In 202 BC, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, won the final victory in the Chu-Han War and established the Han Dynasty, which lasted for four hundred years. Liu Bang was from a peasant background, the family power was weak, congenitally insufficient, had to emulate the Western Zhou Dynasty feudal clan, non-Liu surname descendants are not allowed to be crowned kings, foreign surnames even if they have great merit, can only be crowned marquis. As a result, the Han Dynasty had large and small princely states. These princely states are divided into a country of their own, and their strength is strong, so the high funeral regulations of the princes of the Han Dynasty and the abundance of burial goods are among the first in the feudal dynasties of the past, the most famous of which are the tombs of the Jing King of Zhongshan and the tombs of the Liang Kings. The tomb I want to talk about today is very interesting, let's take a look at it.
The owner of the tomb was named Zhang Wenzao, an official of the Liao Dynasty. In the distance, there was a table of rich wine and dishes in the tomb, everything, as if it had traveled through time and space, quietly waiting for the arrival of people with a relationship. You look at me, I look at you, and wonder why the owner of the tomb made such arrangements? When we got to the front of the meal, everyone saw the fundamental situation of the meal. Originally, in front of the coffin of the owner of the tomb, there was an offering table, and there were two chairs next to the table, and on the table were plates, bowls, oil lamps and other items, and the wine and dishes seen by the people present were all placed in these porcelain plates.
In previous archaeologies, only grape seeds have been found, but this time there is a complete bunch of grapes, which is the first case in the archaeological community. The dishes had dried and there was no discernible dish. The pears and peaches in the fruit are only the cores left. But there is one container in which the chestnuts are particularly striking, although they have become empty shells, but the surface looks bright as new, 30 chestnuts, each intact. The pastries are also glued together and cannot be recognized. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's really hard to believe that this is what was left over from a thousand years ago, as if the owner had just finished eating and left.
In this tomb, there are twelve words, writing the open-mindedness of the owner of the tomb, these twelve words are said to be like this: "The tomb has the day of reopening, and there is no less face", these twelve words show the open-mindedness of the author. The owner of the tomb is also very calmly aware that his tomb will be opened, and there is a theory about the origin of these twelve words that was found in the tomb of Gao Ping during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Sincerely admiring the tomb owner Zhang Wenzao's open-mindedness and wisdom, he believes that although he was buried in the ground after death, he will be discovered one day, and there will be a time to see the light of day, so he directly prepared a table of rich wine and dishes, as if he was waiting for the people who opened the tomb, it was rare to meet and drink together!
A thousand-year-old dinner may be worthless in the eyes of tomb robbers, but it shows the life information of the ancients, is a witness to history, and also brings people a visual shock.