Many people will think that digging ancient tombs is a very novel thing. Archaeologists digging tombs is something that is approved and allowed to do because they need to study the history and culture based on the artifacts in the tombs. However, some people sneak to dig up ancient tombs and take away the cultural relics in ancient tombs privately, which is a tomb robbery.
We often see things about tomb robbery in some film and television dramas or literary and artistic works, but in fact, tomb robbery is very shameful. Tomb robbers steal the country's precious cultural relics and take them to the market to sell for money, and cultural relics continue to circulate in the market, and even will be lost abroad, resulting in a large number of missing and outflowing of some precious historical relics in our country.
Henan as a political center of ancient China for a long time, there are many ancient tombs in its territory, some locals naturally have some understanding of this aspect of things, as long as they have the opportunity to get ancient cultural relics, then they will not worry about hard life in this life. In Yuzhou, Henan, a middle-aged man stole ancient tomb relics.
1. Introduction to Yuzhou
The name of Yu prefecture is related to the great Yu Zhi Shui, because the Great Yu Zhi Shui has meritoriously been sealed in this place, so this place is called Yu Zhou. This place was once one of the areas where the Yellow Emperor tribe was active, and it was also one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, Yuzhou has a strong history and culture, and is a famous cultural and historical city in Henan Province.
People who know history well must know that Henan Yuzhou was once a place where some imperial relatives and nobles lived, so there will definitely be many ancient tombs in Yuzhou. The Xinfeng Cemetery in Yuzhou has been excavated and studied, and the cultural relics unearthed in the tomb include Pottery pots and pottery stoves of the Han Dynasty, so Yuzhou also has the title of "Hometown of Chinese Ceramic Culture".
2. Discovery of ancient tombs
Five years ago, a middle-aged man in his 30s in Yuzhou, Henan Province, encountered a thing that seemed to be a pie in the sky, he inadvertently found a hole in a dry river channel in the northeast of Dahan Village, Shundian Town, Yuzhou City, originally he did not think there was anything strange, he thought it was just an ordinary hole, he casually went inside to look, and it turned out that there was a surprising discovery inside the cave.
The man saw that the wall in the cave was written with words, of course, this text was not written by someone randomly, but some neat ancient writing, he thought to himself that this cave must not be simple, there must be an ancient tomb inside. Because ancient tombs in Yuzhou are very common, the hole found by this man in Henan is undoubtedly an ancient tomb.
The Henan man thought that if this was really an ancient tomb, he would be able to dig up some treasures from the tomb to sell for money, and then pay off his debts. So he continued to walk into the cave, although he was a little frightened, but in order to gain wealth, he could only have the courage to go in and explore it well.
After studying the hole, the man felt that he did not have any tools with him, so he still went home to get ready. He quickly walked out of the cave entrance and covered the hole with a haystack, for fear of being discovered by others. After returning home, he studied the whole day about how to rob tombs, and he consulted various tomb robbery techniques from some videos and books on the Internet, and he was fully prepared.
The next day he went to the hardware store to buy a lot of very special tools, the owner of the store also asked him why he bought so many tools that are not commonly used, the man only said that he had some projects to complete at home, and needed to use these tools. The hardware store owner listened to him say this, did not think too much, and believed what the man said.
Third, prepare for tomb robbery
In order to dig out the treasure as soon as possible, the middle-aged man drove to the place where he found the tomb with the tools he had purchased that night, and he used the tomb robbery skills he had learned to pry open the top layer of the tomb with a jack, and then fixed the hole with a stick, and then started the excavation of the tomb with a shovel.
It took the man three or four hours to dig up the tomb, it was already early in the morning, and he thought that he had to take out the treasure before dawn and go home, otherwise it would not be good to be found by others. So he toured the burial chamber for a while, and finally found four pieces of pottery, which he immediately put in the car and prepared to leave.
The man also thought that this ancient tomb was worth stealing, although he was a little scared when he robbed the tomb, but he still had a reward. He plans to take the cultural relics to the market to sell for money, and also lie that these treasures are handed down from his ancestors, so as not to be suspected by others. The man thinks that good things can still fall on his head, and his heart has been stealing joy.
Fourth, it is difficult to escape the law
Just as he was about to leave his phone rang, it turned out that he was worried at home that his wife had called him, asking him where he was, why he ran out in the middle of the night without sleeping, and he replied to his wife that he would go back immediately and reassure her. He had just hung up the phone when something happened when the policeman who was patrolling nearby was startled by the ringing of the man's cell phone and began to stare at him.
The police saw that he did not sleep in the middle of the night, sneaking around here, asked him what he was doing, and he replied that he had not done anything and was driving home. The police began to check his car for anything suspicious, and the four pieces of pottery were searched by the police.
The man's mental quality was not too good, he was a little flustered, and began to speak incoherently, but no matter what he said, the police still took him away. In the interrogation room, in the face of police interrogation, the man knew that he had broken the law and truthfully confessed what he had done.
The Henan Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee also conducted a detailed appraisal of the ancient tomb, believing that this ancient tomb is a tomb of the Han Dynasty, and the four pieces of pottery excavated are general cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, and the value is not very high, but it has very important historical significance and scientific value for the study of the history of the Yuzhou area and the types and burial customs of the Han Dynasty tombs.
However, regardless of the value of ancient cultural relics, China has legal protection for any cultural relics in ancient times, and no one can obtain and destroy them through various means, otherwise they will be punished by law.
5. Conclusion
Henan men are their own online or some books in the study of tomb robbery skills, and finally went astray, embarked on the road of breaking the law, so those who spread tomb robbery skills also need to get lessons, if it is not their wanton spread, there will be no people in the society who are not firm in will, do not understand the law people interested in tomb robbery, China's precious historical relics will not be destroyed and lost. In order to prevent the recurrence of tomb robbery, the state should stop the circulation of some videos and texts.
Of course, the main reason for this tomb robbery case is the Henan man's greed for wealth, and he has taken improper means to obtain property. The money obtained through illegal means is ill-gotten wealth, the so-called "gentleman loves money and has a way", if we want to get money, we need to exchange it through our own hard work, not through illegal means to obtain. Even if people have wealth through improper means, this wealth will make them feel uneasy.