"Ah, my young girl! I will not fail to live up to your courtesy...", speaking of Guo Moruo, I think of this poem, Guo Moruo is a famous literary scholar in modern China, has an important position in the history of Chinese literature, and he also occupies a place in the stage of political history.
Many people's impression of Guo Moruo stays on his poems, saying that he is an "archaeologist", they are shocked, poets can still be related to archaeology? In fact, in addition to being an excellent poet, Guo Moruo is also very good in archaeology, he is extremely obsessed with archaeology, and he has been looking for cultural treasures that have disappeared in history in his life, and wants to make them see the light of day.
The emperor's mausoleum has always been a rare treasure, many ancient books will also be used as funerary items into it, the tombs of the emperors of the past are the first choice of tomb robbers to steal treasures, Guo Moruo also thought of these, so he has always wanted to catch up with others, find those precious treasures, and protect them.
Guo Moruo, as a writer and archaeologist, is even more enthusiastic about ancient literary works, in order to retrieve those lost ancient literature and study them, Guo Moruo has made a lot of efforts. In ancient times, there was a strange book that recorded everything in the world, but its copy experienced the baptism of war, the change of time, and gradually fell into history, only some fragments were scattered around the world, guo Moruo was almost obsessed with this book.
This book is compiled during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which is a masterpiece, known as "the largest encyclopedia ever recorded in the world", which cannot be handed down and is a loss of ancient Chinese literature.
There have been many theories in history about where the book is, before, Guo Moruo, in order to find the "Yongle Canon", conducted a survey of the Changling Tomb of Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, believing that the book was in the Changling Tomb, when the Changling Tomb had not been stolen by tomb thieves, well preserved, everyone surveyed it, roughly understood, everything was ready, only owed the East Wind.
However, there are rumors that the original copy of the book is in the Wanli Tomb, and in order to retrieve this "Yongle Canon", Guo Moruo forcibly opened the Dingling Tomb of the Wanli Emperor. Compared with Changling, Dingling is much smaller in scale, but the structure is similar to Changling, and opening Dingling is on the one hand for the "Yongle Canon", on the other hand, it is to accumulate experience for Changling.
China's archaeological work rose relatively late, and before it was forcibly opened by tomb robbers, so the damage to cultural relics was also very large. It is conceivable that the consequences of forcibly opening the Wanli Dingling Tomb at that time, the archaeological technology is not good, the protection measures of cultural relics are also very backward, once the Dingling tomb is opened, a large number of cultural relics have a large degree of destruction in an instant under the oxidation effect, more importantly, there is no trace of the Yongle Canon in the Dingling Tomb, and this time archaeology has become a disaster.
Soon after, Guo Moruo heard that the Yongle Canon was in the tomb of the Jiajing Emperor, because the history books recorded that the Jiajing Emperor was very fond of the Yongle Canon, and did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources to reproduce more than 10,000 books, but the project was too large, and the Jiajing Emperor could not wait for completion, and he died. The Longqing Emperor took the throne, and in order to fulfill his father's last wishes, the burial time of the Jiajing Emperor was postponed, and when the project was completed, the original copy of the Yongle Canon was buried together with the Jiaqing Emperor.
Hearing this, Guo Moruo had the idea of opening the Jiaqing Imperial Mausoleum again, but because of the failure of the excavation of the Dingling Tomb, the superiors also thought that the technology was immature and denied Guo Moruo's idea. Despite this, Guo Moruo never stopped searching for these excellent ancient literatures in his life, and to this day, the "Yongle Canon" is still missing, such a book, really disappeared in history.