The tomb is a place where people "settle down" after death, and will place all kinds of burial goods, the richer they are before they die, the burial goods in the burial chamber are also countless gold and silver treasures, so tomb robbers in ancient times were not uncommon, and some thieves even made a fortune by robbing tombs.
This makes most people consider the anti-theft matter while building the tomb before dying, so as not to be disturbed after death, and there is a general who erects a monument after death to cry: There is no silver in this place, don't dig it! After 200 years, the tomb robbers opened and stayed.
This general was Zhang Zhan, who lived during the Taihe period of the Cao Wei period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and after his death, his family carved a stele with inscriptions: "The coffin of the white catalpa, the clothes of decay, the copper and iron are not entered, and the Dan instrument is not hidden." Oh descendants, fortunately, I don't get hurt! ”
The meaning of the inscription is that "after I died, I was buried in a very low-grade coffin, wearing very cheap clothes, not only did I have no copper and iron utensils, but also no pottery or clay ware, and I was really poor, so you don't have to dig it, but you are busy in vain." ”
This shows that 200 years after Zhang Zhan's death, there are really no tomb robbers to dig his grave, in fact, it is easy to understand, there is an old saying that "the dead are great", the grave is the place where the deceased rests, ordinary people passing by the cemetery is not a detour, or they are to worship, indicating that they have no intention of disturbing, which is respect for the deceased.
And the tomb robbers have not been without rules, after all, they have disturbed the deceased, and the mistakes are the living who break in, and the thieves who talk about the rules usually leave a few pieces when they steal the treasures in the tomb, and do not steal the coffin, so Zhang Zhan's inscription has told the thieves that there is nothing in the tomb, and the thieves cannot bear to dig again to disturb the deceased.
However, in the sixth year of Yuan Jia (429), there was a famine in the local area, and there were many thieves who unscrupulously stole the burial goods in the tomb, and Zhang Zhan's tomb was not spared, but what made people stunned was that his tomb had countless gold and silver treasures, and the coffin was also made of gold, and the history books recorded that: "(Zhang Zhan) The gold, silver, tin, and copper utensils in the tomb were brilliantly prepared, and there were two coffins of vermilion lacquer, bamboo thin curtains hanging in front of the coffin, and gold nails. ”
It is conceivable that zhang zhan's tomb was quickly robbed after it was opened, and even a scolding from thieves, believing that he had deceived the world, and the situation about Zhang Zhan's tomb was recorded in the "Notes on the Water Classic" and "Jingzhou Record".
Later, Emperor Taizong of Tang also imitated Zhang Zhan's tomb, and erected a stele saying, "The king takes the world as his home, why should he have things in the mausoleum, but for himself." Nowadays, because the Nine Mountains are tombs, there is no gold and jade, people, horses, or utensils, but only civil and wooden tools. ”
It's just that no one believes what the inscription says, not to mention that Li Shimin is still an emperor, even if there are not many burials, but there must be many, so they were stolen and exhumed.