I don't know if you remember a TV series "Iron Pear Blossom", the heroine's father is a tomb robber, the heroine is influenced by him, and also understands feng shui tomb knowledge. After being forced to marry a warlord, she directly used the methods of tomb robbers to dig a tunnel from the house to the outside, and successfully escaped from the mansion.
Although TV dramas have some artistic processing components, there are indeed "tomb robber families" in real life. Tomb robbery is a very old activity, which has been prevalent at least in the Spring and Autumn period, and it can hinder the work of archaeologists. China's laws have long established sentencing standards for tomb robbery, but there are still people who are desperate to take risks.
For example, Yao Yuzhong, who is known as the "first master" of the tomb robbery industry. Speaking of Yao Yuzhong, I am afraid that few tomb robbers do not know, because Yao Yuzhong was once regarded as the grandfather of tomb robbers, and like the heroine of "Tie Pear Flower", Yao Yuzhong's father also made a living by watching feng shui tombs in his early years, and he had two sons.
Yao Yuzhong is an older brother, born in 1962, Yao Yufei is the younger brother, who has been with his brother for a long time. Yao Yuzhong was his father's "key training object" when he was young, and before his father died, he passed on all his skills to Yao Yuzhong, and Yao Yuzhong only had a primary school education, and in the early years, he followed various people in the society to develop many bad habits.
After inheriting his father's skills, he decided to make a fortune by robbing tombs and enjoying himself. It has to be said that this person has a special talent for discovering ancient tombs. He used a homemade tool "Zazi", which was rooted in the soil, and Yao Yuzhong would judge whether there was an ancient tomb underground according to the color change of the top.
This kind of thing is better to use than the Luoyang shovel, so Yao Yuzhong almost guessed a quasi-point, during the day he went to the top of the mountain alone to go around, and at night, especially on a rainy night, Yao Yuzhong took his accomplices to excavate the tomb. When there is rain, the traces of the crime are easy to cover up, and Yao Yuzhong has dug up a lot of cultural relics, so he has made a fortune.
After 30 years of tomb robbery, Yao Yuzhong's fame has grown. Not only because he is good at discovering ancient tombs, but also because he lives in a mansion by relying on cultural relics, he has become a "big brother". There is even a legend that Yao Yuzhong can accurately find any tomb within a hundred miles as long as he looks at the celestial signs and takes a compass.
Therefore, in addition to being called "Grandmaster" by other tomb robbers, Yao Yuzhong also won a title of "The First Master of Guannei". However, this so-called grandfather's life is extremely luxurious, his ordinary life must not be less gambling, a gamble will inevitably lose money to people, sometimes there is not enough money on the body, Yao Yuzhong will directly take cultural relics to pay off debts.
In the past 30 years, Yao Yuzhong's stolen cultural relics have been worth more than 500 million yuan. From 2013 to 2014, he led the gang to commit crimes with an incredible frequency, committing more than 200 crimes in more than 300 days. Once, Yao Yuzhong sold someone a pair of jade bracelets, which were Neolithic cultural relics from nearly 5,000 years ago, and Yao Yuzhong easily changed hands for 240,000 yuan.
Often stationed by the river, no wet shoes. Yao Yuzhong was arrested in 2014, and after 3 years, he was finally sentenced to death, and what was unexpected was that Yao Yuzhong actually said a sentence in public: "Archaeologists are all waste materials, and on the discovery of ancient tombs, a hundred archaeologists are inferior to me." ”
This man's arrogance is evident. Even if he has the ability, he has not used this skill on the right path, the job of the archaeologist is to protect cultural relics, and his job is only to fill his own pocket through illegal channels, which is not comparable.