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Drum mounds
In 1978, a sudden ringing telephone broke through the tranquility of the night, and this phone call made the museum director of Hubei Province no longer able to sleep peacefully, because on the phone the museum director learned that there was an explosion in Suixian County, Suizhou City, Hubei Province, only about two hundred miles away from his museum, and this explosion blew up a small local hill leaving only a thick layer of rock and sand, the original place was called The Drum Dun, which belonged to a military quartermaster station in Wuhan. Later, because of some expansion needs, the place was to be blasted, but at this time, the officer in charge of the blasting mission at that time immediately suspended the task, and then brought the deputy director of the Suixian Cultural Relics Bureau to the blasting site. It turned out that after the blasting was carried out at the scene, the staff in the red sandstone of the blasting site, mixed with a lot of cyan sand of unknown origin, like this two kinds of sand with completely different structures mixed together, obviously not a normal situation, and then the staff were very careful to clean up the sand here, and then suddenly appeared in the sand a cyan stone slab, which made everyone present feel a little strange, and the deputy director of the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately became excited after seeing this situation. Because of his rich experience, he believes that there will most likely be an ancient tomb thousands of years ago under the ground here, so will there be a mysterious tomb under this underground? Let's take a look.
Suixian county, which found strange sand this time, has a very long history, and this is also a very ancient land, more than two thousand years ago, there was a princely state called Suiguo on this land, and then it was annexed because of the development and growth of the Chu state, and the long river of history became missing, and now the construction workers who carry out the blasting will not reveal this clue for us, is it the mysterious Suiguo buried here? After the deputy director of the Cultural Relics Bureau found a group of archaeologists to excavate this place, when the archaeologists arrived, they found that there was indeed an ancient tomb here, and the scale of this ancient tomb was not small, although the archaeologists had prepared in advance, but when the archaeologists entered the ancient tomb, they were still shocked by the size of the huge ancient tomb in front of them, the original archaeologists already knew that the area of this ancient tomb would not be small, but now the tomb that appears in front of the archaeologists, Its overall area is the size of six Mawangdui Han tombs.
It is eight times larger than the Tomb of Gou Jian
It is about eight times larger than the Chu tomb buried in the Yue King's Gou Jian that was previously discovered, and the archaeologists also found incredible things in this ancient tomb, that is, this ancient tomb is not symmetrical, after noticing the unusualness of this ancient tomb, all the archaeologists present are looking forward to what kind of amazing discovery will be made in this ancient tomb, and then with the support of the relevant local departments, archaeologists began to excavate the tomb of the ancient tomb. When the archaeologists excavated the heavy mud and stone slabs, the archaeologists thought that the ancient secrets hidden behind the tomb would immediately surface, but at this time, a subsequent discovery brought a major blow to the archaeologists, when the archaeologists responsible for surveying the tomb, noticed that in the north direction of the tomb pit, there was a robbery cave with a radius of about tens of centimeters, and the robbery cave was a scene that archaeologists least wanted to see when they carried out archaeological work. Because with the appearance of such a robbery hole, it is thought that the ancient tomb in front of them has most likely been stolen by tomb robbers.
Gouging the Grave
Excavation of tombs
If the tomb chamber of this ancient tomb has been excavated by thieves, then the precious funerary goods in it are likely to have been seriously damaged, and the discovery after this has made the archaeologists' already heavy heart worse, because they noticed that the geographical environment near the ancient tomb is worse than the situation of the robbery cave in this ancient tomb, and the place where Suizhou City in Hubei province is located has long been a place with abundant water resources, and the underground water resources in Suizhou are also relatively rich. So if the tomb has a robbery hole, then it will make the water storage in the tomb have been rising, if such a situation occurs, then the original huge value of the tomb will plummet in an instant, at this time the content of the archaeological team appeared two voices, on the one hand, it is believed that the interior of the tomb should be destroyed, and the in-depth excavation of the tomb should be suspended, but on the other hand, some archaeologists believe that the situation has not been clearly investigated. So I hope to continue digging into the identity of the tomb.
Excavate ancient tombs
Discover lacquerware funerary items
Later, after the deliberation of everyone, the archaeologists still chose to continue excavating the tomb, and on May 11, 1918, with the deep excavation of the archaeologists, the last layer of the rafters in the tomb was opened by the archaeologists, and after the rafters were uncovered, the situation inside still made the archaeologists feel a little frustrated, because the tomb was affected by the water in the area for a long time, and the burial chamber in the tomb has become a large puddle containing a lot of water. At this time, if you want to continue to excavate the tomb, you must first extract a large amount of water in the tomb, and then the archaeologists mobilized the pumping equipment, after several days of pumping work, the original accumulation of a large amount of water in the tomb has been pumped almost, at this time, some archaeologists noticed a very strange shape of lacquer funerary products floated above the water, this strange lacquer shape and duck very similar, Archaeologists also found that the body of this duck-shaped lacquerware was also depicted with many strange patterns.
Lacquerware funerary items
Discover a large number of chimes
With the continuous roar of the pump, the water in the burial chamber is also continuing to decline, at this time in the tomb three wooden beams appeared in the tomb attracted the attention of archaeologists, these three wooden beams in the burial chamber of the water soaked for so long, at this time not only did not decay, but also so strong, which also made the archaeologists feel a little doubtful, and then with the water level in the tomb continued to decrease, the full appearance of the previous three wooden beams also appeared in front of the archaeologists at this time, It turned out that this was a large-scale ancient bronze chimes, these large-scale chimes have a total of three layers, they are the upper, middle and lower three layers, after the archaeologists counted, found that there are as many as sixty chimes here, these chimes were all placed in the southwest corner of the tomb in the shape of a curved ruler, the tomb in the eight paulownia structure circular pillars, and some bronze soldiers using painted craftsmanship, They supported the massive bronze chimes in this burial chamber for years.
And the appearance of this set of bronze chimes is also the most complete set of chimes found on the mainland so far, when this set of chimes slowly surfaced from the water in the burial chamber, all the archaeologists present were very shocked, because if it were not for their own eyes, a set of bronze chimes can be soaked in water for thousands of years, and it is still preserved as well as it was unearthed, such a thing is really incredible, and this set of large-scale chimes was found together, There are also a large number of percussion instruments and instruments used for blowing, if these instruments are put together, it is definitely worthy of the needs of a large ancient court banquet soundtrack, archaeologists after the excavation of these ancient instruments, and then carried out special cleaning work on them, and later under the use of professionals, so that the sound from a thousand years ago once again appeared in the whole world.
On the other hand, the archaeologists responsible for excavating the ancient tomb saw so many musical instruments and funerary products, and also knew that the owner of the tomb buried in this ancient tomb was definitely not an ordinary person, that is, the owner of the tomb was not a nobleman at that time, and must have a high status in a rich and noble family, and the precious cultural relics excavated later also confirmed the speculation of archaeologists, and then the excavation of a bronze in this ancient tomb has also become the highest level of bronze on the mainland so far, which can represent the highest level of production technology in the ancient times of the mainland. According to the relevant experts, this bronze in ancient times, is the ruler of the time to sacrifice the use of wine vessel zun disk, its structure as a whole is divided into two parts, the upper part is called Zun, in the lower part is called the plate, the upper part of the Zun is used to put wine utensils, and the lower class is used to hold water utensils, the overall workmanship of this bronze is exquisite, even if it is to take today's technology and vision to analyze, it is also a basic perfect work of art.
Bronze in the tomb
The owner of the tomb is Zeng Houyi
After cleaning up the various cultural relics excavated in this ancient tomb, it seems to tell us thousands of years ago, how luxurious the rich family lived at that time, accompanied by the continuous deepening of the excavation of this ancient tomb by archaeologists, archaeologists learned according to the cultural relics excavated in the tomb and after reading the relevant historical materials, the owner of the tomb buried in this ancient tomb is called Zeng Houyi is a person of Zeng Guo, although the archaeologists have learned the name of the owner of the tomb in the tomb, but then there are more problems that plague the archaeologists. After learning the name of the owner of the tomb in this ancient tomb, the archaeologists went through a large number of historical materials, but they could not find any clues related to it, and then after a period of investigation, the archaeologists finally found some clues, for thousands of years, the place under the feet of the archaeologists was named "Sui", and it was also one of the oldest princely states at that time, even in modern society, this place is still called Suizhou.
Bronze statue of Marquis Yi of Zeng
After the exploration of the ancient tomb in Suizhou Yejiashan, for the archaeologists to bring a very critical clue, in this ancient tomb archaeologists found some inscriptions, through the translation of these inscriptions learned that the original Zeng Guo has another name, its name is called Suiguo, and the tomb owner zeng Houyi in this ancient tomb, he is the heir of the princes of Suiguo, and then as the water in the tomb is reduced again, the coffin buried with the tomb owner gradually reveals its true face, appearing in front of the archaeologists present. Because people in the ancient period of the mainland are generally more superstitious, so they are very particular about the saying of feng shui, for example, after their death, the coffin used for burial can not be made of metal, and the position of the coffin can not be crooked, it must be very square, but in the tomb of Zeng Houyi, there is exactly the opposite situation, in this ancient tomb, Zeng Houyi not only used a copper coffin, the coffin also has an inclined angle of about thirty degrees.
Bronze coffin
After that, the archaeologists mobilized two lifting equipment, wanted to hang the bronze coffin out for more detailed research, but when the two lifting equipment began to lift the bronze coffin, the surprising situation appeared, only to see that the two tens of tons of lifting equipment could not lift the bronze coffin out of the burial chamber, and then the archaeologists found that the weight of the main coffin in the coffin alone reached a weight of about nine tons. At this time, archaeologists had a question in their minds, even the two small cranes used in modern times could not hang this huge bronze coffin, so in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, what methods did people use to carry this huge coffin here? But at this time, the place where archaeologists are concerned is not the problem of the coffin, or the owner of the tomb inside the coffin, the body of the owner of the tomb has been soaked in the water for thousands of years, what will he become? Will it become the incorruptible ancient corpse of the second Mawangdui Han Tomb?
The coffin of Marquis Yi of Zeng
Later, when the archaeologists with a nervous mood, the coffin slowly opened, the situation that appeared inside is also a little disappointed, after more than two thousand years of precipitation, coupled with long-term immersion in the water, the tomb owner in the coffin has long become unrecognizable, after the unremitting efforts of relevant experts, finally using the coffin scattered bones to roughly spell out a male bone, on the side of this male skeleton, there is also an animal skeleton, after the identification of experts, It was found that it was the skeleton from a dog, which archaeologists believed might have been the grave owner's favorite pet during his lifetime. After piecing together the bones of the tomb owner, archaeologists began to excavate near the tomb owner, after a period of excavation, archaeologists cleaned up and excavated five hundred and sixty-eight precious cultural relics in the tomb, and these objects from thousands of years ago, all of them showed us the high-level production technology of ancient times, and then archaeologists used modern high-tech means to restore the appearance of the tomb owner Zeng Houyi.
Zeng Houyi restored the image
And the restored model is placed in the museum in Hubei for tourists to visit, if you do not know his real identity, may not think of anyone, in front of us this middle-aged man who looks very ordinary, was the supreme ruler of a country before his death, in the tomb of Zeng Houyi cleaned up a large number of cultural relics excavated, but also showed us how rich the ancient monarch's life was at that time, and archaeologists based on a large number of musical instruments found in the ancient tomb, this Zeng Houyi in his lifetime, Not only in the governance of the country, but also in music has a certain attainment, in ancient times most of the instruments only gongshang kaku Zhengyu these five scales, but in the chimes unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, just a chime can appear two syllables, when the use of tools to hit the sides of the chimes and the middle, so that you can hear two completely different scales, they have a very wide range span, and modern pianos are only missing an octave.
An instrument capable of knocking out Miyasho Kakusei Yu
Weapons
If you want to make the chimes can emit five octaves and twelve semitones, which has very high conditions for the casting technology of musical instruments, music theory knowledge, etc., so it is also known as the miracle of the ancient music history of the continent, and it is considered by some people to be one of the eight wonders of ancient times, if you think that this Zeng Houyi is just a faint monarch who only knows how to covet pleasure, then it is very wrong, in the cleaning of the tomb, archaeologists are in the northern part of the tomb. Found a large number of ancient weapons, one of which looks very strange, but it was treated as a very precious treasure by archaeologists archaeologists, through the archaeologists studied the relevant historical data, learned about some of the situation, the original strange weapon is called 殳, although at that time the weapon is a more mainstream weapon, but for the archaeologists are only seen in some data, and the discovery of the physical object is the first time, Therefore, before this, it has always been considered by archaeologists to be a regret in the history of ancient weapons on the mainland.
And the weapons found by the archaeologists in the tomb of Zeng Houyi just made up for the regret in the hearts of the archaeologists, but what surprised the archaeologists most was that although the age of these weapons has been very long, before the archaeologists found them, they have been sleeping under the ground for thousands of years, but after the discovery of them, they still retain the sharpness of the weapons, archaeologists in order to test their sharpness, with the weapons in a stack of paper experiments, The result was very easy to divide the thick paper into two halves, after the archaeologists counted the weapons in the tomb of Marquis Yi zeng, it was found that there were a total of 4,777 weapons excavated in this ancient tomb, and most of these weapons were relatively well preserved, their types were rich and numerous, even if a smaller battle was carried out after the story.
Bronze chimes
And the emergence of this ancient arsenal of ancient weapons, but also shows us the zengguo this ancient country once strong military strength, from these circumstances we can also infer from these clues, this zeng hou yi may have been a monarch with this musical talent and military talent at that time, with our current eyes to look at the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, it is like a war history book full of smoke, people at that time more advocating physics, so at that time some princely states were vigorously developing military technology, And these technologies are constantly updated with people's attention, according to the relevant historical records, Zeng Guo was finally destroyed by the Chu State, so was zeng Guo destroyed at the time when Marquis Yi of Zeng reigned? Archaeologists have found explanations for this from the chimes unearthed in ancient tombs, on which a total of 2,886 ancient scripts are inscribed, most of which are some knowledge of music theory.
But in one of the bells there are some inscriptions and other musical instrument inscriptions are a little different, the inscription on this bell describes such a thing, in the year of Zeng Houyi's death, the King of Chu once gave him a gift, and this gift is the bell that records this matter, but before this, Zeng Houyi had already made the bell, but in the face of the gift sent by the King of Chu, Zeng Houyi could not refuse, so Zeng Houyi took down the originally installed bell on the bell. After the death of Zeng Houyi, this chime also accompanied Zeng Houyi to be buried underground for more than two thousand years, the chu state at that time was very strong, in the face of such a princely state, the chu state did not use force, but dealt with the monarch of the Zeng state, which can also be seen that the relationship between the two countries at that time was still relatively harmonious, recorded in the "Zuo Biography", the Zeng state at that time once rescued the Chu Zhao king of the Chu state, Therefore, Zeng Guocai was protected by the Chu State in that era of smoke and smoke, but with the continuous passage of time, in the end, Zeng Guo still did not get rid of the fate of being annexed and became a part of the Chu State, and we can only understand what happened at that time from some relevant historical materials. As the cultural relics unearthed in this ancient tomb continue to be investigated, they also play an important role in our exploration of the history of Zengguo, and from these cultural relics we can also see more of the living conditions of the ancients at that time, and their wisdom is far beyond our imagination. The above is all the content of this issue, if you have anything you want to say, welcome to leave a comment in the comment area below!
Hubei found 2400 years ago ancient tomb, the owner of the tomb status is noble, its Chinese objects shocked experts