There is a saying that has been very popular in recent times, "History is a little girl dressed up by others". In recent years, ancient tombs have been unearthed in various places, and through the funerary products in the tombs, it should be possible to restore 100% of the major events and small events that are not recorded in the history books. In the early spring of 2000, archaeologists in Jiuquan City excavated an ancient tomb called "Xiaotushan Tomb" in the local "rescue" excavation. Local cultural relics experts worked for two years of meticulous excavation work, and finally judged that the owner of the tomb was Li Huan, the lord of the Western Liang State during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In fact, when the tomb was first excavated, experts believed that the value was not too high. A few years later, this tomb was unearthed, but it unveiled the mystery of the blood lineage of the Tang Dynasty Li royal family, what is the background hidden in this? To talk about the excavation of Li Xuan's tomb, we must first start with the tomb of Mrs. Yin of Li Chao in Longxi Di Dao in 1998. At that time, the archaeologists of Jiuquan City found the tomb of Longxi Di Daoyin on a certain construction site. This Lady Yin was not well known in history, but her husband Li Chao was a native of Longxi Di Dao, Gansu. According to historical records, Lintao, Gansu is the ancestral hometown of the Li clan in Longxi, and the history is called "Li Tang's hometown".
The Li clan of Longxi is the birthplace of Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and his son Li Shimin. Not far from the tomb of the Yin family, the tomb of Li Huan, the lord of the Western Liang State who divided Jiuquan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, was accidentally unearthed. Li Xuan's tomb has been excavated 2 to 3 times, and archaeologists have not unearthed too many valuable funerary items from this tomb. However, the bones of the tomb owner Li Xuan are relatively well preserved. In 2002, the Jiuquan Municipal Cultural Relics Department sent the skeletons to Beijing for testing, and dna testing and analysis confirmed the identity of the tomb owner.
In addition, there is a stone stele in Li Xuan's tomb, and the stone stele is engraved with an epitaph of about 350 words. The original text records his lineage. Li Huan was from a prominent family, and his great-grandfather was an official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the history books, Li Kuan claimed that Li Guang, the general of the Western Han Dynasty, was his ancestor. On the epitaph, this statement is completely refuted. All in all. Whether it is Li Chao or Li Huan, their family has lived in Lintao, Gansu For generations, why did archaeologists solve the mystery of the blood relationship of the Li Tang royal family from this tomb? Quite simply, when Li Yuan and Li Shimin sat firmly in jiangshan, they continued to cling to those famous figures in history.
Because the Tang Dynasty had a lot of family door valves at that time, even the Li family, who became emperors, needed to form a deep friendship like those big families. For those who have been operating in the Central Plains for thousands of years, they do not look up to the "upstart" Li family. Therefore, Li Yuan and Li Shimin worshiped Lao Tzu in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, Li Er as their ancestor. According to the epitaph unearthed from Li Xuan's tomb, the Li family did not have any relationship with those famous figures in history. It is said that li xuan's lineage belongs to the Li clan's Guzang fang, which belongs to the Shandong clan, one of the five surnames and seven families, and most of the descendants confuse it with the Tang Clan.
To put it simply, Li Huan's descendants are Guzang Fang, represented by the historian Li Yanshou and the literati Li Shangyin. Gu Zang and the descendants of the Cui family and the Lu family are mostly married. On the other hand, Li Yuan and Li Shimin belong to the same branch of the Li clan of Longxi as Guzang, but there are still differences in details. The ancestor of the entire Western Liang Li clan was Li Cheng, the King of Liangwu Zhao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which can be traced back to the Warring States Li Chong, but these people's identities are relatively ordinary and have no origin. Therefore, Li Yuan and Li Shimin climbed the court, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng could marry the daughter of the Zheng clan, or because he was li Yuan's eldest son.
Therefore, Li Shimin and Li Yuan's vein should belong to the Longxi Li clan, of which the Longxi Li clan includes the Zhao County Li clan, at most dating back to the Warring States Li Chong's generation. Therefore, through the archaeologists of Li Yu's tomb, li Shimin and Li Yuan are both climbing dragons and nobles, and they are afraid that other large families do not value themselves, and constantly go to find some famous figures in history to forcibly marry. Whether it is the Li Guzang Fang, or the Zhao County Li Clan and the Longxi Li Clan, the identity is actually a descendant of li Chong, the Warring States, and it is not a big family at all.
Reference: Jiuquan Archaeological Bulletin