An occasional quicksand tomb buried the bodies of more than 30 tomb robbers, and the funerary items in the burial chamber are well preserved. The owner of the tomb has been able to preserve the precious cultural relics with superhuman intelligence to this day, which has a strong scientific value!
After death, another dwelling was targeted by thieves
In ancient China, under the feudal society, the sense of hierarchy was very strong. Before death, there are three, six, nine and so on, people believe that they will be prosperous and rich all their lives, and after death, they must take their wealth away and go to another world to continue to live a good life.
Therefore, in ancient times, people attached great importance to the quantity and quality of funerary products, and the wang and grandson nobles had different standards for funerary products according to their ranks.
Ordinary people will also put some good things in the coffin when the deceased relatives are buried, such as food and clothing. Because people at that time believed that death was just going to another world to continue living. People living in poverty hope that by carrying funeral goods at the time of death, they hope to go to another world to eat, wear and warm, and not worry about money.
The tombs of the princes, grand nobles, and dignitaries must be accompanied by many precious funerary items, which is easy to attract the theft of tomb robbers
。 Empress Dowager Cixi's funeral sensationalized the city of Beijing during her burial, and there were countless treasures to accompany her, and later in the chaos of the war, she was targeted by the warlord leaders and blew up a hole in the tomb with a cannon, and the night pearl contained in Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth was also cruelly opened and taken away.
Historically, when the army lacked funds during the conquest, some people would not be afraid of retaliation to open the tomb and sell the funerary goods, and countless tomb robbers destroyed the tomb chamber and the coffin of the tomb owner for money.
Therefore, when building the tomb, people will cleverly come up with some ways to prevent the invasion of tomb robbers, such as building many suspicious tombs around the real tomb, confusing the eyes of tomb robbers, and some placing many empty coffins in the tomb, similar to the previous method, which are similar to the previous method to deceive the violators.
In addition, another way is to strengthen the sealing layer of the burial chamber, with hard things such as hard bricks and stones surrounding the burial chamber for many layers, so that the shovels of the tomb robbers cannot be moved.
A quicksand tomb took the thief's life
It is said that the highest anti-theft coefficient and the most successful is a quicksand tomb of the grandson of King Cai during the Warring States period.
This also begins when the burial chamber was discovered. In the 1990s, a villager was building a wall at home and found a square brick in the foundation. This brick looks very old for a long time, the pattern and shape are not modern varieties, the villagers feel that this is a long time ago, maybe it is a cultural relic, they immediately informed the relevant departments.
There is quicksand and fine stones under the sealed soil
After hearing the news, the relevant departments immediately sent people to investigate and found that this was indeed an ancient tomb. In the subsequent excavation process, no less than 17 large and small caves were found around the tomb before and after. Experts are very distressed, speculating that after the tomb was stolen by so many thieves, the contents of the tomb should either be taken away or damaged. Many precious historical materials and cultural relics have been stolen. However, for the sake of protective excavations, archaeologists chose to continue excavating the burial chamber.
It is strange that during the basic excavation, 9 corpses were found in the sealed soil, which should be the tomb robbers.
In the end, how to make so many tomb robbers die here, archaeologists continue to excavate, it is surprising that this burial chamber has added a lot of quicksand and rubble under the sealing soil, which is the legendary quicksand tomb.
Quicksand tombs have a strong protective effect on the burial chamber, and tomb robbers can easily get off the tomb without knowing it and enter the quicksand layer through the sealing layer and will be trapped by quicksand, and even if they break free, they will fall into a larger quicksand because they accidentally step on the pedals in the middle. The power of quicksand will be heard of to some extent,
The horror of swamp devouring people and the horror of quicksand drowning people in the desert are both real.
More than 2,000 artifacts are intact
The owner of the tomb using quicksand anti-theft method is very clever, archaeologists in the subsequent excavation process did indeed find many of the corpses of tomb robbers from the quicksand layer, and the total number of buried in the sealing layer is more than 30. The tomb is intact, the tomb owner is worried that there will be tomb robbers through the quicksand layer into the main burial chamber, and also placed two pairs of fake coffins in the tomb, it can be said that it is very thoughtful, afraid of receiving the disturbance of the tomb robbers after death. The contest between the tomb owner and the tomb robber can be seen that the tomb robber lost miserably, sending more than 30 corpses without taking a single thing.
In the process of subsequent excavations, archaeologists found that this tomb is the tomb of the grandson of King Cai in the Warring States period.
Moreover, more than 2,000 precious cultural relics of various sizes have been excavated from the tomb, which has a high scientific value.
Thanks to the ingenuity of the owner of this tomb, not only did the tomb robbers feel frightened and reduce the idea of risking tomb robbery, but also brought rich materials to future generations to study the history and social culture of that time.
A contest between the owner of the tomb and the tomb robber
In many film and television dramas, there are tomb robbers, such as the very popular "Notes on Tomb Robbers", "Ghost Blowing Lights", etc., and the tomb robbery family described in the novel at the beginning or because of poverty or other reasons started the idea of tomb robbery, and it is also the things of people who had to touch it. In the tomb, it is said that some people light candles,
It is said that to enter the tomb, you need to light a candle in the corner of the tomb first,
If the candle does not extinguish after a few seconds, you can continue to steal, and if the candle is extinguished, you need to leave the burial chamber immediately, otherwise you will be worried about your life.
This is also a scientific reason, the burial chamber is buried in the ground, oxygen and its thin, candle burning needs oxygen, if the oxygen in the tomb is not enough to burn candles, it is certainly not enough for people to breathe, or leave as soon as possible as the best policy.
In ancient times, there have been many strange ways to prevent theft, and even in order to prevent tomb robbers from patronizing, the words ''I have no money'' will be engraved on the tombstone. Tomb robbers are not for money, account for the tomb there is no money can stop the tomb robbers forehead footsteps, this can underestimate the IQ of the tomb robbers, no matter what words you carve on the tombstone, they always have to go down to the tomb to find out, which also created the tragedy of the quicksand tomb, maybe those tomb robbers are not literate at all!
Why should lying in the tomb be built so tightly before life after death? Because the fate of being exhumed is really tragic. In ordinary life, the people's homes have to lock the door at night to prevent thieves, and the owner of the tomb does not know when to lie down when he lies in the tomb, of course, he must "lock" his own door, otherwise he will be patronized by thieves.
Losing something is a small matter, and it is not good to disturb the purity.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Chuping and Wu Zixu formed a deep grudge before they died, and King Chuping was afraid of retaliation after his death, and sure enough, after his death, Wu Zixu dug up his body from the tomb and flogged it, which can be said to be a great insult after death. In the past, the people would also think that if the body was poisoned after death, the soul could not ascend to heaven to enjoy the blessings, and the dilapidated body could only go down to the earthly mansion to suffer.
Before they died, people had already suffered enough in the world, so they hoped that after death, they would be able to cast a good fetus and stop suffering.