According to the traditional Chinese funeral customs, everyone attaches great importance to the things behind them, how the descendants live, whether they worship the ancestors, as long as they see the condition of the ancestral graves, they can know one or two. But it is precisely because people attach too much importance to life after death, the more rich people's families, the more they will repair their tombs luxuriously, which also gives birth to the despicable profession of "tomb robbery".
Throughout the ages, the stories of grave robbers have been exciting, but some people who really need respect have been overlooked. This type of person is the tomb keeper, in people's impression, the tomb keeper is always mysterious, even if there are descendants of the tomb keepers who have survived to the present, it is difficult for anyone to say more about their generational experience.
But the tomb keeper is the one who respects the dead the most and fears life. They believe that good and evil are rewarded, revere nature, focus on commitment, and are willing to pay the price of a lifetime for the graveyard of an emperor or other family, and pass it on from generation to generation. The tomb keepers are not all serving the clans, and many of them can only keep a promise for a lifetime.
For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous anti-Qing general Yuan Chonghuan was framed and killed, and one of his subordinates surnamed She could not bear to be wronged by the commander, and risked being beheaded to secretly take out Yuan Chonghuan's head, bury it in his own backyard in Beijing, and enshrine it. She also became Yuan Chonghuan's tomb keeper, his family has been living for generations, and all generations have abided by the ancestral precepts, and none of them have been born, nor dare to move back to their original Guangdong, let alone let the family have no land, and have been staying there.
In 1998, an archaeological team found traces of modern "tomb keepers" in an ancient tomb, which was also a surprise for a while, after all, tomb keepers generally disappear slowly over time, and it is difficult to find a tomb keeper family like She in modern times.
This ancient tomb is also not small, located in Ande Mountain, Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, with a grand scale and complete preservation. After research, this is the burial place of Princess Fuqing, the eighth daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was born in 1370 and is a female wizard who is a female wizard who is connected by piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the connection between the country and the country.
Because of zhu Yuanzhang's favor, Princess Fuqing could even participate in the deliberations, and the elf and intelligent she also offered her father many times to help him solve his worries. In 1985, the 15-year-old Princess Fuqing married Zhang Lin, the son of Zhang Long, a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty. Her epitaph records that Princess Fuqing had only 1 son, and after Zhu Di ascended the throne, her husband Zhang Lin was stripped of the marquis's position, and even Princess Fuqing was unable to save the situation.
In 1417, Princess Fuqing died at the age of 47 and was buried in Andeshan. In 1998, experts entered the tomb of Princess Fuqing to investigate, found that the main tomb has a lot of modern daily necessities, originally thought that the cemetery has been tragically poisoned by tomb robbers, the heart has been half cut off, but after careful inspection and found something wrong.
It turns out that although there are traces of theft, the tomb is very slight and has been very old, while there are only 37 traces of modern objects. The ancient tomb is also very well preserved, funerary pottery, bronzes, ceremonial supplies, jewelry are not lacking, the entire burial chamber has not been destroyed, has great research value.
Moreover, the modern items in these ancient tombs also contain some clothes, mattresses, etc., and even if the tomb robbers are "mad", they cannot sleep in the tomb. So, the experts searched for the tomb with surprise, and sure enough, they found a secret passage, which was reserved for the tomb keepers to come and go. Moreover, there is also a temple in front of the tomb of Princess Fuqing, which is for the tomb keepers to live.
Since he is a tomb keeper, why don't you live in the temple and live in the tomb? Confused, the experts quickly sent people to find the tomb keepers, but what they found was a group of migrant workers. When I asked, I learned that this group of migrant workers came to the nearby construction site to work in the early years, because they were reluctant to pay for renting a house, and someone accidentally discovered this secret passage left for the tomb keeper.
Although the migrant worker was afraid to sleep in the cemetery, he still fell asleep and told some bold brothers, so these migrant workers came to the cemetery to live. I didn't expect that this tomb was warm in winter and cool in summer, and everyone also felt that they slept well, so this cemetery became a small secret in the circle of migrant workers nearby.
The experts also cried and laughed, and reported the matter, and the relevant departments quickly helped the group of migrant workers find a suitable rent for the residence and solved the problem of living in the ancient tomb. Finally, the real tomb keeper in the temple was also found, and the tomb of Princess Fuqing became the only princess tomb found in China so far that still exists today.
However, with the development and repair of the princess tomb, the tomb keeper has disappeared from people's vision, and he is like other tomb keepers, unwilling to reveal more, and now he has completed his mission.