| Belle had something to say
Editor | Baylor had something to say
There is a very strange hillside in Macun, Shanxi Province, and every year in winter, this hillside is like an extra layer of "boundary".
Everywhere else was snowy, except for the fact that there was not a single snowflake on the hillside, and even if there was, it would soon melt, and the older generation said that there was something mysterious underneath it.
But there was a bold villager who did not believe in this evil and had to go down there to find out. But I didn't expect to meet a "female ghost in red" inside, and I leaned out half of my body and looked directly at him.
Frightened, he escaped with a rolling belt, and for this reason he also had a serious illness, and for a time people within a few miles of the mountain got cold behind him as soon as they heard this hillside, what is the magic of this slope? Who is the "female ghost in red" under the slope?
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This strange hillside is known locally as the "Hundred Tombs Slope". People nearby will be shocked to hear its name.
You should know that Shanxi is very cold in winter because of its geographical location. The next heavy snow cannot be dissolved in ten days and half a month, but the place of "Hundred Tombs Slope" is so magical that snowflakes cannot be seen all year round.
This is not nothing, every spring when everything recovers, flowers and plants elsewhere begin to sprout, a scene of vitality. To the "Hundred Tombs Slope" is different, here is simply no grass, giving people a sense of lifelessness.
People around them were frightened by this situation, and everyone thought that there must be something guarding this place, so generally no one dared to go near this place.
And the older generation of people once said that in ancient times, this hillside was a mass burial post, which buried many unjust souls, so this place was also named "Hundred Tomb Slope". The local people believed in this legend, and over time it became a forbidden place in everyone's eyes.
But this situation fell into the eyes of a person with a heart, who had long felt that this place was wrong, there must be a hole under the "Hundred Tomb Slope", it is likely to be a tomb.
Once you have this idea in your mind, you will not be able to disperse, you must know that if there is really a tomb under the "Hundred Tomb Slope", a treasure inside can make him send it.
Sure enough, he still couldn't change his greedy nature, and in the face of such an opportunity to get rich, how could he be willing to miss it, he felt that he had to go there to find out.
02
For many days in a row, some people saw him wandering around the "Hundred Tombs Slope", and other people passing by this place accelerated their pace, but he didn't know what kind of famous hall he was doing.
Well-meaning people also advised him not to stay here, there was something unclean underneath, very evil. Although he said yes, his footsteps still stayed where they were, and there was a voice in his heart shouting that he must dig it up, and there must be a lot of treasures underneath.
Finally, one night he came to the "Hundred Tombs Slope", where there were originally fewer people during the day, and at night, he could not see a single figure. He blatantly took various tools and began to dig up, and soon a large pit appeared.
How is this still bottomless? Was my guess wrong? As soon as I finished saying these words, I heard a rush, and the soil sank down. Sure enough, the bottom is really empty, which does not confirm his conjecture, there are really ancient tombs below.
Looking in through the hole that had been dug, it was pitch black, and it was impossible to see what was inside. But this seemed to give him a reassuring pill, at least this time it did not come in vain.
He dug up even more eagerly at the scene inside, and when there were enough people to enter the hole, he slipped in without saying a word.
After successfully entering the tomb, he was very happy and thought that he could make a bad fortune, but what happened next was unexpected.
The inside of the tomb is very empty, and it can be seen that the scale of this tomb is still very large. He took a flashlight and looked around a lot, and there was no funerary product, could it be that this tomb had been stolen before?
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He still didn't die, thinking that he had spent so much effort and had come in with great difficulty, but he couldn't go home empty-handed. After a series of searches, he did not find any trace of the tomb being visited by others.
It seems that I still didn't find it carefully enough, since it is an ancient tomb, there must be someone buried in it, and I can definitely find something there.
Only then did he react, how come this did not see the coffin? I couldn't help but wonder if I had missed any clues, and there were entrances to other burial chambers that had not been discovered?
Using the faint light of a flashlight, he began to examine the walls of the tomb carefully to see if there were any mechanisms leading to other burial chambers.
Looking at the very exquisite mural carved on the wall, he couldn't help but think that it was a pity that this mural was so exquisite that he could not take it away. But it is only a sigh, looking for treasure is the right thing.
At this moment, the flashlight shone downwards, and his eyes suddenly lit up, which turned out to be some clay pots. Sure enough, the kung fu paid off, and the baby still let him find it. Although these things were not as gorgeous as he thought, they were better than nothing.
Just when he was immersed in joy, the next second of the picture made him unforgettable. He picked up the clay pot in his hand from below and prepared to get up and look at it carefully, but when he looked up, he found a pair of eyes looking directly at him.
At that moment, it seemed that the breathing was suspended, was the rumor of the older generation before true, and this "female ghost in red" should not be the existence guarding the "Hundred Tombs Slope"?
The tomb is very dark, and the only thing that can be illuminated is the flashlight in his hand. But it has been a long time since I entered the tomb, and the light of the flashlight can be said to be very faint.
But I could faintly see a woman in red peeking out of a door and staring at him, feeling that she was going to come to him in the next second. After only half a moment of stunnedness, he even ran out without turning back.
I waited until I crawled out of the hole to breathe a sigh of relief, my heart was still beating violently, and my feet were still trembling.
When he returned, it was as if he had changed as a person, and the picture of that time kept appearing in his mind, and it didn't take long for him to fall seriously ill. The fact that there were ghosts in the "Hundred Tomb Slope" soon spread nearby, and everyone felt that the "Hundred Tomb Slope" was even more strange.
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For a time, the villagers were panicked, and they closed their doors tightly at night and did not dare to come out. The village branch secretary saw that this was not okay, and then it might become like what it would be. And this is just a one-sided word, maybe it is a thief's heart and eyes.
Since there is an ancient tomb below, on the one hand, in order to quell the rumors, on the other hand, to avoid the idea of someone hitting this ancient tomb again, it was reported to the local relevant departments.
After receiving the news, the cultural relics department of Shanxi Province immediately sent a professional team to rush to the "Hundred Tombs Slope". After listening to what happened to the tomb robbers, the experts felt that the matter was very strange.
They didn't believe there were really ghosts, and the experts went to see the clay pots brought out by the tomb robbers. This is where the clay pot is clearly a clay figurine, and it can be seen that the carving is very exquisite.
Experts have greater expectations for this ancient tomb, and since they want to solve the puzzle of "the woman in red", opening the tomb is the best way.
Not to mention that the tomb has been opened, in order to prevent it from being destroyed later, experts decided to carry out rescue excavations of this ancient tomb.
After the unremitting efforts of archaeologists, the true face of the ancient tomb under the "Hundred Tomb Slope" was finally revealed. The scale of this tomb is very large, covering a total of 16,000 square meters.
And this is not an ancient tomb, but a tomb group, which contains fourteen tombs. There are no valuable funerary items in the burial chamber, only pottery products. But where is the "female ghost in red" seen by the tomb robbers?
Finally, after excavation, experts found the figure of the "female ghost in red" in the second burial chamber. When the experts first saw it, they were also shocked, and they thought that it was a person standing there, but when they looked back, they smiled.
Isn't this a carved figure? The reason why the tomb robbers were frightened must be because the lights were too dim to see clearly at that time, plus there were ghosts in their hearts that they saw wrong.
05
The experts carefully observed the female ghost in red and found that on the wall, she pushed the red door half open, leaned out her head and half of her body, and looked forward. The movement expression of the woman in red is very vivid, and it is no wonder that it will give people the illusion.
From the woman's dress, it can be seen that this should be a maid, but what does her action mean?
Following the gaze of the woman in red, it was exactly the theater building on the south side. Experts speculated that the maid should have started the drama for the master, and it is estimated that even the craftsmen who carved at that time did not expect to cause such a oolong.
Although the tombs do not have any precious funerary objects, each tomb here is a brick carved tomb, which is unique in China, not only that, but even the carving technology has been admired by the archaeologists present.
The walls are carved with stages, courtyards, in the living room you can see the host receiving guests inside, outside there are children playing and making trouble, this is simply the ideal life.
And both the scenery and the characters are portrayed very realistically, so that the people who watch it seem to be immersed in it and feel the life of the people at that time.
Now that the courtyard is there, how can there be less entertainment facilities? It was not in one of the burial chambers that an accompaniment band was found. Each musician played a different instrument, and looking at the picture, it was as if there was really music coming out of the wall.
At this time, the experts began to wonder, since it took so much manpower and material resources to carve such exquisite brick carvings on the walls of the tomb, then the identity of the owner of the tomb must be extraordinary.
But there are very few funerary items in the tomb, and there are no clues about the identity of the owner of the tomb at all, and the experts have surveyed for such a long time that there was not much hope, but a miracle occurred.
06
When excavations reached Tomb Seven, experts found tomb inscriptions carved into the walls, and the identity of the owner of the tomb was revealed.
According to the clues on the wall, the experts then consulted the information and concluded that the owner of the tomb was not the famous nobleman that everyone imagined, but the Duan family, a family of traditional Chinese medicine at that time.
The Duan family still had a great deal of success during the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is said that Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, personally rewarded them. Not only that, but the experts also found a very tragic thing through the records.
The Duan family made a living by making medicinal meals for generations and also provided medicinal herbs to the imperial palace. Moreover, there have also been tai doctors in the family, which can be described as unlimited scenery, very rapid development, and the family foundation is also very rich.
However, the world was uncertain, the Mongol army went south, and the rulers lost a lot of city land, and now Shanxi is also among them.
When the Mongol soldiers first arrived here, many of them were dissatisfied, but the accompanying healers could not find a way to alleviate it.
At this time, the leading general at that time heard that the local Duan family's medical skills were very exquisite, so he sent someone to the Duan family to ask people to see if there was any good way.
The Duan family can be said to have been loyal for generations, and the family has also been favored by the emperor, but it cannot be ungrateful. Besides, after all, he and the Mongol soldiers were now on the opposite side, so how could his family go to the enemy to see a doctor?
The Duan family's attitude was very resolute, but this immediately angered the Mongol soldiers' generals. So the Duan family also disappeared into the long river of history, and they brutally killed the Duan family.
And here four generations of the Duan family have been buried, and it has to be said that the proud bones of the Duan family deserve respect.
Then again, since it is a family of medicine, there will definitely be something related to medicine in the tomb. Sure enough, experts found secret recipes such as "Through Food and Soup Recipe" on the walls of the Duan family tomb, which brought great surprises to archaeologists.
The brick carved tombs found under the "Hundred Tomb Slopes" give us a great understanding of medicine, opera, architecture, folk customs and other aspects of the Song and Jin Dynasties, and this ancient tomb group is very well protected, which brings great research value to archaeology.
Later, the descendants of the Duan family also handed in two square bricks engraved with inscriptions, and the ancient medicinal prescriptions recorded on them also provided great evidence for the study of the medical culture at that time.
As for the strange phenomenon that occurred on the "Hundred Tomb Slope" before, experts also gave an explanation. Because there will be a hollow layer on the top of the tomb, the ability of the "Hundred Tombs Slope" to melt snow is very strong.
Moreover, the ancients were very fond of adding lime, cinnabar and other substances when building ancient tombs, which greatly increased the heat dissipation capacity of this place, which made it possible that there would be no snow on the "Hundred Tombs Slope".
summary
The puzzles were solved little by little, and all the phenomena were revealed, but it was only the fear in people's hearts that made these things reveal a strange atmosphere.
Whether it is melted snow or "red ghost", there are traces to follow. So no matter what we encounter, we must look at it with a scientific eye.