Introduction: The news of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in these two days has begun to brush the screen again, and only then did I find that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the festival of eating rice dumplings and rowing dragon boats is about to open. However, this year, the new crown is disturbed, and it is estimated that the gathering activities such as dragon boats are planned to be cancelled again. The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, which everyone knows. However, there is a thousand-year mystery that is also related to Qu Yuan, which few people know. What? The mystery of Qu Yuan's "Twelve Doubtful Tombs"!
In order to commemorate Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival eats rice dumplings and paddles dragon boats
Qu Yuan's life is very familiar to everyone, so we will not say more, and we will only talk about qu Yuan's "twelve doubts" mystery today. It is said that in Miluo, there is a jade mountain, which is about five kilometers away from the city. It is said that this Yudi Mountain is the place where Qu Yuan lived in his later years.
According to the Xiangzhong Chronicle, a historical material of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Qu Tan's Zuo Yu Zhen Mountain, Qu Ping's release perched on this mountain, and composed the Nine Songs" Yan" (九歌). There is an ancient tomb on the Yuzheng Mountain, and the tombstone reads "Tomb of the Three Lu Doctors". Everyone knows what Qu Yuan's position was back then, yes, it is Dr. Sanlu.
Some people deduce from this that this humble ancient tomb on the Jade Ridge Mountain is Qu Yuan's tomb. But what's so strange about that? Can't it be said that it is a mystery of eternity? In fact, the so-called mystery of the ages is because Qu Yuan's tomb is not the only one. On the Lienu Ridge next to Yuzi Mountain, there are eleven ancient tombs with the same tombstone of "Tomb of the Three Lu Doctors".
So, the question is, which tomb is Qu Yuan buried in? And why are there twelve tombs of Qu Yuan? This is not only a question that we can't understand, but even the experts at the local Institute of Antiquities and Archaeology in Miluo can't understand.
According to experts from the institute, there are twelve tombs suspected of Qu Yuan on Yuding Mountain, Lienu Ridge, and other mountains near Miluo Mountain. These vary in size and are old and new, but they all have several of the same characteristics.
About Qu Yuan's thousand-year-old mystery, Qu Yuan's twelve mysteries
First, these ancient tombs have tall mounds of sealed mounds, which obviously belong to large tombs; second, the tombstones of these twelve ancient tombs all have the words "Three Lu Doctors"; third, the direction of these tombstones is sitting north and facing south, and even the specific orientation angle is exactly the same.
Each of these twelve ancient tombs looks like Qu Yuan's tomb, and the "Twelve Tombs of Qu Yuan" is also named after it. However, Qu Yuan can only be buried in one tomb, so which tomb is the real tomb? In search of clues, experts began looking for clues in other people in history to see if there were any commonalities.
There are more than one celebrity in history who has done this, such as Genghis Khan the Great, who is known as the "Whip of God". Legend has it that when Genghis Khan was buried, various measures were used to hide the location of his mausoleum. Not only was his site very secretive, but he also had thousands of warhorses trample back and forth on the tomb until no trace of the tomb could be seen.
Of course, Genghis Khan also made preparations, and when he could not let his descendants worship himself, he could not find the grave. So they killed the mother camel's own baby camel in front of Genghis Khan's mausoleum, and then spilled blood on the mausoleum.
In this way, in the coming year, the children and grandchildren will be able to follow the mother camel to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. Mother and child are connected to the heart, and it is the nature of animals that the mother camel can search for the blood of the little camel, find the cemetery and constantly mourn.
Genghis Khan also has a tomb of doubt, and no one knows the location of the mausoleum
However, when the female camel died, no one could find Genghis Khan's tomb again. Thousands of years have passed, and although there is news that several tombs of Genghis Khan have been found, there is no conclusive evidence. So, the location of Genghis Khan's mausoleum remains a mystery to this day.
In addition, there is another celebrity who has also done this show, who? Everyone knows Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period. This boss is even more cattle, he simply made seventy-two suspicious tombs, and his tomb has not been found so far.
The reason, as we all know, Cao Cao once set up a lieutenant to dig up ancient tombs. In order to prevent his tomb from being stolen, he simply built seventy-two tombs for himself, which one is true, you guess?
Just when the experts were studying the suspected tomb of Genghis Khan and the 72 suspected tomb of Cao Cao, they suddenly found that Qu Yuan's situation was not comparable to these two at all, why?
First of all, Genghis Khan and Cao Cao are both male lords of a generation, there are many enemies, and there are too many valuable funerary goods, and they set up suspicious tombs mainly for fear of people robbing tombs. However, Qu Yuan everyone knew that he was very depressed and depressed before he died, and in the end, because the country was destroyed, he jumped into the river and died in anger, which was not a situation with those two at all.
Therefore, the experts' research is a failure. Later, the experts found it difficult to find clues from ancient historical books, so they decided to go out and see if there were any clues in the nearby villages of the twelve suspected tombs in Miluo Mountain.
Cao Cao's Seventy-Two Tombs of Doubt are also foggy
The kung fu pays off, and this visit really allowed the comrades to find some clues. According to local villagers, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, his daughter and local villagers sprinkled rice dumplings into the river while paddling a dragon boat to find Qu Yuan's body. Everyone searched hard for two days before they found Qu Yuan's body.
However, at this time, Qu Yuan's body was still damaged by the bite of fish and shrimp, especially half of his face, which was already unbearable to see. Qu Yuan's daughter made half of her face out of gold and made up a whole corpse for her father. Then, Qu Yuan was buried on the Lienu Ridge according to the customs of the Chu state.
However, unexpectedly, this brought disaster to Qu Yuan. Those traitors and thieves who framed Qu Yuan, when they learned that Qu Yuan had half a golden face, they came to rob the tomb and rob the golden face. Someone told Qu Yuan's daughter the news, and her daughter was very anxious, and finally, with the help of nearby villagers, she built eleven fake tombs overnight.
The folklore "Qu Yuan Twelve Doubtful Tombs" is derived from this. So, is this legend true? At this time, experts also found relevant clues from the historical materials, there was a "Xiangyin County Chronicle" during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, first of all, it should be explained that in ancient times, Miluo belonged to Xiangyin County.
According to the "Xiangyin County Chronicle", "the south out of Miluo Mountain, commonly known as lienu ling, a black fish ridge, there is Qu Yuan's tomb on it." That is to say, Qu Yuan's tomb may really be on the Lienu Ridge. Therefore, archaeologists conducted an archaeological excavation of the ancient tomb on the Lienu Ridge.
There are twelve Quyuan tombs near Miluo Mountain
The results of archaeology are even more puzzling. According to historical records, among the ancient tombs on the Lienu Ridge, only one of them should be a real tomb, and the others should be suspicious tombs. However, archaeology has found that the four ancient tombs of Lienuling actually have a large number of funerary items.
Not only that, but the other eight ancient tombs also have them, and the number is still quite large, including a large number of bronze weapons, which look at the shape of the weapons used by the Chu State where Qu Yuan was located.
In this way, these twelve ancient tombs are all real tombs, and they are all tombs of the Chu State. According to the specifications of these ancient tombs, they are still noble tombs. It seems that Miluo Mountain was the burial area of the nobles of the Chu State at that time. But the problem is that the legendary golden face has never been found.
So, the question is, why do the tombstones of the twelve tombs all say the tomb of the Three Lu Doctors? The problem is still not solved? At this time, some experts found that in ancient times, there was a book called "Notes on the Water Classics", which recorded: "Mishui is also in the north of Luo County, and the country of Benluozi is also." Therefore, in the west of Yicheng County, Xiangyang, King Wen of Chu moved here. ”
According to this record, archaeologists found the ruins of the ancient city of Luoziguo on the south bank of the Miluo River, that is, on the southwest side of Miluo Mountain. Judging from the orientation of the tombstones of Qu Yuan's twelve tombs, the 12 tombs should be buried with nobles of the ancient kingdom of Luozi. Because the tombstones of the twelve tombs are sitting about ten degrees north and south, facing The Kingdom of Luozi.
The ruins of the ancient city of Luoziguo were discovered on the south bank of the Miluo River
The tomb area and the ancient city are across the river, which is the funerary custom of the ancients. Then, Qu Yuan was a Chu national, not a Luoziguo, so how could his tomb be in the aristocratic tomb group of Luoziguo?
Heck, that involves Qu Yuan's family. According to the Northern Song Dynasty ancient book "Guangyun", Qu Yuan and the nobles in the Luozi Kingdom were originally from the same family, in our current words, that is, he and the nobles of the LuoZi Kingdom were their own families. It is reasonable to be buried with the family.
But the question is, is Qu Yuan buried in Miluo Mountain? Is the golden-faced folklore reliable? Experts believe that the matter of the golden face should be fabricated by the people. However, Qu Yuan was buried in Miluo Mountain, which was very reliable.
Because experts found a Ming Dynasty stone stele on Miluo Mountain, it is recorded that although Qu Yuan's tomb before the Ming Dynasty has been covered with thorns, people can also accurately find the location of the tomb according to the record of the tombstone.
At that time, there was only one tombstone engraved with the tomb of the Three Lu Doctors, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that there were suddenly eleven more tablets. There is a stone stele carved in the third year of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the inscription records the legend of Qu Yuan's suspicious tomb.
Qu Yuan's tomb has become a mystery for eternity, and there is still no solution
Could it be that Qu Yuan's Twelve Tombs only began to appear during the Qing Dynasty? That would not be Qu Yuan's tomb of doubt. Yes, most of the tombstones inscribed with the tomb of the Three Lu Doctors are written in the Qing Dynasty.
According to expert analysis, the Qing Dynasty people engaged in this Qu Yuan Twelve Suspected Tombs in order to protect Qu Yuan's tomb. I was afraid that someone would credulously believe the legend of the golden face and run to steal Qu Yuan's tomb. Because of this, the real location of Qu Yuan's tomb has become a historical mystery.
But because of this, the twelve Qu Yuan tombs have been well preserved to this day. In fact, is it important that Qu Yuan's tomb is true or false? I don't think, I think what is more important is his patriotic spirit, as long as this spirit is passed down, this is our most precious wealth.