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A huge coffin was found in Heilongjiang, and the owner's face was covered with silk and a veil, expert: General Jin Guo

In 1988, a shocking event occurred in a small village near Acheng, Heilongjiang, when a villager discovered the ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty while digging the foundation, an ancient tomb that excited the archaeological community, and after excavation, 2 richly dressed male and female corpses were excavated, which looked like a husband and wife burial tomb. From the perspective of clothing and clothing, let you initially think that it is a tomb of the Ming Dynasty, this discovery caused a great sensation, because even if it is a tomb of the Ming Dynasty, it is very rare for such a well-preserved clothing and clothing.

A huge coffin was found in Heilongjiang, and the owner's face was covered with silk and a veil, expert: General Jin Guo

Archaeologists first cleaned up the female remains, and during the cleanup, experts found that it turned out to be a tomb of the nobility of the Jin Dynasty, and the level of the owner of the tomb was quite high. After removing the crown of beads, archaeologists finally unveiled the woman's veil, and underneath it was a thick layer of silk that held it up. So why cover your face with silk and a veil?

A huge coffin was found in Heilongjiang, and the owner's face was covered with silk and a veil, expert: General Jin Guo

Archaeologists have measured the teeth of the two corpses in the tomb and deduced that the age of their death was about 60 years old for male corpses and 40 years for female corpses; the difference between the two was 20 years, so everyone speculated that in the Song and Jin dynasties when early marriage was prevalent, this woman was not the original wife of the man, but his concubine, and experts also had another interpretation of the face of the woman. Later, as the veil was removed, an important thing was found on her neck, an extremely rare agate necklace.

A huge coffin was found in Heilongjiang, and the owner's face was covered with silk and a veil, expert: General Jin Guo

Through the patterns and words on the costumes, archaeologists concluded that the owner of the tomb was Zuo Cheng Xiang and Marshal Du of the Jin Kingdom, who had been in the history of the Jin Dynasty. At this time, some experts suddenly thought that in the second year of Jing Kang, the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and thousands of people from the Great Song Imperial Family were taken captive by the Jin people to Jin Shangjing, including 21 princesses of Song Huizong, most of whom were forced to marry the concubines of the nobles of the Jin Dynasty. The Nobles of the Jin Dynasty who married Princess Huizong of Song were also very fond of them, and at this time, Yan Yan was already a high-ranking general of the Jin Kingdom, serving as both a ceremonial department and an official Shangshu, and was fully qualified to marry the princess who had become a prisoner of the Jin State.

A huge coffin was found in Heilongjiang, and the owner's face was covered with silk and a veil, expert: General Jin Guo

According to the "History of Jin", Yan Yan died in the second year of Dading, and the female corpse died at the age of about 40, pushed up for 40 years, that is, around 1122, and one of the daughters of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Jingu, was born in 1121. Later, experts deduced that this may be the joint tomb of Zhao Jingu and Guanyan Yan.

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