Zeng Houyi "water tomb" 23 coffins
During the Warring States period, there was an important state in the south, and there are not many records of this state in history, and most historical records refer to this state as "Sui". Sui, is the city-state of Zengguo, located in the area of present-day Suizhou in Hubei, that is to say, during the Warring States period, the area around Suizhou in Hubei was the territory of Zengguo, where a lot of history about Zengguo was buried. Archaeologists have found many cultural relics about Zeng Guo in Hubei, and many Warring States period bronzes have seen records about Zeng Guo, but in history, there is no record of Zeng Guo, only about "Sui". In 1978, troops stationed on the outskirts of Suizhou in Hubei Province discovered an ancient tomb during construction, and archaeologists came here to dig up a historical secret that had been buried for thousands of years.
This ancient tomb was found when it was completely soaked in groundwater, it is a veritable "water tomb", archaeologists in order to protect the cultural relics in the ancient tomb, had to pump water while excavating, the excavation of this ancient tomb is very difficult, at that time, if there is no help from the army, the secrets of Zeng Guo may be buried forever in the ground. With the deepening of excavation, the appearance of the ancient tomb is gradually exposed, archaeologists in a burial chamber, found a large number of floating coffins, these coffins soon attracted the attention of archaeologists, an ancient tomb generally will not have so many coffins appear, what is going on in this ancient tomb?
In the Warring States period, there was also a cruel system of human martyrdom, archaeologists immediately thought of this, after counting, the number of these coffins reached 23, after opening the coffins, archaeologists are very sad. Lying in these coffins were the remains of very small-looking corpses, which were seen as the remains of young girls. According to subsequent studies, all 23 coffins were teenage girls, whose ages ranged from 12 to 23 years old, and the experts of the archaeological team broke out and scolded: The tomb owner is too inhuman! These young girls were pulled to accompany the tomb owner to be buried at the age of flowers and jade, who is this tomb owner? Archaeologists found the coffin of the tomb owner in the main burial chamber, and this tomb owner was the monarch of Zeng Guo, Zeng Houyi.
According to the bronze inscription in the tomb, the mystery of this ancient tomb was slowly unveiled, and the original "Sui" in the history book refers to Zeng Guo, and the appearance of Zeng Houyi solved the mystery of this tomb. Why did these young girls bury Zeng Houyi? In the tomb of Zeng Houyi, archaeologists found a large number of bronze musical instruments, according to the research of archaeologists, Zeng Houyi was a "musician" before his death, he was very fond of music, the study of musical instruments is very deep, so he often singing and dancing for fun, these girls, is Zeng Guo's song and dance, maiji. After the death of Zeng Houyi, this song ji and mai ji were used as funerary products and buried with Zeng Hou Yi, they were so young, how desperate should it be?
The Tomb no. 1 of the Duke of Qin, which is more cruel than the "martyrdom" of The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng
In the Warring States period, the cruel human martyrdom system had not yet been replaced, so after the death of Marquis Zeng, these young girls naturally became his funerary products. Compared with the mausoleum of the monarch of the Qin State, Zeng Houyi is considered "kind". The tomb of Qin Jinggong, the monarch of the Qin State, was found in a village in Shaanxi, and archaeologists were stunned by the scene in the tomb when excavating this tomb, which was invaded by tomb robbers many times, but what was even more frightening was that archaeologists found 186 martyrs in this ancient tomb. That is to say, when Qin Jinggong died, 186 innocent people buried him.
These martyrs were not voluntary, they were all tied together and there was no way to struggle. However, during the qin shi huang period, the human martyrdom system was replaced by terracotta figurines, and the terracotta warriors were born to replace the human martyrdom system. If Qin Shi Huang had not listened to the advice of his ministers to build the Terracotta Warriors, perhaps today's Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pits would have been replaced by living burial pits, and the number of Terracotta Warriors and Horses had reached more than 8,000, which is a terrible number. The demise of the system of human martyrdom is a historical necessity, and this system is too cruel and easy to cause chaos in society.