In 1957, the tomb of a nine-year-old girl in Xi'an, the tomb ornaments are extremely luxurious, and the sarcophagus is like a palace
Modern society is highly developed, and the level of medical care and living standards have reached a new peak of human civilization. In this social background and conditions, the average age of the population in our country has risen steadily, and more and more people are living longer. However, in ancient times, the average age of China's population was not high, and there were many people who died early, and in some war years and epidemic outbreaks, it was very common, which is difficult for people in modern society to imagine.
In some archaeological excavations in China, the archaeological team will sometimes excavate the tombs of some children, and sometimes even the tombs of newborn babies, which makes the hearts of the archaeological team covered with a layer of haze, and can't help but grieve for the children who died early.
The ancient city of Xi'an has many ancient tombs, including the tomb of a nine-year-old girl. Although she died early, she was pampered during her lifetime, and was buried after her death, and her tomb was very luxurious.
In 1957, Xi'an unearthed a Sui Dynasty tomb owned by a nine-year-old girl named Li Jingxun. When archaeologists excavated Li Jingxun's tomb, they were surprised to find that this tomb was very luxurious and high-end, and it was the highest specification and most complete ancient tomb in the Sui Dynasty tomb that had been excavated.
Li Jingxun's burial chamber is generally a rectangular pit in which a tomb coffin is placed, and the shape of the tomb coffin is actually designed to look like a palace. Door panels, door frames, door foreheads, thresholds, windows, roofs, tiles are all available, and they are also popular styles in society at that time, allowing people to get a glimpse of the social house style at that time. After opening the tomb, you can find a large number of funerary items inside the sarcophagus, like a palace. Including pottery figurines, necklaces, bracelets, gold and silver utensils, whether it is the shape design of the tomb coffin, or the value and quantity of funerary goods, it can be described as luxurious, which shows how much Li Jingxun was loved by the family before she died, and the reluctance of the people who buried her.
So who is Li Jingxun? Why did she die early in her childhood? It turned out that Li Jingxun was born into a family of officials and eunuchs in the early years of the Sui Dynasty, his great-grandfather and grandfather were all generals of the imperial court, and his father Li Min was able to grow up in the palace because of his family relations, and he was very friendly with the royal family and nobles since childhood. Li Min's father died in the battlefield, and the Sui Emperor Yang Jian was grateful for this and cared for Li Min, who was also clever and clever, and was very able to please Yang Jian and his daughter, Yang Lihua, the empress of Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou.
Later, when Yang Lihua chose a husband for her daughter Yuwen Eying, she fell in love with Li Min. After Li Min and Yuwen Eying became intimate, they soon had a daughter Li Jingxun. Li Jingxun also grew up in the palace, and was mischievous and intelligent, especially favored by her grandmother Yang Lihua. Although the fate of the grandchildren is not too long, for Yang Lihua, who has lost her partner, the company of her granddaughter is a precious gift from Heaven.
In desperation, Li Jingxun died suddenly, perhaps infected with an acute disease of the epidemic, and died. This is undoubtedly a very heavy blow for Li Min and Yang Lihua. In grief, they buried Li Jingxun's nine-year-old baby.
After Yang Lihua buried her granddaughter, she was worried that her tomb would be remembered by tomb robbers, so she carved the words "the opener is dead" on the sarcophagus. I don't know if it is the blessing and shock of these four words, Li Jingxun's tomb has never been stolen and excavated, and it has been well preserved to this day. In any case, the white-haired man sending the black-haired man is indeed a tragedy, even after thousands of years, it still makes the hearer sad.