Ming Ding Mausoleum, that is, the mausoleum of Zhu Yijun, the Emperor Of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to his two empresses, namely Empress Xiaoduanxian and Empress Xiaojing, covers an area of 182,000 square meters, and is also the only imperial tomb in the Ming Tombs that has been excavated.
From 1956 to 1957, the archaeological team carried out archaeological excavations of this Mingding Tomb, but due to the lack of archaeological experience and technology at that time, it did lead to tragedy, resulting in the disappearance of many precious ancient cultural relics, which is still a tragic experience that cannot be looked back!
It is estimated that many people are still full of curiosity about the archaeological excavation of the Ming Ding Tombs, indeed in many ancient books there have been excavation records of the Ming Ding Tombs, the content of the writing is still full of a variety of mysteries, in fact, on this point once a personally involved in the excavation of the Ming Ding Tombs archaeological team members have made some memories of this matter, this person is Sun Xianbao, now is more than 80 years old, every time I think of the time when excavating the Dingling Tombs, Sun Xianbao Old Man is full of palpitations!
In fact, at the beginning, the master Guo Moruo first proposed that the tomb of the Ming Emperor excavated was the tomb of Zhu Di, but because it was found that there was a danger of landslides in the Changling Tomb during the survey, the excavation proposal of the Changling Tomb was rejected, which focused on the Ming Ding Mausoleum.
Because there were not enough professional archaeologists at that time, many local guys were indeed invited to help, and the elderly Sun Xianbao was one of them, he was only less than 20 years old at the time, it can be said that both the body and the courage were very large, and then he was assigned to the hands of the archaeologist Bai Wanyu.
According to Sun Xianbao's account, at that time, their work was still very complicated, in addition to carrying the camera, digging, but also to do many other things, but did not expect that the first step to find the entrance to the Ming Ding Mausoleum will be difficult for all people, so what to do next?
At that time, archaeologist Bai Wanyu taught Sun Xianbao a very "stupid" method, that is, to use the method of expanding the word to track the clues, so Sun Xianbao went to find one place after another, as long as he saw the traces of the text, he would expand it, but he did not expect that this method was very effective, and soon the entrance clue was found.
However, when he was about to enter the gate of Dingling Tomb, an incomparably hard Vajra wall blocked all the people, fortunately, the expert found a living brick, but just when he pulled out this tomb brick, a thick fog suddenly spewed out, the smell was very pungent, the expert shouted to cover his mouth and nose, everyone could have entered immediately.
But this sudden thick fog but let the expert stop, for the safety of everyone's life, the expert let people immediately buy a live chicken over, and then throw the chicken to the dungeon, if the live chicken can be safe and sound, that is the time when the archaeological team entered the dungeon, a few days later, the live chicken is still alive and jumping, which also shows that there is no toxic gas and organs and other anti-theft measures in the dungeon.
As for what precious cultural relics have been unearthed from the Ming Ding Mausoleum, I will not say anything today, but can only say one sentence: rich can be enemy of the country!