Anhui construction site surprised to appear large red coffin, after opening the fragrance of the nose, female corpses as if alive, funerary products shining gold, archaeologists speculate, this may be the legendary concubine in the history of the Qing Dynasty, Xiangfei. But in kashgar in Xinjiang, and in the Qing Dynasty, the tomb of Xiangfei has been excavated. Is the female corpse on the construction site in Anhui a real concubine? Archaeologists have also been caught in an endless mystery in the process of excavation. Why is this mausoleum so weird? Welcome to like the comment collection.
Excavation site
The excavator digs out the fragrant concubine
In March 2001,
Yangshan County, Anhui Province
At a construction site, workers were building foundations with an excavator when suddenly the excavator shoveled onto a stone slab. The worker felt that something was wrong, immediately got out of the car to greet the workers, and moved the stone slab away with all his hands and feet. After the slate was removed,
The workers dug up a red coffin with a bright red body. The color is very bright, like blood, which makes many workers feel discouraged
。
But because the coffin was so grand, these workers were greedy and wondered if there would be anything good in the coffin, so they opened the coffin directly.
As soon as the coffin was opened, the workers smelled a very strong fragrance, and the corpses inside were even more amazing. The owner of the tomb was a woman, very well preserved, with a delicate face, as if she had just fallen asleep.
Construction sites
According to the descriptions of the workers present at the time, the scent of the corpse could be smelled about a few hundred meters away; at the time of excavation, the female corpse had black hair, fair skin, and even the corpse was elastic.
You can even see the bright red nail polish on your nails
。 On the head of the female corpse and in the coffin, it is all gold and silver jewelry. The clothes on the female corpse were qing dynasty clothes at first glance, so the people around them all thought of a person in their minds, that is, Qianlong's favorite concubine,
Fragrant Concubine
However, their curiosity about the owner of the tomb is obviously not as good as their curiosity about the gold and silver jewelry in the ancient tomb. After snatching the gold and silver jewelry from the coffin, the workers quickly ran away, and by the time the archaeologists arrived at the scene, the situation of the entire coffin and the female corpse had deteriorated.
Xiangfei film and television image
Because the body was buried in a very closed environment for a long time, and suddenly opened, these workers also had no archaeological common sense, could not protect the ancient corpse, coupled with their looting of treasures, did not care about the state of the body, resulting in the female corpse quickly from a beautiful woman, into a corpse that is difficult to look at. In the face of this situation, archaeologists can only feel that they can only sigh helplessly.
Although the archaeologists were late, they still smelled the strange scent emanating from the corpses
。 It's hard to describe what kind of fragrance it is, but archaeologists believe that unlike the fragrance of perfume, it is more like the fragrance of spices. Archaeologists have also become suspicious of the identity of the ancient corpse. Everyone has a special smell, but it is very rare to have a taste that most people think is a fragrance.
Archaeologists on site
After studying the structure of the tomb and the burial of female corpses, archaeologists deduced that the female corpses were Qing Dynasty people, probably buried more than 270 years ago, so this person will be the most legendary concubine of the Qing Dynasty, Xiangfei
？
The female corpse has been incorruptible for 200 years, has a strange fragrance on her body, and her status is noble, all of which point to the same person:
。 If it can be verified that the female corpse and the xiangfei are indeed the same person, it will be a major discovery that will sensationalize the archaeological community, and archaeologists continue to study it, but find that the mystery that hangs over the female corpse is not only
"Is it a fragrant concubine"
That's simple.
Clothing of female corpses
The mystery of the female corpse
Since the female corpse had completely lost its appearance when it was first unearthed, archaeologists quickly brought the female corpse back to the institute and soaked it in
formalin
, then begin a full check. The first thing that shocked archaeologists was that whether it was the funerary items in the coffin or the ornaments on the female corpse, it was enough to show that the tomb owner was noble before his death. But it is such a noble and graceful woman,
But there were two crisscrossing scars on his neck.
The two scars were deep and long, up to 13 centimeters in length and 10 centimeters in length. The tomb owner's neck is obviously very slender, and this scar is almost equivalent to cutting the entire neck of the tomb owner.
The wound of the female corpse
So, who exactly killed her? Archaeologists remembered a story about Qianlong. It is said that Qianlong once went down to Jiangnan many times to play, and when he visited Anhui, he once met a beautiful woman with her own body fragrance. Qianlong intended to accept her as a concubine, but because of the ancestral regulations of the Qing Dynasty
"Manchu and Han do not marry"
So when the empress dowager learned of this, she sent someone to secretly kill the woman.
Qianlong was devastated, but after all, this was the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, he could not violate it, in order to compensate for this woman, Qianlong buried her thickly, and even gave her the title of a noble concubine. The identity of this woman is very much in line with the situation of the female corpse found in Anhui. If the peach story of Qianlong is true, proving that this person is not a fragrant concubine from Xinjiang, but another woman with a different fragrance, then her scars seem to be explained.
Unicorn complement
What is even more strange is that when the female corpse was unearthed, she wore a black silk tibetan hat on her head, a dragon-patterned short jacket on the upper body, a luo skirt underneath, and a long robe embroidered on it
。 The name "Complement" may sound a little strange, but in fact it is an ornament on the official clothes, chest and back of officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the case of the Qing Dynasty, if the cloth on the chest is embroidered with birds, it is the civilian official uniform; if it is embroidered with a beast, it represents the military attaché.
So what level is the Unicorn Complement at? In the Qing Dynasty, it was equivalent to a military attaché.
This female corpse was wearing a military attaché's official uniform, which was too shocking
。 In history, women were not allowed to enter the DPRK as officials, let alone to achieve such an exaggeration as a military attaché. However, archaeologists have also found that the dragon pattern on the clothes worn by the female corpse is not a dragon in the true sense, but a python pattern that is very similar to the dragon. Combined with the Qilin Complement clothes, it can be determined that the female corpse should be a pint of The Lady of the Commandments.
Ancient commandments
In fact, next to the owner of this female tomb, another burial chamber was also found, but the body of the tomb owner had decayed, and according to the identity of the female corpse, the owner of the tomb buried in the next burial chamber was probably her husband, who had served as a military attaché in Qianlong for twenty years.
This beautiful woman from more than 200 years ago was not a concubine, which frustrated archaeologists.
So why, on this corpse, can emit a pungent aroma? Is it true that she also carries her own body fragrance like a fragrant concubine, and it has not declined for 200 years
Archaeological site
Why the female corpse is fragrant
Having ruled out the possibility that the girl was a concubine, the archaeologist's goal turned to something else. That is, why does this female corpse emit aroma? So much so that workers say they can smell the aroma from hundreds of meters away. Soon, archaeologists discovered a point that they had overlooked at the time. Because the coffin had already been opened, archaeologists were so anxious to dispose of the female corpse that they did not pay attention to the sediment at the bottom of the coffin.
Archaeologists have done analytical research on sediments,
These deposits were found to be a variety of herbs, including ice flakes, musk and others
。 But after more than 200 years, suddenly exposed to the air, these herbs have turned to dust. But their smell is still overbearing, and 200 years of rendering, has long made the clothes on the female corpse have been contaminated with this aroma, it is no wonder that people mistakenly think that they can emit fragrance.
thyme
In the middle of the way, archaeologists also pointed out that the female corpse has a special part on the body, and there is a meat sac near the thigh, which is likely to be a special organ on the female corpse to distinguish the aroma. However, medical experts soon denied this, because the meat sac near the thigh of the female corpse belonged to a diseased tissue, and it was certainly not a place that emitted aroma.
So since this female corpse can't emit aroma, can the fragrant concubine really have a fragrant body odor in history? Xiangfei became famous in 1914
Antiquities Exhibition Hall of the Forbidden City
from
Shenyang Imperial Palace and Chengde Mountain Resort
A number of cultural relics exhibitions were transferred, including a portrait of a young woman dressed in military appearance. Below this portrait, the painter pointed out,
Xiangfei is a princess of the Hui people, who looks very beautiful and has a different fragrance, which is called Xiangfei by the Chinese
Xiangfei Rong costume
But why is she called Xiangfei? Archaeologists have examined the remains of Xiangfei in The Qing Dynasty and found that no special tissue emitting aromas was found from her body. Historically, the beauties who generally emitted aromas were smoked.
Since the incense concubine does not smoke and also has an aroma, the aroma is likely to be emitted by the sachet worn on the body. Xiangfei is a native of Xinjiang, and the sachet is likely to be a sand jujube flower unique to Xinjiang, with a strong aroma, which leads Qianlong to believe that this is the aroma of Xiangfei's own body.
In fact, there are many mysteries in Xiangfei's body, in addition to her body has a different fragrance,
One of the mysteries
be
Why did she upgrade from a small nobleman to a concubine shortly after entering the palace?
。 Moreover, at that time, Xiangfei had no children and no daughters, and she could ascend to the throne only by pampering, which was very strange.
Xiangfei film and television image
Mystery number two
, is the mystery of the death of Xiangfei. In 1914, the portrait of Xiangfei in the Antiquities Exhibition Hall of the Forbidden City said that it was because the Qianlong Emperor was too fond of Xiangfei, which led to the abandonment of the imperial court, and the empress dowager was angry and gave her death. But in fact, the empress dowager died 11 years earlier than Concubine Xiang. So how did the empress dowager give the concubine the death incense? Welcome to like the comment collection.