nianzhi is ready to renovate it and give his parents a good place to live.
Yang Nianzhi's home is in a location in the village called Datugang, as to why it is called this name, no one knows, did not expect that in the process of excavation, there was really an accident.
It didn't take long for the foundation to be excavated when the excavator suddenly came across an unknown object, which was not as soft as sand or as hard as stone. For safety reasons, it was changed to manual excavation, people took shovels to shovel and shovel, and after a while, an object with a red surface appeared. When the object leaked out in a large area, people found that it was a coffin.
This made everyone present sweat coldly, especially Yang Nianzhi, who had lived in this room for at least 30 years. Looking at the location of the coffin, it is directly below the house, according to the position, it may still be under the bed, and it has lived on it for 30 years, which is too terrifying.
Second, the owner of the tomb who seems to be familiar
The Yang family brothers immediately made a decision and called the Cultural Relics Bureau, and the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau rushed to the scene and rushed to the scene, at this time, the Yang family's old house was already full of people. The villagers heard that the coffin had been dug up here, and they all rushed to see the liveliness, and in order to protect the site, the experts quickly evacuated an excavation channel and began professional archaeology.
Experts found that there was another coffin here, but the damage was more serious, it should have been patronized when the house was not built before, and there were no funerary items inside.
Then the experts studied the red coffin, and as they dug deeper, the full picture of the coffin was revealed, and the whole was a very bright red. Experts are curious about the identity of the owner of the tomb and how such a coffin can be equipped.
At this time, a relatively complete stone stele was found not far away, and if there is a stone stele, you can easily know the identity of the owner of the tomb. The expert quickly took out professional tools, cleaned the stone tablet little by little, and finally got a relatively clear-looking epitaph.
The stone stele says that the owners of these two coffins are husband and wife, and the wife's surname is Li, who was born in the Shaoxing period, which is the era name of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is 800 years old. Then there is an epitaph written by the husband for his wife, the content is to praise her diligence and thrift, is a good lady, and finally the epitaph is written in the three words of Zhao Bopeng.
One of the on-site workers thought the name had been seen somewhere, but couldn't remember it for a while. As more and more people watched the scene, experts first evacuated the nearby people, because the ancient tomb, there may be some bacteria in it, in case of large-scale spread is not good.
3. Descendants of the Emperor
Experts then accelerated the clean-up of the site, and just as they were preparing for the next step, a group of people came to the scene in a hurry to prevent the excavation from continuing.
Stopping the expert from working was a man named Zhao Wenxi, who angrily told the expert that this was his family's ancestral grave. Because of the rumors of this matter in the vicinity, Zhao Wenxi saw the location of the tomb in the circle of friends, and after repeated comparisons, confirmed that this was his family's ancestral grave, in order to prove his identity and the authenticity of the matter, he brought a tomb map handed down from the family.
Experts take a look at it and it is true, but the law stipulates that the old tomb belongs to the state. In order to confirm the identity of the owner of the tomb faster, the expert inquired about the genealogy of the Zhao Wenxi family, and carefully examined it and actually found Zhao Bopeng.
His identity is actually the seventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, a direct descendant of the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, and it is already the 30th generation of Zhao Wenxi.
Zhao Bopeng served as a county commander in Suzhou, and when he retired home, his wife died of illness on the road. After burying his wife, he wrote an epitaph and instructed his children to bury him with his wife when he died.
As for why the name is familiar, it is because where the experts work, there is a bridge called the Five Holes Bridge, which he built with his own hands, and after hundreds of years, it is still in use.
The tomb of Zhao Bopeng is one of the few well-preserved ancient tombs of the Song Dynasty in Zhejiang Province, which is of great help to historians in archaeology. Although the tomb of Zhao Bopeng is not large, it can be equipped with nothing less, including the tomb structure. For example, although the two coffins are not far apart, they are also blocked by walls, and it is difficult to destroy them without heavy tools.
Therefore, the tomb robber only stole his wife's tomb, and his tomb was spared. After the experts opened the coffin, only a little bone of Zhao Bopeng was left, and some of his clothes, shoes and hats and other daily necessities. In addition, there is a very valuable piece of jade bi from the Southern Tang Dynasty, and at this point, experts have finally figured out the identity of the owner of the tomb.
4. Summary
Living in a coffin for nearly 30 years is terrifying to think about, after all, everyone is more taboo about this kind of thing, and if the house is not renovated, it may be lived here for generations. Perhaps it was fate that Yang Nianzhi should renovate the house and let archaeologists discover this ancient tomb of great research value.
Some people think that archaeology is the tomb robbery of the zhengda light, which is a big mistake in the idea, the tomb robbers have caused countless cultural relics and cultural damage, and now the archaeological work needs to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to recover one. The ruined tomb site, the culture inside can no longer be seen, and there were archaeologists who almost paid for their lives.