Grimm's fairy tales have always accompanied our growth, making our childhood full of yearning for a better life. The more classic stories about Grimm's fairy tales include "Snow White", "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Sleeping Beauty".
These stories have grown up with us and are still regarded as classics within the classics. We all know that the endings in fairy tales are very satisfactory, but life is always full of ups and downs, so that when we grow up, we all say: "It turns out that fairy tales are all lies."
But fairy tales are not deceptive at all, at least in real life, there is really a "sleeping beauty". Previously, people found a "sleeping beauty" in Switzerland that had been sleeping for more than two thousand years, unveiling the mystery of the ancient Kate people from her body.
Tree Cave "Sleeping Beauty"
As early as 1903, the remains of an ancient tomb were excavated near the Limmat River in Switzerland, but there were no coffins in the tomb, no gold and silver jewelry, only a pile of armor and shields and other weapons from the ancient period.
People speculate that these ancient tombs are actually a burial chamber similar to the burial chamber, similar to the terracotta warriors of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in China, but the scale is far less than the terracotta warriors. From these funerary tombs, it can be inferred that the honor of the identity of the tomb owner can be inferred.
It was not until much later, because of the construction, that the owner of the tomb was found near the group of funerary tombs. The body of the owner of the tomb is buried in a hollowed-out tree hole, and it is only 80 meters away from the funerary tomb.
Because of this peculiar burial method, people did not notice that the body was hidden in a tree hole. The researchers lifted out the coffin pier of the tree hole, and the lines on it were very beautifully carved.
After opening the coffin, people were surprised to find that the owner of the tomb had not turned into a sensen bone after thousands of years, but could still see the appearance of an aristocratic woman.
She lay serenely in the coffin, covered with dozens of sheepskin coats, and her face was very serene, as if she were not dead but asleep. That's why everyone calls her "Sleeping Beauty."
This is undoubtedly a major discovery in the archaeological community, in order to find out the identity and ethnicity of the tomb owner, the researchers began to study her clothing and the bronze jewelry of the funeral, and finally learned the origin of the woman.
Deciphering "Sleeping Beauty"
According to the discovery of archaeologists, the coffin has been more than 2200 years old, and according to the bones of the tomb owner, it is speculated that she was probably in her 40s when she died. Judging from the funerary items, her status is noble, and she should be a member of the royal family or a noble woman.
Her bones were soft, and she probably hadn't done any heavy work before she died. The researchers examined her teeth and found that she liked to eat sugar and starchy foods when she was alive. It should be known that more than two thousand years ago, when the sugar making process was not yet developed, only the nobles could enjoy sugar food.
As the research progressed, the researchers concluded that the owner's race belonged to the Zurich people, who lived in the Stone Age more than three thousand years BC, so most of her funerary items were bronze ornaments, because bronze was a very rare object at that time.
In addition to the countries of Western Europe, the ethnic minorities in the southwest region of China also have the tradition of tree burial, but with the development of society these traditions have been lost.
As a result, the excavations of this "Sleeping Beauty" allowed people to gain a deeper understanding of the burial customs of ethnic minorities.
But as to why the tomb owner's body is still intact after so many years, there is still no explanation. Perhaps it was the jungle in which she was buried that made the body less susceptible to corrosion, or the coffin itself had this embalming function.
Since it has been determined that the owner of the tomb is a Zuricher, from the form of tree burial, she should belong to the Celtic race, so in many ancient races, only the Celts have the custom of tree burial. The way they buried had a lot to do with religious beliefs.
celt
The Celts have long been known as one of the three barbarian peoples of Europe, alongside the Germans and Slavs. Today, Scotland, Ireland and England in Western Europe are also inhabited by Celts, who are proud of their ancestry.
The Celts were considered in academic circles to be a national group with a certain language, somewhat different from modern national forms. In ancient times, the Celts migrated on a large scale and thus dispersed around the world.
Their ethnic group developed various technologies such as craftsmanship, and as they migrated, they brought iron tools to all parts of the world. The traditional Celtic instrument originated in the Irish harp and later became popular in Scotland. Later the Celts brought the instrument to Africa.
Why is Sleeping Beauty said to be Keitel's race? This has to start with the religious beliefs and folklore of the Celts. The Celts belonged to a unique existence in history, and some historians said that they should be the first race in the history of the world to have equality between men and women.
The Celtics were sustained by extended families, who lived in tribes. The tribe had a noble chief to rule, but the position of chief needed to be obtained through achievements in agriculture, trade, and war.
Since ancient times, tribal groups have shared religious beliefs, and the Celts have been the same. Their religion was Druidism, a name derived from the highly respected priesthood of the Celts. The quercus tree is revered among the Celtic population as the "holy tree" and is a symbol of the gods.
Like all Stone Age tribes, they took the tree as their clan belief and performed sacrifices around the tree. The ritual sacrifices of the Celts were very mysterious, and they usually chose a time when the moon was high in the sky in the middle of the night.
The place of the ceremony is generally the place where they recognize it as a "sanctuary", and most of them are in a small open space around the "sacred tree".
At the beginning of the sacrifice, the Druid high priest wore a plain white costume and cut a mistletoe with a golden scythe, and the sacrifice was two white cows, who would be killed alive in some form throughout the sacrifice.
Since ancient times, the Celtic sacrifices and beliefs have been full of mystery. Their religious teachings believe in the immortality of the soul, i.e. the soul is transferred from one body to another after death. Therefore, if you put the body into the tree hole, you can get the blessing of the "holy tree".
The form of tree burial is generally to choose the kind of tree that has grown for almost a hundred years, so that the trunk is thick enough. After cutting down the tree, remove one-third of the top, and then take out the shape of a person in the middle, and the third part is used as the lid of the coffin.
In this way, the entire coffin formed a complete tree, and the Celts wanted their people to have eternal life, so most of them used the form of tree burial. However, this type of burial was so extensive that it was generally only popular among the nobility.
From this, it can also be inferred that the nobility of the status of "Sleeping Beauty", in addition to the tree burial form, the Celts also invented the urn coffin culture, which is ancient pottery. When a person is put into it after death, a small hole must be dug in the urn coffin so that the soul of the deceased can enter and exit freely.
The excavation of a tomb can bring us unexpected gains, but also let us understand the life habits of the Celts in ancient Europe, making this mysterious people no longer mysterious.