Usually, as an ancient emperor, he would build a luxurious mausoleum for himself before he died, and he would also bring the rare treasures he had collected before his death into the tomb, hoping to live an emperor-like life after death. However, there is such a founding emperor, because the burial method is too strange, coupled with years of war, the graveyard after death is a mystery. It wasn't until more than 1400 years later that his grave was discovered under the pigsty.
Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi, was a monarch who had lost his life's work and left the name of a tyrant after the Ming Dynasty, who had been destroyed by his own mental illness. When he was in a normal state of mind, he could be called a first-class wise monarch in history, and the Northern Qi regime was also the first powerful country at that time under his rule. He was the second son of Gao Huan, a powerful minister of Eastern Wei, and the younger brother of Gao Cheng. He was born unassuming, dark-skinned, with enlarged cheeks and taciturn. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Gao Yang used troops one after another, and his power reached the Yangtze River, and he was the richest of the three countries that stood with Chen and Northern Zhou. At this time, Northern Qi reached its peak.
However, after achieving this series of achievements, Gao Yang began to be proud and complacent, did not want to make progress, and moved from diligence to absurdity and tyranny. Some people believe that the emperor suffered from intermittent mental illness, so he built a large number of civil engineering, rewarded with excessive expenses, brutally killed indiscriminately, never resumed the efforts of the early days of the founding of the country, and finally died violently due to excessive drinking, at the age of thirty-one. If there was a judicial appraisal at that time, it was really possible to make an appraisal for him and change the emperor. It's a pity that history has no ifs.
In February 560, Gao Yang was buried in Wuning Mausoleum, known as Emperor Wenxuan. Wuning Tomb is located in ci county in present-day Hebei Province.
In the 1980s, in a village in Ci County, Hebei Province, a villager had several pigs in his family and fed them every day, hoping to sell them for a good price during the New Year. A month before the New Year, there is a strange noise in the pigsty every night. The farmer was a little frightened, worried that someone would want to steal his pig. So, at night, he had the courage to get up and check it out, but there was no pig less, which made him very confused. Early the next morning, he went to the pigsty to take a closer look and found a large hole in the corner covered with stone slabs.
Subsequently, he went to the local police station to report on this situation. Through the investigation, the police found that this was not like the general thief's behavior, it was likely to be a professional tomb robber's method, and contacted the local cultural relics department. After the expert came and carefully observed, he told the police that such a professional cave robbery is certainly not something that a person can do, and this must be a tomb robbery gang.
Experts have found complete murals on the walls of the burial chamber, with a green dragon painted on the front of the east wall and a white tiger on the front end of the west wall. Later, more than 1,600 pottery figurines and a number of celadon ware were unearthed here. There are also two large door figurines that are 1.42 meters high. According to other sources, experts determined the identity of the owner of the tomb, who was Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi.
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