We all know that no matter how much good things are overdone, they can lead to bad endings. There is such a person in Chinese history, he was originally the earliest bronze expert and archaeologist in China, but because he was not satisfied with studying the bronzes that were handed down to the world, he ran to be a "tomb robber", personally dug up the grave to find "cultural relics", and later his grave was tragically dug by posterity.
However, it is precisely because of the excavation of filial piety that more than 700 rare treasures have been brought to life, and China's cultural relics department has carried out rescue excavations of his grave. Who is he?
In mid-January 2006, the Tomb of the Lü Family in Wulitou Village, Sanli Township, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, was stolen and excavated, and the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly cracked the case, seizing 89 cultural relics (groups), and after preliminary appraisal by the cultural relics appraisal team, there were 11 national first-class cultural relics, 11 second-class cultural relics (groups), and 49 third-class cultural relics (groups).
Moreover, among the stolen cultural relics seized, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was everything, which showed that the owner of the tomb was a collector who loved to collect very much, and it was inferred that it should be the famous Lü family at that time, the most famous of which was Lü Dalin.
But the "funny" thing happened, the police caught the tomb robber, it turned out to be - Lu Dalin's descendant. The "archeological master" Lü DaLin, who died for more than 900 years, was stolen by his own descendants, which really made people sigh "day and night to prevent family thieves"!
Lü Da Lin, born in the Song Dynasty in 1040, is a famous Chinese epigrapher, known as "Lantian Si lü", because he was born in Jingzhao Lantian (now Lantian, Shaanxi), and the Lü family gave birth to 4 sons that year, namely Lü Dazhong, Lü Dafang (who was the prime minister), Lü Dajun, and Lü Dalin.
What is a "epigrapher"? Is to study the bronzes and stele of the previous dynasty, especially the inscriptions and rubbings on them, in order to understand the text on the cultural relics, epigraphers must be proficient in philology, history, calligraphy, literature and other aspects of knowledge, in fact, what they usually do, just like the modern "archaeologists", can become epigraphers, it is not simple, and Lü Dalin is such a simple person.
Lü DaLin has written many books, such as "Archaeological Diagram", "Archaeological Illustration", "Analects of Discourse", "Notes of LaoZi", etc., of which "Archaeological Diagram" and "Archaeological Illustration" 2 books have laid the foundation of modern archaeology and paleography, and their value is extremely high.
For the study of cultural relics, Lü Da Lin can be said to be "crazy", he was born in Shaanxi, the most famous bronze town in Chinese history, can contact the bronzes much more than others, many local people take the collection of cultural relics to him to appreciate, he himself usually collects cultural relics everywhere, his family is influenced by him, and also collects many previous treasures.
One day, Lü Da Lin was really "itchy hands", he actually went to the tomb himself, became a "tomb robber", and he became more and more excessive, and he often became a tomb robber after that. Although his purpose of robbing the tomb is different from that of the tomb robber who wants to get rich, it is really inappropriate to disturb the "rest" of the world.
More than 900 years have passed, the Lü family is not as prosperous as before, the Lü family descendant Lü Fuping has a bad heart, he has long known that the tomb of the old ancestor is full of treasures, and the "family thief" who holds the cemetery information has started, but soon he was caught by the police.
The tomb has been stolen and excavated, and the Cultural Relics Bureau can only organize a team of experts to carry out rescue excavations of it. In the tomb of Lü's ancestors, a total of more than 700 rare treasures have been unearthed, and the time span is very large, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, from bronzes to calligraphy and paintings.
But it is really disgraceful for posterity to dig the graves of the old ancestors, do you think?