In ancient times, experienced tomb robbers, like Chinese medicine, also had four lessons - looking, smelling, asking, and cutting. (Grave robbery is illegal, please do not follow suit!) ）
"Hope" means hope.
That is, to see feng shui, every time you go to a place, the tomb robber must first observe the topography, and the place with good feng shui must have a tomb with rich hidden treasures.
Even if the ancient tomb has long been gone with the sealing soil and tombstones, the tomb robbers who know feng shui can accurately determine the location of the tomb. During the Republic of China period, there was a tomb robber surnamed Cai in Changsha, who was proficient in feng shui, and he chose the position of the hand in the wild, almost a hundred shots.
Once, Cai And a few of his colleagues went to Ningxiang County to visit relatives and found a location with excellent feng shui, so he said to several colleagues: "There must be a large tomb under the paddy field in front, and the treasures inside will definitely make us make a windfall." ”
Several colleagues did not believe it, and Cai said that if there was no ancient tomb, he was willing to lose a thousand dollars to several people. If there is an ancient tomb, the treasures in it are 70% own, and the people readily agree, so they meet at night.
That night, the tomb robbers really dug up a Han tomb and unearthed treasures such as bronze dings, swords, jade, and gold cakes, and the people sold these treasures to a missionary, and Cai became rich overnight.
"Smell" is the smell of smelling utensils and dirt.
"Wenjia" casually grabs a handful of soil, can distinguish whether it is "cooked soil", "living soil" or "dead soil", you can judge whether there is an ancient tomb underground, because if there is an ancient tomb underground, the buried utensils will emit a strange smell, and the masters in the "Wenjia" can also distinguish the age of the ancient tomb.
Also in Changsha City during the Republic of China period, a senior tomb robber was a master of "Wenjia", who specialized in excavating ancient tombs before the Tang Dynasty all his life.
Once, this tomb robber was smoking opium in a tobacco shop, and someone brought a lacquerware and asked him to give him a palm eye, and the tomb robber sniffed and said, "I rub, do you tease me?" This is a fake that has been soaked in the urinary pit for seven months! The man was astonished: "There are eyes under the eyes that do not recognize Tarzan, and I have offended!" Then it slipped away.
"Asking" is stepping on the spot and asking for directions.
Tomb robbers will dress up as merchants and monks and Taoists, chat with locals in scenic spots, gain the trust of each other through conversation, observe the color, and collect information about the location and hidden treasures of the ancient tombs.
Determining the location of the tomb, the thieves will choose to attack on the dark night of the moon.
Then comes the "cutting" stage.
By "taking the pulse" at the scene, accurately find the most simple and safe place to dig the robbery hole, so as to quickly find the core area of the ancient tomb.
In the 1980s, tomb robbers used the means of "cutting" to place explosives in the closest place to the coffin to blow up the sealed earth, accurately find the tomb of Zeng Guofan, and steal the burial treasure.
There is also a point about "cutting" is very critical, when opening the coffin, experienced tomb robbers will steal more burial treasures in a short period of time, through careful search, to avoid being damaged by dark weapons and venom, not to miss the most valuable treasures, some experience was later cited by archaeologists, but many unique skills have been lost.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were some tomb robbers who could find the location of the ancient tomb through "listening". According to historical records: There was a tomb robber named Jiao Si in Guangzhou, who often haunted near Baiyun Mountain, and there were dozens of party members under him. These people accurately found the location of the tomb by "listening to the rain, listening to the wind, listening to the thunder...".
At noon one day, thunder and lightning were combined, and Jiao Si instructed his men to go to different directions to "listen" to the sound of the ground, and after the rain passed, the thief in the eastern position came back and said: "When the thunder was great, I vaguely felt that there was a floating under my feet, as if I heard a corresponding sound underground." ”
Jiao Si Daxi said, "It's enough!" In the early morning of the next day, the tomb robbers accurately found the tomb of Li Maozhen and his wife, a major minister of the Tang Dynasty, li Maozhen's body was well preserved, and he could also see "long hair wrapped around the cheeks, flesh and bones like stones, and knocking on the sound", the thieves excavated the gold coffin, copper man, gold beads, gold leaf and other treasures, and then fled.