A flying fish suit, a belt, an embroidered spring knife, accompanied by the emperor, for the imperial court eagle dog... Many people's impression of Jinyiwei is still stuck in film and television dramas, and some people even think that Jinyiwei is just a fictional group. But in fact, in history, there was indeed a position of Jinyiwei, and in the beginning, the predecessor of Jinyiwei was the "Arch Guard Division" set up by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was not until the 15th year of Hongwu that it was finally restructured into Jinyiwei.
Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Jinyi Guard, which initially had three functions, the first was to guard the duty station, the second was to investigate and arrest, and the third was the canonical prison that we are most familiar with, but then it was gradually weakened by the emperor's jealousy. But even so, under the influence of film and television dramas, many people will think that Jinyiwei was a very powerful group of people at that time, and such people should be extremely prosperous and wealthy, whether before or after death, but is this really the case?
1. The tomb of Jinyi Wei was excavated
Nanjing Forestry University rebuilt the campus because the campus was old, and when the new campus was built, the construction workers dug out an ancient tomb from the ground and immediately reported it, and after excavation by the archaeological team, it was found that the owner of the tomb was actually a Jinyi guard! And it was the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Wei who commanded Xu Junxu. This tomb is a joint burial tomb of Xu Junxu and his wife.
As the Jinyi guard of the imperial court eagle dog, Xu Junxu's command of the imperial court could even reach the level of rank from sanpin among the officials of one to nine pins, and at that time, the officials from sanpin also had the undertaking to declare that the envoys were involved in politics, and the envoys were transferred to the envoys. It can be seen that Xu Junxu's official position at that time was very high.
However, although the owner of the tomb is a commander of a Jinyi guard, in fact, there is a big gap between the historical Jinyiwei and the Jinyiwei in the film and television drama, although the Jinyiwei are indeed for the emperor, but because the Jinyiwei are all from civilian origins, the actual fenglu that can be obtained is not as high as imagined. It is precisely for this reason that although the tomb of Jinyiwei has not been excavated before, the funerary items are very rare and have no particularly high value.
Therefore, the archaeologists did not have much expectations for Xu Junxu's tomb this time, not to mention that when the tomb was found, the tomb was already a situation where the stolen tomb thieves had visited. Moreover, I don't know if it is too simple the tomb that causes the tomb robber to not get the harvest he imagined, and the tomb robber even burned the body of the tomb owner in one breath.
The practice of tomb robbers has made the tomb, which was not rich in the first place, appear even more barren and empty, and even made people think that the tomb had no value for excavation. But fortunately, the archaeologists, with their professional qualities and a serious and responsible attitude towards work, did not give up the excavation of the tomb, which finally found an amazing funerary product.
2. The Blue Wine Bottle of the Sky
Just as the excavation work of the archaeologists was coming to an end, suddenly, an archaeologist found a blue bottle in the corner, which was placed very hidden, revealing only a section of the bottle, which looked like it had been discarded in the corner. In addition, the style of the bottle is very familiar, and it looks like a bottle of sky blue wine that is very common nowadays.
At that time, the archaeologists even thought that this might just be the wine bottle thrown down by the tomb robbers, but even so, the archaeologists still patiently cleaned out the bottle, and it was not until the entire bottle was cleaned up that the archaeologists were shocked to find out where was the sky blue wine bottle? And it is clearly a priceless treasure - blue glazed plum bottle.
In history, although the plum bottles have been in all major kiln systems, in terms of shape, the beauty of the plum bottles can be said to be the first shape in Chinese porcelain. And the high temperature blue glaze was pushed as a porcelain product after entering the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Xuande period! It can be seen that the product of the combination of the plum bottle with the first shape and the blue glaze on the porcelain will be a superb existence.
At that time, the value of the blue-glazed plum bottles circulating on the market was at least about 100 million yuan, but the blue-glazed plum bottle found in the tomb was a bottle fired by the official kiln in the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, so whether in terms of color or shape, it was the best quality of all the existing blue-glazed plum bottles, and even far exceeded the blue-glazed plum bottles collected in the museum at that time. According to the estimates of experts at that time, this bottle can be sold for at least 1 billion yuan at a sky-high price!
Of course, a blue-glazed plum bottle like this, even if it was 1 billion yuan, was priceless at the time. What's more, such fine ancient funerary products are very valuable for historical research, and if they are sold at will, it is really a big loss for the archaeological community. Experts at that time also said bluntly: "Fortunately, the tomb robbers at that time were clumsy, otherwise such a precious cultural relic would not know where it would be." ”
Third, tomb robbery is rampant
And this incident also made us deeply aware of how rampant tomb robbers are, not only looting the intact burial chamber, but even burning the body of the tomb owner. Although this blue-glazed plum bottle survived, it was the grave robbers who failed to find the bottle? Or is it that the other funerary items in this tomb are of higher value, so that the tomb robbers do not care about the bottle?
The truth of the matter at that time is now unknown, but from ancient times to the present, tomb robbery has been repeatedly prohibited, and even bred a black industrial chain from tomb robbery to trafficking, resulting in the loss of countless precious cultural relics, and countless historical treasures have become the collections of other countries, which is not only a material loss, but also a stain on the soul of the nation of a big country that cannot be ignored.
But fortunately, although there are rampant tomb robbers, a large number of patriots have emerged in our country, who do not hesitate to spend their family wealth to auction back china's cultural relics that have been lost at a high price and donate them free of charge. After all, over the years, at least 17 million pieces of cultural relics have been lost in China, and the value of each cultural relic is more than 100 million yuan! That's an astronomical set!
IV. Conclusion
In the brilliant long river of history, whether it is the vicissitudes of the sea or the change of dynasties, it is the rise and fall of these countless civilizations that finally constitute our splendid Chinese civilization, and this blue-glazed plum bottle, although it is simply a city, is only a small star in this brilliant civilization, in addition to it, we will also have a large number of precious cultural relics waiting for our excavation and discovery.
Under the "Cultural Relics Protection Law" that has gradually improved in China, it is believed that the situation of tomb robbery in today's society will gradually improve. The precious cultural relics that have been lost will also be gradually recovered with the strength of the country, so that these precious treasures belonging to our Chinese civilization will return to the embrace of the motherland.