Jiangsu unearthed the corpse of a Ming Dynasty uncorrupted woman, wearing emeralds in her hands, and after the experts stripped her clothes: a stunning beauty
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Human beings live in the vast world, the eternal passage of time and space often makes us feel their own smallness, even Confucius will sigh in the face of the rolling river water: "The deceased is like a sif, not giving up day and night." Time is fair to everyone, the wheel of history is rumbling forward, how many emperors will be phased, how bright and beautiful the talented children are before they are born, they will inevitably turn into a tomb. In order to commemorate the deceased ancestors, the ancient aristocratic class usually built mausoleums as a place for their ancestors to rest.
Such customs have been passed down for thousands of years, and the tombs often reveal the identity information of many tomb owners, providing us with a lot of very valuable information for our archaeological work today, and the excavated cultural relics of the mausoleums often have high archaeological value. Jiangsu once unearthed such a Ming Dynasty tomb, the coffin of the incorruptible female corpse wearing emeralds, experts for her after stripping clothes called: stunning beauty.
The mausoleum was unearthed during a construction process, and a construction team on Chunlan Road in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, found that the excavated soil was mixed with some wood chips and a strange smell appeared in the air. The staff with perennial construction experience immediately noticed the abnormality, because the Area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has always been a rich country of famous artists, and ancient tombs have been excavated before, so the area was quickly submitted to the archaeological department for investigation.
After the archaeologists arrived at the scene, they immediately sealed off the surrounding area to prevent the ghostly tomb robbers from destroying the excavation site. In the preliminary assessment of archaeologists, the possibility that this tomb is a royal mausoleum was ruled out, and according to the shape of the tomb, it should be the pouring tomb of a large family in the Ming Dynasty. The characteristics of the pouring tomb are the use of glue compaction wrapped wooden coffin, better sealing, such tombs are mostly seen in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Although it is not a royal mausoleum, the excavation of ancient tombs in the Ming Dynasty still has precious archaeological value. In the subsequent excavations, some common Ming Dynasty funerary items, gold and silver jade, etc. have also been unearthed, but no special cultural relics have been unearthed. The turning point occurred on the day the coffin was opened. Just like Wang Weiyun: "An Zhiqing flows, and even communicates with the former mountain", archaeological work also occasionally has such a surprise.
There are three coffins in the tomb, two placed side by side, and one placed separately at a distance of three or four meters. The two coffins that were opened side by side were not specifically found, they were two coffins where the funerary items were placed, and the coffins contained only wooden pillows, costumes and pottery. When the experts opened the third coffin, a pungent smell escaped from the coffin, and the next scene stunned everyone.
The wooden coffin was filled with yellow-brown coffin liquid, and the ancient corpse soaked in the coffin liquid was like a life, not only the eyes, ears, mouth and nose were intact, the facial contours were clearly recognizable, and even the eyebrows were clearly rooted. The preservation of such a complete ancient corpse invigorated the psychology of archaeologists, who tried to press the corpse's feet and found that her skin still retained a slight elasticity.
According to the director of the Taizhou City Museum, the reason why this ancient corpse of the Ming Dynasty has not decayed for hundreds of years has a lot to do with the regulation of the pouring tomb. The extremely strong sealing of the pouring tomb makes the air and microorganisms in the coffin basically isolated, and the corpse loses the nutrients for decay, coupled with the liquid impregnated in the coffin for hundreds of years, which has become an excellent carrier to protect the body from decay.
Later, the experts opened the quilt wrapped around the woman's body and found that she had a valuable emerald ring on her right hand, a sachet hanging from her neck, and her hair combed into a bun, still retaining the appearance of the burial. The ancient tomb has not unearthed any items that can prove the identity of the owner of the tomb, so it can only temporarily hang this "suspense case" and find a breakthrough in the future.
When the female corpse was unearthed, her face was good, her height was about one meter and six meters, and it could be seen that she was a woman from a wealthy family in Jiangnan, and her life is unknown to others, but I believe that in the near future, there will be more archaeological discoveries to continuously improve and fill the existing gaps. The value and charm of archaeology is to explore the precious inheritance left in the origin of our bloodline in the encounters with the relics of the ancients, and also to provide real and reliable physical evidence for the study of our ancient history and culture.
Although there are many dilemmas in the protection and development of ancient tombs, it is the responsibility of each of us to let everyone understand the value of ancient tombs and avoid unintentional or intentional human destruction as much as possible. Archaeological work carries a heavy historical responsibility for five thousand years, and it is the key to unlocking the unknown history of ancient times. In the process of archaeology, the dialogue with cultural relics is to face the thick historical facts of the millennium.
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