"There are many people buried in the old tombs, and there is no place to buy gold." The trend of tomb robbery has been prevalent since ancient times, and it has been repeatedly prohibited, and some people even joke that tomb robbers and builders are the two "heroes" who discovered ancient tombs. But there is no doubt that there is a clear difference between tomb robbery and archaeology, which is to fill their own pockets, but archaeology is to protect and rescue cultural relics.
After entering the 21st century, there was a very absurd case of tomb robbery in China, the originator of archaeology, the tomb door was opened by his descendants, and the tomb Chinese was stolen. The name of this tomb robber is Lü Fuping, And Lü Fuping looks nothing special, but his ancestor is a powerful figure.
His ancestor was named Lü Da Lin, who was a famous scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty and a native of Lantian, Shaanxi. The Lü family has been a scholar for generations, And Lü Dalin and his father and brother have a total of 5 people, and 5 people actually have all the titles of the gold list, which is the only case in ancient times.
The 4 brothers of the Lü family served in the imperial court and had achievements in various fields, and throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the only one who could be juxtaposed with Su Shi Su Xun Su Rui "Three Sus" was this "Lantian Si Lü".
Lü Da Lin is the youngest of the 4 brothers, he once studied from Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, a wide range of knowledge, a lifetime of writings, leaving two books " Archaeological Map " and "Archaeological Illustrations", good at studying bronze and stone inscriptions, by later historians and archaeologists as the forerunner of Chinese archaeology.
In 1090, Lü Dalin died at the age of 47. After his death, Lü Da Lin was naturally buried in the Lü family cemetery in Wulitou Village, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. The aforementioned Lü Fuping, whose ancestors are a branch of the Lü family, has been responsible for guarding the cemetery of the Lü ancestors for generations. When he was a child, his parents often took Lu Fuping to worship his ancestors.
After growing up, Lu Fuping went to Xi'an to work. He knew the value of the family cemetery and bragged about it when he interacted with other people, and as a result, several people were greedy and decided to make a windfall by robbing the tomb. One day in December 2005, someone in the village made a happy wine, and the villagers all went to congratulate him, and Lu Fuping also went.
But Lu Fuping had actually just returned to his hometown for a few months, and before that, he had been secretly stepping on the survey with his accomplices. Halfway through the banquet, Lü Fuping quietly slipped away and went straight to the Lü family cemetery with his accomplices. The tombs of Lü Da Lin and other Lü ancestors were carefully designed, for example, Lü Da Lin's tomb had 2 empty holes as a cover, which was later discovered by archaeologists when they were rescued.
Unfortunately, no matter how elaborately designed, it can't beat the hearts of children and grandchildren who want to get rich. Lü Fuping and his accomplices exploded the cave and drilled into the tomb, moving all the cultural relics they found home. At the beginning of the following year, Lu Fuping's case was discovered, and the police seized 89 cultural relics he stole from the family cemetery, including 3 national first-class cultural relics.
Lü Da Lin probably couldn't have imagined that more than 900 years after his death, the Lü family would actually produce such an unscrupulous descendant, and if he was still alive, I was afraid that he would also be angry to death. Just after the news of Lü Fuping's incident was spread, more and more tomb robbers rushed to Wulitou Village, although the cultural relics part was guarded, and there were still 3 cases of theft and excavation within 8 months.
In desperation, since 2008, archaeologists can only carry out rescue excavations of the Lü family cemetery, and more than 700 groups of burial items, 24 masonry epitaphs, and a total of 29 tombs have been cleaned up. In the Lü Fuping case, both of the main offenders were sentenced to suspended death