In 1872, the 62-year-old Zeng Guofan was walking at home, suddenly died suddenly, the news came, so that the government and the public were shocked, Zeng Guofan was posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Yiyong, the title of Wenzheng, Wenzheng two words, enough to summarize his life, but the name of the life does not bring death and do not bring, only the Pei loess, is the final destination, about zeng guofan's buried bones, followed Zeng Guofan's last wishes, transported back to his hometown for burial.
Nanjing to Hunan is a long way, Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guohuang, sons Zeng Jize, Zeng Jihong all the way to eat and sleep, and finally transported Zeng Guofan's body back to his hometown, but at this time it was already in May of the lunar calendar, the weather gradually became hotter, the body was put away for a long time, in order to prevent the body from rotting, everyone built a mausoleum in Jinpenling, and in mid-June, it was buried, and the time was rushed.
Zeng Guofan's mausoleum invited a special tomb keeper, so during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zeng Guofan's tomb has also been well preserved and has not been damaged, but after 1949, Zeng Guofan's tomb was destroyed twice, once stolen, the first time was destroyed by local villagers to take the tomb to cover the pigsty, the second time was deliberately destroyed, fortunately, the tomb was built by the triad soil and glutinous rice paste, extremely strong, and it was not successful.
Changsha area since the ancient tombs, soon after the reform and opening up, many people in order to get rich, eyes aimed at these tombs, Changsha area tomb robbers in groups, many people rely on tomb robbers to make a fortune, looking at the red-eyed people, also joined their business, Zeng Guofan's tomb, in the night was blown up with explosives a large mouth, and when the experts arrived, the tomb robbers had already fled.
The first two destruction did not enter the tomb, but this time the tomb robbery, the mausoleum has been irreparable, from the above opening, you can already see the coffin, experts urgently decided, the ancient tomb for protective excavation, experts first set up an archaeological team, let a smaller archaeology team member first drill into the tomb to see the situation, the archaeologist team just went down halfway, found a Qing Dynasty official hat, and then picked it up.
This made the expert feel bad at once, the official hat was taken out, indicating that the tomb robber had opened the coffin, so the expert let the archaeologist bring some necessary tools, ready to go down to the tomb for the second time, and when the archaeologist went down, the person pulling the rope on the top suddenly found that there was no movement on the rope side, how to pull it could not be pulled, the experts above were immediately afraid, busy letting people shout down.
After a while, the following finally had a reply, saying that the robbery cave was narrow, he was stuck when he went down, wasted a lot of kung fu, only to come out of the robbery cave, and then the robbery cave is still some distance from the tomb, the space is more narrow, experts believe that after research, perhaps the tomb robber did not enter the tomb, the ancient tomb may be well preserved, so he found cement and sealed the tomb of Zeng Guofan.