The "Shake the Dragon Sutra" records: "Looking for the dragon and dividing the gold to see the tangled mountain, a heavy entanglement is a heavy pass." In fact, in feng shui, "looking for the dragon" is not looking for the dragon, but the main vein of the mountain. In ancient times, in order to make up for the lack of military salaries, Cao Cao set up the post of lieutenant of touching gold, and the task of the lieutenant of touching gold was to dig up people's graves and steal treasures. However, tomb robbery is a technical work, even if the ancient tomb is excavated, there is not necessarily a treasure in the tomb, and the archaeological community often calls "Ten Chambers and Nine Empty Han Tombs" is this truth.
However, just as the so-called "masters are in the folk", those ancient tombs that are very difficult to find in the eyes of others are simply no different from those placed in front of yao Yuzhong. Yao Yuzhong was born on November 26, 1962 in Xinfang Village, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, when the Yao Yuzhong family survived due to three years of famine, and they lived in a simple mud house, and their life was very difficult. Among the seven brothers, Yao Yuzhong's craft of basket weaving is the best, and his brain is also the most intelligent, according to Yao Yufei's recollection, Yao Yuzhong often buys a bunch of books to go home, probably "feng shui, I Ching" that kind.
In fact, the reason why Yao Yuzhong was obsessed with such books was entirely influenced by his father. Looking at feng shui and tombs is the ancestral work of the Yao family, and each generation must produce a person who inherits it, and the successor of this generation is Yao Yuzhong. People in the archaeological community all know that the typical feature of the feng shui treasure land is that "there is a green dragon on the left, a white tiger on the right, a leaning on the top, and a photo on the bottom". However, this kind of terrain is not obvious to ordinary people, but Yao Yuzhong can see it at a glance.
In addition, Yao Yuzhong's hometown chifeng, is the Hongshan cultural area, there are many ancient tombs in the mountain, when Yao Yuzhong and his friends were herding cattle on the mountain, sticking their ears to the ground will always hear a hollow "bang" sound coming from the soil layer, which means that the inside of the mountain is empty, and it can almost be concluded that there are ancient tombs. Sometimes, after a rainstorm, Yao Yuzhong can always pick up pottery pieces, stone tools and other objects on the mountain, and when he is lucky, he will also pick up jade, you know, these are thousands of years old antiques.
With the increase of the cultural fame of Hongshan, more and more people come to the village to collect antiques, from the earliest 50 pieces, 100 pieces, to the later thousands, tens of thousands, Yao Yuzhong, who is active in his mind, soon found "business opportunities". So Yao Yuzhong put on a pair of gold wire glasses and a straight Zhongshan suit, went to the museum and various tomb groups during the day to investigate the field, and at night took a flashlight and a steel bar to the mountain. However, he simply dug up the color of the soil layer and judged what was underneath, not really digging a tomb.
Yao Yuzhong's means are exquisite, and the tomb robbery jargon calls this "stepping on a little" or "pointing holes", but ordinary people do not have this technology. Yao Yuzhong knows how to find "living soil", and he can accurately find the location of the ancient tomb burial chamber according to the stars, terrain and maps. In addition, Yao Yuzhong also has a skill, he can not only accurately locate, but also know whether the tomb is buried in the upper class or a commoner. Every time he robbed the tomb, he would first drill the hole vertically, then dig it in parallel, and sprinkle a handful of grass seeds when he left, so that grass could grow on the excavated soil.
During the period from 2003 to 2004, Yao Yuzhong led the gang to commit more than 200 crimes, stole thousands of cultural relics, although 2063 pieces were recovered afterwards, but these alone, the value is more than 500 million yuan, which shows how much money Yao Yuzhong illegally profited. On October 17, 2017, Yao Yuzhong was sentenced to a suspended death sentence for committing crimes such as excavating ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, and reselling cultural relics.
In fact, if Yao Yuzhong can go on the right path, with his unique technology, I don't know how many Chinese cultural relics can be saved, what do you think?