When it comes to the most touching love story in ancient China, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" must be well known to everyone, and in the past 1700 years, countless people have been touched by the poignant love story between them.
However, although in the folk, many people said that the love story between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai really happened, but they have not found any strong evidence, until recently, the details of the "hugging tomb" found in Datong, Shanxi Were made public for the first time, which also made many people wonder if they would find the real Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?
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Last year, in Datong City, Shanxi Province, during the construction and development of a real estate project, an ancient tomb was accidentally discovered, and archaeologists subsequently intervened to investigate and study.
Surprisingly, this ancient tomb turned out to be a joint burial tomb, a pair of male and female skeletons embraced together, the posture looks very natural, this is also the first time in Our country to find "hugging tomb", many people believe that behind this, there must be a touching love story.
"Born with the same body, dead with the same cave", in peacetime, when many people make a vow of the mountain and the sea, they will always say that until death, they will separate us. However, this "embrace tomb" in Shanxi, burying men and women hugging together, shows us what "death cannot separate us."
According to reports, the men and women in this tomb are facing each other lying on their sides and hugging each other, the man holds the woman in his arms, and the woman rests her head on the man's shoulder, and then the hand is naturally placed on the man's abdomen, which is a face-to-face hug, lying on the side of the most common posture, enough to see how close the relationship between the two people is.
At the same time, the woman also wears a ring on the ring finger of the left hand, as if we are wearing a wedding ring today, because there is no other decoration on the body, so it can be seen that this ring is of great significance to the woman, so when she is buried, she also wears it with her.
As for the age of the male and female couples, through the analysis of the bones, the researchers said that it looks like a pair of "sister-brother love", the age of women is about 35 to 40 years old, and the age of men is about 5 years younger than that of women.
At the same time, in the process of examination, researchers also found that the body of the female tomb owner is very healthy, through the skeletal examination, found that her body did not have any scars, nor did she see signs of illness and death.
On the body of the male tomb owner, on his right arm, there is an infectious fracture wound, whether it is a wound caused by violence, it is not yet certain, but it is certain that when they were buried together, they embraced together, in a very soft body, and it is likely that they were spontaneously embraced together, not after death, they were put into a hugging posture, which also means that they are most likely buried when they are alive.
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From the current situation, even if they are buried together after death, considering the problem that people's bodies will soon stiffen after death, coupled with the fact that their hugging posture is very natural, it can be confirmed that they basically died at the same time, but because they are very healthy, in addition to the fracture of the male right arm, so there may be a possibility that they died because of "martyrdom", or were buried alive.
From the perspective of their age, this tomb comes from the Northern Wei Dynasty, about 1500 years of history, and after research, the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai began to circulate from the early Eastern Jin Dynasty more than 1700 years ago, with a time difference of about 200 years, so even if the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai really has a prototype, it is unlikely to be the "embrace tomb" of Datong.
This also means that because there is so little information left in the tomb, what happened to the owners of the tomb before they died, and under what circumstances they embraced and buried together, may forever be lost in the long river of history, we can never know.
However, I think it should also be a love story that will not be much inferior to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. After all, from the perspective of their era, the Northern Wei Dynasty was a very open period in the history of our country, when people were also free to love, and there was no "parental fate matchmaker's words", so since these two people chose to embrace and bury, it is also entirely possible that they touched some kind of forbidden love that was not recognized at that time.
Of course, it is also possible that after the death of one of the parties, the other party voluntarily buried alive, is to hope that they can stay together forever, for example, in Ukraine, in 2018, there was also a "hug tomb", the tomb owner hugged each other and slept for more than 3,000 years, and in the process of research, it was found that after the death of the male, the woman voluntarily buried alive and hugged together in the ground to sleep, I have to say, no matter what period, true love will happen, what do you think?