"Huan Wang's Tomb" once said: "The tomb of Huan Wang was stolen from the south of the city, and the relics were written in the year of Chi Wu." "Throughout the ages, there have been countless stories of tomb robbery, tempted by the interests of funerary treasures, and tomb robbers have appeared more frequently, and their wrong actions have caused serious damage to countless tombs.
Influenced by the thick burial culture, the number of tomb robbers in ancient society has increased year by year, although in the traditional concept of Chinese, tomb robbery is an extremely immoral behavior, but for tomb robbers, in order to get rich opportunities, they would rather abandon their moral bottom line.
Although for thousands of years, some tomb robbers have made a fortune from tomb robbery, there are also some tomb robbers who not only failed to obtain windfall wealth, but paid the price of their lives for tomb robbery.
Once, a tomb robber was sealed in an ancient Tomb of the Tang Dynasty due to infighting with his accomplices, and for the next thousand years, he always sat in the corner of the tomb. So, who is this grave robber? Why did he end up with such bad luck?
In the early 1960s, mainland archaeologists prepared to clean up and excavate the tomb of Princess Yongtai of the Tang Dynasty. Since the founding of New China, mainland experts have not excavated such a large-scale tomb, so the exploration of the tomb of Princess Yongtai has also received great attention from experts.
However, after the experts opened this tomb, they were disappointed to find that the tomb actually had this pirate cave from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and seeing this scene, experts speculated that the tomb of Princess Yongtai was probably excavated in the Fifth Dynasty or the beginning of the Song Dynasty.
The reason why experts have such speculation is also because of a special person in the fifth generation - Wen Tao. As a Liang guo during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wen Tao had stolen the tombs of Tang Dynasty emperors in the process of serving as an official, and under his influence, the tombs of Wu Zetian and Li Zhizhi were seriously damaged.
According to legend, although Wen Tao was a Korean and Chinese official, he was extremely superficial, and in the process of excavating the tombs of the tang dynasty emperors, Wen Tao once discarded many precious literary classics at will, and his behavior was a major negative impact on the development of ancient culture and history on the mainland.
But after further investigation, the experts rejected this claim. According to the survey by experts, the robbery cave in the tomb of Princess Yongtai is small and does not resemble the traces left by Wen Tao. After all, Wen Tao once sent a large number of soldiers to dig tombs for thieves, and such a small robbery hole did not match the scale of Wen Tao's tomb robbery.
In addition, what surprised the experts even more was that in a corner of the bottom of the tomb, there would be a dead skeleton in a sitting position.
When I first saw this dry bone, the experts present believed that this dry bone was likely to be the burial of Princess Yongtai, after all, in ancient society, the status of the princess was relatively noble, and some people who were buried were not surprised, but after careful observation of this dry bone, the experts denied this speculation.
Judging from this dead bone and the funerary goods and tomb robbery supplies scattered around the dry bones, this person is likely to be a tomb robber before his death, and the reason why he stayed in the tomb room is probably because of the uneven sharing of the loot with his accomplices, and he was eventually sealed in the tomb by his accomplices and lost the possibility of survival. Because he did not find a way to escape from the day of his birth at that time, he could only sit in the tomb and wait for death.
Although the end of this grave robber is more tragic, but he does not deserve people's sympathy, if it is not the destruction and excavation of the tomb robber, there will be more precious funerary products reappearing in the world, and help people understand a more real historical development.
After cleaning up the tomb of Princess Yongtai, experts found that the damage to the tomb by this gang of tomb robbers was not very serious, and because of this, more than a thousand precious historical relics were successfully excavated from the tomb of Princess Yongtai, including the peak work of Tang Dynasty ceramic craftsmanship - Tang Sancai.
Since the excavation of these precious Tang Sancai, mainland experts have been able to study the Porcelain Industry of the Tang Dynasty in a more in-depth manner, and to this day, Tang Sancai in the tomb of Princess Yongtai is still the top priority in the study of mainland history, and the tomb robber who has been sitting in the tomb for thousands of years has also made a warning for the tomb robbers in the world.
epilogue
In the course of thousands of years of historical development, tomb robbery is not uncommon, for these tomb robbers, in order to collect ill-gotten gains, they are desperate to take risks, and from such tragic stories of tomb robbery, people can also feel the mistakes of tomb robbery.
In modern society, with the continuous improvement of the country's rule of law construction, many tomb robbers have been punished as they deserve. With the publicity and education of relevant departments, the people of the mainland can also fully understand the importance of protecting cultural relics and personally participate in the work of cultural relics protection.
It is believed that in the future society, with the joint efforts of the people of the whole country, more and more cultural relics will be properly protected, and the reproduction of such cultural relics will also bring us different historical surprises and promote the development level of historical research to a higher level.
Reference: Tomb of Princess Yongtai