On the evening of October 22, 1983, a 17-year-old teenager sneaked into the Hunan Museum and stole 31 precious cultural relics excavated from the Mawangdui Han Tomb.
The treasures were unearthed 10 years ago. In 1971, Under a large mound in changsha, Hunan Province, workers were working on the ground, when the construction team dug 20 meters from east to west, it was found that the soil began to become very loose, someone used steel brazes to insert a little into the ground, and there was a small hole, whizzing out of the cool air. Right next to it, there was a match that the migrant worker had just thrown, and a blue flame burned in an instant.
Even if the workers have seen this kind of formation, they are too frightened to go closer, some people say that there is nothing underneath, as soon as the news spreads, people are panicked, the migrant workers do not dare to continue to dig down, the timid direct roll covers and leave, the project can only be temporarily shelved.
On January 16, 1972, the news reached the Hunan Provincial Museum, and experts believed that there might be a tomb under the mound, so the archaeological team brought more than 1,500 people to the site and began excavation work, from January to April, and finally excavated a huge burial chamber.
In the burial chamber, there is a large coffin about seven meters long, about five meters wide and about three meters high, and there are many burial items stacked around it, including textiles, lacquerware, wooden figurines, musical instruments, bamboo tubes and other bamboo and wood utensils, as well as pottery, bamboo jane, etc., a total of more than 1,000 pieces. In particular, there is a plain gauze shirt, 1.28 meters long, and has long sleeves, weighing only 49 grams, and the weaving skills are very skilled. It is the earliest, most completely preserved, most sophisticated, and lightest piece of clothing in the world, which is priceless. Because there were too many people present, they transported it to the Hunan Provincial Museum by crane.
When the experts opened the coffin of the owner of the tomb from the coffin, the scene in front of them stunned everyone, only to see a woman in her fifties soaked in a tea-brown liquid, and the overall appearance and flesh were quite well preserved, like a sleeping person. Sorting out the burial items, people knew that the name of the owner of the tomb was Xin Chai, who was the wife of Li Cang, the minister of the Western Han Dynasty. This Mrs. Xin Chai, after 2000 years of incorruptible, the wisdom of the ancients is really not to be underestimated.
As soon as the news of Mawangdui's exhumation of the uncorrupted female corpse spread, people rushed to visit and surrounded the museum, and the queue was several kilometers long, and some people still came from other places.
On the morning of October 22, 1983, a seventeen-year-old Changsha boy named Xu Anti-Emperor came to the museum to visit, and he quietly opened the lock of the toilet window and put a ladder nearby. At about 8 p.m., Emperor Xu took the crime tool, sneaked into the museum, cut off the power supply, turned over the window from the toilet to enter the exhibition hall, saw that there was no one, picked up the iron pipe, crackled and smashed, six glass display cases were smashed, and thirty-one cultural relics were stolen in one go, including plain gauze robes and a number of precious lacquerware excavated from the Mawangdui Han Tomb.
Such a crazy theft case made everyone not expect it, but the thieves lived idly in Changsha. A few days later, the Changsha Friendship Store was stolen, and the thief was caught on the spot, and he actually said indifferently: "I did that thing in Mawangdui." ”
It turned out that after Xu Anti-Emperor succeeded in stealing cultural relics, he excitedly told his mother Xu Ruifeng, who was teaching at the university at the time, that Xu Ruifeng, who had doted on his son since childhood, also chose to condone and shield consistently this time. But she was afraid of the East Window incident, so she burned some cultural relics, including a plain gauze jacket.
She threw some of the remaining cultural relics in Changsha Martyrs Park, and some of them were secretly lost on the counter of the Changsha Wuyi Road Post Office. I thought it was over, who knew that her unrepentant son was caught stealing again, and Xu Ruifeng could not escape the blame in the end.
In this way, a 17-year-old teenager who did not learn any tricks and acted recklessly, and his ignorant mother who taught his children to be helpless, sounded a big alarm for the world.