Ancient China had a peculiar custom – the funerary system. The ancients believed superstitiously that the soul of a person after death would live in another world, and the tomb was just the best "outside the world", and some dignitaries often created scenes of his life in the tomb before they died, so that they could enjoy the same treatment in the other world after they grew old.
It is precisely because of this that ancient tombs are often buried with rare treasures, which also attracts the patronage of countless tomb robbers. As a result, one ancient tomb after another was dug by them, and they were completely unrecognizable. However, no matter how to dig, naturally there are still "surviving" ancient tombs, let's see a "king tomb excavation record".
It is said that in June 1983, dozens of migrant workers were building roads on Xianggang Mountain in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou, and as the bulldozer continued to chisel the stone and planed the earth, the migrant workers suddenly found that the weathered granite stone blocks were missing, replaced by neatly arranged sandstone slabs. After cutting open the rock, the workers were stunned to see that there was a large copper ding and several pieces of pottery in the soil.
The workers hurried to report to the superior leaders, who rushed to report to the local cultural relics department. With the archaeological team rushed to the scene, after several surveys, it was determined that there was an ancient tomb underground. Excavation work was carried out in a timely manner. Sure enough, an ancient tomb was dug up a few meters away. The outermost part of the entire tomb is a slope-shaped burial passage. At the end of the narrow tomb passage are two stone doors with bronze cast "shop heads" – two heads of animals with door knockers. The beast's head is hideous and majestic.
Dragging a rope from the fissure into the tomb, the archaeologists used the light of the flashlight to cross an aisle and step into an ear chamber of the hall, and the scene in front of them stunned them: they saw huge copper pots, copper cylinders, copper buckets, copper pendants, and countless jade ornaments scattered on a layer of indistinct objects.
Entering the first stone door, a column of bronze bells and musical instruments such as stone "chimes" and a martyr are placed against the wall on the floor of the room. After entering the second stone gate, there is the place where the owner of the tomb is buried - the underground palace. The underground palace itself is rectangular and all stone. There is also a doorway on the east and west sides, which obviously leads to the adjacent burial chamber. There is also a burial chamber on either side and at the rear end of the dungeon where the tomb owner is located. There are 4 martyrs in the east chamber, and there are 7 martyrs in the burial chamber on the west side of the stone chamber where the owner of the tomb is located.
This is a huge underground palace, archaeologists from the shape, characteristics and other aspects of observation and judgment is more than 2,000 years ago Han Dynasty tomb, and from the excavated cultural relics finally judged that this is the tomb of The South Vietnamese King Zhao Xiao.
Zhao Xiao was a local prince in the Han Dynasty, he carefully built this tomb for himself before his death, and made great efforts in anti-theft, so that his mausoleum lasted for more than 2,000 years and was intact, which created a small miracle in the imperial tomb.
When archaeologists study Zhao Xiao's underground palace, they will find that even if tomb robbers find Zhao Xiao's tomb, it is very difficult to steal the contents of the tomb. Because the shape of the tomb is a bit like a "A" character, the head is north and the foot is south, of which the word "Tian" is the burial chamber, and the vertical that stretches out is the only tomb passage leading to the burial chamber. The rectangular tomb passage is filled with loess and large stones, and the tomb robber wants to rob the tomb like entering the labyrinth, and even finding the tomb door is a luxury.
In short, the discovery of the tomb of the King of Nanyue shocked the whole country and became famous all over the world, and was rated by experts as "one of the most brilliant discoveries in the history of Chinese archaeology that has made countless people painstakingly explore the secrets of more than 2,000 years." Because it has created two of the best: one is the earliest painted mural stone chamber tomb found in China so far, and the other is the Han tomb with the highest value of excavated cultural relics - a total of more than 1,000 pieces of various cultural relics have been excavated, of which the "Emperor Seal" gold seal of "Emperor Xingxi" is the first discovery of Chinese archaeological excavations.