Why did an inconspicuous construction burst out of the earth-shattering ancient tomb, the tomb owner's eminent life is staggering, when the experts intend to excavate the ancient tomb to rescue cultural relics, the descendants of Song Taizu showed the genealogy to prevent excavation, how many worldly treasures are hidden in this ancient tomb? Can today's technology unravel the mystery of the tomb owner?
One day in May 2016, a villager named Yang Nianzhi in Huangyan Qianjiao Village, Taizhou, was driving an excavator to dig up a new house.
Suddenly a loud "click" startled Yang Nianzhi, who jumped out of the car to check what was going on?
What he saw in front of him really shocked him, and a dark red giant appeared in front of him. At this moment, he was confused by the second monk, and he did not dare to act rashly, so he had to hurry to the city to find his brother, the brothers came to the scene to watch for a long time, the brother had read for several years, and judged that this must be a coffin of hundreds of years, the brothers suspected that they had dug up the tomb, and immediately reported to the police.
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The technicians slowly cleaned up the dirt above the coffin, there were two coffins presented in front of everyone, and this was a husband and wife burial tomb, and the blood-red boulder that Yang Nianzhi first saw was pressed on the coffin town coffin, it seems that it was deliberately painted red when it was buried at that time, and the large stone pressed the coffin to prevent the tomb robbers from worrying.
However, it is a great pity that one coffin has been stolen at some point, and the coffin is badly damaged, and after the technical staff cleaned up, several small human bones were gradually revealed in the silt, which should be the owner of the tomb.
As soon as I looked, I could see that the other coffin on the side was still bright red in appearance and was well preserved, which made everyone present full of expectations. What exactly will be inside the coffin? As a royal family, what kind of rare treasures can he leave behind?
After cleaning up the first coffin, the coffin was hoisted in its entirety by crane, and careful staff found a string of small characters under the coffin, which appeared to be an epitaph.
The epitaph clearly records that the owner of the tomb was named Li Shi, who died in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty. These lines of epitaphs were inscribed by the husband of the owner of the tomb himself.
At the payment office, the staff found his name: Zhao Bopeng. This husband and wife burial tomb is from the Southern Song Dynasty eight years ago, and this fairly well-preserved red coffin is Li's husband Zhao Bopeng.
Just as the experts were about to open the mysterious red coffin, a strange man appeared, and he solemnly demanded that all the technicians immediately stop digging the cemetery, on the grounds that this was their family's ancestral grave, and the experts did not have any right to dig their own ancestral grave, and the excavation of the ancestral grave was bound to affect the feng shui of their ancestors for generations.
After saying that, he took out a thick family tree from his bag, the family tree was covered with dust, and it could be seen that this family tree had been quite a few years old, and the family tree was impressively written on the "Xiqiao Zhao Family Genealogy".
Genealogy of the Zhao clan
The expert took over the genealogy, when he turned to the first page, he was surprised, the owner of the tomb, Zhao Bopeng, was actually the seventh generation grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and the person who prevented the expert from excavating the ancient tomb was Zhao Kuangyin's thirty-sixth grandson, his name was Zhao Wenxi. Therefore, the owner of the ancient tomb in front of him is the royal family of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Wenxi is also a descendant of the real royal family.
While the archaeologists were amazed, they began to carefully go through the genealogy taken by Zhao Wenxi, and found that the genealogy recorded that Zhao Bopeng had built a bridge for the local abbot before his death.
This made the experts feel enlightened in an instant, and the experts took out the "Huangyan County Chronicle" published in the Qing Dynasty that was purchased from the auction house for a careful comparison, and found that the record of this event was actually verbatim.
What was even more surprising to him was that the bridge recorded in the text was the five-hole stone bridge across the Xijiang River in Huangyan County, and many of the staff present lived near this bridge.
An ancient tomb that has broken through the ground, a genealogy scroll passed down from generation to generation, a line of mottled epitaphs, a accidentally obtained County Chronicle of the Qing Dynasty, and an ancient bridge with vicissitudes and isolation, are like historical fragments scattered in the long river of time, gradually integrating the mysterious historical ghosts of 800 years ago.
Many pieces of evidence are in front of you, which is enough to prove that this tomb is really Zhao Wenxi's ancestral grave. However, this excavation is a rescue excavation, and for the purpose of protecting cultural relics, it is impossible not to continue excavation work. So archaeologists began to reason with Zhao Wenxi, telling him that this tomb is not only the property and relics of the Zhao family, but also a treasure of the country, and at the same time has the value of historical research, if the past history can be fully studied, it can better restore the scenery and great cause of the Zhao family.
Eventually, persuaded by the archaeologists, he did not continue to pester, agreeing to let the excavation work continue.
However, when the archaeologists decided to carry the red coffin to the museum as a whole and then carry out the opening of the coffin, some people keenly said that there may be a lot of water in the coffin, and if the coffin is opened, it is very likely to damage the cultural relics inside.
Red coffin
After some thought, people used electric drills to punch several holes in the bottom of the coffin, and as I suspected, the water in the coffin spurted out of the hole and flowed for a night. After the water in the coffin was cleaned, the conditions for opening the coffin were already in place, and the red coffin was carefully loaded onto the car and brought to the Huangyan Museum.
After everything was prepared, the archaeologists finally opened the coffin lid, and in an instant, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them, and most of the archaeologists present were people who had experienced many archaeological scenes, but at the moment they did not say a word.
Because a silk brocade quilt in front of them was tightly glued to the coffin lid, the archaeologists had no choice but to take out a special small shovel to shovel down and separate the coffin from the silk brocade, and after some operation, the staff actually sorted out three beds of silk brocade quilts. After removing the covered silk quilt, people saw Zhao Bopeng lying neatly in the coffin, very peaceful, only to see that he was wearing an official hat, part of the hat had been bent, and the brown beard at the corner of his mouth was still there. But the power of the erosion of time is hard to underestimate, and his skull has fallen off a lot. The archaeologists carefully removed the skull, the staff turned their eyes, and suddenly found two exquisite jade bi on both sides of the skull, and what was even more shocking was that the concatenated ribbon of the jade bi was not damaged in the slightest, but was only impregnated with black by the material formed after the body was decomposed. One of the light green jade bi was also engraved with small words, and the archaeologists picked up a magnifying glass and fixed their eyes on it, which read, "Emperor Fu of the Tang Dynasty was careful to repair the Golden Gate Dojo in the Inner Court of the Eastern Capital... ”
This is simply a rare and rare treasure, because this is actually the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Fu's sacrifice to the heavens, the name of the founding emperor may not be familiar to many people, but his grandson Li Yu is a poet and emperor that many people are very familiar with, so the historical value of this cultural relic is self-evident.
Li yu
Another piece of jade bi is a beautiful crystal jade bi, crystal clear, not a single scratch can be found, from the distant ancient times to the present, it is undoubtedly a miracle, even if the use of modern technology processing is estimated to be difficult to produce such a fine jade. Experts and technicians held the artifacts and sighed, and after 11 hours of extraction, more than 20 pieces of clothing and silk were obtained, as well as a copper mirror and an incense box. The next step is to unveil the tomb owner, the so-called unveiling is to separate the clothes and bones, but because the age is very long, Zhao Bopeng's bones and clothes, clothes and clothes have been closely adhered together, so the unveiling work is very difficult.
From the perspective of protecting cultural relics, experts suggest holding an exhibition at the Tianyan Laboratory of the China Silk Museum. So people decided to pack the whole body and put it in a custom freezer to prevent the corpse from decaying faster.
A month later, the body was transported to the Silk Museum, and after a CR-ray scan, it was found that his clothes were relatively well preserved and his bones were relatively intact, but what was unexpected was that his body actually contained a large amount of mercury, which may have been injected with mercury for embalming during ancient burials. After a complex nitriding process and disinfection of the body, the unveiling work officially began.
Archaeologists carefully retrieved the bones, unbuttoned their clothes, and carefully extracted them from the inside out. What was surprising was that Zhao Bopeng wore eight sets of clothes in spring, summer, autumn and winter, which were three layers inside and three layers outside.
In the position of his hand, experts found him holding a handkerchief in one hand and a string of Buddha beads in the other.
After the unveiling, 76 silk relics were unearthed, including 8 tops, 8 pairs of pants, 1 pair of cloth shoes, and 1 pair of cloth socks.
These fabrics include silk, luo, yarn, yarn, silk, silk, and embroidery. Most of these clothes are black and yellow, which seem to be very simple, but in fact, they are low-key and luxurious, and each piece reflects the royal luxury. These silk satins are called "crowns of Song costumes" by experts.
Cross-collar lotus pattern bright ground gown
In 2016, the G20 Summit was held in Hangzhou, and archaeologists selected two of Zhao Bopeng's most representative clothes for exhibition. One is the "collared lotus pattern bright ground gown", and the other is the "double butterfly string chrysanthemum pattern silk shirt".
On the day of the exhibition, people at home and abroad were deeply attracted to the Chinese costume culture of 800 years ago, which is the epitome of China's 5,000 years of culture. The five-hole bridge built by Zhao Bopeng has been repaired and perfectly integrated with the modern city.
When night falls, the lights are bright, and it is like a meandering dragon crossing the West River.
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